Summary: Abby, a savvy, witty veterinarian who hosts her own radio talk show, is anything but confident when it comes to love. A petite brunette, she describes herself as tall and blonde when Brian, a caller who is smitten with her radio persona, asks her on a date. She then talks her tall, blonde neighbor Noelle into assuming her identity, setting off an escalating series of hilarious and romantic crises.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRUSummary: Alexis is the girl of Dustin's dreams. After only five weeks of dating, the love-struck Dustin is coming on so strong that Alexis is forced to slow things down to a dead stop. Devastated and desperate to get her back, Dustin turns to his best friend, Tank, the rebound specialists. A master at seducing and offending women, Tank gets hired by freshly dumped guys to take their ex-girlfriends out...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISLSummary: Explores the simple truth that it's never too late to start over again. Even at age 50. We meet two long-time golf-buddies, Adam, going through a trial separation from his wife of 15 years and Jon, who is not only losing work to the 'young guy', but also dealing with a 'generous' prostate. They decide to take off on a weekend journey to let loose and re-live the Palm Springs get-a-ways of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2011
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABOSummary: A psychedelic precursor to music videos, in which The Mothers of Invention, a touring musical group, wreak havoc in Centerville, a stereotypical American town. The first color movie made on videotape and then transferred to film, it includes many visual effects.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE TWOSummary: Grazia is a carefree mother of three, who soon becomes the focus of her neighbors' gossip. While her fellow Lampedusians work and live hard - oblivious to their native paradise - Grazia alone is courageous enough to blissfully embrace life's treasures. Her wild, sensual and free-spirited behavior reflects the unrivaled beauty of her heavenly seaside village. She is not understood or accepted by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN RESSummary: First it was a mine that exploded in the Moroccan desert. Years later, it was a stray bullet that lodged in his brain. Bazil doesn't have much luck with weapons. Released from the hospital after his accident, Bazil is homeless. Luckily, he is taken in by a motley crew of junkyard dealers living in a veritable Ali Baba's cave. One day, while out walking, Bazil recognizes the logos of the weapons...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MICSummary: Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Frédéric is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Frédéric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BONSummary: "A middle-aged antique dealer is flabbergasted to learn that his closest acquaintances don't actually like him. Challenged to provide an actual friend in only ten days, or lose a valued vase, his search provides a witty and thoughtful look at the meaning of friendship"--http://www.seattlefilm.org.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MYSummary: Mark is a desperate unemployed writer who lives in a world where everyone unfailingly tells the truth. People don't even know what fiction is. Every thought, no matter how humiliating or harsh, tumbles out unvarnished. Then one day, Mark becomes so desperate he concocts a lie. In a world where everyone is unfailingly honest, a lie is believed with total and absolute gullibility. Mark can get...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INVSummary: Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Films. 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AtSummary: An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RAI
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAISummary: Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski doesn't want any complications in his life. He can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug. Now, The Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy bowling buddies to make things right and get that rug back. Their journey blends unforgettable characters, kidnapping, and White Russians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUDSummary: A short-order cook is hopelessly in love with a waitress who barely knows he's alive. Enter the Devil, who grants him seven wishes in order to win her over, but his efforts are hampered by the Seven Deadly sins including the insatiable Lillian Lust!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEDSummary: A trio of cows - Maggie, Mrs. Calloway and Grace - hit the high prairie to track down a cattle rustler named Alameda Slim in hopes that the reward money will save their farm. With the aid of Buck, a horse with heroic ambitions, the bovine avengers track the villain to his lair and save the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOMSummary: Convinced that Andromedans have infiltrated human society, a disturbed man sets out to kidnap his ex-boss and torture him until he confesses his alien identity and calls off the invasion of Earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SAVSummary: Distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend Desiree, Zia slashes his wrists. Zia discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that Desiree has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WRISummary: "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for another Lebowski who is rich and owes some thugs a lot of money. After Dude comes home one day to find that the thugs have broken in and ruined his favorite carpet, he vows to get even.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BIGSummary: Three escaped chain gang convicts have to travel home to try and recover buried loot from a bank heist. Along the way they meet up with some strange characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY O BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE O BroSummary: Osbourne Cox is a CIA analyst who quits his job after being demoted. He decides to write a memoir about his life in the CIA. His wife, Katie, wants a divorce and, based on the advice of her divorce lawyer, she downloads many of his personal and financial files onto a disc. Katie's lover is Treasury agent Harry Pfarrer. The disc eventually finds its way to Hardbodies, a workout gym. An employee...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BURSummary: Follow the rise, fall and rise again of promoter Tony Wilson and the wild rave culture he brought to England and the rest of the world. Pulsates with the rhythmic energy from the post punk movement through the evolution of rave music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWESummary: Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: Joanna is in a touring girl's choir and Mark is a struggling architect when they first meet on the road in Europe. The film follows their life together - through courtship and marriage, infidelity and parenthood - all on the road.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005