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Comedy films Comedy sketches Divorced fathers New York (State) New York Drama Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Man-woman relationships Drama Museum exhibits New York (State) New York Drama New York (N.Y.) Drama Romantic comedy films Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NIGSummary: Monty Python's first feature film, in which they perform many of their comedy skits from the television program: Monty Python's Flying Circus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MONSummary: Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAM RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMSummary: The wife of a corrupt real estate developer is kidnapped by two common criminals, who intend to extort him with inside information about his crooked business and off-shore accounts. But the husband decides he'd actually rather not pay the ransom to get back his wife, setting off an unbelievable sequence of double crosses and twists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Roadside Attractions 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIFSummary: They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former one-term presidents are framed in a scandal by the current president and pursued across the U.S. by armed agents. The two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence. As they scramble through the real America, they get an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams, only to find themselves with a bank-account-draining nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Money 2002Summary: C.D. Bales, a fireman with an astonishingly long nose, harbors a secret love for Roxanne, a beautiful astronomy student who is attracted to another man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tri-Star Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROXSummary: In 1985, teen-nerd Ted challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren. His concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary to choose Ted as her senior prom date, but the date never happens. 13 years later Ted hires Pat to locate Mary, and the private investigator finds her in Miami. Pat claims to be a Harvard-educated architect and Mary falls in love with him....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: Jenna makes a wish on her 13th birthday to be 30 and grown up. When she wakes up the next day she finds herself, miraculously, just weeks away from her 30th birthday. The new, older Jenna is a successful magazine editor with friends in high places and a lion's share of potential suitors. The problem is that her mind hasn't matured with her body and Jenna finds it a little more terrifying than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THI RATED PG-13Summary: Melvin Udall is an obsessive-compulsive novelist with Manhattan's meanest mouth. But when his neighbor Simon is hospitalized, Melvin is forced to babysit Simon's dog. And that unexpected act of kindness-- along with waitress Carol Connelly-- helps put Melvin back in the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ASGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ASSummary: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Cheaper 2003Summary: A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and independent 80-year-old woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HARSummary: After being released from a mental institute, a man moves in with his daughter and becomes convinced that a buried treasure is waiting to be found near their home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINSummary: A wacky television weatherman thinks his life is perfect except for an erratic relationship with a style-conscious girlfriend. Then, one bright and smoggy L.A. day, an electronic freeway sign changes his life, when its advice leads him into a frivolous romance with a young and beautiful blond and, ultimately, to true love with the woman of his dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: LIVE Entertainment 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY L.A.Summary: When a blonde sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend, she decides to follow him to law school to get him back and, once there, learns she has more legal savvy than she ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LEGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEG RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LegallySummary: A race car driver is followed home by a VW bug with a mind of its own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Love 2003Summary: A comedy-drama about life aboard a Navy cargo ship in Pacific waters during World War II. The monotonous non-combat duty of a fun-loving crew is enlivened by a feud between the petty, intolerant captain and an impetuous, highly-respected cargo officer whose continuous efforts to get a transfer to combat duty are blocked by the captain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MISSummary: A ping pong ball, found floating in a stream, becomes the source of wonderment for three young boys who live in the remote grasslands of Mongolia, a magnificent landscape little changed since the time of Genghis Khan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MONSummary: The Pythons satirize religion, capital punishment, revolutionary politics, terrorism, graffiti, science fiction, and a host of other topics through the story of Brian, a first-century Judean.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999