Summary: "Set in the 1890s, West plays a brash barroom entertainer with a soft spot for men in trouble, especially the mission director, young Cary Grant. She unknowingly gets caught up in a murder, as well as a white slavery ring, and sets about clearing things up as only Mae can. In between rescues she manages to perform some of her heated, hip-swinging classics including a steamy belting of 'Frankie...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHE

Summary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

Summary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Broken 2007

Summary: Jane has the kind of selflessness that everyone looks for in a friend. Lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. Kevin is a local newspaper reporter who spots Jane racing between two receptions - one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. He quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him into the big leagues. Jane butts...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWE

Summary: A young showgirl falls for a playboy soldier the night before his leave. When he comes back and is given a medal, he finds that she's singing at the celebration his family has arranged, and she finds that he gave her an assumed name and is engaged.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GAN

Summary: Boris Yellnikoff is a lifelong New York resident who attempts to impress his ideologies of religion, relationships, and the randomness of existence onto anyone who will listen. But when he begrudgingly allows Melodie St. Ann Celestine, a naïve Mississippi runaway, to live in his apartment, his reclusive rages give way to an unlikely friendship and Boris begins to mold the impressionable young...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHA

Summary: Alan's desire for success in music and love is hampered by one thing -- himself. He decides to leave his band and heads for New York City for a new musical adventure. There, he is only half-heartedly romancing radio DJ Sara and promoting his fledgling band, Mutual Appreciation. Alan tries to stay focused and manages to fend off some of his distractions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUT

Summary: High-powered book editor Maggie is everyone's worst nightmare: ruthless, driven, and tactless. When she finds herself faced with deportation back to Canada, she coerces her much younger assistant into marrying her. However, when the government becomes suspicious, they embark upon a charade in order to make the marriage seem legitimate.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Proposal 2009

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRO RATED PG-13

Summary: Annie is a young girl from a working-class neighborhood who suddenly finds herself working as a nanny for a wealthy family in Manhattan's Upper East Side. Between catering to the every whim of her employers and their precocious son and falling in love with their gorgeous neighbor, Annie tries to figure out what she wants to do with her life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NAN

Summary: A superstitious Brooklyn widow is ready to get married again. Only this time, she plans on doing it right - even if she has to say "yes" to a man she doesn't really love. When she unexpectedly falls in love with her fiancé's estranged brother Ronny, what happens next is a wonderful romantic complication.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MOO

Summary: A thirty-something sex columnist and her three single friends examine relationships and sexual roles in New York City.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2000

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SEX

Summary: Takes a look at the male ego and the art of manipulating women. Roger, a sharp-witted Manhattan advertising copywriter can talk his way into any skirt, which is exactly why his nephew, Nick, pays him a visit. With Nick's virginity at stake, Roger takes him out for a one-night crash course in seduction, only to realize he still has something to learn about women himself.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROG

Summary: Hitch is New York City's greatest matchmaker. Love is his job and when Albert Brennaman wins the heart of gorgeous society heiress Allegra Cole, Albert has Hitch to thank. So when tabloid columist Sara Melas decides to uncover the secret behind the relationships unlikely success, she's shocked to discover that Alex Hitchens, the charming young man she's been dating, is the legendary date doctor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures 2005

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HIT

Summary: Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others"--And are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Serendipity 2002

Summary: Best friends Nick and Darryl are a New York film editing duo, hired to salvage a botched comedy from a manic director gone AWOL. But what starts as a simple job quickly sends their relationships with their significant others and each other, reeling. Amidst trouble with his fiancee Nick finds himself falling for the film's flirtatious ingenue. Darryl, meanwhile, struggles to focus on his editing...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2013

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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUP