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Comedy films DVDs Feature films Film adaptations Food service employees New York (State) New York Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships New York (State) New York Drama New York (State) New York Queens (New York, N.Y.) Drama Video recordings for the hearing impairedSummary: In a small provincial town, arrangements and events surrounding the firemen's annual ball, honoring a retiring firechief, go wrong at every turn.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FIRSummary: Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonderful 2010Summary: An unorthodox Irish policeman with a confrontational personality is teamed up with an uptight FBI agent to investigate an international drug-smuggling ring.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GUA1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GUA
Summary: A former pro football quaterback suddenly lands in a maximum security prison. Using fellow inmates, he must put together a motley group of cons to play a no-holds-barred grudge game against the sadistic guards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOL RATED PGSummary: In 1968, the female workers at the Ford Dagenham car plant, walked out in protest against sexual discrimination. Their actions played a major role in the battle for equal pay, both nationally and internationally.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MADSummary: Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I NOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I NOWWilliams, Robin
Summary: A divorced man takes a job in disguise as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MRSSummary: Comedy-drama about a young trainmaster employed in a tiny station during World War II. He becomes involved in a plot to blow up a German ammunition train, but when the plan backfires, he is forced to commit the ultimate act of courage.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLOSummary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLESummary: Asa is a young Russian naval service dreamer who returns to his sister's nomadic brood on the desloate Hunger Steppe to begin a hardscrabble career as a shepherd. But before he can tend a flock of his own, Asa must win the hand of the only eligible bachelorette for miles, his alluringly mysterious neighbor Tulpan. Accompanied by his girlie magazine-reading sidekick, Asa will stop at nothing to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TULSummary: Peter has his heart broken by Sarah Marshall, his girlfriend of five years. Sarah is an actress on a television crime series. After breaking up with Peter, she moves on with her life and her new boyfriend, Aldous, a British rock star. Peter is devastated, and after trying unsuccessfully to put her out of his mind, he decides to take a vacation to Hawaii to unwind. Unfortunately for Peter,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: The 80's were a time when everybody was making the big bucks. When F. Ross Johnson, CEO of RJR Nabisco, decides to buy out the Nabisco shareholders and take over his company, no one is prepared for what hits the fan. What follows is a down-to-the-wire battle to see who is really king of the Wall Street jungle.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Serendipity 2002Summary: A divorced man disguised as a woman takes a job as his ex-wife's housekeeper to be near his children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MRS RATED PG-13Franco, James
Summary: A group of celebrities are faced with the apocalypse while attending a party at James Franco's house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THISummary: Gigi is struggling to find true love while shifting through men who are simply not interested. After her latest date, Conor, has failed to call her. Gigi visits a bar he said he frequented in order to see him. There, she meets Alex, a friend of Conor's who works at the bar. Gigi admits that Connor is not expecting her. Alex explains that Connor isn't interested and takes it upon himself to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HE'SCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HSummary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHESummary: Mr. Magorium owns the most magical store in the universe, where all of the toys for sale are alive. The eccentric owner of toy store surprises Molly, the shop's awkward and insecure manager, by turning over ownership to her. Molly appears to be a reflection of the people who run it. Henry is a detail-oriented accountant assigned the task of assessing the Emporium's monetary value.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC MR.Summary: Mr. Magorium owns the most amazing store in the world, where all the toys literally come to life. When the boss decides to retire, the shop throws a tantrum, and all its wonders begin to cease. Now Mr. Magorium's reluctant manager, skeptical accountant, and most loyal customer must work together to save the emporium by finding a little magic within themselves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Right after Shrek and Princess Fiona's honeymoon, the newly wed couple goes to Princess Fiona's parents for dinner. When a Fairy Godmother discovers Fiona and Shrek are married she reminds the king about a deal they agreed on years ago, that Fiona should have married her son, who happens to be Prince Charming. The King then hires a cat named Puss-in-Boots, a sword fighting cat and ogre slayer,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DVD MOVIECopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHRCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHR RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ShCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD ShrekSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007