Summary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIT
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2006Summary: Daniel, a young teacher, decides to spend his summer at home in Hamburg. At the local flea market, he meets Juli, who is immediately attracted to him, a fact to which Daniel seems oblivious. On the same day, Daniel meets Melek, a young Turkish girl, with whom he is immediately smitten. Ignoring his earlier plans, he sets out in pursuit of her across the Balkans. Along the way he picks up a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: Friends navigate interpersonal relationships and cross the country in search of an ideal connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SHOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHOSummary: Inept, but lovable, Salman comes to help his sister-in-law tend to his holy terror nephews while Salman's brother is off fighting in Iraq. In order to make ends meet and keep the family together, Salman must take on a humiliating job as a giant blue corporate mascot. This proves to be more challenging than he originally thought.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KABSummary: Pekar is a frustrated file clerk working at the local V.A. Hospital. He is also a comic book fan who befriends the young illustrator Robert Crumb and is soon inspired to create comic books based on his own life. Along his bumpy journey he meets, marries and falls in love with Joyce, an admiring comic book seller.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AMESummary: A spirited young American girl goes to London in search of her long-lost father. When she finds him, she sets out to prove that love can conquer all, but finds that her unique, impulsive style threatens the relationship she has waited for all her life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHASummary: Verging on adolescence, Joe finds himself more and more aggravated by his dad's attempts to control his life. Declaring freedom, Joe and his best buddy Patrick, along with an odd kid called Biaggio, escape to the woods, where they construct a house, just for them, with no parents or responsibility. There they discover that they are in control of their destinies, all alone out in the forest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KINSummary: America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAZSummary: A young girl is torn between adhering to family traditions and attaining super-stardom on the soccer field.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2003
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV BENCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BENSummary: Ever since he was a boy, Antoine has wanted to be the hairdresser's husband, and when he marries a beautiful coiffeuse, the salon becomes their idyllic paradise. But how long can a perfect love last?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAISummary: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATASummary: Follow five clueless buffoons as they plan to strike a blow on their own turf, showing that while terrorism is supposed to be about ideology, it can also be about idiots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alamo Drafthouse Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FOU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOU
Summary: Fred Claus has lived in his little brother's shadow for most of his life. Fred is in jail and Nicholas has to bail him out on the condition he come to the North Pole and repay his debt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY FRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Juvenile Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Ocean Park Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OUTSummary: Willie is a thief who teams up with his dwarf friend Marcus, for a very special Christmas scam. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, Marcus tags along as an elf, and they use their employee status to rob stores blind just before Christmas. But Willie is a bitter and foul-mouthed alcoholic who doesn't care much for kids. A mall's manager is certain something's wrong, so he asks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2004