Summary: When product-tester Fielding Mellish goes to the country of San Marcos to try and win back his girlfriend, he is kidnapped by a group of rebels. When their leader goes insane, the rebels elect Mellish to replace him, thinking he can save the country.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BANSummary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get a hold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. She hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: Perfect man: Holly Hamilton is on a mission to find her single mom a perfect man ... even if she has to make the man up. One crazy mishap after another leads the two of them to discover that sometimes what you want is right in front of you.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRISummary: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow star as a long-married couple whose own relationship starts to crumble when their best friends, announce they're separating. They immediately pair-up with younger, sexier paramours and enjoy again the pleasures of fresh passion. But smoldering resentments and unexpected jealousies soon rise to the surface, erupting in savage humor and hilariously unpredictable reunions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUSSummary: Post office manager Philippe longs for a transfer to the sunny, sophisticated south of France. But when his attempt to cheat his way into a transfer backfires, he is sent instead to Nord-Pas de Calais. This northern province is known for its chilly dampness, its drunken, unemployable population, its terrible food and an impenetrable dialect known as Ch'timi. But Philippe soon learns to love...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BIESummary: A demented actor and his daughter set about murdering each of London's nine prominent drama critics according to murders in Shakespeare's plays.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: A corrupted police officer is in line for a promotion and will stop at nothing to get what he wants. While solving a brutal murder, he makes sure to turn his colleagues against one another to ruin their ambitions. By stealing their wives and exposing their secrets the cop starts to lose himself in the web of deceit he created.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILSummary: In the sleepy small town of Centerville, something is not quite right. The moon hangs large and low in the sky, the hours of daylight are becoming unpredictable, and animals are beginning to exhibit unusual behaviors. No one quite knows why, and no one foresees the strangest and most dangerous repercussion that will soon start plaguing the town. The dead rise from their graves and savagely...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEASummary: 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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLESummary: On the shores of Lake Michigan, the eccentric Captain Seafield enlists a colourful crew of misfits in a bid to slay the hellish sea monster that prowls the murky depths. But as Seafield's obsession with exacting revenge on the creature that killed his father threatens to consume him, can weapons expert Sean Shaughnessy, sonar whiz Nedge Pepsi, and officer Dick Flynn hold the show together?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A chemist discovers a potent rejuvenation drug that restores youth but with some hilarious results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The complications of love and friendship among three New Jersey comic book artists: Holden, his partner Banky, and Alyssa, the woman Holden falls in love with only to be thwarted by her sexuality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: The Worth's are a family portrait of dysfunction, but when their matriarch, Grandma Mabel dies suddenly, they must set aside their differences and come together. Chaos ensues as they soon discover that not only did Grandma Mabel keep secrets, so did everyone else. They begin to find their way back to each other and realize that while you can't choose your family, you can choose to be friends...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FAMCopies Available at Kingsley
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: Two local outcasts attempt to save a local video store. Amateur film director Mike must find a way to save the business after his magnetized friend, Jerry, erases every movie in the store. Using an outdated video camera and their own special effects, the two embark on an adventure to remake all the movies, from "Ghostbusters" to "Driving Miss Daisy," turning the two town misfits into local...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BESummary: An accident during a bar mitzvah celebration leads to a gender rift in a devout Orthodox community in Jerusalem, in this rousing, good-hearted tale about women speaking truth to patriarchal power.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WOMSummary: The classic comedy caper is about two cunning conmen on the French Riviera. The caddish Freddy Benson enjoys setting up elaborate ruses to seduce women. The suave Lawrence Jameson likes to pose as a prince to swindle the wealthy. When the two men meet, each perceives the other as an interloper and a threat. Upon the arrival of vacationing soap heiress Janet Walker, the two sweet -talking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEDSummary: "Uptight FBI agent Sarah Ashburn ... and foul-mouthed Boston cop Shannon Mullins ... couldn't be more incompatible. But when they join forces to bring down a ruthless drug lord, they become the last thing anyone expected-- buddies"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY HEASummary: The stooge: Egotistical vaudevillian Bill Miller basks in the limelight with his successful musical-comedy act, but his success is due to his unheralded second banana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JERSummary: It is an uplifting comedy about Martha, a woman who moves into a retirement community and starts a cheerleading squad with her fellow residents, Sheryl, Olive, and Alice, proving that it's never too late to follow their dreams.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE POMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Poms 2019Summary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: Quick-Stop potheads Jay and Silent Bob wreak vengeance on Hollywood, where Miramax is making a "Bluntman & Chronic" feature film inspired by the comic book version of the guys, but without their permission. En route from Jersey to Hollywood, the guys encounter sexy jewel thieves, a precocious orangutan, a dimwit wildlife marshal, and a nonstop parade of in-jokes and splendid celebrity cameos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JAYSummary: When T.S. is dumped by his girlfriend, he retreats to the mall with his comic book-loving best friend Brodie, whose girlfriend has also left him. Between brooding and visits to the food court, the unmotivated suburban New Jersey teenagers decide to win their girlfriends back with the help of Silent Bob and Jay, the ultimate delinquents, as they scheme to disrupt T.S.'s girlfriend's father's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MALSummary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012