Summary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008

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

Summary: Nancy is an iconic girl detective with a passion for mystery and all things old. Small-town Nancy is about to experience a serious case of culture shock as she heads to Hollywood on an extended business trip with her father Carson Drew. Having promised her father that she has given up sleuthing in favor of becoming a "normal" teenager, Nancy tries her best to resist the lure of the age-old...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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

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

Summary: Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

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

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

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

Summary: Stoner icons Jay and Silent Bob embark on a cross-country mission to stop a Hollywood reboot of an old movie based on them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: In 1970s Los Angeles, down-on-his-luck private eye Holland March and hired enforcer Jackson Healy must work together to solve the case of a missing girl and the seemingly unrelated death of a porn star. During their investigation, they uncover a shocking conspiracy that reaches up to the highest circles of power.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

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

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NIC RATED R

Summary: "In 1970, Twentieth Century-Fox, impressed by the visual zing 'King of the Nudies' Russ Meyer had been bringing to bargain-basement exploitation fare, handed the director a studio budget and the title to one of its biggest hits, Valley of the Dolls. With a satirical screenplay by Roger Ebert, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls follows three young female rockers going Hollywood, in hell-bent sixties...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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

Summary: While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition. He does so well he gets to go to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and ends up getting caught up in twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KISS

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

Summary: An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016

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

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

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

Summary: It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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

Summary: Cast adrift in Los Angeles, Sean, a lonely TV weatherman, drives past a middle-aged Latino migrant worker standing outside a hardware store looking for work. He decides to hire this kind-looking man to be his friend. Sean is young, gay, and white. Ernesto, portly, straight, and married. Despite having nothing in common and the language barrier, they build a sort of friendship, until Sean...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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

Summary: Over the course of a summer day in Los Angeles, the lives of 25 young Angelenos intersect. Through poetry they express life, love, heartache, family, home, and fear.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUM

Summary: On the morning of his thirty-seventh birthday Michael Brown receives a telephone call from his estranged brother Tobey, which sends the two off on a day-long odyssey across a wild and weird Los Angeles in search of Tobey's 'reason for living.' Behind the wheel of a beat up old BMW, fuelled by hilarious banter and a killer soundtrack, the brothers' search leads them through a bizarre, beautiful...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2010

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

Turturro, John

Summary: A 1940s-era New York playwright is lured to Hollywood to work as a screenwriter, but when he becomes stuck in his writing he finds his life going out of control.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: On a typical day in South Central Los Angeles two buddies need to settle a $200 debt, but in their efforts to come up with the money they encounter the distractions and obstacles of family, friends, and neighbors.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Summary: Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Get 1995

Summary: A popular California high school girl is selected by a mysterious old man to kill the vampires that are terrorizing Los Angeles. Although it could put a serious crimp in her shopping, Buffy takes on the ghouls with the help of a handsome drifter, and incurs the wrath of the chief vampire!

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001

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

Summary: Jon Baker and Frank Ponch Poncherello have just joined the California Highway Patrol (CHP) in Los Angeles, but for very different reasons. Baker is a beaten-up former pro motorbiker trying to put his life and marriage back together. Poncherello is a cocky undercover Federal agent investigating a multi-million-dollar heist that may be an inside job-inside the CHP.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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

Summary: A professional fish tank cleaner, Deuce finds himself in desperate need of cash to quickly repair the damage he's done to a client's luxurious Malibu apartment! Deuce decides the only way out of this jam is to switch to the world's oldest profession.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2000

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

Summary: The intern of a record company finds himself with both his dream job and biggest nightmare, when he is assigned to retrieve a British rock star and get him to his concert in time.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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

Summary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHO

Summary: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2017

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

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAL

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

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS LA
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LA

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie La La 2017

Summary: This zany comedy spectacular from Steven Spielberg is set in Los Angeles just days after the attack on Pearl Harbor when the fear of a Japanese invasion threw the city into a state of pandemonium.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 194

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

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