Summary: This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACSummary: Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. When Trudi dies suddenly, Rudi vows to make up for her lost life and takes his last journey to Tokyo in the midst of the cherry blossom festival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CHESummary: 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: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. The story of a legendary showman's double life--television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative, or so he said.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONSummary: Set in 1953, Katherine Watson is a free-spirited graduate of UCLA who accepts a teaching post at Wellesley College, a women-only school where the students are torn between the repressive mores of the time and their longing for intellectual freedom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MONCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mona 2004Summary: Francesca and Calvin are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda; the self-absorbed Gus; and a husband, Carl, whose wife is falling for Calvin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FulSummary: Cathy is the perfect 50s housewife, living the perfect 50s life. Then one night she surprises her husband Frank having sex with another man, and her tidy world starts spinning out of control. In her confusion and grief, she finds consolation in the friendship of their African-American gardener, Raymond--a socially taboo relationship that leads to the further disintegration of life as she knew it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FARSummary: Divorced mom Eva may be falling for Albert, a sweet, funny, like-minded divorced man. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne, who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ENOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ENOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enough 2014Summary: Establishes a diverse and dynamic range of relationships among long-time girlfriends, their spouses, and the way in which money (or lack of it) affects them all. The have-not of the group is Olivia. She is a teacher-turned pot-smoking house cleaner in the upscale neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. She's drifting on a sea of uncertainty, while her friends Franny, Christine, and Jane cope with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRISummary: Set in 79 A.D., Pompeii tells the epic story of Milo, a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia, the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POM RATED PG-13Summary: Lovely and amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: Stephen and Bloom are brothers who have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, while Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROSummary: When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to become a ballerina and join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South side. She feels out of place until she is befriended by a black classmate and her handsome brother, Derek. Sara and Derek's shared love for dance leads to romance-- and opposition from their families and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAVSummary: Comedy in which the daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family returns from Paris and dazzles the family's two sons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001