Summary: When the head of NASA's manned Mars mission discovers that the capsule meant to carry the astronauts will suffer a catastrophic failure, he forces them to participate in a hoax by broadcasting their 'Mission' from a studio built at an abandoned air force base. Over many months, the astronauts are forced to film broadcasts on their progress. They find out that they are to die upon re-entry. An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: 15-year-old Alma is consumed by her hormones and fantasies that range from sweetly romantic images of Artur, the boyfriend she yearns for, to daydreams about practically everybody she lays eyes on.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TURSummary: An acrobatically inclined free spirit, following a whirlwind engagement, literally tumbles into the lives of his fiancée's aristocratic family, setting up a clash of values with her staid father while firing the rebellious imagination of her brash, black-sheep sister. With a sparkling surface and an undercurrent of melancholy, the film is an enchanting ode to nonconformists and pie-in-the-sky...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY HOLSummary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STRSummary: This is the story of Marlon Cruz, a young Colombian man who, motivated by his beautiful girlfriend Reina leaves his life in Colombia to illegally cross the border and find fortune in New York. Marlon's journey, which takes him to through seedy strip clubs, dance halls, homeless hostels, and the streets of Jackson Heights, ultimately takes him to a place he could have never predicted.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distibuted in the USA by Phase 4 Films 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PARCarmel Entertainment Group
Summary: A dishonest used car salesman turns his life around, after he is caught deceiving customers and must return their money.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family FlywheelSummary: On November 4, 1979, Iranian militants stormed the American embassy in Tehran and captured dozens of American hostages, sparking a 444-day ordeal. There's a little-known footnote to the crisis: six Americans escaped and a mid level agent named Antonio Mendez devised an ingenious yet incredibly risky plan to rescue them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARG RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER ARGSummary: Stanley Phillips is a sad, disconnected man unable to tell his young daughters that their mother, a soldier, has died in Iraq. Instead, he takes the girls on a road trip, where their innocent charm helps him rediscover a healing joy he thought he'd lost forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GRASummary: Like Crazy beautifully illustrates how your first real love is as thrilling and blissful as it is fragile. When a British college student falls for her American classmate, they embark on a passionate and life-changing journey only to be separated by circumstances beyond their control. Like Crazy explores how a couple faces the real challenges of being together and of being apart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIKSummary: Inspired by true events, an expedition of the uncharted American wilderness, legendary explorer Hugh Glass is brutally attacked by a bear and left for dead by members of his own hunting team. In a quest to survive, Glass endures unimaginable grief as well as the betrayal of his confidant John Fitzgerald. Guided by sheer will and the love of his family, Glass must navigate a vicious winter in a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE REVSummary: The Whangara people of New Zealand, believe their ancestor Paikea was saved from drowning by riding home on the back of a whale. The tribal group has since granted leadership positions to the first-born males, believing them to be descendants of Paikea. But then a young mother dies in childbirth along with her newborn male son. His twin sister survives and the little girl, Pai, is brought up by...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHASummary: When three women living on the edge of the American frontier are driven mad by harsh pioneer life, the task of saving them falls to the pious, independent-minded Mary Bee Cuddy. Transporting the women by covered wagon to Iowa, she soon realizes just how daunting the journey will be, and employs a low-life drifter, George Briggs to join her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOMCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN HOMSummary: Allison MacKenzie looks back on life in the New England town where she grew up around the time of Pearl Harbor. Beneath the town's placid god-fearing exterior lay any number of dark secrets.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEYSummary: A retired safecracker thought his criminal past was behind him for good, but when his witless son-in-law fails to repay a ruthless loan shark, violent threats force him to take on one last job to protect his family.
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Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2006
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEBSummary: An admired high school hockey player with a bright future, drives in the night with his girlfriend and two other friends with his headlights off with devastating results. The former athlete is left with a brain injury that prevents him from remembering many things for extended periods of time. To compensate, he keeps notes in a small notebook to aid him in remembering what he is to do. He also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LOOSummary: A high school football coach with a history of losing games faces not only the pressures from a group of fathers wanting him fired, but also the possibility that his wife can never have children. When he turns to God, will his prayers be answered?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FACCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Facing 2006Summary: To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ClCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CLOSummary: A peace-loving prince of Judea, leads his nation against the wrath of the conquering Romans. His self-imposed destiny brings tragedy to himself, and his people, as he learns to fight, to love, to hate and, finally, to forgive.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: Daniel Miller was tooling along a Los Angeles boulevard listening to Barbra Streisand sing "Something's Coming" when something came - a bus. One head-on crash later, Daniel wakes up deceased. And his troubles are just beginning ... Meryl Streep joins writer/director/star Brooks ... for a witty peek at the afterlife where you can eat all you want and not gain an ounce. But there's a catch:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEFSummary: While traveling in the deep south, Virgil Tibbs, a black Philadelphia homicide detective, becomes unwittingly embroiled in a murder case when he is first accused of the crime, and then asked to solve it! Finding the killer proves to be difficult, especially when his efforts are constantly thwarted by the ignorant and bigoted town sheriff. But neither man can solve this case alone. Putting aside...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY InSummary: Cara longs to be a part of the in-crowd at her new school. In an effort to impress town hottie Brandon, she befriends Grace, a girl with Down Syndrome, a friendship she tries to hide when she meets popular girls Skylar and Quinn. When Skylar loses her bid to be on the Homecoming Court, she sets it up for Grace to win Homecoming Queen, as the Senior Prank.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Stonetable Films 2014