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Feature films Married people Drama Mothers and daughters Drama Muebles Industria y comercio Teatro Neighbors Drama Personas casadas Teato Robeson, Paul 1898-1976 Used furniture industry New York (State) New York Drama Video recordings for the hearing impaired Women New York (State) New York DramaSummary: When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2009
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV LITSummary: A story of growing up as seen through the eyes of a boy named Mason, who ages from six to eighteen years old on screen. The film was shot intermittently over a twelve-year period from May 2002 to October 2013, showing the growth of Mason and his older sister, Samantha, to adulthood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOY RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOYSummary: 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 the future, a young man looks for a better life outside his small rural village in Mexico-- but finds himself facing a technological dystopia when he attempts to cross the border.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Maya Entertainment 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SLESummary: A volatile story about a Washington, D.C. political reporter who writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. Unexpectedly finding herself behind bars, she struggles to maintain her principles and relationship with her family when she refuses to divulge her source. Inspired by true events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Nothing 2009Summary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLESummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLESummary: Based on true events, the dark and fascinating story of the unlikely and ultimately tragic relationship between an eccentric multi-millionaire and two champion wrestlers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOXCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOXSummary: 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: Inspired by the 1932 classic of the same title, Scarface follows the violent career of a smalltime Cuban refugee hoodlum who guns his way to the top of Miami's cocaine empire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Videos 2003
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2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SCASummary: Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter, Olive, is growing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SYNSummary: Adaptation of a true story where a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SERSummary: Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Duchess 2008Summary: Chronicles the bloody, single-minded climb of a crime lord to power. Enter the psyche of an unrepentant mobster who slugs, claws and kills his way to the top. But when he learns that a former mentor he put in prison is about to get out, this self-made mobster must now face a man whose life he ruined ... and confront the twisted remnants of his own demented conscience as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GANSummary: Danny Dravot and Peachy Carnehan leave 19th century India and set out for the isolated, primitive land of Kafiristan, whose people haven't seen an outsider in hundreds of years. Peachy becomes lord of the kingdom's treasury, a huge chamber spilling over with limitless gold and priceless rare jewels. Danny is first crowned king, then, declared a god.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: British soldiers captured by the Japanese during World War II are forced to construct a strategic railroad bridge which a commando team is instructed by the British High Command to destroy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF BrSummary: A gritty look at the mean streets of South London, where drug addiction, poverty and abuse are common, and hope is not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NILSummary: Inspired by the amazing true story of a brave dolphin and the compassionate strangers who banded together to save her life. Swimming free, a young dolphin is caught in a crab trap, severely damaging her tail. She is rescued and transported to the Clearwater Marine Hospital, where she is named Winter. But her fight for survival has just begun. Without a tail, Winter's prognosis is dire.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOL RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DOLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DOLSummary: Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRISummary: Based on the true story of Evelyn Ryan. Offers a revealing study of the housewife's plight during the Eisenhower era, along with an inspiring tale of tenacity and survival against formidable odds. Evelyn is a cheerfully strong-willed mother of ten who compensates for the failings of her alcoholic husband by becoming the most successful "contester" in the country. Between the mid-1950s and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PRI1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRI
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PriCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PrizeSummary: It has been eight years since Batman vanished into the night, turning, in that instant, from hero to fugitive. Assuming the blame for the death of D.A. Harvey Dent, the Dark Knight sacrificed everything for what he and Commissioner Gordon both hoped was the greater good. For a time the lie worked, as criminal activity in Gotham City was crushed under the weight of the anti-crime Dent Act.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2012