Summary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie You 2010Summary: An elaborate mystery involving a corrupt police official in a squalid town on the Mexican border and a murder that ensnares a narcotics agent and his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TOUSummary: Julie Powell is a frustrated insurance worker who wants to be a writer. Trying to find a challenge in her life, she decides to cook her way through Julia Child's 'Mastering the Art of French Cooking' in one year, and to blog about it. As Julie begins to find her groove as a cook, and her voice as a writer, the project takes on a life of its own. The project provides the struggling young woman...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JULCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUL RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JULCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Julie 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF JULSummary: "A group of hedonistic middle-aged friends gather eatch night on a luxurious houseboat for dancing, love-making and smoking hashish. When a young news reporter visits the houseboat to write a story on the group, she is outraged to learn the tragic depths of their social alienation"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Arab Film Distribution 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ADRSummary: "For a young girl living a 'hard-knock life' in a children's orphanage, things may seem pretty bad -- especially at Christmas. But feisty Annie carries a song in her heart and hope in her locket -- the only thing she has from her parents. One day, fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan, Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find her mom and dad. Her adventure takes her from the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ali, is a small-town girl with a big voice who escapes hardship to follow her dreams to LA. After stumbling upon The Burlesque Lounge, a majestic but ailing theater that is home to an inspired musical revue, Ali lands a job as a cocktail waitress from Tess, the club's proprietor and headliner. After Ali finally makes her way from the bar to the stage, things take a dramatic turn when her larger...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BURCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BURSummary: Two Supreme Court justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everyone else wants her dead.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Happily divorced for 14 years, Lilly and Dan still hate each other. But after a fight at their daughter's wedding, their hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ThatSummary: From Poland to Paris to Tel Aviv, an intimate and personal story of the quests of three contemporary Jewish women whose lives and intertwining destinies create a moving and poignant story of survival.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VOYSummary: Two people from different worlds meet and fall in love on the brief, tragic maiden voyage of the grand ocean liner "Titanic".
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TITSummary: From the author of Awakenings comes a heartwarming tale of a father and son, who find a connection through the music that embodied the generation gap of the 1960s. An unforgettable soundtrack features the Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Crosby Stills and Nash, and many more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jamie, an orphan who must leave his upper-class boarding school to live with an uncle in the wilderness of Manitoba, Canada, has no idea of the incredible adventure that awaits him. During a hunting trip, he and Awasis, a Native American Indian boy, become separated from the group. Finding themselves lost and alone in the icy and dreaded wilderness called The Barrens, their struggle to survive...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Feature Films For Families 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSSummary: While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV JOHCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Series John 2008Summary: America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In Dhadkan (Heart beat), Anjali (Shilpa Shetty) is forced by her parents to marry a man they choose rather than Dev (Sunil Shetty), an illegitimate child. Anjali's marriage to Ram (Akshay Kumar) gets off to a disastrous start, as Anjali refuses to acknowledge Ram as her husband. But despite herself Anjali is drawn into Ram's family's intrigue, overcomes her memory of Dev, and gradually comes to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DHASummary: Revolves around an enigmatic smuggling ring's efforts to steal a priceless artifact and unfolds through the unique perspective of five characters, and shows how the choices of a single person can affect the outcome of things in a world where everything is interconnected.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Vivendi Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE POWSummary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sunshine 2009Summary: "Expectant first-time father Peter Highman (Robert Downey, Jr.) looks forward to his new child's due date five days away. As Peter hurries to catch a flight home from Atlanta to be at his wife's side for the birth, his best intentions go completely awry when an encounter with aspiring actor Ethan Tremblay (Zach Galifianakis) forces Peter to hitch a ride with Ethan on a cross-country trip that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Set in the 15th century, two strangers dressed as minstrels arrive at a castle in advance of court festivities, and it is revealed that they are actually emissaries of the devil himself, dispatched to spread heartbreak and suffering. Their plans, however, are thwarted by an unexpected intrusion: human love. Often interpreted as an allegory for the Nazi occupation of France, during which it was...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VISSummary: Clark and Marty were caught up in a marriage of convenience that over time turned into deep mutual respect and love. They now preside over a growing family in their little prairie house. As they reach out to those in their frontier community, they discover that love is not limited to the size of one's dwelling.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD LCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Loves 2005Summary: The rousing story of lowborn William Thatcher's quest to change his stars, win the heart of an exceedingly fair maiden and rock his medieval world. Follow this fearless squire and his band of medieval misfits as they careen their way toward impossible glory that's part romance, part road trip and part exuberant swashbuckling.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KNISummary: Based on the true story of Robert Kearns. The Kearns' were a typical 1960s Detroit family. Bob is a college professor and part-time inventor. When Bob invents a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world, the Kearns' think they have struck gold. But their aspirations are dashed after the auto giants, who originally embraced Bob's creation, unceremoniously shuns him. Ignored,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC FLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flash 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FLASummary: The star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015