Summary: Novelist Joe and his actress wife Sally throw a party to celebrate the sixth anniversary of their turbulent marriage. At the party both guests and hosts start telling each other the truth-- something rarely heard in Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANNSummary: "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: Hans, a fruit peddler, watches his unexceptional life disintegrate. Seduced and rejected to the point of a nervous breakdown, Hans drinks himself to death as he toasts his loved ones at the dinner table.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MERSummary: Fassbinder directs and stars as a gay lower-class carnival performer known as Fox the Talking Head, who strikes it rich by winning a lottery. Then he has an ill-fated romance with an elegant upperclass lover.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOXSummary: A chilling tale of the American Dream unraveling that examines the choices people make when faced with tragedy. In a quiet suburban community where every driveway has a minivan, every backyard has a swing set and every neighbor feels safe, something no one is prepared for happens.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Gus Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EVESummary: A small nomadic community is cursed by an unknown shaman. When Atanarjuat falls in love with a woman already promised to the son of the clan's leader, he has to fight for her. She is won by Atanarjuat and the leader plots to attack him in his sleep. Escaping, he sets off running across the ice, embarking on a harrowing adventure of survival in the brutal wilderness. He returns stronger and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Meet Patch Adams, a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humor is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh-- even if it means risking his own career. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Patch 1999Summary: Tom, Sandra, Randy and Curt are office co-workers who live in a city's downtown where virtually all the office buildings and malls are connected by a maze of glassed-in bridges. They have all staked a month's salary on a bet to see who can stay indoors the longest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAYSummary: William Franklin arrives at St. Judes, the only lay teacher among a staff of Catholic brothers. He is quick to realise that his teaching methods are opposed to those of the brothers. He succeeds in building a trusting relationship with the boys, which enables him to unlock their hidden talents and open their minds to the beauty of poetry. When two boys are severely beaten it is more than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TVA Films 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMISummary: A tale of the love between ambulance driver Lt. Frederic Henry and nurse Catherine Barkley during World War I. The action takes place in Italy and the two fall in love during the war and will stop at nothing to be together. The film also analyzes Lt. Henry's feelings on war and the purpose of fighting.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Osiris Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FARSummary: When a new student starts in Professor Hundert's class, little does the professor know that this student will change his life forever. They start out butting heads and end up forming a friendship that will shake the controlled world of the professor. The lessons learned will last a lifetime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMPSummary: "When a lawyer's car breaks down in a dangerous Los Angeles neighborhood, a tow-truck driver arrives just in time to save his life. The two men begin a deep friendship that sets off a chain of unsettling and surprising events involviing their families and friends for years to come."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRASummary: 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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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: The story of T.E. Lawrence, the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LawrenceSummary: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge learns the true meaning of Christmas and reforms his heartless and money-grubbing ways after being visited on Christmas Eve by four ghosts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MUPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday MSummary: Zulu is set in Africa in 1879 only hours after the battle of Isandhlwana. A small group of British soldiers stood their ground at a farm house against an onslaught of wave after wave of Zulus.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment [distributor] 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ZULSummary: A look at a scandal-ridden TV soap opera.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1991
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Painfully shy "little voice" can only express herself by singing in the voices of others, but once her mother's sleazy boyfriend (Caine) overhears her incredible voice he'll do anything to drag the recluse into the spotlight and make her a star.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LITSummary: A former pro football quaterback suddenly lands in a maximum security prison. Using fellow inmates, he must put together a motley group of cons to play a no-holds-barred grudge game against the sadistic guards.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In a sleepy Northern California town in the 1940s, Ed Crane, a humble barber, suspeacts that his wife Doris is having an affair with her boss. When a stranger comes into town hinting that there is a fortune to be made in investing in the new invention of dry cleaning, Ed hatches a blackmail scheme he hopes will make him rich and get him some revenge at the same time. His plan goes horribly awry...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: USA Home Entertainment 2002