Summary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PGSummary: Four American astronauts crashland on an unchartered planet and discover it is ruled by a race of intelligent apes who use a primitive race of humans for experimentation and sport. Astronaut Taylor (Heston) soon finds himelf among the hunted, his life in the hands of a benevolent chimpanzee scientist (McDowall).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI PLASummary: Two L.A. cops, one a veteran and one a rookie, try to bring peace to the war raging on the streets of L.A.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COLSummary: Story of General Patton in World War II whose military brilliance was balanced by his inability to deal with the social and political aspects of war, causing him difficulties in his dealings with the War Department.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PATSummary: Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MOUSummary: "Annie has 'the Gift'. Some fear her, others claim she's a witch. But now, a murder has ben committed and only she can solve it. On a twisted trail of open infidelity and jealous rage, she sees visions that will haunt her and discovers a truth that will tear the town apart"--Promotional materials.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Gift 2000Summary: They used to run the country. Now they're running for their lives! Two former one-term presidents are framed in a scandal by the current president and pursued across the U.S. by armed agents. The two squabbling political foes plunge into a desperate and delightfully frantic search for the evidence that will establish their innocence. As they scramble through the real America, they get an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYHawke, Ethan
Summary: Story of a young man who hopes to strike it rich in the Yukon gold country at the turn of the century and his relationship with the wolf-dog White Fang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHISummary: Four teenagers come of age on their last summer night before college in 1962.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AMECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AMESummary: Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a rich family. Before the complex case is over, he's seen murder, blackmail, and what might be love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BIGSummary: Believing his career is over, Senator Jay Bulworth takes out an enormous insurance policy and a contract on his own life. His impending death fills him with an outrageous desire to break the rules and tell it like it is.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BULSummary: Six-year-old Andy is thrilled when he gets a brand-new cheery Chucky doll for his birthday. But he quickly discovers that Chucky is possessed by the soul of a notorious serial killer who swiftly begins terrorizing Andy, his ill-fated babysitter and his disbelieving mom. And he doesn't stop there. Proving he's nobody to toy with, the demonic doll schemes to transfer his evil spirit out of its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: Set during the 1880's when the Australian frontier was wild and dangerous, the film follows the exploits of a youth who sets out to tame a wild herd of horses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Video 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Man 2002Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MANSummary: An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY APASummary: [Carmen] A beautiful gypsy girl uses her irresistable charms to seduce a faithful military guard so that a band of smugglers can penetrate his stronghold.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: A musical comedy based on the life of vaudevillian Eddie Foy. When Eddie's wife dies, leaving him with seven children, he puts the kids into the act and takes the show on the road.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Brentwood Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Seven 1949Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEVSummary: The sole survivor of a ship pillaged by buccaneers poses as a pirate to recover the ship and its treasure and to rescue a captive princess.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 1998
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BLASummary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), 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 2000