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Action Adventure Comedy Drama Family Feature films. Mystery Romance Thriller videorecordingSummary: A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market, while being pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination and a Kaballah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PISummary: Dramatic biography of boxing great Muhammad Ali, which focuses on the ten-year period of 1964-1974. In that time, the brash, motor-mouthed athlete quickly dominates his sport, meets and marries his first wife, converts to Islam (changing his name from Cassius Clay), and defies the United States government by refusing to submit to military conscription for duty in Vietnam. His world heavyweight...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALISummary: The story of Easy Company of the US Army Airbourne Paratrooper division and their mission in WWII France during Operation Overlord. -- We stand alone together: the men of easy company: A documentary about the men and experiences of Easy Company.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BAN NOT RATEDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV BANSummary: Three brothers join the French Foreign Legion to escape a dark past. But their troubles are quickly forgotten as their courage, duty and devotion is put to the test when they are forced to fight against all odds in this acclaimed film classic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BEASummary: After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The French editor of Elle magazine, Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DIVSummary: Takes place in the days before Christmas near a little-known border crossing on the Mohawk reservation between New York State and Quebec. Ray, a white woman and Lila, a Mohawk are both single mothers, both earning minimum wage and facing desperate circumstances, are drawn by the lure of fast money into the world of border smuggling across the frozen water of the St. Lawrence River. New York...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRO RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FROSummary: Focuses on the life and loves of the beautiful and selfish Scarlett O'Hara. The story begins on the O'Hara's Georgia plantation of Tara in antebellum days and moves through the Civil War and Reconstruction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GONSummary: A black comedy about a rich, disturbed, young man, fascinated with death and funerals, who has an affair and a series of adventures with an eccentric and independent 80-year-old woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HARSummary: Filmed as if through the president's own eyes, Lincoln goes deeper than any documentary has before to reveal the troubled depths behind the man known as the Great Emancipator.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A&E Home Video 2005
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV LINSummary: Sara Crewe is the pampered daughter of an Army officer who is left in a strict boarding school when her father goes off to war. When he is reported dead, her world is turned upside down and she is made a servant at the school, yet she refuses to let her spirit be broken.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family LittleSummary: A U.S. Army platoon, captured in the Korean conflict, is whisked to Manchuria for three nightmarish days of experimental drug-and-hypnosis- induced conditioning that transforms the men into human time bombs. Returned to the United States as war heroes, one of them is used by his mother to promote her Joseph McCarthy-like husband's political career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment [distributor 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ManchurianSummary: Moliere is a down-and-out actor and playwright who is up to his ears in debt. The wealthy Jourdain offers to cover that debt so that Molière's theatrical talents might help Jourdain win the heart of a certain widowed marquise. Disguised as a priest, Molière becomes a guest in Jourdain's palace on the subtext of teaching Jourdain the craft of the stage, all this to the annoyance of Jourdain's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MOLSummary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MOSSummary: A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSummary: A callous young hustler living in California finds his father has died and left him only rose bushes and a '49 Buick convertible. Feeling cheated out of what he considers is his 3 million dollar inheritance, he is in for an even bigger surprise-a brother he never knew he had!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAISummary: Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Seven 2009Summary: Join the four best friends as they finish their first year of college and dive into a summer of excitement. Bridget journeys to Turkey on an archeological dig. Carmen plunges into the hectic, creative world of summer theater in Vermont. Lena discovers new love and old heartbreak at the Rhode Island School of Design. Tibby takes a big step in her relationship with Brian in the Big Apple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SISCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sisterhood 2008Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SISSummary: The epic story of a priest torn between God and human passion and a beautiful girl desiring only what she cannot have, spanning five decades of ambition, fear, longing and revenge, and set against the vast horizons of Australia's Outback.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. 2004
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD THOVerdi, Giuseppe
Summary: The action takes place in ancient Egypt, and tells of the love of Radames, the captain of the guard, for a slave girl, Aida. She is the daughter of the King of Ethiopia, who is captured by Radames and the Egyptian troops. Tricked into betraying military secrets, Radames is condemned to be buried alive. He is joined by Aida, who dies with him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca Music Group Classics 2011
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA AIDSummary: Out for revenge against his double-crossing former partner, the roguish German Shepherd Charlie, finds himself guardian to a lonely little orphan named Anne-Marie. Her astounding ability to talk to animals leads this unlikely pair on an adventure packed with thrills, laughter, tears, and true love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALLSummary: A coal miner takes a road trip looking for a way out of financial despair and criminal trouble. He finds unexpected love instead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARISummary: The Academy Award winning comedy about an idealistic young man and his friends and their pursuit to find jobs and a purpose to life in their hometown of Bloomington, Indiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001