Summary: Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Brace yourself for more macabre mayhem and monstrous madness as television's creepiest clan wreaks hilarious havoc on their unsuspecting victims. This time, love is in the air, and it seems that everyone--Pugsley, Ophelia, Uncle Fester, and even Lurch--is being bitten by the bug. Gomez, meanwhile, is burglarizing houses in his sleep, and it's curtains for the new neighbors when Morticia tries...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM DVD 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADDSummary: A man tries to live a normal life despite the fact that he sometimes turns into a sheepdog.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The family and friends of prominent Danish patriarch Helge Klingenfeldt gather at his country estate to celebrate his sixtieth birthday. Two months prior to this event, Helge's daughter committed suicide. Her twin brother, Christian, makes a birthday toast that brings a barrage of family secrets out into the open.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CELSummary: A chance car accident introduces the Henderson family to the real-life Bigfoot, who is anything but a ferocious monster. He quickly becomes a true friend of the family. They're soon in a race against the clock to return "Harry' to his natural environment before the authorities capture him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family HarryCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARSummary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CheaperSummary: In the mid-nineteenth century, Emily Dickinson is writing prolifically and enjoying a passionate, romantic relationship with her friend and sister-in-law Susan. While seeking publication of some of her poems, Emily finds herself facing male literary gatekeepers too confused by her genius to take her work seriously. Instead, her work attracts the attention of an ambitious woman editor, who also...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WILSummary: Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNCSummary: "The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor"--Www.imdb.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: When a childless couple buries a box with all of their wishes for an infant in their backyard, their wishes are granted. However, their child, Timothy Green, is not all that he appears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY ODDSummary: A dark drama of three sisters: a writer, an actress, and one groping for identity. When their father decides to divorce their shattered mother and remarry a spunky middle-aged widow, the three young women struggle to come to terms with each other and with themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CANSummary: After Scott and Kate Johansen lose their daughter's college fund, they become desperate to earn it back so she can pursue her dream of attending a university. With the help of their neighbor Frank, they decide to start an illegal casino in his house.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie House 2017Summary: After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMASummary: When a businessman decides to take his family on a vacation in a rented cottage on the West Coast seashore, everyone starts to complain and create problems, until he steps in and saves the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Summary: 19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2005
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BROSummary: Bob Munro and his dysfunctional family rent an RV for a road trip to the Colorado Rockies, where they ultimately have to contend with a bizarre community of campers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie RV 2006Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RV RATED PGSummary: In this all-new movie, we find Morticia and Gomez distraught that their children are growing up, skipping family dinners, and totally consumed with "scream time." To reclaim their bond they decide to cram Wednesday, Pugsley, Uncle Fester, and the crew into their haunted camper and hit the road for one last miserable family vacation. Their adventure across America takes them out of their element...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ADDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ADDSummary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Momentum Pictures 2018
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR MOMSummary: A woodcutter's two children are led by a fairy through the past, present, and even the future to find the Bluebird of Happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The timeless magic of Cinderella returns with Rodgers & Hammerstein's 1965 version of the classic tale filled with music, singing and magic. A poor and mistreated servant girl is transformed into a beautiful princess with the help of her fairy godmother, a pumpkin, a glass slipper and belief in impossible things in order to attend a lavish ball and find her prince!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CiCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CINSummary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2023