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Casinos Nevada Las Vegas Drama DVD-Video discs Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson) 1907-1988 Heinlein, Robert A. (Robert Anson) 1907-1988 Film adaptations Human-alien encounters Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Robbery Nevada Las Vegas Drama Single women Staten Island (New York, N.Y.) DramaSummary: Night key: An ingenious inventor of a security system is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR BORSummary: Morris and Val Price, a middle class couple, win a luxury car in a raffle. The media makes them front page news and this captures the attention of some criminals who kidnap their teenage daughter and hold her for ransom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SEESummary: Collection of four film adaptations of classic English literature. Includes a printed set of replica memorabilia from the lives of Charles Dickens, Jane Austen and Charlotte and Emily Brontë.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2012
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLASummary: Ben du Toit is a schoolteacher who always has considered himself a man of caring and justice, at least on the individual level. When his gardener's son is brutally beaten up by the police at a demonstration by black school children, he gradually begins to realize his own society is built on a pillar of injustice and exploitation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DRYSummary: A 1950s housewife living with her husband in an idealistic experimental community begins to worry that his glamorous company may be hiding troubling secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DONCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DONSummary: When the manager of a public records firm decides his staff of three could use some help, he hires Bartleby, the one and only candidate who applies for the job. But before long, the eccentric new employee creates an uproar by repeatedly defying his boss with the phrase "I'd prefer not to."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BARContents: [Set 1]. Crucible of horror / Michael Gough (1970) -- Double exposure / Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Cleavon Little (1983) -- Horror rises from the tomb / Paul Naschy (1973) -- The dungeon of Harrow / Russ Harvey (1962) -- The werewolf of Washington / Dean Stockwell (1973) -- They saved Hitler's brain / Walter Stocker (1963) -- The thirsty dead / Jennifer Billingsley (1974) -- The amazing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Gloria is a free-spirited divorcee who spends her days at a straight-laced office job and her nights on the dance floor, joyfully letting loose at clubs around Los Angeles. After meeting Arnold on a night out, she finds herself thrust into an unexpected new romance, filled with both the joys of budding love and the complications of dating, identity, and family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GLOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GLOSummary: "Follow Jason Voorhees as he cuts and hacks a swath of fear from Crystal Lake to the mean streets of Manhattan." Friday the 13th: Camp Crystal Lake has been closed for over twenty years due to several vicious and unsolved murders. New owners reopen the camp, only to have each counselor stalked by a violent killer. This 24-hour nightmare of blood unfolds into a film which is widely acclaimed for...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR FRISummary: Who cares about the suffering--existential, financial, or other--of those who blindly mismanaged our monies into this ever-expanding, nay, verily bottomless pit of debt? No one, but this film may help viewers understand A) the birth of current financial woes, and B) what it might have been like, in those first few hours within the confines of an early investment trading firm casualty. Fueled by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: When a mysterious beast ravages the countryside, two men are called in to fight the evil and end the reign of terror. The only way they can save the land from the unspeakable fright is to unearth a dark power, reveal a deadly secret and face their greatest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The plot follows the individual journeys of three ordinary South African men in the build up to their attendance of the 2010 Mighty Men Conference, where their lives are forever changed by God's message for them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ordinary 2013Summary: A handful of dedicated young soldiers must rise to the challenge of intergalactic warfare with a species of terrifying alien insects that threaten to eliminate the human race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Starship troopers: Charts the lives of elite members of the Mobile Infantry, a corps of dedicated young men and women soldiers fighting side by side in the ultimate intergalactic war ... the battle to save humankind. The enemy is mysterious and incredibly powerful with only one mission: survival of their species no matter what the human cost.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: Courageous soldiers travel to the distant and desolate Klendathu system for the ultimate showdown between the species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2002
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STASummary: The world's favorite blue hedgehog is back for a next-level adventure in SONIC THE HEDGEHOG 2. After settling in Green Hills, Sonic is eager to prove he has what it takes to be a true hero. His test comes when Dr. Robotnik returns, this time with a new partner, Knuckles, in search for an emerald that has the power to destroy civilizations. Sonic teams up with his own sidekick, Tails, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE GRESummary: Nervous spinster Charlotte Vale is stunted from growing up under the heel of her puritanical Boston Brahmin mother and remains convinced of her own unworthiness until a kindly psychiatrist gives her the confidence to venture out into the world on a South American cruise. Onboard, she finds her footing with the help of an unhappily married man. Their thwarted love affair may help Charlotte break...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOWSummary: Ocean's 11 (127 min): New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OCESummary: Includes 7 Steven Kings classics, over 19 hours of thrills & chills.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD STECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV StephenSummary: A small-time Los Angeles night club owner falls for a lavish invitation to gamble at a private club.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A couple celebrates the success of their company on a yacht off of the coast of Spain. When a storm smashes their boat on a reef, they swim to the nearest town for help: the decrepit fishing village of Imboca, whose strange inhabitants offer no help to the couple.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR DAGSummary: In 1876 Wyoming the gun is the only law, and for Duncan and Susanna McKaskel, newly arrived settlers beset by outlaws, rugged frontiersman Con Vallian (Sam Elliott) is the only hope.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE QUICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quick 2003Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN QUISummary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005