Summary: When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRASummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NOWSummary: "With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY PHISummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Natalie and Nick don't know each other, but they share lots in common. They're both frustrated in their work lives and in the romance department; Natalie despairs of finding Mr. Right, while Nick's meddling mother is forever trying to set him up. After tossing coins in Hayward Fountain, Nick and Natalie begin dreaming about each other. But there's a catch. They may be perfect for each other,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall Of Fame 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Benjamin Braddock has just finished college and is already lost in a sea of confusion and barely contained angst when he becomes sexually involved with the middle-aged mother of the young woman he's dating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA GRASummary: The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Follow three three teenage girls as they explore their first taste of freedom. Charlotte, the recently hearbroken, Megane, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, a virgin who dreams of love, all three smitten by the guys at the Toy Depot. After applying for their first part-time job at the store during this one fateful summer, the three girls experience for the very first time what it is like to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLUSummary: At the end of the 1950s, Rachel, a young office clerk living in a provincial town, meets Philippe, a well-educated man from a wealthy family. They share an intense but short-lived romance, from which a daughter is born. Over the next 50 years, their lives will be shaped by the unconditional love between a mother and her daughter, overshadowed by the impossible love of a woman for a man that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN IMPSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: Ben is a 23-year-old slacker who meets up and coming career girl Alison at a bar. They end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison meets him and reveals that she is pregnant. Despite having little in common, the two decide that they have to at least try to make some kind of relationship work for the baby's sake.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY KNOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KNOSummary: Twelve-year-old Anais is fat. Her sister, Elena, is a beauty. Elena meets an Italian law student, who seduces her with promises of love, as the ever-watchful Anais bears witness to the corruption of her sister's innocence.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FATSummary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021