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Ex-convicts Drama Jewelry theft Drama Kidnapping victims United States Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Psychopaths United States Drama Screenwriters Drama Serial murder investigation United States Drama United States United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation DramaSummary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA INSummary: The successful career of 1940s screenwriter Dalton Trumbo comes to a crushing end when he and other Hollywood figures are blacklisted for their political beliefs. It tells the story of his fight against the U.S. government and studio bosses in a war over words and freedom, which entangled everyone in Hollywood from Hedda Hopper and John Wayne to Kirk Douglas and Otto Preminger.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUSummary: In this Shakespearean tale of jealousy and betrayal, a man who is an honorable itinerant cattleman, befriended and hired by a bighearted ranch owner despite his unwillingness to talk about his past. When the new hand becomes the target of the flirtatious attentions of the owner's bored wife and is entrusted by the boss with a foreman's responsibilities, his presence at the ranch starts to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN JUBSummary: A friendly schoolteacher turns violent when he becomes addicted to a painkiller he is prescribed for a painful health problem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA BIGSummary: In April 2003 Aron Ralston, a 27-year-old hiker, fell and was trapped in a narrow crevasse, his right arm wedged against the rock wall by a boulder. He had gone to Bluejohn Canyon, Utah for a rock-climbing weekend alone. Not telling anyone where he was going and finding himself stuck, he knows he can't expect anyone to come to his rescue. As a trained engineer and a skilled, albeit somewhat...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray 127Summary: A sheriff attempts to capture an escaped convict before a bloodthirsty mob lynches him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In an attempt to recapture the happiness she knew in the past, an elderly woman journeys back to the small town where she raised her children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRISummary: On the night of the dedication ceremony of the world's tallest skyscraper, a raging blaze breaks out, threatening the party-goers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TOWSummary: When Alex, an expert assassin, refuses to complete a job for a dangerous criminal organization, he becomes a target. FBI agents and Mexican intelligence are brought in to investigate the trail of bodies, leading them closer to Alex. With the crime syndicate and FBI in hot pursuit, Alex has the skills to stay ahead, except for one thing: he is struggling with severe memory loss, affecting his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MEMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MemorySummary: "In this chilling adaptation of the best-selling novel by Thomas Harris, the astonishingly versatile director Jonathan Demme crafted a taut psychological thriller about an American obsession: serial murder. As Clarice Sterling, an FBI trainee who enlists the help of the infamous Hannibal "the Cannibal" Lecter to gain insight into the mind of another killer, Jodie Foster subverts classic gender...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A historical drama that tells the story of a young frontier leader, his spirited wife, and their struggles in the backwoods of New York state.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DrumsSummary: The breathtaking, generation-defining Broadway phenomenon becomes a soaring cinematic event as Tony, Grammy, and Emmy Award winner Ben Platt reprises his role as an anxious, isolated high schooler aching for understanding and belonging amid the chaos and cruelty of the social-media age. Directed by acclaimed filmmaker Stephen Chbosky, the film is written for the screen by the show's Tony winner...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DEACopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DEACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS DEASummary: A beautiful, pure-hearted young woman, Maleficent has an idyllic life growing up in a peaceable forest kingdom, until one day when an invading army threatens the harmony of the land. Bent on revenge, Maleficent faces a battle with the invading king's successor and, as a result, places a curse upon his newborn infant Aurora. As the child grows, Maleficent realizes that Aurora holds the key to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY MALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Maleficent 2014Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAL RATED PGSummary: When FBI agent Clarice Starling is assigned a case involving a monstrous serial killer, she seeks counsel from an imprisoned cannibalistic psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, whose fascination with the young woman is as great as his hunger for murder. As their relationship develops, Starling must confront her own demons, and an evil so powerful that she may not have the courage or strength to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SILSummary: In 2010, the eyes of the world turned to Chile, where 33 miners had been buried alive by the catastrophic explosion and collapse of a 100-year-old gold and copper mine. Over the next 69 days, an international team worked night and day in a desperate attempt to rescue the trapped men as their families and friends, as well as millions of people globally, waited and watched anxiously for any sign...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD 33 RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: An aging criminal is released from prison and decides to assemble the old gang to go on one last perfect heist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: On the day of his scheduled execution, a convicted serial killer gets a psychiatric evaluation during which he claims he is a demon, and further claims that before their time is over, the psychiatrist will commit three murders of his own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR NEFSummary: A wild and wacky comedy about oddball characters in Los Angeles at Christmastime, centered around a suicide hotline service.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday MCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MixedSummary: The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUM RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DUMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD DumboSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011