Summary: Pathological liar Clifford Irving stages a complex hoax. In the 1970's Irving managed to fool a major publisher and LIFE magazine into thinking he was writing an authorized biography of Howard Hughes. Irving and his best friend and partner, Dick Susskind, go to extreme lengths to pull off the hair-brained scheme. The more outrageous the lies they concoct, the more believable they become and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOASummary: The acclaimed illusionist Eisenheim has not only captured the imaginations of all of Vienna, but also the interest of the ambitious Crown Prince Leopold. When Leopold's new fiancée rekindles a childhood fascination with Eisenheim, the Prince's interest evolves into obsession. Suddenly the city's Chief Inspector finds himself investigating a shocking crime. But even as the Inspector engages him...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ILLSummary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESCage, Nicolas
Summary: While still struggling with the curse of the Ghost Rider, Johnny agrees to save a young boy from the Devil.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GHOSummary: At 17, Justin Cobb releases his anxiety by sucking his thumb, which makes him more of an outcast than he already is. As he seeks treatment for his habit, it causes big changes for him and those around him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THUClooney, George
Summary: When his wife ends up on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King discovers she was having an affair, so he takes his two daughters on a trip to Kauai to confront the man she was seeing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DESSummary: A year after a botched hostage negotiation with a serial killer turned deadly, ex-detective Koichi and his wife move into a new house with a deeply strange new neighbor. His old cop colleagues come calling for his help on a mysterious case, which may be related to the strange goings-on next door, in this insidiously constructed narrative that braids plot twists on top of plot twists and shock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRESummary: After more than a decade of sober political dramas and social-minded periodpieces, the great Japanese director Masaki Kobayashi shifted gears dramatically for this rapturously stylized quartet of ghost stories. Featuring colorfully surreal sets and luminous cinematography, these haunting tales of demonic comeuppance and spiritual trials, adapted from writer Lafcadio Hearn's collections of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A talented college gymnast with Olympic dreams is changed when he meets a mysterious stranger named Socrates who holds the power to tap into new worlds of strength and understanding. The gymnast suffers a serious injury, but with the help of Socrates and an elusive young woman, he discovers that he has much to learn and even more to leave behind before he can become a peaceful warrior and find...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PEASummary: Dracula's unholy presence dooms the crew of the merchant ship Demeter as it sails from Carpathia to London.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY HORROR LAS1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: When Helen Lyle hears about a slave spirit with a hook hand said to haunt a notorious housing project, she braves the gang-ridden area to visit the site. Helen arrogantly assumes Candyman can't really exist, until he appears, igniting a string of terrifying, grisly slayings. The police refuse to believe Helen's story and charge her with the crimes. Now the only one who can set her free is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CANSummary: 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: In 1950s New York, a lonely private detective afflicted with Tourette's Syndrome ventures to solve the murder of his mentor and only friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020