Dempsey, Patrick

Summary: Tom and Hannah have been best friends since college, but when Hannah returns from a trip engaged to another man, Tom realizes he is in love with her and will do everything he can to win her heart.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAD

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Made 2008

Summary: Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOU

Summary: Happily divorced for 14 years, Lilly and Dan still hate each other. But after a fight at their daughter's wedding, their hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE That

Summary: Comedy loosely based on Shakespeare's play "The Tempest" has a New York City architect who tries to solve his midlife crisis by moving to a Greek island with his teenage daughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TEM

Summary: In this musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HIG

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie High 2008

Summary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

Summary: Two stranges met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Nine years later, Jesse has written a book about the encounter. During his accelerated European book tour, he meets up with Celine in Paris. Before Jesse's flight home, he joins Celine for a picturesque walk around the city and they have an intimate conversation, ending at Celine's apartment. Will they get...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BEF

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Before 2004

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BEF

Trapero, Pablo

Summary: An ambulance-chasing attorney and a doctor cross paths while investigating car accidents.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2011

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAR

Summary: Zoe wants a baby, but has a problem letting anyone get close to her. The perfect solution is to become artificially inseminated. Shortly after she conceives twins, she finally meets the man of her dreams. Will he stick around when he finds out?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD B

Summary: A modern re-imagining of the classic romantic comedy. Bernie and Joan are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups. When he sets up his best friend, Danny, with her roommate, Debbie, the sparks soon fly as they try to navigate the relationship minefields from the bar to the bedroom.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABO

Summary: A modern adaptation of the classic love story, moved to the futuristic urban backdrop of Verona Beach.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ROM

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ro

Summary: A homesick Russian poet, Gorchakov, researching in Italy with the aid of a beautiful interpreter, Eugenia, arrives at a Tuscan spa, while there he encounters the local mystic, who sets him on a challenging task.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Home Video 1998

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOS

Summary: Chronicles the life of 18th century aristocrat Georgiana, Duchess of Devonshire. She was reviled for her extravagant political and personal life. She was a vibrant beauty and celebrity of her time. Georgiana is trapped in an unhappy marrital triangle with her husband and his live-in mistress. She falls passionately in love with Earl Grey, an ambitious young politician, and the affair causes a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DUC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUC RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Duchess 2008

Summary: Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a complicated WWII saga told in flashback sequences. Best Picture, Best Director-Anthony Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress-Juliette Binoche. Includes exclusive bonus material and special packaging.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENG

Summary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZEL

Summary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUL

Summary: When Roger, a delinquent boy, is sent to live with his grandfather for the summer, he discovers his grandfather is secretly protecting a friendly, turtle-like creature named Mel. Because of Roger's reckless behavior, his grandfather is put in jail, and a greedy land developer captures Mel. To free his grandfather and save Mel, Roger has to take responsibility for his actions and find the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MEL

Summary: Growing up poor in London, Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend, Amelia.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VAN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VAN

Summary: A recently ordained priest is sent to a small parish church in rural Mexico to help an aging priest. Upon arriving at his new post, he meets a beautiful young woman with a religious passion that borders on obsession. Quickly her passion for her faith becomes entangled in a growing attraction to the new priest. When the priest crosses the line that seperates temptation from sin, he finds himself...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CRI

Summary: In Verona, Italy, the beautiful city where Romeo first met Juliet, there is a place where the heartbroken leave notes asking Juliet for her help. It's there that aspiring writer Sophie finds a 50-year-old letter that will change her life forever. As she sets off on a romantic journey of the heart with the letter's author, Claire, now a grandmother, and her handsome grandson, all three will...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Letters 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LET

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LET

Hudson, Kate

Summary: After a single woman discovers she has cancer, she realizes that she is falling in love with her doctor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIT