Summary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POCSummary: Glamorous socialite Helen Wright takes what she wants - clothes, alcohol, men - and uses them up and tosses them aside. Then she meets a brilliant young violinist, Paul Boray. But this is one toy she can't break.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HUMSummary: A lonely little boy peeks into the window of a Skid Row dive. Mesmerized by the soaring magic played by a small jazz combo, he longs to create the same sounds. So with the guidance of a brilliant bluesman, the boy develops into a superb artist but as man, struggles with an impossible note trapped in his mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Young 2005Summary: A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER AMESummary: A talk show host and his wife and son seem to be living an ideal life until clandestinely-filmed videotapes of their private lives start to show up on their front porch. As the tapes reveal more secrets, the resulting stress and fear leads to conflict, obsession, and deceit for the couple and brings back episodes from the husband's childhood when he wronged a young Algerian boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CACSummary: A young woman named Sophie is cursed by the Witch of the Waste and is turned into an old woman who is unable to tell anyone of her plight. Unable to continue her job at her mother's hat shop, she goes to the ambulatory castle of the notorious wizard Howl and insinuates herself into his household. Sophie befriends Calcifer, the fire demon who powers the castle and who is bound to Howl by a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME HOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED PGSummary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGSummary: When Joel discovers that his girlfriend, Clementine, has had their tumultuous relationship erased from her mind through an experimental scientific procedure, he decides to ease his own pain by getting the same treatment. But, as each memory of Clementine is systematically eliminated, Joel suddenly realizes how much he still loves her and desperately attempts to reverse the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ETECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Eternal 2004Jones, Rashida
Summary: A young couple going through a divorce attempts to remain friends while seeking out new relationships.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CELSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: Three stories of women on their way to life-changing crossroads. One is a battered wife fleeing her husband, one is a young woman dealing with feelings of infidelity and the third is a pregnant woman trapped in a relationship she doesn't want.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PERSummary: When Fred Flarsky reunites with his first crush, one of the most influential women in the world, Charlotte Field, he charms her. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter and sparks fly.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LONHale, Lucy
Summary: When a businesswoman decides to achieve success without compromising her ethics, she discovers that she has become attracted to her cold and efficient office nemesis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distribution Solutions 2022
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HATSummary: An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRISummary: As the result of a childhood wish, John Bennett's teddy bear, Ted, came to life and has been by John's side ever since. Their friendship is tested when Lori, John's girlfriend of four years, wants more from their relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2012
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ted 2012Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TEDSummary: All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Murder!: Based on the novel and play called Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson. It was Hitchcock's third all-talkie film. When a woman (Norah Baring) is convicted of murder, one of the men selected to serve on the murder trial jury (Herbert Marshall) believes the accused, an aspiring actress, is innocent of the crime and takes it upon himself to apprehend the real killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV Series Alfred 2010Summary: Classic film noir based on a short story by MacKinlay Kantor. A greedy sideshow sharp-shooter marries an ex-army man, then leads him down the road to crime for easy money. Includes a bank robbery sequence, noted for being filmed in one shot.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY GUNSummary: "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...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABOSummary: Following failed attempts to conceive, Jason and Cynthia are contemplating divorce. In an effort to save their marriage, they book a vacation to a couples therapy retreat, called Eden. To save money they encourage their friends to join them, claiming that their friends can enjoy the party activities and not take part in the therapy. Reluctantly their friends, Dave and Ronnie, Joey and Lucy, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010