Summary: Sweet Dreams is the true story of the legendary Patsy Cline, charting the most dramatic years of her efforts to become a top country singer.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: After journalist Michael Finkel is fired from The New York Times for embellishing a story, he learns that accused murderer Christian Longo has been claiming to be him. Hoping this story will save his career, Finkel begins interviewing Longo in prison. But soon, the men find themselves in an eerie game of cat and mouse in this psychological drama.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRU RATED RSummary: Caroline just wants to settle down in one place, find a decent guy, and provide a better home for her handful of a son, Toby. When she moves to Seattle and meets Dwight, she thinks she's got it made. Toby, however, feels differently after spending time with Dwight while away from Caroline. Dwight seems to want to mold Toby into a better person, but to do so he emotionally, verbally, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: When Alice's husband dies and leaves her with their eleven-year old son, she leaves for California, but is stranded in Phoenix. She lands a waitressing job and meets a rancher.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mark Sway (Renfro), an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor (Jones) will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1994
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CLISummary: In 1960, a filmmaking group was granted direct access to John F. Kennedy, filming him on the campaign trail and eventually in the Oval Office. This resulted in three films of remarkable, behind-closed-doors intimacy, Primary, Adventures on the New Frontier, and Crisis, and, following the president's assassination, the poetic short Faces of November. Collected here are all four of these titles,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC KENSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Arizona in the late 1800s. Infamous outlaw Ben Wade and his vicious gang of thieves and murderers have plagued the Southern Railroad. When Wade is captured, Civil War veteran Dan Evans, struggling to survive on his drought-plagued ranch, volunteers to deliver him alive to the train that will take the killer to trial. On the trail, Evans and Wade, each from very different worlds, begin to earn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THR RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN THREbert, Roger
Summary: Life and career of film critic Roger Ebert.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC LIFSummary: A complex exploration of the physical and emotional effects of trauma. A college student attempts suicide after a brutal sexual assault but is stopped by a mechanic whose kindness, however, soon takes an unsettling turn. Startlingly modern in its frankness and psychological realism, the film represents one of the purest on-screen expressions of the sensibility of the intimate community of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SOMSummary: U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TRUSummary: Thunderball : The thrills never let up as James Bond dives into this riveting adventure filled with explosive confrontations and amazing underwater action sequences! Sean Connery brings his characteristic style, humour and magnetism to Agent 007 as he travels to Nassau to track down villainous creminal Emilio Largo, who is threatening to plunge the world into a nuclear holocaust.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Danjaq LLC and United Artists 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAMSummary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARSummary: The hugely popular live American television plays of the 1950s have become the stuff of legend. Combining elements of theater, radio, and filmmaking, they were produced at a moment when TV technology was growing more mobile and art was being made accessible to a newly suburban postwar demographic. These astonishingly choreographed, brilliantly acted, and socially progressive "teleplays"...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GOLGavaldon, Roberto
Summary: Tells the story of an immigrant family in Spain of the 19th century struggling to establish a farm amidst the hostility of the townspeople.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Video Distributors 2020
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: Tales of terror: three stories adapted from the works of Edgar Allan Poe. In "Morella," a dying young woman tries to reconcile with her father, who has always blamed her for her mother's death during childbirth. In "The black cat," a man discovers his wife's affair and takes steps to remove his rival, only to have his wife's black cat reveal his evil deed. And In "The facts in the case of M....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios Inc. 2007
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR VINSummary: In the year 2000, America's national sport is the Death Race, a cross-country excursion in which contestants rack up points by killing innocent bystanders. Meanwhile, a revolution is brewing, and rebels disrupt the televised competition in an attempt to overthrow the morally bankrupt President.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout Factory 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Wyatt Earp is the sturdy lawman who sets about the task of shaping up the disorderly Arizona town of Tombstone, with the help of the boozy, tubercular gambler and gunman Doc Holliday. Though initially at cross-purposes, the pair ultimately team up to confront the violent Clanton gang.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN MYSummary: Young Oliver Tate's coming of age is coming even sooner than expected. Prone to daydreaming, listening to French crooners, and indulging other self-absorbed fantasies, Oliver suddenly finds himself submerged in real-life, dual challenges, plotting to lose his virginity with a quirky new girlfriend while also struggling to reconcile his parents' marriage, even though his mom seems smitten with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUBSummary: Matthew Poncelet is the convicted killer of two teenage lovers, preparing to end his life on death row. In response to a letter, Sister Helen Prejean visits Matthew and finds herself face-to-face with a killer who still pleads his innocence. When the date is set for his execution death by lethal injection, Poncelet asks Sister Helen to be his spiritual advisor and she agrees, little knowing the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEASummary: The feature-length documentary reveals the fascinating, far-reaching impact and appeal of the show with a compelling blend of rare footage, historical images, and behind-the-scenes stories while also exploring the dramatic talents of creator-producer-director Dan Curtis. Known as the "King of TV Horror," the Emmy-winning filmmaker followed the show with other iconic genre favorites including...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MASSummary: "Victoria Kowelska has lived through World War II bombings and relocation camps, and has finally emigrated to San Francisco Bay. Now she should be blissfully happy with her devoted husband in their mansion overlooking the San Francisco Bay. But Victoria is not who she seems, her child belongs to someone else, and her husband and housekeeper are frightening her half to death."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005