Summary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Smart 2008Summary: Returns to rural southern Illinois to reconnect with Stevie, a troubled young boy from ten years ago. The film began as a way of discovering what forces shaped Stevie's life. Part way through the filming, Stevie is arrested for a serious crime, and tears his family apart. The modest profile turned into a chronicle of Stevie, his broken family, the justice system and the filmmaker himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC STESummary: A sleepy Norwegian town erupts after an American backpacker is arrested. Witnesses claim a teen died after touching the stranger, and that he inexplicably started a fire that engulfed a farm. He warns a psychologist, Christine, that he has supernatural powers, and that anyone who gets too close to him dies. Is he a liar, a freak of nature, an angry god? Determined to find the truth, Christine...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MORCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoSummary: The beloved characters of Downton Abbey take to the big screen, and it turns out that they've got a major event to prepare for. After all, it's not every day that royalty makes an appearance. Of course, it's not long before tensions are running high. The property isn't even close to ready when it becomes clear that Carson the butler will need to come out of retirement to help run this sinking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOWCopies Available at Peninsula
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Downton 2019Summary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Mulan: Mulan is a young Chinese woman who breaks tradition and joins the Imperial army, accompanied by a her guardian dragon, Mushu, to battle an invading army.
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Publisher / Publication Date: [Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment] 2013
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD MulanSummary: George is a buff and lovable klutz who saves his animal friends from poachers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Contents: [Set 1]. Crucible of horror / Michael Gough (1970) -- Double exposure / Michael Callan, Joanna Pettet, Cleavon Little (1983) -- Horror rises from the tomb / Paul Naschy (1973) -- The dungeon of Harrow / Russ Harvey (1962) -- The werewolf of Washington / Dean Stockwell (1973) -- They saved Hitler's brain / Walter Stocker (1963) -- The thirsty dead / Jennifer Billingsley (1974) -- The amazing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURBrandy
Summary: Special Disney presentation of the classic musical of Cinderella, who suffers the torments of her wicked stepmother and spoiled stepsisters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2000
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CINSummary: Now an ex-cop on the run, Brian, hooks into outlaw street racing. When the Feds strong-arm him back, Brian's no rules, win-or-die skills are unleased against an international drug lord. With his velocity-addicted buddy riding shotgun, and a drop-dead-georgeous undercover agent dialing up the heat ... it becomes a desperate race for survival and justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie 2FastSummary: Superman, the movie: As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him. But the time comes when Superman's powers for good are revealed to the world. Superman battles with supercriminal Lex Luthor and his cohorts as they attempt to destroy California by activating the San...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video [distributor] 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUP RATED PGSummary: Wilby Daniels was just an ordinary teenager until a magical ring accidentally transforms him into a sheepdog...whose owner is the leader of a plot to destroy the Space Program!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Shaggy 2006Summary: A Copenhagen police officer, Christian, seeks justice for his partner's murder by ISIS member Imran. In a world wracked by terror and suspicion, Christian and Alex, a fellow cop and his late partner's mistress, embark on a mission to hunt Imran down, but are unwittingly caught in a cat-and-mouse chase with a duplicitous CIA agent who is using Imran as a pawn to trap other ISIS members. Soon...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOMSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The epic story of Henri Charrière, a safecracker from the Parisian underworld who is framed for murder and condemned to life in the notorious penal colony on Devil's Island. Determined to regain his freedom, Papillon forms an unlikely alliance with convicted counterfeiter Louis Dega, who, in exchange for protection, agrees to finance Papillon's escape.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAPSummary: A young servant fleeing from his master takes refuge at a convent full of emotionally unstable nuns in the Middle Ages. Introduced as a deaf blind man, he must fight to hold his cover as the nuns try to resist temptation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LITSummary: Aspiring stand-up comedian Will is forced to face the realities of relentless hecklers, drunk comedy groupies and hard-to-impress morning radio DJs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: RLJ Enterainment 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OPESummary: Rose, a literature professor who lives with her mother, is in search of passion. Gregory, a mathematics professor who has been hurt in the past, is afraid to start a new relationship. Fate brings the two together and they soon agree to a marriage of convenience, built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. Then they fall in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Mirror 2004Summary: The shaggy dog: Wilby Daniels was just an ordinary teenager until a magical ring accidentally transforms him into a sheepdog ... whose owner is the leader of a plot to destroy the Space Program!
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Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: A robust collection of classic film noir (black film), a genre that became a cinematic staple for American audiences during the mid 1940s through the late 1950s
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DARSummary: On the night of an astronomical anomaly, eight friends at a dinner party experience a troubling chain of reality bending events. Part cerebral sci-fi and part relationship drama, a tightly focused, intimately shot film that quickly ratchets up with tension and mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD TCFF COHSummary: 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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOASummary: Robin Williams portrays English professor John Keating, who, in an age of crew cuts, sport coats and cheerless conformity, inspires his students to live life to the fullest, exclaiming "Carpe Diem, lads! Seize the day. Make your lives extraordinary!" The charismatic teacher's emotionally charged challenge is met by his students with irrepressible enthusiasm--changing their lives forever
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A charter boat operator in the Caribbean breaks his policy of neutrality and takes a job transporting a resistance member to Martinique.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003