Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau. So Sam decides to write a note to his folks, pack up some of his belongings and leave home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature -- miles from civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MYSummary: Shaun Brumder is content to be a bright, talented, but unfocused Southern California surf slacker, until the day he discovers a novel by acclaimed author Martin Skinner. Inspired, he suddenly realizes his life's ambition: to leave behind mind-numbing Orange County and study creative writing with Skinner at Stanford University. A host of hilarious circumstances make his dream of escaping his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ORASummary: The story revolves around Alice Palmer a well known actress who has decided to direct her first film of her own script. She is approached by a fan, Kaz Naiman. She finds out after talking to him that he produces movies and before she knows it, he's out collecting money for her film, 3 million dollars to be exact. But, here's the hitch, the only way they can get the 3 million dollars is if they...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Films 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FESSummary: Axel Foley is a brash, street smart Detroit detective who follows the trail of a friend's murderer to the posh surroundings of Beverly Hills. And before Axel gets his man, he gets up to his neck in an international network of smugglers and drug peddlers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEVSummary: A story of how the irresistible lure of adventure and the unknown bring two young men together in the Australian army in 1915. They are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GallipoliSummary: Adaptation of a true story where a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SERSummary: Shows Cary Grant as a government attorney, living in a houseboat, widowed and left with three unruly kids. He hires Sophia Loren as a governess and ends up falling in love with her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family HouseboatSummary: A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003