Summary: A young Pi Patel, overcoming a cataclysmic shipwreck, finds himself stranded on a lifeboat with the only survivor, a ferocious Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE LIFSharma, Suraj
Summary: Possessing encyclopedia-like intelligence, unusual zookeeper's son Pi Patel sets sail for America, but when the ship sinks, he escapes on a life boat and is lost at sea with a dwindling number of animals until only he and a hungry Bengal tiger remain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE LIFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIF RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LIFSummary: It was the last silent feature to star Harold Lloyd, and one of his very best. The slapstick legend reprises his "Glasses Character" this time as a good-natured but scatterbrained New Yorker who can't keep a job. He finally finds his true calling when he becomes determined to help save the city's last horse-drawn trolley, which is operated by his sweetheart's crusty grandfather.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE SPESummary: Queen Victoria strikes up an unlikely friendship with a young Indian clerk named Abdul Karim.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VICCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VICCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VICCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VICSummary: A delegate to the Republican National Convention falls in love with an old college friend, a liberal who is there with another man to protest the Republican agenda, and soon all of their beliefs are tested.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cinema Libre 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: In 1952, a young Philomena was sent to the convent of Roscrea in Ireland after giving birth to her first child. When her son became a toddler, the nuns sent him to America for adoption. Philomena then spent the next fifty years seeking for him in vain.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu-ray Movie PhilomenaSummary: Isolated from the outside world, fifteen-year-old Lara lives in seclusion on a vast country estate with her father and strict governess Miss Fontaine. Late one evening, a mysterious carriage crash brings a young girl into their home to recuperate. Lara immediately becomes enchanted by this strange visitor who arouses her curiosity and awakens her burgeoning desires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CARSummary: At once a rousing paean to artistic creation, a delicate evocation of divine grace, and the ultimate film about food, the Oscar-winning Babette's Feast is a layered tale of a French housekeeper with a mysterious past who brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late nineteenth-century Denmark.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In the Interest of the Nation - Masked soldiers attack a vehicle loaded with high-tech missiles in an attempted smuggling operation in Uzbekistan. Meanwhile, a Swedish engineer is kidnapped in Ethiopia. But Not if It Concerns Your Daughter - Carl Hamilton's family was wiped out in a revenge attack years ago. Now, those painful memories resurface as Hamilton's seven-year-old goddaughter is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Judah Ben-Hur is a young Jewish nobleman from a prominent family who is reunited with his childhood friend Messala. Messala returns to Judea as a Roman tribune. There is a genuine friendship between the two men, yet the clash of their cultures drives a wedge between them. That wedge finally drives Messala to banish Judah to the slave galleys and sends his mother and his sister to prison. From...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BENSummary: A housewife who, with the help of a wily nanny, turns the tables on her tyrannical husband.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A day in the life of Ming Ding begins as a pair of hammer-wielding loan sharks come to the door of Ming's squalid apartment. Their ultimatum, delivered in Mandarin, is as simple as it is virtually impossible to fulfill, needing to give them $800 by the evening or the debt will be doubled. With the family he supports half a world away, Ming has a single rain-soaked shift at his job in which to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TAKSummary: Asha, a sharp-witted idealist, makes a wish so powerful that it is answered by a cosmic force, a little ball of boundless energy called Star. Together, Asha and Star confront a most formidable foe the ruler of Rosas, King Magnifico to save her community and prove that when the will of one courageous human connects with the magic of the stars, wondrous things can happen.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney 2024
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WISCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WISSummary: With their partners away serving in Afghanistan, a group of women on the home front form a choir and quickly find themselves at the center of a media sensation and global movement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MILFey, Tina
Summary: A Princeton college admission representative discovers that an applicant might be the son she gave up for adoption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADMCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE ADMSummary: "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.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Evelyn Wang, a flustered immigrant mother, is contacted from a parallel universe and told that only she can save the world. The unlikely hero must learn to channel her newfound powers and fight through the splintering timelines of the multiverse to save her home, her family, and herself in this big-hearted and irreverent adventure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE EVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EVESummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: The son of Indian immigrants born in America wants to fit in with fellow New Yorkers, but his family is unwilling to let go of their traditional ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NAMSummary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Adapted from a Stanislaw Lem novel. Ground control has been receiving strange transmissions from the three remaining residents of theSolaris space station. When cosmonaut and psychologist Kris Kelvin is sent to investigate, he experiences the strange phenomena that afflict the Solaris crew, sending him on a voyage into the darkest recesses of his own consciousness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011