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Cinema classics collection Criterion collection ; 423 John Wayne collection MGM DVDSummary: Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonderful 2010Summary: Epic story of two families in Italy traces both the rise of fascism and the conflict between the sons of the families, both born on January 1, 1900.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NINSummary: Half a century into their marriage, Chicago artists Jackie and Don Seiden approach the fragility of their elderly lives in their own distinct ways. Jackie, notorious for her unbounded energy, is constantly on the move, inspired to create works of art while also maintaining the couple's multistory, brightly-painted Victorian house. Don steadily sketches in his notebook while facing alarming...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOSummary: During the bright Nordic summer, a group of children reveals their dark and mysterious powers when the adults aren't looking. But what starts as innocent soon takes a dark and violent turn in this gripping supernatural thriller.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR INNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INNCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INNSummary: When an ambitious young lawyer takes on a big case against a powerful and ruthless executive of a large pharmaceutical company, he soon finds himself involved in a case of blackmail and corruption.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MISSummary: When a female college student goes missing, a popular professor is the prime suspect. Suddenly, the questions he faces aren't merely academic, they're a matter of life and death.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on a true story about revenge, fear and redemption. In 19th century St. Pierre, a convict sentenced to death strives to better himself in the eyes of the police chief's beautiful wife and that of the town that she has him working in. Since there is no guillotine or executioner, one of each has to be sent for from France.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In pre-World War II France, a father is torn between his sense of honor and his deep love for his saintly daughter when she gets in trouble with a dashing air force pilot.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WELSummary: The gunfighter: In this noir-influenced Western, Gregory Peck stars as an aging gunslinger, sick of killing but haunted by punks wanting to make a name for themselves by slaying a legend. After being warned by his old friend the Sheriff, Peck decides to return East to see his estranged wife and the child he left behind. Knowing his death is an inevitability if he stays, Peck leaves but before...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN FOXWalken, Christopher
Summary: After twenty-five years of playing together, a renowned string quartet learns that their cellist will retire due to health concerns, causing an emotional upheaval amongst the remaining members.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LATSummary: 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: A look at the life of the 43rd president of the United States. Rising from a privileged alcoholic to a born-again Christian whose belief in religious destiny helped move him to the top ranks of political power. How he used Christianity to turn his life around, met and married his wife, and the days before his decision to declare war on Iraq.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WSummary: Sixteen-year-old rebel Bliss Cavendar, miserable living in a small Texas town with her beauty pageant-obsessed mother, secretly joins a roller derby team under the name "Babe Ruthless," and her life gets better, although infinitely more confusing.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHISummary: Jack lives on the site of his abandoned island commune with his 16-year-old daughter Rose. Since the breakup of the commune, Jack has sheltered Rose completely from the influences of the outside world.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BALSummary: Dana Delany (China Beach) stars as Rose, a desperate expectant woman who leaves her husband and takes refuge in a shelter for unwed pregnant women. She begins a new life, raising her daughter and marrying the shelter's handyman (Clancy Brown, The Shawshank Redemption). But when her first husband tracks her down, she is faced with the agonizing decision whether to flee her past once again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Questar Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PATSummary: Three middle-aged men disenchanted with their lives, try to relive their youth by moving into a house on a college campus and start hanging out with a group of misfit college students, losers, and retirees.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OLDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLD RATED RSummary: Set in 1959, a band of long-time buddies since high school gather at a local diner to share their escapades and make sense of their lives. As one by one they drift off to join the mainstream of life they still cling to their shared boyhood dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DINSummary: Juno MacGuff is sixteen years-old who after a one-time sexual encounter with her best friend Paulie, learns that she's pregnant. Juno and Paulie like each other, but not enough to start a family, complete with a child. Paulie leaves all the decisions about the baby to Juno. Initially she decides to have an abortion, but can't go through with it. So she decides to have the baby and give it up...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUNCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Juno 2008Summary: 40 years ago, five youths on a weekend getaway in the Texas countryside fell prey to a butcher in a mask made of human skin and his cannibalistic family, and horror cinema would never be the same. Violent, confrontational, and shockingly realistic, director Tobe Hooper's THE TEXAS CHAIN SAW MASSACRE terrified audiences in a way never thought possible when it was unleashed on a politically and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR TEXSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALISummary: "A hallucinatory biopic that breaks all cinematic conventions, Walker, from British director Alex Cox, tells the story of nineteenth-century American adventurer William Walker (Ed Harris), who abandoned a series of careers in law, politics, journalism, and medicine to become a soldier of fortune and, for many months, the dictator of Nicaragua. Made with mad abandon and political acuity--and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA WALSummary: "In the spirit of The Blind Side comes this inspiring true story of family, faith, and football... Jon Abbate [is] a rising football star at Wake Forest University... [L]ives are suddenly shattered when the family's youngest son, Luke, is killed in a tragic accident. Inspired by Luke's memory, Jon courageously leads the Wake Forest team to a series of last-minute victories--leading to a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011