Summary: Nora Wilder is a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job, but her quest for love consistently results in falling flat on her face. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman with an unabashed passion for living. Inevitably, Nora discovers she must look inward before finding a new outlook on life and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Broken 2007Summary: A hilarious comedy about a young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF AMESummary: From award winning director Alfredo De Villa comes a moving and heart wrenching film centering on a beautiful and mysterious doctor (Heather Graham), a young photographer (Victor Rasuk) who becomes infatuated with her, and her patient (Dominic Chianese), a painter going blind. A sexy and suspenseful ride through the city. Adrift in Manhattan is an intricately woven, award winning film that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Ventures 2013
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Summary: The friendship between two orphans endures even though they grow up on opposite sides of the law and fall in love with the same woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MANSummary: A hilarious comedy about the lives our pets lead after we leave for work or school each day. Max, a terrier, has his favorite-pet status turned upside-down when his owner takes in a stray named Duke.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2017
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SECCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC RATED PGSummary: Terrier Max is coping with some major life changes. His owner is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. On a family trip to a farm, Max and Duke encounter many creatures who elevates Max's anxiety. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster, who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECSummary: Terrier Max is coping with some major life changes. His owner is now married and has a toddler, Liam. Max is so worried about protecting the boy that he develops a nervous tic. On a family trip to a farm, Max and Duke encounter many creatures who elevates Max's anxiety. Luckily, Max gets some guidance from veteran farm dog Rooster, who pushes Max to ditch his neuroses, find his inner alpha, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SECCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SECCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SECCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SeSummary: Jane has the kind of selflessness that everyone looks for in a friend. Lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. Kevin is a local newspaper reporter who spots Jane racing between two receptions - one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. He quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him into the big leagues. Jane butts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWESummary: An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy. As the night unfolds, lines become blurred on whom he is pursuing, and who is in pursuit of him. When the search intensifies, extreme measures are taken to prevent the killers from escaping Manhattan as the authorities close all of the city's bridges to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 21 BCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwSummary: Sex work is portrayed with radical nonjudgment in this immersive, richly detailed look at the rhythms and rituals of society's most stigmatized profession. Inspired by the experiences of the sex workers Borden met while making her underground feminist landmark Born in Flames, Working Girls reveals the textures of a day in the life of Molly, a photographer working part-time in a Manhattan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WORSummary: When Manhattan art dealers take a young man into their home believing him to be a friend of their children and Sidney Poitier's son, he leaves them with a lasting impression.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SIXSummary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KISGordon-Levitt, Joseph
Summary: A bike messenger in Manhattan attempts to deliver a mysterious letter to Chinatown while evading a malevolent detective who wants to intercept it.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PRESummary: When a woman's ex-husband sublets her apartment right out from under her and she refuses to move, the new tenant, a Chicago actor, moves in, touching off a comic, hate-love relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GOOSummary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANSummary: Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake recruits a seemingly everyday guy in his mission to defend New York City from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2010