Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: A suspense-filled glimpse into the dark corridors of political power, a riveting action-thriller based on the autobiography of real-life undercover CIA operative Valerie Plame, whose career was destroyed and marriage strained to its limits when her covert identity was exposed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER FAISummary: Jamal Wallace is a talented young basketball player in New York City whose secret passion is writing. After an accidental meeting, Forrester, a reclusive novelist, becomes Jamal's unlikely mentor. Soon, both men learn lessons from each other about life and the importance of friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Finding 2000Summary: As a CIA officer, Evelyn Salt swore an oath to duty, honor and country. Her loyalty will be tested when a defector accuses her of being a Russian spy. Salt goes on the run, using all her skills and years of experience as a covert operative to elude capture. Her efforts to prove her innocence only serve to cast doubt on her motives, as the hunt to uncover the truth behind her identity continues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SALCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SALSummary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIASummary: Lieutenant O'Neil is the first woman ever given the opportunity to earn a place in the armed forces' most highly skilled combat unit--the elite Navy SEALs. But the already brutal rigors of training camp turn into an unimaginable test of courage and determination once it becomes clear that no one--powerful politicians, top military brass or her male Navy SEAL teammates--wants her to succeed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie G.I.Summary: 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!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Hot shots. A team of crack (or is it cracked?) jet jockeys led by an incompetent commander spend their nights carousing and their days training for secret operation "Sleepy Weasel"--A lightning strike against a desert kingdom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOTSummary: Sensitive and shy artist Patience Philips is a woman who can't seem to stop apologizing for her own existence. She works as a graphic designer for Hedare Beauty, a mammouth cosmetics company on the verge of releasing a revolutionary anti-aging product. When Patience inadvertently happens upon a dark secret her employer is hiding, she finds herself in the middle of a corporate conspiracy. What...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CATSummary: After sixteen years of working a thankless job at Life magazine, Walter Mitty is assigned to travel the world to track down the quintessential cover image from their star photographer for the magazine's final issue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SECSummary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000