Summary: A small-town Michigan lawyer takes on a difficult case: that of a young Army lieutenant accused of murdering the local tavern owner who he believes raped his wife. A gripping, envelope-pushing courtroom drama, Anatomy of a murder was groundbreaking for the frankness of its discussion of sex. More than anything else, it is a striking depiction of the power of words. With its outstanding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANASummary: After the unexpected death of his wife, a sportswriter finds himself consumed with grief and completely unprepared to raise two boys. Determined to bring joy back into their lives, he takes a 'just say yes' approach to parenting. And as freedom reigns, chaos ensues.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOYSummary: On the fast track and ready to taste the success of corporate America, John Crowley walks away from it all in hopes of finding a cure for two of his fatally ill children. With his wife Aileen by his side, he teams up with brilliant, but unconventional scientist, Dr. Robert Stonehill, and together they form a company to develop a life-saving drug. But just when it appears that a solution may be...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EXTSummary: Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1999
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HEASummary: Three American women working in Rome, Italy, share a spacious apartment and the desire to find love and marriage, each experiencing a few bumps in their journeys to romance.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRSummary: Set in 1913, a group of aristocratic men and women gather for a shooting party at an estate in the English countryside. They go through the elaborate rituals of an Edwardian country house party. Times are changing, though, and their values are about to change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOSummary: A down-and-out silver miner raising a son, self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for oil and it turns him into a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. Getting the oil from the ground is an intensely physical process that later broadens into Plainview's equally indomitable urge to control land and power. Along the way, Plainview deals with a mighty...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIC THESummary: Bert Kreischer rose to fame as a stand-up comedian known as The Machine, and in his signature set he recounts his true experience with Russian mobsters while on a booze-soaked college trip. Now, 23 years later, that trip has come back to haunt him as he and his estranged father are kidnapped back to Russia by the mob to atone for something they say he did. Together, Bert and his father must...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MACSummary: Featured are a series of comic sketches about a post-nuclear London: a girl is seventeen months pregnant, a father turns into a parrot, a man becomes a chest of drawers, and another man becomes a bed sitting room.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEDSummary: The stork delivers a baby elephant to Mrs. Jumbo, who happens to be a veteran of the circus, but the newborn is soon ridiculed because of his truly gigantic ears and is dubbed "Dumbo". Dumbo is relegated to the circus' clown acts. It is up to Dumbo's only true friend, Timothy Q. Mouse, to assist Dumbo to achieve his full potential.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DUM RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV DUMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD DumboSummary: Paul Atreides, alongside Chani and the Fremen, seeks vengeance against the conspirators who destroyed his family, while grappling with the dilemma of choosing between his love for Chani and the fate of the universe. Amidst the turmoil caused by the destruction of House Atreides by House Harkonnen, Paul and his mother Lady Jessica integrate into Fremen society on Arrakis, where they confront...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DUNSummary: This HBO Films drama tells the dramatic, poignant and often-exasperating story of the early days of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York City in the early 1980s, taking an unflinching look at the nation's sexual politics as gay activists and their allies in the medical community fight to expose the truth about the burgeoning epidemic to a city and nation in denial. This film boasts an all-star cast,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NORSummary: When a sadistic serial killer begins murdering key political figures in Gotham, Batman is forced to investigate the city's hidden corruption and question his family's involvement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE BATSummary: Ethan Hunt and his IMF team embark on their most dangerous mission yet: To track down a terrifying new weapon that threatens all of humanity before it falls into the wrong hands. With control of the future and the fate of the world at stake, and dark forces from Ethan's past closing in, a deadly race around the globe begins. Confronted by a mysterious, all-powerful enemy, Ethan is forced to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2023
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MIS1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MISCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MISSummary: A story about class divisions in Edwardian England, and the tragic series of events that occurs when two impulsive middle-class sisters become involved with a working class couple and a wealthy family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HOWSummary: A small passenger plane makes a forced landing in the Sahara. The challenge: survival. The tiny band from the plane fights off thirst, Arabs, treachery, declining morale and despair. Incredibly, the plane, like the legendary phoenix that rises from its own ashes, flies again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE FLICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Flight 2003Summary: Now adults, Theodore Templeton and his estranged brother take a magical formula that transforms them into babies for 48 hours. Together, they must now go under cover to prevent an evil genius from turning fellow toddlers intro monstrous brats.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOSSummary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSSummary: The "true story" of the meteoric rise and catastrophic demise of the world's first smartphone, BLACKBERRY is a whirlwind ride through a ruthlessly competitive Silicon Valley at breakneck speeds.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLASummary: A sinister thriller from the fractured 1960s that concerns a middle-aged businessman dissatisfied with his suburban existence, who is urged (and blackmailed) to undergo a strange and elaborate procedure that will grant him a new life as a reborn.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY SCI-FI SECSummary: Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OBVSummary: The true story of Moe Berg, professional baseball player, Ivy League graduate, attorney, and a top-secret spy who helped the US win the race against Germany to build the atomic bomb.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CaCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CATSummary: When scientists create a 'resonator' to stimulate the pineal gland, which controls the sixth sense, it opens the doors to a parallel and hostile universe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2007