Summary: A contemporary take on the Oscar Wilde fable, thirteen year old Arbor and Swifty are best friends for whom the joys of boyhood are almost nonexistent. They seek their fortune by getting involved with a local scrap dealer and criminal, leading to tragic consequences.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SELSummary: A stirring drama about the complex friendship and transformative professional relationship between book editor Maxwell Perkins (who discovered F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway) and Thomas Wolfe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GENCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GEN RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Genius 2016Summary: "Based on three spellbinding stories of magic and the macabre by 17th-century folklorist Giambattista Basile, Tale of Tales unleashes a barrage of mind-bogglingly gorgeous and fantastical imagery as it brings to life the misadventures of three kings"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY TALSummary: Small-town girl Jerrica lives an unexceptional life; until she takes on a secret identity inspired by her music. She becomes Jem: the bold, stunning and absolutely fearless global superstar! But when it seems that she may lose touch with the things that really matter, Jerrica and her band of sisters begin a one-in-a-million journey, discovering that some talents are too special to keep hidden.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Now retired and living in self-imposed exile in the world's most glamorous city, Poirot reluctantly attends a séance at a decaying, haunted palazzo. When one of the guests is murdered, the detective is thrust into a sinister world of shadows and secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Studios 2023
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HAUSummary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THASummary: Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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4 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Chaperone 2019Summary: A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to freedom. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds remarkable strength and hope in the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD COLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE COLCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: Abby Johnson becomes the youngest clinic director in the history of Planned Parenthood, then a life-changing experience turns her into an anti-abortion activist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movei Unplanned 2019Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: Queen of France at sixteen, widowed at eighteen, Mary Stuart defies pressure to remarry and instead returns to her native Scotland to reclaim her rightful throne. By birth, she also has a rival claim to the throne of Elizabeth I, who rules as the Queen of England. Mary asserts her claim to the English throne, threatening Elizabeth's sovereignty. Betrayal, rebellion, and conspiracies within each...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MARSummary: The Addams family: Con artists plan to fleece the eccentric family using an accomplice who claims to be their long lost Uncle Fester.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADDSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA VALSummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHSummary: Every police precinct has a case that defies explanation and evades solution. Recently promoted Captain Yohan Vivès faces such an elusive mystery when he investigates the gruesome murder of a young woman named Clara in the French town of Grenoble. It is clear that the attack was premeditated, and the violent nature of the crime suggests revenge. All the evidence points towards a scorned...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NIGSummary: In a racially divided Alabama town in the 1930s, widowed lawyer Atticus Finch agrees to defend a young black man accused of raping a white woman, teaching his children valuable lessons about prejudice and empathy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie To Kill 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TO NOT RATEDSummary: Comedy about a witch who was burned at the stake 300 years ago. She plans to take revenge by marrying the descendent of her persecutors and ruining his political aspirations, but doesn't count on falling in love!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Maleficent ... sends the kingdom's beloved Princess Aurora into an enchanted sleep ... [and the] Good Fairies arm brave Prince Phillip to defeat a fearsome fire-breathing dragon and rescue Aurora"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY SLESummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA VALSummary: This 1949 movie lavishly takes us on the journey of Jay Gatsby (Alan Ladd) who worked his way from poor fisherman to extravagant millionaire. Travel back in time to the roaring 20s, a time of flappers, bootlegging, art deco architecture, and jazz music, through this classic tale of love and betrayal, deception and mystery. This is the second film adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald's famous novel...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: National Velvet: A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NATSummary: The Great Gatsby follows viable writer Nick Carraway as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922. Chasing his own American dream, Nick lands next door to Jay Gatsby, and across the bay from his cousin, Daisy, and her husband, Tom Buchanan. Nick is drawn into the captivating world of the rich and their loves and deceits. As he bears witness, he pens a tale of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRE RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GrCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2013Summary: Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CURSummary: 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: It's hard enough to adjust to a big move -- even harder when it's to New York City -- and harder still when there's a singing crocodile living in your attic! Josh Primm isn't making friends easily, so he's glad that Lyle is willing, but their menacing neighbor is determined to rid the neighborhood of the reptile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022