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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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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: Wealthy teenager Charlie Bartlett is failing miserably at fitting in at his new public high school. The school is run by the world-weary Principal Gardner. As he begins to better understand the social hierarchy, Charlie's honest charm and likability gives him the position as the resident 'psychiatrist.' Along with his partner and fellow student, Murphy Bivens, Charlie dishes out advice and the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment [distributor 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: Lawman J.D. Cahill can stand alone against a bad-guy army. But as a widower father, he's on insecure footing raising two sons. Particularly when he suspects his boys are involved in a bank robbery, and two killings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY WESTERN CAHSummary: Woody Allen and Mia Farrow star as a long-married couple whose own relationship starts to crumble when their best friends, announce they're separating. They immediately pair-up with younger, sexier paramours and enjoy again the pleasures of fresh passion. But smoldering resentments and unexpected jealousies soon rise to the surface, erupting in savage humor and hilariously unpredictable reunions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUSSummary: Moving at warp speed, dodging asteroids and more, the Buddies and their new friends must summon their courage and ingenuity to launch plans for a moon landing and a rocketing trip back home. Will they have the right stuff?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: When Lucy and Edmund Pensive, along with their cousin Eustace, are swallowed into a painting and transported back to Narnia, they join King Caspian and a noble mouse named Reepicheep aboard the magnificent ship The Dawn Treader. The courageous voyagers travel to mysterious islands, confront mystical creatures, and reunite with the Great Lion Aslan on a mission that will determine the fate of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHR RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV CHRSummary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: "It happens with startling swiftness and violence. An armed cadre seizes state control. Fortunately, a coup d'etat can't happen here. Or can it? ... At odds are a popular general and Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman and an unpopular President with a pacifist agenda. At stake is the survival of the Republic. A vigilant colonel uncovers the scheme. But are the seven fateful days ahead enough time...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An uncompromising U.S. President has just told the world he will not negotiate with terrorists. But when Russian terrorists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision-- give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AIRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AIRSummary: Okinawa 1946, occupied by American troops whose assignment is to bring democracy to the inhabitants. The captain in charge, Captain Fisby (Glenn Ford), is a well-meaning but inept loser, and faces a wily Okinawan interpreter, Sakini (Marlon Brando), and a determined geisha girl, Lotus Blossom (Machiko Kyo), along with villagers who know how to take advantage of foreign occupation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TEASummary: Detective Sam Spade goes in search of a priceless statuette after the death of his partner.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: He was a monster, impossible to control, too dangerous to ignore. So Earth's mightiest heroes exiled him into outer space. But now The Incredible Hulk crash-lands on the distant planet Sakaar, ruled by the tryannical Red King. Sold into slavery, the Hulk becomes the planet's mightiest gladiator-- but his new masters get more than they bargained for when he forges a bond of brotherhood with his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PLASummary: The clues in a Jane Doe murder case points one way, yet detective Cassie Mayweather thinks another way. There's something too perfect about the way the forensic evidence leads to an obvious perpetrator - something that ties to Cassie's secret past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Murder 2002Summary: Since his childhood, Benjamin Franklin Gates has known that he is a descendant of a long line of people whose job it has been to guard a treasure hidden by the Founding Fathers. They hid clues to its whereabouts in the country's currency and on the back of the Declaration of Independence. Now, Ben has learned of a plot to steal the Declaration, and has only one option: he has to steal it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NaSummary: 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
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: NYPD Detective Keith Frazier struggles to outsmart Dalton, a high-stakes bank robber who, along with a well-trained crew of accomplices, has seized control of a Wall Street bank. The robbers turn what initially looks like a hostage crisis into a personal crusade to expose some mysterious evil secrets. As the dangerous cat-and-mouse game unfolds, Madaline, a power broker with her own agenda,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY INSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INSSummary: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARSummary: The Warriors, a New York City street gang, are unfairly blamed for the death of a rival gang leader. Now they must fight for their lives against armies of gangs that outnumber the police 5 to 1!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WARSummary: A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fried 1999Summary: Max Skinner is a ruthless, successful English investment broker with no time for life outside of his job. When his uncle dies, Max inherits the chateau and vineyard in the south of France where he grew up, but he then meets a potential rival to the inheritance, a young American who claims to be his illegitimate cousin. His first intention is to sell the vineyard as quickly as possible, but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GOOSummary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007