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Alienation (Social psychology) Drama Feature films Films for the hearing impaired Infiltration (Military science) Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Organized crime investigation Massachusetts Boston Drama Police Massachusetts Drama South Boston (Boston, Mass.) Drama Undercover operations Massachusetts Boston DramaSummary: "Robin Williams stars as Lance Clayton, a man who has learned to settle. He dreams of being a rich and famous writer, but has only managed to make it as an unpopular high school poetry teacher. His only son Kyle (Daryl Sabara) is an insufferable jackass and won't give his father the time of day. Lance is dating Claire (Alexie Gilmore), the school's adorable art teacher, but she doesn't want to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WORSummary: Based on the unbelievable but true events, I, Tonya is a dark comedic tale of American figure skater, Tonya Harding, and one of the most sensational scandals in sports history. Though Harding was the first American woman to complete a triple axel in competition, her legacy was forever defined by her association with an infamous and poorly executed attack on fellow Olympic competitor Nancy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISummary: The next installment in the blockbuster franchise follows vampire death dealer Selene as she fends off brutal attacks from both the Lycan clan and the vampire faction that betrayed her. With her only allies, David and his father Thomas, she must stop the eternal war between Lycans and vampires, even if it means she has to make the ultimate sacrifice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UNDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UnSummary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN SHOSummary: The year is 1613, and Shakespeare is acknowledged as the greatest writer of the age. But disaster strikes when his renowned Globe Theatre burns to the ground. Devastated, Shakespeare returns to Stratford, where he must face a troubled past and a neglected family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALLCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALLSummary: A young boy who witnesses his parents' murder grows up to become Batman, a masked and emotionally disturbed vigilante who battles against an arch-criminal known as The Joker.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1997
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE BATSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Summary: A professional softball player discovers she is in the middle of a love triangle after she falls for two different men and wonders when it comes to love, how do you know?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HOWCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOWSummary: A reporter assumes the identity of a dead man. The more he does this, the further he is from his true identity. When he finds himself in danger, will he be able to become himself once again, or will it be too late?
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: In the early 1980s, Charlie Wilson is best known as a womanizing US congressional representative from Texas. He seemed to be in the minor leagues, except for the fact that he is a member of two major foreign policy and covert-ops committees. However, once Charlie is prodded by his major conservative supporter, Joanne Herring, Wilson learns about the plight of the people who are suffering from...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHA RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charlie 2008Summary: Character study of a talented pianist who has given up a promising career and now works on oil rigs. After 20 years he returns home to his father's deathbed, perhaps to reconcile himself with his fear of failure and desire for greatness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Five 1998Summary: An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music. This fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Rhino Home Video 1994
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2 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC HEASummary: The backwoods of North Carolina is where Nell lives, all alone. She has her own form of language and no idea of a world beyond her small plot of land. When civilization enters her life, Nell's life will never be the same again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of C.S. Lewis, a world-renowned writer and professor who remains untouched by any great passion until he meets and falls in love with Joy Gresham, a feisty, abrasive New York divorcée.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHASummary: Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLOSummary: "After a chance encounter at a local bar, strong-willed Kathy is inextricably drawn to Benny, the newest member of Midwestern motorcycle club, the Vandals led by the enigmatic Johnny. Much like the country around it, the club begins to evolve, transforming from a gathering place for local outsiders into a dangerous underworld of violence, forcing Benny to choose between Kathy and his loyalty to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "John Waters' gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema's most memorably blasphemous sequences. Made on a shoestring budget in Waters' native Baltimore, with the filmmaker taking on nearly every technical task, this gleeful mockery of the peace-and-love ethos of its era features the Cavalcade of Perversion, a traveling...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MULSummary: Based on historical events, this suspenseful thriller examines the infamous 1969 death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who drowned after Senator Ted Kennedy drove off a bridge on Chappaquiddick Island, and the moral and legal complexities that play out over the following week.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHASummary: Erik Kernan is an up-and-coming sports reporter who rescues a homeless man only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect the Champ's story and escape the shadow of his father's success becomes a personal journey as the ambitious reporter reexamines his own life and his relationship with his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RESSummary: Thor fights to restore order across the cosmos, but an ancient race led by the vengeful Malekith returns to plunge the universe back into darkness. Faced with an enemy that even Odin and Asgard cannot withstand, Thor must embark on his most perilous and personal journey yet, one that will reunite him with Jane Foster and force him to sacrifice everything to save us all.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014