Summary: A 1940s Los Angeles detective hounds his monsignor brother about a pious pimp's tie to grisly murder.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TRUSummary: Join Gomez, Morticia, Uncle Fester, Lurch, Cousin Itt and the rest of the gang for a fiendishly funny and altogether ooky experience.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADDSummary: Cheaper by the dozen: Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family CheaperSummary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KITSummary: "The first female doctor in New York City comes up against prejudice from male counterparts who feel threatened by her skills. Eventually, though, they come to respect her and romance blossoms between her and the head doctor"--Www.imdb.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIRSummary: Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CANSummary: Patagonia, 1960. A German doctor meets an Argentine family and follows them to a small town where the family will be starting a new life. The family welcomes the doctor into their home and entrusts their young daughter to his care, unaware that he is a notorious war criminal. At the same time, Israeli agents are desperately looking to bring "the German doctor" to justice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GERSummary: Anastasia: Based on a true story and brought to life with stunning animation, this story is an epic tale of breathtaking action and intrigue certain to captivate the entire family. A spellbinding mix of adventure, romance, comedy, and music, this acclaimed animated spectacular tells the thrilling story of the lost Russian princess Anastasia and her incredible quest to find her true identity....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANASummary: Film of the award-winning play about a struggling black family living on Chicago's South Side and the impact of an unexpected insurance bequest. Each family member sees the bequest as the means of realizing dreams and of escape from grinding frustrations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RAISummary: 19th-century "folklore collectors" Wilhelm and Jacob Grimm are con artists. They perform exorcisms of "evil enchantments" (for a healthy fee) while wandering about in French-occupied Germany during the Napoleonic wars. Wilhelm is a swashbuckling cad with an answer for everything, while Jacob is a dreamer who looks at life through fairytale-tinted spectacles. When French Gen. Delatombe gets wise...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2005
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY BROSummary: Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tsar Yeremy is caught by the enchanted creature Chudo-Yudo the Lawless and agrees to give Chudo-Yudo any valuables in his kingdom that he doesn't know about. The tsar returns home and discovers that he has a son. Determined to hide his son from Chudo-Yudo, the tsar has his son exchanged with a fisherman's son. Unbeknownst to everyone, there is a mix-up in the exchange and the tsar's real son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RUSCICO 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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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 SLECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SlSummary: A woodcutter's two children are led by a fairy through the past, present, and even the future to find the Bluebird of Happiness.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A classic tale is reborn through the inspired imagination of cinematic dream-weaver Guillermo del Toro, directing alongside Mark Gustafson. Realized through boundary-pushing, breathtakingly intricate stop-motion animation, this dark rendering of the fable of the puppet boy and his maker, which won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, daringly transfers the story to Fascist Italy, where...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GUICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GUISummary: 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
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADDSummary: In a struggle over the family fortune, an ominous secret that plagues the Caldwell estate enshrouds all its inhabitants in a mantle of morbidity and malice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRYSummary: It is a dark psychological thriller about a fierce showdown between two couples during the course of an ornately prepared meal at a fancy restaurant. When Stan Lohman, a popular congressman running for governor, invites his troubled younger brother Paul and his wife Claire to join him and his wife Katelyn for dinner at one of the town's most fashionable restaurants, the stage is set for a tense...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Not only do parents Bob and Dorothy have six kids of their own, they have also opened up their hearts and their home to thirteen disadvantage and handicapped children. What results is an amazing mix of diversity. The multiethnic kids are heroes who belie the typical stereotype of being handicapped. They go to school, do chores, and "hang out" while simultaniously navigating the difficulties of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC WHOSummary: "Centuries after a fearsome race of giants was defeated in battle and banished to a sky kingdom, a young farmhand named Jack ... unwittingly causes an enormous beanstalk to take root. In the process, his beloved Princess Isabelle is carried miles into the clouds, straight into the clutches of the bloodthirsty giants. Now, with the help of the king's military commander ... this unlikely hero...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: Blu3D DVD Movie JackSummary: In Agatha Christie's most twisted tale, a spy-turned-private-detective is lured by his former lover to catch her grandfather's murderer before Scotland Yard exposes dark family secrets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CROSummary: As Nazism takes over Austria, a governess and a widowed father fall in love and escape the country with his large family of musically-talented children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005