Summary: The true story of Manny Balestrero, a musician unjustly accused of armed robbery. Balestrero vehemently protests his innocence but acts thoroughly guilty, leading a host of policemen and witnesses to finger him as the thief. The trial goes badly for Manny, but life is worse for his wife, Rose, who falls apart under the strain of his ordeal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WROSummary: A priest hears a murderer's confession and then becomes the murder suspect himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A lethal cyborg, the T-1000, has been sent back from 2029 A.D. to present day Los Angeles on a mission to kill the boy destined to lead the freedom fighters of the future. The original Terminator cyborg is reprogrammed and sent to save the boy, assisted by the boy's mother, a woman warrior whose warnings of a world headed toward nuclear disaster go unheeded.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Terminator 2 2003Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TERSummary: Maggie Peyton wants to join her family's dynasty of race car drivers, but her father worries that she'll get hurt. As a college graduation gift, he buys Maggie a junked-out Volkswagen Beetle, which turns out to be Herbie, a car with a mind of its own. Soon Maggie and Herbie are racing against an arrogant racing champion and duking it out with monster trucks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Herbie 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERSummary: Jim is a young man who grew up reading tales of pirates and adventures on the high seas, and longs for similar excitement in his own life. One day a dying man hands him a map and gives him a warning. Upon careful examination, Jim realizes the map charts the course to Treasure Planet, a distant world where hundreds of space pirates have stashed their loot. Jim is certain this is the adventure...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY TRESummary: The hapless Roger Rabbit is framed for the murder of Marvin Acme, who was photographed "playing patticake" with Roger's wife Jessica. The mixed live and animated action takes place in Hollywood and next-door "Toontown," where humans and "Toons" co-exist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Pictures 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD Family WhoSummary: An amateur witch, along with three precocious orphans, flies into one fantastic adventure after another aboard a bewitched bed to save the country from hostile invaders.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BED RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BEDSummary: This is a fact-based story about a young Georgia housewife named Eve, who suffers from multiple personalities. Eve's husband, confused by his wife's aberrant behavior when assuming her two "other selves" seeks out help from a psychiatrist. Carefully probing Eve's subconscious via hypnosis, the doctor finds out that, through each of Eve's personalities is aware of the other's existance, none are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THRSummary: Johnny Tremain is drawn into the Revolutionary War and becomes a patriot, fighting to free the colonies from England. Along the way he learns about life and about himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY JOHSummary: Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, Oscar is not exception. He is an honor student at an exclusive prep school, he is confident, intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in literary works. His parents are divorced and his father has recently remarried. Sensing that his stepmother isn't happy in the marriage, Oscar begins waging a low-key but ardent campaign to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TADSummary: An old storyteller falls into a well and meets a group of leprechauns. The leprechauns give him three wishes to get his life together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2004
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Darby 2004Summary: A siamese cat helps an FBI agent solve a kidnapping.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family That 2005Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THASummary: It's the fun-filled story of one wealthy, eccentric and romantically challenged extended family from New York's Upper West Side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment ; distributed by Buena Vista Home Video 1999
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS EVESummary: In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HiSummary: Set amidst the landscape of 1860s Texas, a young boy named Travis wants nothing to do with a lop-eared stray. But Old Yeller quickly proves himself a loyal friend, protecting the family farm and saving Travis' life. They become inseparable pals, sharing joyous experiences, and Travis learns valuable lessons about growing up.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Disney DVD 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY OLDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OLDSummary: Join the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet and discover what no human has ever seen or known before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ROVSummary: A trouble-shooting 19th century seaman is trying to discover why so many whaling ships have been disappearing of late. Teaming with a scientist and a diver, they set sail to investigate. They are promptly captured by the megalomaniac Captain Nemo, who skippers a lavish, scientifically advanced submarine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE 200Summary: Okwe is an illegal immigrant living in London. He was a doctor in his homeland and now works two jobs - during the day as a taxi driver, at night as a hotel desk clerk. When a prostitute tells him there's a mess in one of the hotel's bathrooms, Okwe finds a human heart in the toilet. Using his previous knowledge of medicine, he begins to solve the case of where the heart came from and soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DIRSummary: True-life story of Eva Peron, who rose above childhood poverty and a scandalous past to achieve fortune and fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EVICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EVICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS EVICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Evita 1998Summary: A fun-loving bulldog, a wise old golden retriever, and a hilarious Siamese cat travel through the rugged Sierras in a search for their missing human family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1993