Summary: Louie De Palma is a cantankerous taxi dispatcher for a New York City taxi company. He tries to maintain order over the varied collection of strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his "cage," they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TAXSummary: Jack Crabb is 121 years old. And he's done it all. He's been a full-fledged Cheyenne, an Indian fighter, a snake oil merchant, master gunman, drinking buddy of wild Bill Hickok, colleague of Buffalo Bill, and is the only survivor of Custer's Last Stand. Crabb is either the Old West's most neglected hero or the biggest liar ever to cross the Mississippi. Little Big Man is Jack Crabb's story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN LITSummary: It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancée Harlow and down-on-his luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIBSummary: The week before a wedding can be stressful at the best of times, but when Ben decides to marry the lovely Mel, everything that can go wrong ... does.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WORSummary: A veteran turns vigilante when he returns home to find his neighborhood besieged with crime and corruption.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie QueenSummary: Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. Once the head cheerleader in school with plenty of prospects, Rose now has little to show for her life. She still sees the former head football player, but it is little more than a despondent affair. When Oscar is expelled from public school, Rose takes a job...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SUNSummary: Fantastic voyage: A team of miniaturized scientists go on a remarkable journey through the human body. The lost world: Prehistoric beasts are discovered in the modern-day world. The towering inferno: Faulty wiring sparks a deadly fire in a high-rise building. Voyage to the bottom of the sea: Adventures aboard the submarine Seaview.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FANSummary: Based on the tragic life of America's first supermodel. It is the late 70's in New York City - the home of Studio 54, designer jeans, drugs and disco. One girl is living life in the fast lane. She can have any man - or woman - she wants. Sex, money, glamour, fame - it was all within her reach. She walks toward you across the dance floor, struts toward you down the runway, stares at you from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIASummary: Depicts the harrowing true story from World War II of the Nazis' efforts to develop an atom bomb and the Allies' desperate struggle to prevent it from happening. The series starts in Stockholm in 1933 as the German scientist Werner Heisenberg is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics, and although considered unreliable by the Nazis, he is allowed into the secret Nazi nuclear energy project,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MHZ Networks Home Entertainment 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HEASummary: Fantastic adventures await Wendy Darling and her brothers when Peter Pan whisks them away to the magical world of Never Land. After following Peter and his feisty sidekick Tinker Bell, they explore the island and Peter's secret hideout with the Lost Boys and leap into high-flying battles with swashbuckling pirates and the infamous Captain Hook.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PETCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PETCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD PeterSummary: When decisions needed to be made at the office, the owner invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind. Now, forced to bring the "Boss" face-to-face with potential purchasers and employees, he hires a failed actor to play the part. Much to everyone's surprise, the unmasked boss plays the ultimate part by becoming a hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BOSSummary: Recounts Mark Twain's life told primarily through his own words. Includes interviews with Hal Holbrook, Arthur Miller, William Styron and many others.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS DVD Gold 2001
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MARSummary: I walked with a zombie (69 mins.): A young Canadian nurse comes to the West Indies to care for the wife of a plantation manager, who seems to be suffering from a kind of mental paralysis. -- The body snatcher (77 mins.): A ruthless doctor and his young prize student find themselves continually harassed by their murderous supplier of illegal cadavers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ISummary: Manhattan melodrama: Two brothers, orphaned by a steamship disaster, grow up on different sides of the law. Evelyn Prentice: A woman, hurt by the inattention of her lawyer husband, begins a flirtation of her own, with disastrous consequences. Double wedding: A romantic comedy featuring Powell as a Bohemian artist who becomes involved with a would-be actress and her uptight, domineering sister....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYRSummary: Adaptation of a true story where a young New York police officer refuses to extort money from criminals as the other officers do. His fellow police officers turn against him when he seeks to expose the situation during a grand jury investigation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SERSummary: Follow adventurer Jeff Johnson as he retraces the epic 1968 journey of his heroes Yvon Chouinard and Doug Tompkins to Patagonia. Footage captures the amazing and beautiful mountain ranges and coastline along the west coast of North America, from California to deep Patagonia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ONESummary: A dark drama of three sisters: a writer, an actress, and one groping for identity. When their father decides to divorce their shattered mother and remarry a spunky middle-aged widow, the three young women struggle to come to terms with each other and with themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A powerful epic about a man of the sword and a man of the cloth who unite to shield a South American Indian tribe from brutal subjegation by 18th-century colonial empires.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MISSummary: 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: Includes the classic children's story that teaches youngsters to count and features four other stories by Eric Carle, giving lessons in such things as individuality and music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Illuminated Film Company/Scholastic 2006
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD JUV VERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD MOVIE VERSummary: A troublesome twelve-year-old orphan, staying with an elderly artist who needs her, remembers the only other time she was happy in a foster home, with a family that truly seemed to care about her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame Productions 2007