Summary: Follows the follies of a stressed-out guy in a dead-end job who is told he has a terminal "brain cloud." A zany jillionaire then makes him an offer that gives him a fleeting taste of the good life. In exchange, he must journey to a Pacific Island and leap into a volcano. Is Joe doomed to be the last of the red-hot lovers? Not if the forces of imagination, romantic comedy, and the charm of Ryan...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: A love story about John Leeds, an idealistic special education teacher, and a headstrong deaf girl named Sarah. At first, Leeds sees Sarah as a teaching challenge. But soon their relationship blossoms into a love so passionate it shatters the barrier of silence that keeps them apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHISummary: In a ragged section of Vienna, hardened ex-con Alex works in a brothel, where he falls for Ukrainian hooker Tamara. Their desperate plans for escape unexpectedly intersect with the lives of a rural cop and his seemingly content wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF REVHawke, Ethan
Summary: Follows Jesse and Céline nine years later in Greece, almost two decades since they first met on a train bound for Vienna.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2013
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BEFSummary: A modern day version of the Dickens' classic finds an aspiring artist (Hawke) reunited with his love (Paltrow). When she agrees to model for him, his dearest hopes may be realized, along with his darkest fears.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: The story of Valjean, the ex-convict who rises against all odds from galley slave to mayor, and the fanatical police inspector who dedicates his life to recapturing Valjean.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MISSummary: Jean is a successful publisher. He has refined tastes and abundant material possessions, among which he seems to include his wife, Gabrielle. But in a single afternoon, Gabrielle decides to leave him for another man and then abruptly reverses her decision. Now, everything that Jean believed to be true about his life and marriage falls apart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GABSummary: The son of a sheik is lured into a thieves' trap by a beautiful girl. When he escapes, he kidnaps the girl, they fall in love, and ride off into the sunset together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2000
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2 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SONSummary: Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BALSummary: Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father's restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world ... forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: Allen Bauer is a successful New York businessman, knocked unconscious in a boating accident. His beautiful rescuer is the girl of his dreams. There's only on complication--Allen's fallen hook, line and sinker for a mermaid.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SPLSummary: A romance in which superstore book chain magnate Hanks and cozy children's bookshop owner Ryan are anonymous e-mail cyberpals who fall head-over-laptops in love, unaware that they are combative business rivals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUSummary: An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY QUISummary: An American prizefighter returns to Ireland in order to forget the past and live peacefully in his village birthplace. He falls in love with the hot-tempered sister of a belligerent neighbor, and trouble ensues over the payment of her dowry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Entertainment Inc. 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY QUISummary: The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORSummary: Story of the men working for a South American mail and freight business in the 1930s. They are trying to win a lucrative government contract to carry mail, and must perform satisfactorily despite bad weather, injuries, poor cash flow and a woman trying to win the boss's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ONLSummary: After hearing a man confess his love for his dearly departed wife on a call-in radio show, a woman falls deeply, inexplicably in love with him. Deciding he is her destiny, she treks across country on a wildly romantic impulse to meet him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 1997
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ever since he was a boy, Antoine has wanted to be the hairdresser's husband, and when he marries a beautiful coiffeuse, the salon becomes their idyllic paradise. But how long can a perfect love last?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Severin 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HAISummary: The story of Erika, a middle-aged classical piano instructor who is trapped between her rigid passion for music and her suffocating home life. She escapes her life with nightly voyeuristic wanderings and self-inflicted masochistic experiments.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino on Video 2002