Summary: Ruby is a neurotic with an unhappy track record concerning men and Sam is an oddball who is afraid of small dogs and has a barcode tattooed to his arm. Slowly, Sam begins to reveal his "past." He tells her that he is from the Dubuque of the future and that he hails from a family who believe that reproduction should occur the old-fashioned, fun way as opposed to the cloning method. Ruby is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAPSummary: A plastic surgeon who is romancing a much younger schoolteacher enlists his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife in order to cover up a careless lie. When more lies backfire, the assistant's kids become involved, and everyone heads off for a weekend in Hawaii that will change all their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JUSCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JUSSummary: After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. After being fired, he is promptly dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elizabethtown 2006Summary: Following the advice of his dying father, Hal dates only physically beautiful women. One day, he runs into a self-help guru who hypnotises him into recognizing only the inner beauty of women. Hal then meets Rosemary, a grossly obese woman who Hal sees as a vision of loveliness. Will their relationship survive when Hal's equally shallow friend undoes the hypnosis and Hal sees the real Rosemary?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shallow 2002Summary: Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOLCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOL RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Holiday 2007Summary: The rollicking adventures of Tom Jones, as he romps across 18th century England. From bedrooms to rural inns to London's dangerous streets. Cast out from his home and forbidden his true love, Tom must overcome the charms of an older seductress and the sinister plot of a nefarious rival to win his lover's heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Home Video 2002
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV TOMSummary: Rachel, a young Jewish girl hiding from the Nazi's during World War II in The Netherlands, sees her hiding place blown up. She escapes with her rescuer, a young sailor, but the boat sails into a trap set by the Germans. She escapes and joins the resistance, and under the false name Ellis de Vries she meets SS-hauptsturmf┬⌐╞´hrer Ludwig Muntze on a train smuggling weapons. She goes to his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SOMCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Something 2004Summary: The exploits of Cartouche, an eighteenth-century swordsman, and his band who steal things from the rich and give them to the poor. Earning the sympathies of the people and the love of the beautiful bandit Venus, he must escape the traps set for him by the police.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARSummary: Alex Winston is young, beautiful and talented. She comes from nowhere to become a figure skating superstar. She has to push herself, reinvent herself, and most painfully of all, leave her boyfriend behind. When a tragic fall leaves her blind, she needs someone to believe in her, to love her and convince her she has the strength to skate and dream again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ISummary: A widowed Eurasian doctor and an American war correspondent stationed in Hong Kong begin an intensely passionate affair, but when the journalist is transferred to Korea where war has broken out, tragedy strikes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE LOVSummary: Queen Victoria ... was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown ... was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MRS.Summary: A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sand 2007Trapero, Pablo
Summary: An ambulance-chasing attorney and a doctor cross paths while investigating car accidents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CARSummary: Faced with the choice of getting married within 24 hours or losing a $100 million inheritance, unrepentant bachelor Jimmie Shannon is suddenly desperate to get to the altar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BACSummary: Francesca and Calvin are actors performing in a motion picture directed by David Fincher and co-starring Brad Pitt (who play themselves). Woven in and out of the film production story thread are several other subplots including one about a lovelorn woman, Linda; the self-absorbed Gus; and a husband, Carl, whose wife is falling for Calvin.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FulSummary: Lovely and amazing is an intimate family portrait of four hapless but resilient women and the bitter sweet lessons they learn in keeping up with the hectic demands of their individual neuroses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LOVSummary: A modern re-imagining of the classic romantic comedy. Bernie and Joan are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups. When he sets up his best friend, Danny, with her roommate, Debbie, the sparks soon fly as they try to navigate the relationship minefields from the bar to the bedroom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ABOSummary: Chuck and Larry are the pride of their fire station. Two guy's guys always side-by-side and willing to do anything for each other. Widower Larry wants just one thing, to protect his kids. His buddy Chuck also wants on thing, to enjoy the single life. Grateful Chuck owes Larry for saving his life in a fire, and Larry calls in his marker when civic red tape prevents him from naming his own two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY I NOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD I NOWSummary: This spoof of documentary films stars Woody Allen as Leonard Zelig, the famous "Chameleon Man" of the 1920's, whose personality was so vague he would assume the characteristics of whomever he came into contact with. Filmed in black-and-white, the movie simulates the look of a newsreel, complete with stentorian narration.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ZELSummary: Billy Bob is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's best friend is Preacher Star, who has a pronounced mischievous streak. When Lily Jane moves into town with her mother, a strange woman who never speaks, both Billy Bob and Preacher are entranced. Billy Bob and Preacher become rivals for Lily Jane's affections. As Billy Bob struggles with first love, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHISummary: A successful Hollywood director disguises himself as a bum and sets off to see America from the bottom up. In the midst of the brutality and despair, he makes a valuable discovery-- that what the downtrodden need most is laughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SULSummary: A timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2007