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Summary: Young Stanley Yelnats finds himself at Camp Green Lake, where digging a hole a day keeps the warden at bay and "builds character". An ancient family curse still dogs Stanley and he's thrown headlong into the adventure of his life. Stanley and his campmates will have to forge fast friendships to unearth the mystery of what's really going on in the desert.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOL RATED PG

Summary: A Paris housewife begins secretly spending her afternoon hours working in a bordello in an examination of contemporary social mores and class divisions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BEL

Summary: To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUT

Summary: Documents Leonard Cohen's 1972 20-city European tour.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Tony Palmer Films 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC BIR

Summary: When Juliette marries Jean, she comes to live with him aboard the barge "L'Atalante", where they travel along the Seine River. The bride, becomes bored and leaves the ship for Paris where she starts flirting with other men.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ATA

Lindhardt, Thure

Summary: When a documentary filmmaker and a lawyer meet they begin a tumultuous relationship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KEE

Summary: Amy is a recent divorcee who seeks refuge in the suburban Connecticut home of her parents. Demoralized and directionless, Amy begins an affair with 19 year old actor Jeremy that reignites her passion for life and jumpstarts her independence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE HEL

Summary: An extremely possessive woman will do whatever it takes to keep her husband all to herself, even murder.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LEA

Summary: Jean Valjean is paroled after serving 19 years in prison for stealing some bread. He tries to steal silverware from a missionary, but is set straight by a bishop. Nine years later, Valjean is now a wealthy industrialist and mayor. He eventually befriends Fantine, a single mother turned prostitute and risks all when he helps her after she's nearly arrested by police officer Javert. Javert was a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2013

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Le

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MIS

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MIS

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MIS

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Les 2013

Cruz, Penelope

Summary: After a woman enters into a relationship with her boss in order to get medical help for her father, she becomes an actress and finds herself attracted to a film director.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BRO

Dee, Janie

Summary: When Helena performs a miraculous deed for the King of France, she claims the conceited Bertram as her husband in payment, but Bertram agrees only if she fulfills two conditions that he thinks are impossible.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS ALL

Summary: For Bumper, life is just a bowl of cherries. Living in New York City's Central Park, the happy-go-lucky hobo king spends his time singing and enjoying himself without a care in the world. But when he rescues a beautiful amnesiac from a park lake, his cares suddenly increase. Not only has he fallen in love with the pretty blonde, but he has also discovered she's the missing sweetheart of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HAL

Summary: Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LIT

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little 2000

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT

Summary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WIN

Summary: A student poet comes to terms with the aftermath of the riots and is arrested for dodging the draft.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Video 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN REG

Summary: In this musical comedy, a society wedding is being arranged in Newport, Rhode Island. The beautiful Tracy Samantha Lord is to marry George Kittredge. However, Tracy's ex-husband, the songwriter C.K. Dexter-Haven, has never stopped loving her and has hopes of winning her back. A New York scandal sheet reporter and photographer arrive to cover the wedding and complicate the tangled romances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS HIG

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie High 2008

Summary: Set in New England during the Civil War, it chronicles the lives and loves of Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth, four sisters who must rely on each other for strength in the face of tragedies both large and small, after their father leaves for battle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Koch Entertainment 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LIT

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD L

Summary: A Japanese architect and a French actress engage in a brief intense affair in Hiroshima in 1959. Both deal with their personal memories of World War II--he by articulating his firsthand experience with nuclear disaster, she by remembering her traumatic affair with a German soldier.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HIR

Summary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC RATED PG-13

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOC

Summary: An Iranian man deserts his French wife and two children to return to his homeland. Meanwhile, his wife starts up a new relationship, a reality her husband confronts upon his wife's request for a divorce.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN PAS

Summary: Pampered African Prince Akeem is a rebel who is against an arranged marriage and heads to Queens, New York to find a new bride. His regal father agrees to allow the prince 40 days to roam the U.S., sending the prince's faithful retainer Semmi along to make sure nothing untoward happens. To avoid fortune hunters, Prince Akeem conceals his true identity and gets a "regular" guy job at a fast-food...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2007

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COM

Ophuls, Max

Summary: After selling jewelry to surreptitiously pay down her debt, a woman's lies to her husband initiate a chain reaction of tragic misunderstandings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EAR

Summary: Missie's adopted daughter Belinda is determined to become a doctor, but despite her dedication and ability, Doc Jackson believes women should stay at home-- and so does Belinda's suitor, Drew Simpson. But with faith and hard work, Belinda begins winning the hearts and minds of everyone around her, including a wealthy dowager, who just might help make Belinda's dreams come true.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD L

Summary: A Russian woman, living a trophy-wife existence in Memphis with a rock-n-roll legend, experiences a personal awakening when her husband's handsome, estranged son comes to visit.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Media 2006

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOR

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