Summary: Don't know who Tom Shadyac is? As a writer and a director, Shadyac first unleashed Ace Ventura: Pet Detective and The Nutty Professor remake on the world, and then a string of film fiascoes, but that's all behind him now. A bike accident left him with a host of debilitating maladies and brought him to the verge of suicide, so he took stock of his life and set out on a quest to answer some of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Shady Acres, Inc. 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Doc ISummary: An aimless drifter wandering through the wintry French countryside encounters violence, hunger, fear and cold, yet touches the lives of the people she meets with her own ideas of freedom.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAGSummary: "When visitors from a distant galaxy return to earth on a secret mission, their other-worldly powers afford a group of senior citizens who had expected nothing more from life than bingo, shuffleboard, aches and pains, the chance to recapture their youth"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CoCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CocoonSummary: The Federation Starship U.S.S. Enterprise is on routine training maneuvers, and Admiral James T. Kirk seems resigned to the fact that this may be his last space mission. But Khan--a brilliant renegade of 20th Century Earth--is back with his exiled band of genetic supermen and setting a deadly trap for his old enemy Kirk ... with the threat of a universal Armageddon!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: One man discovers that aliens are masquerading as humans while they lull the public into submission through subliminal advertising messages. Only specially made sunglasses make the deadly truth visible.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Earth is destroyed by a runaway star, but not before a few privately financed individuals can escape to start anew on another planet.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI WHESummary: Secret agent Lemmy Caution travels to another galaxy and finds himself in a computer-run society which is dedicated to technology and outlaws emotion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Classic Collection 1998
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1 available in Sight and Sound Rotating Display, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ALPSummary: The classic story of a good doctor who dares to venture into the unknown by injecting himself with a potion that turns him into a raging beast.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a man with extraordinary, and frighteningly destructive, telepathic abilities is nabbed by agents from a mysterious rogue corporation, he discovers he is far from the only possessor of such strange powers, and that some of the other "scanners" have their minds set on world domination, while others are trying to stop them.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SCASummary: As an infant, Superman is sent to earth from the doomed planet Krypton. As he grows up, he learns he has super powers which he must hide from the ordinary mortals around him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUPSummary: The future Connor was raised to believe in is altered in part by the appearance of Marcus Wright, a stranger whose last memory is of being on death row. Connor must decide whether Marcus has been sent from the future, or rescued from the past. As Skynet prepares its final onslaught, Connor and Marcus both embark on an odyssey that takes them into the heart of Skynets operations, where they...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Terminator 2009Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TERSummary: Research scientist Eddie Jessup explores altered states of consciousness using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic drugs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ALTSummary: A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds anyone that looks at it. Chaos results in the escape of some Triffids: experimental plants that are capable of moving themselves around and attacking people.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Cheezy Flicks 2005
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI DAYSummary: An unstoppable event threatens the world's population by attacking the most basic human instinct of all: survival. Elliot Moore is an ordinary man who is trying to save his family from a terrifying, invisible killer. As Elliot discovers the incredible possibility of what is happening, it becomes very clear that no one is safe.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HappeningSummary: Eddie Morra, a burnt-out writer, discovers a top-secret pill that unlocks 100% of his brain's capacity. He instantly acquires mind-bending talents and mesmerizing visions that bring him big money, beautiful women, and limitless success. But his dream life soon becomes a waking nightmare, as the drug's brutal side effects take their toll and Eddie finds himself entangled with a cunning Wall...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: For four years, the courageous crew of the NSEA Protector set off on thrilling and often dangerous missions in space ... and then their series was cancelled. Now, twenty years later, aliens under attack have mistaken the Galaxy Quest television transmissions for "historical documents" and beamed up the crew of has-been actors to save the universe. With no script, no director and no clue, the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family GalaxyCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GALSummary: An action-thriller that tracks a woman accidentally caught in a dark deal who turns the tables on her captors and transforms into a merciless warrior evolved beyond human logic.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE LUCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LUCCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LUC RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
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2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LucyCall number: DVD Movie Lucy 2015
Summary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EQUSummary: In the future, after a Third World War has decimated much of the Earth's population, a new nation arose. Believing human emotions and their expression were to blame for the failings of past societies, it is decreed that all citizens must take a daily dose of a drug which levels out the emotional landscape, and that all forms of creative expression are against the law. An elite law enforcement...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dimension Home Video 2003