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Casinos Casinos Nevada Las Vegas Drama Criminal investigation New York (State) New York Drama Las Vegas (Nev.) Drama Nevada Las Vegas New York (N.Y.) Drama Psychic ability Drama Public prosecutors New York (State) New York Drama Robbery Nevada Las Vegas Drama Underground areas New York (State) New York DramaSummary: When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel with known casino owner Willy Bank in Las Vegas, the last thing he ever wanted was to get cut out of the deal by the loathsome Bank. Bank even goes so far as to find amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when the double crossing lands Reuben in the hospital because of a heart attack. However, Danny and his crew won't...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Ocean's 2007Summary: Ed Deline and his crack surveillance team of the Montecito Resort and Casino in Las Vegas take on high-stakes swindlers, card sharks, and hostile takeovers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: If he hadn't been a gangster, he might have been honored on a postage stamp, as the Father of Las Vegas. When Benjamin 'Bugsy' Siegel ventured west with some of the Eastern mob's investment funds in the early 1940s, he fell in love with the movies, and a feisty moll named Virginia Hill. Siegel had a vision, which gave rise to an historic plan to transform Las Vegas from a sleepy, sand-choked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BUGSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Ocean's 11 (127 min): New Year's Eve in Las Vegas. Roulette wheels spin and the champaign fizzes. It's the perfect time to steal a kiss or a $25 chip. But for Danny Ocean and his 10 partners in crime, it's the perfect moment to steal millions. Danny devises a scheme to knock out power to the Vegas strip, electronically rig five big casinos vaults and raid them all at the same time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY OCESummary: Undercover Las Vegas police officer Vincent Downs thrives in the high-stakes web of corrupt cops and the mob-controlled casino underground of Las Vegas. But when a heist goes wrong, a crew of homicidal gangsters kidnaps Downs' teenage son. In one sleepless night he will have to rescue his son, evade an internal affairs investigation and bring the kidnappers to justice.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SLECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sleepless 2017Summary: Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix. At least, he will be ready to race once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough, but loses it when a pretty swimming pool manager takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both the race and the girl. His problems don't get any easier when rival Elmo Mancini, a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "A reflection on art, life, and the movies. ... [A] richly cinematic self portrait that touches on everything from the feminist movement and the Black Panthers to the films of husband Jacques Demy and the birth of the French New Wave."--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BEASummary: Examines the career of attorney Jacques Vergès, who has defended the rights of accused terrorists and other notorious criminals.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TERSummary: Joy is dumped by her boyfriend and her friends recommend she take a vacation to Las Vegas to get him out of her mind. After Jack gets fired by his dad from the family business, he ends up in Vegas too. After a night of drinking, the two wake up the following morning to discover they have gotten married. One of them wins a $3 million jackpot - using the quarter of the other. Both want to end the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHASummary: John McClane, the heroic New York cop with a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, is back, and his latest predicament takes him all the way to Russia to track down his estranged son, Jack, who has been imprisoned in Moscow. But the mission takes a deadly turn as father and son must join forces to thwart a nuclear weapons heist that could trigger World War III.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE GOOSummary: Confirmed bachelor Don has just been dumped by his latest lover, Sherry. Don begins to resign himself to being alone and left to his own devices. However, he becomes compelled to reflect on his past when he receives a mysterious pink letter by mail. It is from an anonymous former lover and informs him that he has a 19-year-old son who may be looking for his father. Don is urged to investigate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BROSummary: The crew of a Danish cargo ship is hijacked and taken hostage by Somali pirates. The pirates pick the ship's cook as interpreter, to engage in escalating negotiations and ransom demands with their company CEO and authorities.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HIJSummary: A man-beast living under the streets of New York City saves and befriends a wealthy and shallow attorney after she is beaten and left for dead. From the moment these two cross paths, they share a strong psychic bond, and though they live in separate worlds, their love continues to grow without measure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jack Bruno is a Las Vegas cab driver. Scientist Dr. Alex Friedman is one of his passengers. She is giving speeches about legitimate scientific theories of UFOs and outer space. The next day Jack notices Sara and Seth sitting in the back seat of his cab. He takes them to a run down house in the middle of nowhere, where they must obtain an object. Meanwhile, Major Henry Burke is searching for...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY RACCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAC RATED PGSummary: Filmmaker Agnes Varda and photographer JR set out on a trip through France to meet locals and produce epic sized murals and form an unlikely friendship along the way.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FACSummary: Big Ed Deline is the President of Operations and the head of the surveillance team for the Montecito Resort & Casino. With his right-hand man, they deal with card-counting cheaters and rival casinos stealing their players. Includes all 24 episodes.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV LASSummary: Jason is an American teenager who is obsessed with Hong Kong cinema and kung-fu classics. He makes an extraordinary discovery in a Chinatown pawnshop: the legendary stick weapon of the Chinese sage and warrior, the Monkey King. With the lost relic in hand, Jason unexpectedly finds himself traveling back to ancient China. He meets the drunken kungfu master, Lu Yan; an enigmatic and skillful...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bernie is extremely unlucky at gambling and he owes the Shangri-La casino's mob boss Shelly Kaplow over $100,000. He is so unlucky that he is hired as a "cooler". He gambles next to high rollers and gives them some of his bad luck to stop them from winning. This arrangement works out for awhile, but when Bernie has almost paid off his debt, he meets cocktail waitress, Natalie. The two start to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COOSummary: Hiroshima. Nagasaki. Mercury, Nevada? The latter was the site for the testing of 928 large-scale nuclear weapons from 1951 to 1992. Martin Sheen narrates this harrowing exposé of the United States' disregard for everyone living downwind.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DOWSummary: A man-beast living under the streets of New York City saves and befriends a wealthy and shallow attorney after she is beaten and left for dead. From the moment these two cross paths, they share a strong psychic bond, and though they live in separate worlds, their love continues to grow without measure.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BEASummary: Po is now living his dream as The Dragon Warrior, protecting the Valley of Peace alongside his friends and fellow kung fu masters, The Furious Five. But Po's new life of awesomeness is threatened by the emergence of a formidable villain, who plans to use a secret, unstoppable weapon to conquer China and destroy kung fu. Po must look to his past and uncover the secrets of his mysterious origins...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2011