Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007

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Summary: Democratic nominee Cartoon Joe Biden, with help from veep-mate Cartoon Kamala Harris, tries to overcome his frequent gaffes and unseat Cartoon President Donald Trump, who's desperate to win re-election despite mishandling the Corona crisis. As election season heats up, so does the cartoon universe: enter Cartoon Drs. Anthony Fauci and Deborah Birx, Cartoon Jill and Hunter Biden, plus a host of...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV OUR

Summary: Diane is forced to question whether it's appropriate for her to help run an African American law firm with Liz when the firm loses two top lawyers. Meanwhile, Marissa and the firm become entangled with Hal Wackner, a regular Chicagoan who decides to open his courtroom in the back of a copy shop.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Summary: Diane Lockhart tries to figure out whether she can resist a crazy administration without going crazy herself, while Adrian Boseman and Liz Reddick-Lawrence struggle with a new post-factual world where the lawyer who tells the best story triumphs over the lawyer with the best facts. Meanwhile, Lucca Quinn balances a new baby with a new love, and Maia Rindell finds a new Mephistopheles in Roland...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Splendor in the grass: Two 1920s Kansas teenagers find their intense sexual feelings for each other are putting them at odds with their families and the rigid respectability of the town they live in.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009

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

Summary: Trying to maintain sanity in these insane times, the attorneys of Reddick, Boseman and Lockhart gain a new partner, endure a serial threat against lawyers, and brave a chaotic new world. Diane goes to extremes to deal with a growing threat, her struggling marriage and ever-changing politics. Meanwhile, Lucca, Maia and the firm expertly navigate a crooked cop conspiracy, a high-profile...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2018

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Summary: No soldier in modern history has been more admired or more reviled than Douglas MacArthur. A thorough portrait of a complex, imposing and fascinating general.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2005

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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV MAC

Summary: Seth and Evan are accepting the fact that they will be going to different colleges in the fall. Now, it seems more important than ever that they go to a high school party, and achieve some of their long time goals. This includes, but is not limited to, losing thier virginity with the girls of their dreams by getting them wasted and being their "regret hookup." Their friend Fogell gets a fake...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY SUP

Summary: Ben is a 23-year-old slacker who meets up and coming career girl Alison at a bar. They end up having a one night stand. Eight weeks later, Ben is shocked when Alison meets him and reveals that she is pregnant. Despite having little in common, the two decide that they have to at least try to make some kind of relationship work for the baby's sake.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: On the verge of turning 15, Georgia sets her sights on Robbie, the gorgeous new guy at school who plays bass for the Stiff Dylans. Sadly, he is already dating her evil archrival: blonde, perfect Lindsay. With her flamboyantly dressed cat Angus and her girl posse, the Ace Gang, by her side, Georgia sets her plan in motion to nab the boyfriend of her dreams, and have the best birthday party ever.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010

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Summary: Examines the life of Thomas Jefferson, third President of the United States and author of the Declaration of Independence.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Summary: A group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

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Summary: Set within the highly charged confines of individual psychotherapy sessions, the series once again centers around Dr. Paul Weston, who recently divorced his wife Kate and moved from Maryland to a brownstone in Brooklyn, New York. Rebuilding his practice while wrestling with some of the demons he left behind, including a lawsuit filed by the father of Alex, a patient who died last year, Paul...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2010

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Summary: Dead last in the ratings, ABC hired two towering public intellectuals to debate each other during the Democratic and Republican national conventions. William F. Buckley Jr. was a leading light of the new conservative movement. A Democrat and cousin to Jackie Onassis, Gore Vidal was a leftist novelist and polemicist. Armed with deep-seated distrust and enmity, Vidal and Buckley believed each...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2015

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC BES

Summary: "Meet Arthur and Stanley, two wrongly accused and out-of-work actors who escape from the police by stowing away aboard a luxury liner. But soon these two impostors find themselves giving the performance of a lifetime - not only to escape the authorities, but to foil the dastardly plot of a deranged crewman who has explosive plans for everyone on board."--Back of container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

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Summary: Widowed when his FBI agent wife is killed by a right-wing group, college professor Michael Faraday becomes obsessed with the culture of thise groups--expecially when his new neighbors, the all-American Oliver and Cheryl Lang, start acting suspiciously.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 1999

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ARL

Summary: The showfollows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Summary: Trail of tears : Cherokee legacy: Documents the forced removal in 1838 of the Cherokee Nation from the southeastern United States to Oklahoma. Shows the suffering endured by the Cherokees as they lost their land and the difficult conditions they endured on the trail. Describes how thousands of Cherokees died during the Trail of Tears, nearly a quarter of the nation, including most of their...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2009

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2 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TRA

Summary: The show follows Meyer and her staff as they attempt to make their mark and leave a lasting legacy, without getting tripped up in the day-to-day political games that define Washington.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Play Misty for me: A radio disc jockey becomes the victim of psychotic obsession when he tries to end a torrid love affair with a fan.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2009

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

Summary: Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006

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

Summary: "Set amid a soot-choked Pennsylvania landscape, the film takes up with a distant and soft-spoken woman, who has left her husband, lost custody of her children, and now finds herself alone, drifting between dingy bars and motels, where she falls prey to a series of callous men, one being a bank robber who ropes her into his next criminal scheme"--Container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WAN