Summary: After having doubts about becoming a Jesuit priest, one man gives his faith another chance when he works in a mission, only to become attracted to a volunteer who is attracted to him as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MTI Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie CrossroadsSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYDuchovny, David.
Summary: Facing writer's block, the maturation of his teenage daughter, and the marriage of his ex-girlfriend, a novelist indulges in addictions to sex, drugs, and booze.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CALSummary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: " ... Alfred Abel (Metropolis, Dr. Mabuse) plays Lorenz Lubota, a man obsessed with his own desires to achieve fame and wealth, who must confront the barriers of class keeping him from a woman (Lya de Putti) with whom he has had a fateful encounter."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PHASummary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: For me and my gal: Musical comedy about a vaudeville song-and-dance team who buck tough times and World War I on their way to success in show business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCMSummary: When famed photographer Christina Eames unexpectedly dies, she leaves her estranged daughter Mae Morton hurt, angry and full of questions. When a photograph tucked away in a safe-deposit box is found, Mae finds herself on a journey delving into her mother's early life and ignites a powerful, unexpected romance with a rising-star journalist, Michael Block.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE PHOSummary: Set in San Francisco's Chinatown in the late 1950's. Pretty Mei Li has stowed away on a Chinese steamer with her professor father to become a mail-order bride for nightclub owner Sammy Fong. Sammy, however, is completely infatuated with saucy showgirl Linda Low, who is intent on making him jealous enough to propose to her. As Sammy sets out to assign his marriage contract (and Mei Li) to Wang...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS FLOSummary: A modern retelling of Louisa May Alcott's novel. The story details to the passage from childhood to womanhood of Jo, Meg, Beth, and Amy who are all sisters. Despite hard times, they cling to optimism. As they mature they face blossoming ambitions and relationships, as well as tragedy, while maintaining their unbreakable bond as sisters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LITCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LiSummary: The Baby Carriage: Infused with a jazzy, nouvelle vague-inspired energy, Bo Widerberg's feature debut has the freshness of youth. Building on his film criticism's call for a socially relevant Swedish cinema, the writer turned director offers a vivid portrait of a young factory worker finding her way toward independence as she weathers unexpected pregnancy, learns hard lessons from relationships...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The wealthy Recchi family has undergone sweeping changes. Eduardo Sr. has named a successor to the reins of his company, and surprised everyone by splitting power between his son Tancredi and grandson Edo. But Edo had always dreamed of opening a restaurant with his friend Antonio. To make matters worse, the very foundation of the entire family may be totally shattered after Tancredi's wife Emma...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISummary: In ancient Greece, 1200 B.C., a queen succumbs to the lust of Zeus to bear a son promised to overthrow the tyrannical rule of the king and restore peace to a land in hardship. But this prince, Hercules, knows nothing of his real identity or his destiny. He desires only one thing: the love of Hebe, Princess of Crete, who is promised to his brother. When Hercules learns of his greater purpose, he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEGSummary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACRSummary: An affair to remember: Nickie Ferrante and Terry McKay meet on an ocean liner and fall deeply in love. Though each is engaged to someone else, they agree to meet six months later at the Empire State Building if they still feel the same way about each other. But a tragic accident prevents their rendezvous, and the lovers' future takes an emotional and uncertain turn. Laura: A beautiful young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ANSummary: Set in Poland, Paris and Berlin in the years leading up to the Second World War. At the French embassy in Warsaw, Colonel Jean-Francois Mercier, is drawn into a world of abduction, betrayal and intrigue in the diplomatic salons and back alleys of the city. At the same time, he is involved in a passionate love affair with a Parisian woman of Polish heritage. Risking his life, Mercier works in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SPISummary: A struggling merchant stumbles upon the magical domain of the fearsome Beast, who sentences him to death for stealing a rose. The merchant's youngest daughter Belle bravely sacrifices herself and takes her father's place. Once at the Beast's castle, it is not death that awaits Belle, but a strange and fantastical life unlike anything she has ever experienced, and the discovery that her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEA RATED PG-13Summary: Chris Cross, 25 years a cashier, has a gold watch and little else. That rainy night, he rescues delectable Kitty from her abusive boyfriend Johnny. Smitten, amateur painter Chris lets Kitty think he's a wealthy artist. At Johnny's urging, she lets Chris establish her in an apartment (with his shrewish wife's money). There, Chris paints masterpieces; but Johnny sells them under Kitty's name,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino On Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: For old friends Roger and Frank and their wives, it was supposed to be the best vacation they ever had. But their RV road trip takes a deadly detour at a secluded campsite when they accidentally witness a satanic sacrifice. Now horror hits the highway as the couples are pursued by satanic cultists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RACSummary: Talented trumpeter Bleek Gilliam is obsessed by his music and indecisive about his girlfriends. But when he is forced to come to the aid of his manager and childhood friend, Bleek finds his world more fragile than he ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOSummary: Joy Morris is back! She's found herself and been reborn. Her new vlog channel is smashing the patriarchy, and of course that subscribe button, all in the continued search for happiness. Sure, her viewer figures could be better, and maybe her sponsors could be sexier, but Joy has got this. Yep, this time she's got it all under control. Kind of.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV FINSummary: Just as Peter Parker achieves the ability to balance his relationship with Mary Jane Watson with his responsibilities as Spider-Man, a strange black entity from another world bonds with him. Consequently, he must contend not only with new villains in the form of the Sandman, Venom and the New Goblin, but with intensifying darkness within.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007