Summary: Thirteen-year-old Sam Gribley's hero is naturalist poet Henry David Thoreau. So Sam decides to write a note to his folks, pack up some of his belongings and leave home for the challenge of wilderness living. Realizing his dream, Sam feeds himself, builds a makeshift home and learns to live in harmony with nature -- miles from civilization.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MYSummary: 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
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: Schools out and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the school's vice-principal is going to have Freddy teach remedial English. The laid-back teacher has a class full of misfits. The no-nonsense history professor down the hall is keeping an eye on all the shenanigans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUMSummary: A French pilot crashes his airplane in the middle of the Sahara Desert and comes upon a young blond prince from another planet. The little prince tells the pilot that he is inspecting the universe and stays in the desert long enough to convey to the pilot his impression of the earth and stories of other planets he has visited.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family LittleSummary: CIA agent Jack Ryan finds himself in a race against time to stop terrorists who plan to ignite a war between the U.S. and Russia by detonating a nuclear bomb at the Super Bowl game.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sum 2002Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SUMSummary: Recreation of the events of "Bloody Sunday", Jan. 30, 1972, when British troops fired on unarmed protesters in Derry, Northern Ireland. By the end of the day, 13 civilians were dead and 14 more wounded in the tumult and tragedy of Northern Ireland's darkest day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLOSummary: "Into the 9.6-quaked Los Angeles of 2013 comes Snake Plissken (Russell). His job: wade through L.A.'s ruined landmarks to retrieve a doomsday device"--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1998
Sorry, no copies available
Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Presents the Franco Zeffirelli production of Shakespeare's tragedy about two teenagers who fall in love, encounter opposition from their families, and take their lives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: Ross Carpenter is a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Girls 2002Summary: A Maine harbormaster witnesses the impact of a playful and appreciative seal on his hometown, his family and especially on his shy nine-year-old daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2013
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ANDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD AndreSummary: William Faber became a tax accountant like his father and resolved himself to a life where nothing much ever changed. At least until the beautiful Anna walked in one day and mistook his office for the therapist's down the hall. Unsolicited, Anna begins to reveal intimate details of her life which include how she is seeking security by attempting to save her tumultuous marriage. William and Anna...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INTSummary: Based on the true story of WWII Russian hero Vassili Zaitsev whose fame thrust him into a personal war with the Nazis best sharpshooter, Major Erwin Konig.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ENECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enemy 2001Summary: A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PAPSummary: An older writer, Fernando, returns to his hometown, Medellin, Colombia. There he falls in love with 16-year-old assassin, Alexis. After Alexis is killed, Fernando hunts for his killer in the Medellin slums and falls in love with Wilmar, a boy who resembles Alexis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OURSummary: A spectacular robbery of a Union pay train by Confederate guerillas leads to the train's colonel befriending the leaders of the robbery when the war ends. Together, they seek the Union traitors responsible for a string of Confederate train robberies.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Rio 2005Summary: Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SCRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SCRSummary: Tucker is an engineer and showman who has a vision of the car of the future. Against formidable odds he raises the money and builds a fleet of them, only to have his factory shut down by Detroit's Big Three auto manufacturers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA TUCSummary: The day that Katie Elder is buried, her four sons return home to Clearwater, Texas, to pay their last respects. It is a he-man story, as well as, a drama of the maternal influence of Katie Elder, her sacrifice, love and incredible valor. The hopes and aspirations for her sons is movingly communicated from beginning to conclusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2001