Summary: In 1862 Paris, Emile Zola is barely scratching out a living writing muckraking articles about the poverty of the French people and the corruption of their leaders. Until "Nana," about the life of a prostitute, becomes a smash hit and turns Zola into a celebrity, champion of the people. As he churns out a string of similar books that make him quite rich, his old friend Paul Cezanne tells him "An...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIFSummary: The story of a middle-class British family and their struggle to survive during WWII. Mrs. Miniver nobly tends her rose garden while her stalwart husband participates in the evacuation at Dunkirk. She personifies grace under pressure as the Miniver family huddles in their bomb shelter during a Luftwaffe attack, while she is forced to confront a downed Nazi paratrooper in her kitchen, and while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Mrs.2004Summary: Barbara Stanwyck sizzles, Henry Fonda bumbles, and Preston Sturges runs riot in one of the all-time great screwballs, a pitch-perfect blend of comic zing and swoon worthy romance that Sturges wrote, directed, and produced. Aboard a cruise liner sailing up the coast of South America, Stanwyck's conniving card sharp sets her sights on Fonda's nerdy snake researcher, who happens to be the heir to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Tony-nominated Broadway phenomenon comes to the big screen. Composer-lyricist Sara Bareilles is Jenna Hunterson, a waitress and expert pie maker stuck in a small town and a loveless marriage. When a baking contest offers her a chance at escape, Jenna fights to reclaim part of herself. Waitress celebrates the power of friendship, dreams, the family we choose and the beauty of a well-baked pie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2024
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSICALS WAI2 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Ziegfeld is a theatrical impresario, whose show business empire begins when he stage-manages a tour for a strongman. With almost no money in the bank, he charms European stage star Anna Held to headline his "Follies". From 1907, Ziegfeld stages annual editions of Broadway's most fabulous revue. Eventually, Ziegfeld abandons Anna in favor of other beauties. Ziegfeld comes to realize that his new...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Missie's adopted daughter Belinda is determined to become a doctor, but despite her dedication and ability, Doc Jackson believes women should stay at home-- and so does Belinda's suitor, Drew Simpson. But with faith and hard work, Belinda begins winning the hearts and minds of everyone around her, including a wealthy dowager, who just might help make Belinda's dreams come true.
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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 LSummary: The third season brings more spellbinding moments for the Pearsons. The Big Three undergo big changes as they turn 38, and another shocking family truth is revealed. As we join Jack and Rebecca on their awkward first dare, we learn more about other romances. Kevin's visit to the Vietnam village where Jack served brings revelations, Randall enters a new arena, Beth resurrects an old dream, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous Roxanne, Cyrano has yet to declare his feelings for her, and Roxanne has fallen in love, at first sight, with Christian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CYRCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Cyrano 2022Summary: In one of their best loved, most charming song and dance comedies, Fred and Ginger demonstrate just how they became known as America's greatest dance team. Includes the Academy Award-winning hit The Continental.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. and Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc. 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Zellweger, Renee
Summary: When Bridget Jones discovers that she is pregnant, she faces struggles with her career and identifying the father of her unborn child.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRICopies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bridget 2016Summary: A parody of reality dating shows in the vein of "The Bachelor" and "The Bachelorette". He's ready to settle down.. with a stranger! Follow firefighter Mark Orlando through champagne toasts, candles, heartbreak, bubble baths, chocolate, hair extensions, roller skating, betrayal, and spray tans as he looks for the perfect someone to give his hose to.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BURSummary: Chronicles the Pearson family across the decades, from Jack and Rebecca as young parents in the 1980s to their 37 year old kids Kevin, Kate and Randall searching for love and fulfillment in the present day. This grounded, life affirming dramedy reveals how the tiniest events in people's lives impact who they become, and how the connections they share with each other can transcend time,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE THICopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ThisCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV THISummary: "As a dwarf, Toulouse-Lautrec believes he's too ugly to ever fall in love. So he loses himself in painting ... and cognac. A fixture at Paris' infamous turn-of-the-century Moulin Rouge nightclub, Lautrec meets a girl from the street ... who breaks his heart"--Container.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MOUSummary: Small town pizza parlor owner Longfellow Deeds inherits a fortune and a media empire. The humble Deeds thinks the hoopla is a bit much, though he manages to win the heart of a sneaky reporter and fend off a slimy CEO.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MR. DSummary: Jack Martin is an American entertainer working cabarets on the French Riviera. An impersonation of philandering industrialist Henri Duran is so convincingly that even Duran's beautiful wife is fooled by it. When Duran's business interests compel him to be in London when he should be hosting a large soiree at his home, Martin is persuaded to impersonate Duran at the party. But matters threaten...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ONSummary: Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: An eccentric society girl with an equally eccentric family hires a tramp as a butler, who then teaches her that money isn't everything.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Delta Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MySummary: When her mother tells her that her married lover has ditched her for a 25-year-old beautician's assistant, Bettie, a former Breton beauty queen turned bistro owner, takes to the road and winds up at a dive bar named Le Ranch, for an evening of drunken revelry sets. Bettie's resentful daughter, Muriel, then asks her mother to chauffeur her son, Charly, to his grandfather's, and the pair sets out...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ONKelly, Gene
Summary: A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudeville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound films.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
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3 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIN RATED PGBornedal, Ole
Summary: When an ordinary family man is involved a car accident that causes the other driver, a woman, to have amnesia, he visits her in the hospital and both she and her family believe that he is her boyfriend until the real boyfriend comes looking for him.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUSSummary: 'Strange, what love does.' The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT GARDE INLSummary: Set in the 1960's German Democratic Republic, a love triangle ensues when the new Party secretary and a beautiful engineer travel to a large construction site where a swaggering foreman rules, closely supported by his co-workers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRASummary: " ... 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."
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Publisher / Publication Date: Flicker Alley 2006