Summary: In 1985, teen-nerd Ted challenges a high-schooler who's bullying retarded Warren. His concern prompts Warren's sister, the dazzling and desirable Mary to choose Ted as her senior prom date, but the date never happens. 13 years later Ted hires Pat to locate Mary, and the private investigator finds her in Miami. Pat claims to be a Harvard-educated architect and Mary falls in love with him....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: The famed lunch scene at the Algonquin Hotel's Round Table. Home to a circle of mutually supportive young artists that defined New York sophistication and a literate era of wit and intellect.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MRS.Summary: Dr. Andrew Brown and his family are starting their second year in tiny Everwood, Colorado. Enough time to begin recovering from the death of Andy's wife, put down roots and be at home. Or maybe just enough time to be in total turmoil. Andy finds he can indeed fall in love again, 16-year-old Ephram falls hard for an older girl, and Ephram's friend Amy, in shock from the death of her boyfriend,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD EVECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EVESummary: The story of a witty but lonely secretary who takes a vacation in Venice, hoping to fall in love. She does - with a very handsome but very married Italian man.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SUMSummary: Two young men, one rich, one middle class, are in love with the same woman, but must leave her behind when they become fighter pilots in World War I.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2012
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE WINSummary: U.S. Marshal Rooster Cogburn helps a headstrong young girl find the man who murdered her father in Native American territory and fled with the family savings. When Rooster's employer insists on accompanying the old gunfighter, sparks fly. The situation goes from troubled to disastrous when an inexperienced Texas Ranger joins the party.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN TRUSummary: I shot Jesse James: After years of crime reporting and writing pulp novels and screenplays, Samuel Fuller made his directorial debut with the lonesome ballad of Robert Ford who fatally betrayed his friend, the notorious Jesse James.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Jeremiah Johnson: Jeremiah is an American soldier who goes west to escape the Mexican War and becomes a mountain man. He is taken in by an old trapper who teaches him how to survive. After unavoidably violating an Indian burial ground, he loses his new Indian wife and their adopted child to vengeance. A vendetta between him and the Crows ruins his idyllic life as a fur trapper.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GRESummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Welcome back to the Harpers' Malibu beach house. Bachelor Charlie is trying (but not very hard) to remember the name of the girl currently taking a shower upstairs. Alan, Charlie's tightly-wound, divorced brother is trying to figure out how he can get his ex-wife to remarry so he can stop paying alimony. And Jake, Alan's 11-year-old son, is just trying to figure out what's for lunch and where's...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: For six seasons, Charlie Harper has loved 'em and left 'em. In Season 7, he gets left. TV's #1 comedy pulls a hilarious switcheroo when Charlie's fiancee Chelsea meets a doctor (score one) who's generous, thoughtful and mature (score three more). She vamooses, and Charlie, after pickling himself in booze and self-pity, handles the situation in typical Charlie fashion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: The boys (two-and-a-half-men's worth) are back! A drop-dead gorgeous parade of Kandis, Sandys, Mandis and more marches in and out of the Harpers' Malibu beach house, but the warm heart of the series remains the makeshift family that calls the beach house home-- carefree bachelor Charlie, his fussy chiropractor brother Alan and Alan's precocious young son Jake. This season Charlie romances a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Charlie Harper is a bachelor in paradise, complete with Malibu beach house, overpaid job and a very active dating life. Then his uptight brother Alan, in the throes of a divorce, moves in, bringing his 10-year-old son Jake with him. Together they start a new family of two adults, one kid, and no grown-ups.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSummary: Charlie has a close encounter with his long-deceased dad. Alan, after a few resumé embellishments, tries his hand at online dating. Jake swaps his Harry Potter posters for the joys of hottie wall art.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In this hilarious fifth season, Charlie tops the charts as kiddie-song sensation Charlie Waffles, Alan at last meets the perfect woman, Jake starts junior high, armed with 'helpful' advice from Alan and Charlie, and Evelyn ties the knot for the fifth time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TWOSen, Chaitali
Summary: In The Pathless Sky, Chaitali Sen conjures a world in which a nation’s political turmoil, its secret history and growing social unrest turn life into a fragile and capricious thing and love into a necessary refuge to be defended at all cost. A world not unlike the one we live in. John, a hapless young student with a potentially brilliant academic career ahead of him, and Mariam, a shy,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Europa Editions 2015
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SENSummary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATHansard, Glen
Summary: Follows musical group Swell Season over the course of three years.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Docurama 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SWESummary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSummary: 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 NIGWolfe, Taylor
Summary: "Birdie & Harlow is the story of a baby and a dog. But motherhood is never quite that simple. In Taylor Wolfe's case, it's a long, zigzagging and winding road. Meant to be a last-minute anniversary gift for her then boyfriend (and now husband), the highly-energetic and loud-mouthed Vizla puppy named Harlow turns out to be the best snap decision twenty-year-old Taylor ever makes--and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperOne 2023
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 WOLFE, TAYLOR WOLSummary: Night key: An ingenious inventor of a security system is kidnapped by a gang of burglars and forced to help them commit robberies.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006