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
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE ROMSummary: 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
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OURSummary: A husband and wife can end their financial worries by accepting the offer of a billionaire for a million dollars in exchange for one night with the wife, but if they do, can their marriage survive?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDSummary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002Summary: "Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt. Soon the three are in for the ride of their lives as they cross the blistering North African terrain, pitting thier skills against ruthless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A quiet, timid file clerk whose unremarkable life begins to be increasingly overshadowed with dread and fear after he moves into his new home - an apartment building with an unhappy past. Adding to his paranoia are the building's other occupants, who do nothing to alleviate his growing obsession with the untimely, tragic fate of the apartment's previous tenant.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TENSummary: Gilbert Grape is devoted to his family but feeling unhappy about the hopelessness of his life when a young woman breezes into town and changes everything.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHA RATED PG-13Summary: Private eye Jake Gittes, living off the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-war Southern California is hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair. Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double dealings and deadly deceits, uncovering a web of personal and political scandals that come crashing together for one, unforgettable night in Chinatown.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A smalltime, aging Mafia hood falls in love with a clam bar waitress, and they share the spoils of the big score against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ATLSummary: Martha is the chef who fusses and obsesses over each dish before it leaves the kitchen. The demands of her job and her natural shyness keep her from meeting new people. When her sister suddenly dies, Martha adopts Lina, her eight-year-old niece, completely changing both lives. Martha gets unexpected help from Mario, Martha's hunky new sous chef, who is not only a whiz on the chopping block but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: To improve his social life, a nerdish professor drinks a potion that temporarily turns him into the handsome, but obnoxious, Buddy Love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY NUTSummary: Comedy in which the daughter of the chauffeur for an immensely wealthy family returns from Paris and dazzles the family's two sons.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SABCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SABCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sabrina 2001Summary: She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pretty 1086Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRESummary: Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Classics 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUSummary: The story follows the life of low I.Q. Forrest Gump and his meeting with the love of his life Jenny. The film chronicles his accidental experiences with some of the most important people and events in America from the late 1950's through the 1970. The problem is, he doesn't realize the significance of his actions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: 791.43/72Copies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Forrest 2001Summary: Musical concerning the romance between a teen-age gang-leader and his naive girlfriend, set in the 1950's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: When her mother suddenly dies, Sara must abandon her plans to become a ballerina and join her estranged father on Chicago's gritty South side. She feels out of place until she is befriended by a black classmate and her handsome brother, Derek. Sara and Derek's shared love for dance leads to romance-- and opposition from their families and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAVSummary: In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AIRSummary: A New York attorney has a romantic fling while his wife is out of town, and then shrugs it off. But the woman involved with him won't be ignored, even if it means destroying his family to keep him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2002