Summary: Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: Avery's sister has been kidnapped and ransomed for $2,000,000. Desperate, he and his buddies abduct a retired mob boss to try to force him to use his contacts to find the girl.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SUIStreisand, Barbra
Summary: A free-spirited woman picks up a befuddled musicologist who has a red plaid traveling bag like hers. Two other hotel guests also own identical bags, one holding jewelry, and the other, top secret government documents. When the bags get mixed up, the result is hilarious chaos.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHASummary: When Chief Dreyfuss escapes from an insane asylum he captures a scientist to help him build an ultimate weapon as a means of killing Clouseau.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PINSummary: An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY APASummary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: Comedy about an organizationally impaired temporary assistant who gets her first pemanent job at the age of 31 working for a curator of an art gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000