Summary: Eric, Turtle, and Johnny Drama are dedicated to helping their film-star buddy, Vincent Chase, navigate the absurdities and pitfalls of modern-day Hollywood.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A biography of American actress and singer Lillian Russell, from her discovery in 1890 by band leader Tony Pastor until her retirement in 1912, when she married newspaperman Alexander Moore.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Show Boat: When Julie La Verne and her husband Steve Baker are forced to leave the showboat Cotton Blossom, they are replaced by the Captain's daughter, Magnolia, and Gaylord Ravenal, a notorious gambler. Magnolia and Ravenal fall in love, marry, leave the boat and move to Chicago. They live off Ravenal's earnings from gambling. After they go broke, Gaylord feels guilty and leaves Magnolia, not...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Easter parade: Don Hewes and Nadine Hale are a dancing team, but on the day before Easter she refuses to sign a new contract with him. So he takes the next dancer he meets, Hannah Brown, as a new partner. He vows to make Hannah a success before the next Easter parade. After a while Don and Hannah are so successful that Florence Ziegfeld is interested in them. With Nadine dancing for the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GRESummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: After three months shooting an indie film in NYC, the boys are back in La-la-land.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Michael Steele is ten days from the biggest night of his life. He has been nominated for Best Actor at the Academy Awards. Achieving the height of career success, Michael is quickly cast in the role of a lifetime as the lead character in a classic struggle between good and evil when rumors about his morality and faith run rampant. Will he buckle with temptation or stay true to his beliefs?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAG1Summary: When a respected jujitsu master eschews a lucrative prizefighting career in favor of opening a self-defense dojo, it appears that he has chosen a peaceful path in life. The dedicated master's fate takes an unanticipated turn, however, when he is manipulated into participating in ultimate fighting championships by a group of unscrupulous actors and fight promoters. Later, as the master is being...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER REDSummary: As if the result of some strange mass-media fluke, the popular radio program "A Prairie Home Companion" somehow managed to survive the television age to entertain its audience every Saturday night from the stage of the historic Fitzgerald Theater in St. Paul, Minn. Week after week, hangdog host G.K. serves as unflappable emcee to an amiable hodgepodge of radio-friendly acts that include the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRASummary: What is the scariest movie idea anyone can think of? How about a guy with a bag on his head staring into a window? So, four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. They want to make a funny film that may be a little bit scary too. But what happens when their story idea starts to come true?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BAGSummary: For Vince, Eric, Drama and Turtle, life in Hollywood's fast lane can be an intoxicating ride. This season, after an accident during the filming of his latest action flick, Vince develops a new lease on life that makes him even more difficult to manage, while each of the guys must decide which steps to take to map out their own futures, both personally and professionally.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Brothers Home Video 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Deal 2007Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEASummary: Chaplin's entire life is covered in the biographical film. From his upbringings in the slums of England to his Honorary Oscar in 1972.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Films 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHASummary: On September 29, 1981, Peter Turner received a phone call that would change his life. His former lover, Hollywood actress Gloria Grahame, had collapsed in a Lancaster hotel and was refusing medical attention. He took her into his chaotic and eccentric home in Liverpool to see her through her last days. Though their affair had ended years before, it was to him that she turned in her final hour...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FILSummary: Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ACRSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: Three girls come to New York City and later, Hollywood, to chase their dreams of stardom: there's Anne, the innocent secretary type who becomes an assistant to a large theatrical agent; Neely, an aspiring chorus girl with pluck who dreams of being a singer; and the beautiful blonde Jennifer, who longs to be a real actress, but is destined to be regarded as a sex object. Life has a lot to give...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016