Summary: Miranda, editor of "Runway" magazine, is a terror to everyone around her. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her as second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A touching film about a single mother who lives with her 12-year-old daughter in the Grbavica district of Sarajevo, a neighborhood once used as an internment camp during the Yugoslav wars. A beautiful and tender story that you won't soon forget.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GRBSummary: Longing to show her son the country where she fell passionately in love with his father, an Italian professor heads off on a summer vacation to the battle-scarred city of Sarajevo. There she discovered a long-hidden secret, which reveals a past more haunted that even her memories can disclose.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TwSummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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Summary: Based on the memoirs of Wladyslaw Szpilman, a Polish Jew, who was a brilliant pianist. He watched as his family was shipped off to Nazi labor camps. He managed to escape and lived for years in the ruins of Warsaw, hiding from the Nazis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PIACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PIACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Pianist 2003Summary: When U.S. Marshall Teddy Daniels arrives at the asylum for the criminally insane on Shutter Island, what starts as a routine investigation quickly takes a sinister turn. As the investigation unfolds and Daniels uncovers more shocking and terrifying truths about the island, he also learns there are some places that never let you go.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHUCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER SHUSummary: Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine. She is a terror to everyone who is around. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her as a second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEV RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Devil 2006Summary: When Henry discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he moves to the suburbs planning to spend his final days in seclusion. However, the discovery of a "miraculous" stain on the outside of Henry's house disrupts his plans and draws Henry back towards life and involvement with his neighbors.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Henry 2008Summary: The most autobiographical of Dickens' works, David Copperfield often echoes the writer's own life. It tells a moving story of David's journey from birth to maturity, a journey which inextricably links his life with some of Dickens' most colorful and extraordinary families.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH Boston Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CopperfieldWatson, Colin.
Summary: When Bess, a naive young woman, marries Jan, a handsome oil-rig worker, she experiences passion and physical pleasure that she never imagined. Their bliss is cut short when an accident on the rig leaves Jan paralyzed. Believing that he will never make love to Bess again, he tells her to take other lovers, convincing her that this will help his recovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRESummary: Brendon Frye is a loner, someone who always knows all the angles but has chosen to stay on the outside. When the girl he loves turns up dead, he is determined to find the 'who' and 'why'.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BRISummary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED RSummary: Grappling with impossible love, artistic rivalry, and a dark inner life, the conjoined twins Tom and Barry Howe embrace their freakishness and spit it back in the form of searing underground 70's punk rock.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Entertainment [distributor] 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BROSummary: Tells the tale of an orphan boy living a secret life in the walls of a Paris train station. When Hugo encounters a broken machine, an eccentric girl, and the cold, reserved man who runs the toy shop, he is caught up in a magical, mysterious adventure that could put all of his secrets in jeopardy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HUGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Hugo 2012Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HUG RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HuSummary: Clyde Shelton is a brilliant planner and inventor. One night two robbers invade his Philadelphia home and brutally kill his wife and daughter, almost killing him. When the killers are caught, Assistant DA Nick Rice is assigned the case. Nick makes a deal with one of the killers to testify against his partner for a 10 year plea bargain prison sentence. Clyde doesn't want Nick to make the deal,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LSummary: Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape, Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE KINCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD KINSummary: Based upon the best-selling novel. The profoundly moving story of a girl who transforms the lives of those around her during World War II, Germany. Although Liesel is illiterate when she is adopted by a German couple, her adoptive father encourages her to learn to read. Ultimately, the power of words helps Liesel and Max, a Jew hiding in the family's home, escape from the events unfolding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BOOCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BOO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Book 2014Summary: Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MATSummary: An insecure New York City ballet dancer wins the lead in Swan Lake, but slowly loses her grip on sanity when she thinks a seductive newcomer is out to steal her role.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Black 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLASummary: His life changed history. His courage changed lives. Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Stephen and Bloom are brothers who have been con artists since they were kids. Stephen is the mastermind, while Bloom is the main character of Stephen's stories. As adults, they travel the world and never enlist the same people twice in their cons, except for their consistent sidekick, the mysterious and primarily silent Bang Bang, a Japanese woman who just appeared in their lives one day and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BROSummary: A man must work as an illegal alien in Argentina in order to support his family in Bolivia. The film paints a portrait of struggle in the modern economy of Argentina and the mistreatment of illegal workers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2005
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BOLSummary: Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt, the oldest son in a tightly-knit family. Living by his wits, cheered by his irrepressible spirit, and sustained by his mother's fierce love, Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ANGSummary: Friends navigate interpersonal relationships and cross the country in search of an ideal connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023