Summary: An attractive and successful ophthalmologist quits her job and places a personal ad in the newspaper. She has a specific purpose in her ad - she is looking for marriage. After a series of blind dates with men who are either lonely, desperate, strange, perverted, or all of the above, what she really wants is her mysterious ex-lover to came back to her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PERSummary: As a son helps his mother arrange for the burial of his father in the traditional Chinese custom of his mother's village, the beautiful and touching story of his parent's courtship unfolds. His father was from the city and came to his mother's village to become the schoolmaster. In the days of arranged marriages, the son discovers that his parents marriage was the first marriage based on love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROASummary: A unicorn, believing herself to be the last, searches for any others of her kind, while avoiding the malevolent Red Bull, the agent believed to have destroyed the rest of her herd. Along the way she is mistaken, ignored, attacked, and absessed about. She finally finds help from a magician named Schmendrick and a knight named Prince Lir.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Jackie Chan directs and stars in this rousing martial arts comic-adventure. While searching for his run-away big brother, Jackie is mistaken for a fugitive. He must use his wit and martial arts skills to save himself from bounty hunters and nosy constables, as well as hunting down the real bad guy to clear his name. Filled with high octane acrobatic action, spellbinding fight scenes, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Front Row Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOUSummary: Tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra Ann Dowd receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Christian, an idealistic and impoverished young writer who, newly arrived in Montmartre, is haphazardly inducted into a circle of young bohemians led by Toulouse-Lautrec. A comedy of mistaken identities ensues, quickly enmeshing the young poet in a love triangle involving the unobtainable and consumptive Satine, queen courtesan of the Moulin Rouge, and the foppish Duke of Roxbury, his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MOUSummary: Tracks the overnight celebrity of Marla Olmstead, a toddler who creates gallery-worthy paintings on the dining room table of her family home. Sales of her paintings reach $300,000. Then the bubble burst. When a 2005 profile by '60 minutes' suggests that Marla had help making her paintings, the finger is pointed at her father, an amateur artist and night manager at Frito Lay. Almost overnight,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MYSummary: After Chris Nielsen dies in an accident, he tries to remain close to his beautiful, mortal wife, Annie. With the friendly spirit assigned to guide him, he begins to adapt to his new state of being in a setting that can only be described as heavenly. But when Annie in her despair takes her own life, she is banished to an eternal damnation. Chris vows to find her so they can share eternity...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PolyGram Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie What 2002Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHASummary: After winning a huge sum of money in a betting pool, four coworkers begin to double-cross each other over the prize money. Based on a story by top crime writer Jo Nesbo, a Coen Brothers-inspired riff on greed and betrayal with a Nordic twist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JACSummary: Dr. Gregory House and his hand-picked team of young medical experts will do whatever it takes to solve the puzzles that other doctors give up on.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD HOUCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV HOUSummary: Chronicles the beginnings of professor Xavier's super-powered X-students. The battle focuses on their primary sinister foe, Magneto, who has his mutant minions at his side. A George Wallace-like senator launchs a campaign against mutantkind which, of course, only complicates things for our heroes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie X-Men 2002Summary: Morris and Val Price, a middle class couple, win a luxury car in a raffle. The media makes them front page news and this captures the attention of some criminals who kidnap their teenage daughter and hold her for ransom.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BFS Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SEESummary: It's all fun and games when two brothers take off cross-country to bring home a pretty college friend. But the joeks end when a prank backfires and they find themselves stalked by a vengeful trucker who won't give up his relentless chase until somebody pays with their life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE JOYSummary: A group of four friends, all with different life goals, struggle to survive on one person's salary. After going into business together as thugs and assassins they find fame and fortune and at the same time strive to maintain their friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Eros International 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GANSummary: A modern fable and political satire on the Thatcher years in Britain set at Le Hollandais, a gourmet restaurant. The wife of a barbaric crime boss engages in a secretive romance with a gentle bookseller between meals at her husband's restaurant, all observed by the cook. This nightly display of opulence, decadence and gluttony leads to murder, torture and revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY COOSummary: Officer Tom Hanson goes undercover as a high-school student with the Jump Street Unit, a special division of the police force that uses young cops to fight juvenile crime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD 21Contents: The ladykillers (91 min.) -- The man in the white suit (85 min.) -- The Lavender Hill mob (81 min.) -- Kind hearts and coronets (106 min.) -- The captain's paradise (88 min.).
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALESummary: FBI agent Will Graham captured the diabolical Dr. Hannibal Lecter but nearly lost his mind in the process and retired from the Bureau. When he is coaxed out of retirement to hunt a serial killer called "The Tooth Fairy" he is again faced with the horrors incumbent in entering a serial killer's mind.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A simple, peaceful countryside is being terrorized by killer zombies with only one thing on their minds--destroy all humans. A small stronghold of survivors must hold the zombies at bay outside an old, abandoned house for any future hope of humanity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Market Square/Westwood Artists International 1999
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR NIGSummary: An alcoholic novelist meets a widowed hairdresser. He begins to wonder if she murdered her former husbands and if he'll be next.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FOUSummary: An alien being comes to Earth to colonize its water riches but instead becomes head of a large corporation and is gradually destroyed by the pleasures, the technology and the richness of life on earth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI MANSummary: A mysterious fugitive escapes from the law and ends up becoming a stunt man under a mesmerizing, possibly insane movie director (Peter O'Toole). Explores the ever changing nature of reality and illusion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STUSummary: Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003