Summary: Its January 1977 and Gary Gilmore is about to become the first convicted murderer to be executed in a decade. Gary's youngest brother, Mikal, can help prevent the execution, but first he has to get to know the brother he barely remembers. Born of a brutal father, raised in a family haunted by death, religion and superstition, the brothers discover their shared past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHOSummary: While on a trip in 1928 to visit her son, Mrs. Moore, accompanied by her son's fiancee, is appalled at the treatment of the Indians by the ruling British government. Later, they befriend a native Indian who, over-stepping the accepted norms of his culture, invites the two ladies on an excursion. In a strange turn of events, he is accused of attempting to rape the young woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PASSummary: Unmarried at 31, Zaza has become an embarassment to his family. With one potential bride after another trotted out in front of him, he somehow manages to never tie the knot. Curious, his family investigates and discovers his secret relationship to a divorcGee. Upset, the entire family decide to intervene.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LATSummary: A chance encounter in a nursing home leads to an unexpected friendship between a dowdy housewife and a spry octagenarian who tells her the story of a fiercely independent woman half a century ago, inspiring the housewife to change her life, often with hilarious results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Fried 1999Summary: In the 1890's Frank T. Hopkins, a former U.S. Cavalry dispatch rider who is haunted by memories of what he saw at the battle of Wounded Knee, and his mustang Hidalgo, are performing in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show, billed as the greatest horse and rider the West has ever known. This leads them to be invited to run in the 3,000 mile endurance race across the Middle Eastern desert, the Ocean of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HiSummary: The true story of the love affair of John Reed, American Communist, journalist and activist and Louise Bryant, writer and feminist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Reds 2006Summary: After a two year stint in a state home, the shy and neurotic Elling and his sex-obsessed best friend, Kjell, are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves in a state funded apartment in the center of Oslo, told to behave responsibly and act like normal members of society. In time, the two adjust and find oddball ways of coping with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002