Summary: Amateur philosopher Dex and his friends live by a code which virtually guarantees scoring with the ladies; but when Dex meets up with old college fling Syd, the rules he lived by no longer apply.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TAOSummary: The story of Alexander the Great, who in 4th century BC conquered ninety percent of the known world of the time by defeating Greece, Persia, Afghanistan, and India in just eight years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Bergman, Ingrid
Summary: Collection of 5 newly restored films of Ingmar Bergman and a bonus disc of "never-before-seen materials."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INGSummary: The Wolf Man: When a man is attacked by a werewolf, he finds to his horror that he now becomes one himself under a full moon. WereWolf of London: While on a botanical expedition in Tibet, Dr. Wilfred Glendon is attacked in the dark by a strange animal. Frankenstein meets the Wolf Man: Graverobbers open the grave of the WolfMan and awake him. She-Wolf of London: A young heiress finds evidence...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR WOLSummary: When a corrupt corporate developer buys out their neighborhood and plans to flatten all their homes, a gang of kids stumbles onto a treasure map and searches out the treasure in the hopes of buying back their houses.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FAMILY GOOSummary: The romantic lovers' triangle between the impossibly heroic Czech Resistance leader Victor Laszlo, his beautiful wife Ilsa and her ex-lover, cynical American Rick Blaine is still the same old story, but it's never looked better.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Casablanca 2012Summary: A distinguished professor emeritus who lives alone with his housekeeper can only come to terms with his egocentricity by traveling back in time to his earliest youth, finding there the seeds of his failure as husband, lover, father. This film deals with the phenomena of old age wherein childhood memories return with ever-increasing clarity while great stretches of the prime of life vanish into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2002
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF WILSummary: A story of four women's search for spiritual peace. Agnes, a spinster who lives with her housekeeper, is dying of cancer, and is visited one last time by her two sisters, Karin and Maria. These two become entangled in feelings of jealousy, manipulation and selfishness. Yet Agnes, tortured by cancer, is able to transcend her sisters' pettiness to remember moments of staggering beauty as well as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection/Janus Films 2001
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CriSummary: When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INSSummary: Contains two feature-length films in which Alvin and his brothers meet Dr. Frankenstein and his monster while working at a movie studio tour; and Alvin, considering himself a monster expert, becomes convinced that his neighbor is a werewolf.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Chronicles a half century of British upper-class life through the eyes of Nicholas Jenkins, from the 1920s to the 1960s. See how friendship, adultery, ambition, and failure play out in London's social, political, and artistic scenes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DANSummary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODSummary: A knight returning home from the Crusades encounters Death, who agrees to a chess game. In the balance hang the lives of the knight and a group of traveling players.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Classic 1998
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEVSummary: Inspired by the true story of Dublin crime reporter Veronica Guerin. This is about an Irish journalist who investigates the world of violent crime and the bosses who control the drugs and the violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHESummary: Wealthy mystery novelist Andrew Wyke invites lower-class hairdresser Milo Tindle to his elegant English mansion to discuss Milo's affair with Wyke's wife. But when Andrew proposes that Milo participate in a robbery scheme to benefit them all, the two rivals find themselves locked in an increasingly devious duel of wits and deceptions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Accidentally blinded as a child, 18-year-old Selina D'Arcey falls in love with a gentle and charming man, Gordon Ralfe, whom she meets in a rare visit to a park. Her racist mother declares that because Gordon is black, their relationship cannot continue, forcing Selina to choose between her family and her heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment and Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PATFord, Harrison
Summary: An American tourist prevents the assassination of a member of the British royal family. Soon, the ULA members responsible for the attempt try to take revenge on his family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2003
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE PATSummary: Presents the story of T.E. Lawrence (Peter O'Toole), the heroic and troubled man who organized the Arab nations to fight the Turks in World War I and then, having reached a pinnacle of power in Mideast politics, retired to postwar military obscurity.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LAWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LAWSummary: A former Rough Rider, a lovely but shady lady-in-distress, a drifting ex-cowboy, a young reckless cowboy, a haughty English sportsman, and a gutsy Pony Express rider come together to battle the trials of the rugged West in a grueling 700-mile horse race.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN BITSummary: A U.S. gunboat cruises China's Yangtze River in 1926, witnessing the awakening of a bloody revolution.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007