Summary: Spurred on by the 60s and its radical ideals, boyhood friends Chris and Toni set their sights on a single goal - escape Metroland and its suburban way of life. When they finally break free, Chris travels to Paris where he embarks on a torrid love affair with a French woman. Toni sets off for the great unknown as he explores the world. Nine years pass before Toni returns home. And when he does,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY METSummary: We all use mathematics every day-- but in a world of body counts, multiple criminal masterminds, and percentages involving perpetrators who may act again, figures are especially valuable. This is the world of Numb3rs. Don Eppes is an FBI agent who recruits his mathematically gifted brother Charlie to help the Bureau solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles, thus tackling the most...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS DVD 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After discovering his mother is still alive, a six-year-old Russian boy escapes from his orphanage and sets out on a perilous journey to find her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ITASummary: A kindly grandfather sits down with his grandson and reads him a bedtime story. As the grandfather reads the story, the action comes alive in a classic tale of love and adventure. The beautiful Buttercup is kidnapped and held against her will in order to marry the nasty Prince Humperdinck, while Westley (her childhood beau, now returned as the Dread Pirate Roberts) attempts to save her. Along...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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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 PRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV PRISummary: Matthew is a Chicago investment banker who puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier. With some help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another woman, calling herself Lisa who, unknown beknownst to Matthew, is an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WICSummary: In 2009 Alex Gibney was hired to make a film about Lance Armstrong's comeback to cycling. The project was shelved when the doping scandal erupted, and re-opened after Armstrong's confession.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ARMSummary: Rich in culture and history, the pride of the African-American tradition comes alive in these award-winning stories. These stories includes Martin's Big Words, John Henry, and Seven Candles For Kwanzaa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weston Woods 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MARSummary: Allie Fox is fed up. Angered by an America that "buys junk, sells junk, eats junk," and a world whose nuclear doomsday clock is always two minutes away from midnight, the brilliant inventor leads his trusting wife and four children into the remote Central American jungles to carve out a new society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MosquitoSummary: An unprecedented behind-the-scenes look at the making of the coveted September Issue of Vogue in 2007, which was the largest and most sold to date. An intimate, funny and surprising look at the legendary editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of larger-than-life editors. This is the captivating story of how they create the must-have bible of fashion. At the eye of this hurricane is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SEPSummary: Erotic comedy about a long lost college friend who drifts back into town and into the lives of a self-involved philanderer, his angelic wife, and her saucy sister.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEXSummary: 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.
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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: Melvin B. Tolson is a professor at Wiley College in Texas. Wiley is a small African-American college. In 1935, Tolson inspired students to form the school's first debate team. Tolson turns a group of underdog students into a historically elite debate team which goes on to challenge Harvard in the national championship. Inspired by a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Co. 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Great 2008Summary: Comedian Dave Chappelle presents his unique point-of-view on the world in a hilarious, defiant and sometimes dangerous look at American culture.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Comedy Central Home Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHASummary: A documentary based on a series of interviews with Paul Bowles shortly before his death and anecdotes provided by his friends and collaborators including Gore Vidal, Bernardo Bertolucci, John Walters, Ruth Fainlight, Edmund White, William Burroughs, Francis Bacon and many others --Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features [distributor] 2013
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PAUSummary: "We are the Army of Two!" So begins the video diary of Andre and Cal, two ordinary, alienated high school students who have meticulously planned a "big-ass mission" that will shock and terrify their community. They have officially declared war, stockpiled their weapons, and set the day for destruction. Now, "let the countdown begin." The two teenagers decide to stage a Columbine-style assault...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC ZERSummary: Seth is an angel who must decide if he'll forsake his immortality and become human on the chance that the woman of his dreams might love him. That woman is Maggie, a pragmatic heart surgeon who doesn't believe in angels until she meets Seth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY CITSummary: Jarrod, an acclaimed wax sculptor goes from slightly wacko to completely deranged when he loses both his art showcase and the use of his hands in an arsonist's inferno. The flame scarred Jarrod rebuilds his house of wax by dipping his victims in wax! Both critics and the public praise his new works. But a lone voice cries murder when heroine Sue Allen discovers a wax figure with an uncanny...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR HOUSummary: Romantic comedy about a young man who meets the girl of his dreams at a friend's wedding. However, she slips through his fingers when the timing seems wrong, and they meet at three more weddings and a funeral before the two finally connect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Four 1999Summary: In September 2003, freelance Iraqi cameraman Yunis Khatayer Abbas was arrested and accused of planning to kill Tony Blair. This documentary is a fascinating portrait of an ordinary man trying to make sense of an absurd and nightmarish situation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PRISummary: Join the Mars rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, for an awe-inspiring journey to the surface of the mysterious red planet and discover what no human has ever seen or known before.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007