Summary: The true-life story of Janet Frame, New Zealand's most distinguished author. The film follows Frame along her inspiring journey, from a poverty-stricken childhood to a misdiagnosis of schizophrenia and electroshock therapy to, finally, literary fame.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A sports agent suddenly discovers his scruples and promptly loses his job. But with the help of one loyal colleague and one outrageous client, he learns that loving well is the best revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TriStar Pictures 1997
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jerry 1996Summary: In the summer following their graduation an eternal optimist seeks to capture the heart of Diane, an unattainable high school beauty. With that accomplished he then has to overcome her disapproving father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Say 2001Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD SAYSummary: Carousel: Billy Bigelow, a smooth-talking carny barker falls in love with a millworker. He wants a better life for his family, but he goes about it the wrong way and is killed during a robbery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS CARDe Graeve, Koen
Summary: When Mario is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he and his friends work to legalize euthanasia in Belgium.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TIMSummary: Nineteenth century poet John Keats and the girl next door, Fanny Brawne, started out as unlikely lovers who were totally at odds with each other. However, when Brawne offers to help Keats nurse his seriously ill brother, the two soon became involved in an unstoppable romance that only his untimely death at age 25 could bring to a shattering end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BRISummary: "The story of a Manhattan teenager whose life is profoundly altered after witnessing a terrible accident"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MARSummary: "The story of a Manhattan teenager whose life is profoundly altered after witnessing a terrible accident. Experience an emotional teen's extraordinary journey to set things right as her innocent ideals come crashing against the harsh realities of the adult world"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA MARGrammer, Kelsey
Summary: Follows university professor Miss Willoughby as she helps with a paranormal investigation when family friends experience hauntings at their antique bookshop.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2022
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MISDiaz, Cameron
Summary: After discovering the man she is dating is married, Carly Whitten, the man's wife Kate, and yet another woman he is seeing join forces to get their revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTHCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OTH RATED PG-13Diaz, Cameron
Summary: The lives of five interconnected couples are changed when they learn they are to become parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHA PG-13Caron, Leslie
Summary: Set in turn-of-the-century Paris, a young girl, Gigi, is being groomed by her grandmother to become a courtesan.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD GIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GIGSummary: In the Battle of Thermopylae of 480 BC, an alliance of Greek city-states fought the invading Persian army in the mountain pass of Thermopylae. Vastly outnumbered, the Greeks held back the enemy in one of the most famous last stands of history. Persian King Xerxes lead an Army of well over 100,000 men to Greece and was confronted by 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians and other Slave soldiers. Xerxes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY ACTION/ADVENTURE THRSummary: "1969. Marighella, Brazil's number one enemy, has no time for fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its fear. On the one hand, a violent military dictatorship, with its heinous crimes of torture and infamous censorship. On the other, an intimidated people. Alongside guerrilleros 30 years younger than him and willing to fight, the revolutionary leader opts for action - all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MARSummary: It shares the soulful and surprising story of one devoted dog who finds the meaning of his own existence through the lives of the humans he teaches to laugh and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DoCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DOGSummary: Based on the insane true story of everyday people who flipped the script on Wall Street and got rich by turning GameStop (yes, the mall videogame store) into the world's hottest company. In the middle of everything is regular guy Keith Gill, who starts it all by sinking his life savings into the stock and posting about it. When his social posts start blowing up, so does his life and the lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD DUMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DUMCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVDSummary: The Grande Chartreuse, considered one of the world's most ascetic monasteries is based in the French Alps. In 1984, German filmmaker Philip Gröning wrote to the Carthusian order for permission to make a documentary about them. They said they would get back with him. Sixteen years later, they were ready. Gröning, sans crew or artificial lighting, lived in the monks' quarters for six months -...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF INTSummary: The story of one young hippie's quest in the 1970s for belonging and liberation that leads not only to peace, love, and rock and roll but that sets into motion a new counterculture crusade a Jesus Movement changing the course of history. Inspired by a true movement, it tells the story of a young Greg Laurie being raised by his struggling mother, Charlene in the 1970s. Laurie and a sea of young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JESCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JESSummary: Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Gifted 2017Summary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real United States. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EASSummary: In 1962 Baltimore there are changes in the air. Plus-sized teen Tracy Turnblad, with big hair and even bigger heart, has only one passion, to dance. She wins a spot on the local TV dance program, "The Corney Collins Show" and is transformed overnight from outsider to irrepressible teen celebrity. The trendsetting Tracy aims to win the heart of teen-dream Link Larkin and stand up for what she...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAI RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HaSummary: 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 extraordinary story of the iconic poet, musician and folksinger Violeta Parra, whose songs have become hymns for Chileans and Latin Americans alike. Director Andres Wood traces the intensity and explosive vitality of her life, from humble origins to international fame, her defense of indigenous cultures and devotion to her art.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013