Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! Ten years after Mamma Mia! The Movie premiered, you're invited back to the magical Greek island of Kalokairi in an all-new musical sequel based on the songs of ABBA. Sophie is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna, she'll need to take risks. The film's original cast returns, with new additions including Lily James as a young...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MAMCopies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS MAMSummary: In which we serve (1942): A sensitive and stirring piece of propaganda telling the tale of a group of Royal Navy sailors as they battle the Germans in the Mediterranean and of the lives they left back home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA DAVSummary: Best selling crime novelist Charles suffers from terrible writer's block and is struggling to finish his first screenplay. His picture-perfect new wife Ruth is doing her best to keep him focused so they can fulfill her dream of leaving London for Hollywood. Charles' quest for inspiration leads him to invite the eccentric mystic Madame Acarti to perform a séance in his home. He gets more than he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLIHeigl, Katherine
Summary: A successful entrepreneur learns the hard way that he cannot control his domineering obsessive-compulsive wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOMSummary: Nothing extraordinary ever happens to Carol Peters, so when she starts getting snarky backtalk from her TV, phone, and microwave, she thinks she's being punked. Or losing her mind. The world's first superintelligence has chosen to study and observe Carol's attempt to romantically reconcile with her former boyfriend to better understand the human condition. Soon, the all-powerful entity takes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SUPCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUPSummary: Set in early nineteenth century Romania, a policeman, Costandin, is hired by a nobleman to find a Gypsy slave who has run away from his estate after having an affair with his wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN AFESummary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITSummary: Nick, a career salesman who loses his wife and his job in the worst day of his life. Faced with his life imploding, Nick puts it all on the line, or, rather, on the lawn, as he moves himself and all his possessions to his front yard.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Everything 2011Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF EVECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF EvSummary: A screenwriter with a three-day deadline for a script asks a secretary to help concoct ideas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PARCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Paris 1964Summary: Viktor is a simple man with a mission who finds himself entrapped in JKF airport after the accidental loss of his country to villainous coup. He becomes a man without a country and is stuck at the airport's international terminal with no visa, and is instructed that he is not allowed to leave. Slowly he encounters airport workers who come to his aid by mutual coercion : Gupta the hilarious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie TerminalCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD TERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TER RATED PG-13Summary: All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRISummary: A classic Hepburn-Tracy romance, about the head of the research department at a TV network and an absent-minded computer genius.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Desk 2004Summary: Following the premiere of her latest picture Viviane finds herself with a dead man in her apartment. Frédéric is a writer who's been falsely accused of murder, thanks to Viviane. Viviane has fled Paris for Bordeaux with a cabinet minister, and once Frédéric escapes from prison, he is not far behind. Once they reach the city, which is in chaos, they become entangled in a plot involving a rickety...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BONSummary: Follow three three teenage girls as they explore their first taste of freedom. Charlotte, the recently hearbroken, Megane, the anti-love anarchist, and Aube, a virgin who dreams of love, all three smitten by the guys at the Toy Depot. After applying for their first part-time job at the store during this one fateful summer, the three girls experience for the very first time what it is like to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SLUSummary: Master chef Kate Armstrong is a perfectionist who leads a regimented life while running the kitchen of an exclusive restaurant. She revels in the sense of power and control her career affords. When her sister is killed in an automobile accident, her nine-year old niece Zoe comes to live with her. Kate's life is turned completely upside down and she is suddenly forced to split her focus between...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NORSummary: Divorced mom Eva may be falling for Albert, a sweet, funny, like-minded divorced man. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne, who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ENOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ENOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enough 2014Summary: 40-year-old Andy Stitzer has a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment that includes a collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude. But at 40, Andy is still a virgin. His friends think he's a bit of an oddball, but they consider it their duty to help Andy out of his dire situation and decide to go to great lengths to help him....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2005
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: Miles Massey is a high-powered Los Angeles divorce lawyer nearing a midlife crisis. While representing his wealthy client Rex Rexroth, Miles meets his match in Rex's gold-digging wife, Marilyn. He's impressed by her similarly heartless ways of using marriage to fuel an expensive lifestyle, but Miles still manages to defeat her in court. With Marilyn looking to get her revenge and Miles finding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Intolerable 2004Summary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Directionless and living with his parents, recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock begins an affair with a married neighbor and then falls in love with her daughter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GRASummary: It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancée Harlow and down-on-his luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005