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Feature films Kidnapping Europe Drama Love Love Drama Man-woman relationships Drama Motion picture actors and actresses United States Drama Motion picture producers and directors United States Drama Motion pictures Production and direction Drama Triangles (Interpersonal relations) Drama Young women DramaSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTSummary: Set in Stockton, a story of two boxers, one who is at the end of his career and the other who is just begining to learn to fight.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FATSummary: Adam, the eldest of seven brothers, goes to town to get a wife. He convinces Milly to marry him that same day. They return to his backwoods home. Only then does Milly discover that Adam has six other brothers all living with him in his cabin. Milly sets out to reform the uncouth siblings, who are anxious to get wives of their own. Then, after reading a story, Adam develops an idea that will...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SEVSummary: Fired from his telecom job, Adam Cassidy is forced by company CEO Nicolas Wyatt to infiltrate Wyatt's longtime rival's company to steal trade secrets. Soon, Adam realizes that he's caught between two ruthless players who will stop at nothing to win. But, desperate to win over an Ivy League beauty and help his blue-collar father, Adam risks everything in a dangerous race against time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PARSummary: Walter Keane became a worldwide celebrity and talk show fixture in the 1950s after he pioneered the mass production of prints of big-eyed kids, and used his marketing savvy to sell them cheaply. Unfortunately, he claimed to be the artist. That role was played by Margaret, his shy wife. The ruse broke up their marriage and led to a divorce and a dramatic courtroom battle to prove authorship of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIG RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BigSummary: A defrocked, alcoholic, American minister becomes a tour guide, and while travelling in Mexico with a bus-load of school teachers and their 18-year old charge, becomes entangled with the girl, with a woman of eloquence and wisdom, and with an earthy and beautiful former love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIGSummary: This reinvention of the American Western is a wild, sexy shoot-out studded with action, suspense and offbeat humor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2005
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Quick 2005Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN QUISummary: In 1607, the Virginia Company sends a ship from England to America to stake a claim on the New World and bring back the gold that is rumored to be abundant there. Ambitious Governor Ratcliffe is head of the expedition, but well-known explorer and adventurer John Smith is the natural leader. Well-armed, the men anticipate easily fighting off any one they encounter, but John Smith's first meeting...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Co. 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY POCSummary: When Tony Lip, a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr. Don Shirley, a world-class Black pianist, on a concert tour from Manhattan to the Deep South, they must rely on a book to guide them to the few establishments that were then safe for African-Americans. Confronted with racism, danger, as well as unexpected humanity and humor, they are forced to set...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY GRESummary: Sarah Nolan is divorced, demoralized and dateless - until her sister posts her profile on perfectmatch.com. Now she has a lot of dates, mainly with weirdos, weepers, lechers and jocks. Then she meets Jake, a soulful boat builder whose idea of true love comes straight from the movies. Jake is attractive, smart and maybe a bit too intense for Sarah, so she passes him by. But in passing him up,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUSCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MUSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Must 2005Summary: As an English soldier fights in the horrific trenches of northern France during World War I, he is haunted by the memories of his forbidden love affair with a French woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2012
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIRCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV BIRSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2009