Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: "Centers on a revolutionary machine that allows scientists to enter and record a subject's dream. After it is stolen, a fearless detective and a brilliant therapist join forces to recover the device before it falls into the hands of a 'dream terrorist'"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME PAPSummary: The dark crystal: The Mystics fight to overthrow the evil Skeksis and take back control of their planet. When Jen, a member of the Gelfling tribe, sets out to find the crystal's missing shard, his dangerous journey brings him face to face with monsters at every turn. Determined to restore peace to their planet, Jen will not back down.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "The Doctor arrives on the paradise planet of Deva Loka to find a colonial mission on the verge of collapse. Several of its members have vanished into the jungle without a trace, leaving the survivors suspicious and paranoid. The mystery deepens as it becomes clear that the planet's native inhabitants, the Kinda, possess hitherto unsuspected powers that challenge human understanding. Meanwhile,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: British Broadcasting Corp. 2011
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV DOCSummary: Dom Cobb is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing valuable secrets from deep within the subconscious during the dream state, when the mind is at its most vulnerable. Cobb's rare ability has made him a coveted player in this treacherous new world of corporate espionage, but it has also made him an international fugitive and cost him everything he has...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INC RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Inception 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI INCSummary: Conceived as the ultimate road movie, this decades-in-the-making science-fiction epic from Wim Wenders follows the restless Claire Tourneur across continents as she pursues a mysterious stranger in possession of a device that can make the blind see and bring dream images to waking life. This breathless adventure in the shadow of Armageddon takes its heroes to the ends of the earth and into the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 1991
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI UNTSummary: The story of a young man coming face to face with his hero an exploring the tangled relationship between the dreams of youth and the wisdom of age.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GUESummary: John and Emma, father and daughter, are thrust into a fantastical dream world battle between forces of good and evil, where they are forced to fight for John's soul and to save Emma from an eternal nightmare. They encounter unusual characters that exist only in their subconscious- or are they real?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Double Edge Films 2009
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY INKSummary: A young girl's dream is to ride horses, but she can't because of a disability. She meets Bridget, the reigning equestrian champion, who suffers an injury, and asks her to compete in her place at the next competition. As she goes through physical therapy and begins training, the two girls must come together to learn the importance of friendship, family, following your dreams, and never giving up.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IFSummary: There is another world that waits for all of us when we close our eyes and sleep, a place called the Dreaming, where the Sandman, Master of Dreams, gives shape to all of our deepest fears and fantasies. But when Dream is unexpectedly captured and held prisoner for a century, his absence sets off a series of events that will change both the dreaming and waking worlds forever.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SANCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV SANSummary: A teenage runaway takes part in a sleep study that becomes a nightmarish descent into the depths of her mind and a frightening examination of the power of dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMSummary: A comedy/romance about a surreal world in which terrorists scare the citizens, and where nothing can be accomplished without paperwork. All-new, restored high-definition digital transfer and new bonus features.
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FANTASY BRASummary: With the city in the throes of a flu epidemic, the Petrov family struggles through yet another day in a country where the past is never past, the present is a goose-fueled, icy fever dream of violence and tenderness, and where, beneath the layers of the ordinary, things turn out to be quite extraordinary. Part Science-fiction, mystery, and dark comedy, this Cannes Film Festival entry is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSummary: Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen's tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Cameron Edwin, the host of a failing children's science TV show called "Above & Beyond," has always had aspirations of being an astronaut. After a mysterious space-race-era satellite coincidentally falls from space and lands in his backyard, his midlife crisis manifests in a plan to rebuild the machine into his dream rocket. As his relationship with his wife and daughter start to strain,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LINSummary: Visions of a future full of astonishing android technology. David, an advanced android, embarks on an extraordinary adventure to discover the secret of his own identity. Believing in the story of Pinocchio, David dreams of becoming a real boy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Artificial 2002Cage, Nicolas
Summary: "A family man finds his life turned upside down when millions of strangers suddenly start seeing him in their dreams. However, when his nighttime appearances take a nightmarish turn, he's forced to navigate the consequences of his newfound stardom"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It centers around a young jazz guitarist, Jazzen Goodman, who dreams of becoming a jazz legend, hiring his best friend Dylan to film him on his journey. After being upstaged by his old bandmate at a house show where their now dueling bands are on the same bill, Jazzen has a dream about his death. Haunted by this "premonition" that he will meet his death in 30 days, Jazzen starts to devise a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Along with being a filmmaker, Deren was a choreographer, dancer, film theorist, poet, lecturer and photographer, and she brings all of these disciplines together in her dreamlike and ecstatic films. Her most famous and influential is Meshes of the Afternoon (1943), co-directed with Alexander Hammid, which depicts a surrealist slippage in reality as a woman's home becomes a shifting landscape of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE MAYSummary: Dondup, a young government official who dreams of escaping his rural village for America, misses his bus to the city and is forced to hitchhike with an elderly apple seller, a young monk, and an elderly man and his beautiful daughter. Along the way, the monk tells the story of another young man that mirrors Dondup's ambitions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2005
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TRASummary: Join Wiley Wiggins as he searches for answers to the question of whether we are sleepwalking through our waking state or wake-walking through our dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002