Summary: On a weekend wedding in Martha's Vineyard, two African-American families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds clash during their first meeting before the big event.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JUMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JSummary: For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday TSummary: Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADSummary: It follows the exploits of eleven-year-old Alexander as he experiences the most terrible and horrible day of his young life, a day that begins with gum stuck in his hair, followed by one calamity after another. But when Alexander tells his upbeat family about the misadventures of his disastrous day, he finds little sympathy and begins to wonder if bad things only happen to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALE RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AlCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Alexander 2015Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALESummary: When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restive in this raucous comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GreatSummary: Old-school grandparents Artie and Diane get more than they bargained for when they get stuck babysitting their type-A daughter's overprotected kids. But things go from hectic to hysterical when Artie realizes the kids are running the house with their newfangled technology. By playing by his own rules, which include sugary snacks, old fashioned games, and tough love, Artie manages to outsmart...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Parental 2012Summary: When Yvette's second husband suddenly dies days before Christmas, she turns to her three daughters from her first marriage to console her during the holidays. Not wanting their father to be alone, one of the girls invites him to Christmas dinner, forcing their parents to speak to eachother for the first time in 25 years. As their complicated lives converge, secrets are revealed that will test...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Films 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BUCSummary: Aidan Bloom, a 35-year-old struggling actor, father, and husband, is still trying to find his identity, a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WISSummary: Ned is a loving husband and devoted father dealing with life's curveballs. He's got a stressed-out wife, an independent teenage son, and an embittered father-in-law who's turning his home upside down. Ned's job writing a scandalous TV series for a demanding boss is unfulfilling, and late night rewrites with a sexy co-worker might just push him over the deep end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EVESummary: Aura is a recent college graduate who returns to New York and moves back in with her mother and sister. As painfully confessional as it is endlessly amusing, Tiny Furniture is an authentic, incisive portrait of a young woman at a crossroads.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TINSummary: Happily divorced for 14 years, Lilly and Dan still hate each other. But after a fight at their daughter's wedding, their hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ThatSummary: Here's the delightful tale of teamwork and adventure your whole family will love! Air Bud is the proud father of five adorable puppies - with an unbelievable secret: They can talk!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AiCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY AIRSummary: Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNCSummary: Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is a single working mom who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James (John Travolta), a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late in this baby's-eye view comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOOSummary: Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's passion for performing. While she is happy to sing her heart out with the unconventional local choir, Arthur would prefer to hide himself away and complain about how embarrassing it all is. But when heartbreak strikes, Arthur is forced to re-think his outlook on life. Arthur begins to find a way to come out of his shell and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNFSummary: For Marnie, high school was a horror movie, and her brother's wedding is the sequel when her archrival comes back to haunt her as his bride. It's nice girl versus mean girl in this hysterical reunion with the one person Marnie would really like to forget. And if that weren't enough, Marnie's mom reunites with her own high school nemesis.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE YOUCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YSummary: A father's life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his relationship with his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRA RATED PG-13Summary: Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAM RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMKendrick, Anna
Summary: After a dramatic break-up, a woman moves in with her brother and his family near Christmas and her brother's wife discovers that she could be a good influence on her career and life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAPSummary: "Friends, family, and lovers struggle to find love, forgiveness, and meaning in a war-torn world riddled with comedy and pathos."--www.imdb.com.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Christmas is the perfect season for Clark Griswold and his family. Clark's a disaster waiting to happen. You have to see it to believe it. There are 25,000 lights on the Griswold rooftop. An exploding turkey. And a house full of relatives.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE NATCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NATCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD NATCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NAT RATED PGSummary: Joe is searching for the family that left him behind at the Grand Canyon when he was a boy. Along the way he meets up with a shock jock DJ, who targets Joe as the butt of his show. But his plucky spirit and ability to keep it real, has the listeners cheering him on and helps him find a better family than the one he thought he wanted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JOESummary: Nic and Jules are your average suburban couple raising their two teens, Joni and Laser, in Southern California. But when the kids secretly track down their 'donor dad' Paul, an unexpected new chapter begins for everyone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010