Summary: 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: How far will a man go to climb the corporate ladder? C.C. 'Bud' Baxter, a lowly insurance clerk, has a trump card: his apartment. He "loans" it out to married company executives for secret trysts. In return, he's well looked after, although he does grapple with his conscience. One day he asks out one of the elevator girls, Miss Kubelik, but she stands him up because of a crisis in her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY APASummary: Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn't mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAISummary: Danny is an average guy who uses gags and pranks to liven up his blue-collar life. While his friends watch helplessly from below, Danny accidentally ends up taking off in a deck chair strapped to giant helium-filled balloons. He decides to start a whole new life in the town where he crash-lands. That is until his old life catches up him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DANSummary: 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
Copies Available at Woodmere
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: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005