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Criterion collectionSummary: Two bumbling burglars plan a robbery with a young woman they just met. Problems begin immediately when they both fall for the girl and the plan goes haywire. The jewel-heist plot is merely a jumping off point for Godard's fast-paced mix of fantasy and spoof of Hollywood crime films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BANSummary: Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank swindle people out of money. Frank wants to pull a really big job, but Roy is too consumed with fear and panic attacks to join him. Only cigarettes and his trusty illegal prescription drugs seem to keep him going. When Roy finds himself in desperate need of more pills,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MatchstickSummary: An ex-con and a police officer decide to get married and start a family. To their dismay, they discover that they can neither have nor adopt children. Desperate, they resort to kidnapping one of the newborn quintuplets of the wealthy Arizona family. However, their attempt at living a normal life is complicated by neurotic co-workers, two fugitives, and a mysterious bounty hunter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RAICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF RAISummary: Russell Baz leads a dead-end life- he works a meaningless steel mill job all day, and cares for his terminally ill father at night. When Russell's brother Rodney returns home from Iraq, he is lured into one of the Northeast's most ruthless crime rings and mysteriously disappears. When the police fail to solve the case, Russell puts his life at risk in order to seek justice for his brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA OUTCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OUTSummary: A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THUSummary: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. The story of a legendary showman's double life--television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative, or so he said.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONSummary: The entire Muppets gang goes on a global tour, selling out grand theaters in some of Europe's most exciting destinations, including Berlin, Madrid, Dublin and London. But mayhem follows the Muppets overseas, as they find themselves unwittingly entangled in an international crime caper headed by Constantine-the World's Number One Criminal and a dead ringer for Kermit the Frog-and his dastardly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY MUPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MUPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUP RATED PGSummary: A veteran thief faking a stroke, his very sexy nurse and her earnest, boring husband are going after money. All they have to do is steal an armored truck, impersonate the guards, collect bags of cash at the pick-up sites and then show up for work the next morning as if nothing happened!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2000
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WHESummary: A photographer unwittingly smuggles a doll stuffed with heroin into New York City. His recently blinded wife, alone in their apartment, is first terrorized by hired crooks, and then by the psychopathic Roat, in search of the doll.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER WAISummary: Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem. He does so by buying heroin directly from a source in South East Asia. He comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. As a result, his product is superior to what is currently available on the street and his prices are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008