Summary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: A 12-year-old tech prodigy's science experiment goes awry and he forges a telepathic connection with his best friend, his dog. The duo join forces and use their unique perspectives on life to comically overcome complications of family and school.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THISummary: Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job and an apartment, but before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. The people around him seem cut off from any real emotion and communicate only in superficialities. He makes an attempt to escape from the city, but he discovers there is no way out. Andreas meets a man who has found a crack...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BOTSummary: After being abused by their dysfunctional families, pre-teen neighbors Dylan and Kylie decide to run away from home on Christmas Eve. The two set off in search of Dylan's brother who had made his own escape two years prior. At first Dublin is a colorful kaleidoscope of wonder and mystery, but as the night wears on, the city takes on a darker character, and the two must rely on the kindness of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Laboratories 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KISSummary: Four overweight friends from the Israeli city of Ramla, fed up with dieting and the dieting club they belong to, discover the world of Sumo, where large people are honored and appreciated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Menemsha Films 2010
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MATSummary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISummary: Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own, including a rivalry with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Digital/Anchor Bay 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONESummary: Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Films. 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AtCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie AtSummary: Murray talks his friend Fioravante into becoming a gigolo as a way of making some much needed cash after an out-of-the-blue request from his dermatologist. With Murray acting as Fioravante's 'manager,' the duo quickly finds themselves caught up in the crosscurrents of love and money.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FADSummary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIFSummary: When Kitty discovers Nick is having an affair with the sultry seductress Tula, their rocky relationship gets a whole lot rockier. Nick finds himself facing a full-scale revolt from his daughters at home, and Kitty enlists her oddball cousin Bo to track down Tula. Deals with love and hate, life and death, and romance and cigarettes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ROMSummary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DINSummary: Petruchio is a poverty-stricken gentleman from Verona who journeys to Padua in search of a wealthy wife. There he meets Katharina, a self-willed shrew who leads Petruchio on a merry chase before he successfully circumvents her attempts to avoid marriage. After the honeymoon, Kate helps Petruchio win a wager that he has the most obedient wife. In reality, Kate has found a more effective way to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999