Summary: A stirring look at three women striving to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer who finds herself contending with both office sexism and a hostage situation; a wife and mother whose determination to build her dream home puts her at odds with the men in her life; and a young law student who forms an ambiguous bond with a lonely ranch hand. A...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CER1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF CER
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CERSummary: Teenagers Zach and Josh have been best friends their whole lives, but when a gruesome accident leads to a cover-up, the secret drives a wedge between them and propels them down a rabbit hole of escalating paranoia and violence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY SUPSummary: Celebrate Shakespeare's 400th anniversary with this hilarious comedy about the playwright's mysterious lost years. Bill Shakespeare is a hapless lute player with a big dream. When his bandmates kick him out of their group, Bill leaves his wife and kids behind to seek fame and fortune in the big city of London. He's written a great work for the stage and he's certain he'll prove all his doubters...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BILSummary: The beautiful and kindhearted princess Snow White charms every creature in the kingdom except one, the Queen, her jealous stepmother. When the Magic Mirror proclaims Snow White as the fairest one of all, she must flee into the forest. There, she befriends the lovable seven dwarfs, Doc, Sneezy, Grumpy, Happy, Bashful, Sleepy and Dopey. The Queen finds Snow White and tricks her with an enchanted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Entertainment, Inc. 2016
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SNOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF SnSummary: Monty Python delivers the group's sharpest and smartest satire of both religion and Hollywood's epic films. Set in 33 A.D. Judea where the exasperated Romans try to impose order, it is a time of chaos and change with no shortage of messiahs and followers willing to believe in them. At its center is Brian Cohen, born in Bethlehem in a stable next door, who, by a series of absurd circumstances is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MONSummary: Monty Python is back to explain The Meaning of Life. Those naughty Brits offer the usual tasteful sketches involving favorite body parts and bodily functions, the wonders of war, the miracle of birth and a special preview of what's waiting for us in Heaven.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY MONSummary: A thriller about a woman fighting off a sleazy blackmailer. The film was Hitchcock's first full-length sound film and was only his second foray into the suspense genre. Grocer's daughter Alice White kills a man in self-defense when he tries to sexually assault her. Her policeman boyfriend, Detective Frank Webber, covers up for her, but she has been spotted leaving the scene by a petty criminal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF BLASummary: On the last day of high school, mild-mannered English teacher Andy Campbell tries to keep it together amidst senior pranks, a dysfunctional administration, and budget cuts that put jobs on the line. Then he accidentally crosses his much tougher and deeply feared colleague, Ron Strickland, who challenges Campbell to an old-fashioned throw down. News of the fight spreads like wildfire and it ends...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FISSummary: A satirical comedy about a down-on-his-luck publicist who discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOOSummary: Babo 73: The president of the United Status, who, when he isn't at the White House conducts his top-secret affairs on a deserted beach.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSummary: As The Authority's newest employee, Orson finds it difficult to connect with his enigmatic desk mate, Rakesh, or any of his other colleagues. His alienation deepens when he discovers a room he's told doesn't exist, a place that unleashes his true potential, leading to an ascent up the corporate ladder. Buoyed by his newfound confidence, Orson invites a receptionist into his sanctuary, sparking...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COR1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CORSummary: Silas Marner was a man who had everything, until he lost it all. Falsely accused of theft and driven out of his town, Silas starts life anew. One day, upon arriving home, he discovers a child asleep on the hearth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV SILSummary: A young woman searches for love in New York City in this romantic comedy based on the novel by Liz Tuccillo.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOWSummary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: Mike, a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him, and Scott, the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire, embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: Set in Hiroshima during World War II, an eighteen year old girl gets married and now has to prepare food for her family despite the rationing and lack of supplies. As she struggles with the daily loss of life's amenities she still has to maintain the will to live.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME INSummary: Two old friends reunite for a quietly revelatory overnight camping trip in Kelly Reichardt's breakout feature, a micro budget study of character and masculinity. As they drive from Portland into the woods in search of a secluded hot spring, expectant father Mark and nomadic Kurt make fumbling attempts to reconnect, butting up against the limits of their friendship and coming to grips with just...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA OLDSummary: The desperadoes: Steve Upton is the sheriff of a Utah community in 1860. Upton's best friend, Cheyenne Rogers, was once an outlaw, but under Steve's guidance, has gone straight and tries to earn an honest living. But when a bank is robbed, Cheyenne is the prime suspect and will need Upton's help to save him from a lynching.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wagon train of three families has hired mountain man Stephen Meek to guide them over the Cascade Mountains. Claiming to know a shortcut, Meek leads the group on an unmarked path across the high plain desert, only to become lost in the dry rock and sage. Over the coming days, the emigrants face the scourges of hunger, thirst, and their own lack of faith in each other's instincts for survival....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Oscilloscope Pictures 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA MEESummary: Told from the perspectives of eight different Pacific Island cultures, directed by eight different female Pacific filmmakers, and starring eight different indigenous actresses as the title character, this portmanteau film about female empowerment tells the story of one fictitious woman's life in eight separate vignettes, each segment advancing a decade or so forward, deploying a single...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VAISummary: A senator, forced to vote for a law with which he profoundly disagrees, is torn between his conscience and his loyalty towards the leaders of his party. His daughter, a right-to- life activist, falls in love with an advocate for assisted suicide. A famous actress turns towards faith and miracle cures in the hope of bringing her daughter out of an irreversible coma. And the beautiful Rossa is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DORSummary: Kareem leads an aimless life between odd jobs and hanging out with his buddies in a crime-ridden Arab ghetto of the mixed Israeli city of Lyd. A family tragedy brings him closer to his singer girlfriend, Manar, and motivates him to do something more with his life. When Kareem and his group finally get a chance to perform in a Tel Aviv hip-hop club, the star potential of the 'first Arab rapper'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015