Summary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: A provoking mystery-suspense drama explores the morality of privacy in the story of Harry Caul, a surveillance expert, who conducts a routine wire-tapping job only to later become suspicious that he has become an unwitting player in a murder scheme.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CONSummary: Pocahontas travels to England as an ambassador of peace, where she must convince the King of England that her people are truly civilized in order to stop an armada moving against them.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2012
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POCSummary: Danny and Wheeler are two salesmen who trash a company truck while on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice - the two can either do hard time or serve 150 hours of community service in a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad. Once the center's ex-con director gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ROLSummary: A retired master car thief must come back to the industry and steal 50 cars with his crew in one night to save his brother's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GONSummary: Leading New Scotland Yard's Murder Review Team has Commander Clare Blake feeling trapped in her office. Eager to get back to investigative work, Blake welcomes a transfer to the Homicide and Serious Crime division, where she's assigned to a slate of difficult cases. Ambitious, imperious, and dedicated, Blake keeps her private life separate from her work, until two deeply personal crimes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn Media 2018
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2 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV COMSummary: After two ruthless drug dealers commit a brutal mass murder in Los Angeles and are forced to flee the state, their beautiful accomplice unwittingly leads them into a trap.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ONESummary: "Atlanta follows two cousins who work through the Atlanta music scene in order to better their lives and the lives of their families"--from container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ATLCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ATLSummary: Atomic Submarine: A series of mysterious sinkings plagues the northern seas. Great trans-arctic submarine liners are vanishing without a trace! The nuclear powered U.S.S. Tiger Shark, the most advanced sub in the fleet, has been undergoing around-the-clock modifications to prepare for an urgent top-secret mission: to discover the cause of the Arctic disasters, and put an end to it!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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2 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI FIRSummary: Andie is the "How to" girl at an up-and-coming women's magazine who need to prove she can pick up any guy and dump him in 10 days. And in order for Ben to win an advertising presentation he needs to prove he can make any woman fall in love with him in 10 days. Now that they are a "couple" and the clock is ticking, anything goes ...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie HowSummary: Families will learn over 200 everyday vocabulary words in American Sign Language. Youngsters will also learn how to read these words in complete English along with helpful audio. This is an excellent resource for babies, toddlers, young children, as well as their families and friends. Vocabulary examples in ASL and spoken/printed English include: mother, friend, don't understand, how many,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Everyday ASL Productions 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 419 AMESummary: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MATSummary: Will and Grace are best friends. Will is a gay lawyer and Grace is a straight interior designer. They both live in New York and have become quite comfortable living together. Jack is Will's flamboyant gay friend and Karen is Graces' secretary/assistant who come over all the time to spice up the friendships.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV WILSummary: Features such classic moments as: What if Maya Angelou wrote a tribute to Mayor Marion Barry, A petition to re-name Cross Bay Boulevard as "Tupac Shakur Boulevard--in a predominantly white neighborhood, Chris Rock's outrageous "Taxi driver confessions", Ike Turner's "The rules", "When animals attack in high speed chases II."
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 1999
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1 available in Performing Arts DVDs, Call number: DVD PERFORMING ARTS BESSummary: When Max gets a tip from a would-be assassin's pet dog, he and Agent Clyde set out to save the life of the president of the United States.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 1995
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Silas and Jamal are buddies who enjoy smoking voluminous amounts of marijuana. They end up in the possession of some magical weed that enhances their brainpower during college entrance exams, thus enabling them to enter that esteemed institution of learning, Harvard University. Once firmly ensconced in the halls of academia, however, the pals run out of their supernatural supply and are forced...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: Balto, a sled dog in Alaska, makes an arduous journey to bring life-saving medicine to a town during a diphtheria epidemic.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Video 2001