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Arthur, Jean Chan, Jackie Dujardin, Jean Florez, Juan Diego Hicks, Bill Rouve, Jean-PaulSummary: It all starts when society diva Loy slaps newsman Tracy with a libel suit. Tracy enlists fiancée Harlow and down-on-his luck Powell in a counter maneuver involving a rigged marriage, a phony seduction, a fabulously funny fishing scene, fisticuffs, broken promises and hearts and eventually, true love for all.--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIBSummary: In this romantic comedy, Yoyita, a world-famous diva, returns to her home town of Guantanamo for an elegant reception and a surprise reunion with her once beloved, Candido. Overjoyed with the rekindled memories of her first love, Yoyita's elated heart fizzles while in Candido's embrace. Joining Yoyita's funeral procession back to Havana are her sexy niece Gina, a former professor blacklisted...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2000
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN GUASummary: A gentleman-gambler falls in love with a missionary, while a floating crap-game operator avoids marriage to his long-time fiancee.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GUYSummary: When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FASSummary: Schools out and Ocean Front High gym teacher Freddy has big plans: summer in Hawaii. But the school's vice-principal is going to have Freddy teach remedial English. The laid-back teacher has a class full of misfits. The no-nonsense history professor down the hall is keeping an eye on all the shenanigans.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Paramount 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUMSummary: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman's life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CLEChan, Jackie
Summary: After an undercover spy agrees to babysit his girlfriend's children while she's out of town, his cover is blown and he must fight off a criminal while keeping the kids safe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2010
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SPYFlorez, Juan Diego
Summary: Count Almaviva, in love with Rosina, the ward of Dr. Bartolo, succeeds, with the help of the barber, Figaro, in defeating the doctor's attempts to separate the lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decca 2005
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA BARArthur, Jean
Summary: Comedy in which the daughter of an eccentric family falls for the son of a wealthy New York family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY YOUDujardin, Jean
Summary: An actor famous for his roles in silent films forms a relationship with a dancer/actress who is headed for fame in the new era of sound films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ARTCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARTSummary: 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: Frederic has led a sheltered life, despite being apprenticed to a Pirate King as a child. When he arrives in Penzance with his boisterous shipmates, there are surprises in store for him, including falling in love and some inconvenient discoveries.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kultur 2008
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1 available in Opera DVDs, Call number: DVD OPERA PIRSummary: A musical set in Paris in which a girl trained as a high society courtesan falls in love with a rich and handsome boulevardier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment/Warner Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Gigi 2000Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS GIGSummary: A woman lives on a remote lake, selling food to fisherman by day, and her body by night. Her life changes forever though, when she becomes obsessed with a former police officer living on the lake.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ISLHicks, Bill
Summary: Explores the life and career of American comedian Bill Hicks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2 Entertain 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC AMESummary: Establishes a diverse and dynamic range of relationships among long-time girlfriends, their spouses, and the way in which money (or lack of it) affects them all. The have-not of the group is Olivia. She is a teacher-turned pot-smoking house cleaner in the upscale neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. She's drifting on a sea of uncertainty, while her friends Franny, Christine, and Jane cope with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRISummary: Stewie, the maniacal baby genius, is distracted from his plans for world domination when he sees a man who looks just like him on television. Convinced that this man must be his real father, Stewie sets off on a cross-country road trip to find him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FAMSummary: Berlin's plushest, most expensive hotel is the setting where in the words of Dr. Otternschlag "People come, people go. Nothing ever happens.". The doctor is usually drunk so he misses the fact that Baron von Geigern is broke and trying to steal eccentric dancer Grusinskaya's pearls, but ends up stealing her heart instead. Powerful German businessman Preysing brow beats his lowly bookkeeper,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRARouve, Jean-Paul
Summary: A crime novelist with writer's block investigates the apparent suicide of a small-town model who believed she was the reincarnation of Marilyn Monroe.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NOBSummary: Two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with an "angel expert", are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her motel with a real, live archangel named Michael.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MICSummary: Three middle-aged men disenchanted with their lives, try to relive their youth by moving into a house on a college campus and start hanging out with a group of misfit college students, losers, and retirees.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2003
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OLDCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD OLD RATED RSummary: Once again, the Family Guy alliance travels far, far beyond the beyond the boundaries of good taste to bring you an outrageous intergalactic journey. Join them for one last outer space adventure, as Han Solo (Peter), Chewbacca (Brian) and Princess Leia (Lois) battle against the Evil Empire. Meanwhile, Darth Vader (Stewie) and the Emperor (Carter) try to recruit Luke Skywalker (Chris) to the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010