Summary: A down on his luck screenwriter reluctantly agrees to adapt a trashy bestseller to the silver screen. Rather than read the book himself, Steele convinces a star-struck hatcheck girl, Mildred Atkinson, to accompany him home and tell him the story in her own words. Later the night, Mildred is found murdered and Steele, who has a history of violent behavior, becomes the prime suspect. A neighbor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IN

Summary: Jude Fawley is a poor stone carver who is tricked into a loveless marriage and ultimately forced to give up his dreams of a university education. After his wife deserts him, he begins a scandalous relationship with his cousin Sue Bridehead.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2006

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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV JUD

Summary: The legendary half-demon superhero is called to the countryside to battle a trio of rampaging giants. There he discovers the Blood Queen, Nimue, a resurrected ancient sorceress thirsting to avenge a past betrayal. Suddenly caught in a clash between the supernatural and the human, Hellboy is now hellbent on stopping Nimue without triggering the end of the world.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HEL

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HEL

Summary: Four strangers happen to meet on a roof of a building with the intent of committing suicide. They decide to call off their plans for six weeks and form an unconventional, dysfunctional family and friendship.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY LON

Summary: Dixon Steele is an alcoholic screenwriter who has some success but is now in the midst of a long dry spell. One of his neighbors is Laurel Gray, a would-be actress and a smart cookie. Steele is a bitter, angry man who succeeds in insulting everyone he sees while drinking at noon in his usual hangout. Dix has taken a job adapting a trashy novel for the screen--but he doesn't want to read the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Pictures Industries 2003

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IN

Summary: A suburban Chicago family travels across the United States and encounters a series of disasters; when the Griswolds win a two-week vacation in Europe they have no idea the havoc they will create; the Griswolds have a series of comedic adventures when they spend their family vacation in Las Vegas.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 3 MOV

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY NAT

Davis, Viola

Summary: After finding a gun, money, and detailed plans for the security van hijack that killed her husband, Dolly recruits the other widows to complete the heist.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2019

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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WID

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WID

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WID

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Wi

Summary: Set in 1940 London, the story is an ode to how women played a major role in boosting national morale during the Blitz of London in the second World War.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THE

Summary: Thrown into a political marriage of convenience by her ruthlessly power-hungry family, the beautiful Margot soon finds herself hopelessly drawn into their murderous affairs. It's then she realizes her only hope of escape lies somewhere between the heroic soldier who loves her and the enemy husband who could save her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1995

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN QUE

Aniston, Jennifer

Summary: A young boy meets a fifty-foot-tall, steel-eating giant who he tries to keep secret from everyone, including a nosy government agent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV IRO

Aniston, Jennifer

Summary: A young boy meets a 50 foot tall, steel-eating giant who he tries to keep secret from everyone, including a nosey government agent.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY IRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IRO

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Summary: Times are hard in 1846 London and one must make do. So Nellie Lovett adds something extra to the meat pies she peddles on Fleet Street. The secret ingredient: freshly murdered victims of her partner in crime, barber Sweeney Todd.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Home Entertainment 2004

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SWE

Summary: 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 DIN

Summary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSIC LIN

Summary: Linda Ronstadt has been an icon for more than 50 years. Her extraordinary vocal range and ambition created unforgettable songs across rock, pop, country, folk ballads, American standards, classic Mexican music, and soul. As the most popular female recording artist of the 1970s, Ronstadt filled huge arenas as no one had ever done and produced an astounding eleven platinum albums. Ronstadt was...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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1 available in Music DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY MUSIC LIN

Summary: A woman returns to the community that shunned her for her attraction to a childhood friend. Once back, their passions reignite as they explore the boundaries of faith and sexuality.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DIS

Summary: Told from Igor's perspective, we see the troubled young assistant's dark origins, his redemptive friendship with the young medical student Viktor Von Frankenstein, and become eyewitnesses to the emergence of how Frankenstein became the man, and the legend, we know today.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE VIV

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Vi

Summary: A young woman visits her grandmother one summer to think over a marriage proposal, and the women in a quilting bee confide to her the stories of the loves that have shaped their lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MCA Universal Home Video 1999

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOW

Summary: Set in a future world where America has lost the war on drugs, an L.A. undercover agents change their faces along with their identities. One officer's liberal ingestion of the drug "Substance D" causes him to develop a split personality, a notorious drug dealer. Along with his superior officers, the police set up an elaborate scheme to catch his drug dealer alter-ego and tear down his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006

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1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD SCI-FI SCA

Summary: Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2010

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COC RATED PG-13

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COC