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Boston (Mass.) Drama Criminal behavior Massachusetts Boston Drama Criminal investigation Massachusetts Drama Feature films Mafia Massachusetts Boston Drama Massachusetts Boston Murder Investigation Police chiefs Massachusetts Drama Private investigators Stone, Jesse (Fictitious character) DramaSummary: In South Boston, the state police force are waging a war on Irish-American organized crime. Undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate, which is run by gangland chief Frank Costello. Billy quickly gains Costello's confidence. But when it becomes clear to both the mob and the police that there are moles in their midst, Billy and the other mole are suddenly thrust...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY DEPCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEP RATED RCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DeCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Departed 2007Summary: Now that Jesse Stone has settled in as Paradise's police chief, he has to solve the grisly murder of a teenage girl. The investigation uncovers abuse and even leads him to a conflict with a Boston mob.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 3Summary: Amanda McCready is a 4-year-old who has disappeared from her Boston home. The police make little headway in solving the case, so the girl's aunt hires Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro, private detectives. They freely admit that they have little experience with this type of case, but the family wants them for two reasons: they're not cops and they know the tough neighborhood in which they all...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GONCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie GoneCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER GONSummary: Based on the true story of "Boston Strangler" Albert De Salvo, the man who terrorized the city for a year and a half when he murdered 13 women.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BOSSummary: World-weary and living hand to mouth, small-time gunrunner Eddie 'Fingers' Coyle (Mitchum) works on the sidelines of the seedy Boston underworld. But when he finds himself facing a second stretch of hard time, he's forced to weigh loyalty to his criminal colleagues against snitching to stay free.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY FRISummary: Jesse Stone is shot while moonlighting on a Boston stakeout, leaving his friend fighting for his life and Stone out for justice. His rogue investigation to find the shooter leads him into Boston's shady underworld. This leads him right into the bed of a Boston PD investigator, who wants his head on a platter if he continues to pursue the case. Meanwhile, Stone is approached by a broken-hearted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 5Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JESCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2009Summary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after the brutal murder of Jimmy's 19-year-old daughter and Sean, now a cop, scrambles to solve the crime before volatile Jimmy takes the law into his own hands.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MysSummary: Boston childhood friends Jimmy, Sean and Dave are reunited after a brutal murder. Reformed confict Jimmy and his devoted wife Annabeth find out that their teenage daughter Katie has been beaten and killed. Jimmy's old friend Sean is the homicide detective assigned to the case. Jimmy gets his relatives, the Savage brothers to conduct their own investigation. Jimmy and Sean soon suspect their old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MysticSummary: Jan Schlichtmann (Travolta) is a cynical, high-priced personal injury attorney who only takes big-money cases he can safely settle out of court. He takes on a case which at first appears straightforward, but soon becomes entangled in a labyrinthine legal battle involving industrial pollution, contaminated drinking water, and the deaths of innocent children in New England.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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Summary: Jesse finds himself struggling to get his job back as the Paradise police chief, and he is forced to rely on his cop intuition to sort through a maze of misleading clues and hidden meaning as he attempts to solve a shocking and horrifying mob related double homicide.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Je 8Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult, Call number: DVD Movie Jesse 2012Summary: Although a good kid and gifted pitcher, sixteen-year-old Cole McKay's imploding South Boston Irish Catholic family threatens to drag him down until, while at a crossroads, a life and death situation makes him choose his path.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLASummary: Spenser is a detective who yearns for a simpler time of ethics and standards.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Spenser For Hire's sophomore season ushered in some changes for the gourmet gumshoe: new faces, new challenge, and more mysteries around the streets of Boston, from Fenway backalleys to Beacon Hill townhouses. Foremost among them is Boston's new Assistant DA, Rita Fiori (Carolyn McCormick), looking to rein in the freewheeling private detective, regardless of the chummy relationship that...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel brings to life the attitudes and passions of 17th century New England. Condemned by her Puritan fellows for having a child out of wedlock, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter.
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Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: Lois, Harry, Marilyn, Sandy and Jack live in an "Active Adult" community in Boynton Beach, Florida. Their lives intersect when they meet at a local Bereavement Club where they go to find the emotional support needed after lossing a loved one. New love and romance do not end before retirement, but can bloom long after. These five do not see themselves as becoming old, and these residents of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BOYSummary: In 2005, the only thing hurting Los Angeles Times columnist and recent bike accident victim Steve Lopez more than his banged-up face, was his pressing need for story ideas. He soon discovers Nathaniel Ayers, a skid row schizophrenic street musician, who possesses extraordinary talent - even though he only has half-broken instruments to play. Inspired by Nathaniel's story, Lopez writes an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SOLCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SOLSummary: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent student at M.I.T. Wanting to transfer to the Harvard School of Medicine, he learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for the tuition. Then Ben is introduced into a small but secretive club by his math professor, Micky Rosa. The club has four other students: Jill, Choi, Kianna, and Jimmy; and they are being trained by Mickey in the skill of blackjack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TWE RATED PG-13Summary: Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Little 2000Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITSummary: After being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BEASummary: 10-year-old Luke lives with his parents and grandparents in Arkansas during the Korean War. To pick the cotton in their fields, they must hire "hill people" and Mexicans. Hank is a "hill person" who doesn't take kindly to people looking down on him. Luke witnesses a fight that Hank gets into that causes the death of another person. With better times ahead to look forward to, the town gets...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Hall of Fame 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Bud Davis, a Texas oil refinery worker, meets and falls in love with Sissy at Gilley's, a popular country-western nightclub in Houston. However, their relationship becomes endangered when a mechanical bull-riding ex-convict schemes to steal Sissy's heart.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBSummary: Norah Larkin is a working girl who wakes up a murderess after passing out in the apartment of brutish playboy Harry Prebble. Branded "The Blue Gardenia" by a sensational columnist, Norah dodges dragnets, informants and the cruel hand of fate as she struggles to conceal her involvement with Prebble, and to remember the details of her ill-fated night. As her hopes for justice fade, she decides to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2000
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: Fueled by a suitcase full of pharmaceuticals, journalist Raoul Duke and his sidekick Dr. Gonzo set off on a fast and furious ride through nonstop neon, surreal surroundings and a crew of crazy characters.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2003