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Documentary films Production and direction Drama DVDs Enigma cipher system Drama Film adaptations Gay men Great Britain Drama Shoplifting Illinois Chicago Drama Thieves Illinois Chicago Drama Video recordings for the hearing impaired World War, 1939-1945 Cryptography Drama World War, 1939-1945 Great Britain DramaSummary: Sy works in photo processing. His favorite customers are the Yorkin family. Sy dotes on the Yorkins whenever they drop off film to be processed and they are indulgent of Sy's attentions. What the Yorkins don't know is Sy has been obsessively making copies of their photos, imagining himself to be "Uncle Sy," a member of the family. Sy's tenuous hold on reality begins to collapse when he develops...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Kasper Carr is a master thief, targeting businesses in the Chicago area. He stakes out fresh opportunities in front of a documentary film crew, which gradually becomed complicit in his crimes. As the director and producer become entangled in the allure of their fascinating subject and the legal ramifications of their actions, Carr pursues a series of larger-scale and more dangerous jobs. All...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A & E Indie Films 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF STRSummary: 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 GONEastwood, Clint
Summary: A disc jockey meets a fan at a night spot and when he rejects her, she becomes violent.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 2001
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PLASummary: Made famous as Superman on television, George Reeves finds it hard to not be typecast because of it. When he is found dead of a gunshot wound, rumors begin to run rampant. Based on Hollywood's most notorious unsolved mystery.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY HOLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hollywood 2007Summary: Charley Varrick is a small-time crook who outfoxes the mob and makes a desperate run for the Mexican border and safety.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Picture 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CHASummary: In a remake of the original 1968 film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers - and humans are little more than slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2002
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Summary: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. The story of a legendary showman's double life--television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative, or so he said.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONSummary: A dark comedy which retells the story of Little Red Riding Hood set against a modern background of prostitution, drugs and serial killers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Freeway 2007Summary: Germany 1967: murderous bomb attacks, the threat of terrorism, and the fear of the enemy inside are rocking the very foundations of the still-fragile German democracy. The radicalized children of the Nazi generation, led by Andreas Baader, Ulrike Meinhof, and Gudrun Ensslin, are fighting a violent war against what they perceive as the new face of fascism. The man who understands them is also...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAASummary: In a remake of the original film, after an astronaut crash-lands on an uncharted planet he finds himself at odds with a society in which apes are the rulers--and humans are little more than slaves.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Planet 2001Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI PLASummary: It's the 1972 Olympics and PLO terrorists have just kidnapped and murdered 11 Israeli athletes. After the tragic incident is over and several of the terrorists have gone free, the Israeli government of Golda Meir recruits Avner to lead a team of undercover agents to hunt down those responsible throughout Europe, and eliminate them one-by-one. It is physically and emotionally messy work, and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MUNCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUN RATED RSummary: An intimate portrait of a uniquely independent woman who finds herself newly divorced during the Depression years and struggles to carve out a new life for herself and her family. The story explores Mildred's unreasonable devotion to her insatiable daughter Veda, as well as the complex relationship she shares with the indolent men in her life, including her polo-playing lover Monty Beragon and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MILSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FASSummary: Julian Noble is an unshaven, unnerved and unpredictable freelance assassin, who happens to encounter desperate businessman Danny Wright in the bar of a modern Mexico City hotel. Danny is intrigued when Julian reveals that he's a "facilitator of fatalities," and his wife becomes equally fascinated when Julian shows up unexpectedly, six months later, at Danny's home in Denver. Having lost his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MATSummary: In a quiet, isolated village in olde Pennsylvania, there lies a pact between the people of the village and the creatures who reside in the surrounding woods. The townspeople do not enter the woods, and the creatures do not enter the village. The pact stays in tact for many years, that is until the headstrong Lucius Hunt seeks medical supplies from neighboring towns beyond the woods. Animal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD VILSummary: A career thief and a detective square off to make sure that the other does not succeed. Special features include: additional scenes; audio commentary; documentaries; and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HEACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER HEASummary: Two lions on a man-eating rampage have shut down the construction of a railway in 1896 East Africa. The beasts hunt together, showing no fear of man or fire. What's more, they're killing for sport rather than for food--and they have an almost supernatural knack for knowing what traps await them. Big-game hunter Remington and construction engineer Patterson set out to stop these unstoppable...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GHOSummary: When a young girl is assaulted by an older man she meets on the Internet, her family's bonds are ripped apart as her father searches across the country in an effort to track down her attacker and exact revenge.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Millennium Entertainment 2011
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TRUHanks, Tom
Summary: The story of Captain Richard Phillips, who was captured and held hostage by Somalian pirates after the hijacking of his ship, Maersk Alabama.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Enter 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAP RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Captain 2014Summary: During the U.S.-led occupation of Baghdad in 2003, Chief Warrant Officer Roy Miller and his team of Army inspectors were dispatched to find weapons of mass destruction believed to be stockpiled in the Iraqi desert. Rocketing from one booby-trapped and treacherous site to the next, the men search for deadly chemical agents but stumble instead upon an elaborate cover-up that inverts the purpose...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRECopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRESummary: During the winter of 1952, British authorities entered the home of mathematician, cryptanalyst and war hero Alan Turing to investigate a reported burglary. They instead ended up arresting Turing himself on charges of "gross indecency," an accusation that would lead to his devastating conviction for the criminal offense of homosexuality - little did officials know, they were actually...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2015