Summary: Johanna Morrigan is a bright, quirky, sixteen-year-old who uses her colorful imagination to regularly escape her humdrum life in Wolverhampton and live out her creative fantasies. Desperate to break free from the overcrowded flat she shares with her four brothers and eccentric parents, she submits an earnestly penned and off-beat music review to a group of self-important indie rock critics at a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HOWCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOWSummary: Nazi Panzer forces stage a last-ditch Belgian front offensive that could turn the tide of WWII. A spectacular recreation of a crucial campaign.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BATSummary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEASummary: Based on a true story. A half-blind ex-prizefighter and mustang breaker team up with a millionaire and his rough-hewn, undersized horse, Seabiscuit. The men bring Seabiscuit to incredible heights, helping to turn a long shot into a legend. Eventually, Seabiscuit earns Horse of the Year honors in 1938.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEASummary: Lassie come home: A collie braves storms, hunger, and peril to return to her young master. Son of Lassie: On a bombing run over enemy-occupied Norway, a bomber crewman and his devoted dog, Lassie's son Laddie, parachute from their damaged aircraft into a series of wartime adventures. Courage of Lassie: Lassie is in the Army now. Follows the canine's new adventures form his wilderness puppyhood...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: In 1990s Scotland, a group of Catholic schoolgirls get an opportunity to go into Edinburgh for a choir competition, but they're more interested in drinking, partying and hooking up than winning the competition.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OURSummary: The fact that John Lurie knows nothing about fishing doesn't stop him from taking his celebrity guests to exotic fishing locales for fishing and conversation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1999
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC FISSummary: Based on the seminal horror novel by Stephen King, Pet Sematary follows Dr. Louis Creed, who, after relocating with his wife Rachel and their two young children from Boston to rural Maine, discovers a mysterious burial ground hidden deep in the woods near the family's new home. When tragedy strikes, Louis turns to his unusual neighbor, Jud Crandall, setting off a perilous chain reaction that...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PETCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PETCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PeSummary: One of the world's great comedy teams set out on a variety hall tour of Britain in 1953. Diminished by age and with their golden era as the kings of Hollywood comedy now behind them, they face an uncertain future. As the charm and beauty of their performances shine through, they re-connect with their adoring fans. The tour becomes a hit, but Stan and Ollie can't quite shake the specter of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STASummary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRAPinon, Dominique
Summary: In a rickety apartment building, a sweet-natured clown becomes the catalyst in the lives of the unusual tenants.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DELSummary: Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHESummary: Choosing a college and striking out on one's own is an exciting time that requires a big adjustment by both child and parent, but few parents will have as much difficulty relinquishing control over their daughter's life as Chicago police chief James Porter. A loving, but overprotective father, James wants his daughter Melanie to attend nearby Northwestern College. When she's waitlisted and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY COLSummary: Two friends, both actresses, leave Los Angeles for Big Sur embarking on a weekend getaway to reconnect. Once alone, however, the two women's suppressed jealousies and deep-seated resentments bubble to the surface, causing them to lose grasp not just of the true nature of their relationship, but also of their own identities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ALWSummary: Eighteen of Alfred Hitchcock's early films (1926-1939), and two episodes of his television program (1955-1962). Includes 55 minutes of movie trailers spanning Hitchcock's legendary career.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Mill Creek Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ALFCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD HITSummary: The Skywalker saga continues as the heroes of The Force Awakens join the galactic legends in an epic adventure. Having taken her first steps into the Jedi world, Rey joins Luke Skywalker on an adventure with Leia, Finn and Poe that unlocks mysteries of the Force and secrets of the past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE STACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Star 2018Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD STA RATED PG-13Summary: In this film essay, multimedia artist Laurie Anderson presents a monologue touching upon her relationship with her rat terrier Lolabelle, the death of her mother, the heightening of surveillance following 9/11, and other topics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF HEASummary: Dome Karukoski's stirring biopic Tom of Finland follows his life from thetrenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California, where he and his art were finally embraced amid the sexual revolution of the 1970s. Tom's story is one of love, courage and perseverance, mirroring the gay liberation movement for which his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino Lorber 2018
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF TOMSnodgress, Carrie
Summary: A housewife dissatisfied with her domestic life begins an affair with a writer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DIASummary: In this offbeat comedy from Finland, Turo is stuck in a small village where the best thing is his life is being the lead vocalist for the amateur metal band Impaled Rektum. The only problem? He and his bandmates have practiced for twelve years without playing a single gig. The guys get a surprise visitor from Norway, the promoter for a huge heavy metal music festival, and decided it's now or...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HEASummary: Mike - a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him - and Scott - the rebellious son of a prominent family and the object of Mike's desire - embark on a quest from the grungy streets of Portland to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: When childhood friends Magalie and Blandine cross paths after many years, they decide to finally take their dream vacation to Greece. A wildly entertaining tale of female camaraderie, also starring Academy Award Nominee Kristin Scott.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023