Summary: On Valentine's Day, 1900, a group of Australian schoolgirls set out for a picnic at Hanging Rock. Four of them disappear.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Evicted from their Manhattan apartment, Walter and Anna buy what looks like the home of their dreams, only to find themselves with a bank-account-draining nightmare.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Money 2002Summary: At the start of World War I, German imperial troops burn down a mission in Africa. The mission's clergyman was so overtaken with disappointment that he passes away. Shortly after his well-educated, snooty sister Rose buries her brother, she must leave on the only available transport, the 'African Queen' steamboat. The boat is manned by the ill-mannered bachelor, Charlie. Together they embark on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE AFRCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AFRSummary: Tom Dobbs makes an offhand comment on his late night talk show that he would be a better president than the leader who currently occupies the White House. A grassroots campaign conducted by his legions of fans finds him unexpectedly ushered into the Oval Office and forced to live up to his promise. Unfortunately for Dobbs, he finds out that his surprise victory was actually the result of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Man 2006Summary: When former executive Jeffrey Wigand is fired by his employer, one of the largest tobacco companies in America, Wigand agrees to become a paid consultant for a story by veteran 60 minutes producer Lowell Bergman, regarding alleged unethical practices within the tobacco industry. But what begins as a temporary alliance leads to a lengthy battle for both men to save their reputations and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE INSSummary: Artemisia Gentileschi is forbidden to fully pursue her own passion of painting. She convices a renowned artist to tutor her. He not only liberates her into the world of art but initiates her into the world of sex and love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ARTSummary: The cozy villages of Midsomer County reveal their most sinister secrets in these four contemporary British television mysteries. Death and dust: The impending marriage of a widowed doctor and a well-to-do divorcée motivates a murder of mistaken identity. Picture of innocence: In the midst of a "shooting war" between rival camera clubs, someone tries to frame Barnaby, and definitely not for a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV MIDSummary: Dan, an aspiring novelist, cannot help but feel immensely attracted to Alice, a young American waitress and stripper who is in London after escaping from a failed relationship. After some time Dan meets Anna, a photographer who also attracts him. From there, things go downhill for Alice and Dan. Eventually Dan, Alice, Anna and Alice's fiancé, Larry, take part in a twisted dance of deceit, guilt...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CLOSummary: After her father leaves to find work during the Great Depression, Kit's mother takes in boarders, and when the lockbox with the family money disappears, Kit sets out to solve the mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AME RATED GCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV AMESummary: Anne, an eleven-year-old orphan, is sent by mistake to live with a lonely, middle-aged brother and sister on a Prince Edward Island farm and proceeds to make an indelible impression on everyone around her; Anne, now a young woman, has become a teacher and dreams of meeting her ideal man; After a series of disappointments, Anne and her husband Gilbert return to Avonlea in search of happiness,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sullivan Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A romantic comedy featuring Holly Golightly, an eccentric New York City playgirl, and her neighbor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 1999
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRECopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRESummary: Comedy about an organizationally impaired temporary assistant who gets her first pemanent job at the age of 31 working for a curator of an art gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IVESummary: In Treatment season three continues to center around Dr. Paul Weston who continues to cope with the after-effects of his recent divorce, as well as his move to Brooklyn to continue his practice. In the midst of new emotional and physical challenges (including hand tremors he fears might be the onset of Parkinson's Disease, which killed his father), Paul will be treating three new patients, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD IN RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV INSummary: Brought in to investigate the mysterious death of local girl Laura Palmer, special agents Chester Desmond and Dale Cooper try to unravel the bizzarre clues, mysterious disappearances, and strange happenings in Twin Peaks. Essentially a prequel for the televison series.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY TWISummary: Epic treatment of the bombing of Pearl Harbor and the attack on the naval base.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young man inherits a train station in rural New Jersey and moves there for a life of quiet solitude. He soon finds friendships and a sense of belonging that he never expected, and never thought he wanted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: Dramatizes the friendship between an aging alcoholic jazz musician and a young French jazz fan. Inspired by the real-life friendship between jazz pianist Budd Powell and Francis Paudras.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Biting drama that tells the story of a ruthless, manipulatve movie producer who lets nothing and nobody stand in his way. Now he's broke and needs the help of the very people he used and betrayed on his climb to the top.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BADSummary: A superhero with total disregard for the damage he causes while saving people finds himself having his image changed by a public relations executive, in return for saving the executive's life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008