Summary: Bait: A tale of deception and seduction, directed by and starring Hugo Haas features three people searching for a lost gold mine: the dangerous Marko, young miner Ray and the comely Peggy. As Marko and Ray search for the mine, Peggy arrives, stirring Ray's passion and igniting Marko's suspicion. As months pass, the three find themselves closing in on the mine, but the tension between them is...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY NOISummary: A wickedly perceptive comedy about the life-altering, emotional armor-piercing friendship between a lonely 17-year-old rebel looking for a job and a conservative, middle-aged salesman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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Summary: A reformed jewel thief is the prime suspect in a new rash of thefts, and in order to clear himself he sets out to find the real thief.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2013
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Morning glory: A small-town community-theatre actress comes to New York dreaming of theatrical stardom. She amuses a producer and a playwright with her naiviete. Partly out of sympathy, the playwright arranges for her to understudy a troublesome theatrical star. When the star walks out on opening night, the young actress goes on to triumphant success. She is warned not to let it go to her...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KATSummary: "With this furiously witty comedy of manners, Katharine Hepburn revitalized her career and cemented her status as the era's most iconic leading lady--thanks in great part to her own shrewd orchestrations. While starring in the Philip Barry stage play The Philadelphia Story, Hepburn acquired the screen rights, handpicking her friend George Cukor to direct. The intoxicating screenplay by Donald...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY PHISummary: What would you do if you knew you only had an hour to live? After 30 years of searching, Harry has finally met the girl of his dreams. Unforunately, before they even have a chance to go on their first date, Harry intercepts some chilling news. WWIII has begun and nuclear missiles will destroy Los Angeles in less than an hour! Not sure if this is a joke or an omen, Harry races through L.A. in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRSummary: Miracle mile: A young man named Harry hears a chance phone call telling him that a nuclear war has started and missiles will hit Los Angeles in less than two hours. Not sure if the whole thing is a dire warning or a harmless prank, Harry races through the city, fighting mobs of terrified people in a desperate search for Julie, a young woman he only met yesterday and the one person with whom he...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIRSummary: Elise (Veerle Baetens) and Didier (Johan Heldenbergh) fall in love at first sight. She has her own tattoo shop and he plays the banjo in a bluegrass band. They bond over their shared enthusiasm for American music and culture, and dive headfirst into a sweeping romance that plays out on and off stage- but when an unexpected tragedy hits their new family, everything they know and love is tested....
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BROSummary: When Thumbelina, a tiny enchanted fairy, meets Prince Cornelius, she is sure she's found her heart's desire. But before their romance can blossom, she is kidnapped by a family of show business toads, detained by a scheming beetle and married to a befuddled mole.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY THUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV THUSummary: During the busy Christmas period, Merry and Bright Candy Cane Company owner Cate meets a mysterious man and assumes he is the man her determined mother is trying to set her up with.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MERSummary: Another supernatural force has come to light in Bon Temps, witchcraft, and life for its residents will never be the same. Sookie finds herself entangled in a love triangle, torn between a vengeful Bill, the new Vampire King of Mississippi, and Eric, who's not the former Viking he once was. Led by a charismatic witch named Marnie, who threatens to let no one living or dead stand in her way, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Entertainment, [2012] 2012
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV TRUSummary: The fictionalized biography of composer Cole Porter from his days at Yale in the 1910s through the height of his success to the 1940s.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2004
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NIGSummary: The twists and turns of one night in the life of a New York yuppie and the interesting people he comes in contact with from a sexy woman to a crazy ice cream dealer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AFTSummary: "Screwball sparks fly when Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn let loose in one of the fastest and funniest films ever made--a high-wire act of invention that took American screen comedy to new heights of absurdity. Hoping to procure a million-dollar investment from a wealthy society matron for his museum, a hapless paleontologist (Grant) finds himself entangled with a dizzy heiress (Hepburn) as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: All the earnest paleontologist wants is an intercostal clavicle to complete his brontosaurus skeleton. What he gets is an out-of-control toboggan ride with a scatterbrained heiress nuts about him (or maybe just nuts). Riding along are a dog named George, a leopard named Baby, a snooty society matron with a spare million, a caretaker on the sauce, and more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Cary Grant was the epitome of Hollywood elegance, a master of comedic timing, and one of the best-loved romantic leading men of all time! Trace his story from the streets of Bristol, to the Boulevards of Hollywood in this fascinating biography.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cobra Entertainment 2005
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Summary: Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman. So begins the wildest night of his life, as bizarre occurrences involving underground-art punks, a distressed waitress, a crazed Mister Softee truck driver, and a bagel-and-cream-cheese paperweight pile up with anxiety-inducing relentlessness and thwart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A jazz pianist falls for an aspiring actress in Los Angeles. This original musical about everyday life explores the joy and pain of pursuing dreams.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LA RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD LALCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS LACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie La La 2017Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF LaSummary: An heiress determined to catch a zoologist uses her pet leopard, Baby, to get his attention.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BRISummary: The awful truth: One of the best "screwball" comedies of the thirties, in which a separated couple do their best to spoil one another's love affair while awaiting their divorce.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA CARSummary: Join the Portokalos family as they travel to a family reunion in Greece for a heartwarming and hilarious trip full of love, twists, and turns. Opa!
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD MYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: 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