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Action and adventure films Comedy films Culture conflict Drama Feature films Hollywood (Los Angeles, Calif.) Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Motion picture film collections Motion pictures Production and direction Motion pictures Production and direction DramaSummary: Crocodile Dundee: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test -- a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Continuing the adventures of the eccentric Australian, Crocodile Dundee, he and his beautiful girlfriend are threatened by a ruthless gang of drug...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CROSummary: Crocodile Dundee: A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test -- a trip to New York City. Crocodile Dundee II: Continuing the adventures of the eccentric Australian, Crocodile Dundee, he and his beautiful girlfriend are threatened by a ruthless gang of drug...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CROSummary: Caught up in a criminal enterprise, Ashley and her young daughter turn to her estranged father, Matt, for help. Retired and living a beach bum's life in The Caymans, her dad's secret past is revealed as the Mob tracks them down on the island.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE RETCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RETSummary: Prepare yourself for a terrifying onslaught of monstrous man-eating Graboid, flying Ass-Blasters, and heat-seeking Shriekers in this complete collection of all Seven movies in the Tremors franchise. Throughout the years and may International locations, the Graboids have evolved and become ever more menacing and deadly. Only the gonzo survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) can stop them all....
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRESummary: Toby is a disillusioned director, currently heading commericals, who becomes pulled into a world of fantasy and memory when he's reunited with a Spanish cobbler he cast as Don Quixote in a student film years earlier. The old man now believes himself to be the legendary character, and Toby to be Sancho Panza, who must play along with the delusion as he also attempts to fulfill his professional...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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3 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE MANSummary: The twelve chairs: The tale of a former aristocrat who is now a Russian clerk under the new Soviet regime. -- Blazing saddles: A railroad needs to be built, but the land necessary is already owned. Needing to drive out the town folk, you appoint a new sheriff you figure will last about 24 hours. -- Young Frankenstein: Summoned by a will to his late grandfather's castle in Transylvania, young...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The deluxe two-disc DVD set includes a new 2K restoration of Ghost Town (1935) an astonishing and haunting amateur documentary about post-cinema Fort Lee. Disc One also features five films made at Champion Studios, recovered thanks to the efforts of the Library of Congress and the Fort Lee Film Commission. Disc Two includes exciting NJ film rediscoveries, a slapstick comedy from director Mack...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Milestone Film & Video 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC CHASummary: A billionaire decides on a whim to create a movie, hiring a team he considers the best: a renowned filmmaker and two egotistical actors -- one from Hollywood and the other from experimental theatre -- who cannot get along. While the director creates bizarre rituals to test their abilities, the actors find themselves confronting each other as well as their pasts and their bodies of work.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OFFSummary: 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.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THESummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Deal 2007Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF DEASummary: Sleeping Beauty, Rapunzel, and Jack from the Beanstalk are all about to live happily ever after when the balance between good and evil gets thrown out of whack. It's up to Cinderella (a.k.a. Ella) to save the day by taking on her power-hungry stepmother. This time Ella will have to do all the work without her Prince Charming. She joins forces with an unlikely army of dwarves, fairies, and the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV HAPSummary: A Japanese tourist takes refuge from a rainstorm inside a run-down movie theater and discovers that some of its patrons may actually be ghostly residents.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Lorber Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Three films featuring Audrey Hepburn. In Breakfast at Tiffany's she plays Holly Golightly, the girl on a quest to marry a millionaire, in Roman Holiday, she's a rebellious modern-day princess who inadvertently falls in love with an American newspaperman, in Sabrina, she returns home from Paris all grown up and ready to beguile the Larrabee brothers.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRESummary: Morgan Spurlock brings a comedic documentary about branding, advertising, and product placement that is financed and made possible by brands, advertising, and product placement. Special features: commentary, featurettes, and more.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC GRESummary: An all-star comedy set during the latter years of Hollywood's Golden Age. It follows a single day in the life of a studio fixer who is presented with plenty of problems to fix.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2016
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HAICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAISummary: Best friends Nick and Darryl are a New York film editing duo, hired to salvage a botched comedy from a manic director gone AWOL. But what starts as a simple job quickly sends their relationships with their significant others and each other, reeling. Amidst trouble with his fiancee Nick finds himself falling for the film's flirtatious ingenue. Darryl, meanwhile, struggles to focus on his editing...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New Video Group 2013
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SUPSummary: His picture is on magazine covers, his name in lights. Ex-con artist and gangster Dan Quigley is "doing all right in this movie racket," a big man in Hollywood. But if his criminal past resurfaces, he could end up in the big house.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LADSummary: Garfield's owner, Jon, takes in sweet, but dimwitted pooch Odie, turning Garfield's perfect world upside-down. Now Garfield wants only one thing: Odie out of his home and his life! But when the hapless pup disappears and is kidnapped by a nasty dog trainer, Garfield, feeling responsible, tears himself away from the TV and springs into action.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: When P.L. Travers travels from London to Hollywood in 1961 to finally discuss Walt Disney's desire to bring her beloved character, Mary Poppins to the motion picture screen (a quest he began in the 1940s as a promise to his two daughters), Disney meets a prim, uncompromising sexagenarian not only suspect of the impresario's concept for the film, but a woman struggling with her own past. During...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SAVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SAVCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SAVCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SaSummary: During the spring of 1977, sci-fi-obsessed teenager Pat Johnson finds himself torn between making 8mm sequels to his favorite movies and pursuing the girl of his dreams, Linda. Desperate to help her son escape his likely future in Wadsworth, Illinois, (population 750), his mother Janet cold-calls the editor of 'American Cinematographer's magazine, and Pat soon finds himself on "the ultimate...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FIVSummary: "Mabel and Rosenthal are the two stars of a pretentious art-horror film directed by an unhinged tyrant who may or may not be German (he goes by 'Herr Director'). Mabel is playing a blind woman while Rosenthal, who has facial tumors caused by neurofibromatosis, is essentially playing a version of himself. Both their characters are part of a mad doctor's plot to 'cure' disabilities. But while...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2020