Neill, Sam
Summary: "Get to know the star of some of the world's favourite film and TV classics in this fascinating and remarkably honest memoir from Sam Neill'Hilarious, wicked, wonderful, kind, thoughtful, engaging and wise' STEPHEN FRY'Just wonderful, so funny and charming and sharp. Sam Neill's lively, lovely book made me laugh out loud' MERYL STREEP' Really, really, really funny. There are some cracking...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Michael Joseph 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After a mad, passionate fling on a whirlwind trip to Moscow, party girl Joan Fraser returns home pregnant. And when little Joe is born, everyone wonders who "Daddy" is! Soon, the ball starts rolling on a hilarious sequence of events that includes a clueless husband, a lovesick double agent and even Joseph Stalin himself.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CHISummary: A businessman is caught up in a criminal conspiracy during his daily commute home.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Commuter 2018Summary: After an author disappears, an investigator's search for him leads to a small town where events from the author's books are being carried out every day.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY HORROR INSummary: Sam, a middle-aged Aboriginal man, works for a preacher in the outback of Australia's Northern Territory. When Harry, a bitter war veteran, moves into a neighboring outpost, the preacher sends Sam and his family to help Harry renovate his cattle yards. But Sam's relationship with the cruel and ill-tempered Harry quickly deteriorates, culminating in a violent shootout in which Sam kills Harry in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SWESummary: A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him, he meets a young player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Universal Studios 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIMSummary: Fourteen-year-old Grace MacLean and her friend Judith go horseback riding in upstate New York on a winter morning, but their horses lose their footing on ice and slide onto a road, where Judith and her horse are killed by a jackknifing truck. Grace has her right leg amputated, and the frightening incident leaves a lasting trauma not only on Grace but also on her horse, Pilgrim. Grace's mother...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOR RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HORSummary: Business is booming for Birmingham's Peaky Blinders gang, but that's not enough for its dangerous leader Tommy Shelby. As Shelby battles to keep a stronghold on his evil underworld, he risks his life encroaching on the turf of volatile gang leader Alfie Solomons.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A gangster family epic set in 1919 Birmingham that follows the notorious gang, who got their name from sewing razor blades into the peaks of their caps, and their fierce boss Tommy Shelby, a man dead set on moving up in the world, no matter the cost.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PEASummary: Erotic passions and vengeful jealousies are aroused when two men desire the same woman, the mute wife in an arranged marriage. Only one realizes that her heart can only be won through her beloved piano.
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Publisher / Publication Date: LIVE Entertainment [distributor] 1992
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PIASummary: Spring fever runs wild when a snooty native son returns to his family farm in rural Australia and brings along his voluptous new wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COUSummary: The curse of King Tut's tomb: Free-spirited archaeologist Danny Fremon is certain that if found, King Tut's emerald tablet would hold the power to control the world. Unfortunately, the only one who believes Fremont is his nemesis archaeologist Morgan Sinclair, a member of a secret society who wants the table to release unspeakable evil on the world and will stop at nothing to get it.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CURSummary: In this Australian film, a couple on their small boat rescues a half-delirious stranger from the sea. This man is a demented killer and the couple are soon in a fight for their lives.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1989
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER DEASummary: "Mockumentary" of the life of Colin McKenzie, film pioneer and inventor extraordinaire in early 1900s New Zealand. The young genius McKenzie had invented motion picture cameras, color film, sync sound, and other important cinematic techniques before the likes of Griffith and Moliere.
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Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 1997
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: When renowned paleontologist Dr. Grant agrees to accompany a wealthy adventurer and his wife on an aerial tour of Isla Sorna, InGen's former breeding ground for prehistoric creatures, he has no idea that he was brought along for a totally different reason. When their plane crashes and they become stranded, they discover the island's native inhabitants are smarter, faster, fiercer and more...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JurassicSummary: "Sybylla Melvyn struggles with the conflicts that we all have between ambition, family, love, and guilt in a most remarkable manner. Sybylla grows to understand that life is a series of trade-offs, and that no one can have it all, and that no one can please everyone. Simple yet universal themes told with charm, wit, and a vulnerability that allows us to get right inside of her character and to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blue Underground 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MYSummary: "For her award-winning breakthrough film, director Gillian Armstrong drew on teenage author Miles Franklin's novel, a celebrated turn-of-the-twentieth-century Australian coming-of-age story, to brashly upend the conventions of period romance. Headstrong young Sybylla Melvyn (Judy Davis, in a star-making performance) bemoans her stifling life in the backcountry where her writerly ambitions...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MYSummary: Feature adaptation of Beatrix Potter's classic tale of a rebellious rabbit trying to sneak into a farmer's vegetable garden.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PETCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Peter 2018Copies Available at East Bay
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PeSummary: Streep stars as a British woman returning home from her work as a resistance fighter in France during the War. Her unconventional and strong-willed behavior soon begins to disrupt the lives of those around her.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Republic Pictures 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PLESummary: An idealistic young minister on a mission, must tame the wicked ways of a notorious artist whose nude paintings of his beautiful models scandalize the nation. Intent on delivering salvation, the repressed reverend and his wife instead are lead into temptation by their playfully seductive hosts and sensuous surroundings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After failing to have his marriage to Katherine annulled, Henry appoints himself the head of the Church of England. Anne Boleyn insists that Henry remove the Queen from the picture. A royal visit to France finally prompts Anne to consummate her relationship with Henry. After failed attempts to have his marriage annulled, Henry's patience finally wears out and he marries Anne in secret. The king...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Showtime Entertainment 2008