Summary: When Waring Hudsucker, head of a successful company commits suicide, the board of directors has a plan to make a lot of money, so they decide to appoint a moron to run the company. Mailroom clerk Norville Barnes is exactly what Hudsucker is looking for to be president. They hope that as soon as the stock falls low enough, the director and his friends will buy them up cheaply, take over the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY HUDSummary: Wayne and Garth have their own public access TV show. A local station decides to hire them to do their show professionally. Wayne meets and falls in love with Cassandra, a bass guitarist, who he helps by getting her career started by using his connections.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WAYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Wayne's 2001Summary: The very timid Elliot (Larry the Cucumber), lazy Sedgewick (Mr. Lunt) and George (Pa Grape), who lacks self-confidence, are three lazy misfits who dream of putting on a show about pirates. With their own problems, this dream might not come true. But, they soon find themselves traveling back in time into the 17th century. They begin a quest to rescue a royal family from an evil tyrant. Along the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Childrens VCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: JE DVD VeggieSummary: Archibald Asparagus stars as Jonah, who is chosen by God to help spread his message to the world. Unfortunately, his first stop on his evangelical tour is the city of Nineveh, where the residents while away their days bingeing on cheese snacks and arguing. Circumstances force Jonah to set sail across the ocean, where he's assisted by Khalil, and pirates who are led by the well-meaning but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Idea Productions 2002
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1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD VeSummary: Describing life on the Mississippi 100 years ago, narrator Clark Wayne sets the scene for Tomato Sawyer and Huckleberry Larry's "Big River Rescue." Huckleberry Larry wants to build a turkey jerky theme park, while Tomato Sawyer dreams anachronistically of a career in income tax preparation. Tomato and Huckleberry are just days away from earning the land they"ve been homesteading from the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Big Idea, Inc. 2008
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV VEGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Children's videos, Call number: DVD VSummary: Scott is distressed to learn that his ex-wife and her husband have informed his son, Charlie, that there is no Santa Claus. While a sullen Charlie visits his dad on Christmas Eve, a noise on the roof brings them outside. It turns out that there is a Santa after all, and Scott has just accidentally killed him. Because of "the Santa clause," Scott inherits the job of Santa. As the next year...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday SSummary: When Chris' best friend Annie loses her husband, Chris derives a scheme to memorialize him. The two women, along with some of their friends - all fiftysomething women - will make a nude calendar to raise money for the hospital where he died. The calendar becomes hugely popular. Based on actual events, this story carefully balances the stories of several women as it follows the media explosion....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CALCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Calendar 2003Summary: A comic series of short vignettes that build on one another to create a cumulative effect as the characters discuss things as diverse as caffeine popsicles, Paris in the twenties, and the use of nicotine as an insecticide all the while sitting around sipping coffee and smoking cigarettes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COFSummary: Bud Johnson is an apathetic, beer drinking, lovable loser, who is coasting through a life that is passed him by. His one bright spot in his mundane existence is his precocious, over achieving twelve-year old daughter, Molly. She takes care of them both. She accidentally sets off a chain of events on Election Day, which culminates in the presidential election coming down to one vote, Bud's....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SWICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SSummary: Wayne and Garth are back, this time trying to organize a rock festival. Meanwhile, Cassandra's manager is busy trying to woo her. Wayne must rush from the concert and try and stop Cassandra's wedding. The concert features Aerosmith.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVd Movie Wayne's 2001Summary: A lovable misfit from another planet meets a girl named Tip. The two unlikely friends embark on the greatest journey of all time.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOMCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOM RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HoSummary: When Moist von Lipwig is caught for his trickery, he is given the option of becoming the next postmaster or falling down a deep pit.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The fun and adventure continues when Andy goes off to cowboy camp and the toys are left to their own devices. Things shift into high gear when an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, who hasn't the slightest clue that he's a greatly valued collectible.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV TOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOYCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TOY RATED GSummary: Twenty-one-year-old Emma Woodhouse loves playing matchmaker. When pretty, naive and socially inferior Harriet arrives, Emma decides to indulge her passion. Against the advice of family friend and surrogate older brother Mr. Knightly, she persuades Harriet to reject an advantageous marriage proposal from a local farmer in order to hold out for an offer from the dashing Mr. Elton. But Emma soon...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV EMMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ESummary: It's Christmas Eve in icebound Wichita, Kansas, and this year Charlie Arglist just might have something to celebrate. Charlie is an attorney for the sleazy businesses of Wichita, along with his unsavory associate, the steely Vic Cavanaugh, the two have just successfully embezzled $2 million from Kansas City boss Bill Guerrard. But the real prize for Charlie is the stunning Renata, who runs the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ICESummary: Rafael is a 42-year-old divorced father and restaurant owner who is overwhelmed with life. He feels guilty that he doesn't visit his mother, who is stricken with Alzheimer's disease; he lives in his father's shadow; he doesn't spend enough time with his daughter and he can't commit to his girlfriend. When a series of unexpected events happen, Rafael re-evaluates his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SONSummary: A high-end executive, actually a crazy psychopath, connects on the Internet with a serial killer. They begin a horrific game online to become the best, most creative killer.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN KILSummary: Iris has a dead-end job in a match factory, lives with her dour and forbidding parents, and her social life is a disaster. Finally she decides that enough is enough and plans her revenge.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MATSummary: The story of friendly underachiever David Wozniak, whose ordinary life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he has fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DELSummary: Set in Atlanta in the 1950's, a textile factory owner insists on hiring an ever-patient chauffeur for his aging head-strong mother. The Jewish woman and her African American driver eventually build a relationship over many years.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A member of the House of Lords dies in a shockingly silly way, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son is insane: he thinks he is Jesus Christ. He is "cured" of that affliction, only to become Jack the Ripper incarnate, blood thirsty Tory who is therefore sane and eminently acceptable to the House of Lords. An irreverant look at Britain's class system that peers behind the closed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RULSummary: Explores the simple truth that it's never too late to start over again. Even at age 50. We meet two long-time golf-buddies, Adam, going through a trial separation from his wife of 15 years and Jon, who is not only losing work to the 'young guy', but also dealing with a 'generous' prostate. They decide to take off on a weekend journey to let loose and re-live the Palm Springs get-a-ways of their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media Films 2011