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Brothers Drama Chicago (Ill.) Drama Chicago (Ill.) Social life and customs 20th century Drama Human cloning Drama Investigación criminal Illinois Chicago Teatro Middle West Social life and customs 20th century Drama Quarterbacks (Football) Drama Robos bancarios Estados Unidos Teatro United States Utopian playsSummary: "I.O.U.S.A. tells the story of America in debt. Faced with key deficits in budget, savings, trade and leadership, increased foreign competition and ballooning financial obligations, the federal government is critically overextended. With the economy already in shambles, 78 million baby boomers are now expecting retirement benefits from their indebted federal government. Weaving together...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by PBS Home Video 2009
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC I.O.U.Summary: Pongo and Perdita have a litter of 15 Dalmatian puppies. Cruella De Vil takes a fancy to the puppies and tries to buy them from their human owners, Roger and Anita. Cruella wants to get a hold of those puppies, as well as more puppies, to make herself a lovely dalmatian skin coat. She hires some thugs to kidnap the puppies and hold them at an abandoned mansion. Now Pongo and Perdita must use an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2015
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY ONECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ONESummary: A poet and surgeon, husband and lover finds his life disrupted by war. It alters the lives of many, including Tonya, the gentle woman he marries and Lara, the woman he cannot forget.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE DOCSummary: An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT-GARDE ERASummary: Two people living in an isolated utopian colony discover that their lives are not as idyllic as they seem.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2005
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2 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ISLCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Island 2005Summary: American judge Daniel Haywood presides over the trial of four German jurists accused of "legalizing" Nazi atrocities. But as graphic accounts of sterilization and murder unfold in the courtroom, mounting political pressure for leniency forces Haywood into making the most harrowing and difficult decision of his career.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUDSummary: Tarantula: an experiment to create a growth formula that could end starvation. Mole people: three scientists stumble upon a tyrannical tribe of albinos who have enslaved a mutant race of mole people. Incredible shrinking man: an ordinary business man is exposed to a radioactive mist and finds his size diminishing .Monolith Monsters: a geologist and a scientist must find a way to stop the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Joe Pendleton, a Los Angeles Rams quarterback, accidentally goes to heaven after a car accident, and returns to earth in the body of another man who was a corporate giant. After deciding to resume his place with the Rams (by purchasing the team), Pendleton must also deal with the consequences of the former businessman's actions. Loose remake of Here Comes Mr. Jordan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 1999
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1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HEASummary: Every time Mike tries to help his brother Al during his campaign for governor it becomes a disaster. Campaign-aide Steve volunteers to baby-sit Mike and soon realizes he made a big mistake. When Mike discovers the incumbent is a crook he reaches a new level of destruction.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BLASummary: When an evil business developer threatens to tear down the neighboorhood to build a shopping mall, Arnold - together with Helga, his annoying secret admirer, and Gerald, his best friend - comes to the rescue.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HEYSummary: A famous comedy film maker, rejected by his fans after a venture into serious cinema, seeks comfort from the three dissimilar women he is dating.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY STASummary: Dedee Truitt, a 16-year-old girl from Louisiana, flees to the suburban Indiana home of her gay half-brother Bill, where she proceeds to seduce his hunky live-in boyfriend, get pregnant, steal $10,000 and lead everyone in a chase across the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OPPSummary: "This is the way it was--the story of the battle that was the turning point of the war in the Pacific, told wherever possible with actual film shot during combat. It exemplifies the combination of planning, courage, error and pure chance by which great events are often decided."--Title screens. In June of 1942, quite possibly the most important naval encounter of WWII took place in the middle...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MIDSummary: In this fact-based story, a convict is confined to the dungeons of Alcatraz for three years in isolation after a failed escape. When he at last emerges from the total darkness, he's confused, savage, barely human, and he immediately kills the stoolie who ratted on his escape. It's an open-and-shut case of Murder One. But his resolute attorney puts Alcatraz and its sadistic associate warden on...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MURSummary: Once upon a time, Dicky Eklund was known as the pride of Lowell, Massachusetts. There isn't a person in Lowell who doesn't know about the time that Dicky knocked down the great Sugar Ray Leonard. By the early 1990s, Dicky's crack addiction has soured everything, although he dreams of making a comeback. The real contender is his half-brother Micky Ward. 31-year-old Micky is an unassuming nice...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2011
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FIGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIGSummary: During World War II, a group of Jewish-American guerilla soldiers, led by Lt. Aldo Raine, become known as "The Basterds." They are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds soon cross paths with a French-Jewish woman who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers. A plot is set in motion to kill the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD INGSummary: 1933. It is the fourth year of the Great Depression. For John Dillinger, Alvin Karpis and Baby Face Nelson, it is the golden age of bank robbery. After serving a ten-year prison sentence, John Dillinger embarks on a cross-country bank-robbing spree with help from his associates: faithful driver Red Hamilton, cocky lookout Homer Van Meter, and murderous hothead Baby Face Nelson. He relocates to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2009