Summary: Sebastian Cole is a restless seventeen-year-old living in a small town and falling behind in school. But his greatest challenge begins when his step-dad announces he is going to become a woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADVSummary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PURCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HALSummary: William Franklin arrives at St. Judes, the only lay teacher among a staff of Catholic brothers. He is quick to realise that his teaching methods are opposed to those of the brothers. He succeeds in building a trusting relationship with the boys, which enables him to unlock their hidden talents and open their minds to the beauty of poetry. When two boys are severely beaten it is more than...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: TVA Films 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONSummary: Los Angeles, 2019: Deckard, an expert "blade runner," must identify and execute four replicants, (genetically engineered beings virtually identical to humans) which have illegally returned to earth from their off-world slave duty.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1996
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BladeCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI BLASummary: In a Paris prison cell, five inmates use every ounce of their tenacity and ingenuity in an elaborate attempt to tunnel to freedom. Four of the inmates have been together for awhile in their cell, when Gaspard, the fifth inmate, is added to the cell. The original four inmates must decide if they want to take him into their confidence or not and whether to continue tunneling or not.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Vision Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TROFord, John
Summary: Fonda stars as the young lawyer who put his integrity and humor to work for his fellow man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUSummary: Bursting with idealism, Melanie Pröschle, a young teacher from the countryside, starts her first job at a high school in the city. Desperate to fulfil her hopes, Melanie intends to do everything the right way. Politely she introduces herself to her neighbours with homemade schnapps. At her first day of school she gives a very ambitious speech for her colleagues. She wants to be a 'fresh breeze'...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Mouvement 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FORSummary: After returning home from the crusades and finding his home gone and the people of Sherwood oppressed by the evil Sheriff of Nottingham, Robin fights for the good of all men and the love of one woman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE ROBSummary: After a two year stint in a state home, the shy and neurotic Elling and his sex-obsessed best friend, Kjell, are released and forced to enter the real world. They find themselves in a state funded apartment in the center of Oslo, told to behave responsibly and act like normal members of society. In time, the two adjust and find oddball ways of coping with society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELLSummary: Tim Thomas was a gifted aerospace engineer with a beautiful wife. Then, while using his cell phone while driving, his car wandered across lanes and he became responsible for the deaths of 7 others, including his wife. Unable to forgive himself, Tim sets out to give 'pounds of flesh' that will give new life to seven deserving individuals to make up for the seven lives he destroyed. Tim intends...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SEVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SEVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Seven 2009Summary: Charlie, who has recently lost control over his life, searches New York City for a mysterious stranger who holds the key to his recovery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA URBSummary: Back in the late '80s, Randy 'The Ram' Robinson was a headlining professional wrestler. Now, decades past his prime, he barely gets by working small wrestling shows in VFW halls and as a part-time grocery store employee. He faces health problems that may end his wrestling career and is attempting to come to terms with his life outside the ring. He wants to reconcile with the daughter he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WRESummary: Thirteen high school students who have elected to spend the 1960-61 academic year on board the American schoolship Albatross learn about sailing and unity from their captain. When they encounter a white squall, a sudden, violent, wind-and-lightning storm, it turns into a test of courage and their will to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1996
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Go from the Egyptian pyramids to the ocean floor and to a gravity-defying mountaintop ski chase with James Bond. He teams with beautiful Russian agent Anya Amasova to stop the megalomanic Stromberg from unleasing a horrific scheme for world domination using Russian and American submarines.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Spy 1977Summary: Francis Barrett grew up in a cluttered trailer park among a group of poor gypsies, who are scorned by Irish society. Against all odds, Francis participates in the 1996 Olympics and represents Ireland. An unflinching tribute to an unlikely hero who is a boxing champion and national hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC SOUSummary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When he finds a lost beagle in the hills behind his West Virginia home, Marty tries to hide it from his family and the dog's real owner, a mean-spirited man known to shoot deer out of season and to mistreat his dogs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY SHISummary: Tells the chilling story of just how far one might go to obey a figure of authority. On a particularly busy day at a suburban Ohio fast food joint, high-strung manager Sandra Ann Dowd receives a phone call from a police officer saying that an employee, a pretty young blonde named Becky, has stolen money from a customer. Convinced she's only doing what's right, Sandra commences the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2013