Summary: "Meet Arthur and Stanley, two wrongly accused and out-of-work actors who escape from the police by stowing away aboard a luxury liner. But soon these two impostors find themselves giving the performance of a lifetime - not only to escape the authorities, but to foil the dastardly plot of a deranged crewman who has explosive plans for everyone on board."--Back of container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMPSummary: Into the Amazon tells the remarkable story of the journey taken by President Theodore Roosevelt and legendary Brazilian explorer Cândido Rondon into the heart of the South American rain forest to chart an unexplored tributary of the Amazon. Two of the most celebrated men from their respective nations, Roosevelt and Rondon set out with twenty other adventurers in 1914. Over eight eventful weeks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2018
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2 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV INTSummary: Rattling around in his mansion in the Hamptons, faded Sinatra-esque crooner and notorious ladies man Paul Lombard stews over the acclaim that eluded him in his career and the trail of romantic wreckage he left in his wake. Matters are complicated when his punk rocker daughter Jude arrives in need of a place to stay and burdened with problems of her own, including a rivalry with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Starz Digital/Anchor Bay 2016
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ONESummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLESummary: LeRoy Robert Ripley rose to fame during the Great Depression, transforming himself into an entertainer who mesmerized the nation with his razzle-dazzle blend of homespun Americana and freakish oddities. Over three decades, his franchise grew into an entertainment empire. This is the story of the man who popularized the iconic phrase, and proof of why we still can't resist his challenge to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV RIPSummary: Casanova has to begin searching for a wife. He is a womanizer with many conquests and If he cannot show he is living a more respectable life, the Church will throw him out of Venice. He is quickly engaged to Victoria, a woman with a pure reputation. As soon as that is arranged, he meets Francesca, a feminist who hates all he stands for. He pretends to be someone else to get into her good...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE CASSummary: A geophysical team, who are investigating the effect radiation from other solar systems has on the Earth, learn that the core of the Earth is heating up and warn the President of the United States. While the leaders of the world race to build 'arks' to escape the impending doom, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc all over the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 201Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI TWESummary: The doctors, nurses and staff of the city's most cutting-edge trauma center take on critical medical cases and their ethical dilemmas. Woven into this high-intensity environment are engrossing personal dramas where life or death is always on the line.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Coen Brothers Best Picture Oscar Nominee transforms into the season's most talked about TV debut. It features a new "true crime" story and new characters, all chilled in the trademark dry wit, murderous mayhem and "Minnesota nice" of the original classic film. Lorne Malvo, is a manipulative master criminal who changes the life of insurance salesmen Lester Nygaard. Gus Grimly and Molly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FARSummary: A husband and wife can end their financial worries by accepting the offer of a billionaire for a million dollars in exchange for one night with the wife, but if they do, can their marriage survive?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Webb stumbles onto a story which leads to the shady origins of the men who started the crack epidemic on the nation's streets, and further alleges that the CIA was aware of major dealers who were smuggling cocaine into the U.S., and using the profits to arm rebels fighting in Nicaragua. Despite warnings from drug kingpins and CIA operatives to stop his investigation, Webb keeps digging to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Publisher not identified] 2015
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA KIL1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIL
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF KiSummary: Kate has a lot on her mind. There's the ethics problem of buying furniture at estate sales and marking it up at her Manhattan store. There's the materialism problem of not wanting her teenage daughter to want the expensive things that she wants. There's the marriage problem of sharing a partnership in parenting, business, and life with husband Alex but sensing doubt nibbling at the foundations....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PLESummary: Terror hits home in this harrowing psychological thriller that will chill you to the bone. Recently widowed child psychologist Mary Portman lives an isolated existence caring for her bedridden stepson in rural New England. But when a young boy Mary is treating goes missing in a snowstorm and is presumed dead, she becomes convinced that his ghost is haunting her, and soon Mary's grip on reality...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHUSummary: Ever since doctors proclaimed Simon Birch's birth as a miracle, Simon's sure he's going to be a hero, he's just not sure how.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Radicals. Agitators. Troublemakers. Liberators. Called many names, the abolitionists tore the nation apart in order to create a more perfect union. Men and women, black and white, Northerners and Southerners, poor and wealthy, these passionate anti-slavery activists fought body and soul in the most important civil rights crusade in American history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Distribution 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC AbCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV ABOSummary: In conjunction with the 100th anniversary of America's entry into the war on April 6, 1917, a six-hour documentary presented over three nights, explores how World War I changed America and the world. Drawing on the latest scholarship, including unpublished diaries, memoirs and letters, it tells the rich and complex story of the conflict through the voices of nurses, journalists, aviators and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV GRESummary: This film explores Kennedy's childhood years as the privileged but sickly son of one of the wealthiest men in America, his early political career as a lackluster congressman, his successful run for the U.S. Senate, and the game-changing presidential campaign that made him the youngest elected president in U.S. history.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JFKKing, Stephen
Summary: Everything's Eventual showcases Stephen King's ability to spook readers using the most mundane settings (a yard sale) and comfortable memories (a boyhood fishing excursion). True to form, each of these stories draws the reader into King's twisted world. An added bonus for fans is King's story-by-story annotation, in which he chronicles the event, thought, or image that served as his creative...
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2002
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC KinSummary: Adopted by the Newton household's three children, an adorable little St. Bernard puppy grows into 185 pounds of disaster-prone trouble; There's trouble in the heir when Beethoven becomes the proud father of four pups, each one an adorable but mischievous bundle of joy; When two bumbling thieves threaten the safety of his family on vacation, Beethoven sets out to put a bit on the bad guys.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BEESummary: Chicago's courageous medical heroes continue to confront the city's most challenging medical cases in Season Seven of the emotionally charged drama series from Emmy-winning executive producer Dick Wolf. This season, Dr. Will Halstead finds his career at risk after his cover-up of a serious ethics violation; Dr. Daniel Charles continues to provide outstanding psychiatric insight; Sharon Goodwin...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHICopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV CHISummary: Richard Nixon is the disgraced president with a legacy to save. David Frost is a jet-setting television personality with a name to make. This is the legendary battle between the two men and the historic encounter that changed both their lives. For three years after resigning from office, Nixon remained silent. But in the summer of 1977, the steely, cunning former commander-in-chief agreed to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2009