Summary: The immortal Dr. Parnassus and his daughter Valentina travel the countryside with his imaginarium show, a mirror that audience members enter and are given two different paths to follow. If they choose correctly they will find joy and happiness, but choose wrongly and things will be quite the opposite. The doctor must also discover the right course to follow. After making a deal with Mr. Nick...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY IMASummary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TROCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TROSummary: Members of the rock band Foo Fighters move into an Encino mansion steeped in grisly rock n' roll history to record their much-anticipated tenth album.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: In 2000, a principal and some faculty members had begun to sexually molest and abuse several hearing impaired students at their school for close to 4 consecutive years. Though we may not want to accept it, it is time to face this horrible inhumane truth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Inception Media Group 2012
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SILSummary: "Antonio, a successful but cash-poor merchant, approaches Shylock, a wealthy moneylender, for a loan to help his young friend Bassanio woo the fair Portia. Despite being longtime enemies, Shylock grants the request, but demands one pound of Antonio's flesh if the debt is not repaid on time. When Antonio defaults on the loan, Shylock seeks what is legally owed him but soon learns that those to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MERCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Merchant 2005Summary: In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WHIPom Poko
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Alliance Entertainment 2020
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK POMSummary: After fleeing his negligent and abusive parents, a hardened, streetwise twelve-year-old boy sues them to protest the life they've given him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CAP1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY TCFF CAP
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAPSummary: Explores filmmaker Rithy Panh's quest to create the missing images during the period when the Khmer Rouge ruled over Cambodia between 1975 and 1979. The film uses wood figures, archival footage, and narration to recreate his firsthand experiences and those of his family and friends' suffering during the communist regime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MISSummary: Through an elderly and old-fashioned grandmother, a spoiled seven-year-old boy learns to accept and understand the simple pleasures of nature and her lifestyle.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAYSummary: Interpol Agent Louis Salinger and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. The two uncover illegal activities including money laundering, arms trading, and the destabilization of governments, Salinger and Whitman's investigation takes them around the world. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER INTSummary: "College kids seeking a weekend of kicks have made a horrible mistake. They've come to party at eerie Crystal Lake, the deadly domain of machete-mad killer Jason Voorhees. Terror goes to extremes in this reimagining of the Jason legend for today's horror fan. Enter for the first time the subterranean lair that is Jason's den of torture and fear. See him discover the mask that hides his deformed...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Productions 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRISummary: He's lauched rockets into space, redefined artificial intelligence, and now eccentric billionaire Atticus Virtue (Chad Michael Murray) takes on his next project -- a competition for high school students. Five students, a lacrosse player, a social midia influencer, a gamer, a bully and Max Winslow, a computer hacker, compete in a series of games to win his mansion. The night takes a dark turn...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MAXSummary: After nearly forty years of marriage, Joan and Joe Castleman are complements. Where Joe is casual, Joan is elegant. Where Joe is vain, Joan is self-effacing. And where Joe enjoys his very public role as Great American Novelist, Joan pours her considerable intellect, grace, charm, and diplomacy into the private role of Great Man's Wife. Joe is about to be awarded the Nobel Prize for his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2019
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WIFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wife 2019Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD WIFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIFSummary: Passions ignite and culture clash in this provocative coming-of-age story, based on the best-selling novel by Philip Roth. Marcus, a student from New Jersey arrives at a small conservative college in Ohio. He becomes infatuated with his class mate Olivia. The mutual attraction sparks a torrid encounter with consequences no one ever could have imagined. He puts his family's best-laid plans and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INDSummary: Sue Parker finds herself in a desperate battle to save her family's struggling business, which is on the brink of collapse due to her father's neglect. When a handsome drifter comes into town she sees him as the only chance to prevent their bar from falling into the hands of a ruthless local tycoon. What starts as a simple plan to save her family, quickly spirals into larceny, lawlessness, and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE DIR1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Set in Germany and France in the immediate aftermath of the First World War (1914-1918), the film recalls the mourning period that follows great national tragedies as seen through the eyes of the war's 'lost generation': Anna, a bereft young German woman whose fiancé, Frantz, was killed during trench warfare, and Adrien, a French veteran of the war who shows up mysteriously in her town, placing...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FRASummary: "All-American athlete, scholar, renowned baritone, stage actor, and social activist, Paul Robeson ... the son of an escaped slave, managed to become a top-billed movie star during the time of Jim Crow America ... his film legacy lives on and continues to speak eloquently of the long and difficult journey of a courageous and outspoken African-American."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAUSummary: 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: In the early 1600s, the Manchurians have taken over sovereignty of China and established the Ching Dynasty. The new government immediately imposes a martial arts ban, forbidding the practice of martial arts altogether in order to gain control.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Weinstein Company 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SEVSummary: The tale of the first meeting between Tigger and Pooh. Pooh gets stuck in Rabbit's house from eating too much honey, and there's a flurry of activity on a windy day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013