Summary: In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRESummary: "An Honest Liar tells the story of the world-famous magician, escape artist and enemy of deception, James 'The Amazing' Randi. He devised intricate invesigations exposing the 'miracles' of psychics, faith healers and con-artists. A master deceiver who came out of the the closet [at] 81, Randi created fictional characters, fake psychics, and even turned his partner of 25 years, the artist Jose...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC HONSummary: When decisions needed to be made at the office, the owner invented a nonexistent company president to hide behind. Now, forced to bring the "Boss" face-to-face with potential purchasers and employees, he hires a failed actor to play the part. Much to everyone's surprise, the unmasked boss plays the ultimate part by becoming a hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A young woman with a history of drug abuse returns home after a 3-year prison sentence, to reconnect with her 5-year-old daughter while trying to adjust to the outside world once again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Screen Media 2006
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SHESummary: Ryan Bingham is a corporate downsizing expert who flies all over the world on business. Just as he is on the cusp of reaching ten million frequent flyer miles, and meeting the frequent traveler woman of his dreams, his company grounds him. When Bingham goes on his last cross country firing expedition, he will learn that life isn't about the journey, but about the connections made along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA UPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE UPCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Up 2010Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UP RATED RSummary: A touching story about women whose emotional lives are as rich as their surroundings are poor. Maria is a troubled woman who drinks, smokes, and steals, desperate for oblivion and angry at the entire world. Emotional rescue comes in the form of her own mother who comes to visit while her father is in the hospital. Her mother cooks, crochets and befriends the gentlemanly neighbor who lives...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SOLSummary: Marianne is a successful actress happily married to Markus and devoted to her young daughter. A friendship with a film director develops into passion as the two yield to temptation and indulge in an affair in Paris that continues back at home. Eventually Markus, who has suspected the affair confronts the faithless pair and their marriage, a friendship and a family are threatened to be destroyed.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Look Home Entertainment 2002
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FAISummary: Neurotic con man Roy suffers from several emotional problems, including obsessive-compulsive disorder. He and his partner Frank swindle people out of money. Frank wants to pull a really big job, but Roy is too consumed with fear and panic attacks to join him. Only cigarettes and his trusty illegal prescription drugs seem to keep him going. When Roy finds himself in desperate need of more pills,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2004
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY MATCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MatchstickSummary: "At 'Prom,' every couple has a story and no two are exactly alike. For Nova Prescott (Aimee Teegarden), it's a classic tale of opposites attracting when she finds herself drawn to the guy (Thomas McDonell) who gets in the way of her perfect prom. Share the laughter and the drama as secrets are brought to light, seemingly steady relationships unravel and new romance catches fire"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PSummary: After more than forty years apart, Andreas and Claire embark on an affair as reckless and intense as when they were young lovers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INNSummary: In order to escape Communist Hungary, a family must leave behind their infant daughter. She is then temporarily raised by a peasant Hungarian couple. When the daughter is finally brought to America to be with her family, her relationship with her real family becomes strained. The girl is torn between two mothers and two homelands. Based on a true story. The girl returns to Hungary and take an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMEFireworks
Contents: Glowing crosses -- Bed sores -- The back window's down -- Flies on tape -- Woods -- Play "God only knows" at my funeral -- One more creature dizzy with love -- The only thing that haunts this house is me -- The sound of young America -- Run, brother, run-- The hotbed of life.
Format: sound recording-musical
Publisher / Publication Date: Wea Corp 2014
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK FIRSummary: There is a train station on the other side of death, yet not all who arrive on the platform will be judged ready for passage onwards. For one unready soul, there will be both a test and a second chance. Rather than be reborn, this soul will awake in the body of 14-year-old suicide, Makoto Kobayashi, where it must not only find a way to fit into Makoto's existence, but also unravel two...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN COLSummary: When Louis Ortiz shaved off his goatee one day in 2008, his life changed forever. He looked in the mirror and he didn't see himself, a middle-aged, unemployed Puerto Rican father from the Bronx. He saw the face of change, of hope, of money. Tells the strange and improbable tale of a Barack Obama impersonator who tries to cash in on the "look of a lifetime" and chases a fevered American dream...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BROSummary: Follow one woman's journey as she tries to help her severely autistic son break out of his own mind. Traveling to the United States from her home in Iceland to try to learn more about this complex condition, she meets along the way other families who have similar situations and all are looking for some answers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 2010
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MOTSummary: This documentary examines why hundreds of American POWs from the Korean and Vietnam wars were abandoned and why our government doesn't demand their repatriation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Bill Dumas Productions 2005
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC MISSummary: Monty Brogan is facing a seven year prison sentence for dealing drugs. On the night before he has to go to jail, he decides to go out with his friends one last time, and re-examines his life in the process.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A brilliant mathematician teeters on the brink of insanity as he searches for an elusive numerical code that will allow him to predict patterns in the stock market, while being pursued by an aggressive Wall Street firm set on financial domination and a Kaballah sect intent on unlocking the secrets behind their ancient holy texts.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2001
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2 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER PISummary: The Commonwealth is restored, and the crew of Andromeda Ascendant is freed up to embark upon random goodwill and rescue missions, as Andromeda launches its third season.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Alliance Films 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ANDSummary: "The essential memoir of fashion pioneer Bethann Hardison, INVISIBLE BEAUTY shines a spotlight on the singular and unapologetic Hardison, one of the fasion industry's most influential icons. Hardison and her codirector Frédéric Tcheng set forth an absorbing record of the racial evolution of fashion and an original contemplation on the life of an unparalleled trailblazer."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DOC INVSummary: The portrayal of a young Jewish man living as a neo-Nazi. Inspired by real events, the film tells the story of Danny Balint and his struggle between destroying his own people and being drawn back to Judaism.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Trimark Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BELSummary: Jake Doyle is a new breed of private investigator, cracking cases in contemporary St. John's, N.L. His hometown is changing in a big way, transforming from a small seaport to a booming oil town. Along with his father/partner-in-crime-solving, Malachy Doyle, the two are ready to take on whatever mystery turns up on their doorstep.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBC Home Video 2010
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV REPSummary: Leopold Socha is a sewer worker and petty thief in Lvov, a Nazi occupied city in Poland. One day he encounters a group of Jews trying to escape the liquidation of the ghetto. He hides them for money in the labyrinth of the town's sewers beneath the bustling activity of the city above. What starts out as a straightforward and cynical business arrangement turns into something very unexpected, the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: This is Jake as we've never seen him before. Still working cases and capturing criminals on the streets of St. John's, Jake is earning his stripes as a newly-appointed sergeant, the most colorful member of the Newfoundland Royal Constabulary. Assigned to protect a mob informant turned federal witness, Jake finds himself in over his head.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Entertainment One Films Canada 2012