Summary: Beatrice is a motor-mouthed fantasist, a self-styled billionaire countess who likes to believe she's on intimate terms with world leaders. Donatella is a tattooed introvert, a fragile young woman locked in her own mystery. The film tells the story of the unpredictable and moving friendship that develops between the two women as they flee a mental institution in search of love and happiness in...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIKSummary: Two motorcyclists embark on a coast-to-coast odyssey in search of the real United States. They encounter hippies and prostitutes, make friends with an alcoholic small town lawyer, take drugs, and are harassed and attacked by rednecks.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA EASSummary: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on another deliciously deadpan culinary road trip. This time around, the guys head to Spain to sample the best of the country's gastronomic offerings in between rounds of their hilariously off-the-cuff banter. Over plates of pintxos and paella, the pair exchange barbs and their patented celebrity impressions, as well as more serious reflections on what it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Johnny Knoxville reprises his Jackass role as 86-year-old Irving Zisman. Zisman is on a journey across America with the most unlikely companion: his eight-year-old grandson Billy. The duo will encounter male strippers, disgruntled child beauty pageant contestants, funeral home mourners, biker bar patrons, and a whole lot of unsuspecting citizens. Real people in unreal situations, making for one...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BADSummary: A story of first love between Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter. It's a liberating road odyssey of two young people coming into their own, searching for identity and chasing beauty in a perilous world that cannot abide who they are.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FAMILY MITSummary: Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Along the way, she meets other nomads who become mentors in the vast landscape of the American West.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA NOMSummary: The all-American Clark family wins a deluxe European vacation tour. Ecstatic Mr. Clark (who seems to have O.D.'d on "Father Knows Best" reruns) plans a getaway jammed with forced family togetherness, two weeks sure to become a treasure trove of golden Griswald memories. For the Griswalds, it's typical holiday road havoc.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie National 2002Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD NATSummary: When Katie Mitchell, a creative outsider, is accepted into the film school of her dreams, her plans are upended when her nature-loving dad Rick determines the whole family should drive Katie to school together. The Mitchells' plans are interrupted by a tech uprising: all around the world, the electronic devices people love decide it's time to take over. With the help of two friendly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV MITSummary: It's a riotous comedy that follows former child actor, David Gold, as he makes one bad decision after another. Recently unemployed and with nothing left to lose, he fakes his resume and gets a job as a high school guidance counselor. Quickly winning over the students with his bad behavior, David forms a friendship with Jabrielle, a teenage outcast and they hit the road as an unlikely pair of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GUISummary: With an avant-garde sensibility and a stunning mix of the surreal and the naturalistic, Djibril Diop Mambťy paints a fractured portrait of the disenchantment of postindependence Senegal in the early 1970s in his feature debut.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN TOUSummary: Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois couple travel across the French countryside while civilization crashes and burns around them. Featuring a justly famous centerpiece sequence in which the camera tracks along a seemingly endless traffic jam, and rich with historical and literary references, Weekend is a surreally funny and disturbing call for revolution, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2012
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN WEESummary: After the release of Jake Blues from prison, he and brother Elwood take their blues band back on the road in an attempt to raise money for the orphanage where they were raised. Havoc ensues as the brothers seek redemption on their 'mission from God.'
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY BLUSummary: A waggish, free-wheeling bachelor and a bookish law student take a madcap trip from Rome to Tuscany. This unpredictable journey careers from slapstick to tragedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SORSummary: For old friends Roger and Frank and their wives, it was supposed to be the best vacation they ever had. But their RV road trip takes a deadly detour at a secluded campsite when they accidentally witness a satanic sacrifice. Now horror hits the highway as the couples are pursued by satanic cultists.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2011
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE RACSummary: Cry macho: When an aging rodeo star takes a job of bringing the teenage son of his former boss from Mexico, where he lives with his alcoholic mother, to his father's ranch in Texas, he connects with the boy and finds redemption through teaching the boy what it meansto be a man.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CAP RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAPCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAPSummary: After Kun graduates from film school, he sets out to leave behind the fast-paced city of Beijing to film in the grasslands of Inner Mongolia where unforgettable lessons await him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STRSummary: Freshly graduated from college with a promising future ahead, Christopher McCandless instead walked out of his privileged life and into the wild in search of adventure. What happened to him on the way transformed this young wanderer into an enduring symbol for countless people - a fearless risk-taker who wrestled with the precarious balance between man and nature. Based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INTCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD INT RATED RFarmiga, Vera
Summary: A single mother and her teenage son have to drive her estranged criminally-inclined father from Texas to California after he has been kicked out of his retirement home.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOUSummary: Kev, a fugitive who has committed a violent crime, takes his 10-year old son Chook on the run from the law. As father and son journey into the outback and an unknown future, Chook is forced to make the choice between what is right and the love of his father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Music Box Films 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LASSummary: [Head] An exciting kaleidoscope of surreal vignettes set to music, this fast-paced film takes a psychedelic look at the pop phenomenon called the Monkees as they shatter their pre-fab image. A technically innovative rock musical.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME1 available in Sight & Sound Print Material, Call number: SSC DVD DRAMA AME
Summary: A young Finnish woman escapes an enigmatic love affair in Moscow by boarding a train to the arctic port of Murmansk. Forced to share the long ride and a tiny sleeping car with a larger than life Russian miner, the unexpected encounter leads the occupants of Compartment No. 6 to face major truths about human connection.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022