Summary: Chance is a secluded gardener who has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television. After a run in with a limousine, he ends up a guest of Eve and her husband Ben. Ben is an influential, but sickly businessman. Now called Chauncey Gardner, Chance becomes...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BEISummary: We find Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda four years after the series ended.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Video 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SEXCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2008Summary: The story of friendly underachiever David Wozniak, whose ordinary life gets twisted in a knot when he finds out that he has fathered 533 children via sperm donations he made twenty years earlier.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DELSummary: Chipmunk singing sensations Alvin, Simon, and Theodore are back for an encore in this hilarious 'squeakquel' packed with more action and more nutty fun for the whole family. When a concert mishap lands Dave in the hospital, the Chipmunks take a break from superstardom and enroll in school to fit in with kids their age. But they soon face some stiff competition when they meet the Chipettes, a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ALVCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ALVCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Juvenile DVD, Call number: J DVD AlvinSummary: It's the fun-filled story of one wealthy, eccentric and romantically challenged extended family from New York's Upper West Side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment ; distributed by Buena Vista Home Video 1999
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS EVESummary: A comedy centered on the life of Kate Reddy, a finance executive who is the breadwinner for her husband and two kids. When Kate gets handed a major new account that will require frequent trips to New York, Richard also wins the new job he's been hoping for and both will be spreading themselves even thinner. Complicating matters is Kate's charming new business associate Jack Abelhammer, who...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ICopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ISummary: Four young men form Jamaica's first bobsled team, in hopes of competing at the 1988 Winter Olympics in Calgary, Alberta. Loosely based on a true story.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 1998
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COO RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY COOSummary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DINSummary: Jane has the kind of selflessness that everyone looks for in a friend. Lately the perennial bridesmaid has begun to feel as if something is missing in her life. Kevin is a local newspaper reporter who spots Jane racing between two receptions - one in Manhattan and the other in Brooklyn. He quickly surmises that her quirky tale may be just the story to get him into the big leagues. Jane butts...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TWESummary: Miranda, editor of "Runway" magazine, is a terror to everyone around her. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her as second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript, it forces Andy...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEVSummary: Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ANNSummary: For Becky, running a TV show in New York City was the big break she dreamed of, until star co-anchors Mike and Colleen declare an all-out, on-air war. Making the show work with its cast of eccentric characters and outrageous story angles will take a major miracle, but Becky is ready to rise and outshine.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MORCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Morning 2011Summary: Jack Abramoff, the real-life Washington power player, resorted to jaw-dropping levels of fraud and corruption. High-rolling excess and outrageous escapades are all in a day's work for Abramoff as he goes to outrageous lengths to promote the Indian gambling industry, earning him the nickname 'Casino Jack.' But when Jack and his womanizing protege Michael Scanlon enlist a dimwitted business...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CASCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Casino 2011Summary: Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hairspray 2002Summary: When Pam and Greg get their parents together it turns into one disaster after another. The hippie Fockers are the direct opposite of the uptight Byrneses. With one pitfall after the next, the film takes awkward in-law experiences to new heights.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MEECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Meet 2005Summary: They are five high school students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday morning detention together in their school library. At 7 a.m. they had nothing to say to each other, but by 4 p.m., they had bared their souls and become good friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BRESummary: A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PHISummary: A husband and wife lawyer team clash when the wife defends a woman on trial for shooting her spouse. The lawyer-husband is the prosecutor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM-UA Home Video 1997
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ADACopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ADASummary: Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is a single working mom who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James (John Travolta), a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late in this baby's-eye view comedy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOOSummary: Mary Haines (Norma Shearer) loses her husband to ruthless Crystal Allen (Joan Crawford) who is aided and abetted by Sylvia Fowler (Rosalind Russell) whose own spouse has taken up with another woman. In Reno, in the throes of divorce, all wage war on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002