Summary: After his mother's recent death and neglected by his father, 15-year-old Howie begins ditching school and robbing local houses. He and his friend Gary, a con man searching for a way to escape to California, break into the house of Big John, an old ex-Marine. After Big John confronts Howie about the break-in, Howie discovers the secret that binds his friend and Big John. When Gary skips town and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA L.I.E.Summary: Antoine has just been transferred from Normandy to Paris. He is happy, but his wife prefers the country. Antoine loves her dearly, but he loves his job just as much. His co-workers include Inspector Vaudieu, veteran cop Mallet, and Muslim cop Solo. For the most part, they get along pretty well. This is especially so for Antoine and Vaudieu, who develops maternal feelings towards the rookie....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PETSummary: A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Classics 2004
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRISummary: Sweet Molly Gibson was living life pleasantly when her widowed father decides that, for the good of his daughter, he must remarry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2006
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WIVSummary: In and out of rehab for the past 10 years, Kym Buchman returns to the family home for the wedding of her sister Rachel. She brings with her a long history of personal crisis and family conflict. The wedding party, friends and relatives have gathered for an idyllic weekend of feasting, music and love, but Kym's passion for the dramatic incites tension in the family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RACCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD RACSummary: A Wyoming ranch hand and a rodeo cowboy, meet in the summer of 1963 sheep herding in the harsh, high grasslands of contemporary Wyoming and form an unorthodox yet life-long bond--by turns ecstatic, bitter and conflicted.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BROCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE BROSummary: When a doctor is rescued by a Special-Ops unit in the jungle of Nigeria, she refuses to go with them unless they agree to help rescue 70 refugees as well.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE TEACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Tears 2003Summary: Concerns the last twelve hours in the life of Jesus of Nazareth. In the Garden of Gethsemane near the Mount of Olives, Jesus is betrayed by Judas Iscariot. Jesus is condemned to death for blasphemy and brought before Pontius Pilate, the Roman governor of Judea, for sentencing. The roaring crowd demands his death, so Pilate orders his crucifixion. Jesus is severely beaten and made to carry his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PASCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PASSummary: Maria, a poor Columbian teenager, is desperate to leave a soul-crushing job. She accepts an offer to transport packets of heroin - which she swallows - to the United States. The ruthless world of drug trafficking proves to be more than she bargained for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Home Video 2004