Summary: London's gambling world is the setting where aspiring writer Jack Manfred, suffering from writer's block, takes a job as a croupier to support his art. Knowing the dangers of the cards, Jack is adamant about remaining a professional outsider, but the temptations of the game inevitably swallow him deeper than he could have ever anticipated.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Image Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CROCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE Croupier 2004Summary: Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Classics 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUSummary: Simon Grim, a nerdy young sanitation worker who lives in Queens with his depressed mother and promiscuous sister, turns out to be a brilliant poet and an overnight literary sensation, after being encouraged to write down his ideas by Henry Fool, a boozy pseudo-intellectual who rents the Grim family basement.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2003