Summary: Tired of the view from his one-bedroom apartment, Bud Fox dreams of the luxury and power at the pinnacle of Wall Street investment banking. Charming his way into the tutelage of Gordon Gekko, the best of the best, Fox is soon rubbing shoulders with friends in the highest places. But in a world that values high-risk greed over low-yied ethics, Fox will soon find himself in a most precarious...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED RSummary: "Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises--and he saves his best surprise for last.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Shawshank 2007Summary: Peter Appleton, a 1950s Hollywood screenwriter who is about to see his first screenplay made into a film, is mistakenly called before the House Un-American Activities Committee. As a result, the studio pulls the plans for the film. Peter then finds himself in a small California town after a car accident takes his memory. There, the townspeople believe he is local hero Luke Trimble. Peter...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAJSummary: A battle-weary Marine is assigned to guard - and ultimately befriends - a young Navajo soldier who has been trained to be a code talker. This code, the Navajo code, and the men who knew the code, were to be guarded as they went into action. It was the unspoken duty of the Marine to kill the Navajo soldier before he could be taken prisoner of war by the Japanese. This is the one wartime code...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WINCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WindtalkersSummary: Nicknamed by their grandmother, "Smiling Fish" Tony is an actor with a freewheeling spirit, while "Goat on Fire" Chris is a starchy buttoned-down accountant. Both are in seemingly perfect relationships, that is until they fall in love with women who are wildly different than themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Studio Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMISummary: "Mockumentary" of the life of Colin McKenzie, film pioneer and inventor extraordinaire in early 1900s New Zealand. The young genius McKenzie had invented motion picture cameras, color film, sync sound, and other important cinematic techniques before the likes of Griffith and Moliere.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: First Run Features 1997
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FORSummary: Narcotics cops Mike Lowrey (Smith) and Marcus Bennett (Lawrence) head up a task force investigating the flow of ecstasy into Miami. Their search leads to a dangerous kingpin, whose plan to control the city's drug traffic has touched off an underground war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BADSummary: Die hard: New York City detective John McClane is in Los Angeles to spend the holidays with his estranged wife Holly. While McClane waits for Holly's office party to end, terrorists take control of the building. As their sinister leader, Hans Gruber, and his savage henchman round up hostages, McClane gets ready to blast a few rounds of his own and launch a one-man war.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie DieDaniels, Jeff
Summary: A doctor overcomes his fear of spiders while attempting to rid his town of an especially deadly species.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1999
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR ARASummary: A comedy feature about two lowlifes, a small time pimp and an unemployed disc jockey, framed for crimes they didn't commit, who escape from jail with an eccentric Italian tourist. Set in New Orleans and the swamps of Louisiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DOWSummary: Re-enacts the military operation of D-Day from four points of view--the workings of the high commands of the American, English, French, and German forces in their battle scheme for Normandy. Largely filmed on actual invasion sites in France.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 1999
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Allan Quatermain is hired by an Englishwoman to lead the hunt for her missing husband and the search for the fabled King Solomon's diamond mines in uncharted regions of Africa.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Charlie tries to catch a killer in "The secret service"; "The Chinese cat" has Charlie trailing diamond thieves; and "The jade mask" has Charlie at odds with the family of a murdered scientist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by TGG Direct 2011
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Based on the true story of Adele Hugo's obsessive love affair which led her to run away from home to follow her womanizing lover across an ocean to Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STOSummary: Morgan Adams, the female captain of a pirate ship, is on a treasure hunt for millions of pounds of gold reportedly buried somewhere on Cutthroat Island. She and her uncles each hold sections of the map to the treasure. While Morgan is willing to make deals and agree to share the wealth in order to put the map together, her Uncle Dawg would rather kill everyone in his way, including his niece.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 1995
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CUTSummary: Rose, an alluring young woman, is hired by a Southern family to care for their children, and changes their lives forever. She is an innocent who relates to everyone she meets in the only way she knows how-- with sexuality she cannot restrain. The mother of the family takes Rose under her wing, offering love and protection, while the teenaged son finds Rose both his fantasy and a profound mystery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RAMSummary: An all-out war between terrorists and John McClane breaks out at a major international airport in this heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 1990
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DSummary: A talented veteran driver confronts his past when he is asked to come out of retirement to help with an unfocused, but talented, rookie contender, whose dangerous activities and behavior includes pursuing the girlfriend of his primary racing rival. Shot on location at championship races around the world.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Driven 2001Summary: A dark comedy set in Winnipeg during the Great Depression, where a beer baroness organizes a contest to find the saddest music in the world. Musicians from around the world descend on the city to try and win first place--a $25,000 prize.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SADSummary: Depicts a harrowing journey through a near-future world of decaying cities, murderous adolescents and nightmarish technologies of punishment and crime.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Videos 2012
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLOSummary: When a rich breeder tries to take a magical horse away from two city kids, their only hope is to escape and become the coolest outlaws to ever ride into the west.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 1993
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY INTSummary: Dogs are an alien species sent to earth thousands of years ago to spy on humans. But when the spies stop reporting back to the home planet, Canid 3942 is sent to earth to investigate. Once there, Canid 3942 encounters Owen, a young boy who runs a dog-walking service. Owen befriends the space-dog, renaming him Hubble. When it becomes obvious that the dogs of earth have forgotten their mission,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY GOOSummary: Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006