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Coward, HerbertSummary: Snoopy tabloid magazine editor Bob Weston wants to know if author Helen Gurley Brown based her book on, as he believes, personal research. He tries to parley an interview with the author who made headlines and sales. So he decides to get very personal to find out for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2009
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Stacks, Call number: DVD Movie Sex 2009Summary: 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: Set in the 1920s. A young English couple, Walter, a middle class doctor and Kitty, an upper-class woman, get married for all the wrong reasons and relocate to Shanghai. Kitty falls in love with someone else. When Walter discovers her infidelity, in an act of vengeance, he accepts a job in a remote village in China that is being ravaged by a deadly epidemic. He takes his wife along and their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA PAISummary: Chronicling the extraordinary life of Christopher 'The Notorious B.I.G.' Wallace. Through raw talent and sheer determination, Biggie transforms himself from a Brooklyn street hustler (once selling crack to a pregnant woman) to superstardom. He has to juggle the increasing demands of fatherhood, marriage, and a music career that is strife with chaos and controversy. On March 8, 1997, in Los...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE NOTSummary: Baby photographer Ronnie Jackson (Bob Hope) is mistaken for a private eye and hired by a beautiful brunette to find her uncle. Soon he's mixed up with mobsters, accused of murder, and sentenced to die in the electric chair.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: [Distributed by] St. Clair Vision 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYSummary: A timeless masterpiece of love and loss, focusing on the consequences faced by three Russian families during the Napoleonic Wars.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: KOCH Vision 2007
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV WARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD WAR NOT RATEDSummary: "Fellow artists and lovers Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner are at the center of New York's 1940's art scene, but as Krasner neglects her work to push Pollock's career forward, Pollock begins to unravel emotionally. Pollock and Krasner escape to the country to marry, and soon, Pollock creates the work that makes him the first internationally-famous modern painter in America. But with fame and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POLSummary: She's a high school girl from the wrong side of town. He's the wealthy heart-throb who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PRECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pretty 1086Summary: Fleeing war-torn China, a small planeload of people are hijacked to an idyllic valley in the Himalayas where time has virtually stopped. There Conway, a British diplomat, falls in love with a beautiful woman, and is asked to remain in Shangri-La as its new leader.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY LOSCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: After the German occupation of Paris during World War II, a young widow flees the war-torn city with her two children and must rely on a mysterious young stranger in order to survive.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Wellspring Media 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN STRSummary: Trevor Howard and Celia Johnson star as middle-class suburbanites whose casual friendship evolves into a passionate yearning for each other. But as their affections grow stronger, they must face a difficult decision that will affect both of their lives forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRISummary: 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: An idealistic, naive German officer is assigned to the home of a middle-aged man and his grown niece; their response to his presence, their only form of resistance is complete silence.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN SILSummary: In this spoof of disaster movies, Ted Striker, an ex-Navy pilot, just got dumped by his long-time girlfriend Elaine Dickinson, who works as a stewardess. In his wish to get her back, he follows her aboard a plane, although he has had a deep aversion against anything winged since he lost several men in the war. During flight, he tries to make up with her again and again, but a crisis looms as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD AIRCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY AIRSummary: Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel brings to life the attitudes and passions of 17th century New England. Condemned by her Puritan fellows for having a child out of wedlock, Hester Prynne is forced to wear a scarlet letter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: WGBH 2003
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SCASummary: A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD ELFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELF RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ELFCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELFSummary: Sally Adams has made it her business to know everyone worth knowing in Washington, D.C., and her penchant for parties pays off when she's appointed U.S. Ambassador to Lichtenburg. Once she is installed in her new position, shes falls in love with the sauve Foreign Minister Cosmo Constantine, while Princess Maria has her head turned by Sally's press attaché, Kenneth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CALSummary: Headstrong Rosy lives on the heathered hills of Ireland's Dingle Peninsule. She cannot forsake her passionate romance with a handsome British officer. Yet, for Rosy, there is a greater love - the devotion of her reserved schoolteacher husband Charles. When Rosy has an illicit affair and is ultimately charged with treason, it is Charles who will stand by her side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA RYACoward, Herbert
Summary: A family defends its honor in a small western town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Western DVDs, Call number: DVD WESTERN GHOSummary: Musical extravaganza which celebrates the loves and heartbreaks of a Mississippi riverboat troupe, starting with a young girl whose heart is stolen by a dashing gambler.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS ShoCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHOSummary: A satire on the great American institution of marriage as two families overflowing with lunatics and lechers try to get along for the wedding day but succeed only in exposing each other's secrets and sins.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY WEDSummary: Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess Jasmine, who is in the city undercover. They love each other, but she can only marry a prince.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALA RATED GCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Aladdin 2004Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALASummary: Frank Falenczyk loves his job. He is a hit-man for his Polish mob family in Buffalo, New York. But Frank has a drinking problem and when he messes up a critical assignment that puts the family business in peril, his uncle sends him to San Francisco to clean up his act. Frank is not the touchy-feely kind of guy, but he starts going to AA meetings, gets a sponsor and a job at a mortuary where he...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007