Summary: A Connecticut adult swim class sets the stage for this comedy-drama about love, loss and second chances. Three strangers, inextricably connected through personal heartbreak, find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in-- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: A new swimming season is here, and Haru, Makoto, Nagisa, and Rei are anxious to get back in the pool. But things aren't all flip-turns and finish lines. Haru's passion for swimming is drying up, and with their futures looming ahead, Makoto and Haru are having a hard time focusing. And a new Samezuka student appears just in time to jeopardize Iwatobi's chance at nationals.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY ANIME FRESummary: After a run-in with former teammate Rin ends with bitter feelings and hurtful words, Haruka and his friends become determined to re-form the Iwatobi Swim Club. There's just one problem, they're missing a much-needed fourth member! With their eyes set on the athletic Rei, they've got to do what it takes to convince him to join so they can be in fighting form to face Rin's new school, Samezuka...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Anime, Call number: DVD ANIME FRESummary: "After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: FilmRise 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ICESummary: Even among cinema's greatest legends, Jean Vigo stands alone. The son of a notorious anarchist, Vigo had a brief but brilliant career making poetic, lightly surrealist films before his life was cut tragically short by tuberculosis at age twenty-nine. Like the daring early works of his contemporaries Jean Cocteau and Luis Bunũel, Vigo's films refused to play by the rules. This set includes all...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2011
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN COMSummary: Wealthy suburbanite Ned Merrill loses everything and, by blocking out the last two or so years of years of his life, he deceives himself that he hasn't lost anything. His deception is revealed as he confronts former friends while swimming from one pool to another on his way to his old home. Some genuinely try to help him. As he proceeds, though, he runs into people who he mistreated in the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA SWISummary: "America's mermaid" Esther Williams stars as a teacher at a women's college, a woman accused of being a marriage-breaker, a star shooting a film in the tropics, a woman in love with the captain of the South American polo team, and a woman who swims the English Channel and meets a handsome Frenchman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ESTSummary: Based on the true story of inner city Philadelphia swim coach Jim Ellis. The story revolves around Ellis' fight to build a swim team in one of Philly's toughest neighborhoods in the 1970s. Ultimately, Ellis leads the swimmers to the state championships.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2007Summary: A singing soldier has just returned home to find himself discontent with both his work at his father's opera company or to pick up where he left off with his girlfriend. Having met an aquacade showgirl while in the service, he reintroduces himself and soon romance blossoms.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS THISummary: It's time to glitter and glow in these seven sparkling episodes, including a double-length special. Join Shimmer and Shine as they meet the Glitter Genie, learn Glitter Magic, light up the world with Glitter Pets, save a glitter volcano, and more!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: With a touch of glamour, gutsy humor, and an overwhelming desire to improve their lot in life, four women strive for happiness and fulfillment. In early 1980s England, Steph, Pauline, Nita and Dawn wrestle with the pressures of family, husbands and making ends meet. However, a chance meeting between Steph and Nita is destined to kick-start a transformation for them all as they grasp the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016