Summary: Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. As a last resort, Larry applies for a job as a night shift security guard at the American Museum of Natural History. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse causes the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life at night.
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 MOVIE NIGSummary: In late 1960s Southern California, private investigator Doc Sportello is drawn into murky dealings with his ex-girlfriend, Shasta Fay, her current real estate mogul boyfriend, his wife and her boyfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA INHSummary: Josh and Dinah Barkley are a successful (though argumentative) musical-comedy team, yet Dinah chafes as Galatea to her husband's Pygmalion. When serious playwright Jacques Barredout envisions her as a great dramatic actress, Dinah is not hard to persuade.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2005
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS BARSummary: The inspiring story of how a small town in West Virginia, steeped in the rich tradition of college football, struggled to cope with a devastating loss and restore their community after one of the worst disasters in the history of American sports. On the evening of Saturday, November 14, 1970, a chartered jet carrying Marshall University's football team, coaches and fans, was on its way home...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family We 2007Summary: Director Oliver Stone seamlessly blends archival film with acted sequences in his version of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, which alleges that there was a massive plot and cover-up surrounding JFK's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JFKCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie JFKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER JFKSummary: This is the story of General Custer from the time he enters West Point military academy, through the American Civil War, and finally to his death at Little Big Horn. The battle against Chief Crazy Horse is portrayed as a crooked deal between politicians and a corporation which wants the land Custer gave to the Indians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THESummary: "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: A Spanish coming of age story focusing on the antics of two 17 year olds, who have a posh beach house almost all to themselves one summer. This is also a summer of sexual awakenings.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN NICSummary: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMISummary: A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA APOSummary: A young, part-Sioux FBI agent is sent to solve a murder on an Indian reservation. There he meets the irreverent local sheriff and the tribe's religious leader, who helps the agent begin to understand his lost heritage. Gradually, he comes to believe that the U.S. government has framed an innocent man, but finds that he and those around him are thrown into danger because of his suspicions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1998
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THUSummary: Well-known playwright James M. Barrie finds his career at a crossroads when his latest play flops and doubters begin to question his future. Then by chance he meets a widow and her four adventurous boys. Together they form a friendship that ignites the imagination needed to produce Barrie's greatest work. Traverses both fantasy and everyday reality, melding the difficulties of adult life with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIN RATED PGSummary: A charming but bumbling waiter who's gifted with a colorful imagination and an irresistible sense of humor has won the heart of the woman he loves and has created a beautiful life for his young family. Then that life is threatened by World War II.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Films 1999
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3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LIFSummary: Cult classic anthology from two of horrors big wigs, Romero and Stephen King, the film contains 5 sections, held together with 50's style comic images.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2009
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1 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR CRESummary: Though many years have passed, another orphan - this time a lonely American girl - makes an exciting journey to the enchanting manor where the magic began. Under the watchful eye of the keeper of the garden's key, the young orphan discovers that unlocking all the mysteries of the garden will take faith, courage and determination before life can bloom lavishly once again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY BACSummary: A truly inspiring story of one ordinary family's extraordinary journey. An orphaned boy named Tomas is adopted by Maire O'Donnell to live on a whimsical Irish isle filled with new friends, secret caves and a lost baby pup seal stranded on the coast. But when Maire's reluctant husband Alec refuses to accept Tomas as his own son, the boy drifts down a fateful path of adventure and self-discovery,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV SHISummary: Prepare yourself for a terrifying onslaught of monstrous man-eating Graboid, flying Ass-Blasters, and heat-seeking Shriekers in this complete collection of all Seven movies in the Tremors franchise. Throughout the years and may International locations, the Graboids have evolved and become ever more menacing and deadly. Only the gonzo survivalist Burt Gummer (Michael Gross) can stop them all....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2020
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRESummary: At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James ride home to Missouri to be on their ranch with their mother. As a railroad moves through buying up as much land as possible, burning folks out if need be, the James-Younger gang of outlaws become determined to use any means to protect their land and the land of their townsfolk and friends.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 0000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AMESummary: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2002
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2 available in Fantasy DVDs, Call number: DVD FANTASY HARCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HARSummary: Two squabbling, 20th-century ex-marrieds are cast as squabbling Renaissance romantics in a musical version of The taming of the shrew. On stage they fight it out and backstage they continue to clash.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2003