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Summary: Awakenings: The story of the consequences of a maverick doctor's medical miracle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD AWA

Summary: A stoned-out leftover from the 1960s is asked to be the go-between when the wife of a rich man for whom he is mistaken is kidnapped.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY BIG

Summary: Kim Ki-teak's family are all unemployed and living in a squalid basement. When his son gets a tutoring job at the lavish home of the Park family, the Kim family's luck changes. One by one they gradually infiltrate the wealthy Park's home, attempting to take over their affluent lifestyle.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

3 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAR

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE PAR

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Parasite 2020

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Pa

Summary: Jean, a 40-year old unemployed actor, has hit rock bottom. Insufferably clueless and egotistical, his over-the-top acting and high-maintenance personality have gotten him fired from countless jobs. At the unemployment office, his counselor sets him up with a rather odd job: helping the police reconstruct crime scenes by standing in for the dead victim.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PLA

Summary: A Depression-era woman meets a miserable millionaire in Central Park and accompanies him on a giddy, glamorous birthday whirl through Manhattan. Enchanted, the millionaire installs her in his mansion where the rags-to-riches story becomes a laugh riot as she grabs his selfish, suspicious family by the scruff of the neck and shakes sense into them.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2010

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FIF

Summary: "Six unemployed men, inspired by a touring group of male strippers, decide they can make a small fortune by putting on a striptease show of their ow -- with one small difference. They intend to go the "full monty" and strip completely naked! In this hilarious, heartfelt comedy, these six friends discover the inner strength to bare it all in front of the world."--Back of container.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 1999

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FUL

Summary: A stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beat up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife, and this hapless loser gets drawn into a kidnapping.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIG

Summary: The Belgian filmmaking team of brothers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne turned heads with Rosetta, an intense verite drama that closely follows a poor young woman struggling to hold onto a job to support herself and her alcoholic mother. It's a swift and simple tale made revelatory by the raw, empathic way in which the directors render Rosetta's desperation, keeping the camera nearly perched on...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ROS

McCarthy, Melissa

Summary: After losing her job and finding out that her husband has been disloyal, a woman goes out on a road trip with her adventurous grandmother.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2014

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TAM

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Ta

Summary: Mark is a desperate unemployed writer who lives in a world where everyone unfailingly tells the truth. People don't even know what fiction is. Every thought, no matter how humiliating or harsh, tumbles out unvarnished. Then one day, Mark becomes so desperate he concocts a lie. In a world where everyone is unfailingly honest, a lie is believed with total and absolute gullibility. Mark can get...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY INV

Summary: Story of a contemporary Japanese family torn apart after its patriarch unexpectedly loses his job. Ashamed, he keeps this a secret, but as he grows more despondent, his family resorts to drastic measures to break away from their fractured lives.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: E1 Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN TOK

Summary: Ben Singer is a failed folk singer, newly unemployed proofreader, and every-other-weekend dad to his young daughter. The only thing he takes comfort in is smoking marijuana and chess games with Ibou, his Senegalese roommate. When Ibou becomes ill, a municipal employee exacerbates the emergency situation, and Ben pours his energy into a lawsuit against the city. Meanwhile, Ibou's beautiful...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Wonderful 2010

Summary: An unemployed thirty-something woman, with no direction in her life falls for a street performer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by New Video 2012

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GIA

Summary: A young unemployed man's suffering as he spirals downward is captured on Seoul's ever-present CCTV and observation cameras.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INF

Summary: An unemployed Texan walks into a tavern in Red Rock, Wyoming, and is mistaken for a professional hit-man.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1998

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY RED

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