Summary: Dramatized account of Dr. Jean-Marc-Gaspard Itard's efforts to civilize a young boy who was discovered living wild in a forest. The boy, named Victor, becomes increasingly divided between his longing for the wilderness and his new life with the doctor. Itard, whose teaching strategies survive today in the Montessori Method, is unsure whether he is helping a savage become human or turning a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WILSummary: Armand and Albert have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their successful and gaudy nightclub on the Miami strip. But their pastel tranquility is suddenly shaken by the arrival of Armand's son who announces he is getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1996
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BIRSummary: Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANNSummary: An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss's girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY APASummary: The Little Tramp is an oppressed assembly-line factory worker who is used as a guinea pig for his employer's test of a new "Automatic Feeding Machine". He battles it out with technology, unemployment, jail, burglars, demanding customers and bosses. In the midst of his tribulations, he meets up with the girl of his dreams, "The Gamin". They win some and lose more but, at the end, they walk...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: CBS-Fox Video 1992
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MODSummary: When Chief Dreyfuss escapes from an insane asylum he captures a scientist to help him build an ultimate weapon as a means of killing Clouseau.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2005