Summary: "In the late '60s, a changing social and political climate inspired a new generation to create a lifestyle outside the mainstream. Twenty-two year-old Arlo's journey to find a place for himself and his music includes a visit to his dying father in the hospital, gigs in New York and romps with his friends Alice and Ray, who run a small restaurant in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. And when an...
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Six-year-old Andy is thrilled when he gets a brand-new cheery Chucky doll for his birthday. But he quickly discovers that Chucky is possessed by the soul of a notorious serial killer who swiftly begins terrorizing Andy, his ill-fated babysitter and his disbelieving mom. And he doesn't stop there. Proving he's nobody to toy with, the demonic doll schemes to transfer his evil spirit out of its...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2008
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Summary: A sad, poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COMSummary: Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHOSummary: This drama chronicles the true story of a young girl in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan who must disguise herself as a boy to save her family from starvation. The first feature film made in Afghanistan in the post-Taliban era.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN OSASummary: Quigley down under: "Arriving in Australia with nothing more than a saddle and his prized six-foot Sharps rifle, American sharpshooter Matthew Quigley thinks he's been hired to kill off wild dogs. But when he realizes instead that his mission is murder - to "eliminate" the Aborigines from a wealthy cattle baron's land - Quigley refuses and quickly turns from hunter to hunted. Forced to wage a...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Metro-Golden-Mayer Studios Inc. 2008
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Summary: The famous Dr. Edwardes takes over as head of the Green Manors Mental Asylum and finds himself attracted to Dr. Constance Petersen, but she soon realizes he is a paranoid amnesiac imposter and tries to cure him while finding out what happened to the real Dr. Edwardes.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 1999
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Young electronics wizard David Lightman unwittingly hooks into America's supersecret wargames computer and the world is suddenly threatened with nuclear annihilation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: This musical sets the tragedy of Romeo and Juliet against a backdrop of the rivalry of two street gangs, the Sharks and the Jets, in New York of the 1950s. A young woman who is sister to the Sharks leader has her first taste of love with the former head of the Jets.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM/UA Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WESCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICAL WESSummary: 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: Follow the rise, fall and rise again of promoter Tony Wilson and the wild rave culture he brought to England and the rest of the world. Pulsates with the rhythmic energy from the post punk movement through the evolution of rave music.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TWESummary: 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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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANNSummary: A dramatic recreation of an Allied airdrop behind German lines in Holland, and the subsequent disastrous Battle of Arnhem.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Bridge 1998Summary: In 1959, Truman Capote was a popular writer for The New Yorker. He learns about the horrific and senseless murder of a family of four in Halcomb, Kansas. Inspired by the story, Capote and his partner, Harper Lee, travel to the town to do research for an article. However, as Capote digs deeper into the story, he is inspired to expand the project into what would be his greatest work, "In Cold...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAPCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CAP RATED RSummary: Fellini recreates the bawdy and lecherous days of Nero's reign in ancient Rome and its lack of concern with human dignity and obsession with perverse sex. The film is also an allegorical satire of the self-indulgence of modern society.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2001
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FELSummary: Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY PIESummary: A young bride is brought by her new husband to his manor house in England. There she finds that the memory of her husband's first wife haunts her, and she tries to discover the secret of that mysterious woman's death.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 1990
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY REBSummary: When a girl attending a Baptist high school becomes pregnant, she finds herself ostracized and demonized, as all of her former friends turn on her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SAVSummary: "A powerful film about a ruthless journalist and an unscrupulous press agent who'll do anthing to achieve success"--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SWESummary: Detective Virgil Tibbs has been assigned to solve the murder of a prostitute. His pal, a political-minded minister who is spearheading a referendum on community control, is suspected of the homicide and Tibbs is faced with the decision of whether or not to invesigate.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY THESummary: After a 25 year war destroys civilization, a group of scientific supermen set out to build a new one in this science fiction film. Decades later, their progress is threatened by a reactionary who urges the masses to rise up in protest.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI THISummary: An unscrupulous boxer fights his way to the top, but eventually alienates all of the people who helped him on the way up. Midge, played by Kirk Douglas, is not the basic good guy corrupted by the sweet science and led astray by evil mangers and promoters, his arrogance and stubbornness make him at once a villain and a hero.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Olive Films 2013
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: 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: A retired ship captain moves west to marry and start life over as a rancher. He finds himself between two families at war over cattle watering rights, unaccepted by the local people, and in a deteriorating relationship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment, Inc. 2001