Summary: Examines the history of modern youth culture and the evolution of the idea of the "teenager", from the late 19th century to the beginning of the post-War period. Consists of archival film footage, diary entries, and dramatic recreations.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC TEESummary: Tracy Turnblad, a teenager with huge hair, a big grin, and all the right moves, becomes the queen of Baltimore's number one dance revue.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Hairspray 2002Summary: Pierre and his snobbish friends have a standing date for dinner. Every week, they compete to see who can bring the biggest idiot to the party.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DINSummary: Follow five clueless buffoons as they plan to strike a blow on their own turf, showing that while terrorism is supposed to be about ideology, it can also be about idiots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Alamo Drafthouse Films 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FOU1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FOU
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TCFF FoSummary: Daniel is a decent young man who is married to Jane. They live at his father's home. When his father dies, it his up to him to organize his funeral. On the morning of the funeral, with a suitably grave expression on his face, Daniel is ready to welcome his father's friends and relatives. But preserving the dignity inherent in such a circumstance will be a hard task. Particularly with an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DEASummary: Episodic story, divided into five chapters, each bearing the name of a character; main characters appear in most chapters. Most of the characters are connected by the fact that they hang out or work at the Brooklyn Cigar Store, where they tell stories and smoke a lot. Chapters explore the interpersonal relationships between this large and diverse group of characters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SMOSummary: A live action version based on Kenneth Grahame's classic tale about a Badger, Mole, and Rat.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A wild and ribald comedy, filled with sex and sin, about a successful London playwright who is also a shallow womanizer trying to figure out what life is all about.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2000
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Greta Gerwig is radiant as a woman in her late twenties in contemporary New York, trying to sort out her ambitions, her finances, and, above all, her tight but changing bond with her best friend, Sophie (Mickey Sumner). Meticulously directed by Noah Baumbach (Kicking and Screaming) with a free-and-easy vibe reminiscent of the French New Wave's most spirited films, and written by Baumbach and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY FRASummary: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. The story of a legendary showman's double life--television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative, or so he said.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONSummary: Aladdin, a street urchin, accidentally meets Princess Jasmine, who is in the city undercover. They love each other, but she can only marry a prince.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ALACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV ALASummary: Set in a blighted Nevada outpost in 2007, a telepathic father and daughter lead a group of media outlaws in resistance against a corporate/governmental "New Electronic Order" that threatens to use the earth's magnetosphere to "bulk erase" the brains of every human on the planet. The only way to save humanity is to uncover a secret lodged in an old episode of the 1950s series Science in Action....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: DVD AVANT-GARDE SPESummary: A father deals with his only daughter's lavish wedding. New bonus features include a look behind the scenes and an interview with Steve Martin and Martin Short.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FSummary: An updated version of the 1961 Disney classic about separated identical twins. Hallie and Annie meet accidentally at camp and decide to reunite their divorced parents.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2005
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY PARCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR RATED PGSummary: Faced with the choice of getting married within 24 hours or losing a $100 million inheritance, unrepentant bachelor Jimmie Shannon is suddenly desperate to get to the altar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Video 2000
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BACSummary: In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? A classic story told with a Bollywood twist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRICopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie BrideSummary: [College] Ronald is an idealistic freshman who attends Clayton College in pursuit of higher learning, but finds himself instead embroiled in a war of athletics as he fights for the heart of his beloved coed, Mary. [The electric house] Buster turns an ordinary dwelling into an automated funhouse. [Hard luck] A suicidal Buster makes a final effort at fitting in with society at a swank country...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Kino International 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY COLSummary: A black comedy story of an actor famous for portraying an iconic superhero as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BIR RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BIRCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIRSummary: Follows several generations in the lives of a slave family. The saga begins with Kunta Kinte, a West African youth captured by slave raiders and shipped to America in the 1700s. The family is depicted up until the Civil War, when Kunte Kinte's grandson gains his emancipation.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ROOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ROOSummary: A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2004
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2 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELFCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD ELFCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ELF RATED PGCopies Available at Woodmere
3 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY ELFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Elf 2003Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE ELFSummary: Five electrical appliances find that their young owner has disappeared. The toaster takes charge, rounding up the vacuum cleaner, the electric blanket, bedside lamp and radio. Together they take off for the big city in search of their master.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Walt Disney Home Video 2003