Summary: Set in the early 20th century, this classic family comedy follows the efforts of a husband and wife as they try to maintain control in a home with 12 children.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHESummary: It's Season six, and as the kids keep getting older, Frankie and Mike think family life is going to get easier, but they couldn't be more wrong! Bigger kids only means bigger problems! With Brick starting seventh grade as well as a new relationship, there just might be hope for him. Meanwhile, it's the 'year of sue' and Sue is navigating her way through her senior year of high school with...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2015
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNCSummary: When their dad dies on his 55th birthday, Beverley Hills sisters Mary and Nora find themselves destitute, forced by a grasping sister-in-law to move in with their aunt in East L.A. Younger sister Mary is mortified, without Spanish, and scared of the vatos. Her sister convinces her to finish college, where she promptly decides that one of her T.A.s will be her ticket back to Rodeo Drive. Elder...
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Publisher / Publication Date: OddLot Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRASummary: To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: As it returns for Season 4, families will be brought together in the vibrant and violent area of the U.S.-Mexico border. After international lines were done away with following the world's end, the characters must attempt to rebuild not only society, but family as well.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV FEASummary: On a weekend wedding in Martha's Vineyard, two African-American families from divergent socioeconomic backgrounds clash during their first meeting before the big event.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2011
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY JUMCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JSummary: Inspired by a true story about Cecil Gaines, a devoted husband, father, and White House butler who served eight Presidential administrations during the turbulent politics and civil rights battles of twentieth century America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BUTCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BUT RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BUTCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Butler 2013Summary: Old-school grandparents Artie and Diane get more than they bargained for when they get stuck babysitting their type-A daughter's overprotected kids. But things go from hectic to hysterical when Artie realizes the kids are running the house with their newfangled technology. By playing by his own rules, which include sugary snacks, old fashioned games, and tough love, Artie manages to outsmart...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIECopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Parental 2012Summary: A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SUBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SUBSummary: "Aubrey and Paul Davison decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary by inviting their four children and their significant others to a family reunion at their remote and slightly rundown weekend estate. But the family reunion goes awry when their home comes under siege by a mask-wearing team of crossbow-bearing assailants. The family has no idea who's attacking them, why they're under attack,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD YOUSummary: Larry David has it all - except, perhaps, his identity. This season, Larry takes a sentimental journey in search of his roots, stepping on a few toes along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When an unannounced, uninvited and unwelcome family of fun-loving misfits converge upon a lakeside resort to join their relatives for a summer of relaxation, the result is anything but restive in this raucous comedy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The Malloys are consumate con artists who are posing as a wealthy suburban family. They are stealing the American dream, but their elaborate ruse may be stealing their very souls. Facing near-certain detection, the family is torn asunder as Dahlia and the children hit the open road, and embattled patriarch Wayne remains in Eden Falls, desperately scheming to pull off one last impossible con.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV RICSummary: A wild story of a family across four generations centered on the girl who becomes the woman who founds a business dynasty and becomes a matriarch in her own right. Betrayal, treachery, the loss of innocence and the scars of love, pave the road in this intense emotional and human comedy about becoming a true boss of family and enterprise facing a world of unforgiving commerce.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JOYCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD JOYCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JOYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Joy 2016Summary: Cantankerous but doting husband Arthur does not share his wife Marion's passion for performing. While she is happy to sing her heart out with the unconventional local choir, Arthur would prefer to hide himself away and complain about how embarrassing it all is. But when heartbreak strikes, Arthur is forced to re-think his outlook on life. Arthur begins to find a way to come out of his shell and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNFSummary: Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CANSummary: More politically incorrect incidents happens in Springfield, including: Homer and Ned go into business together as bounty hunters and Marge takes a job at an erotic bakery; Bart gets in trouble with Marge after she finds he has Denis Leary's cell phone and is using it to make prank calls; Lisa becomes an expert crossword puzzle solver, but Homer bets against her in a competition; Homer suspects...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIMSummary: This contemporary drama is about romance between two imperfect, alcoholic, resentful ordinary people, neighbors in the suburbs, adults with enough money to support themselves in the discontent to which they have become accustomed. Terry Wolfmeyer, suburban Detroit mother of four girls, is suddenly abandoned by her husband, and sinks into depression and subsists on a steady diet of vodka tonics....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UPSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD UPSSummary: After a shocking incident upends her family life and marriage to a tempestuous choreographer, Ema, a reggaeton dancer, sets out on an odyssey of personal liberation.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN EMASummary: Fasten your sofa belts for another fiendishly futile attempt at world domination for Stewie and a diaper full of fun. Television's most outrageous animated family finds itself in all sorts of comically compromising situations, including Chris doing chores for a dirty old man, Meg working as Mayor West's intern, Lois reuniting with her homicidal brother, Brian attending college, Stewie attacked...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a businessman decides to take his family on a vacation in a rented cottage on the West Coast seashore, everyone starts to complain and create problems, until he steps in and saves the day.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MR.Summary: Stewie, the maniacal baby genius, is distracted from his plans for world domination when he sees a man who looks just like him on television. Convinced that this man must be his real father, Stewie sets off on a cross-country road trip to find him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2005