Summary: Jacob runs a struggling orphanage in one of India's poorest regions. Desperate to save an orphanage from closing, he returns to Denmark to meet Jorgen, a wealthy businessman and potential benefactor. What appears to be nothing more than a friendly gesture to attend a wedding sets in motion an increasingly devastating series of surprises, revelations, and confessions that will forever change...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2007

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

Summary: While Batya, a struggling waitress, cares for a mysterious child that appeared to her out of the sea. Newlywed Keren nurses a broken leg and a ruined honeymoon. Filipino migrant worker Joy tries to support her son back home. A reflection on making connections and confronting destiny in a deconstructed urban landscape.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2008

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

Summary: A Connecticut adult swim class sets the stage for this comedy-drama about love, loss and second chances. Three strangers, inextricably connected through personal heartbreak, find themselves entering deep water as they learn that life isn't always about diving right in-- it's about getting your feet wet once in awhile.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: During a blackout, three train passengers arrive at Chillingbourne in Kent. Londoner Alison Smith is feisty representative of the Women's Land Army (aka the "land girls"). Bob Johnson is an American soldier whose intended destination was Canterbury. Peter Gibbs is a classical music student who worked in peacetime as a cinema organist. As they make their way through the village, Alison has...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CAN

Summary: When a marketing executive for a huge burger chain finds a nasty secret ingredient in their burger recipe, he goes to the ranches and slaughterhouses of Colorado to investigate and finds that the truth is sometimes difficult to swallow.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Realizing they have to hear how real people talk, a group of lexicographers end up assisting a beautiful singer get away from the mob.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: Will Parker arrives in the small town of Whitney, after spending five years in Huntsville Prison for killing someone in La Grange, Texas. Through an ad in the local paper, Will discovers that Emily, a recently widowed mother of two small boys, is actively looking for a husband and father. Star-crossed loners, Will and Emily decide to make a go of their collective plight and Will moves into the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Timeless Media Group 2007

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Morning 2007

Summary: Billy Bob is a thirteen-year-old boy growing up in a small Alabama town in 1947. Billy Bob's best friend is Preacher Star, who has a pronounced mischievous streak. When Lily Jane moves into town with her mother, a strange woman who never speaks, both Billy Bob and Preacher are entranced. Billy Bob and Preacher become rivals for Lily Jane's affections. As Billy Bob struggles with first love, he...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Family Home Entertainment 2003

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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY CHI

Summary: Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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

Summary: This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2006

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FAC

Summary: Pierre Peders is no stranger to violence and inhumanity, he made his name as a war reporter. He is sent on a clearly beneath-him assignment to meet a soap star. After making a mess of the interview he later winds up at her Manhattan loft apartment.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INT