Summary: Whatever became of the "American Dream"? Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel and Yaphet Kotto star in the powerful, critically acclaimed drama Blue Collar. Three auto assembly line workers, fed up with union brass and tired of scraping by, hatch a plan to rob a safe at union headquarters. Disappointed with their measly bounty, they realize they've made off with something much more valuable than cash....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2009
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY BLUSummary: Colin, a young rebel and promising distance runner, is chosen to represent his reform school in a track race. However, the opposition for Colin isn't another runner, it's the Establishment.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LONSummary: Frankie and Mike Heck are frazzled parents trying to stretch their patience and paychecks around three brilliantly true-to-life kids: Axl, whose latest dream girl has tattoos, body piercings, and pink hair; Sue, who's thrilled to come in eighth (out of eight) in Square Dancing with the Stars; and Brick, the only kid who has his birthday party at the public library.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: 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...
Format: moving image
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: The Hecks tackle the beginning of a new school year, a not-so-relaxing Thanksgiving, and an unexpected wedding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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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: The Hecks tackle the beginning of a new school year, a not-so-relaxing Thanksgiving, and an unexpected wedding.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Over the course of several hours, the sprawling story tracks the everyday triumphs and travails of the young toolmaker Jochen and many of the people populating his world, including the woman he loves, his eccentric nuclear family, and his fellow workers, with whom he bands together to improve conditions on the factory floor. The film rates as a true discovery, one of Fassbinder's earliest and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV EIGSummary: Based on the moving true story of a blue-collar father and his teenage son, Rick Wershe, who became an undercover informant for the FBI during the 1980s, before he was arrested for drug trafficking, abandoned by his handlers, and sentenced to life in prison.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WHISummary: Voted the best British sitcom of all time in a 2004 audience poll, Only Fools and Horses entered its sixth season with a number of changes - a longer episode length, romance for Rodney and a new look for Del, who has recast himself wholeheartedly in the image of Gordon Gekko from the film Wall Street. Despite Rodney's move toward practicality in signing up for computer training, Trotter's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC Video 2005
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ONLSummary: The daily mishaps of a harried woman and her semi-dysfunctional family and their attempt to survive life in general in the city of Orson, Indiana.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV MIDSummary: Ingemar is a working-class 12-year old boy who is sent to live with his uncle after his mother falls ill. There, he takes refuge from his troubles with the help of the town's warmhearted eccentrics. A bittersweet evocation of the struggles and joys of childhood and the pains of coming-of-age.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Janus Films 2003
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN MYSummary: An amusing portrait of a working-class family in a suburb just north of London, an irrepressible mum and dad and their night-and-day twins, a bookish good girl and a sneering layabout. A vivid, lived-in story of ordinary existence, in which even modest dreams (such as the father's desire to open a food truck) carry enormous weight. Perched on the line between humor and melancholy.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2013
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIFSummary: Details the gritty rural lives and loves of Tommo and Charlie -- two young brothers -- and their poor Devonshire family from 1909 until 1916, when the outbreak of war destroys their country idyll. Both join up (one under age) leaving behind the beautiful Molly who is the love of both their lives. The young men survive gas attacks, shelling, German troops and the appalling deaths of their close...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: BBC 2015
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV PRISummary: "Most TV shows celebrated the holiday season with warm & fuzzy Christmas specials. But for the cast, crew and creators of 'Roseanne', the year's best celebrations always belonged to Halloween. In these seven classic episodes, the Conners unleash tricks and treats on one of the greatest sitcoms in television history ..."--Container.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2006
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Two flawed families, each scarred by catastrophe, find a home for their hearts in an acclaimed Australian miniseries. Adapted by Tim Winton from his award-winning novel, set around Perth from 1943-63, it's gripping, poignant, and gorgeous. The Lambs are hardworking and God-fearing, the Pickles are luckless and derelict, yet they find common ground beneath the same roof. Exquisitely filmed with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Acorn 2012
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1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CLOSummary: Season Eighteen was a historic one; the last before the Simpsons movie, the season-finale 400th episode, 24 Minutes, Treehouse of Horror XVII with the sepia-tone classic "The Day the Earth Stood Stupid" and much much more.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2017
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIMSummary: Kitty, a working-class girl, endures the rejection of Philadelphia society, makes her own way as a single woman, and ultimately chooses between an unmarried arrangement with Main Line scion Wynnewood Strafford VI or marriage to a struggling physician.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Bros. Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KITSummary: After finding a bagful of unmarked $100 bills, there were a million reasons for unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle to give the money back, but he couldn't think of one good enough.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A Korean War vet stops a young Hmong teen from stealing his prized car, and reluctantly proceeds to reform the boy, learning about himself along the way.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GRACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRACopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD GRA RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Grand 2010Summary: Trading Christmas: Emily Springer is disappointed in her daughter, Heather, won't make the cross-country trip from Harvard to visit at Christmas. Emily decides to surprise Heather and trades houses with Charles Brewster, a college professor. Emily is the one who is surprised when she finds out her daughter left for Florida with her boyfriend and has only Charles' brother for company. In this...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HALSummary: Jimmy, known to his friends as Rabbit, is a young man trying to make his way out of the burned-out shell of inner-city Detroit. Rabbit is a white kid trying to make music in a predominantly African-American community and culture. After Rabbit freezes up in the midst of an MC battle, he's convinced he's missed his chance and that he's doomed to lead a marginal life as a factory rat for the rest...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2003
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD 8 MILSummary: Set in 1950s Detroit, the movie centers on a group of small-time criminals who are hired to steal what they think is a simple document. When their plan goes wrong, their search for who hired them and for what ultimate purpose weaves them through all echelons of the race-torn, rapidly changing city.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022