Summary: Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LIT1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF LIT
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIT RATED RCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Little 2006Summary: In a tale akin to "Romeo and Juliet," the friendship between two children is threatened by their parents' differences. Malú is from an upper-class family and her single mother does not want her to play with Jorgito, as she thinks his background coarse and commonplace. Jorgito's mother is a poor socialist who is proud of her family's social standing, and places similar restrictions on her son....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Film Movement 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VIVSummary: At six, Vitus is both incredibly talented and wonderfully precocious. When it becomes evident that he has an exceptionally high IQ and can play piano like a young Mozart, expectations run high. His parents love him, his grandfather understands him, but no one knows the truth - that his real genius is in his heart.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN VITSummary: A spirited local girl finds herself drawn into the lush fantasy world of a prep-school rebel, but what started as a magical summer adventure soon becomes a dangerous friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures 2005
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MYSummary: Jamie is a preacher's daughter whose self-confidence doesn't depend on the opinions of others. Landon is skating through high school on looks and bravado. But when events thrust him into Jamie's world, he begins an unexpected journey he will never forget. The remarkable steps to a life changed involve trust, hope, goals, faith and unconditional love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2007
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD Family Walk 2007Summary: On his first day at a new school, eleven-year-old Billy goes up against the school bully in a challenge that ends up with a total gross-out date ... to eat 10 worms in one day. As the pressure mounts, Billy must summon all his strength to meet the dare, all the while keeping his weak stomach from betraying him and his big mouth from getting him in even more trouble.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY HOWSummary: Follows a bunch of ragtag teenagers who take a boat trip on a nearby creek to celebrate their youngest member's birthday. They have an ulterior motive - to payback a local bully for his cruelities to the birthday boy. This is a hearty dose of how revenge can change a life in 24 hours.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2005
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MEACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MEASummary: America, 1976. The last day of school. Bongs blaze, bell-bottoms ring, and rock and roll rocks. Eavesdrop on a group of seniors-to-be and incoming freshman.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAZSummary: David is a 12-year-old boy who escapes from a Communist concentration camp. He has little more with him than a compass, a sealed letter, a loaf of bread, and instructions to carry the letter to Copenhagen, Denmark. David is thrust into a world free of Communism for the first time in his young life as he travels across Europe. For David, this is a spiritual voyage of discovery, where he slowly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie I 2005Summary: An inspiring story of independence that follows two unlikely friends determined to face the world on their own terms. Young Michael is a patient who is resigned to his quiet life within an institution's safe, predictable boundaries. Then, the rebellious Rory O'Shea bursts onto the scene. Now, with the help of the beautiful young Siobhan, who sings on as the boys' live-in aide, Rory will show...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RORSummary: A young boy, unsure of what path to take in life, comes across a horse trainer who convinces him to train for the Derby Cup. Will he be able to convince his parents, beat the champion, and find the champion inside himself?
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DERCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DERSummary: Fulfilling his beloved wife's dying wish, a man restores an abandoned building they own into a reading room for a depressed community notorious for its ineffectual high school and street gangs. He is determined to give them a sense of self-respect.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Timeless Media Group 2006
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA REASummary: After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her. Paralyzed by postgraduation ennui, Grover, Otis, Max and Skippy remain on campus, denying the real-world futures awaiting them. Nobody wants to radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, who tends bar and is in his tenth year. The...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2006
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1 available in NEW Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD COMEDY KICKim, Seung-Woo
Summary: A fickle filmmaker falls for a young woman and then leaves her, but when he tries to recreate the romance, he meets her again under awkward circumstances.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Yorker Video 2008
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: The film is set in the future (AD 2031) where, after a failed experiment to stop global warming, an ice age kills off all life on the planet except for the inhabitants of the Snowpiercer, a train that travels around the globe and is powered by a sacred perpetual-motion engine. Its inhabitants are divided by class; the lower-class passengers in one of the last cars stage an uprising, moving car...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Action / Adventure DVDs, Call number: DVD ACTION/ADVENTURE SNO1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SNO
Summary: After being wrongfully convicted of a crime, a young woman is imprisoned for 13 years and forced to give up her daughter. Upon her release, she sets in motion an elaborate plan of retribution, but does not know what is in store.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video USA 2006
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN LADYSummary: After seeing a less-than-conventional psychiatrist for her problems at home who gives her too many prescriptions and bad advice, a mother ends her marriage and sends her young son to live with the doctor and his odd family.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RUNSummary: Something strange is happening when Su-mi and her younger sister, Su-yeon, come home to their father's large but dark and somewhat foreboding house after a stay in the hospital. Their dad is taciturn and burdened, and their stepmother, Eun-joo, greets them with forced enthusiasm and more than a little sense of irritation. But that's nothing compared to what happens when bedtime rolls around.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tartan Video 2005
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Sarah Nolan is divorced, demoralized and dateless - until her sister posts her profile on perfectmatch.com. Now she has a lot of dates, mainly with weirdos, weepers, lechers and jocks. Then she meets Jake, a soulful boat builder whose idea of true love comes straight from the movies. Jake is attractive, smart and maybe a bit too intense for Sarah, so she passes him by. But in passing him up,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2005