Summary: A satirical comedy about a down-on-his-luck publicist who discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOO

Summary: "Mabel and Rosenthal are the two stars of a pretentious art-horror film directed by an unhinged tyrant who may or may not be German (he goes by 'Herr Director'). Mabel is playing a blind woman while Rosenthal, who has facial tumors caused by neurofibromatosis, is essentially playing a version of himself. Both their characters are part of a mad doctor's plot to 'cure' disabilities. But while...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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

Summary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007

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

Summary: If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

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

Kelly, Gene

Summary: A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudeville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound films.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SIN

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2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SIN

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIN RATED PG

Elliott, Sam

Summary: After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017

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

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HER

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HER RATED R

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HER

Summary: Leonor Reyes was once a groundbreaking figure in the Filipino film industry during its ragtag action cinema glory days, but now she struggles with old age, mounting bills, and the untimely death of her son. While revisiting an unfinished script about a fearless protagonist trying to avenge his brother's murder, Leonor is struck on the head by a falling television set and knocked into a coma. As...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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

Summary: Watch John 'Four Leaf' Tayback as he fights a gruesome battle during the Vietnam War. But, this is actually a scene from 'Tropic Thunder, ' a big-budget adaptation of Tayback's wartime memoir. Starring as the central platoon are Speedman, Lazarus, Chino and Portnoy, as well as young character actor Kevin Sandusky. To play the character of African American Sgt. Osiris, Lazarus dyes his skin dark...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks/Paramount Home Entertainment 2008

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TRO

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD T

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TRO

Summary: A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Peace Arch Entertainment 2009

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

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

Summary: What is the scariest movie idea anyone can think of? How about a guy with a bag on his head staring into a window? So, four struggling actors retreat to a cabin in Big Bear, California in order to write a screenplay that will make them all stars. They want to make a funny film that may be a little bit scary too. But what happens when their story idea starts to come true?

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: After three months shooting an indie film in NYC, the boys are back in La-la-land.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006

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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV ENT

Summary: It's about an indie movie called "Home for Purim," a somewhat inane drama about a dysfunctional Jewish family living in the South during World War II. But while the film is still in production, a reporter for an online entertainment site drops the word -- based on a brief visit to the set -- that one of the ensemble cast performers may be an Oscar contender. It goes on to chronicle how the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2007

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