Summary: Set in the 1920s, Stanley, an Englishman posing as an Asian magician, attempts to debunk fake spiritualists. He then travels to the south of France to unmask a supposed medium named Sophie as a good-looking fake, but he ends up falling for her real-world charms instead.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MAGCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Magic 2014Summary: A look back at radio from the late 1930s to the mid-1940s, focusing on an extended Jewish family, all avid radio listeners, and on a young woman who eventually succeeds as a radio gossip columnist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY RADSummary: In the 1930's, Emmet Ray ruled as the second greatest jazz guitarist in the world. But his reputation was eclipsed by his eccentric career moves, hilarious clashes with gangsters and stormy love affairs with two very different women.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SWESummary: Comedy about a rich and spoiled New York housewife in a bad marriage. She dreams of having an affair with a musician she met at her children's school. An herbalist she visits in Chinatown gives her mysterious potions that break down her inhibitions, make her invisible and let her see tender moments with loved ones from her past.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2001
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ALISummary: After everything in her life falls to pieces, including her marriage to wealthy businessman Hal, elegant New York socialite Jasmine moves into her sister Ginger's humble apartment in San Francisco to try to pull herself back together again.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD BLUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BLU RATED PG-13Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BLUCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BLUSummary: Former tennis pro Chris Wilton stumbles into good fortune when Chloe Hewett, the daughter of a wealthy businessman and the sister of one of his tennis students, falls in love with him. But when Chris meets Nola, a much deeper passion is stirred. His desire isn't deterred even after he discovers that Nola is already dating Chloe's brother. But when their affair threatens Chris's increasingly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Pictures 2006
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MATCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE MATSummary: It's the fun-filled story of one wealthy, eccentric and romantically challenged extended family from New York's Upper West Side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment ; distributed by Buena Vista Home Video 1999
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS EVESummary: Two American women, one engaged to be married and the other sexually flirtatious, both become romantically involved with a painter while on vacation in Barcelona, only to find they have competition in the form of the painter's ex-wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Genius Products 2008
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF VICSummary: Woody Allen's semiautobiographical portrait of his amorous, but ultimately mismatched, relationship with co-star Diane Keaton. Allen uses satire and comedy to portray this "nervous romance" for modern times.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 1998
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ANNSummary: Allen portrays Isaac Davis, a successful comedy writer whose wife, having left him for another woman, is now embarking on a book about their failed marriage. Isaac happily consoles himself in the arms of an adoring 17 year-old schoolgirl until he meets someone closer to his own age, who happens to be his best friend's mistress.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment Inc. 2000