Summary: Inspired by the true story of tobacco billionairess Doris Duke and her gay butler, Bernard Lafferty, the film follows the development of their unorthodox friendship and love, until Duke ultimately wills her fortune to him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BERSummary: Set in the early '70s, Joe is distraught after the death of his fiancée. He moves in with her parents, Ben and JoJo, while trying to sort out all of the legal troubles and painful details of the wedding cancellations. While trying to locate the wedding invitations in the mail, Joe meets Bertie, whose boyfriend has been MIA in Vietnam. Despite his growing relationship with his late fiancée's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MOOSummary: A smalltime, aging Mafia hood falls in love with a clam bar waitress, and they share the spoils of the big score against the backdrop of a changing Atlantic City.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Video 2002
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY ATLSummary: To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: After causing the company he works for to lose hundreds of millions of dollars, Drew is fired from his job. After being fired, he is promptly dumped by his girlfriend, Ellen. On the verge of suicide, Drew is given a new purpose in life. Following the death of his father, Drew has to fly back to his family's small Kentucky hometown of Elizabethtown in order to make certain that his father's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Pictures 2006
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Elizabethtown 2006Summary: Three months after Allen and Grace's son dies, a young woman shows up pregnant with his child. At first her arrival threatens to tear the family further apart, but eventually she proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: National Entertainment Media 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF GRESummary: A photographer obsessed with the prostitutes in New Orleans' red-light district in 1917 is bewitched by a twelve-year-old child prostitute.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2003
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Robert Miller is a New York hedge-fund magnate who appears to have it all: money, power, a loving wife, and a devoted daughter working by his side. But behind the gilded walls of his mansion, Miller is running on borrowed time, trying to unload his crippled trading company before his frauds are revealed. A deadly error throws Miller's life into a tailspin, raising the suspicions of a detective...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ARB RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ARBCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE ARBSummary: Frank is an aging ex-jewel thief, and his two grown children are worried that he can no longer care for himself. In deciding what to do with Frank, the most likely option appears to be putting him in a nursing home. But Frank's son comes up with another option: buy Frank a walking, talking robot programmed to look after him and improve his physical and mental health. Frank resists the robot at...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2013
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1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI ROB1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ROB
Summary: A lawyer's life and marriage take an unexpected turn when he follows a woman to a dance studio and begins to take lessons and finds he has a passion for dance. His wife thinks he is having an affair and hires a detective to follow him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHASummary: Thelma is an abused and neglected wife, while her friend Louise is a bitter, hard-edged waitress. The two decide to take a brief vacation to escape the drudgery of their everyday lives. Immediately, they run into trouble, as Louise shoots and kills a man who tries to rape Thelma in the parking lot of a country bar.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD THESummary: Following a lengthy prison term, Gordon Gekko finds himself on the outside looking in at a world he once commanded. Hoping to repair his relationship with his daughter, Winnie, Gekko forges an alliance with her fiance, Jake. But Winnie and Jake learn the hard way that Gekko is still a master manipulator who will stop at nothing to reclaim his rightful place at the top of Wall Street.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WALCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie WallCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WALCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WAL RATED PG-13Summary: In the late 1980s, 61-year-old former pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian launched a crusade to provide what he considered a humane and dignified option for the terminally ill--assisted suicide. Aided by his loyal friend Neal Nicol, and his older sister Margo Janus, Kevorkian begins offering his "death counseling" services to a grateful and burgeoning clientele. He earns the support of Hemlock...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Films 2010
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA YOUCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie YouSummary: Story about the March family of four daughters and a strong mother (Sarandon) who, because her husband is away serving in the Army during the Civil War, must raise her "little women" on her own. The daughters include: spirited Jo (Ryder) who longs for a career as a writer; beautiful and conservative older sister Meg (Alvarado); fragile Beth (Danes); and the romantic Amy (Dunst/Mathis). Through...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LITCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LITSummary: A boy develops a disease so rare that nobody is working on a cure, so his father decides to learn about it and tackle the problem himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LORCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LORSummary: Ben Kalmen, a fifty-something New Yorker, discovers that he is not the man he wanted to be. Through many business and romantic indiscretions he has lost his once successful car dealership. Now he must make the decision to face the challenges of his not so youthful life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2010
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF SOLSummary: Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STESummary: Twelve years afte the events in Frank Herbert's Dune, Maud'Dib--Arrakis emperor Paul Atreides--has become the unintended figurehead of a violent dictatorship, and his enemies are multiplying. Vanishing into the desert, he waits as destiny shapes his twin heirs Leto II and Ghanima, who must contend with their scheming aunt Alia while Princess Wensicia, of the enemy House Corrino, plots her own...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Artisan Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV CHISummary: Mark Sway (Renfro), an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor (Jones) will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1994
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CLICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER CLISummary: An exploration of how the actions of individual lives impact one another in the past, present and future, as one soul is shaped from a killer into a hero, and an act of kindness ripples across centuries to inspire a revolution. The story is a time-shifting weave of six interlinking narratives, with diverse settings from the savagery of a Pacific Island in the 1850s to a dystopian Korea of the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ClCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE CLOCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Science Fiction DVDs, Call number: DVD SCI-FI CLOSummary: Igby and his older brother, Oliver, are are in the process of killing their terminally ill mother. His parents snipe at each other endlessly until his father tries to commit suicide and is sent to a mental hospital. Igby grows into a rebellious youth, gets kicked out of several boarding schools and ends up in a military academy. As Igby gets drawn further into the mind games and hypocrisy of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD !GBCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IGBSummary: Hank is a retired Sergeant with the Military Police, now he spends his days hauling gravel and sharing a quiet life with his wife Joan. One day, he receives a call informing him that his youngest son, Mike, had gone AWOL. Hank thought his son was in Iraq, but is informed that Mike returned stateside four days ago with his platoon. Hank calls his son's cell phone and gets voice mail. He checks...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA INSummary: When 14-year-old Susie Salmon was murdered, she left her unfinished life behind. Now from her place in a strange but beautiful in-between world, she must help her father catch her killer and protect her family before she can finally move on.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LOV RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LOVSummary: A father's teenage son is wrongly accused of a drug distribution crime and is looking at a mandatory minimum prison sentence of ten years. Desperate and determined to rescue his son at all costs, he makes a deal with the U.S. attorney to work as an undercover informant and infiltrate a drug cartel on a dangerous mission, risking everything, including his family and his own life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2013