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: "One of the British New Wave's most versatile directors, John Schlesinger came to New York in the late 1960s to make Midnight Cowboy, a picaresque story of friendship that captured a city in crisis and sparked a new era of Hollywood movies. Jon Voight delivers a career-making performance as Joe Buck, a wide-eyed hustler from Texas hoping to score big with wealthy city women; he finds a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIDSummary: Two recent high school graduates wreak havoc on all who cross their path, until an oddball loner looking for Miss Right comes into their lives. These social misfits learn the hard way that life after high school gets even weirder than they thought it would.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GHOSummary: "Isle of Dogs tells the story of Atari Kobayashi, 12-year-old ward to corrupt Mayor Kobayashi. When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to vast Trash Island, Atari sets off in search of his bodyguard dog, Spots. With the assistance of his newfound mongrel friends, he begins an epic journey that will decide the fate and future of the entire Prefecture."--Container
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY DRAMA ISLSummary: Some action violence involving gun play and mild rude humor.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Shout! Factory 2013
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MON RATED PGCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MoSummary: A businessman becomes the subject of a criminal investigation when a story about him is purposely "leaked" to an investigative reporter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia Tristar Home Video 1997
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA ABSSummary: Research scientist Eddie Jessup explores altered states of consciousness using sensory deprivation and hallucinogenic drugs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 1998
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A half-century after its release, Midnight Cowboy remains one of the most original and groundbreaking movies of the modern era. With beguiling performances from Jon Voight and Dustin Hoffman as two loners who join forces out of desperation, blacklist survivor Waldo Salt's brilliant screenplay, and John Schlesinger's fearless direction, the 1969 film became the only X-rated film to ever win the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC DESSummary: The first feature-length appreciation of Eva Hesse's life and work, makes superb use of the artist's voluminous journals, her correspondence with close friend and mentor Sol LeWitt, and archival interviews with fellow artists who recall her passionate, ambitious, tenacious personality.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Zeitgeist Films 2017
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC EVASummary: Two friends graduate from high school and find life in the real world difficult. Becky sets her sights on Josh, on whom both girls have a crush, and their friendship is changed forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY COMEDY GHOSummary: 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 FORSummary: New York cop Daniel Ciello (inspired by real-life undercover narcotics cop Robert Leuci) is involved in some questionable police practices. He is approached by Internal Affairs and in exchange for him potentially being let off the hook, he is instructed to begin to expose the inner workings of police corruption.
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 PRISummary: A love letter to journalists set in an outpost of an American newspaper in a fictional 20th-century French city that brings to life a collection of stories published in 'The French Dispatch.'
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: When all the canine pets of Megasaki City are exiled to a vast Trash Island, 12-year-old Atari Kobayashi embarks on an epic journey in search of his bodyguard-dog, Spots.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018