Summary: The true story of Manny Balestrero, a musician unjustly accused of armed robbery. Balestrero vehemently protests his innocence but acts thoroughly guilty, leading a host of policemen and witnesses to finger him as the thief. The trial goes badly for Manny, but life is worse for his wife, Rose, who falls apart under the strain of his ordeal.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2004
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WROSummary: Barbie stars as princess Tori and decides to switch places with her favorite pop star for a day, but soon discovers that trading places isn't as easy as it seems.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: A stoned-out leftover from the 1960s is asked to be the go-between when the wife of a rich man for whom he is mistaken is kidnapped.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY COMEDY BIGSummary: "George has been in a mental hospital for 3 years and is finally ready to go out into the real world again. Eddie Dash, a dedicated con-man, is supposed to keep him out of trouble, but when people begin to recognize George as the missing millionaire Abe, Eddie wants to take advantage of the situation"--Summary written by Lars J. Aas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Another 2002Summary: Young & innocent: Robert is the estranged husband of a beautiful actress with a bad reputation. When he discovers her lifeless body on the beach, he is mistaken for the murderer and soon finds himself on the run, learning that the murder makes for very strange bedfellows.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by BCI Eclipse 2007
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Tsar Yeremy is caught by the enchanted creature Chudo-Yudo the Lawless and agrees to give Chudo-Yudo any valuables in his kingdom that he doesn't know about. The tsar returns home and discovers that he has a son. Determined to hide his son from Chudo-Yudo, the tsar has his son exchanged with a fisherman's son. Unbeknownst to everyone, there is a mix-up in the exchange and the tsar's real son...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: RUSCICO 2003
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BARSummary: A stoner who loves bowling gets mistaken for a millionaire with the same name. He's beat up by men looking for money from the rich man's wife, and this hapless loser gets drawn into a kidnapping.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BIGSummary: In the mid-sixties, the maverick American director Monte Hellman conceived of two westerns at the same time. As shot back-to-back for famed producer Roger Corman, they feature overlapping casts and crews. The films - The Shooting, about a motley assortment of loners following a mysterious wanted man through a desolate frontier, and Ride in the Whirlwind, about a group of cowhands pursued by...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2014
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: The arrest of a young man on charges that he fraudulently impersonated well-known filmmaker, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, is the basis for a stunning, multilayered investigation into movies, identity, artistic creation, and existence. Real people from the case play themselves.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2010
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Julien is a former paratrooper, who now works for millionaire arms dealer Simon Carala. He is in love with Florence, Carala's wife. They plan to murder him and make it look like a suicide, but Julien forgets a rather important detail. Leaving the engine of his sports car running, he races up to the office to retrieve it, but fate intervenes, and Julien misses his rendezvous with Florence. She...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2018
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN ELESummary: Set at the height of World War II, this story follows the lives of a Brooklyn man and his wife as they become the victims of their bigoted community, who mistakenly believe them to be Jewish.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA FOCCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Focus 2002Summary: When colleagues think she's an espionage agent, a Girl Friday at a top-secret aeronautics think-tank chaotically sets out to clear her name.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment Co. 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY GLASummary: Matthew is a Chicago investment banker who puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier. With some help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another woman, calling herself Lisa who, unknown beknownst to Matthew, is an...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WICSummary: Joss Whedon's sexy and contemporary spin on Shakespeare's classic comedy about the story of sparring lovers Beatrice and Benedick offers a sensual, tragic and occasionally absurd view of the intricate game that is love.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2012
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MUC1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF MUC
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MUC RATED PG-13Bornedal, Ole
Summary: When an ordinary family man is involved a car accident that causes the other driver, a woman, to have amnesia, he visits her in the hospital and both she and her family believe that he is her boyfriend until the real boyfriend comes looking for him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Koch Lorber Films 2009
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN JUSSummary: Jeff 'The Dude' Lebowski doesn't want any complications in his life. He can't even be bothered with a job. But, in a case of mistaken identity, a couple of thugs break into his place and steal his rug. Now, The Dude must embark on a quest with his crazy bowling buddies to make things right and get that rug back. Their journey blends unforgettable characters, kidnapping, and White Russians.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BIGSummary: On a lonely Greyhound bus, a chance encounter between Sara and Tess, both with identical black travel bags, sets off a deadly game of cat and mouse.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Thriller DVDs, Call number: DVD THRILLER BLASummary: Robert Saunders, a New York City mechanic who is knocked unconscious at his birthday dinner and wakes up to find himself locked inside the restaurant's walk-in freezer. But why he's there, and how he'll survive, will reveal a chilling nightmare of mistaken identity, the Russian mob, a missing eight million, and a wounded cop who may hold the key it all. The temperature is dropping. The fear is...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRESummary: A case of mistaken identity lands down-on-his-luck Slevin into the middle of a war being plotted by two of the city's most rival crime bosses: The Rabbi and The Boss. Slevin begins to be under constant surveillance by relentless Detective Brikowski as well as the infamous assassin Goodkat. He finds himself having to hatch his own ingenious plot to get to them before they get him.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Weinstein Company 2006
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY LUCCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LUCSummary: A case of mistaken identity arises after a screw-up sales consultant and the world's deadliest assassin--known only as The Man from Toronto--run into each other at a holiday rental.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MANSummary: A lonely young woman saves the life of a handsome stranger she has fallen in love with from afar. His family mistakes her for his fiancee, and she goes along because she likes his offbeat family so much. Matters take a hilarious turn when she meets and falls in love with her make-belive lover's brother.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Hollywood Pictures Home Video 1998
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WHISummary: Mary Smith is a poor working girl who literally has a fortune dropped in her lap when a wealthy financier tosses a sable coat out a window and it lands on her. Everyone automatically assumes she's his mistress, and soon her fairytale-like rags-to-riches lifestyle threatens a very real romance with an inept waiter.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2008