Summary: 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

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

Summary: Based on the novel by Carrie Fisher about her life in the Hollywood fast lane. Suzanne Vale is a wise-cracking, vulnerable actress determined to jump start her failing career. Her mother, an aging movie star is the definitive portrait of Hollywood's gutsy glamour queens and, of course, offers her daughter only razor sharp humor and searing honesty.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2000

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

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

Summary: Daniel Miller was tooling along a Los Angeles boulevard listening to Barbra Streisand sing "Something's Coming" when something came - a bus. One head-on crash later, Daniel wakes up deceased. And his troubles are just beginning ... Meryl Streep joins writer/director/star Brooks ... for a witty peek at the afterlife where you can eat all you want and not gain an ounce. But there's a catch:...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2001

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

Summary: A hilarious look at marriage, divorce, and everything in between. With a thriving Santa Barbara bakery, a new romance heating up, and her divorce finally behind her, Jane Adler has her life all figured out, until she finds herself trapped between the perfect new beau and her philandering ex-husband who's determined to win her back. When opposites attract all over again, will love be sweeter the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010

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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IT'S

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

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

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

Summary: Two determined California college students, Arian and Ernest, follow the inspiration of their idealistic professor, Dr. Malley, and attempt to do something important with their lives. The two make the bold decision to join the battle in Afghanistan. Dr. Malley is both moved and distraught. Now, as Arian and Ernest fight for survival in the field and the human consequences of war becomes clear...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2008

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

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

Summary: When his army unit is ambushed during the first Gulf War, Sergeant Raymond Shaw saves his fellow soldiers just as his commanding officer, Major Ben Marco, is knocked unconscious. Using the incident for political gain, Shaw eventually becomes a vice-presidential nominee, but Marco is haunted by dreams of what really happened in Iraq. As Marco investigates, the story begins to unravel. He begins...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2004

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

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

Summary: The policy of "extraordinary rendition" began under the Clinton administration and accelerated after September 11, 2001. The policy allows for the handing over of suspected terrorists to countries that use torture as an interrogation tool. Anwar El-Ibrahimi is an Egyptian-born man who disappears on a flight from Africa to Washington, DC. He is sent to a North African country where torture is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Home Entertainment 2008

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

Summary: A drama set in post-World War II Brooklyn revolves around Sophie, a Polish Catholic beauty who survived Auschwitz, her lover, Nathan, and Stingo, a would-be writer. As the three grow closer, Stingo discovers the captivating and moving truths that each harbor.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Live Entertainment 1999

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

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

Summary: Overcome by the power of memory, Ann Lord reveals a long-held secret to her concerned daughters. Constance is a content wife and mother. Nina is a restless single woman. Both are bedside when Ann calls out for the man she loved more than any other. But her daughters wonder who Harris is and what is his relation to their mother? Constance and Nina try to take stock of Ann's life as their mother...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2007

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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD EVE

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

Summary: A single mother with little more than talent and the determination to make a difference teaches violin to students in a tough inner-city neighborhood.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1999

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

Summary: Karen Silkwood becomes contaminated with plutonium at her job, voices her protest at the indifference and denial of her company, and becomes a threat to the entire nuclear industry and the government agencies that monitor it. Based on a true story.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2003

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

Summary: Miranda is the editor of "Runway" magazine. She is a terror to everyone who is around. Her first assistant strives to please her, but can't quite pull it off. Enter Andy, a young woman who knows nothing of the fashion industry and has never read the magazine. Nonetheless, Miranda, hires her as a second assistant. When Miranda demands that she obtain the next unpublished Harry Potter manuscript,...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DEV RATED PG-13

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Devil 2006

Summary: The true story of Karen Blixen, a strong-willed woman who runs a coffee plantation in Kenya in 1914.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2000

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

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

Summary: When his wife walks out, Ted Kramer and his six-year-old son have a chance to really get to know each other. Then Ted's wife returns and she wants her son back.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Columbia TriStar Home Video 2001

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

Summary: A disfunctional family takes a journey of self-discovery and reconciliation and learns to reach out to one another.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Buena Vista Home Video 1999

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

Summary: Susan Traherne returns to her home in post-war Britain haunted by her experiences as a resistance fighter in occupied France.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment 2001

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