Summary: Algernon is a gentleman from a wealthy family. Algernon's close friend Jack has a ward, Cecily. Both Algernon and Jack have created alter egos to make life more interesting. Algernon arrives for a weekend visit in the country posing as Earnest. Having heard of Earnest's misadventures, Cicely has developed an infatuation with the rogue, and Algernon's impersonation of him works famously on...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMPSummary: An inksetter in New York, Quoyle returns to his family's longtime home, a small fishing town in Newfoundland, with his young daughter, after a traumatizing experience with her mother, who sold her to an illegal adoption agency. Though Quoyle has had little success thus far in life, his shipping news column in the local newspaper finds an audience, and his experiences in the town begin to change...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHISummary: Queen Victoria ... was the world's most powerful woman. Rugged Scotsman John Brown ... was a lowly servant who looked after her horses. Yet when circumstances brought them together the result was a passionate friendship that scandalized a nation!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE MRS.Summary: Mr. Bennet is an English gentleman living in Hartfordshire with his overbearing wife and 5 daughters. There is the beautiful Jane, the clever Elizabeth, the bookish Mary, the immature Kitty and the wild Lydia. Unfortunately, if Mr. Bennet dies their house will be inherited by a distant cousin whom they have never met. The family's future happiness and security is dependent on the daughters...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Focus Features 2006
Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Pride 2006Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRICopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PRI RATED PGSummary: The peaceful life of two aging sisters is shattered when they take in a young Polish violinist who they find injured after having been washed ashore near their coastal English home. Their town is suspicious of any visitors and things get worse when he befriends a Russian woman who is visiting the town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2005
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LADCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE LADCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie LadiesSummary: Adapted from the memoirs of literary critic John Bayley, the film recounts his courtship of and long marriage to British novelist Iris Murdoch. The scenario tacks back and forth from the young Iris--ready to seduce one and all with her coy command of words and sex appeal--to the elder Iris--slowly giving way to the cruel erasure of Alzheimer's.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IRISummary: With only a week left before shooting begins on the filming of his latest movie, world famous film director Guido Contini is desperately searching for a way to overcome his creative block. Escaping to a seaside resort, he attempts to restore the equilibrium to his personal and professional existence by drawing inspiration from the women in his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2010
Copies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS NINSummary: When orphaned governess Jane Eyre arrives at imposing Thornfield Hall, she's intrigued by her brooding, wealthy employer, Rochester. His dark moods and the strange occurrences in the house lead her to discover a terrible secret that he had hoped to hide from her forever.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JAN RATED PG-13Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE JANCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Jane 2011Summary: When a new friend and co-worker begins a passionate affair with a male student, schoolteacher Barbara Covett decides to keep the affair secret as a means to manipulate her friend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007