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
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY IMPSummary: Comedy about an organizationally impaired temporary assistant who gets her first pemanent job at the age of 31 working for a curator of an art gallery.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IVESummary: "In a quest to find his biological parents, Mel Coplin (Ben Stiller)--joined by his wife (Patricia Arquette) and a sexy adoption counselor (Téa Leoni)--embarks on a cross-country search for his 'roots.' Yet as he careens from one outrageous situation to another, Mel finds himself tempted by the seductive counselor--even as his wife starts a flirtation of her own! By the time they meet up with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF FLISummary: 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
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SHICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SHISummary: The young Jane Austen wishes to be a writer. Her mother thinks otherwise. Although she is offered many marriage proposals she accepts none until the mischevious Thomas Lefroy shows up and turns her world around. At first she finds him ignorant and self centered but as she gets to know him, they start to flirt and eventually fall in love. Thomas' relatives disagree with the match and threaten to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BECCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD MOVIE BECSummary: 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: Maurice and Ian are successful, but aging actors. The two are close friends whose conversation generally revolves around theatrical shop talk and the infirmities of other aging actors. Ian is fearful that death is right around the corner, so he agrees to let his niece's daughter, Jessie, move in to his flat to care for him. Jessie is a modern woman in her early twenties. She turns out to be a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY VENSummary: It's the fun-filled story of one wealthy, eccentric and romantically challenged extended family from New York's Upper West Side.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment ; distributed by Buena Vista Home Video 1999
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1 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS EVESummary: A young Eskimo boy is taken from his people for medical treatment, and although he returns to the land of his birth, he remains forever lost between 2 cultures.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA MAPSummary: Based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, a complicated WWII saga told in flashback sequences. Best Picture, Best Director-Anthony Minghella, and Best Supporting Actress-Juliette Binoche. Includes exclusive bonus material and special packaging.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Spring fever runs wild when a snooty native son returns to his family farm in rural Australia and brings along his voluptous new wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA COUSummary: When a single mother and her young daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop - with Sunday hours - across the street from the local church, they are met with some resistance from the rigidly moral community. But as soon as the townspeople discover their delicious products, their attitudes begin to change.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHO RATED PG-13Copies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHOCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHOCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHOSummary: A story about two old friends and ex-lovers whose surprise reunion turns their lives and the lives of everyone else in town hilariously upside down!
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BraSummary: A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA QUICopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD QUISummary: An uncomfortably unmarried thirty-something "singleton," Bridget decides to take charge of her life and chronicles her Year of Change in this comedic homage to Pride and Prejudice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BRICopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Is there really such a thing as a benevolent destiny that will eventually reunite true soul mates separated by time and distance? It begins at Christmastime in a New York department store, where two people meet by chance -- while shopping for their "significant others"--And are immediately attracted to each other. After spending a romantic evening together, they reluctantly part, secretly...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie SerendipitySummary: Lawrence Wetherhold is a recently widowed literature professor who is a numb and chilly intellectual. He rebuffs his students, ignores his own teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns cries for financial assistance from his ne'er-do-well but rather soulful adopted brother, Chuck. After an accident and Lawrence goes to the hospital, he is deprived of the right to drive. Janet is a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie SmartSummary: The story of the love affair between a beautiful retired courtesan Lea, and Chéri, the son of her old colleague and rival, Madame Peloux. After six years Madame Peloux has secretly arranged a marriage between Chéri and Edmee, the daughter of another rich courtesan. As the inevitable moment of parting approaches, Lea and Chéri begin to understand, too late, how much they mean to one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHESummary: In Ammritsar, the determined Mrs. Bakshi sets out to find matches for her four daughters. Second sister, Lalita, meets American Will Darcy - is it love? A classic story told with a Bollywood twist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2005
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY BRISummary: Emma Woodhouse is a young woman who, having engineered the marriage of her companion, turns her attention toward making a match for the local vicar and her new protegGee, Harriet Smith. Her one voice of reason and restraint is Mr. Knightley, who has known her since she was a child and who watches her behaviour with wry amusement and sometimes with real anger. Emma presides over the small...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 1997
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EMMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EMMSummary: 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
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA IRISummary: Most 15-year-old boys are obsessed with the opposite sex, Oscar is not exception. He is an honor student at an exclusive prep school, he is confident, intelligent, speaks fluent French, and is well versed in literary works. His parents are divorced and his father has recently remarried. Sensing that his stepmother isn't happy in the marriage, Oscar begins waging a low-key but ardent campaign to...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TADSummary: Television made him famous, but his biggest hits happened off screen. The story of a legendary showman's double life--television producer by day, CIA assassin by night. At the height of his TV career, Chuck Barris was recruited by the CIA and trained to become a covert operative, or so he said.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2003
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY CONSummary: Kate and her actor brother live in 21st century New York. Her ex-boyfriend, Stuart, has found a spot near the Brooklyn Bridge where there is a gap in time--one can return to the 19th century. Stuart goes back to the 1870s and takes pictures, then is followed back to New York by Leopold. Leopold gets help with fitting into the 21st century from Kate's brother Charlie, and meets Kate herself....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Miramax Home Entertainment 2002