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Birbiglia, MikeSummary: The Yellowjackets barely made it through summer in the woods, but now as winter begins to bite, we'll see if hunger and desperation turn into full-on psychosis. While there may or may not be a dark and powerful force inhabiting the wilderness, their survival could depend upon what they choose to believe. Meanwhile, twenty-five years later, each survivor must ask themselves Is the darkness...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV YELCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD YELSummary: Max has an active imagination, who will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him - runs away from home. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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2 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY WHECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Juvenile Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD JUV WHECopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD WHESummary: When his brother dies, Jake, a 30-year-old cardiologist, is called upon to marry the widow, Leah, under orthodox Jewish law. While initially just going through the motions to satisfy their mothers, the two soon find themselves in love.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LoSummary: Emilia, a law school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After they marry, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless carries on, attempting to forge a connection with her stepson William and to resist the interference of Jack's jealous ex-wife.
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Publisher / Publication Date: IFC Films 2011
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE OTHSummary: A look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home in Pasadena. With the elder son returning home for the holidays to shattering news, the family must learn to deal with a death of their own, while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of the living. A funny and emotional look at a grieving American family ... that just happens to be in the grief management business.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2003
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2004
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: When death is your business, what is your life? For the employees at Fisher & Sons Funeral Home, the world outside continues to be at least as challenging, and far less predictable, as the one inside.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2006
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: For the Fishers, the more things stay the same, the more they change. Get ready to break new emotional ground with the complete third season.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Home Box Office 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: There's a new pecking order at the Fisher & Diaz funeral home, but Nate, Ruth, David, and Claire still try to make every day above ground a good one.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2005
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV SIXSummary: Battling illness and unable to finish a novel that has taken him ten years to write, aging novelist Leonard Schiller is slipping into literary obscurity. At one time a famous author, Schiller has been all but forgotten by the readers, colleagues and critics who once praised his works. When Heather Wolfe, an ambitious graduate student, convinces Schiller that her thesis could reintroduce his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STABirbiglia, Mike
Summary: A stand-up comedian tries to balance his rising career and a long-term relationship with his girlfriend while also dealing with a sleep disorder.
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Publisher / Publication Date: MPI Home Video 2012