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Fathers and daughters Drama Man-woman relationships Man-woman relationships Drama Motion picture actors and actresses Motion picture actors and actresses Drama Motion picture industry Motion picture industry Drama Motion picture producers and directors Motion picture producers and directors Drama Pittsburgh (Pa.) DramaSummary: A satirical comedy about a down-on-his-luck publicist who discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOOCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FOOSummary: Sarah Davis heads to her uncle's struggling ranch to escape New York and the spotlight from a recent breakup. Returning home for the first time since her aunt passed, complications arise when Graham, an entitled Hollywood star, arrives at the ranch to prepare for his next film. As Sarah and Graham start to bond, Sarah may get more for Christmas than she bargained for.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: "Mabel and Rosenthal are the two stars of a pretentious art-horror film directed by an unhinged tyrant who may or may not be German (he goes by 'Herr Director'). Mabel is playing a blind woman while Rosenthal, who has facial tumors caused by neurofibromatosis, is essentially playing a version of himself. Both their characters are part of a mad doctor's plot to 'cure' disabilities. But while...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CHASummary: Jeff Goldblum may have starred in some of the biggest movies in history, but to secure a green card for his young Canadian fiancée, he's agreed to do a two-week regional theater production of "The music man" in his Pennsylvania hometown. Now he's faced with grueling rehearsals, a furious agent, good friends with their own troubles whom he's convinced to co-star, and the very real prospect of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Starz Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF PITSummary: Society matron Norma Carlisle volunteers to accompany future Jazz Age star and free spirit Louise Brooks for a summer in New York. But why does she want to go? It's a story full of surprises, about who these women really are, and who they eventually become.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
Copies Available at Woodmere
4 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Chaperone 2019Summary: After years of living abroad, former actress Sangok is back in Seoul, staying with her sister Jeongok in her high-rise apartment. The siblings sleep late, have breakfast in a caf̌, and visit a restaurant owned by Jeongok's son. But as the details of Sangok's day accrue (a spill on her blouse, an encounter at her childhood home), it becomes clear that there is much she is not revealing. And...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: More than two decades after catapulting to stardom with The Princess Bride, an aging actress decides to take her final job: preserving her digital likeness for a future Hollywood. Through a deal brokered by her loyal, longtime agent and the head of Miramount Studios, her alias will be controlled by the studio, and will star in any film they want with no restrictions.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA CONSummary: From a screenplay by Shia LaBeouf, based on his own experiences, award-winning filmmaker Alma Har'el brings to life a young actor's stormy childhood and early adult years as he struggles to reconcile with his father through cinema and dreams. Fictionalising his childhood's ascent to stardom, and subsequent adult crash-landing into rehab and recovery, Har'el casts Noah Jupe and Lucas Hedges as...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HONSummary: When troubled actor Anthony Miller begins unraveling while on the set of his latest horror film, his estranged daughter Lee questions if it's caused by his past addictions, or whether something darker is at play.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2024
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD EXOSummary: A fading star meets an aspiring actress, falls in love with and marries her. Her career skyrockets, while his continues to fade with tragic results.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: VCI Entertainment 2012
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA STASummary: A Hong Kong action-movie star arrives in Paris to play the latex-clad lead in a remake of Louis Feuillade's classic silent crime serial Les vampires. What she finds is a behind-the-scenes tangle of barely controlled chaos as egos clash, romantic attractions simmer, and an obsessive director drives himself to the brink to realize his vision.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN IRMSummary: 'Strange, what love does.' The role of a lifetime, a Hollywood mystery, a woman in trouble...David Lynch's first digitally shot feature makes visionary use of the medium to weave a vast meditation on the enigmas of time, identity, and cinema itself. Featuring a tour de force performance from Laura Dern as an actor on the edge, this labyrinthine Dream Factory nightmare tumbles down an endless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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1 available in Avant-Garde DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY AVANT GARDE INLSummary: An aging film star retreats to the Scottish countryside with her nurse to recover from surgery. While there, mysterious forces of revenge emerge from the land where witches were burned.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Horror DVDs, Call number: DVD HORROR SHESummary: In his unique fiction/documentary hybrid, the pioneering William Greaves presides over a beleaguered film crew in New York's Central Park, leaving them to try to figure out what kind of movie they're making. This wildly innovative sixties counterculture landmark is expanded 35 years later by its unconventional follow-up, Take 2 1/2. The sequel sees the actors reunited in a more personal,...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2020
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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DOC SYMSummary: If we knew how much longer we had to live, what would we choose to do with the time we have left? Set in a British hospital, it follows poised and put-together Hollywood star Julia Roth, who seems to be in the sunset of her career, as she begins her journey with a critical medical issue. Preferring to be incognito, Julia is instead thrust into a room with three remarkable women who, with humor...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MYCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie MyElliott, Sam
Summary: After he receives a diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, a former Western film star re-evaluates his life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2017
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA HERCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HER RATED RCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HERKelly, Gene
Summary: A Hollywood actor who has risen from vaudeville to become a silent film star must make the difficult transition to sound films.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SINCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Musicals DVDs, Call number: DVD MUSICALS SINCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIN RATED PGPhoenix, Joaquin
Summary: Follows Joaquin Phoenix as he transitions from a career in acting to attempting a career as a rapper.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Magnolia Home Entertainment 2010