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Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore

Call Number: DVD00639 Copy 1

DVD00639 Copy 2

DVD00639 Copy 3

Director/Distributor: Martin Scorsese

Format:  DVD: Widescreen version

Language: English or French dialogue, English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

 Publisher: Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2004]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1974.
Special features: commentary by director Martin Scorsese, Ellen Burstyn and Kris Kristofferson; making-of documentary second chances; theatrical trailer.

Summary: Eight year old Alice Graham dreams of becoming a singer. Twenty seven years later she spends most of her life mediating between her sullen husband and their son Tom. When her husband is killed she decides to sell up and pursue a singing career. She finds herself forced to reassess her life, her relationship with Tom, and most of all her dependence on men.

OCLC #: 56116187

Added: 9/19/2013

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Much Ado About Nothing

Call Number: DVD01053

Director/Distributor: Kenneth Branagh

Format:  DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English : Widescreen

Language:  In English with optional soundtracks in Spanish or French; optional subtitles in English, Spanish or French. Closed-captioned for the hearing impaired.

Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2003]

Notes: Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 1993.
Special features: “Making Much Ado” featurette and original theatrical trailer.

Summary:
With his wedding a week away, Claudio can’t wait to marry the beautiful young Hero. To distract him, his best friend Don Pedro devises mischief: a romantic trap for the sharp-tongued Beatrice and the man she loves to hate, Benedick. Their amusement is almost spoiled by the jealous scheming of Don John, but love and laughter prevail when the local constable unwittingly exposes the plot–and all the trouble proves to be much ado about nothing (111 min.).

OCLC #: 51299343

Added: 9/19/2013

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Who’s that Knocking at my Door

Call Number: DVD01205

Director/Distributor: Martin Scorsese

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: In English with English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, 2004.

Notes: Videodisc release of a 1968 motion picture.

Summary: This debut feature film of Martin Scorsese is the story of a young, unemployed man who is content to hang out with his equally unambitious buddies in New York’s Little Italy. Then he falls in love with a college-educated girl and is forced to look at the neighborhood and life itself in a new way.

OCLC #: 56363726

Added: 9/19/2013

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Barry Lyndon

Call number: VHS 01743

Director/Distributor: Stanley Kubrick, Ryan O’Neal, Marisa Berenson, Patrick Magee, Harry Krueger

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©1987.

Notes: Released: 1975

             Runtime: 185 Mins.

Summary: An Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband’s position in 18th Century aristocracy.

OCLC #: 17602038

Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter

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At First Sight

Call number: VHS 01741

Director/Distributor: Val Kilmer; Mira Sorvino; Kelly McGillis; Nathan Lane; Irwin Winkler

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, ©1999.

Notes: Released: 1999

             Runtime: 129 Mins.

Summary: A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.

OCLC #: 41256441

Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter

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As Good As It Gets

Call number: VHS 01739 Copy 1

VHS 01739 Copy 2

Director/Distributor: James L. Brooks, Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt, Greg Kinnear

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Columbia TriStar, ©1997.

Notes: Released: 1997

             Runtime: 139 Mins.

             Won 1997 Academy Award for Best Actor

             Won 1997 Golden Globe for Best Picture, Best Actor & Best Actress

Summary: After his homosexual neighbor is attacked and hospitalized, an obsessive-compulsive, homophobic novelist takes care of his neighbor’s dog and rediscovers his humanity which enables him to have a romance with a young waitress.

OCLC #: 608121791

Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter

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Algiers

Call number: VHS 01730

Director/Distributor: John Cromwell, Walter Wanger, Charles Boyer, Hedy Lamarr, Joseph Calleia

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Memory Lane Video, ©1984.

Notes: Released: 1938

             Runtime: 100 Mins.

Summary: Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.

OCLC #: 13031948

Added: 01/18/13 by Reece Potter

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Addicted to Love

Call number: VHS 01728

Director/Distributor: Griffin Dunne, Meg Ryan, Matthew Broderick; Warner Bros

Format: VHS

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA: Warner Home Video, ©1997.

Notes: Released: 1997

             Runtime: 99 Mins.

Summary: Maggie’s and Sam’s former partners are in love; she wants revenge and he wants his lost love back, so they work together to break up the happy couple.

OCLC #: 223765979

Added: 01/18/13

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Bend it like Beckham

Call Number: DVD00669 Copy 1 (Widescreen)

DVD00669 Copy 2 (Fullscreen)

Director/Distributor: Gurinder Chadha; Deepak Nayar; Guljit Bindra; Paul Mayeda Berges; Parminder Nagra; Keira Knightley; Jonathan Rhys-Meyers; Anupam Kher; Archie Panjabi; Shaznay Lewis; Frank Harper; Juliet Stevenson; Liangzhong Lin; Justin Krish; Craig Pruess; Ralph Holes; Fox Searchlight Pictures.; Kintop Pictures (Firm); Bend It Films.; ROC Media.; Road Movies Filmproduktion.; Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc.

Format:  DVD video : English : Widescreen & Fullscreen ed

Language: English (5.1 Dolby surround), French (5.1 Dolby surround) and Spanish (Dolby surround) language soundtracks with optional subtitles in English or Spanish; closed-captioned in English.

Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2003]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2002.
Special features: Director/co-writer commentary; 10 deleted scenes; “making of” featurette; “Who wants to cook Aloo gobi” cooking featurette; music video with outtakes; trailers; Aloo gobi recipe.

Summary:

OCLC #: 52872906

Added: 10/12/2012

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Evening

Call Number: DVD00837

Director/Distributor: Lajos Koltai

Format: DVD video : English : Widescreen

Language: English or dubbed French dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing.

Publisher: Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, ©2007.

Notes:
Based on the novel by Susan Minot.
Special features: Deleted scenes; featurettes.

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 is tended to by a night nurse as she journeys into her mind back to a summer weekend some fifty years before, before she was married, going from New York City to be maid of honor at the high-society Newport wedding of her dearest friend from college, Lila Wittenborn. The bride-to-be is jittery, and turns to her maid of honor rather than her own mother for support. Ann stays close to her friend, yet is even closer to Lila’s irrepressible brother Buddy. Unexpected feelings surge forth once Ann meets wedding guest Harris Arden, a lifelong friend and intimate of the Wittenborn family. Ann’s love for Harris will change her life, and those of her daughters, forever.

OCLC #: 164620200

Added: 10/12/2012

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Down to you

Call Number: DVD00807

Director/Distributor: Kris Isacsson

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: English or dubbed French dialogue, optional Spanish subtitles ; English captions for the hearing impaired ; closed-captioned.

Publisher: [Burbank, Calif.] : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2000]

Notes: Special features include: behind the scenes from feature, music video, “It all comes down to you” by Billie Myers, behind the scenes from music video.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2000.

Summary: Two college students in New York City begin a romantic journey where true love often competes with the temptation to stray from commitment.

OCLC #: 44572303

Added: 10/12/2012

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Dan in Real Life

Call Number: DVD00757

Director/Distributor: Peter Hedges

Format:  DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English

Language: In English, dubbed French or dubbed Spanish dialogue with optional English SDH, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2008]

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 2007.
Special features: “Just like family: the making of Dan in real life” featurette; “Handmade music: creating the score” featurette; Deleted scenes with commentary by writer/director Peter Hedges; Outtakes; Commentary with writer/director Peter Hedges.

Summary: Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist. He is a widower with three daughters. He brings the family to his parent’s house for a family gathering. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie. When he gets home, he finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch. Dan’s mother Nana announces that she met an old acquaintance of Dan’s, Ruthie Draper and that she has set up a date between Dan and Ruthie. Dan refuses to go. Mitch suggests that they could make it a double date and Dan agrees. Ruthie turns out to be very hot, but Dan isn’t really interested in her. When Marie indicates that Ruthie is not right for him, Dan feigns interest and starts dancing with Ruthie. Marie gets jealous and joins the floor with Mitch, leading to an upstaging contest between Dan and Marie.

OCLC #: 183716968

Added: 10/10/2012

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Title: Blue Valentine

Call Number: DVD00687

Director/Distributor: Derek Cianfrance

Format:  DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English

Language: In English, with optional subtitles in English SDH or Spanish.

Publisher: [New York, NY : Distributed by] Anchor Bay Entertainment, 2011.

Notes: DVD release of the 2010 motion picture.
Special features: audio commentary Derek Cianfrance, Jim Helton, deleted scenes, The making of Blue valentine, Frankie and the unicorn home movie.

Summary: An honest, moving and uninhibited love story. The uncompromising portrait of Dean and Cindy, a young married couple who have grown apart, taking one night away from their daughter to try to save their relationship. Highlighted by provocative scenes alternately intimate and intense, the film captured audiences and critics alike.

OCLC #: 702485087

Added: 10/10/2012

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Lost in Translation

Call Number: DVD01015

Director/Distributor: Sofia Coppola

Format:  DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English: Full-screen

Language: Soundtrack in English or French ; optional French or Spanish subtitles ; optional English closed-captions.

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Video, ©2003.

Notes: Originally produced in 2003.

Summary: A middle-aged actor and the wife of a workaholic photographer meet while in Tokyo. They strike up an unusual friendship in the hotel bar that helps them both overcome boredom and loneliness.

OCLC #: 53816204

Added: 10/10/2012

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A Little Romance

Call Number: DVD01002

Director/Distributor: George Roy Hill

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: In English; with optional English, French and Spanish subtitles ; Closed-captioned.

Publisher: Burbank, Calif. : Warner Home Video, ©2003.

Notes: Based on the novel: E=mc2, mon amour / by Patrick Cauvin.

Summary: A comedy about a boy and a girl, 13-year-olds, in Paris, who fall in love, and an old gentlemanly rascal who helps them in their plans to visit the Bridge of Sighs in Venice.

OCLC #: 51750874

Added: 10/10/2012

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Title: Rumor has it

Call Number: DVD00447

Director/Distributor: Rob Reiner

Format:  DVD video : English : Full-screen ed

Language: English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2006.

Notes: DVD release of the 2005 motion picture.
Special features: Theatrical trailer.

Summary: Sarah has finally agreed to marry her boyfriend Jeff, but isn’t sure if marriage is what she wants. Now she’s on her way home to attend her sister’s wedding, which means spending a lot of time with the tennis-obsessed Pasadena family that she’s never felt quite a part of. It isn’t until Sarah stumbles into a well-kept family secret that she starts to question her roots and sets off in search of the man who may have answers the she has been looking for.

OCLC #: 63688426

Added: 10/10/2012

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Just Friends

Call Number: DVD00967

Director/Distributor: Roger Kumble

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: English dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : New Line Home Entertainment, 2006.

Notes: Special features: blooper reel; deleted scenes; alternate ending; 9 behind-the-scenes featurettes; “Jamie smiles” music video; feature-length commentary with filmmakers & more.

Summary: During their high school years, Chris confessed his love for his best friend and was met with a broken heart and degrading humiliation. Adding insult to injury, Chris was a big guy and was a source of ridicule for cruel classmates. Years later things have changed and Chris is now a hotshot record producer in Hollywood and the complete physical opposite of himself in high school. When a freak accident occurs on the way to Paris, Chris is forced to return home with Samantha James, an up and coming act in tow. Little does he know that he would come face to face with the friend that he tried so desperately to forget. With the chance to woo her again, Chris will do what he can despite his client’s violent misgivings and a competitive rival suitor against him. No matter the crazy obstacles he must overcome, Chris will do whatever it takes to be more than just friends.

OCLC #: 62794076

Added: 10/10/2012

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Holiday in the Sun

Call Number: DVD0919

Director/Distributor: Steve Purcell

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: English

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2001.

Notes: Special features: behind-the-scenes featurette; music video; fashion piece; theatrical trailers.

Summary: The twins are spending winter break at the lavish Atlantic Hotel on Paradise Island in the Bahamas … with their parents. Determined to make the best of their situation, the girls decide to unleash a tropical hurricane of off-the-hook action and head-over-heels tropical romance. Amidst the parties, scuba diving, and moonlit strolls, the girls stumble across something sinister … a mysterious antiquities smuggling ring.

OCLC #: 48255618

Added: 10/10/2012

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Fever Pitch

Call Number: DVD00845

Director/Distributor: David Evans

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: In English with optional English, Spanish and French subtitles.

Publisher: [United States] : Trimark Home Video, ©2000.

Notes:

Summary: A romantic comedy about a man, a woman and a football team. Based on Nick Hornby’s best selling autobiographical novel, Fever Pitch. English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal’s roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.

OCLC #: 46479914

Added: 10/10/2012

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Failure to Launch

Call Number: DVD00842

Director/Distributor: Tom Dey

Format:  DVD video : English : Full-screen special collector’s ed

Language: English or dubbed French dialogue with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Pictures, ©2006.

Notes: Special features: Casting off : The making of ‘Failure to launch’; the ‘Failure to launch’ phenomenon featurette; Dating in the new millennium: keys to a successful relationship; Moviefone.com unscripted with Matthew McConaughey and Terry Bradshaw; the ‘Failure to Launch’ contest; theatrical trailer.

Summary: Tripp is a thirtysomething slacker, but that doesn’t mean that he is ready to give up the many benefits of living at home with his mom and dad. His desperate parents have had enough though, and after years of gentle nudging they soon realize that it is going to take a concerted effort to get Tripp out so they can enjoy their twilight years in peace. Realizing that their only hope for riding themselves of their reluctant-to-leave son, Al and Sue hope that on the off-chance Tripp will meet the woman of his dreams, the two enlist the help of a beautiful and talented woman in providing the romantic incentive needed to finally get their son out of the family home.

OCLC #: 67619053

Added: 10/10/2012

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