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Revolutionary Road

Call Number: DVD01123

Director/Distributor: Sam Mendes

Format:  DVD video : NTSC color broadcast system : English

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

Publisher: Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2009]

Summary: Frank and April Wheeler live a life that appears to be perfect. They live in the Connecticut suburbs with two young children. Frank commutes to New York City where he works in an office job that he hates and has yet to figure out what his passion in life is. April is a housewife who forgoes her dream of being an actress. They are not happy. One day, April suggests that they move to Paris as a means to rejuvenate their life. Initially skeptical, Frank ultimately agrees to April’s plan. When circumstances change around the Wheelers, April decides she will do whatever she has to to get herself out of her unhappy existence.

OCLC #: 316340260

Added: 10/03/2012

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Title: Raising Helen

Call Number: DVD00421

Director/Distributor: Garry Marshal

Format:  DVD video : English : Full-screen ed

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

Publisher: [United States] : Touchstone Home Entertainment ; Burbank, CA : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ©2004.

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Summary: Helen is living the life she’s always dreamed of with her career at a top modeling agency on the rise. But her carefree lifestyle comes to a crashing halt when she soon finds herself responsible for her sister’s children – Audrey, Henry, and Sarah. No one doubts that Helen is the coolest aunt in New York, but the transformation from super-hip to super-mom is super difficult. Along the way, Helen finds support from Dan Parker, the handsome young pastor and principal of the kids’ new school, and realizes the choice she has to make is between the life she’s always loved and the new loves of her life.

OCLC #: 55952606

Added: 10/03/2012

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Prizzi’s Honor

Call Number: DVD01113

Director/Distributor: John Huston

Format:  DVD video

Language: English; Closed-captioned. Includes English, French and Spanish subtitles.

Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment, 2003.

Notes:

Summary: A hit man goes against his family ways when he falls in love with another hired killer.

OCLC #: 52952699

Added: 10/03/2012

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Title: What a Girl Wants

Call Number: DVD00585

Director/Distributor: Dennie Gordon

Format:  DVD video

Language: English

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

Notes: Full-Screen Edition

Summary: A spirited young American girl goes to London in search of her long-lost father. When she finds him, she sets out to prove that love can conquer all, but finds that her unique, impulsive style threatens the relationship she has waited for all her life.

OCLC #: 52724207

Added: 09/28/2012

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Waiting to Exhale

Call Number: DVD01200

Director/Distributor: Forest Whitaker

Format:  DVD video

Language: English

Publisher: Beverly HIlls, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, 1999, 1995.

Notes:

OCLC #: 704503472

Added:  09/29/2012

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Title: The Philadelphia Story

Call Number: DVD00395

Director/Distributor: George Cukor

Format:  DVD video: Standard version

Language: In English ; subtitled in English, French, and Spanish; closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Publisher: Burbank, CA. : Turner Entertainment : Warner Home Video, 2000.

Notes:

Summary: A sophisticated romantic comedy about a rich, spoiled socialite who learns some things about who she is and what she really wants on the eve of her second marriage.

OCLC #: 44934670

Added: 10/03/2012

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Title: Never Been Kissed

Call Number: DVD01066

Director/Distributor: Raja Gosnell

Format:  DVD video: Widescreen/full screen

Language: Dialogue in English, French and Spanish ; optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Publisher: Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2002]

Notes:

Summary: Josie, a twenty-five-year-old Chicago copy editor, gets her first assignment as a reporter, going undercover at her old high school to learn about today’s teens. While working, she finds that memories of her own high-school years come back to haunt her.

OCLC #: 51513813

Added: 10/03/2012

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding 

Call Number: DVD01056 Copy 1, DVD01056 Copy 2 

Director/Distributor: Joel Zwick

Format:  DVD video

Language: English

Publisher: New York, NY : HBO Home Video, [2003], ©2002.

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Summary: Toula is a quiet, devoted daughter in a big, crazy Greek family. Working in her father’s restaurant, she hides behind her family and keeps the world at a distance. One day at the restaurant she finds herself pouring coffee for a man who inspires her to change her life, and the way she sees the world … forever.

OCLC #: 51307289

Added: 10/03/2012

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McLintock!

Call Number: DVD01031

Director/Distributor: Andrew V. McLaglen

Format:  DVD video

Language: English

Publisher: Los Angeles, CA : Delta, ©2002, 1963.

Notes: Also available in the 20 Great Westerns Collection DVD00885

Summary: A battle of the sexes which includes comedy, action and adventure in a western setting.

OCLC #: 52761719

Added: 10/03/2012

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Title: Stealing Beauty  

Call Number: DVD01169

Director/Distributor: Bernardo Bertolucci
Format:  DVD video
Language: English       
Publisher: Beverly Hills, Calif. : Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2001]
Notes:

Summary: A nineteen year old girl spends the summer in Italy, determined to fulfill two dreams. The first, to consummate the romance with the Italian boy she fell in love with four years earlier, and the second, to discover the identity of her father through clues in her mother’s diary.

 OCLC #: 48768979

Added: 09/28/2012

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The Apartment

Call Number: DVD00654

Director/Distributor: Billy Wilder; I A L Diamond; Jack Lemmon; Shirley MacLaine; Fred MacMurray; Ray Walston; Jack Kruschen; David Lewis; Joan Shawlee; Naomi Stevens; Hope Holiday; Edie Adams; United Artists Corporation.; Mirisch Company.; MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

Format: DVD

Language: English

Publisher: Publisher: Santa Monica, Calif. : MGM Home Entertainment, [2001]

Notes: Originally produced as motion picture in 1960. Special features: original theatrical trailer.

Summary: An ambitious office clerk plans to get ahead by lending out his apartment to his boss, but falls in love with the boss’s girlfriend.

OCLC #: 47202887

Added: Sept. 10^th, 2012

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