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Life as a House

Call Number: Copy 1: DVD00997

Copy 2: DVD00997

Director/Distributor: Irwin Winkler

Format:  DVD video : CD for computer : English : Widescreen format (2.10:1)

Language: In English, with optional English subtitles. Closed-captioned.

Publisher: [Burbank, Calif.] : New Line Home Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2002]

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2001.
Special features (48 min.): optional audio commentary by Winkler, Cowan & Andrus; “Character building : inside ‘Life as a house'” featurette (24 min.); “From the ground up” feature (10 min.); 4 deleted scenes, with optional audio commentary (12 min. total); production notes; 17 cast & crew bios; theatrical trailer (2 min.).
Includes DVD-ROM features.
“Enhanced for widescreen TVs

Summary:

OCLC #: 49390238

Added: 10/12/2012

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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

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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

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Eight Below

Call Number: DVD00817

Director/Distributor: Frank Marshall

Format:  DVD video : English

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

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2006]

Notes: Suggested by the film: Nankyoku Monogatari; inspired by a true story.
Special features: Deleted scenes; “Running with the dogs: the making of Eight below”; two audio commentaries.

Summary:  An American geologist flies to Antarctica to participate in a project at the United States Research Base. Once there, he teams up with arctic guide Jerry Shepard and his best friend, Cooper. The scientist soon discovers that Shepard also has eight other valuable friends, a pack of sled dogs he’s worked with for years who have rescued him from a number of tight spots. As the three men explore a frozen mountain region, an unexpected accident coupled with a massive storm front forces them to fly to safety, leaving the dogs behind. Shepard is determined to rescue his canine friends, but he has to wait until the weather will allow him to travel back to the mountain. Now, the dogs must struggle against the elements to survive as they attempt to make their way back home.

OCLC #: 64685889

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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

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The Dark Knight

Call Number: DVD00760

Director/Distributor: Christopher Nolan; Charles Roven; Emma Thomas; Jonathan Nolan; Christian Bale; Heath Ledger; Aaron Eckhart; Michael Caine; Maggie Gyllenhaal; Gary Oldman; Morgan Freeman; Monique Gabriela Curnen; Ron Dean; Cillian Murphy; James Newton Howard; Hans Zimmer; Bob Kane; Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ); Legendary Pictures.; DC Comics, Inc.; Syncopy (Firm); Warner Home Video (Firm);

Format:  DVD video : English : Full-Screen Edition

Language: English, French, or Spanish audio; English, French or Spanish subtitles; English subtitles for the hearing impaired (SDH).

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, ©2008.

Notes: Based upon characters appearing in comic books published by DC Comics.
The Batman character was created by Bob Kane.

Summary: With the help of Lieutenant Jim Gordon and District Attorney Harvey Dent, Batman raises the stakes on his war on crime and sets out to dismantle the remaining criminal organizations that plague the city streets. The partnership proves to be effective, but they soon find themselves prey to a reign of chaos unleashed by a rising criminal mastermind known to the terrified citizens of Gotham as The Joker. The Joker, whose eerie grin and laughter characterize his emotional and mental instability, becomes a dangerous adversary that Batman seeks to stop at all costs.

OCLC #: 259231584

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: Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

Call Number: DVD 01068

Director/Distributor: Ang Lee

Format:  DVD video : Secondary (senior high) school : Chinese

Language: In Mandarin with optional soundtracks in English or French and optional subtitles in English or French ; closed-captioned in English for the hearing impaired.

Publisher: Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, 2001, ©2000.

Notes: Based on Wo hu zang long / Wang Du Lu.
Special features: Ang Lee & James Schamus commentary; Bravo making-of special: Unleashing dragons; a conversation with Michelle Yeoh; theatrical trailers; photo montage; filmographies.

Summary:

OCLC #: 47151804

Added: 10/10/2012

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The Comancheros

Call Number: DVD00738

Director/Distributor: Michael Curtiz

Format:  DVD video : English

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

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

Notes: Originally released as a motion picture in 1961.
Based on the novel by Paul I. Wellman.
Special features: movie tone news: Claude King and Tillman Franks receive award ; theatrical trailer ; Spanish trailer.

Summary: “Captain Cutter [is] a fearless Texas Ranger determined to crush a violent gang of gunrunners and theives known as The Comancheros. Through an unlikely turn of events, Cutter enlists the help of his own prisoners to accomplish his mission”–Container.

OCLC #: 56336340

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Title: Cimarron

Call Number: DVD00728

Director/Distributor: Edna Ferber

Format:  DVD video : English : Special ed

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

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Turner Entertainment Co. : Distributed by Warner Home Video, ©2006.

Notes: Based on the novel by Edna Ferber. Won 3 Academy Awards including Best Picture (1930)
Special features: ‘The devil’s cabaret’ [featurette] (16 min.); ‘Red-headed baby’ [featurette] (7 min.).

Summary: “A nation rising to greatness through the work of men and women, new country opening, raw land blossoming, crude towns growing into cities, territories becoming rich states. In 1889, President Harrison opened the vast Indian Oklahoma lands for white settlement–2,000,000 acres free for the taking, poor and rich pouring in, swarming the border, waiting for the starting gun, at noon, April 22nd …”–Prologue from title screens. Cimarron is a sprawling western saga, an earnest tale about empire building, and a film of its time, which viewers should keep in mind. It follows the adventures Yancey Cravat, a lawyer and newspaperman from Wichita, who joins the Oklahoma Territory land rush in 1889. Soon he and his family are citizens of Osage. Beset by wanderlust, Yancey joins the Cherokee Strip land rush in 1893, leaving wife Sabra behind to run the newspaper and raise their son, Cimarron. by 1907, Yancey is back at home as Oklahoma becomes a state. During the oil boom, he refuses to join a scheme to cheat the Indians out of their oil rich land, and then disappears again. In 1929, Sabra is elected Oklahoma’s first Congresswoman, Cimarron is married to an Indian princess, and Yancey still hasn”t returned.

OCLC #: 63059026

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Category 7: The End of the World

Call Number: DVD00716

Director/Distributor: Dick Lowry

Format:  DVD

Language: English

Publisher: LaCrosse, WI : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment, [2006]

Notes: Title from container. Originally broadcast on television in 2005.Based on characters created by Matt Dorff.

Summary: As a deadly storm descends upon Earth, officials scramble to pinpoint the cause. Though global warming is the suspect, scientist Faith Clavell realizes that something else is triggering the extreme weather. She must enter the storm itself to stop it.

OCLC #: 63175026

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Bring It On

Call Number: DVD00695

Director/Distributor: Peyton Reed

Format:  DVD video : English : Collector’s ed., widescreen version

Language: English or French diaglogue, English or French subtitles. Closed captioned for the hearing impaired.

Publisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures, ©2000.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Special features: spotlight on location: The making of “Bring it on”; feature commentary with director; deleted scenes; extended scenes; never before seen home movies of the car wash scene; wardrobe and makeup tests; “Did you know that?” Universal’s animated anecdotes: watch the movie and learn about interesting and sometimes unbelievable facts; Blaque “As if” music video; DVD-ROM features including screen saver and cheer quiz; theatrical trailer and more!

Summary: The Toro cheerleading squad has spirit, spunk, sass and a killer routine that’s sure to land them the national championship torphy for the sixth year in a row. But for newly-elected team captain, Torrance, the Toros’ road to cheer glory stumbles when she discovers their perfectly choreographed routines were stolen from a hot hip-hop squad across town. Now the squad must scramble to find a new routine to compete in this year’s competition.

OCLC #: 45944306

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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

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Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Call Number: DVD01005

Director/Distributor: Guy Ritchie

Format:  DVD video : English

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

Publisher: [New York] : PolyGram Video ; Universal Studios, CA : Universal, ©2003.

Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1998.
Special features: UK and US theatrical trailers (2 min. each), production featurette (8 min.), Cockney dictionary, cast and crew biographies.

Summary: A streetwise charmer who loses his friends’ money in a rigged game comes up with a plan to make everything come out right, but ends up in a comedy of errors.

OCLC #: 52314897

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

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The Juror

Call Number: DVD00966

Director/Distributor: Brian Gibson

Format:  DVD video : English

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

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Video, ©1998.

Notes: Title from disc label.
Based on the book by George Dawes Green.
Videodisc release of the 1996 motion picture.

Summary: A struggling single mother impulsively agrees to serve on a jury hoping for a little excitement in her humdrum life. She gets far more than she bargained for when she’s forced to sacrifice the truth to save her son from the mob’s seductive, psychotic enforcer.

OCLC #: 45440045

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The Incredibles

Call Number: DVD00940

Director/Distributor: Brad Bird

Format:  DVD video : Animation : NTSC color broadcast system : English : 2-disc collector’s ed., Full-Screen

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

Publisher: [Burbank, CA] : Walt Disney Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, ©2005.

Notes: Special features: Disc 1. Introduction by Brad Bird; commentary with writer/director Brad Bird, producer John Walker; commentary with animators. Disc 2. Intro; Jack-Jack attack; Deleted scenes; Making of the Incredibles; More making of the Incredibles; Incredi-blunders; Vowellet: an essay by Sarah Vowell; Art gallery; Publicity; Mr. Incredible and pals; Mr. Incredible and pals with commentary; NSA files; Boundin’; Boundin’ with commentary; Who is Bud Luckey?

Summary: Bob and his wife Helen used to be among the world’s greatest crime fighters, saving lives and battling evil on a daily basis. Fifteen years later, they have been forced to adopt civilian identities and retreat to the suburbs where they live “normal” lives with their three kids, Violet, Dash, and Jack-Jack. Itching to get back into action, Bob gets his chance when a mysterious communication summons him to a remote island for a top secret assignment. He soon discovers that it will take a super family effort to rescue the world from total destruction.

OCLC #: 57246031

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The Ides of March

Call Number: DVD00935

Director/Distributor: George Clooney

Format:  DVD video : English

Language: In English with optional English or Spanish subtitles ; English subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing (SDH).

Publisher: Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2012.

Notes: Based on the play: Farragut North / by Beau Willimon.
Originally released as a motion picture in 2011.
Special features: commentary with George Clooney and Grant Heslov ; Believe: George Clooney ; On the campaign: the cast of The Ides of March.

Summary: During the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, an up-and-coming campaign press secretary finds himself involved in a political scandal that threatens to upend his candidate’s shot at the presidency.

OCLC #: 763474556

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 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

Call Number: DVD00916

Director/Distributor: Garth Jennings

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

Language: English (Dolby 5.1 surround or DTS 5.1 digital surround), French (Dolby digital 2.0.) and Spanish (Dolby digital 2.0) soundtracks with optional subtitles in French or Spanish and captions in English for the hearing impaired; closed-captioned in English.

Publisher: Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2005]

Notes: Based on the book by Douglas Adams.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2005.
Special features: deleted scenes; fake deleted scenes; additional Guide entry; sing along “So long & thanks for all the fish”; Making of The hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy; audio commentaries; set-top game, Marvin’s hangman.

Summary: Arthur Dent and Ford Prefect escape from the Earth moments before its destruction and join forces with Zaphod Beeblebrox on board the ship Heart of Gold. They meet many people and aliens in their search for the ultimate question.

OCLC #: 61462227

Added: 10/10/2012

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