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1) The General
Author
Publication Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 75 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Rejected by the Confederate army and taken for a coward by his beloved Annabelle Lee (Marion Mack), young Johnny Gray (Keaton) is given a chance to redeem himself when Yankee spies steal his cherished locomotive. Johnny wages a one-man war against hijackers, an errant cannon and the unpredictable hand of fate while roaring along the iron rails. Consistently ranked among the greatest films ever made, Buster Keaton's THE GENERAL is so brilliantly conceived...
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (99 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Luke Wilson plays a good-hearted ex-con who gets a job in a retirement hotel. Three elderly residents help him win back his girlfriend as he lends them a hand in fighting hotel corruption.
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (107 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Stacy Holt (Brittany Murphy), an associate producer for daytime talk show hostess Kippie Kann (Kathy Bates), is frustrated when her boyfriend Derek (Ron Livingston) refuses to discuss his past relationships. With the encouragement of her co-worker Barb (Holly Hunter), she delves into his Palm to learn about his ex-girlfriends. Using the show as a ruse and Barb as her guide, Stacy interviews and befriends them, only to discover that the past, in a...
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (102 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A composer with an unfinished opera, a spiritually conflicted psychiatrist, and a free-spirited tugboat captain collide on an unpredictable voyage into uncharted waters in writer-director Rebecca Miller’s enchanting romantic comedy.
5) Last holiday
Publication Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In this hilarious comedy, discover what happens when a woman finds out that her days are numbered. She throws caution to the wind to embark on a lifetime of fun in just a few weeks.
6) Fever Pitch
Publication Date
1997.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (103 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
In this romantic comedy, obsessive soccer fan Paul (Colin Firth) juggles his passion for Arsenal Football Club with his budding relationship with the more level-headed Sarah (Ruth Gemmell). Set against the backdrop of the 1988-89 football season, Paul’s devotion to the game puts his relationship to the test as he navigates love, loyalty, and the highs and lows of being a die-hard fan. Based on Nick Hornby's autobiographical novel, this film captures...
8) Pillow talk
Publication Date
1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet
Description
A playboy and an interior decorator develop a dislike for each other when they share a party line, until he sees her for the first time.
9) Club zero
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Description
At an international boarding school, an unassuming, yet rigorous, Miss Novak joins the teaching staff to instruct a new class on "conscious eating." Her impressionable teenage students each have their own reasons for joining the class, to improve fitness, reduce their carbon footprint, or get extra credit. Although early lectures focus on mindful consumption, Miss Novak's discussions soon become increasingly disordered and extreme. A suspicious headmistress,...
10) The Flamingo kid
Publication Date
©1998
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It's going to be a summer to remember! Jeffrey Willis is out to set the world on fire... starting with a well-to-do Long Island beach club! Matt Dillon (My Bodyguard) leads an all-star cast, including Richard Crenna (Stone Cold Dead), Hector Elizondo (The Taking of Pelham One Two Three), Jessica Walter (Play Misty for Me) and Janet Jones (A Chorus Line), in this poignant, fast-moving and totally engrossing story that is funny, sensitive and beautifully...
12) Operator
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Joe (Martin Starr, Silicon Valley) is a programmer with a crippling anxiety problem who is unable to deal with uncertainty. At work he is tasked with creating an interactive call center answering machine that can convey empathy. Joe recruits his wife Emily (Mae Whitman, Arrested Development) who has the perfect voice for the system.
13) Fits and Starts
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
David Warwik (Wyatt Cenac) is a struggling writer who has been toiling away at the same novel for years. His wife Jennifer (Greta Lee) is a hot young literary figure, who has just released a new masterpiece. When her publisher invites the couple to an artists' salon at his home in Connecticut, the pair embark on a twisted journey, and David must face his demons and try to "not be weird" among the waspy salon guests and competitive artists in attendance....
14) 13 Going on 30
Publication Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (98 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A delightful be-careful-what-you-wish-for romantic comedy starring Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. On the eve of her 13th birthday, all Jenna Rink wants is to be pretty and popular. After a humiliating experience with the coolest boy in school, Jenna makes a desperate wish for a new life. Miraculously, her wish comes true, but with one catch… it’s 17 years later and she’s a 13-year-old trapped inside her 30-year-old body.
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (109 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Ted, a writer-turned-peanut slinger, returns to care for his Red Sox-obsessed father, Marty, whose health falters with Sox losses. Ted rallies neighborhood pals to orchestrate a winning streak, finding purpose and unexpected bonds along the way.
16) Late Bloomers
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Louise, an aimless, 28 year-old Brooklynite, recently single, sort of a musician, depressed without admitting to it, drunkenly falls while doing something stupid and breaks her hip. This lands her in a physical therapy ward full of people twice her age. There, she meets Antonina - a cranky elderly Polish woman, who speaks no English. Louise gets a job caring for her. Neither woman loves the arrangement but it’s time to face the truth about aging....
17) Lost In Paris
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (83 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, LOST IN PARIS stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical vagabond.
Publication Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When their spouses are unable to join them on a planned group trip, longtime friends, Larry Gilbert and Kitty Weaver find themselves thrown together and falling in love under the sun in beautiful Acapulco. With their vacation coming to an end, both Larry and Kitty find themselves torn between feeling guilty about the affair and whether or not to end it.
20) The Letter Room
Publication Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (33 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Nominated for an Oscar in the Live Action Short Film category, THE LETTER ROOM follows an empathetic corrections officer (Oscar Isaac) who finds escape in the deeply personal letters written to an inmate on death row. Co-starring Alia Shawkat.
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