Babe
Universal City, CA : Universal Studios, c2003.
A piglet destined for eventual butchering arrives at the farmyard, is adopted by an old sheep dog, and discovers a special secret to success.
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Batman begins
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2005.
As a boy a young Bruce Wayne watched in horror as his millionaire parents were slain in front of his eyes. This trauma led him to become obsessed with revenge. After disappearing to the East where he seeks counsel with a ninja cult leader, he returns to his now decaying Gotham City. The City is now overrun by organized crime and dangerous individuals manipulating the system. The discovery of a cave under his mansion, and a prototype armoured suit leads him to take on a new persona. He becomes Batman and strikes fear into the hearts of men who do wrong. With the help of rising cop Jim Gordon, Batman sets out to take down the various criminal schemes that have been set in motion by individuals such as mafia don Falcone, the twisted doctor/drug dealer Jonathan 'The Scarecrow' Crane, and a mysterious third party that is quite familiar with Wayne and waiting to strike when the time is right.
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Breakfast at Tiffany's
[United States] : Paramount Home Entertainment, [2006].
Includes brand-new bonus features: commentary by producer Richard Shepherd; featurettes The Making of a Classic and It's So Audrey: A Style Icon; and much more.
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Bride wars
Beverly Hills, Calif. : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, c2009.
Lifelong best friends Liv and Emma have shared a dream since childhood. Each yearns for the perfect June wedding at the famed Plaza Hotel in New York City. Both find themselves engaged at the same time and go to a wedding coordinator to set up the perfect wedding. A clerical error puts them both down for nuptials on the same day at the same time. One of them will have to switch the date. More than the bouquet goes flying when these desperate brides-to-be fight it out for matrimonial supremacy.
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Calamity Jane
Burbank, CA : Warner Bros. Entertainment : Distributed by Warner Home Video, 2002.
Calamity Jane is a calamity at love--she's too busy cracking a bullwhip to pay much mind to such girlie what-alls as dresses and perfume. "The plot gets under way when Jane promises the citizens of Deadwood that she can persuade classy Chicago stage star Adelaide Adams to perform at the local opry house. Through a case of mistaken identity, Jane brings Adelaide's maid Katie back to town. Katie proves to be a success all the same, and out of gratitude promises to make a 'lady' out of Jane, who is sweet on handsome Lt. Gilmartin. When the lieutenant chooses Katie over Jane, our heroine is heartbroken--until she realizes that she has loved Wild Bill Hickok all along, and that the feeling is mutual so far as Hickok is concerned."--Bosley Crowther.
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The closer. The complete fourth season
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, [2009].
Deputy Police Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson has an offbeat personality, uses a tough-as-nails approach, and has a track record as one of the country's leading investigators. For the Atlanta transplant heading up the Priority Homicide Division of the los Angeles Police Department, her position on this elite detective squad, which handles high-profile cases of a sensitive nature, is a tenuous balancing act. She faces antagonistic roadblocks, even from her own peers, and must manage a team that remains wary of her unconventional style.
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Columbo. The complete fifth season
[United States] : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2006.
Everyone's favorite Police Lieutenant is back in his famous trench coat. Join Columbo as he asks all the right questions in some of the most deceptive and deadly cases. No murderer can hide for long with Columbo on the beat.
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Columbo. The complete second season
Universal City, CA : Universal, 2005.
Columbo, a disheveled, cigar-chomping, trench coat-wearing police lieutenant, who appears to be an incompetent bumbler. Despite his appearance, Columbo is the shrewdest, most resourceful detective in the LAPD.
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Columbo. The complete third season
[United States] : Universal, [2005].
From the halls of Congress to the halls of academia, this set includes all episodes of the classic third season as well as an exciting bonus episode of the TV show Mrs. Columbo.
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Congorama
[Chicago, IL] : Facets Multi-Media, Inc. ; Chicago, IL : Facets Video, [2008].
"When Michel, an uninspired inventor from Belgium who trades on the success of his father, discovers he is adopted, he sets off to find his birth parents in Canada under the guise of selling one of his pointless inventions"-- Container.
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Curious George goes green
[United States] : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2009].
Curious George is back, exploring new things like recycling, gardening, and helping the environment. As always, he can use a little help from his friends, including the Man with the Yellow Hat. Time to set a course for adventure with eight new shows.
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Deja vu
Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, [2007].
A ferry filled with crewmen from the USS Nimitz and their families is blown up in New Orleans during Mardi Gras. BATF Doug Carlin is brought in to assist in the recovery of evidence from the massive investigation, and gets attached to an experimental FBI surveillance unit. The unit uses technology to directly look back in time a little over four days into the past. While tracking down the bomber, Carlin gets an idea in his head: would it be possible to use the device to actually travel back in time and not only prevent the bombing but also the murder of a local woman whose truck was used in the bombing?
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Dora the Explorer. Super babies' dream adventure
Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, 2009.
Dora has a special story for her twin brother and sister. It's naptime for the twins and Dora has a super special story to tell. The Super Babies will need help to wake up the dream fairy so she can deliver all the happy naptime dreams.
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A few good men
Culver City, CA : Columbia TriStar Home Video, c2001.
Cruise stars as a brash Navy lawyer who's teamed with a gung-ho litigator in a politically-explosive murder case. Charged with defending two Marines accused of killing a fellow soldier, they are confronted with complex issues of loyalty and honor - including its most sacred code and its most formidable warrior.
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Forever Fenway 75 years of Red Sox baseball
[S.l. : s.n.], c1987 (St. Paul, MN : Magnetic Media Division).
The official story of the team and players that have called Fenway Park home since 1912.
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Good Will Hunting
Burbank, Calif. : Miramax Home Entertainment : Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, c1997.
A young working-class genius is hauled back from the brink of self- destruction by a gifted counselor.
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Happily ever after
[United States] : Viz Media, c2007.
A visually striking, dark comedy that follows Yukie Morita, a devoted wife, and Isao Hayama, her boorish, unemployed ex-gangster husband. Isao has an uncontrollable temper and everyone advises Yukie to leave him, but her love for him is unconditional because he was the one who initially saved her from her misery.
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Harry Potter and the prisoner of Azkaban
Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007].
Year three at Hogwarts means new fun and challenges as Harry learns the delicate art of approaching a Hippogriff, transforming shape-shifting Boggarts into hilarity and even turning back time. But the term also brings danger: soul- sucking Dementors hover over the school, an ally of the accursed He-Who-Cannot- Be-Named lurks within the castle walls, and fearsome wizard Sirius Black escapes Azkaban.
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Hatching Pete Dadnapped
Burbank, CA : Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment, c2009.
Hatching Pete: Poole has becomes his school's mascot. He comes from a long line of mascots in his family, but it turns out that he can't do it because he's allergic to the costume. So his shy best friend, Pete, does it for him. But when Poole starts becoming popular for being the mascot, and people don't know that it's really Pete, trouble starts between the friends. Dadnapped: Melissa has a bad case of sibling rivalry. Her competition is a fictional character in her father's best-selling novel about a teenage super spy. When her father is 'dadnapped' by a group of overzealous fans, it will be up to Melissa to help him by tapping into her inner superhero.
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Hero next door
[United States] : HIT Entertainment ; Santa Monica, Calif. : Distributed by Lionsgate, c2009.
Team up with Sam and his firefighting crew as they teach that safety comes first. Learn lessons about tackling challenges big and small, and the dangers of fire.
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Insomnia
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2002.
Crime never sleeps and neither does the veteran LAPD homicide detective invited to Nightmute, Alaska to head a murder investigation there. He finds the investigation disrupted by an ever-shining midnight sun that wreaks sleep- depriving havoc on his body clock. As his consciousness becomes more unstable, he is nagged by a sense of personal guilt over a second crime that might just be real.
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John Carpenter's Starman
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, [2001].
An alien, from a distant planet, lands in Wisconsin and arrives at the remote cabin of Jenny Hayden, a distraught young widow. The alien (Starman) convinces her to drive him to Arizona, explaining that if he is not picked up by his mothership in three days he will die. En route, Starman demonstrates the power of universal love, while Jenny rediscovers her human feelings for passion.
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Last chance Harvey
[Santa Monica, CA] : Anchor Bay Entertainment, [2009].
Harvey is a divorced, down-on-his-luck music jingle composer. Kate is a lonely British airline employee. Chance brings them together. Harvey's intention is to only stay for the wedding ceremony of his daughter, he rushes off to the airport so he can make it home for an important music industry meeting. When Harvey gets let go from his job, he decides to stay in London and go to his daughter's wedding reception. He finds Kate and asks her to accompany him to the reception.
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Learn French with Pénélope & Pezi. Beginners' level 1. vol. 1
[San Francisco, Calif.] : Language Tree, c2005.
Starring native French speakers and 3-D animated characters, this DVD teaches basic conversational French within the context of a fantastic birthday party, full of lively songs, delicious food, and playful games. Pénélope and her cuddly French poodle puppy, Pezi, teach useful phrases appropriate for everyday situations.
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Legends of the fall
[Culver City, Calif.] : Columbia TriStar Home Video, [c2000].
An epic Western saga about a woman and the three sons of a Montana rancher who love her, told against the backdrop of World War I.
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Little Dorrit
Burbank, Calif. : BBC Video ; distributed by Warner Home Video, 2009.
When Arthur Clennam returns to London after several years abroad, he wants to learn more about his mother's new seamstress, young Amy Dorrit. His search brings him to the Marshalsea Debtors Prison, where he learns the truth about struggle and hardship in 1820s England.
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Maurice
[United States] : Homevision, 2003.
E.M. Forrester's story of two Edwardian-era Cambridge graduates that fall in love, but must abide by British society's strict norms regarding homosexuality.
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Midsomer murders. Set 4
Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2004].
Likable family man Tom Barnaby is the down-to-earth Chief detective for a cluster of idyllic English country villages where some of the rose-covered cottages are home to murderers, thieves, and blackmailers. Barnaby exposes the criminals with the help from his eager young assistant Sargeant Troy and from his supportive wife.
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Midsomer murders. Set five
Silver Spring, MD : Distributed by Acorn Media, [2004].
Idyllic country villages harbor sinister secrets in these darkly humorous contemporary mysteries. Stars John Nettles and Daniel Casey.
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My best friend's wedding
Culver City, Calif. : Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment, c2001.
Friends from college make a pact to marry each other if they are not married by 28. When Michael gets engaged Julianne will stop at nothing to stop the wedding.
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My way a gangster's saga
[United States] : Cinema Epoch, 2009.
A small-time hustler is on the run from the mob after a drug deal goes bad. While his relationships in his personal life are extremely strained already, his struggle for love and redemption collide with the choices he has made to save his life.
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Peyton Place. Part one
[United States] : Shout Factory, [2009].
Based on the Grace Metalious novel. Set in a small New England town, Peyton Place deals with the secrets and scandals of two generations of the town's inhabitants. An unmarried woman, Constance, and her daughter Allison are at the dramatic center of the story.
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Pillow talk
[United States] : Universal, 2009.
One of the most timeless romantic comedies ever is now available in a 50th Anniversary Edition with all-new bonus features. When Jan Morrow, uptight interior decorator, is forced to share a party line with carefree playboy Brad Allen, there's no connection between them.
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Praying with Lior
[United States] : First Run Features, [2009].
This film asks whether someone with Down syndrome can be a 'spiritual genius.' Many believe Lior is close to God - at least that's what his family and community believe, though he's also a burden, a best friend, an inspiration, and an embarrassment, depending on who is asked and when. As this moving and entertaining documentary moves to its climax, Lior must pass through the gateway to manhood--his Bar Mitzvah.
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The ref
Burbank, CA : Touchstone Home Entertainment, [2003].
An unfortunate cat burglar becomes trapped in a fate worse than jail when he takes a bickering couple and their annoying relatives hostage.
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Role models
Universal City, Calif. : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, [2009].
Danny and Wheeler are two salesmen who trash a company truck while on an energy drink-fueled bender. Upon their arrest, the court gives them a choice - the two can either do hard time or serve 150 hours of community service in a mentorship program. After one day with the kids, however, jail doesn't look half bad. Once the center's ex-con director gives them an ultimatum, Danny and Wheeler are forced to tailor their brand of immature wisdom to their charges, Augie and Ronnie. And if they can just make it through probation without getting thrown in jail, the world's worst role models will prove that, sometimes, it takes a village idiot to raise a child.
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Samantha an American Girl holiday
Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, c2004.
Kindhearted Samantha Parkington's, 1904 New York City, world changes when Nellie O'Malley walks into her life. Nellie, her father, and two little sisters move in next door to be servants for the Ryland family. Though they come from completely different backgrounds, Samantha and Nellie become fast friends. The girls turn to each other in happiness and sorrow, adventure and danger, and grow to be as close as two sister could ever be. But life is full of surprises and nothing prepares them for the life-altering one that lies just ahead.
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Shrek 2
[United States] : DreamWorks Home Entertainment ; Universal City, CA : Distributed by Universal Studios Home Video, c2004.
Right after Shrek and Princess Fiona's honeymoon, the newly wed couple goes to Princess Fiona's parents for dinner. When a Fairy Godmother discovers Fiona and Shrek are married she reminds the king about a deal they agreed on years ago, that Fiona should have married her son, who happens to be Prince Charming. The King then hires a cat named Puss-in-Boots, a sword fighting cat and ogre slayer, to kill Shrek.
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Spanish for children. Volume 1, Colors, numbers, and animals
[United States] : Bilingual Fun Co., c2005.
Sing, dance, and learn Spanish with this upbeat and exciting video. Children will actively learn colors, numbers, and animal vocabulary.
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Spanish for children. Volume 2, Los saludos, el cuerpo, la comida
[United States] : VideoMagic Productions, c2006.
Expand your language skills and learn useful, everyday vocabulary and phrases. Learn along with the children as they introduce greetings, body parts, and food.
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Stephen King's Storm of the century
[United States] : Trimark Home Video, c1999.
When a mysterious man visits a small island off the coast of Maine during a devastating snow storm, its inhabitants are met with an evil unlike any they've ever encountered.
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Taken
Beverly Hills, CA : 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment, [2009].
Kim is seventeen years-old and the pride and joy of her father, the ex- CIA agent Bryan Mills. Bryan left the agency to stay near Kim in California. Kim lives with her mother Lenore and her wealthy stepfather Stuart. Kim convinces the reluctant Bryan to sign an authorization form so she can travel to Paris with her friend Amanda. When they arrive, they share a cab with a stranger named Peter. Amanda tells him that they are alone in Paris. While Bryan is on the phone with Kim, Albanese gang members break into the apartment where the girls are staying. Bryan has Kim give him a detailed description of what she sees and hears. He tells her she is about to be kidnapped. Bryan promises Kim that he will come and get her. He immediately travels to Paris to find Kim and Amanda. He has four days to find her and he uses his special skills and contacts to get her back and seek his revenge.
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Taking chance
[United States] : Home Box Office, 2009.
After hearing of the heroic death of a young Marine in Iraq, veteran officer Lt. Colonel Michael Strobl volunteers to escort the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps back to his hometown, where he embarks on an unexpected emotional journey.
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True blood. The complete first season
[New York, NY] : Home Box Office, [2009].
Chronicles the backwoods Louisiana town of Bon Temps, where vampires have emerged from the coffin and no longer need humans for their fix. A local waitress has the ability to hear the thoughts of others and her situation becomes more complicated when the bar gets its first vampire patron.
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Walden the ballad of Thoreau
[Lexington, Ky. : Friends of Walden] ; Distributed by Poetman Records, c2009.
A performance of a two act, four character play depicting a conversation between Thoreau and Emerson set during the final two days Thoreau spent in his cabin before leaving Walden Pond. Special features on the DVD include a concert performance of original songs written for the play by Michael Johnathon; an interview with Thoreau scholar Thomas Blanding; "The making of Walden" feature; a presentation from the Earth Day network; and environmental conservation tips for kids. Accompanying CD, "Walden : the Earth song collection," is a sound recording of the 12 songs written for the play performed in concert.
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We're back! a dinosaur's story
[United States] : Universal, [2009].
The tale of four huge but huggable dinos who visit New York City to make millions of children's dreams come true. With his IQ-boosting 'Brain Grain' cereal, the time-traveling Captain New Eyes transforms Rex, Elsa, Dweeb, and Woog into thinking, feeling, talking creatures.
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Wicker Park
[United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, c2004.
Matthew is a Chicago investment banker who puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who walked out on him without a word two years earlier. With some help from his friend Luke, Matthew obsessively and relentlessly tracks Lisa down and while doing so, runs into another woman, calling herself Lisa who, unbeknownst to Matthew, is an actress named Alex, who may hold the key to Lisa's original disappearance, and discovery.
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