Danny DeVito
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Three industrial lubricant salesmen at a convention where anything can happen and careers can be made or ruined on a handshake. Now, with their futures on the line, they must put their trust in a greenhorn sales rep as they pursue the ultimate sale.
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2 videodiscs (220 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
America's favorite back-stabbing bar owners are at it again in the outrageously over-the-top Season Eight of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia! Join the gang at Paddy's Pub for more disagreements, divisiveness, debauchery and depravity as Charlie and Dee find love among Philadelphia's high society, and Dennis crashes his ex-wife's wedding. Frank loses his memory - and his mind - in a hopeless search for lost treasure, and insanity ensues when the...
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2 videodiscs (approximately 214 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The gang returns for their most inappropriate adventures yet in season 9 of It's always sunny in Philadelphia. Once again, Paddy's Pub is the spot for clever cruelty and tasteless tomfoolery as Dee and Charlie get roped into a pyramid scheme and Dennis reveals he has super-powered erections. Season 9 also features "The Gang Saves The Day," the show's historic 100th episode. While trying to "stop" a convenience store robbery, Frank hotdogs it, Charlie...
5) Junior
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Dr. Alex Hesse and his associate, Dr. Larry Arbogast have developed a wondrous new drug to ensure healthy pregnancies. But when the government forbids further testing of their creation, Alex and Larry secretly move forward with a daring plan. And Dr. Hesse becomes pregnant, which leads to comedy, romance and maternal love.
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1 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Erin Brockovich is a feisty young mother who convinces attorney Ed Masry to hire her and promptly stumbles upon a momumental law case against a giant corporation. Erin's determined to take on this powerful adversary even though no law firm has dared to do it before. The two begin an incredible and sometimes hilarious fight that will bring a small town to its feet and a huge company to its knees.
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1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The irreverent portrayal of the harsh realities of life after college captures the misadventures of Lelaina, an ambitious TV production assistant, and her relationships with her sarcastic roommate, Vickie, friends Sammy and Troy, and an ambitious video executive, Michael.
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hilary Swank stars in this story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed a voice. Swank plays Erin Gruwell, the real-life teacher at Long Beach's Wilson High who inspired her students to overcome the gangs that divided them and the education system that forgot them.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Two neighbors in a small New England town go to war when one of them decides to decorate his house with so many Christmas lights that they are visible from space. The neighborhood is turned upside down as the families try to discover the true meaning of Christmas.
10) Man on the moon
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1 videodisc (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A stunning portrayal of the late Andy Kaufman.
11) Solitary man
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1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Kalmen, a fifty-something New Yorker, discovers that he is not the man he wanted to be. Through many business and romantic indiscretions he has lost his once successful car dealership. Now he must make the decision to face the challenges of his not so youthful life.
13) Dumbo
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1 videodisc (approximately 111 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Circus owner Max Medici enlists former star Holt Farrier and his children to care for a newborn elephant whose oversized ears make him a laughingstock in an already struggling circus. But when they discover that Dumbo can fly, the circus makes an incredible comeback, attracting entrepreneur V.A. Vandevere, who recruits the Dumbo for his newest entertainment venture, Dreamland. Dumbo soars to new heights until Holt learns that beneath its shiny veneer,...
14) Renaissance man
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1 videodisc (approximately 128 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unemployed advertising executive takes a job teaching Army recruits English.
"DeVito plays a down-on-his-luck businessman who desperately takes the only job offered - a teacher in the U.S. Army. His mission: keep a ragtag bunch of underachieving misfits from flunking out of basic training! Be on alert for laughter as this unlikely new teacher and his underdog class unexpectedly inspire each other to be all they can be!"--Container.
15) Along came Polly
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English
Description
Reuben Feffer, a professional risk assessor, is not one to ever take chances in any aspect of his life. But when his new bride Lisa leaves him for French scuba instructor Claude on their honeymoon, he finally decides to a risk of his own. At a party, he meets free-spirited Polly, whom he remembers from the seventh grade. Unlike the control-freak Reuben, she's spent her life living on the edge. They reluctantly begin a romance and Polly introduces...
16) Pulp fiction
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English
Description
Clever, dark film that tells 4 separate stories that are gradually brought together. Involved are two low-rent hit men, their boss and his sexy wife, a prizefighter and a pair of desperate robbers.
17) Get Shorty
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1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
Description
Loanshark Chili Palmer has done his time as a gangster, so when "business" takes him to Los Angeles to collect a debt from down and out filmmaker Harry Zimm, he talks tough and then pitches Harry a script idea. Everything would be smooth for this cool new producer, if it were't for the drug smugglers and gangsters who won't leave him alone.
18) Freedom Writers
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1 videodisc (122 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A true story about a teacher in a racially divided school who gives her students what they've always needed, a voice. Erin Gruwell comes to a southern California high school bubbling over with naive optimism. She quickly discovers that her unruly classroom is not easily won over by her good intentions. After a few floundering attempts to connect with her students, Gruwell gives them the assignment of keeping journals about their own lives. This assignment...
Series
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English
Description
Jim Evers is a real estate agent whose latest project is to find a buyer for a huge but dilapidated old house in New Orleans. However, when Evers and his family visits the property before their family vacation, he discovers it's already inhabited by 999 ghosts, none of whom are interested in sharing the space. As the spirits make their displeasure known, Evers and his family, with the help of an eccentric medium named Madame Leota, try to get the...
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1 videodisc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With the gang spread across the country (and beyond) at college, Spencer is back to feeling out of place, even when he returns home over winter break. Desperate to escape his grandfather who is sharing his room, and to feel confident again, he attempts to fix the broken Jumanji video game, giving his friends no choice but to level up and return to rescue him.