Elliott Gould
4) Switchmas
Author
Language
English
Description
A Christmas obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, WA.
6) Frog
Author
Language
English
Description
When Arlo, a young scientist and reptilian fanatic, introduces Suzie to his reptile world in preparation for their high school's science fair, she learns that trusting only what you can see will not take you as far as following your heart.
7) The Automat
Publisher
A Slice of Pie Productions
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (79 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Featuring an original new song written and performed by Mel Brooks, THE AUTOMAT, which Premiered at the 2021 Telluride Film Festival and was nominated for four 2022 Critics Choice Awards, tells the 100-year story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart, the inspiration for Starbucks, where generations of Americans ate and drank coffee together at communal tables. From the perspective of former customers - entertainer Mel Brooks, Starbucks founder...
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
1978.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (105 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Cullen (Elliott Gould) is a simple bank cashier. One day he is attacked and gives the bandit a few hundred dollars; he tells his superiors that the amount was {dollar}50,000 and keeps the difference. Reikle (Christopher Plummer), the robber, pursues Cullen to get the money back. Winner of Best Feature Film and Best Direction at the **Canadian Film Awards**.
9) The automat
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of the iconic restaurant chain Horn & Hardart that revolutionized the restaurant scene with vending machines that served affordable foods to those who had been ignored by regular restaurants, such as immigrants, the working class, and blacks.
10) Humor Me
Publisher
Shout Studios
Pub. Date
2024.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (93 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
With an interminable case of writer's block and a personal family crisis, playwright Nate is forced to move into his father's retirement community. But a chance encounter with the local community theatre group may help turn his life around … or signal the end of his once promising career for good.
Series
Ray Donovan volume season 1
Publisher
Showtime Networks
Pub. Date
2013.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (ca. 633 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ray Donovan is the go-to guy who makes the problems of Los Angeles celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful family drama unfolds when his father is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
12) The long goodbye
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (112 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Irreverent characterization of detective Philip Marlowe in a sophisticated murder mystery.
13) Ocean's eleven
Language
English
Formats
Description
Danny Ocean like his chances. All he asks is that his handpicked squad of 10 grifters and cons play the game like they have nothing to lose. If all goes right, the payoff will be a fat $150 million. All the gang of associates needs to do is stage heists at three major Las Vegas casinos - Bellagio, The Mirage, and the MGM Grand - simultaneously during a popular boxing event. The payoff, divided by 11, you do the math.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After getting wind of master criminal Harry Reikle's plan to rob his bank, Miles Cullen squirrels away $50,000 in a safety deposit box. The scheme works, until Reikle learns of the discrepancy and comes looking for Cullen.
15) Playback
Author
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
"In Chandler's final novel, Marlowe is hired by an influential lawyer he's never heard of to tail a gorgeous redhead, but decides he prefers to help out the redhead. She's been acquitted of her alcoholic husband's murder, but her father-in-law prefers not to take the court's word for it."--Back cover.
16) Ocean's thirteen
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2007
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When one of their own, Reuben Tishkoff, partners and builds a casino and hotel in Las Vegas with casino owner Willy Banks, the last thing Tishkoff wants is to get cut out of the deal by Banks. Banks' even goes so far as to find amusement in Tishkoff's misfortune when Tishkoff lands in the hospital with a heart attack. Danny Ocean and his crew won't stand for Banks has done to a friend. Uniting with their old enemy Benedict, who himself has a vendetta...
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ken Burns, Lynn Novick, and Sarah Botstein's three-part, six-hour documentary series examines how the American people and leaders responded to one of the greatest humanitarian disasters of the twentieth century, and how this catastrophe challenged America's identity as a nation of immigrants and the very ideals of democracy.
The U.S. and the Holocaust examines America's response to one of the greatest humanitarian crises of the twentieth century....
Publisher
Distributed by PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 57 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the era before antibiotics, tens of thousands of immigrant patients were separated from family, detained in the hospital on Ellis Island, and healed from illness before becoming citizens. 350 babies were born, and ten times that many immigrants died on Ellis Island and were buried in pauper's graves around New York City.
19) M*A*S*H
Language
English
Description
Three Korean War Army surgeons adopt a hilarious, lunatic lifestyle as an antidote to the tragedies of their Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, and in the process infuriate army bureaucrats.
20) The deal
Publisher
Peace Arch Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 digital copy (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
A down-and-out film producer agrees to make his nephew's film about the 19th century English statesman Benjamin Disraeli. They can only get financing if he can cast a well-known action star. However, production is halted when the lead actor is kidnapped from the European film set. The producer hatches a scheme with a struggling creative executive to save the star and the movie.