New item: Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang

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Ask for DVD #3227 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: While fleeing from the cops, small time hood Harry Lockhart stumbles into an acting audition and does so well he gets sent to Hollywood. While there, Harry pursues a girl he loved in high school and gets caught up in a twisted murder mystery. His only chance of getting out alive is a gay private detective named Gay Perry, who also works as a consultant for movies and has been hired to tutor Harry in portraying a private eye.

New item: Shopgirl

Shopgirl

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Ask for DVD #3116 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: An aspiring artist working behind the glove counter at a Beverly Hills department store meets two very different men--Jeremy, a socially inept guy who doesn't seem to be going anywhere, and Ray, a wealthy entrepreneur who has the world at his feet.

New item: Ice Age

Ice Age

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Ask for DVD #3285 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Twenty thousand years ago, as the Earth was being overrun with glaciers, Manny the woolly mammoth, Diego the saber-toothed tiger, Sid the sloth, and the human baby Scrat become a courageous quartet braving the frozen terrain and embarking on an incredible journey to return Scrat to human civilization.

New item: Dreamgirls

Dreamgirls

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Ask for DVD #3237 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Deena Jones, Effie White, and Lorrell Robinson, three young African-American women in 1960s Detroit, dream of becoming pop stars. They get their wish after a local talent show when they are picked to be backup singers for the legendary James "Thunder" Early. As they become more successful, Curtis Taylor, Jr., a car salesman who's become their manager, and Effie's brother C.C., their songwriter, decide that the more traditionally beautiful Deena should be the lead singer instead of Effie, who had been the lead singer and who has a more powerful voice. Over time, each of the girls discovers the costs and compromises exacted by their desire to be in the music business.

New item: Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web

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Ask for DVD #3228 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: In ordinary Somerset County, a young farm girl named Fern rescues the runt of a litter of pigs from her father's ax. Fern names the pig Wilbur, takes care of him, and continues to visit him every day after he is moved to her Uncle Homer Zuckerman's barn across the road. But it's Wilbur's friendship with Charlotte the spider that ultimately saves him from the "smoke house" when Charlotte's talent for weaving praiseworthy words about Wilbur into her web, along with a little help from Templeton the rat and the other barn inhabitants, turns the Zuckerman farm into a tourist attraction.

New item: An Unfinished Life

An Unfinished Life

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Ask for DVD #3195 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Stoic and heartbroken, Einar Gilkyson quietly lives in the rugged Wyoming ranch lands alongside his only trusted friend, Mitch Bradley, but then suddenly, the woman he blames for the heath of his only son arrives at his door broke, desperate and with a granddaughter he's never known.

New item: Glory Road

Glory Road

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Ask for DVD #3194 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: Don Haskins, a future Hall of Fame coach of tiny Texas Western University, bucks convention by simply starting the best players he can find: history's first all-African American lineup.

New item: The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

The Prize Winner of Defiance, Ohio

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Ask for DVD #3144 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: The true story of Evelyn Ryan, a housewife and mother, who uses her knack for words to win thousands of dollars in "jingle contests" to keep her family together.

New item: Thank You for Smoking

Thank You for Smoking

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Ask for DVD #3115 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.

New item: Notes on a Scandal

Notes on a Scandal

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Ask for DVD #3103 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: When Barbara, a lonely desperate teacher, discovers that the new young art teacher is having an affair with a fifteen-year-old student, her jealously and rage spiral out of control.

New item: A Beautiful Mind

A Beautiful Mind

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Ask for DVD #3083 in Educational Resources, Bracken Library

More info: The true story of a troubled brilliant Princeton mathematician who is able to overcome years of suffering from schizophrenia to win the Nobel Prize.