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Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Paul Blart is a mild-mannered, dutiful family man who works as a security guard in a New Jersey mall. He has applied to become a cop for years, but he always fails the physical exam because he is overweight. One day, a gang of organized criminals put the mall under siege and take hostages. Blart becomes trapped inside and because of his sense of duty refuses to leave. He becomes the police department's eyes on the inside and attempts to stop the criminals...
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
3) Freedomland
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child.
4) Garden State
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD)(approximately 102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A young man returns home to New Jersey after nine long years, where he has to finally deal with his feelings and his future.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A fictional film set in the alluring world of one of the most stunning scandals to rock our nation, American Hustle is the story of brilliant con man Irving Rosenfeld, who along with his equally cunning and seductive British partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for wild FBI agent Richie DiMaso. DiMaso pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia that's as dangerous as it is enchanting. Carmine Polito is the passionate, volatile,...
6) Jersey boys
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 134 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of four young men from the wrong side of the tracks in New Jersey who came together to form the iconic 1960s rock group The Four Seasons.
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Ferrier is a working class man living in New Jersey. He has become estranged from his family and his life isn't in order. His small town life is shaken violently by the arrival of destructive intruders: Aliens which have come up from the ground, en masse, to destroy Earth and all the humans living on it. As the aliens plow through the country in a wave of mass destruction and violence, Ray must put aside thoughts of himself and come to the defense...
Pub. Date
[2003], ©2002-©2003.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 4 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 800 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It's tough times in Jersey for Tony Soprano. The sluggish economy hasn't been good for the family business. His wife, Carmela, is angling for more financial security. Some long-time lieutenants aren't happy with Tony's recent decisions. A rival boss wants a bigger piece of the suburban pie. A Soprano is actually heading to trial for the first time in decades. At least one child has lost interest in higher education.
10) Down the shore
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"...Bailey [is] the owner/operator of a rundown kiddie amusement park on the wintry Jersey shore...[W]hen a mysterious French stranger appears carrying the ashes of Bailey's younger sister and claiming to be her husband, dark secrets begin to be unearthed. Now with the help of his childhood best friend and former lover, Bailey must confront his own deadly past and desperate future."--Container.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 4 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 680 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr. a mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress and a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
14) Jersey girl
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ollie is madly in love with his wife. But when the Manhattan music publicist's wife dies in childbirth, Ollie's life becomes emotionally shattered. Not sure what to do next, he moves to New Jersey with his infant daughter to live with his dad. Juggling his career and single parenthood proves more than Ollie can manage, and one day he's fired after he bungles a major press event. He devotes his time to his daughter and ends up frequenting a local video...
15) Freedomland
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
DVD Region 1 ; widescreen (2.40:1) and full screen (1.33:1) presentations ; Dolby Digital 5.1 surround.
Language
English
Description
As a housing project cop who's respected for keeping the peace and being fair with the residents, Lorenzo Council stumbles onto the case of an apparent carjacking and child abduction one night that throws the projects into turmoil. But there's something strange in the details Brenda Martin slowly brings to light regarding her abductor and her missing child. The criminal investigation into the alleged kidnapping ignites long-simmering racial tension...
16) Clerks
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Depicts one day in the life of two young men working as clerks in a New Jersey convenience store.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Desiree Harper's perfect life as the wife of a high-powered Manhattan doctor comes to a sudden end when her husband says he wants a divorce. He invokes their ironclad pre-nup, leaving her penniless. Desiree moves back to New Jersey to help her father run his struggling bakery. Desiree wants nothing more than to return to her high-class life, spending time with her father causes her to see things differently. She rediscovers her love of baking and...
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 4 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 540 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tony faces a myriad of immediate, stress-inducing crises at home, at work and from the law. Tony's wife Carmela plans for a future she's not sure will arrive, and son AJ and daughter Meadow find that adulthood holds its own surprises.
Series
Pub. Date
2001.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (82 min.) : sound, color with black and white segments ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cecilia is a poor waitress in a dumpy New Jersey diner who goes to the movies to escape the realities of Depression Era life. Her favorite is "The Purple Rose of Cairo." When the leading man, Tom Baxter, decides to be with Cecilia, confusion abounds.
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs in 4 separate volumes (DVD) (approximately 720 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Several crises threaten Tony and his crew. Rival boss Johnny Sack is in prison, and the always tense relations between the New Jersey and New York families are strained through the unpredictable behavior of Sack's surrogates.
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