Ocean State Libraries

In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action air rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale Santa-begging campaign. He encounters a slew of calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.

A young writer sacrifices his life in the present to find happiness in the past, where true love awaits him.

John and Jeremy are single guys in their mid-30s who mediate divorces in D.C. Their summer social life consists of wedding crashing in order to meet young women for a one-night stand. As John thinks about growing up, Jeremy convinces him to go to one more wedding, this one is for the daughter of the Treasury Secretary. Each catches the eye of a bridesmaid, who happen to be daughters of the host. Jeremy quickly scores with Gloria, who proves to be...

Disc 1. Last of the belles: The romantic story of how F. Scott Fitzgerald met his wife Zelda while in the Army. Lady Hamilton: Lady Emma Hamilton is in love with Lord Horatio Nelson. Based on a novel by Alexandre Dumas. Arch of triumph: A man's romance is endangered by his obsession with revenge against a German SS officer. Disc 2. Promise of love: A bride quickly becomes a widow when her Marine husband is killed in Vietnam. Jane Eyre: An orphan...

This John Wayne collection presents five of the Duke's greatest adventure films. In Donovan's Reef, two navy buddies engage in postwar hijinks in the South Sea islands. In Hatari, a tough trapper travels the world capturing animals and selling them to zoos. In The High and the Mighty, a jittery copilot commands a commercial jetliner suffering from engine trouble on a transpacific flight. In Island in the Sky, a WWII army pilot crash lands his transport...

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...

Two sisters lead a very close and remote life in a New England mansion. Locked away from society for years the two have lost touch with reality and begin to cook up evil schemes.

40-year-old Andy Stitzer has a cushy job stamping invoices at an electronics superstore, a nice apartment that includes a collection of action figures and comic books, good friends, a nice attitude. But at 40, Andy is still a virgin. His friends think he's a bit of an oddball, but they consider it their duty to help Andy out of his dire situation and decide to go to great lengths to help him. But nothing proves effective enough to lure their friend...

A story of three sisters coming of age in a wildly dysfunctional family in the 1960s.

Two bumbling reporters try to unravel the mystery of modern-day Transylvania. Along the way they meet a decidedly bizarre assortment of loonies and throwbacks. What the reporters uncover is enough to scare the cape off of any self-respecting Count.