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1) True grit
Author
Language
English
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Description
In the 1870s, young Mattie Ross learns that her beloved father was gunned down by his former handyman. But even though this gutsy 14-year-old is seeking vengeance, she is smart enough to figure out she can't go alone after a desperado who's holed up in Indian territory. With some fast-talking, she convinces mean, one-eyed US Marshal "Rooster" Cogburn into going after the despicable outlaw with her.
3) Mary Poppins
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mary Poppins flies out of the windy London skies and into the home of two mischievous children. With the help of a carefree chimney sweep named Bert ... , the spirited nanny turns every chore into a game.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
6) Smart people
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
A bitter, aging literature professor falls for a former student.
Publisher
DreamWorks Pictures
Language
English
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...
9) Illusion
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A famous Hollywood director nearing death has had a life filled with riches but devoid of love. Haunted by the memory of the son he abandoned, he is given the chance to change the outcome of his son's loveless life.
10) Wish I was here
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Aidan Bloom ... a husband and father of two, is set on pursuing his dream as an actor when his father ... reveals he's battling a serious illness. As the announcement disrupts Aidan's day-to-day existence, his decision to homeschool his children will lead him on an unexpected journey of discovery"--Container.
11) Daddy day care
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003.
Language
English
Description
When two fathers find themselves out of work, they decide to start a day care center. When their business starts to take off, the head of a competing prestigious childrens academy tries, with hilarious results, to put them out of business.
12) Winter's bone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A seventeen-year-old Ozark Mountain girl sets out to track down her drug-dealing father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared.
13) Touching home
Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Lane and Clint Winston, twin brothers from a working-class background, pursue professional baseball careers while trying to save their homeless, alcoholic father Charlie. A coming-of-age drama, an account of overcoming enormous odds, and a tale about family and the bonds that matter.
Series
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
English
Description
Just for you (1952): Musical comedy about widower Jordan Blake, a successful Broadway producer who's not very successful as a father until a musical comedy star shows him the way.
Here comes the groom (1951): Musical comedy about a reporter who must find a bride in five days if he wants to keep the war orphans he is eager to adopt.
16) Second best
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Graham Holt is a lonely middle-aged man who runs a postal substation in a small village in England. He decides to adopt a son. James is the troubled youth he gets with the assistance of social worker Debbie. James has been in an orphanage for years since his mother committed suicide. He adores his outlaw father John, sent to prison not long after the mother's death. Can James learn to love Graham? Can Graham settle for being second best?
17) Starred up
Publisher
Tribeca Film
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to an adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father.
18) Hide and seek
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
After his wife is found dead, David decides to take his child, Emily, to live in a house upstate. She finds a weird imaginary friend named Charlie. He likes to play games, and is jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad.
19) Keeping mum
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
An absent-minded vicar of a rural parish is so distracted by the pressures of his job that he fails to notice his wife's dalliance with her brash golf instructor, his daughter's parade of new boyfriends, and his young son's regular trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their new housekeeper, Grace, the answer to the family's prayers. Grace is a sweet old lady with her own distinctive definition of cleaning house, with an unusual way of solving...
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001.
Language
English
Description
Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold now lies in a coma. He is attentively nursed by his mother Esther, who dotes on her son to the point that her husband and daughter, Julie, feel very left out. Meanwhile, Jim Train is a workaholic lawyer who is closer to his tortes than to his spouse Susan. Their son Jake has taken a morbid fascination with his sister's baby doll. At the same time, Paul's former lover Annette Jennings is trying to...
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