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1) Dear Frankie
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005].
Language
English
Description
To spare the feelings of her fatherless boy, Lizzie secretly authors letters from his "father" recounting seafaring adventures around the world. Torn between exposing the truth and protecting her son, Lizzie hires a handsome stranger to play the role of a father and gets more than anyone bargained for.
2) Mother
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
c1997.
Language
English
Description
After two failed marriages, a science fiction writer decides coming to terms with his mom will improve his chances for a successful relationship, so he moves in with his mom.
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
A young immigrant woman learns she is going blind and tries to raise money for an operation to save her son from the same fate, but after being betrayed by a friend she retreats into a fantasy world similar to Hollywood musicals.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005.
Language
English
Description
An inside look at the lives of eight people living in a remote and icy Scottish village. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and a daughter, played by real-life mother and daughter Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law.
6) Firstborn
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
c2012.
Language
English
Description
Teri Garr stars as the young divorced mother, trying to balance her relationship with her kids and her drifter boyfriend. The boys think they see the man for what he is and need to somehow save their mother from his clutches.
Series
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Language
English
Description
"This expressionistic work is Eugene O'Neill's classic American drama of love, revenge, murder and suicide. Set against the backdrop of a small New England town in the post-Civil War era, O'Neill's saga of family discord fueled by psychological undercurrents is from Aeschylus' "the Oresteia." The end result is one of the American theatre's most shattering epic works." --container. Each episode concludes with an after word by Erich Segal containing...
10) Trucker
Publisher
Monterey Media
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
A female trucker finds herself having to take care of her estranged eleven-year-old son when his father is diagnosed with cancer.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.
12) Amreeka
Publisher
Virgil Films and Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
An Arab woman and her son immigrate to the United States, and while the teenager adjusts to his new school his mother tries to find a job in a small town in Illinois.
Publisher
Disney DVD
Pub. Date
[2001].
Language
English
Description
Whispers, an innocent baby elephant who's just learning to walk on his own four feet, finds himself separated from his mother Gentle Heart. In his desperate search to find her, he meets the cynical loner Groove, an outcast from her own herd who never wanted to be a mother. Together, this unlikely pair braves danger after danger on their journey to find water and Whispers' mother.
14) Americano
Publisher
MPI Media Group
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
After receiving news of his mother's death, Martin leaves his girlfriend and home in Paris and sets off for L.A. to tie up the loose ends of his rocky maternal relationship. As Martin digs deeper into his mother's past, he discovers she had a hidden relationship with a beautiful woman, who he finds at a seedy strip club in Tijuana, called the Americano. Martin discovers there may be more than he ever hoped to know about his mother's sordid past and...
15) Sweet sixteen
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
In Greenock, Scotland, Liam is trying to make money. When he refuses to use his imprisoned mom as a drug mule, his criminal stepfather, Stan, and bitter grandfather kick him out of the house. He moves in with his level-headed older sister who has no love for their mother. Liam decides to buy a trailer for himself and his mom when she gets out of prison on the day before his 16th birthday. He comes up with a plan to steal Stan's drug stash and sell...
16) The deep end
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Margaret Hall is the mother of three willing to do whatever it takes to keep her family safe, including trying to cover up the accidental death of her son's "unsavory" friend. The next day a man knocks on her door and demands money to suppress a videotape linking her son to the death, which the police have ruled a homicide.
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
Every holiday Marcel and his family go to their cottage in the Provence (France). He likes the hills in this region. Before they arrive at the cottage they have to walk about 5 miles. With the co-operation of an ex-pupil of Marcel's father, who's a teacher, they only have to walk 1 mile, since they can take a shortcut along a canal, through the backyards of some eccentric people. During one of these holidays he meets Isabelle, a pretty but conceited...
18) Mamma Roma
Series
Criterion collection volume 236
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2004.
Language
Italiano
Formats
Description
A former prostitute tries to leave the life and build a better one for her son.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Meet Zack and Cody, 11-year-old identical twins and the newest residents of Boston's swanky Tipton Hotel. Living in a suite with their mom Carey, the boys treat Tipton like their own personal playground, often taking their new friends along for the ride.
Rock star in the house with Jesse McCartney: Jesse McCartney comes to stay at the Tipton. Zack, London, and Maddy all try to get a piece of him. Cody enters a science fair held at the Tipton.
Kisses...
20) Disturbia
Publisher
DreamWorks
Pub. Date
c2007.
Language
English
Description
After his father's death, Kale Brecht becomes a sullen, withdrawn, and troubled young man. He finds himself under a court-ordered sentence of house arrest after a run in with the law. His mother, Julie, works night and day to support herself and her son, only to be met with Kale's indifference and lethargy. As the walls of his house begin to close in on Kale, he turns into a voyeur as his interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home towards...
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