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Author
Publisher
Spiegel & Grau
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
270 pages ; 22 cm
Description
"Matthew Grzbc is a talented musician who plays the concert harp. He is a divorced dad who lives in Chicago, has a sexy girlfriend, and has a major, potentially life-changing audition with an orchestra on the horizon. At least that's how he appears on paper. But take a closer look and a very different man starts to emerge: an obsessive, self-sabotaging Midwesterner, fumbling through his relationship with his curiously neurotic six-year-old daughter...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 25 cm
Description
Presents the hilarious and incisive story of Paul, a recently demoted adjunct instructor of freshman comp, who, outraged by the authoritarian creeps ruining the country, is plagued by indignities as he tries to right the world's wrongs.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1138
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in..
Description
Manic Manhattan movie theater projectionist Lenny is perhaps the last person who should be raising kids, yet here he is, trying (and failing) to keep it together as his life unravels over the two whirlwind weeks that he has custody of his young boys, with an impromptu road trip, a sleeping-pill mishap, and a night in jail all part of the chaos.
Author
Publisher
Nolo
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
252 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Description
"Helps dads navigate the challenges of divorce and their changing family structure through practical how-to advice on maintaining a great relationship with their kids during the process, plus strategies for building a new life after divorce, in which the kids are front and center"--Provided by publisher.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 83 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A down-on-his-luck divorced father decides that the time has come to get his life back on track before he loses everything. A moving, humorous look at the limits of unconditional love, what defines a family, and our responsibility for our own happiness.
Series
Criterion collection volume 527
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 3 hr.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet ([14] p. : ports.).
Description
When the patriarch of a French-Arab family, Slimane, acts on his wish to open a portside restaurant specializing in his ex-wife's fish couscous, the extended clan's passions and problems explode.
8) Thunder road
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
It tells the story of flawed police officer Jim Arnaud, who lives a shambolic life that's somehow made even worse by his mother's passing. His only stability comes in the shape of his daughter, Crystal, who he tries to father, amidst messy divorce proceedings with his estranged wife, Roz, as best as he can.
10) Turkey Hollow
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The story follows a recently divorced dad and his two kids as they travel to celebrate Thanksgiving with their eccentric Aunt Cly in the rustic town of Turkey Hollow. Exploring the mysterious surrounding woods leads the kids to discover the secret of the legendary Howling Hoodoo. When a scheming neighbor threatens to take Aunt Cly's farm, the family enlists surprising new friends to help save the farm, and Thanksgiving.
11) Vanishing acts
Author
Formats
Description
Life is going well for Delia Hopkins. She has a daughter and a fiance?, and with her search-and-rescue bloodhound, she helps find missing persons. But as she plans for her wedding, she is haunted by inexplicable flashbacks to a devastating time she cannot recall.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandons her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
13) After the storm
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the death of his father, a struggling author working as a private detective tries to reconnect with his aging mother, his ex-wife, and his son.
14) Human capital
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
With a lavish home and beautiful wife, hedge-fund manager Giovanni Bernaschi seemingly has it all Meanwhile, real-estate agent Dino Ossola struggles to maintain his family's middle-class existance and faces even worse financial straits when his wife announces that she is pregnant with twins. Leveraging his daughter's relationships with Giovanni's son, Dino deceives the bank and manipulates his way into the Bernaschie hedge fund. As the destinies of...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Get ready for the wildest and most adventure-filled night as Larry spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic that brings the museum exhibits to life, before it is gone forever.
16) Liar liar
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Fletcher Reed is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish-- that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset-- his mouth-- has become his biggest liability.
17) Mrs. Doubtfire
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Daniel Hillard is no ordinary father, so when he learns his ex-wife needs a housekeeper, he applies for the job. With the perfect wig, a little makeup and a dress for all occasions, he becomes Mrs. Doubtfire, a devoted British housekeeper who is hired on the spot. Free to be the "woman" he never knew he could be, the disguised Daniel creates a whole new life with his entire family.
19) Language arts
Author
Publisher
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
404 pages
Description
Charles Morrow, a high school English teacher who finds it difficult to connect with his autistic son, his college-bound daughter, or his ex-wife, begins to rise out of the rut his life has fallen into with the help of an art student and an Italian-speaking nun.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Larry Daley is a divorced father who can't seem to keep a job for more than a week. He applies for a job at the Museum of Natural History and is assigned as a night guard. However, a seemingly easy job turns out to be an adventure when he finds that an ancient curse has caused the "inhabitants" of the museum to come to life.
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