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Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
©2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 104 min.) : sound, black & white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Frank Elgin is an alcoholic actor and singer who gets a second change at stardom. His long suffering wife, Georgie, and their marriage is put to the test. Frank is desperate to make a come back and Bernie Dodd is the hotshot Broadway director in need of a "name" star for his new stage production. Georgie is both weary of her husband's weaknesses and Dodd's motives. When Georgie appears to be dragging Frank down, Bernie tries to force her to leave....
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (143 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Jimmy Rose is a career criminal newly free after twelve years in prison. Greeted with cold disdain from his wife, Jackie, Jimmy decides to stick to the terms of his parole: hold down a job and stay right in the eyes of the law. But when he finds out that his beloved granddaughter, Ellie, ran away and is now a drug addict, Jimmy will risk everything to bring her home.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (633 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ray Donovan is the go-to guy who makes the problems of Los Angeles celebrities, superstar athletes, and business moguls disappear. This powerful family drama unfolds when his father is unexpectedly released from prison, setting off a chain of events that shakes the Donovan family to its core.
7) Orphan
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (123 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the loss of their unborn baby, Kate and John Coleman decide to adopt a child as a way to bring some joy and normalcy into their lives. The couple is drawn to Esther, a 9-year-old orphan and they welcome her into their home. As soon as Esther moves in, a series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther - this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be.
8) Mermaids
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A hilarious and heart-warming portrait of a 1960's single- parent family trying to adjust to each other's growing independence.
Publisher
Kino Lorber, Inc
Pub. Date
[2019].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Talal Derki returned to his Syrian homeland where he gained the trust of a radical Islamist family, sharing their daily life for over two years. His camera focuses primarily on the children, providing an extremely rare insight into what it means to grow up with a father whose only dream is to establish an Islamic caliphate. Osama and his brother Ayman both love and admire their father and obey his words, but while Osama seems content to follow the...
11) Ride along
Formats
Description
Fast-talking security guard Ben joins his soon-to-be brother-in-law James on a 24-hour patrol of Atlanta in order to prove himself worthy of marrying Angela, James's sister.
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 DVD (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Comedy about the age-old conflict between parents and their children. In New York, the Taiwanese half of a gay couple hopes to end his parents' matchmaking by announcing that he's engaged. What he doesn't count on is that they'll fly in to meet the bride and plan the nuptials!
13) Other people
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A struggling gay comedy writer in New York City, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worse year of his life, returns home to Sacramento to care for his dying mother in this affecting family drama from "Saturday Night Live" writer Chris Kelly.
14) 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.
16) For one more day
Publisher
Distributed by Maple Pictures
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Chick Benetto, a broken-down former baseball player who has collapsed into alcoholism and despair, returns one night to his small hometown with plans to take his life. At the final moment, he is magically granted one more day with his departed mother, Posey Benetto, who illuminates the secrets of both their lives and shows him a way to redemption.
17) Madame
Publisher
Altered Innocence
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A double portrait of a young boy slowly coming out of the closet and of the lady that was, even more than his mother, the woman in his life, his grandmother. The film takes viewers on an intimate journey where Caroline, a flamboyant 90-year-old grandmother, and her filmmaker grandson Stephane explore the development and transmission of gender identity in a patriarchal environment. Stephane struggles to play the role everyone expects in his Swiss bourgeois...
Series
Criterion collection volume 1111
Pub. Date
[2022]
Formats
Description
A playful, profound, and immensely moving docu-fantasia by Kirsten Johnson is a valentine to the director's beloved father, Dick Johnson, made as she has begun to face the reality of losing him to dementia. Using the language of cinema both to defy death and to confront it head-on, Johnson mischievously envisions an array of ways in which the man she loves most in the world might die, staging a series of alternately darkly comic and colorfully imaginative...
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of: time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science.
20) After class
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
While on leave for controversial behavior in the classroom, a college professor joins his dysfunctional family to support their grandmother during her final days.
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