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Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 80 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A humorous and heartwarming portrait of beloved novelist John Mortimer's early years. After his highly eccentric lawyer father Clifford Mortimer is struck with blindness, John must deal with his father's decreasing ability to take care of himself.
22) Guy
Publisher
Icarus Films Home Video
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After learning his father may be 72-year-old pop singer, Guy Jamet, a young journalist follows him on tour under the pretext of creating a documentary about his career.
23) Titane
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (108 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After being injured in a car accident as a child and having a titanium plate inserted into her head, a woman's personality undergoes drastic changes.
24) Fences
Author
Publisher
Plume
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
xviii, 101 pages ; 21 cm
Description
The protagonist of Fences (part of Wilsons ten-part Pittsburgh Cycle plays), Troy Maxson, is a strong man, a hard man. He has had to be to survive. Troy Maxson has gone through life in an America where to be proud and black is to face pressures that could crush a man, body and soul. But the 1950s are yielding to the new spirit of liberation in the 1960s, a spirit that is changing the world Troy Maxson has learned to deal with the only way he can,...
25) Knight of cups
Publisher
Broad Green Pictures
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When a Los Angeles screenwriter finds his life falling apart around him, he tries to rediscover the joy of life and form stronger relationships.
26) Run all night
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 114 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brooklyn mobster and prolific hit man Jimmy Conlon, once known as The Gravedigger, has seen better days. Longtime best friend of mob boss Shawn Maguire, Jimmy, now 55, is haunted by the sins of his past. Lately, it seems Jimmy's only solace can be found at the bottom of a whiskey glass. But when Jimmy's estranged son, Mike, becomes a target, Jimmy must make a choice between the crime family he chose and the real family he abandoned long ago.
27) The tree of life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[c2011]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith.
28) The gunfighter
Series
Criterion collection volume 1053
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Formats
Description
An infamous gunslinger tries to give up his life of violence, but his reputation gets in the way of his plans.
29) Little boy
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A seven-year-old boy tries to do everything in his power to bring his father home from World War II.
30) Creed
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
31) Embattled
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Raised by an abusive father, an MMA star who has abused and neglected his own family faces his eighteen-year-old son in the ring who is determined to break the cycle of abuse.
32) CarGo
Publisher
Asylum Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young car travels to Clunker Island to attempt to rescue his father, who has been sent there to be reused as junk metal.
Publisher
Trinity Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (150 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A boat filled with Swedish immigrants comes to the Danish island of Bornholm at the end of the 19th Century. Lasse and his son Pelle find work on a farm, but are treated very poorly. Pelle is determined to make a better life.
35) And so it goes
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Realtor Oren Little, willfully obnoxious to anyone who might cross his path, he wants nothing more than to sell one last house and retire in peace and quiet; until his estranged son drops off a granddaughter he never knew existed. Clueless about how to care for the abandoned nine-year-old, he pawns her off on his determined and lovable neighbor Leah and tries to resume his life. But little by little, Oren stubbornly learns to open his heart; to his...
Publisher
Flicker Alley
Pub. Date
c2008
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (263 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Sisif, a railwayman, and his son Elie fall in love with the beautiful Norma (whom Sisif rescued from a train crash when a baby and raised as his daughter), with tragic results. This seminal film introduced many innovations in set design and construction, and cinematic devices.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A coming of age comedy with a unique spin. Morris, a 13-year-old has just relocated with his single father, Curtis, to Germany. Morris who fancies himself the next Notorious B.I.G. is a complete fish out of water in this new country. He's a budding hip-hop star in an EDM world. To complicate matters further, Morris quickly falls for his classmate, Katrin. Morris sets out against all odds to take the hip-hop world by storm, and win the girl of his...
38) A better life
Publisher
Summit Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Carlos Galindo always dreamed of a better life for his wife and newborn son when he crossed the border into the U.S. But when his wife left him, Carlos's only goal became to make sure his son Luis was given the opportunities he never had. A story that follows father and son as they embark on a physical and spiritual journey where they discover that family is the most important part of the American dream.
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Formats
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
Publisher
Warner Bros
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
4 DVDs (880 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A fresh take on a crime franchise with a provocative and outrageous lead character and a darkly comedic tone stars Tom Payne as the son of a convicted serial killer, who has made hunting murderers his life's work.
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