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1) Pollyanna
Publisher
Walt Disney
Pub. Date
c1960
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (ca. 134 min.) : sd., col., stereo. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A young orphan brings sunshine into the lives of everyone she meets with her optimistic outlook on life.
3) Paper moon
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A smooth-talking con man and a nine-year-old orphan are up to tricks in depression-era Kansas. Also includes a prologue by Peter Bogdanovich in which he shares insights about being a director and goes behind the scenes of Paper Moon.
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An epic love story that spans childhood into adulthood, the film follows Heathcliff, an outsider taken in and given a home by a benevolent Yorkshire farmer, Earnshaw. Heathcliff develops a passionate relationship with the farmer's teenage daughter, Catherine, inspiring the envy and mistrust of his rough-hewn son, Hindley. Years later, when Earnshaw dies, the young adults must finally confront the intense feelings and destructive rivalries that have...
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2015
Physical Desc
1 DVD (ca. 97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A community of quirky, mischievous creatures who have lovingly raised an orphaned human boy named Eggs in the amazing cavernous home they've built beneath the streets of Cheesebridge. When the town's villain, Archibald Snatcher, comes up with a plot to get rid of the Boxtrolls, Eggs decides to venture above ground, 'into the light,' where he meets and teams up with fabulously feisty Winnie. Together, they devise a daring plan to save Eggs' family.
"The...
10) The kid
Series
Criterion collection volume 799
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2016
Physical Desc
1 DVD (53 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Legendary actor Charlie Chaplin stars as The Little Tramp who stumbles upon an abandoned baby in an alley and takes him into his care in this landmark silent film. As 'the kid' grows older, they become partners in crime, until one day when the child falls ill and hospital workers endeavor to take the boy away. One of the most famous silent films of all time--and the first that Chaplin wrote and directed himself--it is also regarded as the first ever...
11) Candleshoe
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Welcome to Candleshoe, a stately English manor where a swashbuckling pirate hid a fortune in Spanish doubloons centuries ago. And that's what young orphan Casey and a sly con man are determined to find.
12) Les misérables
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (158 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In early 19th century France the paroled prisoner Jean Valjean seeks redemption, regains his social standing, and rises to the rank of mayor. He encounters a beautiful but desperately ill woman named Fantine and cares for her daughter, Cosette, after her death. All the while he is obsessively pursued by the policeman Javert, who vows to make him pay for the crimes of his past.
14) The BFG
Pub. Date
[2016]
Formats
Description
It tells the imaginative story of a young girl and the Giant who introduces her to the wonders and perils of Giant Country. The BFG, while a giant himself, is a Big Friendly Giant and nothing like the other inhabitants of Giant Country. Standing 24-feet tall with enormous ears and a keen sense of smell, he is endearingly dim-witted and keeps to himself for the most part.
"Spielberg offers a gallery of unforgettable images to illuminate a surprisingly...
Formats
Description
Jacob discovers clues to a mystery and stumbles upon Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children. However the mystery is deeper than he had thought, as he gets to know the residents and learn about their special powers. Jacob discovers that only his own special peculiarity can save his new friends.
16) The witches
Pub. Date
2022
Physical Desc
1 DVD (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
17) Mama
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013], ©2013
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A supernatural thriller that tells the haunting tale of two little girls who disappeared into the woods the day that their parents were killed. When they are rescued years later and begin a new life, they find that someone or something still wants to come tuck them in at night.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Years after being abandoned at an orphanage by her father, Gabrielle Chanel finds a job in a tailor shop where she meets, and soon begins an affair with French millionaire Etienne Balsan. Through Baron Balsan she is introduced into French society and given the opportunity to design her own style of hats. Though her career takes off, her personal life becomes more complicated when she falls in love with Balsan's former best friend Arthur Capel.
Publisher
Lions Gate
Pub. Date
[1999]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : letterbox, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Buddy, a mysterious and powerful hero of the apocalyptic future, must fight his way to Lost Vegas and ditch a tag-along orphan kid if he is ever to become the next King of Rock 'n' Roll. Along the way, they encounter bounty-hunting bowlers, a cannibalistic "Cleaver" family, a Windmill God, and even the Russian army.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Several years after the tragic death of their little girl, a dollmaker and his wife welcome a nun and several girls from a shuttered orphanage into their home, soon becoming the target of the dollmakerþs possessed creation.
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