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1) Joe
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
2) Knives out
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
Publisher
Gaiam Americas, Inc
Pub. Date
p2009
Language
English
Description
Holidays in handcuffs: (ca. 90 min.) A ne'er do well thirty-something attempts to appease her family by kidnapping herself an attractive boyfriend for the family Christmas.
Snowglobe: (ca. 90 min.) When a young woman inherits her grandmother's antique snowglobe, she finds herself able to leave her dreary, ordinaary existence and travel to the idyllic, Christmas-y other world inside the globe.
5) Pearl
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Trapped on her family's secluded farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and domineering watch of her devout mother. Yearning for a glamorous life like she's seen in the movies, Pearl finds her ambitions, temptations, and repressions all colliding in this origin story of X's iconic villain.
7) Purple rain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1984, 1997
Language
English
Description
Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A Southern soccer mom (Reba) learns her married daughter isn't going to be moving out of the house with her husband and baby. Reba accepts a job working for her ex-husband. No matter how hard she tries to make family life run smoothly, she learns there is no way to please everyone.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
First Reba's husband leaves her for a younger woman. Now one of her children wants to live with her ex-husband and his new wife and one spends all his time there. Reba finds out that losing her family is the last thing she needs to worry about.
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
When teenage Medina moves with her family to the picture-perfect paradise of Palos Verdes, California, they seem headed for a happy new chapter in their lives. But old troubles soon catch up to them, as her parents' marriage disintegrates, her mother spirals into an emotional freefall, and her twin brother turns to drugs. Caught in the middle of it all, Medina must rely on her inner strength to become the stabilizing force in her family, while finding...
15) Sprinter
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2019].
Language
English
Description
A Jamaican teen who is burdened by an unstable father and an unruly older brother hopes a meteoric rise in track-and-field can reunite him with his mother, who has lived illegally in the U.S. for over a decade.--
17) The messengers
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
A troubled family moves into an old farmhouse where a triple homicide has occured. Only Ben, the little toddler of the family, can see the supernatural prescences in the house, and he appears more delighted with them than afraid. When his teenage sister, Jess, also starts encountering unusual occurences - this time of an apparantly non-benevolent nature - she also begins noticing Ben's unusual behavior as well and realizes that he too is experiencing...
19) Motherfatherson
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Max owns an influential media empire where information is his trade: he has secrets on everyone and uses his power ruthlessly. His son Caden is the editor of Max's newspaper, but Caden is crumbling under the pressure. He is left like a helpless child after suffering a massive stroke. For Kathryn, Max's estranged wife, this is a chance to reconnect with the sensitive boy Max ripped away from her. Caden knows secrets that could bring Max's empire crashing...
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