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Series
Reading rainbow volume 134
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 30 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A little girl hatches a plan to bring Broadway to her matinee-loving aunt who's in bed recovering from a rhumba-related spill.
Viewers learn about the joys of performing from members of The Boys Choir of Harlem, comic Peter Petofsky and actors from the Broadway hit, Cats.
Series
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Remastered edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
'They're killing him bit by bit!' Flamboyant, flame-haired 70-plus Augusta Bertram has opened a package containing a finger that recently belonged to her years-ago lover. The victim's kidnappers continue mailing expendable body parts, and Augusta enlists the aid of her stuffy nephew in a mad to-the-rescue adventure across Europe in pursuit of $100,000 in ransom money. The scramble to save a life just might also liberate the nephew's life-starved soul....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sarah Cain is sweet, successful, slightly self-absorbed and a city girl through and through. But when the untimely death of her sister draws her to Amish country for a funeral, she makes a discovery that will change her life: she is now the legal guardian to five Amish nieces and nephews! Desperately trying to juggle the kids, her career and her comfort level, Sarah must reevaluate her priorities as she prepares for the biggest culture shock of everyone's...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Filmed in Dominique Abel and Fiona Gordon's signature whimsical style, and stars the filmmakers as a small-town Canadian librarian and a strangely seductive, oddly egotistical French vagabond. When Fiona's orderly life is disrupted by a letter of distress from her elderly Aunt Martha who is living in Paris, Fiona hops on the first plane she can and arrives only to discover that Martha has disappeared. In an avalanche of spectacular disasters, she...
5) Auntie Mame
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1928, a 10-year-old boy goes to live with his eccentric, sophisticated aunt--a lady who throws a party for any occasion or nonoccasion that comes to mind.
7) Family
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of eleven-year-old Maddie, a social misfit who practices karate moves with trees. Her self-absorbed, childless aunt, Kate, offers to take care of her for a week while Maddie's parents are busy, and it proves to be the most transformative week of young Maddie's life.
8) Driveways
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2019.
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (80 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Maye is a success. Hot career. Hot boyfriend. But when her world is turned upside down by tragedy, she must struggle to keep her balance ... chronicles a day in the life of a woman at a crossroads, and the twelve people who help her move forward into a brave, new world"--Container.
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
Special edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
For teenage Nola, home is the open road. Her self-reliant father (Steven Ogg) is her anchor in a life of transience. The pair crisscross the United States in a lovingly refurbished RV, relishing their independence and making ends meet by doing odd jobs. A shocking rupture, though, casts Nola out on her own. She makes her way to Albuquerque, New Mexico, in search of a mother she never knew. When her motorhome unexpectedly breaks down, she forges a...
Publisher
Cinedigm Entertainment Company
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Amber spends the holidays with her Aunt Dora and helps plan a fundraising Christmas concert, it brings Amber closer to her aunt and a new love into her life.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (284 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"The "wickedly offbeat" (Parade), contemporary mystery series follows the adventures of newly promoted Detective Sergeant Matilda Stone and her three crime-writing aunts as they solve murders in the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh. Though Matilda's strict boss warns her that homicides are police-only matters, her aunts can't help but offer their expertise, as well as unsolicited dating advice. As Matilda contends with a novelist killed during...
13) Raising Helen
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (119 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Helen is living the life she's always dreamed of with her career at a top modeling agency on the rise. But her carefree lifestyle comes to a crashing halt when she soon finds herself responsible for her sister's children - Audrey, Henry, and Sarah. No one doubts that Helen is the coolest aunt in New York, but the transformation from super-hip to super-mom is super difficult. Along the way, Helen finds support from Dan Parker, the handsome young pastor...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (274 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In the picturesque English region of Wildemarsh, Detective Matilda Stone investigates crimes with the aid or, often, meddling of her three mystery-writing aunts, who raised her from childhood. Together, they look into a murder at a health spa, a killing in the contemporary art world, and the theft of an Edgar Allen Poe manuscript. Matilda has decidedly less success with her personal affairs, continuing to pine for Dr. Daniel Lynch even as she begins...
15) The neon bible
Publisher
Fox Lorber Home Video
Pub. Date
1999.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (92 minutes) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Language
English
Description
A sensitive young Southerner and his emotionally fragile mother derive strength from flamboyant Aunt Mae, who wants to be a country singer in Nashville.
16) The lost husband
Publisher
Quiver Distribution
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Trying to put her life back together after the death of her husband, Libby and her children move to her estranged Aunt's goat farm in central Texas.
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Formats
Description
On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a dead ringer for Boris Karloff, and a seriously slippery plastic surgeon are among the outré oddballs populating Arsenic and Old Lace, a diabolical delight that...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Edition
[Widescreen edition].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two younger brothers looting her home, she decides to take matters into her own hands and delivers the young delinquents to the only relative they have: their aunt April. A heavy-drinking nightclub singer who lives off of her married boyfriend, April wants nothing to do with them. But her attitude begins to change when Sandino, a handsome Mexican immigrant looking for work, moves into April's basement...
19) Mame
Series
Publisher
Warner Bros Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (131 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story focuses on the madcap life of Mame Dennis, which is disrupted when she becomes the guardian of her deceased brother's son. She marries a wealthy Southern plantation owner, is widowed, yet through it all, with the help of her dearest friend, Vera Charles, manages to keep things under control.
20) Volver
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
Raimunda lives in Madrid with her daughter Paula and her drunk husband Paco. Her sister, Sole, is separated and works clandestinely as a hairstylist for women. Years ago, in the sisters birth village, they lost their parents in a fire in La Mancha. Their aunt, Paula, still lives in the village and continues to speak about her sister Irene, mother of the two sisters, as if she were still alive. When the old aunt dies the situation changes and the past...
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