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Publisher
ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When her husband Billy is tragically killed, Sam loses her faith and will to live. A death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches "Papa" Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that the love of God is always reaching out to her.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
Publisher
Terra Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All Thomas wants is a normal adolescence, but his autistic brother Charlie thwarts his every opportunity. Will Thomas, with the help of his girlfriend Jackie, accept his brother?
Series
Paradise volume third film
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
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Description
The third installment in Ulrich Seidl's Paradise trilogy tells the story of the overweight thirteen-year-old Melanie and her first love. Melanie spends her summer vacation at a strict diet camp for overweight teenagers. Between physical education and nutrition counseling, pillow fights, and her first cigarette, Melanie falls in love with the camp director, a doctor 40 years her senior. As the doctor struggles with the guilty nature of his desire,...
6) Sybil
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Thirtieth anniversary special edition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A landmark, classic drama depicting the extraordinary real life of a young woman suffering from multiple personality disorder. Includes the full 3-hour broadcast version, along with over an hour of new exclusive special features.
7) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For Augusto and Michaela Odone, the news that their five-year-old son, Lorenzo, has a rare terminal disease is sobering; to learn there is no known cure is devastating. Despite the prognosis, they embark on an extraordinary mission of love, consulting, and sometimes colliding with the world's top doctors and scientists in the quest to save their son. Their relentless struggle tests their marriage, their beliefs, and the boundaries of conventional...
10) The white ribbon
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (144 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
In a north German village prior to the outbreak of World War I, strange events, accidents, and deaths are occurring. The village people are beside themselves with worry and can't figure out what to do. After the school teacher starts to unravel the mystery, he discovers that the children of the town may be guilty of the crimes and have formed a secret society that the local pastor's daughter appears to be the leader of. Includes featurette.
11) Aunt Bam's place
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When family's falling out, it's time to call in Aunt Bam to set a few things straight! Bam's nephew-in-law is granted weekend visitation with his children, but his drunken ex shows up with trouble in mind. Now it's up to Bam to calm things down.
12) Barbarosa
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A runaway farm boy takes up with an aging outlaw who is involved in a blood feud with his in-laws.
14) Coraline
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (1 hr., 41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young girl walks through a secret door that she has found in her new home and discovers an alternate version of her life. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life, but much better. When her adventure turns dangerous, and her counterfeit parents, including the Other Mother, try to keep her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination, and bravery to get back home - and save her family.
15) Keane
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
William Keane is searching for his 6-year-old daughter who has been missing for months. He meets a young woman and her daughter. He becomes increasingly attached to the child, who reminds him of his own daughter.
16) Irina Palm
Publisher
Strand Releasing Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maggie, a middle-aged widow, who is desperate to raise money to pay for her grandson's medical bills, takes a hostess job in a sex club.
17) The babadook
Language
English
Formats
Description
Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband on the night she gave birth to her son. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep-seated fears of the world around him, and together they must conquer it even as the monster disrupts reality and her tentative hold on sanity.
Series
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A vivid adaptation of Charles Dickens' powerful story of a young orphan boy who is released from his apprenticeship by a mysterious benefactor to be educated in London.
Publisher
Cinema Guild
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Having discovered that her dying husband has an illegitimate child living in Florida, a devout Christian housewife leaves her sheltered world on a mission to reunite father and son.
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