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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
LG Premiere
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Gilly Hopkins has seen more than her share of foster homes and has outwitted every family she has lived with. In an effort to escape her new foster mother Maime Trotter's endless loving care, Gilly concocts a plan that she believes will bring her mother running to her rescue. But when the ploy blows up in Gilly's face it threatens to ruin the only chance she's ever had to be part of a real family.
Language
日本語
Description
When shy, artistic Anna moves to the seaside to live with her aunt and uncle, she stumbles upon an old mansion surrounded by marshes, and the mysterious young girl, Marnie, who lives there. The two girls instantly form a unique connection and friendship that blurs the lines between fantasy and reality. As the days go by, a nearly magnetic pull draws Anna back to the Marsh house again and again, and she begins to piece together the truth surrounding...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 129 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
As foster kid Patrick 'Kitten' Braden grows up, he leaves behind his small-town life in Ireland for London, where he's reborn as a transvestite cabaret singer in the 1960s and 70s.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A heartwarming adventure bursting with the joy of the season. When Julia, a lonely foster child, discovers an injured rabbit on Christmas Eve, she forms an unlikely friendship with an eccentric farmwoman who vows to nurse the bunny back to health. In the process, Julia's own heart is healed and she forges a bond with her adoptive family that makes her holidays one she-and you-will never forget.
Series
Criterion collection volume 534
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
François is a foster child on the cusp of his teens. Shuttled from one home to another, his behavior grows increasingly erratic, and his bonds with his surrogate parents perennially fraught.
Series
Criterion collection volume 438
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Special édition.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet.
Language
Français
Description
An orphan comes to live with a foster family in a Canadian mining village, and becomes a part of the comical foibles and heartbreaks of a small French-Canadian town.
9) Shazam!
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Edition
Blu-ray and DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By shouting out one word, streetwise fourteen-year-old foster kid Billy Batson can turn into adult superhero Shazam (aka Captain Marvel), courtesy of an ancient wizard. Still a kid at heart, but inside a ripped, godlike body, Billy revels in this adult version of himself having fun with his superpowers. But he'll need to master these powers quickly to fight the deadly forces of evil.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (130 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billy Batson--aka Shazam!--and his fellow foster kids are still learning how to juggle teenage life with having adult Super Hero alter egos, but a vengeful trio of ancient gods has arrived on Earth in search of the magic stolen from them long ago. Now, Billy and his family are thrust into a battle for their superpowers, their lives and the fate of their world.
11) Hotel for dogs
Publisher
DreamWorks Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Foster children Andi and Bruce have been placed with a flaky couple who care more for their aspiring rock careers than their charges. Their mischievous tendencies repeatedly get them into trouble. After a close call with the local pound, the kids end up searching for Friday, their secretly adopted dog, in an abandoned old hotel where they find several other stray dogs seeking shelter. They, along with three other local kids, begin caring for the strays....
12) Annie
Language
English
Description
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything's about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks, advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and Guy, makes a thinly-veiled campaign...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 DVD + 1 Blu-ray (1 hr., 8 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
After losing his mother, a young boy is sent to a foster home with other orphans his age where he begins to learn the meaning of trust and true love.
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