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2) The Client
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1994, 1997.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Mark Sway is an 11-year-old torn between what he knows and what he can never tell. A hitman will snuff him in half a heartbeat if Mark reveals what he learned about a Mob murder. An ambitious federal prosecutor will keep the pressure on until Mark tells all. Suddenly, Mark isn't a boy playing air guitar anymore. He's a pawn in a deadly game. And his only ally is a courageous but unseasoned attorney who risks her career for him ... but never imagines...
3) Other people
Publisher
Wolfe
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A struggling gay comedy writer in New York City, fresh off a breakup and in the midst of the worse year of his life, returns home to Sacramento to care for his dying mother in this affecting family drama from "Saturday Night Live" writer Chris Kelly.
5) Pure
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ten-year-old Paul slowly begins to realize that his mother is an addict and, with the help of a local waitress, tries to rescue his mother from her boyfriend/dealer.
6) The waterboy
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A brilliant, moving portrayal of an aristocratic American family in what many critics consider a masterpiece equal to Citizen Kane. Based on a novel by Booth Tarkington, the drama begins in the 1870s when the Amberson family is at the height of its wealth and prestige. But the day arrives when all the Ambersons are stunned by the truth of their financial ruin.
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An inside look at the lives of eight people living in a remote and icy Scottish village. The story focuses on the relationship between a mother and a daughter, played by real-life mother and daughter Emma Thompson and Phyllida Law.
10) The guilt trip
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2013]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The plan for a quick stop at Mom's takes a turn when an impulse compels Andy to invite his mother, Joyce, on a three-thousand mile cross-country journey. But the further they go, the closer they get, and Andy realizes that they have more in common than he ever imagined.
11) Foxfire
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003.
Edition
Gold Crown collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her son asks her to move to the city, an elderly woman is torn between his wishes and her many memories of sharing country life with her late husband.
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
[2001]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
13) My one and only
Publisher
Alliance Films
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ann Devereaux has just left her philandering husband Dan, a society bandleader, and taken to the road with her teenage sons, George and Robbie, in search of a suitable new mate. But it's 1953, years past Ann's courting days. Now it seems that the losers and playboys outnumber the eligible and willing bachelors.
14) The way way back
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (103 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While fourteen year old Duncan is being dragged on a family trip with his mom and her overbearing boyfriend, he finds a gregarious friend at a local water park. The two form a powerful bond as Duncan learns to swim through the challenges of life, love, family and friendship, resulting in a vacation he'll never forget.
15) Ned Kelly
Publisher
Olive Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Blu-ray.
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (113 min.) : sound, black & white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In peaceful pursuit to live off the land, but harrassed by both law and his neighbors, bushranger Ned Kelly eventually turns to a life of crime when his mother, unjustly accused of murder, is sentenced to prison.
16) Love for sale
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2008.
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Portuguese
Description
Hermila takes her newborn son and returns to her village in northeastern Brazil. Realizing she has been abandoned by her husband, she is determined to raise enough money to escape her stifling home town. She raffles off her body as a way to raise money.
17) Only the lonely
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Comedy about a 38-year old Chicago cop who still lives with his mother, a domineering widow used to controlling her son's life. When he meets and falls in love with a young woman, Mama sets out to break up the romance.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Films
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Georgian
Description
A family portrait of three generations of Georgian women in the city of Tbilisi. Eka obsesses over her physician son Otar, while the other two attempt to deal as best they can with Eka's burning desire to see him. A poignant, bittersweet story.
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (72 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
Within a small cabin cloistered in a netherworld as idyllic as a dream, an ailing mother and her grown son get ready for her passing. As the dutiful son comforts his dying mother in her final hours, heartbreak is inevitable.
20) White material
Series
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011.
Edition
Director-approved DVD special édition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Maria is an entitled white woman living in Africa, desperately unwilling to give up her family's crumbling coffee plantation despite the civil war closing in on her. A gripping evocation of the death throes of European colonialism and a fascinating look at a woman lost in her own mind.
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