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1) Dad
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2005.
Edition
Widescreen format.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A work-obsessed man returns home when his mother is hospitalized, and finds that his father, whom he hasn't seen for 2 years, has deteriorated. Through careful nurturing the young man revitalizes his father and reestablishes a close relationship with him.
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
1 DVD (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jade must choose between family and personal happiness. Her parents want her to marry a successful Chinese man and she wants to make her own decisions. When she falls in love with a white university student, the façade of the perfect Chinese daughter begins to crack. A story about pursuing your dreams while living up to everybody else's.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Alex O'Connell sets out to find the tomb of the evil Emperor Han. When he finds it Alex is tricked into awakening the ruler from eternal slumber, and the reckless young archaeologist must seek the help of the only people who know more than he does about taking down the undead: his parents. This time, the O'Connells must stop a mummy that has awoken from a 2,000-year-old curse who threatens to plunge the world into his merciless, unending service....
4) Easy virtue
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
John Whittaker is a young Englishman who falls madly in love with Larita, a sexy, glamorous American woman. The two impulsively decide to get married. He takes her home to meet his family, she arrives like a blast from the future. John's mother takes an instant disliking to Lairta and undermines her every move. But Larita will blow their entrenched British stuffiness right out the window.
5) One moment
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It is the humorous and heartwarming story of middle-aged siblings struggling to manage their own lives while also caring for their recently widowed aging father. Welcome to the "Sandwich Generation" where you care for your parents while still parenting your kids
6) Savages
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jon and Wendy Savage are two siblings who have spent their adult years trying to recover from their abusive father, Lenny. Suddenly, a call comes in that Lenny's girlfriend has died and he cannot care for himself. Lenny suffers from dementia and her family dumps Lenny on his children. Despite the fact Jon and Wendy have not spoken to Lenny for twenty years and he is even more loathsome than ever, the Savage siblings feel obliged to take care of him....
Publisher
Hallmark Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Laurel and Clay have three weeks to plan their wedding that will take place at Graceland Chapel in the Woods at Elvis Presley's celebrated Memphis home. However, when both sets of in-laws, each with vastly different personalities and ideas for the wedding, descend upon Memphis to "help" plan the nuptials, the bride and groom are pushed to the breaking point.
9) Desert fury
Series
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Years ago, Eddie had left town under suspicion of murdering his wife and after running into some trouble in Las Vegas, Eddie now hopes to get involved with the local gambling house whose proprietor is his ex-flame Fritzi Haller. To complicate matters, Eddie falls for Fritzi's daughter, who used to be involved with the local lawman Tom Hanson, who's still in love with her.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007.
Edition
Widescreen [edition].
Physical Desc
1 DVD (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When it comes to her three free-spirited daughters, Daphne is just your normal over-protective, overbearing, over-the-top mother. Worried that her youngest daughter, Millie, will end up alone, Daphne meddles in her daughter's love life until she ends up doing all wrong things for all the right reasons - and all in the name of motherly love.
11) Two lives
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Deutsch
Description
"Europe 1990. The Berlin Wall has just crumbled: Katrine, raised in East Germany but having lived in Norway for the last 20 years, is a 'war child' - the result of a romance between a Norwegian woman and a German occupation soldier during World War II. She enjoys a happy family life with her mother, her husband, daughter and granddaughter. But when a lawyer asks her and her mother to testify in a trial against the Norwegian state on behalf of the...
Publisher
HBO Documentary Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Born into one of the wealthiest and best-known families in American history, Gloria Vanderbilt has lived in the public eye for more than 90 years, unapologetically pursuing love, family and career, experiencing extreme tragedy and tremendous success side by side. In this HBO Documentary Films production, Vanderbilt and her son, award-winning TV journalist Anderson Cooper, look back at Vanderbilt's remarkable, still-productive life.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Edith and Phil are retired and in love. When she finally agrees to marry him, they're all set to move to a place in the sun. But then Edith's son Roger crashes back into their lives. Fifty going on twelve, Roger has had a mid-life breakdown and left his wife, children and job. As Roger and a host of other unwanted visitors cause havoc around their house, Edith and Phil's lives explode into farce.
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2008.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (215 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Finnish
Description
Shadows in paradise: Lonely garbageman Nikander finds himself lost after his friend and co-worker dies of a sudden heart attack; unlikely redemption comes in the form of plain supermarket cashier Ilona, with whom he begins a tentative love affair.
Ariel: A road trip to freedom instantly becomes a lesson in hard knocks for a Lapland coal miner looking for a way out of financial despair, and finding an unexpected love affair.
The match factory Girl:...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
3 Blu-rays + 3 4K Ultra HD Blu-rays (approximately 734 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Embark on the ultimate action adventure that spans continents and centuries in the spectacular Mummy trilogy ... Follow the exhilarating journeys and exploits of daring explorer Rick O'Connell and his family as they combat the evil undead from the dusty tombs of ancient Egypt to the hidden catacombs of China." -- Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
6 DVDs (513 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Guess who's coming to dinner: When the daughter of well-to-do liberal parents plans to marry a black doctor, both families must sit down face to face and examine each other's level of intolerance.
Ship of fools: In 1933 on a German luxury liner sailing from Mexico to Germany, the separate but interlocking stories of the various passengers begins to unfold. Among the many passengers is a divorcee desperate for love and lost youth, a Spanish noblewoman...
Series
Criterion collection volume 645
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Language
日本語
Formats
Description
This haunting, kabuki-inflected version of a Japanese folk legend is set in a remote mountain village, where food is scarce and tradition dictates that citizens who have reached their seventieth year must be carried to the summit of Mount Narayama and left there to die. The sacrificial elder at the center of the tale is Orin, a dignified and dutiful woman who spends her dwindling days securing the happiness of her loyal widowed son with a respectable...
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1953, Larry, an aspiring actor, leaves his home in Brooklyn and heads for Manhattan where he moves into an apartment in Greenwich Village. Between acting classes, auditions and odd jobs, he spends time with his eccentric friends, but still finds himself unable to avoid his larger-than-life Jewish mother.
19) Late Ozu
Series
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2007.
Physical Desc
5 DVDs (636 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
Early spring: A young salaryman in postwar Japan, dissatisfied with career and marriage, begins an affair with a flirtatious co-worker.
Tokyo twilight: Follows the parallel paths of two sisters contending with an absent mother, unwanted pregnancy, and marital discord.
Equinox flower: A stubborn businessman who disapproves of his daughter's fiancé must learn to embrace modern romance.
Late autumn: A widow tries to marry off her daughter with the...
Series
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Gold Crown collector's edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
With three grown children and a lifetime of memories, Penelope Keeling realizes that something is missing: the simple joy she knew as a child playing on the beach. So she embarks on a journey to discover the secret of happiness for her friends, her family and herself.
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