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Series
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Unemployed Polly Parrish impulsively picks up a baby left at orphanage doors at Christmas. Everyone assumes the foundling is hers, including Polly's playboy ex-boss, who offers her a job if she'll live up to her maternal duties. A paycheck would be handy, so Polly complies. Then the boss's tycoon dad assumes the infant is his secret grandson, and things really spin out of control.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Edition
DVD.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a young mother who, with her two daughters in tow, leaves her life in London for the promise of adventure and self-discovery in 1970's Marrakech.
5) Adam
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Arabic
Description
"Abla runs a modest local bakery from her home in Casablanca where she lives alone with her eight-year-old daughter Warda. Their routine of housework and homework is interrupted one day by a knock on the door. It is Samia, a young woman looking for a job and a roof over her head. The little girl is immediately taken with the newcomer, but her mother initially refuses to allow a pregnant stranger into their home. Gradually, however, Abla's resolve...
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 111 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When five struggling single moms put aside their differences to form a support group, they find inspiration and laughter in their new sisterhood, and help each other overcome the obstacles that stand in their way.
7) Roh
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Malay
Description
Cut off from civilization, a single mother puts her children on high alert when they bring home a young girl caked in clay. She tells of spirits and spirit hunters, but these are not mere superstitions. As more strangers show up on her doorstep, she quickly finds another reason to fear the forest.
Publisher
Big Talk Productions
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 167 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
10) Mildred Pierce
Series
Criterion collection volume 860
Language
English
Formats
Description
Mildred is a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable waitress and eventually as the well-heeled owner of a successful restaurant chain, the ingratitute of her materialistic firstborn becomes a venomous serpent's tooth, setting in motion an endless cycle of desperate overtures and heartless recriminations.
11) Mum: Season two
Publisher
BBC Studios
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (approximately 163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Pauline's divorce money has come through and she's hired a country mansion for the week to celebrate Derek's birthday. So Cathy, Michael, Kelly, Jason, Pauline, Derek, Reg and Maureen up sticks and decamp to the English countryside. Each episode takes place on a different day of their trip, revealing all the clashes, awkwardness and comedy that results from the family being stuck together in the middle of nowhere.
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When shallow, self-absorbed stockbrocker Sterling Brooks meets with a fatal freak accident on the golf course, he's in for the ride of his afterlife. Thanks to the divine intervention of Joe, a guardian angel with an attitude, Sterling learns that he can only get into heaven by performing one last good deed on earth: he must rescue single mother Annie Campbell and her seven-year old daughter Marissa from vicious mobsters who will stop at nothing -...
15) Stella
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tough and fiercely independent, Stella discovers that she is pregnant after a brief relationship with a doctor, but is too proud to accept a marriage of convenience from him or her well-meaning best friend. Ready to face life without regrets, Stella single-handedly raises her daughter Jenny. Through the years, the two share a very special relationship, until Stella faces the truth, that she cannot provide her daughter with a life of advantages that...
17) Light from light
Publisher
Grasshopper Film
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
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Formats
Description
Gifted with sometimes-prophetic dreams and a lifelong interest in the paranormal, Shelia is asked to investigate a potential haunting at a Tennessee farmhouse. It's there she meets Richard, a recent widower who believes his wife may still be with him. The investigation that ensues, which eventually pulls in Shelia's son, Owen, and his classmate Lucy, forces them to confront the mysteries of their own lives.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
3 DVDs (379 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The last time we saw Nancy and the Botwins, it was through the scope of a hitman's rifle. Nancy had sprung from the joint and gone to New York City, where she made a fresh start doing what she does best: selling pot and making enemies. Now everyone's wondering who put out the hit, and who got smoked.
19) Obvious child
Publisher
A24
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of her life.
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