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Summary: Aging rocker Danny Collins can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager uncovers a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2015
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DANSummary: Aidan Bloom, a 35-year-old struggling actor, father, and husband, is still trying to find his identity, a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2014
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA WISKendrick, Anna
Summary: After a dramatic break-up, a woman moves in with her brother and his family near Christmas and her brother's wife discovers that she could be a good influence on her career and life.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2014
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Seasonal Adult Collection, Call number: DVD MOVIE HAPSummary: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy's intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Cohen Media Group 2013
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN INSummary: Christmas Angel is the story of a young girls dream for her wish to have a complete family come true. While working on a class assignment to write a paper on My Impossible Christmas Wish, Olivia Mead quickly takes note of unusual happenings. As her wishes come true she is convinced the miracles are linked to a mysterious woman she believes is an angel.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Pure Flix Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Holiday CClooney, George
Summary: When his wife ends up on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron Matt King discovers she was having an affair, so he takes his two daughters on a trip to Kauai to confront the man she was seeing.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2012
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DES RATED RCopies Available at Woodmere
2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA DESCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DESCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE DESSummary: Lynn and her three youngest children attend the wedding of her estranged eldest son at her parents' Annapolis estate. Though she is hoping for a joyful reunion, her attempts at reconciliation veer quickly off-course when she is hurled into the center of touchy family dynamics.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2012
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE ANOSummary: Ned is a loving husband and devoted father dealing with life's curveballs. He's got a stressed-out wife, an independent teenage son, and an embittered father-in-law who's turning his home upside down. Ned's job writing a scandalous TV series for a demanding boss is unfulfilling, and late night rewrites with a sexy co-worker might just push him over the deep end.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Image Entertainment 2011
Copies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE EVESummary: A father's life unravels while he deals with a marital crisis and tries to manage his relationship with his children.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2011
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRA RATED PG-13Summary: Madea, everyone's favorite wise-cracking, take-no-prisoners grandma, jumps into action when her niece, Shirley, receives distressing news about her health. All Shirley wants is to gather her three adult children around her and share the news as a family. It's up to Madea, with the help of the equally rambunctious Aunt Bam, to gather the clan together and make things right the only way she knows...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2011
Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADSummary: Nic and Jules are your average suburban couple raising their two teens, Joni and Laser, in Southern California. But when the kids secretly track down their 'donor dad' Paul, an unexpected new chapter begins for everyone.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entertainment 2010
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD KIDCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Kids 2010Copies Available at Woodmere
1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF KIDSummary: Follow the Russo family as they vacation at the Caribbean resort where Jerry and Theresa first met. Alex's mom makes her go on the family vacation - something Alex is not too pleased about. She conjures a spell that erases her parents' fateful first meeting and puts the Russo family's very existence in peril.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WSummary: When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: New Line Video 2009
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FOUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FOU RATED PG-13Summary: A charismatic spin-doctor for Big Tobacco struggles with the twin demands of being successful at his job and acting as a good role model for his son.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY THASummary: Jack Campbell, a workaholic Wall Street exec, gets to see what his life might have been like if he'd stayed with his former sweetheart, Kate. Thirteen years after they split up, Jack falls asleep in his posh New York apartment, then awakens to find himself a family man, with his now-wife Kate, daughter Annie and new baby.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios 2001
Copies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAM RATED PG-13Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FAMCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FAMSummary: Uncle Buck, an idle good-natured bachelor, is left in charge of his nephew and nieces during a family crisis. While his carefree ways easily charm the younger relatives, he meets more than a little hostility from Tia, his rebellious teenage niece, and Chanice, his impatient girlfriend.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY UNCSummary: Happily divorced for 14 years, Lilly and Dan still hate each other. But after a fight at their daughter's wedding, their hostility suddenly turns to unbridled passion.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Home Video 1998