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Summary: Rose-Lynn Harlan is bursting with raw talent, charisma, and cheek. Fresh out of jail and with two young kids, all she wants is to get out of Glasgow and make it as a country singer in Nashville. Her mom Marion has had a bellyful of Rose-Lynn's Nashville nonsense. Forced to take responsibility, Rose-Lynn gets a cleaning job, only to find an unlikely champion in the middle-class lady of the house.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

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Summary: Bunny King is a mother of two and a rough-cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to try and reunite with her children, a confrontation leads Bunny to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against them both, Bunny's battle has just begun.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA JUS

Farmiga, Vera

Summary: A single mother and her teenage son have to drive her estranged criminally-inclined father from Texas to California after he has been kicked out of his retirement home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2018

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE BOU

Summary: A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2022

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Bleechington, Andrew

Summary: Follows the story of a struggling family in northern Florida as a single mother raises her two children and her teenage son has another brush with the law.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2019

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIF

Summary: Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUL

Summary: Divorced mom Eva may be falling for Albert, a sweet, funny, like-minded divorced man. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne, who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY ENO

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD ENO

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Enough 2014

Summary: The story of two mothers who give birth the same day.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures 2022

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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN PAR

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PAR

Summary: Sue works in a library; her son Daniel eats chips and listens to Metallica. When his father and stepmother cancel his summer plans to visit them in Florida at the last minute, Sue and Daniel suddenly face the prospect of six long weeks together. An epic war of wills ensues in the unassuming battleground of their suburban home as they each reckon with private tragedies, and pursue their passions.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2021

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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY DAY

Summary: Follows Yoshimi, a single mother struggling to win sole custody of her only child, Ikuko. When they move into a new home within a dilapidated and long-forgotten apartment complex, Yoshimi begins to experience startling visions and unexplainable sounds, calling her mental well-being into question, and endangering not only her custody of Ikuko, but perhaps their lives as well.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD + BLU-RAY FOREIGN DAR

Summary: Single mom Maggie is trying to maintain the balance of being devoted to son Jordan while having a career. Jordan needs help at school and meets Casey, a tutor. They quickly bond, and Casey becomes more like a father figure. What he wishes most, however, is for his mom to find happiness and love again at Christmas. With the help of faith and fate, Maggie discovers anything is possible.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Hallmark Channel 2018

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in KBL Holiday Storage, Call number: DVD Ma

Summary: "Melodrama casts noirish shadows in this portrait of maternal sacrifice from Hollywood master Michael Curtiz. Its iconic performance by Joan Crawford as Mildred, a single mother hell-bent on freeing her children from the stigma of economic hardship, solidified Crawford's career comeback and gave the actor her only Oscar. But as Mildred pulls herself up by the bootstraps, first as an unflappable...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA MIL

Summary: It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2023

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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA IMI

2 holds on 3 copies

Summary: A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KID

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD KID RATED R

Summary: Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical 2022

Copies Available at Interlochen

1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD Movie Desperate 2022

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2014

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY OBV

Summary: Juana, a working-class, single mother, decides to take a job at a local Japanese restaurant. Against all odds, she fights to achieve her dream of becoming a sushi chef.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA EAS

Hendricks, Christina

Summary: Follows the life of a single woman who raises her grandson after her daughter goes missing.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2019

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AME

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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE AME

Summary: Lorraine and Ed Warren, who, in one of their most terrifying paranormal investigations, travel to north London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by malicious spirits.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2016

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Witherspoon, Reese

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Summary: A daughter of a famous filmmaker, who has just separated from her husband and moved with her two daughters into her childhood home in Los Angeles, meets three young aspiring filmmakers and lets them live in her home.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2017

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HOM RATED PG-13

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE HOM

Copies Available at Woodmere

2 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE HOM

1 hold on 1 copy

Summary: A single mother discovers a scheme in her son's book to rescue a young girl from the hands of her abusive stepfather and sets out to execute the plan at any cost.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Pictures Home Entertainment 2017

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Summary: Miranda Wells is a hard-working young widow struggling to raise three children on her own. A powerful storm brings a devastating challenge and a mysterious man, Bray Johnson, into her life. In just a few short days, Bray's presence re-ignites the family's spirit, but he also carries a secret, and it's a secret that could change everything.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2020

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1 available in Romance DVDs, Call number: DVD ROMANCE SEC

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SEC

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Se

Summary: Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF BAB

Summary: 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...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2020

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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA LIG

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LIG

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