Summary: After the recent death of her husband, Jessica is lonely and out of sorts. She meets two men who are very different. As Jessica debates the merits of passion versus security, she becomes the subject of mean-spirited gossipmongers.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Turner Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MYSummary: Stigmatized from infancy by the fate of his criminal father, young Danny is bruised and bullied until one night, in a fit of rage, he kills his most persistent tormenter. As the police close in around him, Danny makes a desperate bid for the love of the dead man's fiancé, a schoolteacher who sees the wounded soul behind his aggression. A small-town fable about violence and redemption, it is the...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY CRIME/MYSTERY MOOSummary: An amateur entomologist is left in Tokyo to study an unclassified species of beetle found in sandy locations. When he misses his bus back to civilization, he is persuaded to spend the night with a young widow in her hut at the bottom of a sand dune. What results is one of cinema's most unnerving and palpably erotic battles of the sexes, as well as a nightmarish depiction of the Sisyphean...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WOMSummary: In a struggle over the family fortune, an ominous secret that plagues the Caldwell estate enshrouds all its inhabitants in a mantle of morbidity and malice.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Warner Home Video 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CRYCooper, Bradley
Summary: When Pat is released from a mental health facility after being treated for bipolar disorder, he meets a recent widow and the two develop a unique friendship.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2013
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3 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY SILCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SILCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Silver 2013Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SILCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SIL RATED PG-13Copies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SiSummary: An undercover FBI agent falls in love with a recently widowed mafia wife, who is trying to restart her life following her husband's murder, while being pursued by a libidinous mafia kingpin seeking to claim her for himself.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: MGM Home Entertainment 2000
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY MARDavis, Viola
Summary: After finding a gun, money, and detailed plans for the security van hijack that killed her husband, Dolly recruits the other widows to complete the heist.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Fox Home Entertainment 2019
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3 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY WIDCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE WIDCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WIDCopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD WiMortimer, Emily
Summary: When a free-spirited widow opens a bookshop in a conservative coastal town in England in 1959, she attracts both opposition and support from the local community.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Universal Studios Home Entert. 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD BoCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA BOOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Family Bookshop 2019Summary: Since losing her husband in a drunk-driving accident, Sophie has struggled to manage crippling grief, a full-time job, and the demands of parenting her devastated teen daughter. When her husband's best friend, a former physicist, reveals that he has been building a time-bending machine that could restore her former life, she is faced with an impossible choice. One push of a button and she can...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA APO1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: HOT DVD
Summary: Northern England, the early 1960's. Frank Machin is a coal miner who is mean, tough and ambitious enough to rise up and become an immediate professional rugby star. The rugby league team is run by local employer Weaver. Machin lodges with Mrs Hammond, whose husband was killed in an accident at Weaver's, but his impulsive and angry nature stop him from being able to reach her as he would like....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2008
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA THISummary: Charade (1963) is comedy-mystery set in Paris about a young widow who, with the help of a handsome stranger, is trying to find the fortune her dead husband secreted away while being pursued by a trio of thugs.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Madacy Entertainment 2001
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1 available in Video Discs, Call number: DVD CHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Crime / Mystery DVDs, Call number: DVD CRIME/MYSTERY CHACopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE CHACopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Charade 2001Summary: A man falls from a mountain peak to his death. The detective in charge of the investigation, Hae-Joon, comes to meet the dead man's wife Seo-Rae. When she becomes a suspect, Hae-Joon finds himself slowly developing an interest in her.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN DECSummary: Thomas, a young German baker, has an affair with Oren, a married Israeli man. After Oren unexpectedly dies in a car crash, Thomas travels to Jerusalem seeking answers about his death. Under a fake identity, Thomas enters the life of Anat, his lover's newly widowed wife. There, he begins to work for Anat, baking pastries that bring her cafe to vibrant life. Thomas becomes deeply involved in her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Strand Releasing Home Video 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN CAKSummary: In the heart of Chinatown, New York, an ornery, chain-smoking, newly widowed 80-year-old grandma is eager to live life as an independent woman. When a local fortuneteller predicts a lucky day in her future, Grandma decides to head to the casino, only to land herself on the wrong side of luck, attracting the attention of some local gangsters. Desperate, Grandma employs the services of a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Good Deed Entertainment 2020
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY LUCSummary: A writer is put on trial for her husband's suspicious demise, which happened while their blind son was out of the house, and the writer is well-known for turning her life into auto-fiction.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: The Criterion Collection 2024
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Lisa Baumer learns that her husband has died in a freak plane accident. Summoned to Athens to collect his generous life insurance policy, she soon discovers that others besides herself are keen to get their hands on the money and are willing to kill for it. Meanwhile, private detective Peter Lynch arrives to investigate irregularities in the insurance claim. Teaming up with a beautiful...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2018
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN CASSummary: Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan. To die before the money ran out, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2021
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FRECopies Available at Kingsley
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD FRECopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FRESummary: In this singular exploration of legacy, love, loss, and the enormity of existence, a recently deceased, white-sheeted ghost returns to his suburban home to try to reconnect with his bereft wife.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Entertainment 2017
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA GHOCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE GHOSummary: It centers on Kate, a widow who lost her husband in the war in Afghanistan and is struggling to maintain her small-town farm with her daughter while also running the local volunteer fire department.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD DAKCopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY DAKSummary: Gordon Dunn, a visionary scientific pioneer, is found dead shortly after he unveils his newest work: a device able to extract, record, and play a person's memories. Soon, a mysterious man shows up at his widow's door, claiming to be a friend of her late husband. After stealing the machine from the house, the man uses it to try and solve the mystery of Gordon's death, beginning an investigation...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE REMSummary: A military widow rents an apartment to an Army Captain recovering from an injury in battle. As they team up to save the town's military museum with a Christmas fundraising event, these two 'wounded birds' find themselves falling in love, and being healed by the magic of Christmas.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD CHRSummary: Suddenly widowed, Annabelle Wilson makes a sudden decision to sell her home and travel the world. On her first stop, she meets Lord Howard Awd, the weathered inn-owner of the castle she's residing in for the week. As time progresses, Annabelle and Howard find themselves drawn to one another, becoming closer as they share secrets they've never told anyone else. There's only one issue in what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate Home Entertainment 2020