Summary: Chris Gardner is an intelligent, energetic guy who can't catch a break. In the sluggish Bay Area economy of 1981, he's losing ground, by investing all his family's money in high cost bone-density scanners. His wife leaves him, he loses his apartment, and with his 5-year-old son in tow joins the ranks of the homeless, if not the hopeless. Bounced from shelter to shelter, he finds himself a...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: A former heavyweight boxing champion comes out of retirement to fight a 10 round exhibition bout against an opponent who is thirty years younger than he is.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2007

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Summary: In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Paramount 2017

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Summary: 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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Summary: Minor league baseball player Carlton Garrett takes an unplanned road trip to find his estranged father, legendary baseball player Kyle Garrett, after his mother becomes ill. Knowing that his father is charming, yet extremely immature, he brings along his sometimes girlfriend for support. After father and son are reunited, Carlton must struggle to deal with the misadventures brought on by his...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Anchor Bay Entertainment 2009

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Summary: Adam and Charles Trask grow up in the shadow of their father, Cyrus. Cyrus prefers Adam, inciting jealousy in his younger son. Adam is signed up for the cavalry, while Charles works on the family farm. Reuniting years later, the brothers live in peace until a beautiful woman nearly beaten to death arrives on their front porch. Adam nurses her back to health and falls blindly in love. But Cathy...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2009

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Summary: Adopted by the Newton household's three children, an adorable little St. Bernard puppy grows into 185 pounds of disaster-prone trouble; There's trouble in the heir when Beethoven becomes the proud father of four pups, each one an adorable but mischievous bundle of joy; When two bumbling thieves threaten the safety of his family on vacation, Beethoven sets out to put a bit on the bad guys.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2012

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Summary: With promises of a reduced sentence, Jake Shuttlesworth is granted temporary release from state prison in order to persuade the nation's top college basketball recruit, his estranged son Jesus, to play ball for the Governor's alma mater! Includes theatrical trailer.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Touchstone Home Video 1998

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Miller, Arthur

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin 1976

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Word Play Miller

Summary: Charlie Hinton and Phil Ryerson are a pair of fathers who attempt to keep their summer camp running even though they are under heavy economic strain. To whip together a group of kids who have problems following orders and to help improve their financial situation, Hinton brings in his military trained father - even though he and his father have been on the outs. Soon the campers, and the...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2008

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Summary: Hank is a retired Sergeant with the Military Police, now he spends his days hauling gravel and sharing a quiet life with his wife Joan. One day, he receives a call informing him that his youngest son, Mike, had gone AWOL. Hank thought his son was in Iraq, but is informed that Mike returned stateside four days ago with his platoon. Hank calls his son's cell phone and gets voice mail. He checks...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Warner Home Video 2008

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Summary: In 1959, as part of the dedication ceremony for a new elementary school, a group of students is asked to draw pictures to be stored in a time capsule. One mysterious girl fills her sheet of paper with rows of apparently random numbers instead. Fifty years later, a new generation of students examines the capsule's contents and the girl's cryptic message ends up in the hands of Caleb. But it is...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Summit Entertainment 2009

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Summary: To an outsider, the Taylors are the very picture of the successful American family. But the day their matriarch is due to graduate from college, decades after leaving to raise her children, a devastating accident will bring the family's history and relationships to light.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2012

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Summary: In this retelling of the classic Western, a ranch enforcer raised by a powerful and ruthless cattle baron begins to doubt his own convictions and his foster father's motives after a string of deadly cattle rustlings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2013

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Summary: Lawman J.D. Cahill can stand alone against a bad-guy army. But as a widower father, he's on insecure footing raising two sons. Particularly when he suspects his boys are involved in a bank robbery, and two killings.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: 2015

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Summary: Die hard (1988): NYPD police officer John McClane tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2016

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Steel, Danielle

Summary: The story of two World War II concentration camp survivors, the life they build together, and the son who faces struggles of his own as a first generation American determined to be his own person and achieve success.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2018

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