Harrison, Patti L.
Summary: When a successful single app developer in his forties decides to have a baby without getting married, he offers a young woman who works at a coffee shop and needs money for college to become the surrogate mother for his child.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Decal 2021
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2 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY TOGCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE TOGSummary: 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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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie Pursuit 2007Copies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD PURSummary: On Christmas Eve, psychologist Marcia Fieldstone asks her radio audience to share their dreams for the holiday season. Eight-year-old Jonah calls in from Seattle, with a wish for his dad to find a new wife. Mom died a year-and-a-half ago. Baltimore Sun reporter Annie Reed also hears the broadcast, when Jonah's architect father Sam gets on the air. Sam talks about the magical moment he met his...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Tri-Star Pictures 2003
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SLESummary: A Pulitzer winning writer grapples with being a widower and father after a mental breakdown, while, 27 years later, his grown daughter struggles to forget connections of her own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Vertical Entertainment 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When Frank Goode's grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them. A family separated by physical and emotional distance finds a way to come together.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD EFimmel, Travis
Summary: With his life full of uncertainty, fifteen-year-old Charley finds comfort working with horses at the local racetrack, becoming attached to a losing racehorse named Lean On Pete.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lions Gate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD LEASummary: A father brings up his baby girl as a single dad after the unexpected death of his wife who died a day after their daughter's birth.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Comedy DVDs, Call number: DVD COMEDY FATCopies Available at Kingsley
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE FATSummary: Richard is a successful college professor who gives up a steady stream of one-night-stands and beautiful undergrads for fatherhood with much younger Kate. Three years later when Kate falls in love with someone else and moves out, she sends her sister, Olivia, to make sure Richard is properly caring for their son. Assuming Richard is back to his irresponsible playboy lifestyle, Olivia is shocked...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2015
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SoSummary: When a single father Dennis Nash is evicted from his home, his only chance to win it back is to go to work for Rick Carver, the charismatic and ruthless businessman who evicted him in the first place. It's a deal-with-the-devil that provides security for his family; but as Nash falls deeper into Carver's web, he finds his situation grows more brutal and dangerous than he ever imagined.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA NIN1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF NIN