Summary: When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2004
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1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD JOHSummary: In the final season of this popular series, Emmy and Golden Globe winner Laura Linney reprises her role as Cathy Jamison, who comes to a realization about her battle with skin cancer. Deciding to quit chemotherapy, Cathy finds peace and resolution with her husband, son and even her estranged father. With four one-hour episodes, Cathy's journey is filled with laughter, tears and poignancy- a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2013
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV BIGSummary: A family in 1630s New England faces destruction by the forces of witchcraft, black magic, and possession. When one of their five children goes missing and their life-sustaining crops fail, they fall victim to paranoia and fear as they begin to turn on one another.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: When a teenage boy with extraordinary abilities appears out of nowhere near Seattle, Washington, a kindhearted social worker and her family are the only people to offer him a home. The young man's capabilities and brilliance seem to grow stronger each day, but these talents are just one clue to the mystery of the boy they call Kyle, and the questions are starting to grow: Where did he come...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD KYLSummary: The experienced geologist Kristian Eikfjord has accepted a job offer out of town. He is getting ready to move from the city of Geiranger with his family, when he and his colleagues measure small geological changes in the underground. Kristian gets worried and his worst nightmare is about to come true, when the alarm goes off and the disaster is inevitable. With less than 10 minutes to react, it...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2016
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN WAVSummary: Jane Campion returns to the kind of mythic frontier landscape--pulsating with both freedom and menace--that she previously traversed in The Piano in order to plumb the masculine psyche in The Power of the Dog, set against the desolate plains of 1920s Montana and adapted by the filmmaker from Thomas Savage's novel. After a sensitive widow and her enigmatic, fiercely loving son move in with her...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW1 available in Staff Picks, Call number: DVD DRAMA POW
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD Movie PowerCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD POWSummary: Seventeen years after his family was separated by the civil war in Angola, a New York taxi driver is reunited with his now devoutly religious wife and teenage daughter when they are finally able to follow him to America. But after living thousands of miles apart for so long, the three find they must discover one another's strengths, forgive one another's weaknesses, and bridge cultural and...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY DRAMA FARSummary: When the husband of a high-society woman is killed in an accident, she realizes she has nothing left except a house in rural Georgia that is being used as a foster home. Moving in with the intentions of selling it, she finds a new meaning and purpose to her life when she ends up helping to care for the rebellious teenagers who live there that have issues of their own.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Family DVDs, Call number: DVD FAMILY LOSCopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Browsing Hot DVDs, Call number: DVD LOSSummary: When the matriarch of the Graham family passes away, her daughter's family begins to unravel cryptic and increasingly terrifying secrets about their ancestry.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Lionsgate 2018
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HERSummary: Part crime thriller, part romantic comedy, Louis Garrel's The Innocent shows the dangerous and outlandish lengths two men go to for the women they love. Garrel stars as Abel, an aquarium educator whose mother, Sylvie, marries one of her drama pupils in the local penitentiary, Michel. Once on parole, Michel attempts to start a legitimate life but soon reverts to his old ways, eventually roping...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: After skirting the horrors of an unidentified war being waged in an anonymous countryside, a beautiful young woman takes refuge in a remote farmhouse where she becomes embroiled in the surreal domestic odyssey of a mysterious family. Evocatively shot by cinematographer Sven Nykvist, 'Black Moon' is a Freudian tale of adolescent sexuality set in a post-apocalyptic world of shifting identities...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Criterion Collection 2011
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN BLASummary: A cautionary tale that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. Centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears at his door to discuss their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing school for months and is deeply troubled. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2023
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2 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA SONCopies Available at East Bay
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MOVIE SONCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD SONSummary: Frank Capra adapted a hit stage play for this marvelous screwball meeting of the madcap and the macabre. On Halloween, newly married drama critic Mortimer Brewster returns home to Brooklyn, where his adorably dotty aunts greet him with love, sweetness...and a grisly surprise: the corpses buried in their cellar. A bugle-playing brother who thinks he's Teddy Roosevelt, a crazed criminal who's a...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Beshay, a man cured of leprosy, has never left the leper colony in the Egyptian desert where he has lived since childhood. Following the death of his wife, he finally decides to go in search of his roots. With his meager possessions strapped to a donkey cart, he set out. Quickly joined by Obama, the Nubian orphan he has taken under his wing, Beshay will cross Egypt and confront the world with...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN YOMSummary: "Michael Haneke's most notorious production, Funny Games spares no detail in its depiction of the agony of a bourgeois family held captive at their vacation home by a pair of white-gloved young men. In a series of escalating 'games, ' the sadistic duo subject their victims to unspeakable physical and psychological torture over the course of a night. A home-invasion thriller in which the game's...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: BLU-RAY FOREIGN FUNSummary: At their lakeside vacation home, Ann, George and their son have unexpected visitors: two well-spoken, well-bred young men wearing polite smiles and preppy sportswear. The visitors want to play a game. "You bet that you'll be alive tomorrow at 9:00, and we bet that you'll be dead. OK?" As the terrorized family fights to survive, each plan is thwarted, each option closed, each hour closer to what...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN FUNSummary: The heart-warming true story about an eccentric chicken farmer who, with the help of his granddaughter, trains his mischievous dog to protect a wild penguin sanctuary from fox attacks and in the process tries to reunite his family and save their seaside town.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in TC Film Fest DVDs, Call number: DVD TCFF ODDSummary: "Francesca is a young pediatrician, traumatized by the loss of a child through crib death. When the family moves to a new home in the country, supposedly to help her recover from the experience, she begins seeing completely inexplicable things. The house in which they now live seems to hide terrible secrets. Both the cellar and the attic are locked and barred to the family--and it is from both...
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Phase 4 Films 2010
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD HAUSummary: A period of immense economic change, of huge fortunes made and lost, and the rise of disparity between old money and new. A wide-eyed young scion of a conservative family, Marian, embarks on a mission to infiltrate the wealthy neighboring clan or her aunts Agnes van Rhijn and Ada Brook, dominated by ruthless railroad tycoon George Russell, his rakish son, Larry, and his ambitious wife, Bertha....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: 2022
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2 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV GILSummary: 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
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD MADSummary: Eleven-year-old Matt Tyler devises a plan to buy his father's company, Tyler Toys, so his dad has to work less and spend more time with the family. So Matt and his friend Danny start up TheBrainiacs.com to attract investors in a microchip that his sister Kelly is inventing. The money rolls in and through on-line trading, the "cyberkids" buy enough stock to take over Dad's company....
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Feature Films for Families 2003