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1) The girl
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
For two years, Ashley, a rough and rugged beauty in her mid-twenties, has walked a tightrope, trying to prove that she is fit to be a mother and regain custody of her son. She discovers her father is smuggling immigrants across the border. Ashley is lured by the prospect of easy money in the role of a coyote. Her plans go awry, and she finds herself quickly stranded with a young girl whose mother disappeared in the late night river crossing. She soon...
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody.
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
6) Gifted
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
7) Solomon
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
The young king solves a dilemma in which two women claim one baby and an innocent life depends on his wisdom.
Language
English
Description
Thicker than water: A faded photograph leads attorney Natalie Jones to the secrets of her late father's past.
Angel in the family: a father and his two estranged daughters experience a miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend Christmas with them.
What I did for love: It's one catastrophe after another when a blundering L.A. lawyer finally meets his fiancee's family at their rural ranch.
Ordinary miracles: A troubled teen goes to live...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Before she died, the wife of attorney Paul Madriani asked that he help her younger sister, Laurel Vega. Laurel is fighting her ex-husband and his new wife for custody of her teenaged children. Then the second Mrs. Vega is killed and Laurel is in real trouble: she was seen at the house, she fled the state, and she destroyed evidence.
10) Striptease
Pub. Date
c1996, c1999
Language
English
Description
Erin Grant (Demi Moore) takes a job as a stripper in order to get money to appeal for custody of her daughter from her lunatic ex-husband. Her dancing attracts the attention of a deranged Congressman who will stop at nothing to possess her.
11) Dark water
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Dahlia has started a new life. She is recently separated from her husband, has a new job and a new apartment, she's determined to put her estranged relationship behind her and devote herself to raising her daughter, Ceci. Then when her strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse. Her new apartment seems to have a life of its own. Mysterious noises, persistent leaks of dark water, and strange happenings...
12) Clean
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
The drug-addicted wife of a once-good rock musician must rehabilitate herself to regain custody of her son from her in-laws after after her husband is found dead.
13) Third person
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Three stories of love, passion, trust and betrayal. The tales play out in New York, Paris and Rome through three couples who appear to have nothing related, but share deep commonalities.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
日本語
Description
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.
15) I am Sam
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Sam Dawson has the mental capacity of a 7-year-old. He works at a Starbucks, is obsessed with the Beatles and has a daughter with a homeless woman who abandons them. As the daughter reaches age 7, Sam's limitations start to become a problem. When the authorities take his daughter away, Sam shames a high-priced lawyer into taking his case pro bono. In the process, he teaches her a great deal about love, and whether it's really all you need.
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