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2) The farewell
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Chinese-born, U.S.-raised Billi reluctantly returns to Changchun to find that, although the whole family knows their beloved matriarch, Nai-Nai, has been given mere weeks to live, everyone has decided not to tell Nai Nai herself. To assure her happiness, they gather under the joyful guise of an expedited wedding, uniting family members scattered among new homes abroad. As Billi navigates a minefield of family expectations and proprieties, she finds...
3) Gremlins
Language
English
Description
When a young bank teller inadvertently breaks the rules of Mogwai care, his new pet, Gizmo, multiplies into a bevy of mischievous brothers, who soon morph into malevolent scaly creatures.
Series
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
When Miranda Chester set off to find information on her biological father two Christmases ago, she never imagined that her investigation would lead her to both the family she had always longed for and Ian McAndrick, the love of her life. After her romantic engagement last Christmas, Miranda prepares to marry Ian this Christmas surrounded by his family and her new family, the Whitcombs.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
In Season Four, viewers will see the world of Madison Clark and her family through new eyes, the eyes of Morgan Jones, who is joining the story. The characters' immediate pasts mix with an uncertain present of struggle and discovery as they meet new friends, foes, and threats. They fight for each other, against each other, and a legion of the dead, and work to build an existence strong enough to resist the crushing pressure of living coming apart....
Language
English
Description
My Girl: Coming-of-age film about eleven-year-old Vada Sultnefuss who lives with her widowed father, the town mortician -- My Girl 2: Vada Sultnefuss goes to California to visit her uncle, his girlfriend and her street-smart son Nick. Guided by Nick through Los Angeles in search of her late mother's history, Vada makes some surprising discoveries.
8) Footloose
Language
English
Description
Ren MacCormack moves from Boston to the small town of Bomont where he experiences a heavy dose of culture shock. A few years prior, the community was rocked by a tragic accident that killed five teenagers after a night out. Bomont's councilmen and the beloved Reverend Shaw Moore responded by invoking ordinances that prohibit loud music and dancing. Not one to bow to the status quo, Ren challenges the ban, revitalizes the town, and falls in love with...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
As Season Five begins in 1924, the radio is the latest miracle, a new Labour government heralds changes through the land, and Downton's traditional ways are besieged on all fronts. Robert, Mary, and Branson must navigate these shifting sands together to ensure the future of the estate for generations to come. As Branson finds himself playing a more crucial role at Downton than ever before, he can't help but question his place in the world. Mary is...
10) The Hollars
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
John Hollar, a struggling NYC artist is forced to navigate the small middle-American town he left behind when news of his mother's illness brings him home. Back in the house he grew up in, John is immediately swept up in the problems of his dysfunctional family, high school rival, and an over-eager ex-girlfriend as he faces impending fatherhood with his girlfriend in New York.
11) Christmas angel
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
When her classmates' impossible Christmas wishes come true, Olivia is convinced she is going to get her wish of a dad, and husband for her single mother.
12) Night swim
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ray Waller, a former major league baseball player is forced into early retirement by a degenerative illness, he moves into a new home with his concerned wife Eve, teenage daughter Izzy, and young son Elliot. Secretly hoping, against the odds, to return to pro ball, Ray persuades Eve that the new home's shimmering backyard swimming pool will be fun for the kids and provide physical therapy for him. But a dark secret in the home's past will unleash...
13) Bad manners
Pub. Date
2019.
Language
English
Description
Five inhabitants of The Home of the Bleeding Hearts Orphans take a blood oath to become a family. They won't let anyone break them apart. When the Fitzpatricks adopt "Mouse" and take him back to Santa Barbara, the remaining four orphans go into action to rescue their "brother."
Series
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas and Miranda leaves Seattle with a suitcase full of presents to join her long lost family in Carlton Heath, where she will experience the joyful traditions she missed as a child. But this Christmas, she fears the warm welcome she received from the Whitcomb family will soon turn cold when Miranda receives an anonymous text from someone who threatens to expose her identity.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week. Confronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families...
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
As Kristina and Adam reevaluate their lives after her fight against cancer, Sarah finds a career she loves and a possible new romance. Crosby and Jasmine adapt to life as a family with an infant in the house, while Camille and Zeek decide what their 'Act three' is going to be now that they have an empty nest. And though most challenges bring the relations closer together, Joel and Julia find their marriage crumbling apart in ways they never expected....
20) State fair
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A small-town family travels to the Iowa State Fair. The father is looking for a blue ribbon for his prize hog, Blue Boy, mom is looking for glory in her cooking, and the kids are looking for love.
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