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1) Fences
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A black garbage collector named Troy Maxson in 1950s Pittsburgh is bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues, Maxson is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
"You don't get groundbreaking cinema from Fences, but what you do get - two titanic performances and an immeasurable American drama - makes up for that."--Boston Globe
"Washington and Davis' performances... invite us in...
2) Nebraska
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.
3) Joe
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Français
Description
It's not easy for a narrow-minded professor to reconcile with his equally stubborn son. But soon, father and son find themselves gathering with their wide and colorful circle of family and friends to confrom their differences, confess their secrets, and celebrate life.
5) 2 Jacks
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Here is a comical variation of Leo Tolstoy's short story Two Hussars, by comparing the entertainment business between the generational changes from father to son.
8) Joe Bell
Publisher
Vertical
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
10) Embattled
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Raised by an abusive father, an MMA star who has abused and neglected his own family faces his eighteen-year-old son in the ring who is determined to break the cycle of abuse.
11) Lean On Pete
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
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.
Publisher
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
p2014.
Language
English
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Description
Boyd and his family are forced to spend Christmas at his parents' house. When he realizes that he left his son's gifts at home, Boyd and his father must hit the road in a blizzard to retrieve the gifts before sunrise and save Christmas.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
A 40-year-old writer visits his dying father. He begins to relive the memories of the past - both good and bad - and he is forced to realize that his once "immortal, invincible and infallible" father is human after all.
15) Onward
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Teenage elf brothers Ian and Barley Lightfoot get an unexpected opportunity to spend one more day with their late dad, so they embark on an extraordinary quest aboard Barley's epic van Guinevere. Like any good qust, their journey is filled with magic spells, cryptic maps, impossible obstacles and unimaginable discoveries. but when the boys' fearless mom Laurel realizes that her sons are missing, she teams up with a part-lion, part-bat, part-scorpion,...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Starring Bruce Willis, this action cyber-thriller continues the adventure begun in The Fortress. Weeks after a deadly assault on Fortress Camp, Robert makes a daring rescue to save Sasha, the widow of his old nemesis, Balzary. But back in the camp's command bunker, Sasha may have devious plans of her own, and as a new attack breaks out, Robert is confronted with a familiar face he thought he'd never see again.
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
Publisher
Panorama Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
Español
Description
After grumpy 85-year-old Don Servando is kicked out of his retirement home, his estranged son Francisco has no choice but to invite his dad to live with him. Confronted with his son's hippie lifestyle and eccentric housemates, Don Servando goes off the rails, igniting a series of comic conflicts that put the house in jeopardy, and leaves everyone in stitches.
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