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Author
Publisher
Theatre Communication Group
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Formats
Description
[This drama] is a portrait of the dysfunctional American family at its finest-and absolute worst. When the patriarch of the Weston clan disappears one hot summer night, the family reunites at the Oklahoma homestead, where long-held secrets are unflinchingly and uproariously revealed.
42) Still Alice
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
℗2015.
Language
English
Description
Alice Howland, happily married with three grown children, is a renowned linguistics professor who starts to forget words. When she receives a diagnosis of Early-Onset Alzheimer's Disease, Alice and her family find their bonds thoroughly tested. Her struggle to stay connected to who she once was is frightening, heartbreaking, and inspiring.
Publisher
Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Attorney Claudia is focused entirely on her career. She is about to miss the family get-together at Thanksgiving when a mysterious force whisks her into an alternate reality that shows her what life would be like if she married a husband and had children instead of putting her job first.
45) Straight A's
Publisher
Millennium Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Haunted by his mother's ghost, a former drug addict returns to his hometown seeking redemption from his family. His return is not as he expected, as his true love has become his sister-in-law.
46) Reconciliation
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
"A groundbreaking, provocative story about an estranged father and son struggling to overcome the heartbreaking consequences of their past."
47) Winter's bone
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
48) Replicas
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After his family dies in a car accident, a research scientist becomes obsessed with bringing them back to life.
49) Suburbicon
Publisher
Paramount
Language
English
Formats
Description
A peaceful, idyllic suburban community with affordable homes and manicured lawns, the perfect place to raise a family, and in the summer of 1959, the Lodge family is doing just that. The tranquil surface masks a disturbing reality, as husband and father Gardner Lodge must navigate the town's dark underbelly of betrayal, deceit, and violence. This is a tale of very flawed people making very bad choices.
51) Breakaway
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
Rajveer has dreams of playing in the NHL and against the wishes of his father, he begins an Indian ice hockey team.
54) Heaven's door
Publisher
Distributed by ARC Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
"Riley, a young girl in a small town, makes an unexpected discovery--a doorway to heaven, which leads to miraculous healing powers. She hides her gift at first as her parents struggle with a separation, and her mother continues to lose her faith. Riley is soon faced with the ultimate sacrifice . . . will it change her mother's mind and bring the family back together?" -- container.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
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Description
The Acunas family is a family of tradition. The family holds the ritual of making sure that their daughters get married in order of age. When the second daughter does not follow the tradition quick enough her sister resort to finding her a lover.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
Tony Soprano is a middle-aged businessman with a wife, a daughter, a son, and an elderly mother. He's also a mob boss.
Tony Soprano is your average, middle-aged businessman. Tony's got a dutiful wife, a not-so-dutiful daughter, a son named Anthony Jr. a mother he's trying to coax into a retirement home, a hot-headed uncle, a not-too-secret mistress and a shrink to tell all his secrets, except the one she already knows: Tony's a mob boss.
58) The greatest
Publisher
National Entertainment Media ; Port Washington, N. Y
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Three months after Allen and Grace's son dies, a young woman shows up pregnant with his child. At first her arrival threatens to tear the family further apart, but eventually she proves to be the very thing that brings them back together.
59) Run the race
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Formats
Description
After their mother's death and their father's abandonment, two brothers work together to earn a football scholarship that will provide a better life for them.
60) Ben is back
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Appears on list
Formats
Description
When a drug addict surprises his family by returning home on Christmas Eve, he and his mother realize that they must rebuild their relationship.
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