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1) Any Day Now
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Winner of 10 Audience Awards at film festivals around the country and starring the amazing Alan Cumming, Any Day Now is a powerful tale of love, acceptance and family. When a teenager with Down syndrome (Isaac Leyva) is abandoned by his mother, a gay couple (Alan Cumming and Garret Dillahunt) takes him in and becomes the loving family he's never had. But when their unconventional living arrangement is discovered by authorities, the men are forced...
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
For years, rumors of the "Marsh Girl" have haunted Barkley Cove, a quiet town on the North Carolina coast. So, in late 1969, when handsome Chase Andrews is found dead, the locals immediately suspect Kya Clark, the so-called Marsh Girl. But Kya is not what they say. Sensitive and intelligent, she has survived for years alone in the marsh that she calls home, finding friends in the gulls and lessons in the sand. Then the time comes when she yearns to...
4) August Rush
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Language
English
Description
"Dan Donahue has finally met the woman of his dreams, but on the night he is going to propose, he is overcome by a deep-rooted anger caused by his father who abandoned him as a boy. Dan confronts his feelings of bitterness head on, as he pours out his heart in a letter to his father. As Dan writes, his life is unfolded, revealing his pain and ultimate joy, as he grows from a young, troubled teen into a strong, spiritual man. In the end, Dan's father...
Publisher
RHI Entertainment Inc
Edition
Full screen version.
Language
English
Description
A little boy is abandoned by his parents and raised by some older unmarried cousins, where he develops a close bond with one of the ladies. When he is urged to move on with his life by one of them, he never forgets the memories of his favorite friend.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Standard version.
Language
English
Description
To Edna Gladney, founder of the Texas Children's home and Aid Society, every abandoned child deserves the miracle of a loving home. Edna's devotion echoes today as she declares, "There are no illegitimate babies-- only illegitimate parents."
Publisher
RLJ Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Russ Millings has just been released from prison after serving 21 years for a third strike conviction for possessing an ounce of marijuana. As he tries to adapt to a world he doesn't recognize, including trying to learn how to use the internet, he finds an abandoned baby in a dumpster behind the fast-food restaurant where he works as a dishwasher. Unsure of what to do, and caught between impulses of kindness and panic, Russ soon realizes this could...
9) Lore
Publisher
Music Box Films
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Deutsch
Formats
Description
Abandoned by their Nazi parents at the end of World War II, five German siblings, led by fourteen year old Lore embark on a harrowing journey across their war-torn country.
10) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Edition
Widescreen version ; Special edition.
Language
English
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout,' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Extended edition.
Language
English
Description
In this sequel to the 2001 cult favorite, the return of the mullet-wearing, rock and roll loving, down on his luck white-trash-hero who embarks on another epic journey, this time through the recent past, the heartland of America, and his own mind, to get back to his loved ones.
12) Tokyo godfathers
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
日本語
Description
The story takes place on Christmas Eve in Shinjuku, Tokyo. Middle-aged has-been Gin, aging transvestite Hana, and teenage runaway Miyuki are homeless friends who have formed a makeshift family structure bond. That bond is tested when they find an abandoned baby while searching for food in a trash dumpster. They try to care for the infant themselves, and travel throughout the city in search of the baby's parents.
13) Sleepwalking
Publisher
Distributed by Anchor Bay Entertainment
Edition
Full screem ed. ; Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
A moving drama about the deep familial bond that develops between James and his young niece, Tara after the girl's mother suddenly leaves town. As old wounds from James' own turbulent childhood begin to reopen, he is forced to re-examine his life and, for the first time, discover his true purpose.
Publisher
MVD Visual
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
In 1967, sisters Juliet and Evangeline are abandoned by their mother at their unsuspecting grandparents' farm in the small southern town of Fireside. Stunned by their sudden arrival, tender-hearted Walt and champion fiddler Ruby graciously stand in for the missing parents and create one blue-ribbon recipe for a loving family. Fireside, home of radio Station KOFF, kept secrets, broken promises and to-die-for sundaes serves as the backdrop for this...
15) Abel's field
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Left motherless by tragedy and abandoned by his father, high school senior Seth McArdle has been put under enormous pressure to support his little sisters. At school, he endures the daily bullying of the football team. When he fights back, he's singled out for punishment, assigned to an after-school work detail under the supervision of a reserved groundskeeper, Abel. Much to his surprise, Seth discovers that Abel may be the only one who truly understands...
Publisher
BYU TV
Edition
[DVD].
Language
English
Description
Hope is an aspiring reporter who was abandoned by her mother at birth. She's grieving the recent death of her adopted mother when her apartment is burglarized of all her possessions. While reporting the burglary to the police, Hope discovers a jar full of money, labeled "Christmas Jar." Shocked and grateful for this act of kindness, Hope discovers that people all over her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, have been receiving Christmas jars for years...
Series
Criterion collection volume 646
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
Français
Description
Twelve-year-old Cyril, all coiled anger and furious motion, is living in a group home but refuses to believe he has been rejected by his single father. He spends his days frantically trying to reach the man, over the phone or on his beloved bicycle. It is only the patience and compassion of Samantha, the stranger who agrees to care for him, that offers the boy the chance to move on.
19) Min and Bill
Series
Language
English
Description
Min, the feisty owner of a waterfront hotel who has raised an abandoned girl as her own child, is at constant odds with Bill, a rough and ready ship captain. Then the girl's happiness is threatened by her drunken mother's reappearance and Min's world is turned upside down.
20) Mully
Publisher
Brainstorm Media
Language
English
Description
Tells the true story of a homeless Kenyan orphan who becomes a successful businessman, only to give up everything to open an orphanage to serves thousands of Kenyan children.
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