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Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:first).
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Through tests, tears, and triumphs as a fire drives the Waltons from their home, John-Boy becomes a scriptwriter, Mary Ellen applies to nursing school, and Jim-Bob discovers a fact about his birth, all while Hitler and Mussolini threaten the world.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Baker is ready to make the most of her sweet sixteenth birthday, but only if someone, anyone from her family would just remember it. For her birthday, she has to endure creepy freshmen, spoiled siblings, confused parents and the beauty who stands in the way of the boy of her dreams.
4) 3 day test
Publisher
Echolight Studios
Edition
Widescreen Edition
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Martin Taylor has totally lost touch with his family. He has no clue who his teenage dauther's friends are, why his son only communicates with an electronic sign outside his bedroom door, or why his youngest child only watches faith TV. Convinced the family needs to reconnect [this Christmastime], Martin surprises the wife and kids with a little experiment--he locks them in their own home with no power, no heat, no running water, and absolutely no...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enjoy a new chapter of love and laughter with the Seventh Season of the show. Quackery rules the roost when Phil adopts a trio of orphan ducklings and the rebellious Dunphy kids spread their wings. Meanwhile, Cam and Mitchell face financial hurdles and wild frat boys, Jay and Gloria farm out Joe's preschool education and Manny leaps into the dating game. But will the big question finally be answered: are Haley and Andy destined to be together.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in Season Six. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes in various members of the Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
9) State fair
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Edition
[60th anniversary ed.].
Language
English
Description
On the first day of the Iowa State Fair, both Margy Frake and her brother Wayne find romance. Will their new-found relationships continue after the fair is over? (1945 version). The story shifts from Iowa to Texas in the 1962 version.There's a country-mouse feeling as the Frake family journeys to the big city for the annual harvest celebration. Young daughter Margy has her eye on something more exciting than her bore of a fiancé, while her brother...
10) Roots
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil War.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Peter opens a restaurant, fulfilling a life-long dream. When their church congregation believes Stewie is possessed, the family flees to Texas. After Chris is expelled from school, he's admitted into his grandfather's fancy alma mater. When a local oil refinery dumps waste into Lake Quahog, Lois is compelled to run for mayor. Brian moves out and he and his girlfriend get a place of their own. Joe's on cloud nine after leg-transplant surgery. Stewie...
13) Roots
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley₂s best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
14) Away we go
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Burt and Verona are a loving couple. Burt has always wanted to marry Verona, but Verona resists, not seeing the point of the institution. Regardless, they are having a baby together and question their potential parenting abilities. They decide to move closer to Burt's parents so they can share the experience with the baby's grandparents. In Verona's sixth month, she and Burt learn that his parents are moving to Belgium the month before the baby is...
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Language
English
Description
Sophie Kelly is a top-rated lawyer with three kids and a husband that take up all her time. All of her family and work stress comes to a chaotic halt at the shopping mall, days before Christmas, when she sees Santa and wishes for a different life. However, the grass is not always greener as a single, successful lawyer with her own firm and the most eligible bachelor vying for her attention.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Language
English
Description
Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand by his friend or salvage his family.
20) The Discoverers
Publisher
Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC
Language
English
Description
"Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch (Griffin Dunne) takes his begrudging teenagers on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis's estranged father goes missing on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, they're forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage across America."--Container....
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