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Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (108 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
David is a widowed science fiction writer who adopts Dennis, a young boy who claims to be from the Red Planet. David believes the child acts strangely in order to process the difficulty he has had in his young life, but soon both David and his sister, Liz, begin to wonder if the boy might be telling the truth.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist, a father of three, and a widower. He brings the family to his parent's house for a family gathering. After meeting Marie at a local bookstore, he finds out that she is dating his brother, Mitch. Meanwhile, Dan's mother announces that she has set up a date between Dan and an old friend of his named Ruthie. Dan refuses to go. Mitch suggests that they could make it a double date, Dan agrees, but things...
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (111 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Widowed Navy nurse, Helen North, the mother of eight children, marries handsome Navy officer, Frank Beardsley, who is the father of ten.
4) Smart people
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Lawrence Wetherhold is a widowed professor who rebuffs his students, ignores his teenage children, James and Vanessa, and spurns his brother, Chuck. Janet is a physician and former student of Lawrence who remembers her disappointment in him as a teacher and role model. When Janet and Lawrence become romantically involved, Chuck and Vanessa try to prove that the Wetherhold clan has become far too insular and self-referential.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five years after the Civil War, Captain Kidd moves from town to town as a storyteller. In Texas, he crosses paths with Johanna, a ten-year-old taken in by the Kiowa people six years earlier. She is being returned to her biological aunt and uncle against her will. Kidd agrees to deliver the child where the law says she belongs. As they travel hundreds of miles, the two will face tremendous challenges of both human and natural forces as they search...
6) Golden door
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 118 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Italiano
Description
Salvatore is a very poor farmer and a widower who decides to emigrate to the U.S. with all his family, including his old mother. Before they embark, they meet Lucy. She is a British woman who wants to go back to the States. Lucy, or Luce as Salvatore calls her, needs to marry someone before she arrives at Ellis Island in New York. Salvatore accepts her proposal. Once they arrive in Ellis Island they spend the quarantine period trying to pass the examinations...
Author
Language
English
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Description
"In the aftermath of the Civil War, an aging itinerant news reader agrees to transport a young captive of the Kiowa back to her people in this exquisitely rendered, morally complex, multilayered novel of historical fiction from the author of Enemy Women that explores the boundaries of family, responsibility, honor, and trust. In the wake of the Civil War, Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd travels through northern Texas, giving live readings from newspapers...
8) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Carl Fredericksen is a 78- year-old curmudgeon. He used to enjoy his modest life as a balloon seller when his adventure-loving wife Ellie was still alive. When she died, Carl was left with his memories and the awareness that they never made their dream journey to Paradise Falls in South America. When well-meaning officials consign Carl to Shady Oaks Retirement Home, he rigs thousands of helium balloons to his house and floats away. He discovers that...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Abigail Milton was born into the British middle class, but her family has landed in unthinkable debt. To ease their burdens, Abby's parents send her to America to live off the charity of their old friend, Douglas Elling. When she arrives in Charleston at the age of seventeen, Abigail discovers that the man her parents raved about is a disagreeable widower who wants little to do with her. To her relief, he relegates her care to a governess, leaving...
10) Old Henry
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An action western about a widowed farmer and his son who take in an injured man with a satchel of cash. Defending a siege, the farmer reveals a gunslinging talent, calling his true identity into question.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Widower Sheriff Andy and his young son Opie live with Andy's Aunt Bea in Mayberry, NC. Since Mayberry has virtually no crimes to solve, most of Andy's time is spent chatting with the locals and calming down his cousin Deputy Barney.
Publisher
[Midwest Tape]
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (762 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. ; in 1 multi-disc DVD case
Language
English
Description
A collection of DVDs all gathered into one "binge box" for a spectacular movie night.
McLintock!: Cattle baron George Washington McLintock fights with his estranged wife who wants nothing from him except a divorce. His daughter and the local political land-grabbers are fighting with McLintock as well. Along with taming the West, McLintock finally "tames" everyone who has been fighting with him.
Unforgiven: A former desperado agrees to go on one...
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