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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 105 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
Français
Description
In this sun-drenched melodrama (a remake of the 1940s classic by Marcel Pagnol), acclaimed French actor Daniel Auteuil directs and stars as the eponymous well-digger Pascal, a widower who is torn between his sense of honor and his love for his eldest daughter, Patricia (the luminous Astrid Bergès-Frisbey), when she gets impregnated by a wealthy young pilot.
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (106 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A Musical Romance starring Academy Award Winner Marisa Tomei, Robert Carlyle and John Goodman that premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. Frank has been consumed by grief over his wife's death. But everything changes when he pulls over on a rural highway to help a dying stranger entangled in a car wreck. En route to fulfill a forty-year promise to his childhood sweetheart, the stranger shares a compelling tale of adolescent love replete with first...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 142 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a special assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about whether Santa Claus really exists. Based on a true story.
6) The intern
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ben Whittaker is a 70-year-old widower who has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (131 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unforgettable film about a woman who stumbles upon a romantic letter stuffed inside a washed-up bottle, and who is at once determined to find the author, who ends up being a recently widowed shipbuilder.
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (326 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
In this compelling French mystery, Gabriel Cauvy contends with the sudden death of his wife, Rebecca, in a suspicious car wreck. When the police blame the crash on Rebecca for drunk driving, Gabriel sets out to clear her name, but his search for the truth is more dangerous than he could have imagined.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (121 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of a grandfather who is suddenly left to care for his beloved granddaughter, but when her paternal grandmother seeks custody with the help of her brother, the little girl is torn between two families who love her deeply. With the best intentions at heart, both families fight for what they feel is right and are soon forced to confront their true feelings about race, forgiveness, and understanding.
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Kyle loses his wife and three children to a car accident his entire family comes to help him mourn but instead they all turn inward to examine their own lives. Desperate for some private time for introspection, Kyle decides to nail himself into his room with some scrap wood. His brothers, friends, parents and even housekeeper are left to tend to him while they try to put the pieces of their own broken lives back together.
11) Moving on
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Claire and Evelyn are estranged friends who reunite to get even with Howard, the petulant widower of their recently deceased best friend. Along the way, Claire reunites with Ralph, her great love from her younger years, as each woman must make peace with her past and learn to treasure the value of a good friend.
12) Up
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
Series
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Edition
Fullscreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 129 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In a remote area of Northern Kenya, activist Tessa Quayle is found brutally murdered. Tessa's companion, a doctor, appears to have fled the scene, and all the evidence points to a crime of passion. Members of the British High Commission in Nairobi assume that Tessa's widower, their mild-mannered and unambitious colleague Justin Quayle, will leave the matter to them. Haunted by remorse and jarred by rumors of his late wife's infidelities, Quayle surprises...
14) Priceless
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A widower who loses custody of his daughter finds himself unable to hold down a job. He agrees to drive a truck across the country, no questions asked. When he discovers what he is delivering, he is faced with a life-changing choice.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on the comical and moving New York Times bestseller, it tells the story of Otto Anderson, a grumpy widower whose only joy comes from criticizing and judging his exasperated neighbors. When a lively young family moves in next door, he meets his match in quick-witted and very pregnant Marisol, leading to an unexpected friendship that will turn his world upside down.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
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...
17) Mrs. Miracle
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 92 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When her acting career does not take off, but her sister does with her fiance, Reba returns home to become a preschool teacher, and director of the Christmas pageant. After his wife dies, widower Seth Webster moves to town with his rambunctious twin boys. Mrs. Merkle, who is dubbed 'Mrs. Miracle' by the boys, is hired as a nanny and soon has the boys behaving nicely. It isn't long before Mrs. Miracle is sowing the seeds of love for Reba and Seth too....
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