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2) Elf
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A human baby accidentally ends up at the North Pole and grows up among the elf community. Buddy, as he comes to be known, knows that he's "special". When he's 30, Buddy learns from Santa that he's really a human. He decides to go in search of his father, to find out where he belongs. He walks to Manhattan, and is immediately run over by a cab. His father at first rejects him and Buddy ends up in a department store where other elves are working. But...
3) Beginners
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
c2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young man is rocked by two announcements from his elderly father: that he has terminal cancer, and that he has a young male lover.
4) Stillwater
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sound, colour ; 4 3/4 inches.
Language
English
Description
A father travels from Oklahoma to France to help his estranged daughter, who is in prison for a murder she claims she didn't commit.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son's extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. Colton claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. He recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth.
6) Lean on Pete
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (122 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray, both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse's owner Del Montgomery and his jockey Bonnie help Charley fill the void of his father's absence--until he...
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy named Kubo must locate a magical suit of armor worn by his father in order to defeat a vengeful spirit from the past.
8) The judge
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
9) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Mr. and Mrs. Fox live a happy home life underground with their eccentric son Ash. Mr. Fox works as a journalist, but against the advice of Badger, his attorney, he moves his family into a larger and finer home inside a tree on a hill. The treehouse has an excellent view of the nearby farms of Boggis, Bunce, and Bean. Ash becomes hostile when his cousin, Kristofferson, joins the family for an extended stay. Mr. Fox decides to raid the farms, but this...
11) The rundown
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Edition
Full screen (1.33:1) version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Beck is anxious to retire from his bounty hunter work, but his boss, Walker, has one more "retrieval" job for him. He sends Beck into the Brazilian rainforest to bring back his wayward son, Travis. Travis is there looking for a gold statue, which he could sell for millions if he finds it. The powerful Hatcher owns the area's huge mine, and feels that anything found in the area is his property. He refuses to let Beck take Travis back to the U.S. until...
Series
Film Movement volume 8, film 7
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (73 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Jorge has only a few weeks before his five-year-old son Natan leaves to live with his mother in Rome. Intent on teaching Natan about their Mayan heritage, Jorge takes him to the pristine Chinchorro reef, and eases him into the rhythms of a fisherman's life. As the bond between father and son grows stronger, Natan learns to live in harmony with life above and below the surface of the sea.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; c4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
14) Crawl
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a hurricane hits her hometown, Haley ignores evacuation orders to search for her missing father. Finding him injured in the crawl space of their family home, the two become trapped by floodwaters. As time runs out to escape the storm, Haley and her father discover that the rising water level is the least of their fears.
Series
Film Movement volume 3, film 8
Publisher
RB Media , c2005
Pub. Date
2005
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Russian
Description
A father sets off from Moscow with his 11-year-old son for his sister's house in Koktebel by the Black Sea. With no money, nor means of transportation, they drift through the expansive and mesmeric landscapes at the mercy of chance. For the father, the journey is an attempt to restore self-respect and win back the trusct of his son. For the boy, the mythic coastal town holds the key to a new life.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (118 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Deep in the forests of the Pacific Northwest, isolated from society, a devoted father dedicates his life to transforming his six young children into extraordinary adults. But when a tragedy strikes the family, they are forced to leave this self-created paradise and begin a journey into the outside world that challenges his idea of what it means to be a parent and brings into question everything he's taught them.
"Finely wrought and inventive, Captain...
17) A family man
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Dane Jensen is a hard-driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven, but polar opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control of the company. As Dane gears up for the professional battle of his life, he learns his ten-year-old son, Ryan, has been diagnosed with cancer.
18) Pitching in
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 237 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Daffodil Dunes is a cozy camping-park community on the scenic and serene north Wales coast. When owner Frank announces that he plans to sell the park to an enticing estate agent, his strong-willed daughter, Carys sets out to change his mind.
19) Shot in the dark
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In his directorial debut, actor Adrian Grenier questions the nature of fatherhood and the meaning of family history as he embarks on a personal quest to become reacquainted with his estranged father. After interviewing a wide array of fathers and sons, from strangers he meets outside of Yankee Stadium, to past and present suitors of his mother Karesse, Adrian decides he should meet with his biological father, whom he's convinced is a man named John...
Publisher
Bleecker Street
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
When a young loner becomes the gestational surrogate for a single man in his 40s, the two strangers come to realize this unexpected relationship will quickly challenge their perceptions of connection, boundaries and the particulars of love.
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