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1) Joe
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
3) Knives out
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
A tribute to mystery mastermind Agatha Christie and a fun, modern-day murder mystery where everyone is a suspect. When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth...
4) Sling Blade
Publisher
Dist. by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1996, [2004]
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a man with a developmental disability named Karl Childers who is released from a psychiatric hospital, where he has lived since killing his mother and her lover when he was 12 years old, and the friendship he develops with a young boy.
5) Matilda
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matilda is a super-smart little girl who's woefully misunderstood by her parents, her brother, and an evil school principal. But with the help of a brave best friend and a wonderful teacher, Matilda discovers she doesn't have to get mad to get even.
6) Run the race
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After their mother's death and their father's abandonment, two brothers work together to earn a football scholarship that will provide a better life for them.
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014, 2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
"The darkly hilarious and deeply touching story of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose lives converge when a family crisis brings them back to the Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional mother who raised them"--Container.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
The Travis family experiences a stunning tragedy which begins to unravel them. Teenaged son Tim views his life as a bad dream. His father, Ben tunes out and treats his wife and children like strangers. His mother, Sandy sharpens her tongue with sarcasm and dulls her senses with pot while struggling hard to conceal a secret that threatens to ruin them all. The Travises, eventually, learn to accept one another as family - warts and all.
12) Home fries
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A pregnant Sally unknowingly falls for the stepson of the deceased father of her baby and has to deal with his homicidal family.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
The battle for the student body begins as Tara and her alters return to college. Her alternate personalities further complicate her life as they turn the school upside down and send her family into a ridiculous tailspin. Will Tara and her alters push through their boundaries in pursuit of academia? Join Tara and the Gregson family as they dramatically navigate the halls of higher education. Contains all twelve chaos and comedy-filled episodes.
15) Purple rain
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Prince stars as "The Kid," a Minneapolis club musician, who struggles with both a tumultous homelife and his own smoldering anger while taking refuge in his music and his steamy love for sultry Apollonia Kotero. Semi-autobiographical.
17) Life as a house
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
When an architect learns that he is terminally ill, he gains custody of his son and begins to build his dream house.
18) American cousins
Series
Publisher
Distributed by BFS Entertainment & Multimedia
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Two men in an American mob hide at their cousin Roberto's bar in Glasgow and realize he's not as tough as they hoped. When they run off a debt collector for Roberto, he finds they aren't as innocent as they pretend to be.
19) 3 from hell
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
After barely surviving a furious shootout with the police, Baby Firefly, Otis Driftwood, and Captain Spaulding are behind bars. But pure evil cannot be contained, and a firestorm of murder, madness, and mayhem will be released in this terror ride to Hell . . . and back.
20) Reba: Season 5
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005, 2008
Language
English
Description
It takes a lot of heart to keep this family together, but that's just what Reba does.