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61) Little boy blue
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen edition.
Language
English
Description
Someday, but not today, Jimmy West will leave his troubled home, set out on his own, find the happiness he craves, bring his top pitching skills to a college baseball team. But before he can do all this he'll be entangled in a decades-old murder case involving his sadistic bully of a father.
62) Family squares
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
After the death of their family matriarch, Grandma Mabel, a family is reunited after years of being divided and soon find family secrets coming to light.
65) Purple rain
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.
66) Phantom halo
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Brothers Samuel and Beckett Emerson are barely scraping by. Their father, Warren, continues to gamble and drink away any money they bring home. With all the havoc that is constantly going on in their lives, the family members each find solace in his own way, through Shakespeare, comic books and impossible love affairs. Beckett seizes the opportunity to make some easy money by counterfeiting in hopes of repaying his father's debts.
68) Childless
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The sudden passing of a teenage girl unsettles the four adults in her life. Jarred by this glimpse of mortality, they struggle to understand, or justify, the current state of their own lives. As each gets ready for the funeral, they speak their private thoughts directly to the camera, leaving it up to the viewer to make sense of these off-kilter, self-serving, yet frequently humorous accounts of the family story.
69) September
Language
English
Description
During late September, in Vermont, a group of people gather for a quiet week-end. But by the end of the week-end their hopes, dreams and fears are exposed, and the thin threads that hold their lives together are bared and begin to unravel. They pick up the pieces and make a new start.
70) 3 beauties
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
Español
Description
Perla is a mother with three children, Carolina, Estefania and Salvador. She is obsessed with turning one of her daughters into a beauty queen and she is willing to do whatever it takes to make her own childhood dream come true, even if it means affectionately ignoring her only son. Perlas unlimited efforts will soon turn into a nightmare for both of her daughters. Toddlers and Tiaras meets Pedro Almodovar in this crafty Spanish comedy.
71) Harold and Maude
Pub. Date
2012.
Edition
Special edition.
Language
English
Description
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
72) After class: DVD
Pub. Date
2020.
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
A dysfunctionally-functional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Seemingly trapped within the spare yet surreal and terrifying confines of her husband's mansion, she begins to fear for her life when his sublimated hatred for women starts to bubble over and his strange obsession for violent deaths leads her to believe that she may be next.
75) We the animals
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Manny, Joel, and Jonah tear their way through childhood and push against the volatile love of their parents. As Manny and Joel grow into versions of their father and Ma dreams of escape, Jonah embraces an imagined world all on his own.
77) Against all hope
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Depressed and alcoholic, a family man is driven further and further towards the edge until a preacher gives him a new perspective on life.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
A pair of sisters find out that the mother they thought was dead is alive and starring on a soap opera. The film centres on a dysfunctional and codependent family who are struggling to maintain the family business, a small community theatre in New York City.
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Includes all 13 episodes of the first season. A look at members of a dysfunctional family that operates a funeral home in Pasadena. With the elder son returning home for the holidays to shattering news, the family must learn to deal with a death of their own, while figuring out how to go ahead with the business of the living. A funny and emotional look at a grieving American family ... that just happens to be in the grief management business.
80) How to be
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen format.
Language
English
Description
Arthur is a twenty-something supermarket clerk and depressed musician who's just been dumped by his girlfriend and has to move back home to his emotionally distant parents. But when Arthur discovers the best-selling self-help book, It's Not Your Fault, he spends his inheritance on hiring the oddball author to be his live-in life-coach. Featuring original songs performed by Robert Pattinson.
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