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1) Roots
Language
English
Formats
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley₂s best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
Publisher
MTI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sophie Kelly is a top-rated lawyer with three kids and a husband that take up all her time. All of her family and work stress comes to a chaotic halt at the shopping mall, days before Christmas, when she sees Santa and wishes for a different life. However, the grass is not always greener as a single, successful lawyer with her own firm and the most eligible bachelor vying for her attention.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 898 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hazel, everyone's favorite housekeeper, is more than just a live-in maid and cook for the Baxter family. Hazel is the glue that holds their household together.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 898 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hazel, everyone's favorite housekeeper, is more than just a live-in maid and cook for the Baxter family. Hazel is the glue that holds their household together.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand by his friend or salvage his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version (2.35:first).
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
Publisher
Fisher Klingenstein Ventures, LLC
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch (Griffin Dunne) takes his begrudging teenagers on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis's estranged father goes missing on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, they're forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage across America."--Container....
Language
English
Description
Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is the macho Everyman who challenges his gorgeous and feisty wife, Cheryl, with his stubborn manliness but contagious charm. Tagging along with Jim and Cheryl are their three precocious kids. A success at his construction business and the family breadwinner at home, Jim feeds his other passion - blues music - playing with his six-man garage band. He keeps Cheryl in turmoil with his boyish bravado and ever willful antics, but their underlying love...
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 800 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Ted Key's Saturday Evening Post cartoons, the popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. Nothing could be more hilarious than the ways Hazel manages to undermine the suburban authority of her employer, Mr. Baxter.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Language
English
Description
After a high-speed freeway chase puts Madea in front of the judge, her reprieve is short-lived as anger management issues get the best of her and lands her in jail. A gleeful Joe couldn't be happier at Madea's misfortune. But her eccentric family members, the Browns, rally behind her, lending their special 'country' brand of support. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Joshua Hardaway is on the fast track to career success. But Hardaway lands a...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Olive is a little girl who dreams of winning the Little Miss Sunshine contest. Her family wants her dream to come true, but they are so dysfunctional that they can barely make it through a day without some disaster befalling them. Olive's father, Richard, is unsuccessful as a motivational speaker. He is barely on speaking terms with Olive's mother. Her uncle Frank has attempted suicide following an unsuccessful romance with a male graduate student....
Publisher
ABC Studios
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (594 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fourth season of ABC's breakout family series According to Jim starts off with a bang as Jim must give up his vices so his wife Cheryl can get pregnant. In this traditional blue-collar family comedy, he is the quintessential guy and family man. Proud of his Midwestern values, Jim is an accessible and likeable everyman.
Author
Language
English
Description
Average guy Kirk can't believe his luck when, against all odds, Molly, a successful and outrageously gorgeous babe, falls for him. Kirk is stunned and so are his friends, his family, and even his ex-girlfriend. Now, he must go to great lengths to figure out how to make the relationship work and prove to himself, and everyone else that she is not out of his league.
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (276 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Uncle Buck: Uncle Buck has a reputation for being unreliable and a bit of a house wrecker. It is therefore with reluctance, his sister-in-law agrees to leave Buck looking after her three kids - two harmless youngsters and a rebelious teenager - while she visits her sick father.
The great outdoors: Chet is a family man who has brought his family to a lakeside resort area. His wife and kids aren't quite as excited as he is. His optimism is sabotaged...
17) The last straw
Publisher
Bridgestone Multimedia Group
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Christmas is supposed to be a season of love, warm feelings, and happy hearts. But with the children's constant bickering, pretty packages and a sweet-smelling tree don't come close to filling the McDonald home with the true spirit of the first Christmas. Then Mom remembers an old tradition of building a soft bed for Baby Jesus one straw at a time. Each time someone secretly does something nice for another family member, he or she gets to add a single...
18) The vicious kind
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Caleb tries to convince his brother Peter that his new girlfriend, who he brings home for the holidays, isn't the right girl for him, only to fall for her himself.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
1961, 2010
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (approximately 461 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Join single father Steve Douglas as he guides his three sons, Mike, Robbie and Chip. Along with Grandpa Bub and Tramp the dog. The boys go through a never-ending series of calamities, all the while Steve fends off marriage-minded women.
20) Pieces of April
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Family outcast April lives in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts her good-girl status...
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