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1) Moving On
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.
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
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
Phase 4 Films
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Henry spends his time working in the brickyard owned by his family and grieving the loss of his wife. When a young boy enters Henry's life, both man and child find what they desperately need in each other.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 86 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
About to miss her storybook Christmas Eve wedding and with no transportation in sight, a fashion photographer accepts the kindness of a man and his young daughter, who offer her a ride.
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A live performance of the classic musical. An aspiring nun in pre-WWII Austria leaves the abbey to become a governess for the widower Captain von Trapp's seven children and finds herself falling in love.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A tender, emotionally intense and profoundly moving story of marital love. Only Trudi knows that her husband Rudi is suffering from a terminal illness. She decides not to tell him and convinces him to visit their family in Berlin. Then, suddenly, Trudi dies. Rudi is devastated but vows to make up for her lost life. And so he embarks on his last journey – to Tokyo – in the midst of the cherry blossom festival, a celebration of beauty, impermanence...
Publisher
Distributed by Cinedigm Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
©2014
Edition
[DVD].
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Gina loses her husband on Christmas Day, she soon finds a kindred spirit in another parent at her kids' school, Michael, who loses his wife at the same time. As they help each other and their children though grief, they grow closer and fall in love. However, family and friends cause them to question whether being together is a good idea. Based on a true story.
10) Return to me
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It took a lot of coaxing to get a recently widowed architect to go on a blind date at a quirky Irish-Italian eatery. But once there, he's smitten instantly ... not with his date, but with the sharp-witted waitress.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Santa is in trouble. People are losing faith in him, and he's being sued for ruining Christmas. Michael Sherman is a young lawyer and single father still mourning the loss of his wife who takes Santa on as a client. He not only helps save Kris Kringle but also discovers the courage to let love back into his life, making this truly the happiest season of all.
Series
Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
2002, 1993.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) :; sd., color ;; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A devoted old couple are separated when the wife dies. The husband struggles to cope with his loneliness and failing health, but his spirit is fading when a mysterious white dog appears and reawakens his joy of life.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (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.
15) The book keepers
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Follows a man who, after the death of his wife, becomes the spokeperson for her debut memoir about cancer, friendship, and hope, embarking on a nationwide book tour and spreading her life-affirming message.
Publisher
Vivendi Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"She's a busy student looking for a job. He's a widowed dad in need of some help. If his unruly kids will give her a chance, this could be the perfect professional relationship-- if only their feelings for each other weren't so personal. But with a little time and a lot of faith, these two just may find a way to make things work."--Container.
17) Blind
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment, LLC
Pub. Date
[2017]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Five years after best-selling novelist Bill Oakland loses both his wife and his sight in a terrible car crash, socialite Suzanne Dutchman is forced to read to Bill in an intimate room as a plea bargain for being associated with her husband's insider trading. As their sessions evolve, a passionate affair ensues, forcing them both to question whether it's ever too late to find true love.
Publisher
GoodTimes DVD
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Full screen version.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a photographer from New York City and a rancher from Wyoming meet through the auspices of her friend and his sister, the only thing they seem to have in common is dislike.
19) Friends for life
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (NTSC, 91 min.) : DVD video, sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Big city attorney Jim Crawford had won most of the battles in his life, but he couldn't win the battle against his wife's illness. Devasted and alone, he is left to face a lonely future. but suddenly, an unexpected twist of fate (or perhaps even an angel) leads Jim to discover four orphaned wolf pups who face certain death unless he takes them in. Unprepared for the task, but unwilling to see them suffer, he takes them into his care and keeping. It...
20) Unforgiven
Series
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
The town of Big Whisky people try to lead a quiet life. Sheriff 'Little Bill' keeps heavy-handed order. Then a couple of cowboys cut up a whore. Unsatisfied with Bill's justice, the prostitutes put a bounty on the cowboys. The bounty attracts a young gun billing himself as 'The Schofield Kid, ' and aging killer William Munny. Munny is a widower trying to raise his two young children. Farm life is hard and Munny is no good at it. He calls on his old...
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