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Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
At age thirteen, Esmeralda, is the oldest child of six. She shoulders the responsibility of learning English as her mother's interpreter and guide through the challenges of their new life in America. Mami is the passionate and beautiful mother who moves the family to the U.S. seeking medical care for her son's chronically infected foot. Tata, Esmeralda's stoical grandmother, is the matriarch of the American ranch of the family.
3) Junebug
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
In an attempt to woo an artist to her gallery, art dealer Madeline and her husband go to North Carolina. While she tries to seal the deal, her husband introduces her to his family. Madeline's presence reveals family tensions and resentment.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Einar is a crusty old rancher who does what he can to hold onto his Wyoming ranch. It's been a struggle for years; his son was killed in a car crash, his wife left him, and his longtime friend and helper, Mitch was recently mauled by a bear. Now, Einar has to care for Mitch and help him recover. Jean and her daughter, Griff, have to leave Jean's current abusive boyfriend. The only place they can go is the ranch of Griff's grandfather, Einar, who only...
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Español
Description
Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she decides to devote her life to works of charity. She decides that one of her charitable acts is to go to bed with all the other men of the town. Dolores, now known as "Lolita," becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the color and the happiness...
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael and Jenna have been a couple for three years. At dinner one night, Jenna's parents, Anna and Stephen, announce that they are having a baby. Jenna is overjoyed, but everyone else has mixed emotions. At a wedding the next day, Jenna and Michael meet up with friends Chris, who is tired of his wife telling him how bad he is as she deals with their whiny baby; Izzy who is taking the break-up of his most current relationship badly and does not react...
8) August Rush
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A charismatic young Irish guitarist and a sheltered young cellist have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square. They are soon torn apart, leaving in their wake an infant, August Rush, orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York City and cared for by a mysterious stranger, August uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
""Red" Redding is a lifer who knows the ropes at Maine's Shawshank State Prison. New inmate Andy Dufresne is a quiet banker, unjustly convicted of murder. Andy's indomitable will earns Red's friendship and his resourcefulness brings hope and change to the entire prison. Andy is full of surprises-- and he saves his best for last." -from container.
10) éZelary
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Czech
Description
During WWII, nurse Eliéska is part of a secret resistance movement with her lover, surgeon Richard. When he is discovered, she is forced to leave the hospital in order to hide from the Nazis as well. A sympathetic colleague sends her off with a patient whose life she saved, to the remote Moravian mountain village of éZelary, where time has stopped, as he has agreed to hide her as his wife. They live in a modest cabin for two years, waiting for the...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
Español
Description
"Esa es la razon que motiva a Carlitos, un humilde nino de nueve anos cuya madre emigro a los Estatos Unidos en busca de una mejor vida para los dos. Mientras Rosario lucha dia a dia pur un futuro prometedor, el destino obliga a Carlitos a emprender un viaje extraordinario para encontrarse con ella"--Container.
Tells the parallel stories of nine-year-old Carlitos and his mother, Rosario. In the hopes of providing a better life for her son, Rosario...
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
Self-made oilman Daniel Plainview has a voracious appetite for money and power. Working with his "son and partner," 11-year-old H.W., he becomes a California tycoon in the early years of the 20th century. His only challenge comes from a young, ambitious charismatic preacher, Eli Sunday.
13) Tara Road
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Marilyn Vine's idyllic life in Connecticut is devastated by the tragic death of her only son, Dale, during his 15th birthday party. 3,000 miles away, Ria Lynch's marriage comes to a stunningly abrupt end in Dublin, Ireland, when husband Danny reveals that he is leaving her for his pregnant mistress, Bernadette. An accidental phone call brings these two otherwise unrelated women together and, in their mutual need for space and time alone, they agree...
Publisher
Monterey Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
The journey of a lifetime for young Lily Strickland begins not out of her love for adventure but out of heartache. Longing for the father she lost to the ocean and having no way to say goodbye, Lily strikes out on her own. Leaving behind a safe, loving environment with her grandparents and loving mother, she faces not only her fears but the obstacles the wilderness presents.
15) Mrs. Harris
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, tells the tragic, unlikely tale of Jean Harris who made headlines in the early 1980s after shooting and killing her lover, the celebrated "Scarsdale diet doctor," Herman Tarnower, at his home in surburban New York.
16) Brooklyn rules
Publisher
City Lights Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2007
Language
English
Description
Set in Brooklyn in 1985 against the backdrop of John Gotti's rise to power. Three lifelong friends' different ambitions threaten to shake their enduring bond.
17) Half nelson
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
18) Paradise found
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Dissatisfied with his work as a stockbroker in Paris, Gauguin gives up his lucrative job to further his self-taught painting skills. As his dreams to revolutionize the art world ruin him and his family, he discovers he must travel afar to succeed.
19) On a clear day
Publisher
Focus Features
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
The inspirational and triumphant story of a man who defies great odds and takes on a monumental challenge. This heartwarming tale of determination is an uplifting and humorous film.
20) National Velvet
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
A determined girl and boy and a spirited thoroughbred horse join forces to attain the seemingly impossible dream of winning the Grand National Steeplechase.
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