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Ryan, a modern-day train hopper fighting to be a successful musician, and Jackie, a single mom battling to maintain custody of her daughter, defy their circumstances by coming together in a relationship that may change each other's lives forever.
A woman fighting for custody of her daughter must make a difficult choice when she falls in love with a traveling musician.
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1 videodisc : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Belle, her little sister, and her comatose twin brother move into a new house with their single mother Joan in order to save money to help pay for her brother's expensive healthcare. But when strange phenomena begin to occur in the house, including the miraculous recovery of her brother, Belle begins to suspect her mother isn't telling her everything, and soon realizes they just moved into the infamous Amityville house.
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1 videodisc (173 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Pauline's divorce money has come through and she's hired a country mansion for the week to celebrate Derek's birthday. So Cathy, Michael, Kelly, Jason, Pauline, Derek, Reg, and Maureen up sticks and decamp to the English countryside. Each episode takes place on a different day of their trip, revealing all the clashes, awkwardness and comedy that results from the family being stuck together in the middle of nowhere.
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1 videodisc (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Bunny King is a mother of two and a rough-cut diamond with a sketchy past. While battling the system to try and reunite with her children, a confrontation leads Bunny to take her niece Tonyah under her wing. With the world against them both, Bunny's battle has just begun.
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1 videodisc (163 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
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1 videodisc (approximately 180 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
7) Fort Bliss
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1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Decorated U.S. Army medic and single mother Maggie Swann returns home from an extended tour of duty in Afghanistan to discover the bond with her five-year-old son has been broken. As she struggles to reclaim his affection, life after deployment is made more difficult by her persistent memories of Afghanistan. When news of another deployment threatens the fragile balance she has achieved, she must find a way to reconcile her duties as a mother and...
8) Claudine
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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While struggling to support herself and her six children in Harlem by working as a maid for a wealthy family, Claudine meets a charming garbage man, Roop. But although Roop is smitten with the lovely single mother, his own life trials make him slow to respond to her invitation to a lifetime of love.
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1 videodisc (92 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Maggie is an uptight, single mother who, in an effort to reconnect with her troubled teen daughter Summer, takes her to the Tuscan village where she used to visit in her youth. There Maggie runs into her former lover Luca and his mother, Carmen. When Summer and Carmen impulsively steal Luca's car and race off to Rome, Maggie and Luca follow in close pursuit.
11) L!fe happens
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1 videodisc (1 hr., 41 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A comedy centered on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.
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1 videodisc (84 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...
13) Enough said
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1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Divorced mom Eva may be falling for Albert, a sweet, funny, like-minded divorced man. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne, who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.
14) The babadook
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1 videodisc (93 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Amelia is a single mother plagued by the violent death of her husband. When a disturbing storybook called Mister Babadook turns up at her house, she is forced to battle with her son's deep seated fear of a monster. Soon she discovers a sinister presence all around her.
Series
Criterion collection volume 1167
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 folded insert.
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English
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It explores the friendship between two struggling single mothers: one a working-class white woman who ascends to the top of the business world, and the other her Black housekeeper, whose life is shattered by the rejection of her rebellious, white-passing daughter. It is this latter relationship attuned to America's bitter racial realities and heartbreakingly enacted by trailblazing Black performers Beavers and Washington that lends the film its transcendent...
16) Resurrection
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1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A woman's carefully constructed life is upended when an unwelcome shadow from her past returns, forcing her to confront the monster she's evaded for two decades.
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3 videodiscs (362 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Everyone's favorite pot-selling soccer mom, Nancy Botwin, is back. Last time we saw her, Nancy's business (and house) was going up in smoke. So the Botwin bunch has relocated near the border for a fresh start with some new buds.
18) Dear Frankie
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1 videodisc (approximately 105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A witty and touching tale about a mother's efforts to protect her son from the truth.
19) Good deeds
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1 videodisc (110 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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A successful, wealthy businessman, Wesley Deeds has always done what's expected of him, whether it's assuming the helm of his father's company, tolerating his brother's misbehavior at the office or planning to marry his beautiful but restless fiance, Natalie. But Wesley is jolted out of his predictable routine when he meets Lindsey, a down-on-her-luck single mother who works as a cleaning person in his office building. Outspoken, impulsive and proud,...
20) Obvious child
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1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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Donna Stern is a Brooklyn comedian who gets heartlessly dumped by her two-timing boyfriend. While trying to drown her troubles at the stand-up comedy club, she has a drunken one night stand with a cute young professional named Max (who's not even remotely her type) and ends up pregnant. Donna has to do what is expected of a "responsible adult" just in time for the best/worst Valentine's Day of her life.
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