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Author
Series
Amgash novels volume 1
Language
English
Description
Lucy Barton is recovering slowly from what should have been a simple operation. Her mother, to whom she hasn't spoken for many years, comes to see her. Gentle gossip about people from Lucy's childhood in Amgash, Illinois, seems to reconnect them, but just below the surface lie the tension and longing that have informed every aspect of Lucy's life: her escape from her troubled family, her desire to become a writer, her marriage, her love for her two...
Language
English
Formats
Description
This **Oscar**-winner dazzled critics and audiences alike with its believable, insightful story of a mother and daughter, unforgettably played by Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger. From grand slapstick to deepest sentiment, director James L. Brooks masterfully paints scenes from their evolving 30-year relationship. Jack Nicholson turns in a great comic performance as MacLaine's neighbor, a boozy, womanizing former astronaut. Winner of five **Academy...
Series
Criterion collection (DVD videodiscs) volume 60
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2013
Language
Swedish
Description
After having neglected her children for many years, world famous pianist Charlotte visits her daughter Eva in her home. To her surprise she finds her other daughter, Helena, there as well. Helena is mentally disabled, and Eva has taken Helena out of the institution where their mother had placed her. The tension between Charlotte and Eva only builds up slowly, until a nightly conversation releases all the things they have wanted to tell each other....
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Kat Connor's mother mysteriously disappears, just as Kat is discovering and relishing her newfound sexuality. At first excited by her freedom, Kat soon finds herself confronted with the strange facts of her mother's departure and her own denial about the events surrounding it begin to haunt her.
Series
Publisher
Warner Archives
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Single mom Christy Plunkett is now sober and trying to get her life on track. However, she's tested daily by her newly sober mother, Bonnie, and by her relationships with her own kids. Christy tries to remain positive as she attempts to overcome her past and build a better future, but with her dysfunctional family and life's many setbacks, it2s always an uphill battle.
8) My Zoe
Publisher
Blue Fox Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Following a divorce, geneticist Isabelle is trying to rebuild her life. She has a new boyfriend and plans to revitalize her career. But ex-husband James can't accept this and makes her life difficult as they co-parent their daughter Zoe. When a tragedy strikes, the already broken family's world is shattered, and Isabelle decides to take the girl's fate into her own hands.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Follows three under appreciated and over burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. If creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn't hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
10) The beach house
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Cara Rutledge thought she had left her Southern roots and troubled family far behind. But an unusual request from her mother, coming just as her own life is spinning out of control, has Cara heading back to the scenic Low country of her childhood summers. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes a bona fide 'turtle lady' and renews old acquaintances long thought lost.
Publisher
RLJE Films
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Czech
Description
After her husband's death, Eliska and her daughter move to a rural village in hopes of a fresh start. But it is not long before they hear the troubling tales of the mysterious woman who haunts the surrounding farm fields and abducts children in broad daylight. At first Eliska dismisses the rumors as a deranged fantasy. But when her daughter starts to show signs of abnormal and erratic behavior, Eliska realizes her new home is not safe.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
1999, ♭1995
Language
English
Description
Eighteen years ago the town accused Dolores Claiborne of murdering her husband in cold blood. Now a woman lies dead and a witness finds Dolores standing over the body. Her daughter is the only one who can save her life and the only thing that stands between guilt and innocence is the evil secret that made the daughter run away ten years ago.
Publisher
Screen Media
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Almost 30-year-old Anna lives secluded in her mum's shed making videos using her thumbs as actors. A week before her birthday her mom tells her that she has to cut her hair, stop dressing like a homeless person, and move out of the shed. At first, Anna is upset, but after a friend from school visits, her isolation can't be continued. Quickly she gets entangled with the local real estate agent and an eight-year-old boy who is obsessed with Westerns....
14) Hatching
Publisher
IFC Films
Language
Finnish
Formats
Description
12-year-old Tinja is desperate to please her mother, a woman obsessed with presenting the image of a perfect family. One night, Tinja finds a strange egg. She hides it, keeps it warm. When it hatches, what emerges is beyond belief.
16) Ice princess
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Casey Carlyle is torn between her ambitious mother's desire for her to attend Harvard and her own dreams of becoming an ice skater.
17) Miss Juneteenth
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Language
English
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Formats
Description
A former beauty queen and single mom prepares her rebellious teenage daughter for the "Miss Juneteenth" pageant. Official Selection at the **Sundance Film Festival** and **SXSW Film Festival**.
19) The meddler
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
With a new iPhone, and apartment near the grove, and a comfortable bank account left to her by her beloved late husband, Marnie Minervini has happily relocated from New Jersey to Los Angeles to be near her daughter Lori and smother her with motherly love. When the dozens of texts, unexpected visits, and conversations dominated by unsolicited advice force Lori to draw strict personal boundaries, Marnie finds ways to channel her eternal optimism and...
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Faith attempts to navigate the disillusion of her marriage, while taking on an emotionally wrenching legal medical case involving a gravely ill young boy. Into this mix, Faith is confronted by a terrible and long buried figure from her past: her mother.
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