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4) Minari
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
Publisher
Entertainment One Films Canada Inc
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Season 12 sees the Bartlett-Fleming clan dealing with day-to-day challenges and pursuing forgotten dreams. Their strength will be tested as they face personal struggles and must look to one another for guidance and support.
6) Sundown
Publisher
Decal
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
When an emergency disrupts a family vacation in Mexico, rising tensions erupt in this suspenseful jolt where nothing is quite as it seems.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mark Ruffalo leads this family saga, which follows the parallel lives of identical twin brothers in an epic story of betrayal, sacrifice and forgiveness set against the backdrop of 20th-century America. The six-episode limited drama series is based on Wally Lamb's New York Times bestseller and award-winning book, I Know This Much Is True.
8) Joe Bell
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Mark Wahlberg plays the rough-edged Oregon-based father who pays tribute to his gay teenage son Jadin by embarking on a walk across America to speak his heart to heartland adults and students about the potential terrifying high costs of bullying.
10) The whale
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
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Description
A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.
11) Boundaries
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Laura is a single mother, who has a constant need to put rescue animals before her. When her estranged, criminally-minded father Jack is kicked out of his retirement home, Laura agrees to drive him to live with her sister. Along for the ride is her bright but troubled son Henry, and an assortment of animal charity cases. Jack convinces Henry to help him sell off his copious supply of marijuana at every stop of their journey, resulting in unexpected...
12) Marriage story
Series
Criterion collection volume 1038
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
A love story about divorce. A marriage coming apart and a family coming together. A hilarious and harrowing, sharply observed, and deeply compassionate film from writer-director Noah Baumbach. Charlie is a charismatic New York theater director wedded to his work. Nicole is an actor who is ready to change her own life. Their hopes for an amicable divorce fade as they are drawn into a system that pits them against each other and forces them to redefine...
13) A family man
Publisher
Vertical Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Dane Jensen is a hard-driven, Chicago-based headhunter, working at a cut-throat job placement firm. When Dane's boss announces his retirement, he pits Dane against Lynn Vogel, Dane's equally driven, but polar opposite rival at the firm, in a battle for control of the company. As Dane gears up for the professional battle of his life, he learns his ten-year-old son, Ryan, has been diagnosed with cancer.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
In season four, the ruthless Cody crime family is as much of a threat to each other as they are to their targets. Smurf is back on top reminding her boys who's boss no matter whom she hurts in the process. And as always, outsiders move in to threaten the Cody's fragile peace, including a new criminal crew with a surprising connection to the Codys.
Publisher
CBS
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Clem's upbringing and teen years left a lot to be desired, but she pulled herself up, and built a fantastic life, great job, terrific apartment and an amazing fiancé, Nick, a college professor from a well-to-do 'normal' family. Nick's warm and supportive parents, Rose and Walt, embrace Clem and complete the family she always wanted. But when Clem's wild-child half-sister, Shannon, appears on their doorstep to escape their train wreck of a dad, Nick...
17) Hellbender
Publisher
Shudder, RLJEntertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Locked away from the world by her mother who has convinced her she has a chronic illness, teenaged Izzy finally escapes into town for some expected rebellion. A night of drinking and high school cruelty unleashes a new kind of hunger within her, but when she goes to her mother for answers, she keeps them tightly guarded, not knowing Izzy's true nature is about to burst forth and devour everything.
18) Life after you
Publisher
Freestyle
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Everything in Linda and Tito Lajterman's life was good. They had three healthy kids, successful jobs, and a community of neighbors and friends who they interacted with regularly. When they find their youngest son, Danny, dead in his bedroom from an apparent overdose, their entire world is turned upside-down. How did they not know he was using? Who was responsible for giving him the fentanyl-laced heroin? Did they fail as parents? These are the questions...
Publisher
EOne
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
As Amy and Ty continue to build their business together, the inevitable ups and downs of entrepreneurship will test the strength of their marriage. Georgie returns from an elite equestrian training camp in Europe only to realize things in Hudson are not as they were when he left, or perhaps she is the one who has changed. When a dangerous storm heads towards Hudson, Jack is forced to face some tragic memories from his past. He will also end up weighing...
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