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1) Fallen angel
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 49
Publisher
Artisan Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Language
English
Description
A high-powered Los Angeles lawyer learns a powerful lesson about second chances.
2) Boone style
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment/Youngblood Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
Story of a typical, semi-dysfunctional, Midwestern, family reunion, during a late summer setting in Des Moines, Iowa. An imaginative eight-year-old negotiates delicate affairs as the Boones confront delicate issues and tackle issues of the heart.
Publisher
Zima Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
Español
Description
Seven friends reunite in a rural house where they agreed to retire one day. Their weekend together will determine if fulfilling their shattered youthful dreams is still possible.
Siete amigos inauguran la casa rural donde pactaron jubilarse algún día. El fin de semana juntos determinará si cumplir sus sueños rotos de juventud todavía es posible.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
When Nate is invited to a big family reunion in Missouri, he sees it as an opportunity to reconnect with his estranged wife and growing children. Nate takes delivery on an expensive new SUV, persuades his wife, Dorothy, to tag along, and packs up his three kids for what he thinks will be a leisurely drive from L.A. to St. Louis. However, between his wary wife, arguing kids, angry police officers, bizarre hitchhikers, bad diner food, and an unfortunate...
5) Sisters
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The story of two disconnected sisters summoned home to clean out their childhood bedroom before their parents sell the family house. Looking to recapture their glory days, they throw one final high-school-style party for their classmates, which turns into the cathartic rager that a bunch of ground-down adults really need.
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
In addition to being saddled with an unruly foster teen, Madea has two troubled nieces to deal with. Lisa is engaged to an abusive and controlling investment banker and Vanessa is finding it difficult to open herself to the affection of a bus driver/artist Frankie because of childhood abuse. Wreaking havoc on both of the girls's lives is their mother Victoria.
Series
Criterion collection volume 554
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
日本語
Description
Fashioned as a tribute to his parents, the film depicts one day in the life of the Yokoyamas, gathered together for a celebratory ritual that only gradually makes itself clear. Rather than focus on big dramatic moments, Kore-eda relies on simple gestures and domestic routines (especially cooking) to evoke a family's entire life, its deep regrets and its daily joys.
10) Everybody's fine
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When Frank Goode's grown children cancel a family reunion, the recent widower sets off on a cross-country journey to reconnect with each of them.
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
During a trip to the picturesque snowcapped mountains in Colorado, eight married college friends have gathered for their annual seven-day reunion. But the cozy mood is shattered when the group comes face-to-face with one pair's infidelity. As secrets are revealed, each couple begins questioning the validity of their own marriage. Over the course of the weekend, husbands and wives take a hard look at their lives, wrestling with issues of commitment,...
Publisher
Synkronized Films, Inc
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Yugo, an adventurous and brave young girl, runs away from home after being scolded by her father. She returns to the fantastical kingdom in the clouds to find her friends Lala and Uncle Bear. Just as they're celebrating their reunion, a crisis breaks out: all living creatures in the kingdom are shrinking! With the help of Potato's son, Mili, Yugo, Lala and Uncle Bear realise that the crisis can be resolved if they can only find the water's source....
13) Superman III
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
Meet Gus Gorman, a naïve computer programming natural. For Gus, a keyboard is a weapon - and, as a result Superman faces the microelectronic menace of his life. Superman's human side comes out as he sees Lana Lang at his Smallville High School class reunion. Superman becomes his own worst enemy after a Kryptonite exposure.
14) This Christmas
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
For the first time in years, the entire Whitfield clan comes home to celebrate Christmas and learn through the drama and emotional baggage how to be a family once again.
15) Off the black
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ray, an aging alcoholic, forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled teenager. As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks the teen to go to his 40th high school reunion and pose as his son.
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Gathered together in the Bahamas for their annual one-week reunion, four close couples eagerly reconnect, sharing news about their lives and relationships. But their intimate week in paradise is disrupted by the unexpected arrival of Sheila's ex-husband, Mike, who hopes to break up her new marriage with Troy and win her back. With their relationships hanging in the balance when they return home, each couple must choose between blame and forgiveness....
18) T2 trainspotting
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
First there was an opportunity; then there was a betrayal. Twenty years have gone by. Much has changed but just as much remains the same. Mark Renton returns to the only place he can ever call home. They are waiting for him: Spud, Sick Boy, and Begbie. Other old friends are waiting too: sorrow, loss, joy, vengeance, hatred, friendship, love, longing, fear, regret, diamorphine, self-destruction and mortal danger, they are all lined up to welcome him,...
19) You're next
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Aubrey and Paul Davison decide to celebrate their wedding anniversary by inviting their four children and their significant others to a family reunion at their remote and slightly rundown weekend estate. But the family reunion goes awry when their home comes under siege by a mask-wearing team of crossbow-bearing assailants. The family has no idea who's attacking them or why. All they know for certain is that nobody is safe.
20) Past lives
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Nora and Hae Sung, two deeply connected childhood friends, are wrest apart after Nora's family emigrates from South Korea. Two decades later, they are reunited in New York for one fateful week as they confront notions of destiny, love, and the choices that make a life.
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