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Pub. Date
2003.
Description
Harry Sanborn is a perennial playboy with the libido of a much younger man. During what was to be a romantic weekend with his current infatuation, Marin, at her mother's Hampton beach house, Harry develops chest pains. He winds up being nursed by Marin's reluctant mother, Erica. When Harry hesitates to act on his feelings for Erica, Harry's thirtysomething doctor steps in and starts to pursue Erica. Harry, who has always had the world on a string,...
23) Freaky Friday
Pub. Date
[2003]
Description
A mother and her daughter are always fighting and screaming at each other. Each thinks that the other has it so easy. Then, thanks to a magical fortune cookie, they switch personalities and bodies and discover each other's problems and complications. And they end up gaining a little respect for each other's point of view. But they need to be changed back by Saturday, because the mother is getting married!
Pub. Date
c2012
Description
Hillary is always struggling in life and love while constantly feeling the pressure to marry from her demanding mother. This holiday season, she thinks she finally has it right but when Hillary's fiance suddenly breaks up with her, she scrambles to find a fake fiance. After posting an ad online, she hires David, an out-of-work actor to pose as her fiance in front of her mom, her dad and her snobbish sister Trish. Her fake engagement starts to unravel...
26) Missing
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
When the mother of a young woman goes missing with her boyfriend while vacationing in Columbia, she fears the worse. Although she is thousands of miles away, she uses everything in her power to get answers. After getting stonewalled and running into miles of international red tape, the young woman relies on her wit and savvy to find the answers. As time runs out, can she get the proof she needs to find her mother?
27) Pan's Labyrinth
Pub. Date
[2007]
Description
When young Ofelia and her mother go to live with her new stepfather on a rural military outpost, she finds herself in a world of unimaginable cruelty. Soon Ofelia finds the creatures of her imagination in which she used to escape have become a reality and she must battle them to save both her mother and herself. In the terrifying battle that ensues, Ofelia soon learns that innocence has a power that evil cannot imagine.
28) The shunning
Pub. Date
[2011]
Description
Katie Lapp is a beautiful Amish girl who has always felt like something in her life was missing. But she just may find out what that is when a mysterious 'Englisher' comes to Lancaster County hoping to find the baby girl she gave up for adoption nineteen years ago.
Pub. Date
2015
Description
GRACE HAS A REAL TALENT FOR BAKING AND A PASSION FOR MAKING DELICIOUS DREAMS COME TRUE. WHEN HER MOM ANNOUNCES A TRIP TO VISIT RELATIVES IN PARIS, GRACE ISN'T SO SURE ABOUT LEAVING HER FRIENDS AND THEIR CUPCAKE BUSINESS. THAT IS UNTIL SHE DISCOVERS SHE'LL GET TO WORK WITH HER UNCLE AND COUSIN IN A REAL FRENCH PASTRY SHOP!
30) Mamma mia!
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
20 year old Sophie is preparing to marry at her mother's hotel on a Greek island. She has a carefree life, a loving fiancé, and great friends. She is only missing one thing: a father. By reading her mother's diary she discovers that she has three possible fathers. Sophie secretly invites all three men to the wedding in a desperate bid to discover which of them is her father. But not all goes according to plan. Now, old loves are re-kindled, new loves...
31) Snatched
Pub. Date
[2017]
Description
When her boyfriend dumps her before their exotic vacation, a young woman persuades her ultra-cautious mother to travel with her to paradise, with unexpected results.
32) Bottled Up
Pub. Date
[2014?]
Description
Faye's world revolves around her grown daughter Sylvie who has an addiction to pain killers. When environmentalist Beckett moves to town, Faye befriends him hoping he may raise Sylvie's spirits. But instead Beckett begins to fall for Faye. Faye is soon forced to decide whether to enable her daughter's addiction or find the happiness that she has long denied herself.
34) Volver
Pub. Date
2007, c.2006
Description
Cruz earned an Academy Award-® nomination for Best Actress for her role in this charming and touching story of two feuding sisters whose mother comes back from the dead to help them settle a lifetime of unfinished business.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
"Sophie has just one wish to make her wedding perfect: to have her father walk her down the aisle. Now she just has to find out who he is.... ... [A] musical celebration of mothers, daughters and fathers, and true loves lost and new ones found."--
"Join the celebration, sing and dance, and discover how it all began! ... Sophie ... is now pregnant, and like her mother Donna ... she'll need to take risks."--
Series
Goodwife volume 4
Pub. Date
2013
Description
A gripping blend of courtroom drama, politics and steamy personal relationships that stars Emmy and Golden Globe Award winner Julianna Margulies as Alicia Florrick, a wife and mother who reclaims control of her personal and professional lives after her husband, Peter, is embroiled in a sex and political corruption scandal. As Alicia adapts to changes at home and at work as a defense attorney, she continues to redefine and rediscover the woman she...
Formats
Description
Newly divorced Sarah and her teenage daughter Elissa have just moved to the suburbs for a fresh start. But their hopes quickly shatter as they learn that, years earlier, a grisly murder took place next door when a deranged girl killed her parents and disappeared. The girl's older brother Ryan still occupies the house, and when he befriends Elissa, his secretive past could become her worst nightmare.
38) Sharp Objects
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A reporter confronts the psychological demons from her past when she returns to her hometown to cover a violent murder.
Description
The long-awaited follow-up to the highest-grossing romantic comedy of all time. The film reveals a Portokalos family secret that will bring the beloved characters back together for an even bigger and Greeker wedding. "The sequel is a little like a bear hug from a beloved old relative..."--Los Angeles Times. "Vardalos is wonderful, and 88-year-old Michael Constantine casually pockets every scene he's in."--Richard Roeper. "Some elements are even...
40) Grey Gardens
Series
Criterion collection volume 123
Pub. Date
[2006]
Description
Portrait of the relationship between Edith Bouvier Beale and her grown daughter, Little Edie, once an aspiring actress in New York who left her career to care for her aging mother in their East Hampton home, and never left again. The aunt and cousin of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis feed their cats and raccoons and rehash their pasts behind the walls of their decaying mansion, Grey Gardens.