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Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Young Jacob is tired of living on the family farm. One day he demands an early inheritance, and is shocked when his father agrees. For a while he does surprisingly well: he₂s got money, ladies, prestige. But when he loses it all and sinks lower than rock bottom, he comes to his senses and heads home determined to start all over in his father's business. Will his father welcome him back with open arms or anger?
Publication Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 117 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Había triunfado en la vida, pero le faltaba escuchar la frase de afecto que todo padre espera de su hijo. La película que reune a dos grandes artistas: padre e hijo, Vicente Fernandez y Alejandro Fernandez.
He had struggled for success but still missed the affection that a father expects from his son. A beautiful film that reunites two great stars, father and son, Vicente Fernandez and Alejandro Fernandez.
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A heartwarming story about a deceased Sicilian father trying to negotiate his way into heaven. But the only way in is to first go back and repair his relationship with his reluctant son, reunite his feuding family back in Sicily, and help all find love in places they never imagined.
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Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. He has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son Michael who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his youngest son Peter and solve the mystery of an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so he can finally move on and reunite his family.
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A searing portrait of the physical, emotional, and psychological costs of the American dream. Willy Loman is the iconic traveling salesman, whose family is torn apart by his desperate obsession with greatness and social acceptance. As his two sons cast about aimlessly for their stations in life, Willy begins to come unraveled when the reality of his life threatens his long-cherished illusions.
Publication Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
LaPaglia and Janney star in a poignant look at how a woman's love and support can help a widower, who is struggling to overcome the loss of his wife, deal with his older son's decision to leave home and his younger son's destructive behavior.
Publication Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (80 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The range-riding rascal of the Cherokee Strip, the Oklahoma Kid is the territory's most hunted outlaw, wanted dead or alive. So when the Kid's black-clad enemy Whip McCord turns Tulsa into a den of corruption, leading citizen John Kincaid announces plans to clean up the town. Framing the old man for murder, McCord has him sentenced to hang, while the Kid, who's secretly Kincaid's son, risks his own neck as he races to Tulsa to see that justice is...
9) The judge
Publication Date
2015.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 141 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before.
10) I love my dad
Publication Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Blocked on social media and concerned for his son's life, Chuck impersonates a waitress online and starts checking in with Franklin. But things begin to spiral when Franklin falls for this imaginary girl and wants nothing more than to meet her in person, as Chuck has inadvertently catfished his own son.
11) The confirmation
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Clive Owen shines in this irresistible comedy about an estranged father and son, whose weekend adventure leads to something they never imagined, a true family connection.
12) Humor me
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A once-acclaimed New York playwright, Nate is struggling to finish a play when his wife leaves him, taking their son. Desolate, broke and unable to pay the rent, Nate begrudgingly moves in with his widowed father, Bob, in his New Jersey retirement golf community. Nate stumbles on a senior citizen theater troupe staging a musical and agrees to help, but quickly realizes it will not be easy to get these quirky women to cooperate.
13) The Winslow boy
Publication Date
c2000
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A barrister defends a 14-year-old naval cadet accused of stealing a postal money-order.
Publication Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aging poet, Younghwan, summons his two estranged sons to a solitary hotel beside the Han River because he feels his death is near. While waiting for them to arrive, he meets two women out walking in the new-fallen snow and is struck by their angelic beauty. But the women have come to the hotel to do some healing of their own. As Younghwan moves between the women and his sons, he also moves between his two minds: one that walks on the street and...
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After grumpy 85-year-old Don Servando is kicked out of his retirement home, his estranged son Francisco has no choice but to invite his dad to live with him. Confronted with his son's hippie lifestyle and eccentric housemates, Don Servando goes off the rails, igniting a series of comic conflicts that put the house in jeopardy, and leaves everyone in stitches.
Publication Date
2002,1999
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A mysterious stranger appears at the Kansas farm of Jacob and Sarah Witting. The stranger is Jacob's father, John, who abandoned him and his mother when he was a child. Although John establishes relationships with Sarah and his grandchildren, he struggles to reconcile with his son. Third part of a trilogy.
17) Transfusion
Publication Date
2023.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Ex-special forces operative Ryan Logan has a sharply honed set of survival skills that have allowed him to walk the line between courage and fear. But after a personal tragedy shatters his family and sends his teenage son, Billy, into a world of drugs and delinquency, he is pushed to the edge. Desperate to make a new life for Billy, Ryan plunges into the criminal underground for one final mission in this muscular, emotionally charged thriller.
18) Cottontail
Publication Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
DVD-R. After the death of his wife, Kenzaburo receives an unexpected letter from beyond the grave. His late wife asks him to travel to Lake Windermere in England with their son to scatter her ashes. Plagued by sweet and painful memories of his wife, Kenzaburo travels to England from Tokyo to fulfill her final wish, but the father and son's fraught relationship threatens to upend their journey.
19) Big fish
Publication Date
[2004], c2003
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 125 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
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Description
William Bloom, is a young man who never really knew his now dying father, Edward - outside of the tall tales his dad told him about growing up. During Edward's last days William and his wife Josephine hold a bedside vigil next to the old man as he recollects elaborate memories of his youth. Still doubting the legends and folklore, William makes a journey to meet a mysterious woman from whom Edward had bought property.
20) Creed
Publication Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (133 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
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