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61) Father figures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Upon learning that their mother has been lying to them for years about their allegedly deceased father, two fraternal twin brothers hit the road in order to find him.
62) Man down
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
When U.S. Marine Gabriel Drummer returns from his tour in Afghanistan, he finds the place he once called home in no better shape than the battlefields he's left behind. Desperate to find his estranged family, son Johnathan and wife Natalie, Gabriel is aided in his search by his best friend Devin, a hard-nosed Marine. Before long, the two intercept Charles, a man with vital information concerning the whereabouts of Gabriel's family.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Jude is a dock worker from Liverpool who travels to the United States in the 1960s to find his estranged father. There, he falls in love with sheltered American teenager Lucy. When her brother, Max, is drafted to fight in the Vietnam War, they become involved in peace activism.
64) Motherfatherson
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (417 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Max owns an influential media empire where information is his trade: he has secrets on everyone and uses his power ruthlessly. His son Caden is the editor of Max's newspaper, but Caden is crumbling under the pressure. He is left like a helpless child after suffering a massive stroke. For Kathryn, Max's estranged wife, this is a chance to reconnect with the sensitive boy Max ripped away from her. Caden knows secrets that could bring Max's empire crashing...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An aging spy is on one last mission to redeem his life and career before the clock runs out; but when a mysterious woman appears, and the lines of trust with his superiors begin to blur, Adereth realizes the hunter may become the hunted in a world of mirrors and deceit.
66) The forger
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (91 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Linda is an English teacher with a small apartment full of a rich collection of great literature. Her only close personal relationships are those she has with her favorite authors. Her life is far less complicated than the dramas she reads, and she likes it that way. All that changes when former star pupil Jason returns to town after failing as a playwright in New York. To help him avoid law school, Linda mounts his play at school, and puts her own...
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Michael Sullivan works as an enforcer for his adopted father, Irish gangster John Rooney. When Sullivan's son, Mike Jr., witnesses one of his father's killings on Rooney's behalf, the gangster decides that his ward and his family are liabilities that must be removed. Sullivan tries to safeguard his son and get even with the man who betrayed him, while his son focuses on bonding with his emotionally distant father.
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 107 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the body of a boy he takes for his son. As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child's body from the flames, find...
70) Half brothers
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Renato, a successful Mexican aviation executive, is shocked to discover he has an American half-brother he never knew about, the free-spirited Asher. The two very different half-brothers are forced on a road journey together masterminded by their ailing father, tracing the path their father took as an immigrant from Mexico to the US.
71) Edge of winter
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Brothers Brad and Caleb Baker embark on an outdoor bonding trip with their distant, somewhat unpredictable father Elliot. When they become stranded by a winter storm, the boys begin to suspect that it is their supposed protector who poses a larger threat than the elements.
72) The Duke
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 95 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1961 when Kempton Bunton, a 60-year-old taxi driver, stole Goya's portrait of the Duke of Wellington from the National Gallery in London. It was the first (and remains the only) theft in the Gallery's history. Kempton sent ransom notes saying that he would return the painting on condition that the government agreed to provide television for free to the elderly. What happened next became the stuff of legend. Only 50 years later did the full...
73) Forsaken
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
An embittered gunslinger attempts to make amends with his estranged father while their community is besieged by ruthless land-grabbers.
74) Fences
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Appears on list
Description
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a Black garbage collector named Troy Maxson--bitter that baseball's color barrier was only broken after his own heyday in the Negro Leagues--is prone to taking out his frustrations on his loved ones.
75) Humor me
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
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.
76) Hud
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 111 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Hud Bannon has always preferred drinking, fighting and womanizing to the very traditional ways of his father. Hud is a man who cares more for himself than he does his young nephew, his dad, or even their understanding housekeeper. When disease threatens the cattle on the Bannon Ranch, the conflict between Hud and his old-line father reaches an all time high.
77) Joe Bell
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; c4 3/4 in.
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
79) Made in Italy
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A heartwarming father-son story set in glorious Tuscany about bohemian London artist Robert, who returns to Italy with his estranged son Jack to make a quick sale of the house they inherited from his late wife. Neither expects to find the once beautiful villa in such a state of disrepair. Renovations go badly, with father and son soon finding themselves at odds. Robert's comical lack of DIY experience leads him to seek help from some colorful locals....
80) Brad's status
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
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