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Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (approximately 127 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
2) Lion
Language
English
Formats
Description
Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
6 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 588 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
50 first dates: A young man falls in love with a girl who has short-term memory loss from an accident. Every day when she wakes up she remembers nothing from the day before. In an effort to help her remember him, he makes a video tape for her to watch every morning.
Big daddy: A 32-year-old law school graduate, who works one day a week as a tollbooth clerk, attempts to impress his girlfriend when he adopts a 5-year-old tyke who has been left on his...
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Hope is an aspiring reporter who was abandoned by her mother at birth. She's grieving the recent death of her adopted mother when her apartment is burglarized of all her possessions. While reporting the burglary to the police, Hope discovers a jar full of money, labeled "Christmas Jar." Shocked and grateful for this act of kindness, Hope discovers that people all over her hometown of Columbus, Ohio, have been receiving Christmas jars for years...
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (95 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In 1976, Elizabeth, an average suburban 11-year-old, is praying for adolescence to arrive. Her idol is Dolly Parton and she wants to be just like her. Although women's lib is beginning to change the frame of family life, her parents Marion and Phil are typical parents, a stay-at-home mom and a working dad. When Elizabeth realizes she was adopted, she decides to find her real mother. She gets dressed up just like her idol and runs away, with Marion...
Series
Criterion collection volume 476
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (Blu-ray) (165 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Tells the story of the life and loves of Benjamin Button who was born an old man and ages in reverse.
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