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Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Sophie Kelly is a top-rated lawyer with three kids and a husband that take up all her time. All of her family and work stress comes to a chaotic halt at the shopping mall, days before Christmas, when she sees Santa and wishes for a different life. However, the grass is not always greener as a single, successful lawyer with her own firm and the most eligible bachelor vying for her attention.
Pub. Date
[2008]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 470 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is the macho Everyman who challenges his gorgeous and feisty wife, Cheryl, with his stubborn manliness but contagious charm. Tagging along with Jim and Cheryl are their three precocious kids. A success at his construction business and the family breadwinner at home, Jim feeds his other passion - blues music - playing with his six-man garage band. He keeps Cheryl in turmoil with his boyish bravado and ever willful antics, but their underlying love...
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 595 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Jim is the macho Everyman who challenges his gorgeous and feisty wife, Cheryl, with his stubborn manliness but contagious charm. Tagging along with Jim and Cheryl are their three precocious kids.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (594 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The fourth season of ABC's breakout family series According to Jim starts off with a bang as Jim must give up his vices so his wife Cheryl can get pregnant. In this traditional blue-collar family comedy, he is the quintessential guy and family man. Proud of his Midwestern values, Jim is an accessible and likeable everyman.
Pub. Date
c2016
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 499 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Enjoy a new chapter of love and laughter with the Seventh Season of the show. Quackery rules the roost when Phil adopts a trio of orphan ducklings and the rebellious Dunphy kids spread their wings. Meanwhile, Cam and Mitchell face financial hurdles and wild frat boys, Jay and Gloria farm out Joe's preschool education and Manny leaps into the dating game. But will the big question finally be answered: are Haley and Andy destined to be together.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 473 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The outrageous ninth season revolves around the blended Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan, headed by Jay Pritchett. Jay and his vivacious second wife Gloria are raising their young son Joe and Gloria's college bound son Manny. Meanwhile, Jay's grown daughter Claire and her husband Phil are becoming empty nesters, while Clare's brother Mitchell and his husband Cameron fumble through nurturing their gifted daughter Lily.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Cat on a hot tin roof: A story of deception which is destroying a patriarchal Southern family as its' members gather for the imminent demise of their "Big Daddy."
Butterfield 8: A high-class call girl in New York and a socially prominant man fall in love. However, he can't forget her past and she resents his distrust, so they battle their emotions and each other, leading to a powerful and explosive climax.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (435 min.) : sound, black and white and color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Father of the bride: Chaos reigns when the beautiful daughter of a family casually announces her plans to marry. What follows is a warmly humorous story, with wedding preparations, ruffled egos and the unavoidable meeting with the prospective in-laws.
The sandpiper: A repressed minister with a devoted wife must come to terms with his adulterous feelings for a beautiful, free-spirited woman.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (approximately 556 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
The honeymoon is over, but the laughs continue in Season Six. As freshly hitched Cam and Mitch acclimate to the realities of wedded bliss, Phil and Claire find their marriage stressed by annoying neighbors, Thanksgiving dinner gone awry and Claire's online snooping. Meanwhile, a spy-camera drone wreaks havoc in Jay and Gloria's backyard and a close call on the highway leads to amusing changes in various members of the Pritchett-Dunphy clan.
10) Roots
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
The gripping story is told through four generations, from the capture of Kunta Kinte in Africa to his transport to Colonial America in brutal conditions through successive generations fighting to win their freedom in the Civil war. Based on Alex Haley₂s best-selling novel which has resonated with millions of Americans, it reveals powerful, universal truths about the resilience of the human spirit.
Language
English
Description
Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Childhood friends Brian and Paulie do whatever it takes to survive in the dog-eat-dog neighborhood they live in. As they grow up they find themselves involved in organized crime and jail becomes part of doing business on the streets they call home. Brian uses his time in jail to get clean while Paulie makes plans for one last job that requires Brian's help. Brian must decide if he should stand by his friend or salvage his family.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Pub. Date
[2002]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (DVD) (109 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal, had left them long ago, but now returns to make things right with his family.
17) The Discoverers
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch (Griffin Dunne) takes his begrudging teenagers on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis's estranged father goes missing on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, they're forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage across America."--Container....
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
3 videodiscs (DVD) (385 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The misadventures of the Pritchett-Dunphy-Tucker clan are as hilarious as ever in the celebrated comedy serie's final season. When Phil and Claire babysit the twins, Haley and Dylan realize they're the more responsible parents. While Manny's still rebounding from heartache, Phil's still trying to bond with Jay. And although they're raising Lily with a positive self-image, Mitch and Cam discover their own insecurities. Through it all, the love and...
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
4 videodiscs (approximately 800 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Based on Ted Key's Saturday Evening Post cartoons, the popular TV series centers around Hazel, a take-charge maid who works for the Baxter family. Nothing could be more hilarious than the ways Hazel manages to undermine the suburban authority of her employer, Mr. Baxter.
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