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Language
English
Description
Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality Genovia. Soon enough, Mia has to undertake "princess...
2) After class
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A dysfunctionally-functional family attempts to work together to support their grandmother during her final days.
Pub. Date
©2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
By day, 35-year-old Alex is the world's oldest video game tester, but at night he is privately developing the next big game for the X-Box generation. When one of his roommates spends all the rent money on Filipino hookers, Alex gets kicked out of his apartment. He finds himself forced to live with his grandmother and her friends Grace and Bea. To save face with his friends and co-workers, he brags about the three hot babes living with him.
4) Minari
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
A tender and sweeping story about what roots people that follows a Korean-American family that moves to a tiny Arkansas farm in search of their own American Dream. The family home changes completely with the arrival of their sly, foul-mouthed, but incredibly loving grandmother. Amidst the instability and challenges of this new life in the rugged Ozarks, this film shows the undeniable resilience of family and what really makes a home.
5) Gifted
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (101 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
Pub. Date
2010.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish, that she set his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. When her son Richard refuses to let his mother make the two thousand-mile trip, she takes off anyway with her free-spirited granddaughter in tow.
7) Carolina
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Carolina, who is named after the state for which she was born in, tries to escape from her wildly eccentric family in search of a life of love and normalcy. Her sisters, Georgia and Maine, live with her grandma in a rather unconventional fashion. Her neighbor, Albert, writes romance novels for a living and writes a book "for Carolina". Carolina, herself, has a job as the producer of a television show, but loses her job when her hysterical sister calls...
Pub. Date
[2004]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
A bicyclist is kidnapped from the Tour de France by mysterious gangsters; his grandmother travels to the city of Belleville (which has a sardonic version of the Statue of Liberty in its harbor), where she tracks him down with the help of a musical trio gone to seed, the Belleville Triplets.
Pub. Date
2004
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Along the Irish seacoast, the floating lighthouse called the Blackwater Lightship once symbolized happy times for this family. That was long before tragedy struck and misunderstanding mounted between three generations of women.
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Your basic Cinderella makeover story with a fresh and affectionate twist. Mia is a frizzy-haired, glasses-wearing 15-year-old girl whose two highest ambitions are to become invisible and to get a few kisses from an attractive school heartthrob. She is stunned and horrified when her coolly continental grandmother shows up and informs her that she's the crown princess of the European principality Genovia. Soon enough, Mia has to undertake princess lessons...
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 100 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
In this humorous and heartwarming story based on Clyde Edgerton's acclaimed novel, a feisty 78-year old widow and an unloved, troubled teenager from a youth rehabilitation center forge a special kind of bond, despite their tremendous differences, and discover what it takes to earn the trust and love of another.
Series
Language
English
Formats
Description
For teenager Mia Thermopolis, just surviving each school day is an adventure. Then she receives the shocking news from her grandmother that she is a real-life princess. So begins a comical transformation towards poise and princess-ness, including a media storm, jealous schoolmates, and a plot to take over her country.
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sound, color, 4 3/4
Language
English
Description
An aging woman with dementia (Golden Globe and Emmy-winner Jane Seymour) moves in with her daughter (Jacqueline McKenzie) and her family when she is unable to continue to live by herself. Her teen granddaughter (Coco Jack Gillies) is forced to share her room and miss school to care for her. Her resentment turns to love as she spends her days and nights with her grandmother and long-hidden family secrets are revealed, giving a new understanding and...
15) Tammy
Pub. Date
[2014]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (DVD) (97 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Tammy is having a bad day. She's totaled her car, gotten fired from her job at a burger joint, and finds her husband getting comfortable with the neighbor in her own house. It's time to take her boom box and book it. The bad news is she's broke and without wheels. The worse news is her grandma, Pearl, is her only option-with a car, cash, and an itch to see Niagara Falls. Not exactly the escape Tammy had in mind. But on the road, with grandma riding...
16) Gifted
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
17) Gifted
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
18) The Witches
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (104 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The tale of a young orphaned boy who, in late 1967, goes to live with his loving Grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered her fellow cronies from around the globe, undercover, to carry out her nefarious...
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 217 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Victor and Valentino is a supernatural adventure comedy about two half-brothers who spend a summer with their grandma in a place called Monte Macabre, a small, mysterious town where the myths and legends of Latin American folklore come to life.
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