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3) August Rush
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2008, c2007
Language
English
Description
The musical genius inside young orphan August Rush emerges as he searches New York City for the parents who were separated from him--and each other--years earlier.
Publisher
Gaiam
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
After the death of their mother, two young girls are forced to leave their life in the city and live with their estranged father, Mac, who is a rodeo cowboy. Though hostilities and challenges arise at first, Mac is determined to give it his best shot. Just as father and daughters are beginning to bond, Aunt Gayle steps in determined to gain custody.
5) Coraline
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
An adventurous girl finds another world that is a strangely idealized version of her frustrating home, but it has sinister secrets.
6) Grimm
Publisher
Home Vision Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Nederlands
Description
'The Brothers Grimm' meets David Lynch in international award-winning director Alex van Warmerdam's twisted and darkly comic fairy tale that transports viewers from bleak, snow-frosted woods to a windswept ghost town.
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Jesse Aarons is in the 5th grade and has trained all summer to become the fastest runner in school. He becomes upset when new classmate Leslie Burke outruns him and everyone else. Despite this and some other striking differences, the two become fast friends. Together, they create Terabithia where they rule as king and queen and is a land filled with monsters, trolls, ogres, and giants. This friendship helps Jesse cope with a tragedy that makes him...
8) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
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.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Raised on hip-hop and foster care, defiant city kid Ricky gets a fresh start in the New Zealand countryside. He quickly finds himself at home with his new foster family: the loving Aunt Bella, the cantankerous Uncle Hec, and dog Tupac. When a tragedy strikes that threatens to ship Ricky to another home, both he and Hec go on the run in the bush. As a national manhunt ensues, the newly branded outlaws must face their options.
10) Calloused hands
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
12-year-old Josh is a mixed race boy and a promising baseball player. He is abused by his mother's boyfriend Byrd, and neglected by his mother Debbie. He forges his own path in life when his estranged grandfather insists he study for his Bar Mitzvah.
13) Trapped
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
A couple find their world has been turned upside down when they're taken hostage and held in different cities while their young daughter, who has severe asthma, is kidnapped by the same band of ruthless criminals and held for a large ransom. It seems that the criminals have a foolproof plan. Unable to contact the police, the criminals demand a massive ransom, but if the payment is not arranged in 24 hours, the girl will be killed.
14) Flightplan
Publisher
Touchstone Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft that she designed, Kyle Pratt faces every mothers worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berline to New York. Already emotionally devastasted by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew, pilot, and passengers while facing the very real possiblity that...
Publisher
Image Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c1999
Language
English
Description
Tells the tale of an extraordinary man who lives a remarkable life without setting foot on land. Abandoned atop a piano and raised by a lowly crew member in the bowels of a luxurious cruise ship, the boy is dubbed 1900 for the year he was born. As he grows up, he is drawn to the piano and discovers he has an amazing gift for creating music. His reputation spreads, but he refuses to leave the ship. Only when he spots a beautiful girl on-board does...
16) Stolen
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Detective Tom Adkins is a devoted cop haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his young son eight years earlier. But when Adkins discovers the buried remains of a boy who was brutally murdered more than half a century ago, he becomes obsessed with investigating the long-forgotten crime.
17) Ondine
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Syracuse, a simple Irish fisherman, catches a beautiful and mysterious woman in his nets and, with the help of his ailing daughter, Annie, comes to believe in the impossible.
Series
Criterion collection volume 157
Publisher
distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
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.
19) Monsters, Inc
Series
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Sully and Mike are monsters who work at Monsters, Inc., a power plant that generates energy for the monster world by frightening human children in their beds. One night, Sully accidentally lets a human girl into the monster world, and Sully and Mike must get her back to her room before any other monsters find out.
20) Dark water
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
When Dahlia's strained separation turns into a bitter custody battle, her situation takes a turn for the worse: her new apartment seems to have a life of its own.
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