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Publisher
Granada
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
It's the 1950's and Sidney "Pop" Larkin has managed to avoid paying taxes for practically his entire working life. He embarks on a number of ill-fated entrepreneurial ventures and his daughter causes more than one head to turn with her flirtatious ways. But the flamboyant Larkins are thoroughly devoted to each other in good times and bad.
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005], c2004
Language
English
Description
Dan is in advertising and a dedicated family man. He seems to have it all, until a younger man is hired to replace him. Before long, he is forced to be deferential to his new boss, not only in the office but also when Carter begins dating his daughter.
3) Eulogy
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
When three generations of a deliciously dysfunctional family gather to bury the family patriarch, the beloved granddaughter of the deceased is given the task of delivering the eulogy. In the days leading up to the funeral, family secrets are revealed, old grudges resurface and the hosuehold erupts with renewed vigor.
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.
7) Hanging up
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
Eve seems to be the person her two sisters and cranky father rely on to keep them bound together as a family.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Description
Now married to Suzanne, Nick buys a suburban house to escape the rat race of the big city and to provide more space for his new wife and kids Lindsey and Kevin. But when his new home quickly becomes a costly "fixer upper," he finds himself at the mercy of an eccentric contractor, Nick's suburban dream soon becomes a nightmare.
9) Blended
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Formats
Description
After a disastrous blind date, single parents Lauren and Jim agree on only one thing: they never want to see each other again. But when they each sign up separately for a fabulous family vacation with their kids, they are all stuck sharing a suite at a luxurious African safari resort for a week.
10) Rumor has it
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2006, c2005
Language
English
Description
When Sarah returns home for a wedding with her fiancé, she stumbles upon a well-kept family secret: that her family was actually the inspiration for the book and film 'The Graduate.' Thinking she might be the offspring of the real fling made fictionally famous, Sarah sets off to find the man who just might have the answers she's been looking for.
11) Pieces of April
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2003
Language
English
Description
Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts...
12) The family Stone
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006, 2005
Language
English
Description
Everett brings his fiancé Meredith home to meet his family for the Christmas holiday. It's an instant disaster when Everett's parents, Sybil and Kelly, agree with their gay, deaf son Thad, pot-smoking son Ben and daughters Amy and Susannah that Meredith is way too uptight to be welcomed into their family. Wanting to please Everett and get along with his family, Meredith recruits her sister Julie to help her thaw the Stone family cold front.
16) Weeds: Season 1
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
After her husband's unexpected death and subsequent financial woes, suburban mom Nancy Botwin embraces a new profession: the neighborhood pot dealer. As it seems like everyone secretly wants what she's selling, even city councilman Doug Wilson, Nancy is faced with keeping her family life in check and her enterprise a secret from her best friend/PTA president, Celia Hodes.
17) My girl
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1998, c1991
Language
English
Description
A precocious 11-year-old tomboy obsessed with death shares a poignant summer with her widowed father, the sexy and kind cosmetician he hires, and most importantly with the boy-next-door who idolizes her.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
As the mourners and guests at a British country manor struggle to "keep a stiff upper lip," a dignified ceremony devolves into a no-holds-barred debacle of misplaced cadavers, indecent exposure, and shocking family secrets.
19) The birdcage
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this hysterical comedy, Armand (Robin Williams) and Albert (Nathan Lane) have built the perfect life for themselves tending to their gaudy Miami nightclub. But their pastel tranquility is shaken when Armand's son announces that he's getting married to the daughter of ultra-conservative Senator Keeley (Gene Hackman)...and they're all getting together for dinner! Can Armand and Albert transform themselves into Mr. and Mrs. Family Values in time?...
20) Checking out
Publisher
Allumination FilmWorks
Pub. Date
[2006], c2005
Language
English
Description
On the eve of his 90th birthday, a celebrated thespian summons his three grown children to his Manhattan apartment for a celebration they will never forget. When the party's over, he plans to make his 'final exit.' Morris is not ill or depressed - he just wants to go out the way he's always lived - on his own terms. Now it's up to his angst-ridden offspring to put aside their own excess baggage and convince Morris to go on.
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