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2) The judge.
Publisher
Village Roadshow Pictures
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Big-city lawyer Hank Palmer returns to his childhood home where his estranged father, the town's judge, is suspected of murder. He sets out to discover the truth and along the way reconnects with the family he walked away from years before. - From WorldCat
3) The birdcage
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c1997
Language
English
Description
Armand & Albert,a middle-aged gay couple, reluctantly accept Armand's son's intention to marry the daughter of a conservative Senator, but when the fiancee's family comes to visit, the whole household is turned upside down.
Author
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
After 47 years of marriage, Ben's mother leaves her husband. With no where else to turn, Ben's father Sam is forced to get to know his son. Hysterical antics ensue as Ben and Sam strengthen their relationship while Ben helps Sam romance his mother.
5) Frailty
Publisher
distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Language
English
Description
The Meiks brothers, Fenton and Adam, have an idyllic relationship with their father. Their world is turned upside-down when their father suddenly announces that he has been visited by an angel who entrusted him with the holy mission of destroying "demons".
6) Frequency
Publisher
New Line Home Video
Pub. Date
c2000
Language
English
Description
When a mysterious channel to the past is opened allowing John Sullivan to communicate with his deceased father, a string of unsolved murders occur as a result; now father and son must work together to stop the crime that could hurt both of them.
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Language
English
Description
Alex is trying to deal with a midlife crisis, while feeling caught in the middle of his familial obligations. While successful, Alex sometimes feels as if he's under the shadow of his father, Mitchell, a successful attorney. Mitchell has recently survived a stroke, and Alex and Mitchell want to mend their relationship while there's still time.
11) The tree of life
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2011
Language
English
Formats
Description
The impressionistic story of a Midwestern family in the 1950's that follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship with his father. Jack finds himself a lost soul in the modern world, seeking answers to the origins and meaning of life while questioning the existence of faith. Bonus features included.
12) Field of dreams
Publisher
Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
[1998], c1989
Language
English
Description
An Iowa farmer is inspired by a voice he cannot ignore to pursue a dream and turns his cornfield into a baseball field so that some baseball legends can come and play.
14) Lost embrace
Publisher
New Yorker Video
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
Español
Description
Set in a Jewish community in Buenos Aries, Ariel is a young man working in his mother's lingerie store who wants more out of his life than helping sexy women try on underwear. He decides he wants to travel the world, but first he must endure a long-overdue with his absentee father.
17) The fury
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
The riveting story of a father's effort to rescue his son from the government agency which is using him in their secret mind-control experiments. During his search, he encounters a young girl whose frightening psychic powers help precipitate the final confrontation between pursued and pursuers.
18) Le grand voyage
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
The stern father of a Muslim family in France has his teenage son drive him to Mecca for the religious pilgrimage known as the hajj. The son, who is irreligious and has a non-Muslim girlfriend, doesn't relate to his traditionalist father, nor does the dad relate to his son -- a culture clash (and generational clash) that is the spine of their entire trip to Saudi Arabia.
19) Nebraska
Author
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
�2013
Language
English
Description
After receiving a sweepstakes letter in the mail, a cantankerous father thinks he's struck it rich, and wrangles his estranged son into taking a road trip to claim the fortune. Getting waylaid in the father's hometown in Nebraska, the son tries to reconnect with his impenetrable father.
20) Joe
Publisher
Lions Gate Entertainment, Inc
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
A hard-living ex-con who is the unlikeliest of role models, but when he meets a troubled fifteen-year-old homeless boy in need of help from a violent and destitute father, Joe is faced with the heartbreaking choice of redemption or ruin.
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