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1) 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
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.
5) 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.
6) 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.
Publisher
Miramax Films
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
After his wife's death, Joe Warr attempts to raise his young son, Artie, alone and adopts a parenting style that abandons rules, a situation which is further complicated by the arrival of Joe's estranged teenage son from a previous marriage.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1990, c1989
Language
English
Description
Vito has gone legit, but college-educated Adam remains loyal to his grandfather. Reluctantly, Vito joins his father and son on a big-time heist involving millions of dollars' worth of test-tube specimens. There's many a slip-up and betrayal before the three generations can find a common ground.
9) The chosen
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2003
Language
English
Description
Two teenagers at the time of the Normandy invasion in 1944 are friends but they are divided by the same thing that unites them--their faith. Though both are devout Jews, there's a subtle difference. Danny is an Hasidic Jew, brought up to accept faith blindly by his father--an ultra-orthodox rabbi who rejects the 20th century for the special joys of centuries--old tradition. Reuven, on the other hand, has been brought up by his father who is a secular...
10) Animal
Publisher
First Look Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
James 'Animal' Allen is locked up in a maximum security prison, and meets a revolutionary who changes his life. Now a reformed man, James is released only to find that his own son has assumed a life of crime and violence.
11) The forger
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A second-generation petty thief arranges to get out of prison to spend time with his ailing son by taking on a job with his father to pay back the syndicate that arranged his release.
13) The road
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
A father and his son are two of the last remaining people on earth after an unexplained tragedy has destroyed most of life. As the two head south, they are faced with many trials and tribulations along the way. An intense bond between the father and son is formed as together they strive to not only survive, but to retain humanity as they help the people they encounter along the way.
14) City by the sea
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2003, c2002
Language
English
Description
When a respected NYPD homicide detective finds the prime suspect in a murder case is his estranged son, he is forced to return home to the decaying boardwalks of Long Island to confront the darkness of his past.
15) Canal street
Publisher
Smith Global Media (SGM)
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It is a modern-day thriller telling the story of Kholi Styles who is trying to get by in an unwelcoming new world. After he becomes the suspect of the mysterious death of a classmate, it's up to his father, Jackie Styles, an up-and-coming lawyer from the slums of Chicago, to defend his son in court and battle an outraged public before time runs out. Jackie fights to keep his faith and prove his son is not the monster the world has made him out to...
16) Lean on Pete
Publisher
A24 Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Fifteen-year-old Charley Thompson arrives in Portland, Oregon with his single father Ray, both of them eager for a fresh start after a series of hard knocks. While Ray descends into personal turmoil, Charley finds acceptance and camaraderie at a local racetrack where he lands a job caring for an aging Quarter Horse named Lean On Pete. The horse's owner Del Montgomery and his jockey Bonnie help Charley fill the void of his father's absence--until he...
17) Creed
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Adonis Johnson never knew his famous father, world heavyweight champion Apollo Creed, who died before he was born. Still, there's no denying that boxing is in his blood, so Adonis heads to Philadelphia, the site of Apollo Creed's legendary match with a tough upstart named Rocky Balboa.
18) Brad's status
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A father takes his son to tour colleges on the East Coast and meets up with an old friend who makes him feel inferior about his life's choices.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2012], c2011
Language
English
Description
Who are you? After sacrificing himself to save both worlds, Peter mysteriously returns to ours. But he has been forgotten, by Olivia, by Walter, by everyone. It's as if he never existed. At the same time, shapeshifters controlled by an unknown master begin an onslaught of destruction, and now the two former enemy universes must cooperate to defy a common foe.
20) Defending Jacob
Publisher
Paramount Home Media Distribution
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel, this series unfolds around a shocking crime that rocks a small Massachusetts town and one family in particular, forcing an assistant district attorney to choose between his sworn duty to uphold justice and his unconditional love for his son.
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