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Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
As a teenager, Holly Hamilton is tired of moving every time her single mom, Jean, has another personal meltdown involving second-rate guys. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice, Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man. She creates an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her shaky self-esteem through e-mails. When the virtual relationship takes off, Holly finds herself having to produce the suitor, so she...
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife Maggie applies to business school and is accepted. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited girls are...
4) Jersey girl
Language
English
Description
Ollie is madly in love with his wife. But when the Manhattan music publicist's wife dies in childbirth, Ollie's life becomes emotionally shattered. Not sure what to do next, he moves to New Jersey with his infant daughter to live with his dad. Juggling his career and single parenthood proves more than Ollie can manage, and one day he's fired after he bungles a major press event. He devotes his time to his daughter and ends up frequenting a local video...
5) At Middleton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever.
6) Boyhood
Series
Criterion collection volume 839
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Formats
Description
The film was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason, his divorced parents, and his older sister. Alighting not on milestones but on the small, in-between moments that make up our lives, Linklater fashions a flawlessly acted, often funny portrait that flows effortlessly from one year to the next.
8) One fine day
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Two single parents are inadvertently thrown together for one chaotic day -- and love, of course, blooms.
12) A little inside
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
Ed Mills, a promising baseball player on the verge of stardom sees his dream shattered when he becomes a single parent. Five years later, he is a small-town mechanic, trying his best to raise his 7-year-old daughter Abby.
13) Christmas tail
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Two single parents fall in love while 'splitting custody' over a puppy that both had wanted to give to their children for Christmas.
14) Summer villa
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A celebrity chef whose reputation has taken a hit heads for his family's French villa to recover. A writer struggling to meet a deadline is gifted the summer at her agent's family villa in France. It's the same villa and two frustrated adults plus one teenager have to figure out how to get along for a season while they put their lives back in order.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
Christmas lodge: When a historic preservationist comes in contact with an old Christmas Lodge, she gives all she can to restore the dilapidated lodge and her family, but also to find the love of her life.
Christmas miracle: A group of strangers are forced to seek refuge in an abandoned church after a major snow storm hits. Over the course of the evening these strangers rely on one another to make do during these very difficult times.
Christmas tail:...
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Fran Fine is a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied! Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot!
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