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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 19 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color
Language
English
Description
What does it really mean to be a parent? There are many challenges and adjustments that first-time parents face when their baby is born. One family shares the joys and challenges of parenting in this practical and encouraging video. Mom and Dad both discuss the things they have learned and the delights and struggles they have faced as they parent their four children. This relaxed, testimonial-style video shows many real-life family events and covers...
2) Life at 3
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The story continues for the children of The life series, now they are three, as they reveal what it takes to give a child the best chance at life. Over two episodes Life at 3 measures our group of children against the latest scientific findings on two of the hottest topics in child development, obesity and bad behaviour. The life series is made in conjunction with a long-term study, Growing up in Australia, in which 10,000 children have been placed...
3) Trust me
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, 27 min.) : digital, stereo., sound, color.
Language
English
Description
Kim, 15, wants to go away with two girlfriends for the weekend. It transpires that boys will be present and no adults. Do Kim's parents forbid her to go and make her feel that they don't trust her? An audience also watches the drama and discusses the family's quandary with psychologist Peter Quarry. An outstanding award winning DVD that stimulates great discussion.--Kanopy.
4) Life at 1
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 110 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
How do you give a child the best chance in life? Life at 1 is the first instalment in a landmark series that aims to unlock the secrets of child development by following 11 babies and their families for seven years. Made in conjunction with the long-term study in which 10,000 Australian children have been placed under a sociological and scientific microscope, this groundbreaking program focuses on those first formative years to try to discover what...
5) 52 Tuesdays
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 115 minutes) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans for gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons. Filmed over the course of a year, once a week, every week (only on Tuesdays) these unique filmmaking rules bring a rare authenticity to this emotionally charged story of desire, responsibility and transformation.
7) Bad Moms
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three overworked and under appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self indulgence.
"...a women's shared, near orgiastic pleasure in their freedom and friendship."--New York Times
"A good natured girl power comedy that balances a bland sitcom structure with some weird and hilarious moments."--New York Post
"The Hangover for working...
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2003
Edition
Fullscreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (61 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A childless couple agree to take a boy into their home after his mother is declared unfit. The mother is determined to take advantage of the man and tries to blackmail him. In the end, selfless love and charity are celebrated in this heartwarming movie.
9) Blockers
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
When three parents discover their daughters' pact to lose their virginity at prom, they launch a covert one-night operation to stop the teens from sealing the deal.
Crude and sexual content, and language throughout, drug content, teen partying, and some graphic nudity.
Publisher
distributed in the U.S. by Cinedigm Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2013
Physical Desc
1 Blu-ray (ca. 91 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet (16 p. : col. ill. ; 15 cm.)
Language
English
Description
"Yokohama, 1963. Japan is picking itself up from the devastation of World War II and preparing to host the Olympics. Against this backdrop of hope and change, a friendship begins to blossom between high school students Umi ... and Shun ... but a buried secret from their past emerges to cast a shadow on the future and pull them apart"--Container.
12) Finding Dory
Publisher
Disney
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
Widscreen.
Physical Desc
2 Blu-rays (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Dory, the forgetful blue tang, suddenly remembers she has a family who may be looking for her, she, Marlin, and Nemo take off on a life-changing quest to find them, with help from Hank, a cantankerous octopus; Bailey, a beluga whale who's convinced his biological sonar skills are on the fritz; and Destiny, a nearsighted whale shark! Dive into the movie overflowing with unforgettable characters, dazzling animation, and gallons of fun!
13) Spirited away
Publisher
Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2001
Edition
Widescreen ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (124 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a young girl gets trapped in a strange new world of spirits, she must call upon the courage she never knew she had to free herself and rescue her parents.
14) My Louisiana sky
Publisher
Showtime Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002], c2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Growing up in Saitter, Louisiana, in the 1950s, twelve-year-old Tiger Ann struggles with her feelings about her stern, but loving grandmother, her mentally slow parents, and her good friend and neighbor, Jesse.
15) In America
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Told by 11-year-old Christy, a child wise beyond her years. An Irish couple bring their two young daughters to America in search of a better life. Christy and her sister, Ariel find New York's Hell's Kitchen a place of magic where anything is possible. To their parents, it represents a place to begin anew. Carried by the girls' youthful hope and faith, the family finds the heart to live and love again.
16) Dogtooth
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (94 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Greek
Description
A darkly surreal look at three teenagers confined to an isolated country estate and kept under strict rule and regimen by their parents - an alternately hilarious and nightmarish experiment of manipulation and oppression.
17) Eraserhead
Pub. Date
2014
Edition
Criterion collection.
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (85 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A nightmarish collage of images which blends the grotesque and the absurd, the deeply disturbing and the darkly humorous. Henry is the nerdish central character who lives in a squalid apartment with a strange girl and their monstrous baby. The extraordinary special effects create an eerie, dream-like world with a logic all its own.
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By...
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Nanny McPhee appears at the farmhouse door of busy young mother, Isabel Green (Maggie Gyllenhaal), she discovers that Mrs. Green's children are in an all-out household war with their two spoiled city cousins. Relying on everything from a flying motorcycle and a statue that comes to life to a tree-climbing piglet and an elephant that turns up in the oddest places, Nanny McPhee uses her magic to show the children five valuable lessons, the most...
19) Matilda
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
Special ed.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (98 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (105 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When a childless couple buries a box with all of their wishes for an infant in their backyard, their wishes are granted. However, their child, Timothy Green, is not all that he appears.
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