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1) Pure
Publisher
Indican Pictures
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
The story of a young boy who must learn to care for himself when his mother and others around him succumb to heroin addiction.
Author
Series
New classics volume NDP218
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.3 - AR Pts: 3
Language
English
Description
Four-character memory play, in which a strong-willed woman attempts to impose her shattered dreams into the life and personality of her shy, reclusive daughter.
5) Cyrus
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
When a divorced man meets a woman at a party and starts dating her, he discovers that she and her son are extremely close and the son will do anything to keep other men away from his mother.
7) Mother's day
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
A mother and her children terrorize the new owners of their old home.
10) Dear Frankie
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A witty and touching tale about a mother's efforts to protect her son from the truth.
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this moving exploration of parenthood, an American mother and a Tibetan father have a three-year-old son believed to be the reincarnation of a Buddhist lama. When a Tibetan lama and a monk come to their home unexpectedly, asking to take their child away for a life of spiritual training in India, the parents must make a life-altering choice that will test their strength, their marriage, and their hearts. The Oldest Boy is a richly emotional journey...
12) Choke
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
In order to pay his mother's medical bills, a recovering sex addict pretends to choke in expensive restaurants.
13) Onward
Language
English
Formats
Description
"When Ian Lightfoot comes of age, his mother gives him the magical staff of his late father, which will let him cast a spell to spend one more day with his dad. But the spell goes awry and he has only 24 hours to set it right, so he and his older brother embark on an epic quest, with their mother trailing after, trying to protect them from a dangerous curse." --
14) Repentance
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A spiritual advisor takes on a troubled man as a new client, and is unaware of the man's fixation on his mother's death.
15) Love after love
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Following the death of their husband and father, a family struggles to cope with the loss and move on with their lives.
Publisher
Zeitgeist Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Italiano
Description
A middle-aged Italian man living with his mother in Rome agrees to look after his building manager's mother to erase his debt, but when two other women end up living with them for a few days as well he must put together a meal for the Italian holiday of Ferragosto.
17) White material
Series
Criterion collection volume 560
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2011
Language
Français
Description
Despite the civil war going on around her, a white woman living in Africa refuses to give up her coffee plantation, putting herself and her sons in danger.
Publisher
Paramount Classics
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
Sammy is a single mom living in a small Catskill town with her eight-year-old son. A lot happens all at once to Sammy as she, sort of, picks up with an old boyfriend, gets a new boss and her wayward brother finally shows up after months of no communication. A crisis of sorts ensues when the son meets his estranged father.
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
©2010
Language
English
Description
Max has an active imagination and will throw a fit if others don't go along with what he wants. Following an incident with his sister Claire and her friends, Max throws a tantrum and runs away from home when his mother pays more attention to her boyfriend than to him. Wearing his wolf costume at the time, Max not only runs away physically, but runs toward a world in his imagination. This world, an ocean away, is inhabited by large wild beasts, including...
20) Good bye Lenin!
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
Deutsch
Description
Alex's proud, socialist mother falls into a coma for eight months. When she wakes, her heart is weak, so Alex has to keep the secret that the Berlin Wall has fallen and capitalism has triumphed. What begins as a little white lie turns into a major scam.