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Author
Publisher
Overlook Press
Pub. Date
2003.
Language
English
Description
The Play About the Baby is an absurdist black comedy, reminiscent of burlesque in its high spirits and banter, that grapples with such issues as reality and the games we play to define it, the ambiguity of existence, and the agonizing bonds between parents and children. A fresh young couple-Boy and Girl-have a new baby, whom an older couple-Man and Woman-have come to steal. Why? Because, as Man says, 'If you don't have the wound of a broken heart,...
Series
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Language
English
Formats
Description
Matt King is an indifferent husband and father of two girls, who is forced to re-examine his past and embrace his future when his wife suffers a boating accident off of Waikiki. The event leads to a rapprochement with his young daughters while Matt wrestles with a decision to sell the family's land handed down from Hawaiian royalty and missionaries.
4) Mom and Dad
Publisher
Momentum Pictures
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A teenage girl and her little brother must survive a wild 24 hours during which a mass hysteria of unknown origins causes parents to turn violently on their own kids." --
5) Eraserhead
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
An obscure man with a vertical head of hair is living with his spaced-out girlfriend and their fetus-like child. By the end of the film, Henry is decapitated and processed into erasers in this bizarre horror film which closely approaches a nightmare.
7) Descendants
Publisher
Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A present-day idyllic kingdom where the benevolent teenage son of King Adam and Queen Belle offers a chance of redemption for the trouble making offspring of Disney's classic villains: Cruella De Vil (Carlos), Maleficent (Mal), the Evil Queen (Evie) and Jafar (Jay).
10) My Louisiana sky
Publisher
Showtime Engertainment
Pub. Date
2001.
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.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Phoebe is an imaginative but troubled girl with a desperate longing to be in her school's production of Alice in Wonderland. When she is cast in the lead role her parents believe her unusual behavior is due to her creativity, but soon realize that she is on the brink of falling through the looking glass herself.
12) Transamerica
Series
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
Bree Osborne, a pre-operative transsexual, learns she fathered a child back when she was Stanley Osborne. The wheels of fortune take Bree and her teenaged son on a cross-country trip that will change both their lives.
13) Beautiful boy
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
Bill and Kate hopelessly try to find some hint of an explanation after finding out that their only son committed a mass shooting at his university before taking his own life. They struggle numbly through the funeral, the media onslaught, and the awkward pity from relatives and friends. Their already strained marriage is tested as they realize all they have left with each other is their shared grief and confusion, and the unfortunate legacy of their...
15) Dogtooth
Series
Publisher
Kino International
Pub. Date
[2011]
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.
Publisher
PBS Home Video
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
Caillou, with the help of his parents, Rosie, Grandpa and Grandma, learns about making snowmen, playing hockey, holiday traditions, Santa, making snow angels, tobogganing, building snow forts and explores the many activities that can be done in the winter.
Publisher
Entertainment One
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In the year 1963 in Yokohama, an innocent romance blossoms between two high school students, Umi and Shun. As Japan recovers from World War II and prepares to host the 1964 Olympics, the mood contains both optimism and conflict as the younger generation struggles to escape the shackles of the past. While trying to save a dilapidated Meiji-era club house from demolition, the relationship flourishes. But a buried secret from their past emerges to cast...
20) Tanta agua
Series
Film Movement ; 11, film 11
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
Español
Description
Alberto, a divorced father, takes his two children for a vacation at a thermal resort in Salto. Things don't turn out as planned as the non-stop rain forces them to stay indoors, away from the pools and with no TV. Alberto's efforts to entertain his children are met with indifference by Federico, his youngest son, and Lucía, his teenage daughter. -- imdb.com