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Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Angie Cartwright was once a talented writer and singer. Everyone felt that she was destined for success; however, no one knew about the night that changed her life forever. Her actions led to a lifestyle that she never expected. Her dream of success was replaced by her struggle as a single parent in a sinking economy. Inevitably, she is forced to face the skeletons in her past in order to restore her future.
2) Enough said
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Divorced mom Eva may be falling for Albert, a sweet, funny, like-minded divorced man. But as their relationship blossoms, Eva befriends Marianne, who's always complaining about her ex-husband. When Eva realizes that Albert is the target of Marianne's rants, she begins to question her own perceptions about first impressions and second chances.
4) Ballast
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008, Ballast is a stunningly evocative story of personal catastrophe and communal redemption. In the cold winter light of the Mississippi Delta, three lonely people stumble under the weight of a shared tragedy. Lawrence (Micheal J. Smith, Sr. ) is paralyzed with grief after the loss of his twin brother. Twelve-year-old James (Jimmyron Ross) drifts...
Series
Hallmark Hall of Fame volume 52
Publisher
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Humorous, uplifting and touching story about abandoned dreams and rediscovered destinies.
6) The escape
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
In desperate need of a change, Tara one day makes a bold decision. Armed with a one-way ticket to Paris, she leaves everything behind to rediscover herself in a new city. But walking out of her life isn't so simple.
7) In therapy
Publisher
Maya Entertainment
Pub. Date
2010
Language
Portuguese
Description
On the psychiatrist couch, a 40-something mother of two questions her life, marriage, and professional dreams with both humorous and devastating results.
8) Driveways
Language
English
Formats
Description
A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door. Official Selection at the **Berlin International Film Festival** and the **Tribeca Film Festival**.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Mollie (Kirstie Alley) is a single working mom who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James (John Travolta), a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late in this baby's-eye view comedy.
10) So B. It
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Based on the New York Times Best-selling novel, a young prodigy named Heidi has a lucky streak that has a way of pointing her in the right direction. When a mysterious word in her mother's vocabulary begins to haunt her, Heidi's thirst for the truth leads her on a cross-country journey in search of the secrets of her past.
Some thematic elements.
11) Smooch
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Percy is a prince engaged to a woman he doesn't love. When he gets amnesia and is taken in by Zoe, a young girl who loves romantic fairytales, Zoe convinces him that he is a frog turned prince that she rescued. Percy falls in love with her mother Gwen, discovering that love is the magic ingredient needed to make any relationship special.
12) Mommy
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
Français
Description
A feisty widowed single mom finds herself burdened with the full-time custody of her explosive fifteen year old ADHD son. As they try to make ends meet and struggle with their unpredictable menage, the peculiar, new girl across the street, Kyla, benevolently offers her help. Together, they find a new sense of balance, and hope is regained.
13) Way down east
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Griffith billed this film as a "simple tale of plain people." This modest remark does little to convey the scale and significance of one of this director's most ambitious works and his most popular after Birth of a nation.
14) December bride
Publisher
BFS Video
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
A proud Irish servant girl rebels against her strict upbringing by having love affairs with two brothers at the same time. Sarah and the brothers risk happiness, reputation, and safety for their daring love.
15) Mother's Day
Publisher
Open Road Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
This celebration of mothers everywhere invites all to enjoy the laughter, tears and love as three generations come together in the week leading up to Mother's Day.
16) Lolo
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
A surprising and dark romantic comedy from acclaimed actress Julie Deply (Before Sunset), follows Violette (Delpy), a forty year-old workaholic in the fashion industry who goes on a spa retreat and falls for a local computer geek, Jean-Rene. But this new romance is threatened by Violette's spoiled teenage son, Lolo, who plots to ruin the relationship.
17) Big little lies
Publisher
HBO Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The apparently perfect lives of three mothers of first graders unravel to the point of murder.
18) Lolo
Publisher
FilmRise
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Violette, a 40-year-old workaholic with a career in the fashion industry, falls for a provincial computer geek, Jean-Rene, while on a spa retreat. But Jean-Rene faces a major challenge--he must win the trust and respect of Violette's teenage son, Lolo, who is determined to wreak havoc on the couple's fledging relationship and remain his mother's favorite.
19) Cafe Lumière
Publisher
Wellspring Media
Pub. Date
2005, c2003
Language
日本語
Description
Yoko, a freelance writer, becomes pregnant and chooses, against tradition and her parents' wishes, to raise the baby alone. In her loneliness and confusion, Yoko befriends the owner of a second-hand bookstore, who silently falls in love with her as she contemplates the choice she has made.
20) East side sushi
Publisher
Samuel Goldwyn Films
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
Single mom Juana can slice and dice anything with great speed and precision. After working at a fruit-vending cart for years, she decides to take a job at a local Japanese restaurant. Intrigued by the food, she learns to make a multitude of sushi on her own. Eventually she attempts to become a sushi chef, but is unable to because she is the 'wrong' race and gender. Against all odds, she embarks on a journey of self-discovery, determined to not let...
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