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The moving story of a boy's difficult growth to manhood. When young Robert Shannon is orphaned, he leaves his home in Ireland and travels to Scotland, home of his maternal grandparents. Growing up in the home of his stern grandfather is made bearable by his great-grandfather, loving grandmother and kind aunt and uncle. After a rocky adjustment to his new school, Robbie is befriended by Gavin and Allison, whom he grows to love.
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A young bear ends up in London's Paddington Station, where he is spotted sitting on an old leather suitcase outside the lost and found by a family called the Browns. Unable to resist the label around his neck that reads "Please Look After This Bear. Thank You," the Browns decide there is only one thing to do. They take the tired, hungry little bear home and adopt him, not as a toy or a pet, but as a child.
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Sara and Kurt Muller and their three children are returning to her mother's home in Washington D.C. after 18 years in Europe. A Romanian Count living there discovers Kurt's attache case full of money. He also finds out from friends at the German Embassy that Kurt is working with an anti-Nazi underground group in Germany. He tries to blackmail Kurt. Kurt shoots him and must flee. When Sara hears no more of Kurt, she knows that her oldest son Joshua...
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This sequel to the hit Mrs. Miniver continues with the story of the family's determination to survive the war and rebuild their shattered lives. World War II has finally ended and England slowly limps back to normal as men come home from the front and families start to reconstruct their lives.
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The seventh season sees each member of the Heck family breaking out of their comfort zones. Oldest son Axl begins his junior year, and the business major starts thinking seriously about his future. Daughter Sue starts her first year of college at the same campus that Axl attends -- much to his disgust -- with a new haircut and an even more optimistic outlook. Quirky youngest son Brick begins his final year of middle school, and his equally quirky...
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In the hit show's eighth season, the Heck kids continue to smash through their comfort zones and navigate new situations, which may or may not be comforting to their parents. Axl may be living out of a Winnebago, but he has discovered the love of his life and always-optimistic Sue has caught the acting bug in Dollywood and is changing her major to drama. Now in high school, Brick has made it his mission to fit in with his peers, and not be one of...
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Joan Crawford plays a New York siren who marries a prosperous farmer (Melvyn Douglas) and moves to Wisconsin. There she is drawn to his handsome brother (Robert Young), even as she befriends the brother's selfless wife (Margaret Sullavan). Her life is made miserable by the older sister who disapproves of her and is out to ruin her marriage.
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Fyodor Karamazov is the wealthy father of four grown sons: Dmitri, a callous Russian officer; Ivan, the intellectual; pious Alexey; and half-brother Smerdyakov. Tensions erupt to a murderous end when libertine father and romantic son find themselves vying for the affections of the same woman, the wild Grushenka. Finding themselves adrift without the dark anchor that held them together, the four brothers must now find peace, each in their own way.
10) Dinner at eight
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A Park Avenue snob gives a dinner party for a visiting English peer. Little does she realize that her shipping magnate husband is bankrupt and that her daughter is having an affair with an older man.
11) The human comedy
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A heartwarming look at family and friendship, [it] is the poignant story of high school student Homer Macauley and the lives he touches while delivering telegrams throughout his small California town during the troubling years of World War II. Both moving and timeless, a masterful celebration of the American way of life.
12) Four mothers
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The four Lemp sisters have faced triumph and tragedy together. Now the years of struggle seem to be over, until a real estate investment brings financial disaster to them and their town. The townsfolk blame the girls' father, the family home may have to be sold, and the Lemps prove once again that the greatest strength comes from family.
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The stars and director of Four Daughters reunite for another tender Golden Era classic about love, loyalty and the sustaining strength of family. This time, the story revolves around a father who returns 20 years after abandoning his wife and daughters, just in time to warn his youngest against throwing her happiness away on a footloose charmer just like Dad.
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Society grande dame Alice Grenville is appalled when her son marries Ann, an El Morocco showgirl. She snubs her unsuitable daughter-in-law until the young woman unloads a shotgun at what she claims is a prowler, but turns out to be her husband. Then Alice and her elite friends come to the rescue, protecting Ann from a murder charge rather than subject their moneyed circle to the unpleasantness of police and publicity.
15) Once a thief
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Six years out of prison, Eddie has kept his nose clean. Determined to live a normal life, he's got steady work, a loving wife and a charming little daughter. Unfortunately, he also has enemies. Harassment from a vengeful police inspector costs Eddie his job. In order to support his family, Eddie has no choice but to risk his future on one final heist.
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"Based on Parks's own semi-autobiographical novel, [the film] follows the journey of Newt Winger, a teenage descendant of Exodusters growing up in rural Kansas in the 1920s, as he experiences the bittersweet flowering of first love, finds his relationship with a close friend tested, and navigates the injustices embedded within a racist legal and educational system. Exquisitely capturing the bucolic splendor of its heartland setting, this landmark...
17) Primrose path
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Ellie Mae lives on Primrose Hill with her good-hearted and fancy free mother, her drunken father, her younger sister and a mean-spirited grandmother. The Hill is not a good part of town, however. When she meets and falls for a hard-working man, they marry and she hides her past from him. When he discovers the truth it jeopardizes their marriage.
18) The gathering
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"For years, hard-driving businessman Adam Thornton neglected his family. Now, with a diagnosis of only weeks to live, Adam arranges a Christmas reunion, but not even the season of miracles can heal long-time emotional wounds."--Container.
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On vacation with his family on California's Catalina Island, Andy Hardy falls head over swim fins for a sophisticated young beauty. Judge Hardy warns his son that she is too fast for him. But to Andy, that just means he should run after his golden girl a little faster!
20) Of human hearts
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Preacher's call to serve a poor community on the Ohio River sparks a lifelong feud with his son, who shuns his father's resignation to such a lowly life. Caught in the middle is the loving mother and wife who does her best to bring peace to the household.
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