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1) At Middleton
Language
English
Description
Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith, two strangers meet on their children's campus tour at the idyllic Middleton College. Failing comically to connect with their kids, George and Edith play hooky together, ditching the official tour for a carefree adventure reminiscent of their own college years. But what begins as an afternoon of fun soon becomes a revealing and enlightening experience that will change their lives forever.
Series
Criterion collection volume 906
Language
English
Description
When a carpenter has a heart attack and goes on state welfare, he is joined by a single mother who is in a similar situation.
Language
English
Description
A group of single parents form their own support system as they raise their kids and struggle to start new relationships. The group meets Will, a 30-something guy who's been so focused on raising his daughter that he's lost sight of who he is as a man. When they see just how far down the rabbit hole of PTA, parenting and princesses Will has gone, they band together to make him realize that being a great parent doesn't mean sacrificing everything about...
4) Popi
Language
English
Description
The story of Popi, a struggling Puerto Rican widower working three jobs to support his two sons, and his outrageous scheme to give the boys a better life.
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English
Description
When Cam has a manic breakdown that lands him in a mental hospital, his wife Maggie applies to business school and is accepted. Seeing this as her chance to build a better life for their daughters, Maggie asks Cam to become the primary caregiver for the girls while she completes her degree in New York. After all, routine is what the doctor ordered and the girls miss their dad. Cam agrees, hoping to rebuild his family. But the two spirited girls are...
6) Summer villa
Language
English
Description
A celebrity chef whose reputation has taken a hit heads for his family's French villa to recover. A writer struggling to meet a deadline is gifted the summer at her agent's family villa in France. It's the same villa and two frustrated adults plus one teenager have to figure out how to get along for a season while they put their lives back in order.
Series
Language
English
Description
After Mary Poppins departed London, Jane and Michael Banks grew up into loving and responsible adults. When Michael becomes a single father of three children after the death of his wife, Mary Poppins revisits the Cherry Tree Lane home again to try to help Michael and his family cope and move beyond their grief. Time passes quickly for most normal mortals. Mary Poppins has never been normal. Although it's now the 1930s, she looks exactly the same....
Language
English
Description
Sam Baldwin is a widowed father who, thanks to the wiles of his worried son, becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He's an instant hit with thousands of female listeners who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile, inspired in equal parts Sam's story and by classic Hollywood romance, writer Annie Reed becomes convinced it's her destiny to meet Sam.
10) Jersey girl
Language
English
Description
Ollie is madly in love with his wife. But when the Manhattan music publicist's wife dies in childbirth, Ollie's life becomes emotionally shattered. Not sure what to do next, he moves to New Jersey with his infant daughter to live with his dad. Juggling his career and single parenthood proves more than Ollie can manage, and one day he's fired after he bungles a major press event. He devotes his time to his daughter and ends up frequenting a local video...
Series
Hallmark hall of fame volume 52
Language
English
Description
Humorous, uplifting and touching story about abandoned dreams and rediscovered destinies.
12) Elliot loves
Language
English
Description
As Elliot enters many failed relationships, flashbacks to his past show him growing up with his single mother.
Language
English
Description
Fran Fine is a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied! Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot!
Language
English
Description
Fran Fine is a down-on-her-luck diva who finds herself hired for a job for which she never even applied! Now, she's the nanny for a rich, sophisticated family in Manhattan, and when this blue-collar girl from the block moves in with a blue blood, widowed Broadway producer and his three children, the comedy is red hot!
Language
English
Description
Making marriage and family work is always a gamble, but there's no better place to find the odds working in one family's favor. Volume Seven of this hit series finds Pops, the clan's head man, once again faced with a full house of jokers, including son Calvin, nephew C.J., and C.J.'s kids, Malik and Jazmine. Fortunately, his loving and loyal wife, Ella, chips in to help deal with the real-life issues confronting everyone in this winning show.
18) Chinese puzzle
Language
English
Description
A 40-year-old father of two still finds life very complicated. When the mother of his children moves from Paris to New York, he can't bear them growing up far away from him, so he decides to move there as well.
20) Christmas tail
Language
English
Description
Two single parents fall in love while 'splitting custody' over a puppy that both had wanted to give to their children for Christmas.
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