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Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
51 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Simultaneously a best friend, mentor, psychologist, and surrogate mother to the many young people who call her 'Auntie,' Charlayne Woodard is childless only by biological standards. Told with penetrating grace, candor and wit, The Night Watcher is the story of a woman who chooses not to have children -- only to be pulled into the real-life struggles of kids of all ages, races and backgrounds."--P. [4] of cover.
Simultaneously a best friend, mentor,...
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
All Allyson and her friends want is a peaceful, grown-up evening of dinner and conversation, a long-needed moms' night out. But in order to enjoy high heels, adult conversation, and food not served in a paper bag, they need their husbands to watch the kids for three hours - what could go wrong?
3) Baby ruby
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (89 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
It tells the story of Jo, a lifestyle entrepreneur who is happily pregnant and awaiting the arrival of her first child. But soon after she and her husband welcome their new baby girl Ruby home, something starts to feel off. Jo soon finds herself plunged into a waking fever dream where everyone's motives seem sinister including Ruby's.
4) Georgy girl
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Pub. Date
[2005]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 99 min.) : sd., b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A homely but vivacious young woman dodges the amorous attentions of her father's middle-aged employer while striving to capture some of the glamorous life of her swinging London roommate.
5) Tully
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (approximately 96 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When mother Marlo gives birth to her third baby, she wasn't expecting to hire a nanny to help with the newborn. Her brother contracts the services of young Tully as a nanny on Marlo's behalf, however. At first Marlo thinks of having a nanny as an unnecessary indulgence, but as the two women get to know each other better, they begin to form an unexpected bond, although their relationship is not always such smooth sailing.
6) The nest
Publisher
Acorn Media
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (285 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A suspenseful Scottish drama about a wealthy couple who would do anything to have a baby. After a chance encounter, they recruit a down-on-her-luck eighteen-year-old to be a surrogate, but secrets emerge about the girl's past that could make them regret their deal.
Publisher
MHz Networks Home Entertainment, Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (257 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Nona, a consummate 70-year-old Parisienne, a feminist, and a strong and committed single mother of 40-year-old triplets. She is confronted with the surprise of a lifetime she is pregnant! Despite her secret love affair with André -- a mature university professor, he is not the father. But who is, then? Nona's daughters decide to move back into the family apartment to support their mother and unravel this mystery, all while trying to navigate their...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows three under appreciated and over burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. If creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn't hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
Publisher
Passion River
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Maria is a successful business executive, struggling to fulfill her greatest wish of all: to bring a child into the world. After suffering yet another miscarriage, a doctor informs Maria that she's too old to carry a child and her whole world comes crashing down. Devastated and unable to accept her fate, Maria sets out on a desperate and perilous quest to realize her dream of motherhood.
11) True mothers
Series
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (140 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
日本語
Description
After a long and unsuccessful struggle to get pregnant, Satoko and her husband decide to adopt a child. Over the next six years, the middle-class couple and their young son Asato settle into a comfortable, albeit routine, life. The family's orderly existence is shattered by the arrival of Hikari, a young woman claiming to be Asato's biological mother, demanding his return. As tensions mount, Satoko grows more and more emboldened to defend her family....
12) Egg
Publisher
Gravitas Ventures
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (83 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
An unflinching comedy about why women choose motherhood, why they revere it, fear it, and why some women forgo it.
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (123 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Español
Description
"Two women, Janis and Ana, coincide in a hospital room where they are going to give birth. Both are single and became pregnant by accident. Janis, middle-aged, doesn't regret it and she is exultant. The other, Ana, an adolescent, is scared, repentant and taumatized. Janis tries to encourage her while they move like sleepwalkers along the hospital corridors. The few words they exchange in these hours will create a very close link between the two, which...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Begins with the slaughter of Bethlehem's innocents under orders from a paranoid King Herod. Go back a year to the prophecy that informs Zechariah that his wife, Elizabeth, will bear a child. Elizabeth's cousin, the adolescent Mary, struggles with her family to make ends meet and is promised to the carpenter Joseph. Mary is told by the angel Gabriel that she will carry, while still a virgin, the long-awaited Messiah who will liberate the Jews from...
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