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Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
[2015]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (98 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A troubled young man and his straight-laced niece embark on a thrilling odyssey through New York City in this heartrending drama based on an Oscar-winning short. As his life hits rock bottom, Richie decides to end it all, only to have his half-hearted suicide attempt interrupted by an urgent request from his sister to babysit her precocious daughter. So begins a madcap tour of Manhattan after dark, as uncle and niece find unexpected bonds in the unlikeliest...
Author
Publisher
Dramatists Play Service
Pub. Date
c1997
Physical Desc
60 p. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel's widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play, and other honors. Known for its dark subject matter, the play examines the effects of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma.
3) Gifted
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Frank Adler is a single man raising a child prodigy, his spirited young niece Mary, in a coastal town in Florida. Frank's plans for a normal school life for Mary are foiled when the seven-year-old's mathematical abilities come to the attention of Frank's formidable mother Evelyn, whose plans for her granddaughter threaten to separate Frank and Mary.
4) Emile
Publisher
Monarch Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When Emile is given the opportunity to travel from England to Victoria on Canada's west coast to receive an honorary degree at the university, he goes knowing that it might be his last chance to reconnect with his only living relatives.
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (106 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A Florida auto upholsterer attempts to transcend his mundane life by taming a wild red-tailed hawk. He chases his passion while caring for his autistic nephew and becoming caught up in an abstract and uneasy relationship with a young psychology student.
6) Uncle Nino
Publisher
Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (110 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Overworked executive Robert Micelli has little time for his loving wife, rebellious teenage son Bobby, and 12-year-old daughter Gina. Uncle Nino, an old-world Italian, unexpectedly arrives on their doorstep and transforms their disconnected lives with his simple, old-fashioned ways.
7) Stoker
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2013]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Following the tragic death of her father on her eighteenth birthday, India Stoker meets Charlie, her charismatic uncle, whom she never knew existed. When Charlie moves in with India and her unstable mother, both are drawn to his charming and calming demeanor. But it soon becomes clear that Charlie's arrival was no coincidence, and that the shocking secrets of his past could shatter India's future.
9) C'mon c'mon
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A radio journalist embarks on a cross-country trip with his young nephew.
Publisher
The Weinstein Company Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Edition
Widescreen
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When gambling debt and an expensive courtship place working-class brothers in a financial bind, a rich uncle offers them an out in exchange for committing murder.
Publisher
Warner Bros. Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark's history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters begin to rise and challenge the all-powerful DiMeo crime family's hold over the increasingly race-torn city. Caught up in the changing times is the uncle he idolizes, Dickie Moltisanti, who struggles to manage both his professional and personal responsibilities, and whose influence over his nephew will help make the impressionable...
12) Homestate
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (85 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The unexpected appearance of an estranged uncle disrupts a family's routine and sets off a series of events that exposes underlying issues, inadequacies, and suspicions.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (117 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Billionaire Red Stevens wants to bequeath at least one member of his extended family "the ultimate gift:" something he perceives as immensely more valuable than material wealth. Jason holds a deep-seated hatred for his newly-deceased grandfather, so he's surprised to learn that he's been mentioned in his late grandfather's will. Far from a straightforward gift, Red's bequest comes in the form of a series of mysterious recorded instructions, the first...
Publisher
Acorn
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (177 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
When his latest outburst goes viral, volatile celebrity chef Easton West flees back to his Australian hometown and tries to reinvent himself through an unlikely partnership with his 19-year-old pastry wunderkind niece.
15) The unsuspected
Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Bros
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Full screen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (103 min.) : b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"In this murder mystery, a woman can not remember the man who claims to be her husband following the murder of a young girl. The woman's uncle runs a mystery radio show, which brings up the questions of who committed the murder, why they murder the girl and who is the man claiming to be her husband." -- container.
16) Withnail and I
Series
Criterion collection volume 119
Language
English
Formats
Description
Acerbic and irresistibly self-destructive Withnail and neurotic Marwood are down-at-the-heels actors in 1960s London, living in self-inflicted squalor and drowning their artistic frustrations with booze and any drugs they can get their hands on. Fleeing the doldrums - and unpaid bills - of the city, the pair finds themselves stuck in the less than idyllic country cottage of Withnail's lascivious uncle Monty. Features trailer.
17) Secondhand lions
Series
Publisher
New Line Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
Widescreen and full screen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (109 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The coming age story of a shy teenager in the 50s who is sent to spend the summer with his eccentric uncles in the country.
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
[English/French/Spanish version]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (105 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young orphan named Lewis Barnavelt aids his magical uncle in locating a clock with the power to bring about the end of the world.
20) Unstrung heroes
Publisher
Distributed by Buena Vista Home Video
Pub. Date
c[2003]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A young boy needs a break from the pressures of his parents' household, and moves in with his eccentric uncles.
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