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Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Four adopted brothers come back home to avenge their mother's death at what appeared to be a random killing in a grocery store robbery. However, the boy's investigation of the death reveals more nefarious activities involving the one brother's business dealings with a notorious local gangster. Two local cops, who are trying to solve the case, may also not be what they seem.
5) The jerk
Edition
Twenty-sixth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
A rags-to-riches-to-rags story. Navin Johnson, adopted son of a poor black sharecropper family, has invented some crazy inventions that lead him from rags to riches and right back to rags.
7) Blue bayou
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Follows the story of a Korean adoptee, raised in the Lousiana bayou and living with his wife and stepdaughter, who must confront his past when he discovers that he could be deported.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A web of family secrets unravels in this moving documentary following a family fractured by war. Two brothers, Izak and Shep, were born inside the Bergen-Belsen displaced persons camp in 1945 and separated as babies, never told of the other's existence. Nearly 70 years later, the discovery of family records leads the brothers to an emotional reunion with their elderly mother, Aida, who hid more from Izak and Shep than just each other. Official Selection...
10) Return to Seoul
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
Follows a young woman who was born in South Korea, adopted as a child, and raised in France, as she returns to South Korea and searches for her biological parents.
12) Wuthering High
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A teenage girl is smitten with her newly adopted brother, Heath, and ultimately gets caught up in his dangerous side.
13) Little Bird
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"In 1968, five-year-old Bezhig Little Bird was forcibly removed from Long Pine Reserve and adopted into a Jewish family in Montreal, and renamed Esther Rosenblum. Eighteen years later, she embarks on a journey to unravel her history. Through this epic journey of connection and self-discovery, Bezhig Little Bird begins to find her lost family and put the pieces of her fragmented past back together"--
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Set against the stark beauty of the English moor, the mysterious gypsy boy Heathcliff, who has been adopted by the Earnshaw family, discovers his soul mate in his stepsister Cathy. As a man unable to have the love of his life, he seeks vengeance against anyone who comes between them.
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
In profiling Chinese adoptees in contemporary America, this deeply moving documentary illustrates that even the most specific of experiences can be universally relatable. These four American teens reveal a heartbreaking sense of self-awareness as they attempt to answer the uniquely human question, 'Who am I?'
17) Rose Hill
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Gold crown collector's edition.
Language
English
Description
The film portrays Mary Rose, a beautiful young woman who feels restricted by her overly protective adoptive brothers. Later, Mary Rose searches for her real family and must make the most important decision of her young life--to find where her true home really lies.
18) Mansfield Park
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Fanny is an impoverished young woman, snubbed by society, who earns the respect and love of her cousin in this BBC mini-series adaptation of the Jane Austen classic set in 19th century England.
19) Twinsters
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
A remarkable true story of identity and journey into sisterhood. Raised on different continents, with no idea the other existed, and connected 25 years later through social media, Samantha and Anais discover that they are identical twin sisters separated at birth.
20) The blind side
Pub. Date
2010
Edition
[Blu-ray & DVD/Digital copy combo disc version].
Language
English
Description
Michael Oher is a homeless African-American teenager who is from a broken home. Mike is taken in by the Touhys, a well-to-do white family who help him fulfill his potential. At the same time, Oher's presence in the Touhys' lives leads them to some insightful self-discoveries of their own. Living in his new environment, Mike faces a completely different set of challenges to overcome - as both a football player and student. Mike works hard and, with...
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