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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...
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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....
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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.
4) About a boy
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Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.
6) At Middleton
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"Straight-laced George and eccentric Edith [are] two strangers who 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"--Container....
7) One fine day
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Two single parents are inadvertently thrown together for one chaotic day -- and love, of course, blooms.
8) Jersey girl
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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...
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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!
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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.
15) Christmas tail
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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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Get ready to join country superstar Reba McEntire and bid farewell to America's first family of down-home dysfunction in the hilarious and heartfelt final season of Reba. A feisty single mother whose family is feeling some major growing pains, and as usual, Reba is caught in the middle.
17) Boyhood
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The film was shot over the course of twelve years in the director's native Texas and charts the physical and emotional changes experienced by a child named Mason, his divorced parents, and his older sister. Alighting not on milestones but on the small, in-between moments that make up our lives, Linklater fashions a flawlessly acted, often funny portrait that flows effortlessly from one year to the next.
18) Summer villa
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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.
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Fran accepts a date from the pen pal she has never met, plus has a 16th birthday party for Maggie at her Aunt Frieda's bar. Fran gets arrested when she throws a singles party, and Mr. Sheffield professes his love for her when he thinks their plane will crash. Includes all 27 episodes. includes bonus previews. Bonus includes the animated holiday episode Oy to the World.
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Millions of fans have made this series from Tyler Perry one of the most beloved family comedies ever. Now, in volume eight, the Paynes are back in the house that laughter built. This fun-filled collection finds Pops nearly down to his last good nerve as son Calvin, nephew C.J., and C.J.'s kids, Malik and Jazmine, are up to their old tricks. Leave it to Ella, Pop's ever-loyal wife, to smooth things out in this inspiring series that confronts real-life...
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