Nancy Travis
1) Safe Harbor
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English
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Doug and Robbie are about to set sail on a long trip when they unexpectedly find themselves foster parenting a group of troubled teenage boys. The experience changes their lives for the better, and they decide to stay in town and run the foster home for boys permanently.
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Elv, Claire, and Meg are the Story Sisters, and each has a fate she must meet alone. One on a country road, one in the streets of Paris, and one in the corridors of her own imagination. At once a coming-of-age tale, a family saga, and a love story of erotic longing, The Story Sisters sifts through the miraculous and the mundane as the girls become women and their choices haunt them, change them, and finally redeem them--BOT website.
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English
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London centered stories about three women. New York attorney Maddy Heller arrives in 1999 London after having had an affair with Paul, her sister Allie's fiancé to cope with the impending marriage, and Paul's terminal illness. London 1966, Frieda Lewis, Paul's future mother falls for a doomed up-and-coming songwriter knowing he will break her heart. The narrative then shifts further back, to 1952 and to Maddy and Allie's future mother, Lucy Green....
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From the bestselling author of The Rules of Magic, a miraculous, enthralling tale of a woman who is struck by lightning, and finds her frozen heart is suddenly burning.
Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by...
Be careful what you wish for. A woman who was touched by tragedy as a child now lives a quiet life, keeping other people at a cool distance. She even believes she wants it that way. Then one day she utters an idle wish and, while standing in her house, is struck by...
6) Air America
Publisher
Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of AIR AMERICA, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnamese countryside.
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Gaiam
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Sidney Bloom, an online magazine journalist, returns to her hometown to investigate the sudden spike in teenage pregnancies at her old high school. Immediately, she comes up against Lorraine, the head of the local conservative values group and mother of pregnant, fifteen-year-old Sara. A media firestorm erupts when Time Magazine reports that the rise in pregnancies at the school is the result of a 'pregnancy pact'. Sidney soon realizes that all the...
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A young wounded civil war solider is saved by a passionate neighbor, a woman meets a fiercely human historical character, a poet falls in love with a blind man, and a mysterious traveler comes to town in the year when summer never arrives. At the center of everyone's life is a mysterious garden where only red plants can grow, and where the truth can be found by those who dare to look.
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Distributed by Lions Gate Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
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The chilling tale of Dr. Joyce Reardon, an obsessed psychology professor who commissions a team of psychics and a gifted 15-year-old autistic girl, Annie, to literally wake up a supposedly dormant haunted mansion - Rose Red. Their efforts unleash myriad spirits and uncover horrifying secrets of the generations who have lived and died there.
11) Ordinary angels
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
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Based on a remarkable true story, "Oridinary angels" centers on Sharon Steves, a fierce but struggling hairdresser in small-town Kentucky who discovers a renewed sense of purpose when she meets Ed Schmitt, a widower working hard to make ends meet for his two daughters. With his youngest daughter waiting for a liver transplant, Sharon sets her mind to helping the family and will move mountains to do it. What unfolds is the inspiring tale of faith,...
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Tim Allen returns... as Mike Baxter in Last Man Standing, a show about everything that families in America are dealing with today - all filtered through the blunt 'man's man' comedy of an iconic American character..." -cover.
13) Greedy
Publisher
MCA Universal Home Video
Pub. Date
1998
Language
English
Description
The McTeagues all want to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will. But their plans are threatened when he falls for a gorgeous pizza delivery woman.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2014]
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English
Description
"Mike Baxter, world voyager and one daredevil of a marketing director ... is about to face his greatest challenge yet-- his family. After Mike's wife, Vanessa ... , receives a promotion at work, Mike must spend more time in his female-dominated household. With years of advice and guidance from their nurturing mother, Mike's three daughters are not prepared for their old-fashioned, hotheaded father to take over"--Container.
Publisher
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2015]
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English
Description
Follows the continuing events and developments in the family life of Mike Baxter, his wife Vanessa and their three daughters, Eve, Kristin and Mandy, including Kristin and Ryan's upcoming wedding and the opening of Mike's wild game restaurant, the Outdoor Man Grill.
17) 3 men and a baby
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Distributed by Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Three handsome Manhattan bachelors find their dating and mating rituals irreparably damaged when an unexpected roommate-- complete with crib, pacifier, and dirty diaper-- shows up on their doorstep.
18) Safe Harbor
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Distributed by Questar
Pub. Date
[2010]
Language
English
Description
Based on the remarkable true story of couple Doug and Robbie Smith, who founded the Safe Harbor Home for Boys in Jacksonville, Fl. On the eve of their retirement cruise, self-made millionaire Doug Smith and his wife Robbie get a call from Doug's past asking him to 'pay it forward' by helping out troubled teens for a brief stay on their boat. A local judge, who took mercy on a young Doug when he was in trouble, asks the couple to help spare three teens...
19) Fluke
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English
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Matthew Modine, Nancy Travis and Eric Stoltz come together in a romantic and remarkable tale about a man who must begin his life over ...as a dog!
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A story about a special summer in the lives of four lifelong friends who are separated for the first time. The young women find a pair of jeans that fits each of them perfectly and they decide to use the pants as a way of keeping in touch.