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Publisher
s.n.]
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
"This video was designed to provide information to parents about issues their children may face; to provide pre-teen, teen and adult adoptees as opportunity to have their feelings and experiences validated by those who have been in similar situations; and provide the general public with information to better understand issues faced by international adoptees."--Container.
This moving DVD is based on the interviews of three young adults born overseas...
3) Lifemark
Publisher
Mill Creek Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
David's comfortable world is turned upside down when his birthmother unexpectedly reaches out to him, longing to meet the eighteen-year-old son she's only held once. With the encouragement of his adoptive parents, David embarks on a journey of discovery that leads to a staggering truth about his past.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
In 1966, Deann Borshay Liem was adopted by an American family and was sent from Korea to her new home. Growing up in California, the memory of her birth family was nearly obliterated until recurring dreams lead Deann to discover the truth: her Korean mother was very much alive. Bravely uniting her biological and adoptive families, Deann's heartfelt journey makes First Person Plural a poignant essay on family, loss, and the reconciling of two identities....
Publisher
Aurora Films
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
Français
Description
The compelling and unpredictable film from director Davy Chou (Diamond Island). Freddie has returned to South Korea for the first time since her adoption and move to France. Freddie suddenly finds herself embarking on an unexpected journey in a country where she knows very little, including the language, to learn about where she was born.
6) Malignant
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
Madison is paralyzed by shocking visions of grisly murders, and her torment worsens as she discovers that these waking dreams are in fact terrifying realities.
7) Twinsters
Publisher
Passion River
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 Anas̐ discover that they are identical twin sisters separated at birth.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c2005
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.
9) Liebestraum
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
c2001
Language
English
Description
"What begins as a passionate crusade to save a landmark building turns into a passionate love affair with dire consequences. Nick, a professor of architecture who's come home to visit his dying mother, knows he must preserve a cast-iron building marked for demolition by Paul, a ruthless developer and former friend. But when he falls for Paul's wife, Jane, Nick unwittingly tempts fate with his own life. For buried within the walls of the landmark lies...
10) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Distributed in the United States and Canada by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
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.
Publisher
Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
Cupid and Cate: A woman finds her place in the world when she meets the love of her life. Grace and Glorie: At a time when each of them are facing difficult challenges in their lives, Grace and Glorie, two women as different as night and day, find themselves forging a very unlikely friendship. The touching and often humorous struggle that ensues as these two very different women try to understand one another develops into a deep and lasting friendship....
12) Mansfield Park
Publisher
WGBH Boston Video
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
Fanny Price goes to live with prosperous relatives at Mansfield Park and must navigate a labyrinth of intrigues and affairs among the occupants of the house.
13) Mansfield Park
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
When Fanny Price is sent away to live with her rich cousins, she's meant to learn the ways of proper society but manages to enlighten them as well.
14) The blind side
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2010]
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...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
The astonishing true story of three men who make the chance discovery, at the age of nineteen, that they are identical triplets, separated at birth and adopted to different parents. The trio's joyous reunion in 1980 catapults them to fame but it also sets in motion a chain of events that unearths an extraordinary and disturbing secret that goes far beyond their own lives, a secret that goes to the very heart of all human behavior.
16) Little Bird
Publisher
PBS
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.
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