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1) Daddy's home
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A mild-mannered radio executive strives to become the best stepdad to his wife's two children. But complications ensue when their freewheeling and freeloading real father arrives, forcing him to compete for the affection of the kids. The two competing dads suddenly find themselves in a heated competition for affection. One brings home a dog; the other brings home a pony. And this war only escalates from there.
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Aidan Bloom, a 35-year-old struggling actor, father, and husband, is still trying to find his identity, a purpose for his life. He winds up trying to home school his two children when his father can no longer afford to pay for private education and the only available public school is on its last legs. Through teaching them about life his way, Aidan gradually discovers some of the parts of himself he couldn't find.
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Seventeen-year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails to find him, she and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions, and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
5) Illusion
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A famous Hollywood director nearing death has had a life filled with riches but devoid of love. Haunted by the memory of the son he abandoned, he is given the chance to change the outcome of his son's loveless life.
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Ralphie is all grown up in this sequel to the annual holiday favorite in which he must deal with Christmas and all that comes with it, this time as a dad. Peter Billingsley returns to the role that has made kids of all ages anticipate Christmas morning like no other.
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Celebrate the 50th anniversary of the most beloved family film of all time! Rogers and Hammerstein's cinematic treasure stars the incomparable Julie Andrews as Maria, the warmhearted young woman who brings joy and music to Captain von Trapp and his children.
9) Starred up
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A troubled and explosively violent teenager is transferred to an adult prison where he finally meets his match - a man who also happens to be his father.
10) Firstness
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An anxious dad (TIM KINSELLA) is trying to heal in an experimental therapy group called Infinite Beginnings. Meanwhile, his nonbinary kid (SPENCER JORDING) is getting close with an older man (CALEB CABRERA). Their relationship feels both dreamy and concerning-depending on whose watching.
11) Ms. Purple
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In the dark karaoke rooms of Los Angeles’s Koreatown, Kasie works as a doumi girl, a young hostess paid to cater to rich businessmen. As she struggles to hide her troubles through soju-and-MDMA-fueled nights, her mind is focused on one thing: earning enough tips to continue providing for her bedridden father. When her father’s caretaker unexpectedly quits, Kasie seeks help from her estranged brother, and the siblings are forced to reconnect and...
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"The doctor is in. Psychiatric doctor Dr. Jason Seaver moves his practice into his home so his wife Maggie can pursue a new career as a journalist so Jason will be there for his children as they go through life's growing pains. Affable Jason dispenses wit and wisdom to his enterprising spouse, somewhat slacker 15-year-old son Mike, brainy teen daughter Carol and nine-year-old Ben"--Container.
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"Congratulations, you're fired. Mike receives a car from his pleased parents after he's named Employee of the Month. So how's he going to tell them he's been canned? Mike's not the only one with secrets. Brainy Carol wants everyone to think she has a romantic extracurricular life with a hunky football hero. And what's up with 10-year-old Ben and those 67 calls to a sex line? (No, it's not what you might think.)"--Container.
14) We bought a zoo
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A memoir by Benjamin Mee, tells the true account of how the author and his family used their life savings to buy a dilapidated zoo, replete with 200 exotic animals facing destruction, in the English countryside. Mee, along with his children, had to balance caring for his wife, who was dying of brain cancer, with dealing with escaped tigers, raising endangered animals, working with an eclectic skeleton crew and readying the zoo for a reopening.
15) The fantasticks
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Two teenagers on neighboring farms steal glances and hide their romance from their feuding fathers. Little do these love-birds know, however, that their fathers are actually good friends who've hatched a plan--with the help of a mystical roving side-show and its equally mysterious ring master--to get these lovers down the aisle! But be careful what you wish for, because to bring these families together, they must first be torn apart!
16) Five easy pieces
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Criterion collection volume 546
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Presently working in an oil field, talented pianist Robert Dupea spends most of his free time downing beers, playing poker and being noncommittal with his sexy but witless girlfriend Rayette. But when he is summoned to his father's deathbed, Dupea returns home with Rayette, where he meets and falls for a sophisticated woman. Now caught between his conflicting lifestyles, the gifted but troubled Dupea must face issues that will change his life forever....
17) Pretty in pink
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"Andie is a high school girl from the other side of town. Blane's the wealthy heartthrob who asks her to the prom. But as fast as their romance builds, it's threatened by the painful reality of peer pressure"--Container.
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Tom and Kate Baker have made many sacrifices in their professional lives in order to raise their 12 children. When Tom is offered a job as a Division I college football coach, he moves the entire pack to a suburb in Chicago. This move shakes up the entire family, but when Kate's memoirs get published, she takes off on a book tour. The lack of parental guidance creates problems for all the Baker kids and chaos ensues.
19) The good father
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Anthony Hopkins portrays a father recently separated from his wife. Bitter, frightened and enraged, he releases his anger on other women and a friend whose wife has just left him.
20) Hide and seek
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"At their new home in upstate New York, newly widowed psychologist David Callaway tries desperately to help his traumatized daughter Emily deal with her mother's death. But before long, both David and Emily are being terrorized by someone -- or something -- named Charlie: a 'friend' who may or may not be imaginary but is definitely the stuff nightmares are made of"--Container.
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