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Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Retreating from life after a tragedy, a man questions the universe by writing to Love, Time and Death. Receiving unexpected answers, he begins to see how these things interlock and how even loss can reveal moments of meaning and beauty.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
At a Montreal public grade school, an Algerian immigrant is hired to replace a popular teacher who committed suicide in her classroom. While helping his students deal with their grief, his own recent loss is revealed.
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (96 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Nicole, a shy New York City high school student still mourning the drowning death of her beloved dad. When Nicole is sent to California to spend the summer with the free-spirited grandmother she barely knows, she'll learn a shocking family secret she yearns to understand. Now on a quest to Baja Mexico, Nicole will discover friendship, romance, the thrill of surfing, and a link to her late father that could change her life forever.
4) Mass
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Years after an unspeakable tragedy tore their lives apart, two sets of parents (Reed Birney and Ann Dowd, Jason Isaacs and Martha Plimpton), agree to talk privately in an attempt to move forward. In Fran Kranz' writing and directing debut, he thoughtfully examines their journey of grief, anger and acceptance by coming face-to-face with the ones who have been left behind.
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (90 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Starring Academy Award®-winner Hilary Swank, the film follows a journalist grieving the murder of her son who forms an unlikely alliance with his pregnant girlfriend to track down the killers in the seedy world of drugs and corruption.
6) Ballast
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 96 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Description
A double prize winner at the Sundance Film Festival and one of the most critically acclaimed films of 2008, Ballast is a stunningly evocative story of personal catastrophe and communal redemption. In the cold winter light of the Mississippi Delta, three lonely people stumble under the weight of a shared tragedy. Lawrence (Micheal J. Smith, Sr. ) is paralyzed with grief after the loss of his twin brother. Twelve-year-old James (Jimmyron Ross) drifts...
Pub. Date
c2010
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Charlie St. Cloud is a small-town hero and an accomplished sailor who has it all: the adoration of his mother and younger brother and a Stanford scholarship. His bright future is cut short when tragedy strikes and takes his dreams with it. Now Charlie is torn between honoring a promise he made years ago and pursuing his newfound love with a former high school classmate.
8) Love Sarah
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Determined to fulfil her late mother's dream of opening a bakery in charming Notting Hill, nineteen-year-old Clarissa enlists the help of her mother's best friend Isabella and her eccentric estranged grandmother Mimi. These three generations of women will need to overcome grief, doubts, and differences to honor the memory of their beloved Sarah while embarking on a journey to establish a London store filled with love, hope, and colorful pastries from...
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (4 hrs., 58 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Dead to Me stars Christina Applegate as Jen, a poised and put together woman with a dark sense of humor and an anger problem that she doesn't necessarily want to deal with. Jen has been struggling to keep it together in the months since her husband was killed in a hit-and-run accident. When she joins a grief support group she meets Judy (Linda Cardellini), a free spirit with a shocking secret.
11) In the Fade
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (107 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Katja's life collapses after the death of her husband and son in a bomb attack. After a time of mourning and injustice, Katja seeks revenge.
12) Lyle
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (65 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
An expecting couple, Leah (Gaby Hoffmann - Emmy nominee: GIRLS & TRANSPARENT) and June (Ingrid Jungermann), move into a Brooklyn brownstone apartment with their toddler daughter, Lyle. Despite the strange baby-obsessed landlady downstairs and the group of female models who live above them, the two are happy with their new apartment until a bizarre accident leads to the death of Lyle. Months later, Leah is still grief-stricken, trying to make sense...
Pub. Date
[2024]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (94 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in the early 1960s, best friends and neighbors Alice and Celine both live an idyllic traditional lifestyle, but life's perfect harmony is suddenly shattered after a tragic accident. Guilt, suspicion and paranoia unravel their sisterly bond and a psychological battle begins.
16) The other woman
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A woman whose marriage began as an extramarital affair tries to forge a bond with her stepson after her infant daughter dies unexpectedly.
Pub. Date
c2012
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (129 min.) : sd., col. ; c4 3/4 in.
Description
Oskar is convinced that his father, who died in the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center, has left a message for him hidden in the city. Feeling disconnected from his grieving mother and driven by an active mind that refuses to believe in things that can't be observed, Oskar begins searching New York City for the lock that fits a mysterious key he found in his father's closet. His journey through the five boroughs takes him beyond his loss to a...
18) The shack
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
2 videodisc (132 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After suffering a family tragedy, Mack Phillips spirals into a deep depression causing him to question his innermost beliefs. Facing a crisis of faith, he receives a mysterious letter urging him to an abandoned shack deep in the Oregon wilderness.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (101 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
After the tragic death of star volleyball player Caroline "Line" Found, a team of dispirited high school girls must band together under the guidance of their tough-love coach in hopes of winning the state championship.
20) A good person
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (128 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Allison's life falls apart following her involvement in a fatal accident that took the life of Daniel's daughter. As grief-stricken Daniel navigates raising his teen aged grandaughter and Allison seeks redemption, the two discover that friendship, hope, and forgivenessflourishouish in unlikely places.
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