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Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
The teen-aged son of a well-to-do family gets involved in violence when he attempts to win the approval of a gang of high-school hoodlums. Before the feature are three Behind the Cameras segments from the Warner Bros. Presents TV series, including a "safe-driving" interview withdrawn from airing following Dean's death.
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
Phoebe is an imaginative but troubled girl with a desperate longing to be in her school's production of Alice in Wonderland. When she is cast in the lead role her parents believe her unusual behavior is due to her creativity, but soon realize that she is on the brink of falling through the looking glass herself.
Series
Criterion collection ; 608
Language
English
Description
Countercultural director Hal Ashby tells the story of the emotional and romantic bond between a death-obsessed young man from a wealthy family and a devil-may-care, bohemian octogenarian. Equal parts gallows humor and romantic innocence, Harold and Maude dissolves the line between darkness and light along with the ones that separate people by class, gender, and age. The cult classic of its era, featuring indelible performances and a soundtrack by...
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
Grace is a twenty-something supervisor at a foster-care facility for at-risk teenagers. Passionate and tough, Grace is a formidable caretaker, and in love with her long-term boyfriend and co-worker, Mason. But Grace's own difficult past, and the surprising future that suddenly presents itself, throws her into unforeseen confusion, made sharper with the arrival of a new intake at the facility, a gifted but troubled teenage girl with whom Grace has...
Publisher
SDs
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Follows a curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school who is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually he forms an unlikely bond with one of them--a damaged, brainy troublemaker--and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam"--
Publisher
CBS DVD
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
"Pete Cochran, "Linc" Hayes, and Julie Barnes are young people who were on the wrong side of the law. Taken in by Captain Adam Greer, they're assigned to a special task force working undercover for the police. Now these counterculture cops can infiltrate places that only kids know about."--Container.
7) East of Eden
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Cal Trask is considered the "bad" son of taciturn Salinas Valley lettuce farmer Adam Trask. Although Cal always means well, he just can't stay out of trouble. Neither is Cal able to match the high esteem in which his father holds his "good" brother Aron. Only Aron's girl friend Abra and kindly old Doctor Sam seem to be able to see the essential goodness in the troublesome Cal. In an effort to win his father's love, Cal purchases a fresh lettuce crop...
8) The son
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A man's busy life as a professional with a new position at work and the father of a newborn baby is upended when his ex-wife turns up with their deeply troubled teenage son."--
10) Free Willy
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
A story about the friendship that develops between a 12-year-old boy who knows what it's like to be without a family, and a whale confined in a too-small tank at an aquatic park.
11) Half nelson
Series
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
A high school teacher with a drug habit finds a friendship in an unlikely source - one of his troubled students. Will their relationship help them or harm them?
Publisher
Picture This Home Video!
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
Français
Description
Sixteen-year-old Tom is sent to a group home when his mother goes into a coma after a car accident. He is forced to cope with other young punks as well as a stern headmaster. He sneaks away from the group home and dedicates himself to helping his mom.
13) Glee encore
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Formats
Description
Put on your dancing shoes and get ready to Gleek Out! This full-length features a set list of Season One's most sensational musical numbers.
14) The holdovers
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam."--
15) Off the black
Publisher
Thinkfilm
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Ray, an aging alcoholic, forms an unlikely friendship with a troubled teenager. As they grow more dependent on each other, Ray asks the teen to go to his 40th high school reunion and pose as his son.
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Language
English
Description
Lean on me: A bat-and-bullhorn wielding principal in New Jersey turns a failing school around with his tough love methods.
Stand and deliver: A teacher in a Los Angeles barrio inspires his students to excel at math and to pass the Calculus Advanced Placement Test.
18) Red
Publisher
Magnolia Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
A reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named Red. When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means are available to him.
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
Jake goes on a retreat to a ranch with his mother after the death of his father. There he meets a young stallion acting out after losing his mother. When the horse runs away, Jake goes on the adventure of his life with his two new friends to bring the stallion back home.
20) Blackbird
Publisher
Breaking Glass Pictures
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
An unlikely friendship forms between Sean Randall and popular teen Deanna Roy. After writing a death threat online, Sean is falsely accused of plotting a Columbine-like massacre. The police raid his home and find rifles, shotguns, and a 'hit list' with twenty names of students who bullied Sean. As Sean faces imprisonment in a youth detention facility, he must overcome his dark image and prove his innocence to Deanna and his shaken community.
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