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1) Lion
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Five-year-old Saroo gets lost on a train which takes him thousands of kilometers across India, away from home and family. Saroo must learn to survive alone in Kolkata, before ultimately being adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, armed with only a handful of memories, his unwavering determination, and a revolutionary technology known as Google Earth, he sets out to find his lost family and finally return to his first home.
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To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother unexpectedly decides to fly halfway across the world to attend. With all of the wedding guests looking on, the Griffins are hilariously forced to confront their past, present and future, and hopefully avoid killing each...
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A heartwarming adventure bursting with the joy of the season. When Julia, a lonely foster child, discovers an injured rabbit on Christmas Eve, she forms an unlikely friendship with an eccentric farmwoman who vows to nurse the bunny back to health. In the process, Julia's own heart is healed and she forges a bond with her adoptive family that makes her holidays one she-and you-will never forget.
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Daisy Fuller Williams is on her deathbed in a New Orleans hospital the day that Hurricane Katrina hits. At her side is her adult daughter, Caroline. Daisy asks Caroline to read to her aloud from the diary of Daisy's lifelong friend, Benjamin Button. Benjamin's diary recounts his entire extraordinary life. The unusual aspect of his life is that he is ages backwards, being born an old man. He is diagnosed with several aged diseases at birth and thus...
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Accidentally meeting after a 14-year separation, teenage twins Tia and Tamera vow never to be parted again. Convincing their adoptive single parents that both families would be better off living together under the same roof, the girls begin their new lives, together again for the first time since birth.
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Three women's lives share a common core. They have all been profoundly affected by adoption. At age fourteen, Karen placed a baby for adoption, and has been haunted ever since by the daughter she never knew. Elizabeth grew up as an adopted child. Even though she is a bright and ambitious lawyer, she is a flinty loner in her personal life. Lucy and her husband are just embarking on the adoption odyssey, hoping for the opportunity to become parents....
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Criterion collection volume 476
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Benjamin Button was a not-so-ordinary man who began his life under unusual circumstances. Born in his eighties, and unable to stop time, he continued to age backwards. His life story is detailed from the end of World War I in 1918 and into the 21st century, when he discovered a love that lasted beyond time.
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Wendy and Rip Porter are a working-class couple fighting to regain custody of Joey, the young son Wendy gave up for adoption when Rip went to prison seven years earlier. But Joey's adoptive parents will stop at nothing to ensure that the small boy stays in the only home he's ever known.
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Desperate to start a family, New York schoolteacher, April Epner hits a midlife crisis when, in quick succession, her husband unexpectedly abandones her and her adoptive mother dies. She gets another shock when she meets her biological mother, an eccentric, self-centered talk show host, whom at first she rejects. Then the divorced dad of one of her students begins courting April. As her life is turned upside-down, April finds herself opening up in...
10) Woman at war
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Halla is a fifty-year-old independent woman. But behind the scenes of a quiet routine, she leads a double life as a passionate environmental activist. Known to others only by her alias 'The Woman of the Mountain,' Halla secretly wages a one-woman-war on the local aluminum industry.
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Six women -- dreamy Eileen, abrasive Nan, athletic Skipper, brusque Leslie, vivacious Jennifer and patient Gayle -- are staying at a hotel in South America. Focus on the turbulent emotions these American women face surrounding the adoption of foreign babies. The six women are fed up with the long delays of the adoption system in the United States and have the common desire to adopt a child. Includes a Latina mother who is certain that her baby will...
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Though only fifteen, Maquia knows she will live for centuries without aging past adolescence. She belongs to the Iorph, a clan of ageless beings just like her. Maquia's elders warn her not to fall in love with anyone outside their realm, lest she wish to encounter true loneliness in the end. But fate pushes Maquia out into the mortal world one night, when an invading territory separates her from the clan. There she discovers an orphaned baby, Ariel....
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On her deathbed, Abigail asks her husband Steven to find her estranged daughter, forgive her, and ask her forgiveness. Steven makes the journey from Kentucky to California to fulfill that wish and to give his adopted daughter the Bible she left behind so many years ago. Along the way, Joseph meets a mysterious hitchhiker who may very well hold the secret of the journey's end.
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"Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham is the story of an Indian family headed by a business tycoon, Yashovardhan Raichand and his wife Nandini who have raised their sons, Rahul and Rohan showering them with love and affection. When Rahul finds outs that he is adopted at the tender age of 8 years, it becomes the reason for his unending gratitude for his parents - more so his father. His father's every wish becomes a command for Rahul. A command he never breaks...
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50 first dates: A young man falls in love with a girl who has short-term memory loss from an accident. Every day when she wakes up she remembers nothing from the day before. In an effort to help her remember him, he makes a video tape for her to watch every morning.
Big daddy: A 32-year-old law school graduate, who works one day a week as a tollbooth clerk, attempts to impress his girlfriend when he adopts a 5-year-old tyke who has been left on his...
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"Emily of New Moon is the brilliant tale of a free-spirited, orphaned girl whose vivid imagination, passion to write, and romantic nature clash with her strict adoptive family. Set during the Victorian era, Emily's coming-of-age-every heartbreak and triumph-is captured in this complete collector's set"--Container.
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Finding Carter is about teenage girl Carter, who seemingly has the perfect life with fun-loving single mom Lori, until she discovers Lori abducted her as a toddler. Now Carter must return to the family who thought they had lost her. As she navigates a brand new life, she vows to find Lori before she is gone forever.
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"After a chance encounter after 14 years apart, teenage twins Tia and Tamera vow never to be parted again. The sisters convince their adoptive single parents (Tim Reid and Emmy award winner Jackee Harry) that both families would be better off living under the same roof, and the girls start their new lives, together again."--