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1) The Vow
Pub. Date
2012
Summary
A young couple has a car accident that puts the wife in a coma. After she wakes up with severe memory loss, her husband sets his sights on winning her heart again. Inspired by true events.
Pub. Date
[2019]
Formats
Summary
An adventure story set in the world of a modern Mark Twain that begins when Zak, a young man with Down syndrome, runs away from a nursing home where he lives to chase his dream of becoming a professional wrestler and attending the wrestling school of The Salt Water Redneck, his idol. Through circumstances beyond their control, Tyler, a small-time outlaw on the run, becomes Zak's unlikely coach and ally.
3) 55 steps
Pub. Date
[2021]
Summary
Based on the inspiring true story of an outrageous and smart Eleanor Riese, a patient in a psychiatric hospital where she's been mistreated, and her attorney, a patients' rights lawyer, Colette Hughes.
Pub. Date
[2000]
Summary
Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient, seeks help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin. When the doctor leaves town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, follows--showing up unexpectedly at the therapist's lakeside retreat. Bob becomes the houseguest that just won't leave.
Pub. Date
c2012
Summary
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.
8) Pink skies
Pub. Date
2011
Summary
An inspirational documentary about the empowerment of women. It's about overcoming obstacles as athletes & as human beings. The film follows Ruth, a breast cancer survivor as she hopes to join an incredible team of nearly 200 women from 31 countries to create a World Record all Women's Skydiving Formation.
Pub. Date
c2009
Summary
Designed to help employees with Asperger Syndrome find and keep a job and to increase understanding by supervisors and coworkers of employees with Asperger Syndrome. The video includes segments for job seekers and employers. It would also be helpful to job coaches, schools, and supported employment programs.
11) Five feet apart
Pub. Date
[2019]
Summary
Stella is a vibrant, fun-loving seventeen-year-old. Unlike most teenagers, Stella has to spend much of her time living at a hospital as a cystic fibrosis patient. When Stella meets Will, a charming and rebellious fellow patient, she feels a powerful connection, but restrictions dictate that she and Will maintain a safe distance between them. As their feelings grow, Stella and Will face a life-changing question: How does love feel when even a single...
Pub. Date
2021
Summary
Claire (Lena Olin) lives a quiet domestic life in the Hamptons as the wife of celebrated artist Richard Smythson (Bruce Dern). Once a promising painter herself, Claire now lives in the shadow of her husband’s illustrious career. While preparing work for his final show, Richard’s moods become increasingly erratic, and he is diagnosed with dementia. As his memory and behavior deteriorate, she shields his condition from the art community while trying...
Formats
Summary
Renowned astrophysicist Stephen Hawking, who falls deeply in love with fellow Cambridge student Jane Wilde. Once a healthy, active young man, Hawking received an earth-shattering diagnosis at 21 years of age. With Jane fighting tirelessly by his side, Stephen embarks on his most ambitious scientific work, studying the very thing he now has precious little of; time. Together, they defy impossible odds, breaking new ground in medicine and science.
Pub. Date
c2013
Summary
Through interviews with experts and personal testimonies, this video presentation offers a guide to understanding what an addiction is, understanding the addict you love, how addition affects a family, how to respond to feelings of shame and stigma, common difficulties for loved ones, and the meaning and hope of recovery.
15) Side effects
Pub. Date
c2013
Summary
A young woman's world unravels when a drug prescribed by her psychiatrist has unexpected side effects.
16) Autopilot
Pub. Date
c2010
Summary
With the help of his sister Sara, his childhood friend Mike, and his new therapist Dr. Brian, Tanner Beatly tries to adjust to life on the outside after spending sixteen years in a mental institution for accidentally killing his mother.
17) Self/less
Pub. Date
[2015]
Summary
In this provocative psychological science fiction thriller, an extremely wealthy man dying from cancer undergoes a radical medical procedure that transfers his consciousness into the body of a healthy young man. But all is not as it seems when he starts to uncover the mystery of the body's origin and the secret organization that will kill to protect its cause.
18) You're not you
Pub. Date
2015
Summary
When an accomplished pianist is diagnosed with the devastating and incurable disease ALS, she hires a directionless young woman who becomes her full-time caregiver. Complete opposites, the strangers form a life changing bond inspiring each other to live life to fullest, while being brought together by the most challenging of circumstances.
19) Igor
Pub. Date
[2008]
Summary
In a world filled with mad scientists and evil inventions, one talented evil scientist's hunch-backed lab assistant has big dreams of becoming a mad scientist himself. He dreams of winning the annual evil science fair. Determined to prove he can create his own diabolical invention, Igor creates a female Franken-monster. But his creation, Eva, is sweet and sings. That is, until she falls into the clutches of Dr. Schadenfreude.
Pub. Date
[2011]
Summary
After she is diagnosed with cancer, suburban mom Cathy Jamison, tries to find the humor in the disease. Contains the following thirteen episodes: Pilot; Summer Time; There's No C in Team; Playing the Cancer Car; Blue-Eyed Iris; Taking Lumps; Two for the Road; Happy Birthday, Cancer; The Ecstasy and the Agony; Divine Intervention; New Beginnings; Everything That Rises Must Converge; and Taking the Plunge.