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In Tangshan, the truck driver Da Qiang, his wife Yuan Ni and their twins Fang Da, their son, and Fang Deng, their daughter, are a happy simple family. On 27 July 1976, a devastating earthquake destroys Tangshan, and Da Qiang dies while trying to rescue his children from their apartment. When a colla …psed beam traps Fang Da and Fang Deng, Yuan Ni is forced to decide between saving her son or daughter and she chooses Fang Da. However, her daughter Fang Deng overhears her mother's choice and miraculously survives. She is rescued by a soldier and adopted by Mr. Wang and his wife with the name Wang Deng. Thirty-two years later, after an earthquake in China, Wang Deng, now married to a Canadian lawyer and living in Vancouver with her daughter, travels to China and voluntarily joins the rescue team. By chance she meets Fang Da and she learns the drama of Yuan Ni through all those years. The family is finally reunited at Yuan Ni's home, where bitterness is exposed and resolved. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | family sagafamily tragedy |
| Themes: | adoption |
| Locations: | china |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Period: | year 1976 |
| Story: | sichuan earthquakedisaster reliefloss of familynatural disasterloss of husbandfamily reunionloss of fathercollege campuscollege studentadoptive father adopted daughter relationshippeople's liberation armyburied in rubbledifficult decisontalk to the deadman versus nature …mess halldeath of family memberprosthetic armdeath in familyseparation from familydedicationone armed manadopted childprosthetic limbrepressed memoryrickshawenglish teacherunwed pregnancyadopted daughtermemorialiphoneunplanned pregnancyhandicapforeignerdead fathersaving a lifepresumed deadearthquakelossdisasterreunioncity name in titlecollegedead bodyplace name in titledream (See All) |
When their father passes away, four grown siblings, bruised and banged up by their respective adult lives, are forced to return to their childhood home and live under the same roof together for a week, along with their over-sharing mother and an assortment of spouses, exes and might-have-beens. Conf …ronting their history and the frayed states of their relationships among the people who know and love them best, they ultimately reconnect in hysterical and emotionally affecting ways amid the chaos, humor, heartache and redemption that only families can provide-driving us insane even as they remind us of our truest, and often best, selves. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandfamily reunionloss of fatherdeath in familyreunion |
After causing a loss of almost one billion dollars in his company, the shoe designer Drew Baylor decides to commit suicide. However, in the exact moment of his act of despair, he receives a phone call from his sister telling him that his beloved father had just died in Elizabethtown, and he should b …ring him back since his mother had problem with the relatives of his father. He travels in an empty red eye flight and meets the attendant Claire Colburn, who changes his view and perspective of life. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandfamily reunionloss of fatherlosscity name in titledead bodydream |
This film follows the life of Celie, a young black girl growing up in the early 1900's. The first time we see Celie, she is 14 - and pregnant - by her father. We stay with her for the next 30 years of her tough life...
| Themes: | adoption |
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | family reunionloss of fatherseparation from familyunwed pregnancyadopted daughterreunion |
The daughter of a brilliant but mentally disturbed mathematician (recently deceased) tries to come to grips with her possible inheritance: his insanity. Complicating matters are one of her father's ex-students who wants to search through his papers and her estranged sister who shows up to help settl …e his affairs. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of fathercollege studentmemorialdead fathercollege |
Lee Chandler is a brooding, irritable loner who works as a handyman for a Boston apartment block. One damp winter day he gets a call summoning him to his hometown, north of the city. His brother's heart has given out suddenly, and he's been named guardian to his 16-year-old nephew. As if losing his …only sibling and doubts about raising a teenager weren't enough, his return to the past re-opens an unspeakable tragedy. (Read More)
| Themes: | adoption |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | loss of fatherlosscity name in titledead body |
Based on the bestselling novel by master storyteller Nicholas Sparks, THE LONGEST RIDE centers on the star-crossed love affair between Luke, a former champion bull rider looking to make a comeback, and Sophia, a college student who is about to embark upon her dream job in New York City's art world. …As conflicting paths and ideals test their relationship, Sophia and Luke make an unexpected and fateful connection with Ira, whose memories of his own decades-long romance with his beloved wife deeply inspire the young couple. Spanning generations and two intertwining love stories, THE LONGEST RIDE explores the challenges and infinite rewards of enduring love. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college studentsaving a lifecollegedream |
A regular family - Maria ('Naomi Watts' (qv)), Henry ('Ewan McGregor' (qv)) and their three kids - travel to Thailand to spend Christmas. They get an upgrade to a villa on the coastline. After settling in and exchanging gifts, they go to the pool, like so many other tourists. A perfect paradise vaca …tion until a distant noise becomes a roar. There is no time to escape from the tsunami; Maria and her eldest are swept one way, Henry and the youngest another. Who will survive, and what will become of them? (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | natural disasterseparation from familypresumed deadearthquakedisasterreuniondead body |
TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they …attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | natural disasterloss of fatherlossdisaster |
Grief, recovery, and human contact. Brian is a great guy - a sweet father, a good husband, and a loyal friend to his boyhood pal Jerry who's a junkie. When tragedy strikes, Jerry tries to help Brian's wife and children cope, and Audrey, Brian's widow, tries to help Jerry kick the habit. Loss and add …iction are stubborn. The story starts on the day of the funeral, with Brian appearing in flashbacks. A neighbor's divorce, a dinner party that includes a young woman from the Narcotics Anonymous group Jerry attends, and thinking back to a fire in Brian and Audrey's garage give the story texture. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandloss of fatherdream |
Judah Ben-Hur lives as a rich Jewish prince and merchant in Jerusalem at the beginning of the 1st century. Together with the new governor his old friend Messala arrives as commanding officer of the Roman legions. At first they are happy to meet after a long time but their different politic views sep …arate them. During the welcome parade a roof tile falls down from Judah's house and injures the governor. Although Messala knows they are not guilty, he sends Judah to the galleys and throws his mother and sister into prison. But Judah swears to come back and take revenge. (Read More)
| Themes: | adoption |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | family reunionseparation from familysaving a lifereunion |
An elderly couple journey to Tokyo to visit their children and are confronted by indifference, ingratitude and selfishness. When the parents are packed off to a resort by their busy, impatient children, the film deepens into an unbearably moving meditation on mortality.
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | family reunionreunioncity name in titleplace name in titledream |
In San Andreas, California is experiencing a statewide earthquake that goes on record as easily the biggest earthquake in history. Dwayne Johnson plays Ray Gaines, a helicopter rescue pilot for the Los Angeles Fire Department, who is trying to find his daughter, Blake (Alexandra Daddario), who is in … San Francisco amidst the chaos. Ray's estranged wife, Emma, is forced to turn to Ray for help, as he is her last resort. Together they journey to save their daughter. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | natural disastercollege studentearthquakedisaster |
Alan Johnson has everything he needs to get through life: a good job, a beautiful and loving wife, and their wonderful children. Yet he feels isolated because he finds having a hard-working job and managing a family too much to handle and has no one to talk to about it. Charlie Fineman, on the other … hand, doesn't have a job or a family. He used to have both until a terrible loss, and the grief caused him to quit his job and isolate himself from everyone around him. As it turns out, Alan and Charlie were roommates in college, and a chance encounter one night rekindles the friendship they shared. But when Charlie's problems become too much to deal with, Alan is determined to help Charlie come out of his emotional abyss. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of familylosscollegedream |
Under the watchful eye of his mentor Captain Mike Kennedy, probationary firefighter Jack Morrison matures into a seasoned veteran at a Baltimore fire station. Jack has reached a crossroads, however, as the sacrifices he's made have put him in harm's way innumerable times and significantly impacted h …is relationship with his wife and kids. Responding to the worst blaze in his career, he becomes trapped inside a 20-story building. And as he reflects on his life, now Deputy Chief Kennedy frantically coordinates the effort to save him. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandloss of fatherdisaster |
In October 1991, a confluence of weather conditions combined to form a killer storm in the North Atlantic. Caught in the storm was the sword-fishing boat Andrea Gail. Magnificent foreshadowing and anticipation fill this true-life drama while minute details of the fishing boats, their gear and the we …ather are juxtaposed with the sea adventure. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother son relationship |
| Story: | natural disasterman versus naturelossdisaster |
After Chris Nielsen dies in a car accident, he is guided through the afterlife by his spirit guide, Albert. His new world is beautiful and can be whatever Chris imagines. Even his children are there. But, when his wife, Annie, commits suicide and is sent to hell, Chris ignores Albert's warnings and …journeys there to save her. Upon arrival, Chris finds that rescuing Annie will be more difficult than he'd imagined. (Read More)
| Characters: | father daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandfamily reunionloss |
A troubled young boy, Oskar, is trying to cope with the loss of his father. Oskar starts lashing out at his mother and the world. Until a year later, he discovers a mysterious key in his father's belongings and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock, just as he used to when his father … was alive. On this journey he is bound to meet a lot of people and learn a lot about himself and his family, but will he ever find the lock? (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandloss of fatherloss |
Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban …forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a promising student to re-engage. Decisions press upon the reporter, the student, and the soldiers. (Read More)
| Story: | college campuscollege studentcollegedead body |
Set in 79 A.D., POMPEII tells the epic story of Milo (Kit Harington), a slave turned invincible gladiator who finds himself in a race against time to save his true love Cassia (Emily Browning), the beautiful daughter of a wealthy merchant who has been unwillingly betrothed to a corrupt Roman Senator …. As Mount Vesuvius erupts in a torrent of blazing lava, Milo must fight his way out of the arena in order to save his beloved as the once magnificent Pompeii crumbles around him. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | natural disasterloss of fatherearthquakedisaster |
During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago, is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar, who has been having an affair with her mother's lover, Victor Komarovsky, an unscrupulous businessman. Yuri, howeve …r, ends up marrying his cousin, Tonya. But when he and Lara meet again years later, the spark of love reignites. (Read More)
| Themes: | adoption |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | separation from familyunwed pregnancypresumed dead |
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Bree …dlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking. In the end, different people show their love in very different ways. (Read More)
| Subgenre: | family tragedy |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of fathercollege |
This modern retelling of the classic fairytale follows a beautiful college freshman as she pledges her late mother's once dignified sorority. But after discovering that today's sisterhood is not what it used to be, Sydney finds her new home away from home with seven outcasts. With the help of her so …cially challenged new friends, Sydney will take on the reigning campus queen to attempt to transform the school's misguided social hierarchy. (Read More)
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | college campuscollege studentcollege |
Mia Hall thought the hardest decision she would ever face would be whether to pursue her musical dreams at Juilliard or follow a different path to be with the love of her life, Adam. But what should have been a carefree family drive changes everything in an instant, and now her own life hangs in the … balance. Caught between life and death for one revealing day, Mia has only one decision left, which will not only decide her future but her ultimate fate. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of familyloss of father |
Fresh from Des Moines, Iowa, Sara Matthews has just landed in Los Angeles as a college freshman studying fashion design. She meets handsome Stephen, party-lover Tracy, and roommate Rebecca. Rebecca is nice, sweet and ready to share everything with Sara. It could be the beginning of a beautiful frien …dship. But Tracy is convinced that there's something seriously wrong with Rebecca and bad things start happening to everyone close to Sara. If Sara is to have a normal college experience, she's going to have to get to the bottom of what's up with Rebecca and quickly get out of her clutches. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college campuscollege studentreunioncollege |
When Ruby Baker's parents are killed in a car accident, she and her brother, Rhett, must travel to Malibu, to live with Terrence and Erin Glass, their former neighbors. At first, all seems well. Ruby is making new friends at school and Rhett is getting more video games and flashy toys than he's ever … had in his life. When Ruby speaks to her family's estate lawyer, he tells her that her parents have left Rhett and her $4 million. Suddenly, Ruby begins to notice odd behavior from Terry and Erin. (Read More)
| Themes: | adoption |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of fatherdead bodydream |
A passenger ship, on her way to the scrap yard is pushed to her limits by the new owners to save on the dismantling fees. A tidal wave hits her, flipping her over so that all the internal rooms are upside down. A priest takes a mixed band of survivors on a journey through the bowels of the ship in a …n attempt to survive. (Read More)
| Characters: | husband wife relationship |
| Story: | natural disastersaving a lifeearthquakedisaster |
The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con (Strait) brought home by Vince (Garcia), the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful ac …tor in private. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | family reunioncollege studentcollege |
In November, 1970, virtually the entire football team and coaches of Marshall University (Huntington, W.V.) die in a plane crash. That spring, led by Nate Ruffin, a player who was ill and missed the fatal flight, students rally to convince the board of governors to play the 1971 season. The college …president, Don Dedman, must find a coach, who then must find players. They petition the NCAA to allow freshmen to play, and coach Jack Lengyel motivates and leads young players at the same time that he reexamines the Lombardi creed that winning is the only thing. The father and the fiancee of a player who died find strength to move on. Can Marshall win even one game in 1971? (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationship |
| Story: | college campusmemorialcollege |
Just before the destruction of the planet Krypton, scientist Jor-El sends his infant son Kal-El on a spaceship to Earth. Raised by kindly farmers Jonathan and Martha Kent, young Clark discovers the source of his superhuman powers and moves to Metropolis to fight evil. As Superman, he battles the vil …lainous Lex Luthor, while, as novice reporter Clark Kent, he attempts to woo co-worker Lois Lane (Read More)
| Themes: | adoption |
| Story: | loss of husbandloss of fatherearthquakedisaster |
Medical students begin to explore the realm of near death experiences, hoping for insights. Each has their heart stopped and is revived. They begin having flashes of walking nightmares from their childhood, reflecting sins they committed or had committed against them. The experiences continue to int …ensify, and they begin to be physically beaten by their visions as they try and go deeper into the death experience to find a cure. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationship |
| Story: | loss of husbandloss of fathercollege studentrepressed memory |
When Henry DeTamble meets Clare Abshire in a Chicago library they both understand that he is a time traveler, but she knows much more about him as he has not yet been to the times and places where they have already met. He falls in love with her, as she has already with him, but his continuing unavo …idable absences while time traveling - and then returning with increasing knowledge of their future - makes things ever more difficult for Clare. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandloss of father |
South Carolina US Army Special operations soldier John is on summer leave from his German base, visiting his widowed father. Being gallant on the pier, he befriends college student Savannah, a college student, and her buddies, a terminal father and his angelic son. John falls in love with Savannah, …who diagnoses his beloved, gentle but weird father as mildly autistic. He plans not to sign up again, but 9/11 changes that, and she won't wait idly while their friends desperately need help. (Read More)
| Story: | loss of fathercollege studentcollege |
Pre-teen Jeliza-Rose's parents are hopeless drug addicts. When pa, rocker Noah, finds ma's OD'd, he fears to be charged with homicide and takes Jeliza along to his ma's place, in a desolate country region. With Noah passed out, the girl mentally transfers to a fantasy world she and her doll heads en …ter magically. Jeliza's adventures also star the crazy locals, notably Dell, and Dell's grown but intellectually disabled brother Dickens. (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of fatherdead fatherdead bodydream |
A romantic drama set in New York City during the summer of 2001, where Tyler, a rebellious young man, meets Ally through a twist of fate. Her spirit helps him heal after a family tragedy, though soon the circumstances that brought them together threaten to tear them apart.
| Subgenre: | family tragedy |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college student |
A war weary man takes a job as a lighthouse keeper on an island for the solitude. He meets a beautiful young woman and they eventually marry. One day they see a small dingy with an infant and man inside floating in the ocean. They rush to rescue them only to find the man is dead. They struggle over …the decision to report it and whether to keep the baby. It's only years later that they discover that the child still has a mother looking for her. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationship |
| Story: | loss of husbandadopted childdead body |
A Walk in the Clouds depicted a story about a young-married US military soldier, named Paul, who returned home after the World War II. In the middle of the way back home, he accidentally met a girl named Victoria who finished her master's degree. She has not married yet but got pregnant by accident. … During the journey they talked a lot. Due to her pregnancy, Victoria was afraid of her father who respected old Mexican tradition. Thus, Paul proposed to pose as her husband to help her face her dad. Paul was not intended to cheat on his wife by pretending to be Victoria's husband. However, when Paul decided to come back to his home and left Victoria, he found his wife cheating on him. Paul then headed back to Victoria's house "Las Nubes" and confessed his true love to Victoria. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college studentunwed pregnancydead body |
It's November 30, 1962. Native Brit George Falconer, an English professor at a Los Angeles area college, is finding it difficult to cope with life. Jim, his personal partner of sixteen years, died in a car accident eight months earlier when he was visiting with family. Jim's family were not going to … tell George of the death or accident, let alone allow him to attend the funeral. This day, George has decided to get his affairs in order before he will commit suicide that evening. As he routinely and fastidiously prepares for the suicide and post suicide, George reminisces about his life with Jim. But George spends this day with various people, who see a man sadder than usual and who affect his own thoughts about what he is going to do. Those people include Carlos, a Spanish immigrant/aspiring actor/gigolo recently arrived in Los Angeles; Charley, his best friend who he knew from England, she who is a drama queen of a woman who romantically desires her best friend despite his sexual orientation; and Kenny Potter, one of his students, who seems to be curious about his professor beyond English class. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college campuscollegedead bodydream |
Toula Portokalos is 30, Greek, and works in her family's restaurant, Dancing Zorba's, in Chicago. All her father Gus wants is for her to get married to a nice Greek boy. But Toula is looking for more in life. Her mother convinces Gus to let her take some computer classes at college (making him think … it's his idea). With those classes under her belt, she then takes over her aunt's travel agency (again making her father think it's his idea). She meets Ian Miller, a high school English teacher, WASP, and dreamboat she had made a fool of herself over at the restaurant; they date secretly for a while before her family finds out. Her father is livid over her dating a non-Greek. He has to learn to accept Ian; Ian has to learn to accept Toula's huge family, and Toula has to learn to accept herself. (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college studentcollege |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college studentdisaster |
This love story has Kitty meeting young, intelligent, shy and somewhat dull Dr. Walter Fane, whose forte is the study of infectious diseases, and the convenient marriage that she finds herself committed to. It is in this web of intrigue that they head for China, only after Walter discovers Kitty's i …nfidelity with one dashing and witty diplomat Charlie Townsend. So much as to hide her from herself and to help thwart a cholera outbreak, this is a marriage more than on the rocks. This is a cold, indifferent and loveless partnership in a vast unknown and deadly environment that will test both these flightless lovebirds and with the hardships and tolerances more than any had ever anticipated. A visual delight amid the pain and suffering of a dying people and failing marriage. Will a cure be found for both, before it's too late? (Read More)
| Locations: | china |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | rickshawforeignerdead body |
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | separation from familypresumed deadreunion |
Three grown prodigies, all with a unique genius of some kind, and their mother are staying at the family household. Their father, Royal had left them long ago, and comes back to make things right with his family.
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | family reunionadopted daughter |
Annie is a young, happy foster kid who's also tough enough to make her way on the streets of New York in 2014. Originally left by her parents as a baby with the promise that they'd be back for her someday, it's been a hard knock life ever since with her mean foster mom Miss Hannigan. But everything' …s about to change when the hard-nosed tycoon and New York mayoral candidate Will Stacks - advised by his brilliant VP, Grace and his shrewd and scheming campaign advisor, Guy - makes a thinly-veiled campaign move and takes her in. Stacks believes he's her guardian angel, but Annie's self-assured nature and bright, sun-will-come-out-tomorrow outlook on life just might mean it's the other way around. (Read More)
| Themes: | adoption |
| Story: | adoptive father adopted daughter relationshipadopted childadopted daughter |
When a devastating event befalls the city of San Fransokyo and catapults Hiro into the midst of danger, he turns to Baymax and his close friends adrenaline junkie Go Go Tomago, neatnik Wasabi, chemistry whiz Honey Lemon and fanboy Fred. Determined to uncover the mystery, Hiro transforms his friends …into a band of high-tech heroes called "Big Hero 6." (Read More)
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | college campuscollege studentcollege |
Evan Treborn grows up in a small town with his single, working mother and his friends. He suffers from memory blackouts where he suddenly finds himself somewhere else, confused. Evan's friends and mother hardly believe him, thinking he makes it up just to get out of trouble. As Evan grows up he has …fewer of these blackouts until he seems to have recovered. Since the age of seven he has written a diary of his blackout moments so he can remember what happens. One day at college he starts to read one of his old diaries, and suddenly a flashback hits him like a brick! (Read More)
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipfather daughter relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | prosthetic limbrepressed memorycollegedream |
The story of 'James Whale (I)' (qv), the Director of _Frankenstein (1931)_ (qv) and _Bride of Frankenstein (1935)_ (qv), in the time period following the Korean War. Whale was homosexual, and develops a friendship with his gardener, an ex-Marine.
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | college studentdead bodydream |
Something unspeakably chilling is ultimately starting to heat up at The City of Los Angeles! Beneath the famed La Brea Tar Pits, a raging volcano has formed, raining a storm of deadly fire bombs and an endless tide of white-hot lava upon the stunned city!
| Characters: | father daughter relationship |
| Story: | natural disasterearthquakedisaster |
1903 London. Renowned playwright 'J.M. Barrie (I)' (qv) (James)'s latest effort has garnered less than positive reviews, something he knew would be the case even before the play's mounting. This failure places pressure on James to write another play quickly as impresario Charles Frohman needs anothe …r to replace the failure to keep his theater viable. Out for a walk with his dog in part to let his creative juices flow, James stumbles upon the Llewelyn Davies family: recently widowed Sylvia Llewelyn Davies (the daughter of now deceased author 'George L. Du Maurier' (qv)) and her four adolescent sons. James and the family members become friends, largely based on he and the boys being able to foster in each other the imagination of children, James just being the biggest among them in this regard. Sylvia also welcomes James into their lives, he who becomes an important and integral part of it. Among the six of them, the only one who does not want to partake is Sylvia's third, Peter Llewelyn Davies, who is still grieving the reality of their lives, where his father was there one day planning an outing for the family, and gone the next. Two other people who don't appreciate James in the Llewelyn Davies' lives are: his wife, Mary Barrie, who always feels the need to be the responsible one in their relationship and who feels threatened by his friendship with an unmarried woman; and Emma du Maurier, Sylvia's overbearing mother, who sees him as an obstacle to Sylvia moving on with her l… (Read More)
| Characters: | mother daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationshipfamily relationships |
| Story: | loss of husbandloss of fatherplace name in title |
| Characters: | boyfriend girlfriend relationshipmother daughter relationshipfather daughter relationshiphusband wife relationshipmother son relationship |
| Story: | college studentlosscollege |
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