Showing sad movies for tag "family"

My Sister's Keeper
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My Sister's Keeper

Nick Cassavetes

In Los Angeles, the eleven year old Anna Fitzgerald seeks the successful lawyer Campbell Alexander trying to hire him to earn medical emancipation from her mother Sara that wants Anna to donate her kidney to her sister. She tells the lawyer the story of her family after the discovery that her older sister Kate has had leukemia; how she was conceived by in vitro fertilization to become a donor; and... [Read More]

Tags: Drama, Family, Cancer
Stepmom
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Stepmom

Chris Columbus

Anna and Ben, the two children of Jackie and Luke, have to cope with the fact that their parents divorced and that there is a new woman in their father's life: Isabel, a successful photographer. She does her best to treat the kids in a way that makes them still feel at home when being with their dad, but also loves her work and does not plan to give it... [Read More]

Tags: Family, Death, Drama
My Girl
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My Girl

Howard Zieff

Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is allergic to everything, and sticks with Vada despite her hangups. When Vada's father hires Shelly, a makeup expert, in his funeral parlor, and begins to fall... [Read More]

Tags: Drama, Love, Family
Finding Neverland
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Finding Neverland

Marc Forster

London, 1903: four lads, three women, and J.M. Barrie in the year he writes Peter Pan. After one of his plays flops, Barrie meets four boys and their widowed mother in the park. During the next months, the child-like Barrie plays with the boys daily, and their imaginative games give him ideas for a play. Simultaneously, a friendship deepens with Sylvia, the lads' mother, to the chagrin of his wife... [Read More]

Tags: Sad, Drama, Biography, Family