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Pub. Date
2010
Description
After being evicted, hardworking single mom Elaine Cheng tries to maintain a normal life for her children, Raymond and Tina. They squat in a Boston apartment as Elaine juggles a number of jobs, including working for a questionable pyramid scheme. When Elaine doesn't return home one night, nobody knows the kids are home alone, and they are left to fend for themselves. Raymond, a budding inventor, realizes he needs to come up with a plan to take care...
Series
Description
Two years after the death of her husband, Missie knows that it is time to move on. She heads home with her son to be near her parents and to return to teaching. Certain she will never find love again, Missie redirects her feelings and when the "orphan train" arrives in town, she adopts Belinda, a feisty young teenager who's arrived with a secret. As Missie struggles with raising Belinda, she finds she is falling for the local sheriff who might be...
Pub. Date
2014
Description
In the five years since Headly's father died, the fifteen-year-old and her mom, Ren, have become best friends. When Headly has her first crush, she decides her mother needs some romance in her life too, so she and her friend Willis devise a scheme to help Ren find love again.
46) Driveways
Description
A lonesome boy accompanies his mother on a trip to clean out his late aunt's house, where he ends up forming an unexpected friendship with the retiree who lives next door.
47) Chocolat
Pub. Date
2001
Description
A single mother and her daughter move to rural France and open a chocolate shop-with Sunday hours-across the street from the local church.
48) Kiss shot
Pub. Date
2001
Description
Out of cash, out of a job, and soon-to-be out on the street, single mother Sarah Collins returns to the pool rooms of her youth to hustle the money to pay her home mortgage bill, only to encounter a globe-trotting, pool-playing ladies' man.
49) Mum : season two
Pub. Date
[2019]
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
Description
As her new romance blossoms, a single mother is dismayed when her boyfriend, a military sergeant, is deployed right before Christmas. Determined to not let it ruin the holidays for her and her children they decide to give back to the struggling military families on his base and, as their efforts go viral, they are rewarded in ways they never imagined.
51) Bob the butler
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Likable, bumbling Bob can't hold a job, and finds employment using the phonebook. Once in the B's, he stumbles upon Butler School and is soon hired by Anne, a single mother of two and a business owner, who desperately needs help.
Description
This Holiday film is based upon Louisa Mae Alcott's short story of the same title. It is set in New Hampshire shortly post Civil War and follows a young widowed mother's determination to carry on with the rearing of her three children in spite of the hardships that come about as a result of the loss of their father in the War. Things look pretty bleak nearing the Thanksgiving Holiday and the children, wishing to have a nice Thanksgiving Day dinner...
54) Full time
Pub. Date
[2023]
Description
Single mother Julie needs reliable transit to get to work. When a national strike breaks out, her daily routine becomes a gauntlet in this kinetic thriller about the insecurity of modern life in a ruthless society.
55) Mum : season one
Pub. Date
2016.
Description
Happily married one day and widowed the next, Cathy Walker feels her way through her first year as a suddenly single woman. Some days it would be easier to rebuild her life without well-intentioned advice and often hilarious help from her son, her brother, and their girlfriends. Thank heaven for Cathy's lifelong friend Michael, who keeps a loving eye on her.
57) Weeds: Season 2
Series
Weeds volume Season Two
Pub. Date
2006.
Description
Nancy Botwin, the soccer mom who had to learn how to deal - pot, that is - after the death of her husband. Now, her business is a hit. But keeping up with the neighbors in this suburban utopia isn't easy.
58) Kidnap
Pub. Date
2017
Description
A typical afternoon in the park turns into a nightmare for single mom Karla Dyson when her son suddenly disappears. Without a cell phone and knowing she has no time to wait for police help, Karla jumps in her own car and sets off in pursuit of the kidnappers. Karla will stop at nothing to recover her kidnapped son.
Pub. Date
2009
Description
Rose Lorkowski is a single mother attempting to support her son Oscar and her unreliable sister Norah. She works a mundane job as a maid. When Oscar is expelled from school, Rose takes a new job as a bio-hazard crime-scene cleaner to help pay for a private education. She brings Norah on to help in her steady growing business.
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
A single, working actor with no filter raising her three daughters, Max, Frankie and Duke in Los Angeles. She's mom, dad, referee and the cops. Sam also watches out for her mother, Phil, an English expatriate, who lives across the street. Sam is flawed and fierce with her love for her daughters, and her own mother as well, sometimes heaping the love on when she feels guilty.