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Stepmom [videorecording (DVD)] / directed by Chris Columbus ; produced by Wendy Finerman, Mark Radcliffe, Michael Barnathan.

Publication details: Culver City, California : Columbia Pictures, [2005].Description: 1 DVD (125 min.)Content type:
  • two-dimensional moving image
Media type:
  • video
Carrier type:
  • videodisc
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 791.43/72 22
Cast: Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris.Summary: 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 up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. She can't understand that work can be important to her as well as the kids. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnosis of cancer, which might may be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together.
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Originally released as a motion picture in 1998.

Julia Roberts, Susan Sarandon, Ed Harris.

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 up. But Jackie, a full-time-mother, regards Isabel's efforts as offensively insufficient. She can't understand that work can be important to her as well as the kids. The conflict between them is deepened by the sudden diagnosis of cancer, which might may be deadly for Jackie. They all have to learn a little in order to grow together.

CPBC rating: PG.

Home use only.

In English.

Closed-captioned.

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