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Jeff and Tisa Murray have decided to move their family back to their hometown of Atlanta when Tisa is offered her dream job. The dream becomes a hilarious reality when family issues, Mom’s new boyfriend, and ex-lovers are waiting on them upon their return.

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Youth in Revolt

As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's love at first sight for frustrated and inexperienced Nick. Learning that she is dating someone, Nick launches a hilarious quest to find his way into Sheeni's heart -- and bed.

Night School

Teddy Walker is a successful salesman whose life takes an unexpected turn when he accidentally blows up his place of employment. Forced to attend night school to get his GED, Teddy soon finds himself dealing with a group of misfit students, his former high school nemesis and a feisty teacher who doesn't think he's too bright.

Mommy's Little Princess

After living with her drug-addicted mother, 10-year-old Lizzy's adopted by career woman Juliana and her boyfriend Greg. Julianna buys Lizzy an online genetics test and they discover that Lizzy's related to a royal German family, but as Lizzy's fascination with being a princess grows, the girl begins to lose her sanity, blurring fantasy & reality.

Wicked Moms Club

Jessica is a new mom in town and at first, she is welcomed into the circle of elite moms, but when her daughter outperforms power mom Olivia's daughter, she finds herself ostracized.

Munchie

No friends. The new school sucks. And Mom is in love with a sleazy research doctor. Pretty bleak. That’s how life looks to ten-year-old Gage when suddenly, into his world pops the magical Munchie. Munchie is the ever-hungry and hilarious mysterious creature from another world who delivers flying pizzas and brings on the parties! With the help of Munchie and loony Professor Cruikshank, Gage evens the score on his school’s bullies as well as his mom’s boyfriend and has the greatest summer ever!

My Mom's New Boyfriend

Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves.

The Single Moms Club

A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.

Hall Pass

When best buds Rick and Fred begin to show signs of restlessness at home, their wives take a bold approach to revitalize their marriages, they grant the guys a 'hall pass'—one week of freedom to do whatever they want. At first, it seems like a dream come true, but they quickly discover that their expectations of the single life—and themselves—are completely and hilariously out of sync with reality.

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With

Life has its downs for James, living with his mom in Chicago at 39, an aging performer at Second City, eating and weighing too much. A woman he's been dating drops him, as does his agent, her brother. James turns down roles in local TV, roles that make him sad. Someone's remaking his favorite movie, "Marty," a role he'd love, but he doesn't even get an audition.

Silver Dream Racer

David Essex stars as Nick Freeman, a motorcycle racer who, following the death of his brother, inherits a revolutionary prototype motorcycle, and is determined to race it at the British Grand Prix at Silverstone.

Bloody Wednesday

Harry is unable to hold a job due to his mental illness and lives in an abandoned Hollywood hotel haunted by friendly ghosts of the long dead staff. The lines of his mental illness and reality become extremely blurred as some of his strangest events are indeed witnessed by others. As Harry becomes more frustrated by not being able to distinguish fact from delusion he turns to violence.

Mom, Murder & Me

What does it take to admit your overprotective mother is right? Annabel, young and free-spirited living in San Francisco, faces this awful truth when her mother, Joan, unexpectedly visits from her small Midwestern hometown. When Annabel’s elderly neighbor passes away, Joan insists it’s murder. Annabel dismisses the theory as Joan’s usual hysteria about big city living until Annabel herself stumbles across another body right before it disappears. Without evidence for the police, Annabel blunders through a comical investigation with Joan as her only ally and a murderer who may be on to their amateur sleuthing.

A Holiday for Love

A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.

Sam & Kate

Bill is an ailing larger-than-life father being taken care of by his son Sam, who has returned home to care for him. While home, Sam falls for a local woman, Kate. At the same time, Bill starts to fall for her mom, Tina.

Appetite for Love

Mina has everything going for her, but her world is turned upside down when work sends her to her hometown in Tennessee where she must convince an old, stubborn restaurant owner to sell his property. There is just one problem- the restaurant is now owned by her ex-boyfriend Clay, who claims he will never sell. He resists her negotiations every step of the way, and all the while sparks fly.

Block Party

Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for her dream job in Atlanta, but when Keke discovers that her once super-sharp Grandma Janice is showing early signs of dementia, Keke puts her career at stake in order to save her Grandma's block party, and in the process, Keke falls back in love with her hometown and its people.

A Christmas Reunion

A Madison Avenue executive, Amy, discovers an unusual Christmas surprise when she inherits her Aunt’s hometown bakery. The real surprise comes when she learns the other half of the bakery was left to her long-ago boyfriend, Jack. Unresolved personal issues resurface between them, as the exes return home to co-manage the store, along with its traditional holiday cookie bake-off.

The Surfer King

Get stoked because the laughs roll as fast and furious as the waves in this sexy, hilarious ride! New kid is town Robbie Zirpollo (Randy Wayne, TV's Dukes Of Hazard: The Beginning) gets a job at a local water park and meets a motley crew of co-workers (with Alan Thicke, TV's Growing Pains and comedian Gabriel Iglesias), including the park owner's gorgeous daughter, Tiffany (Cerina Vincent, Not Another Teen Movie). As Robbie gets caught up in a troublesome park love triangle, his co-workers convince this fish out of water to enter the "Employee Olympics" wave pool competition to become the next Surfer King. But the conniving Tiffany has other plans for Robbie.

Unemployed

Jamal and Dex, out of work actors, come to terms with reality when they realize they've been pursuing their dreams for over ten years and still haven't booked a single speaking role. When the two run out of cash and face eviction they hit the pavement in search of a job. With no experience, no skill set and little ambition, the audience gets a front row seat to this hilarious journey in which these two characters can't seem to catch a break

No Filter the Film

Rhonda and Kim Hamilton are two highly successful cousins with vastly different philosophies on dating. One is sexually liberated (A "Hoe" according to Kim) and the other is getting over the break-up of a long term relationship and dealing work issues (Not getting "Enough" according to Rhonda). Set in Atlanta these two young attractive single ladies take you on a whirlwind ride of One Night Stands, Tickle Tests, Bedroom "Whirlwind" Technique, Vanilla Allergies, Strippers, DL Suspects and tons of hilarious laughs.

Beaten by My Boyfriend

Stacey Dooley goes behind closed doors and speaks to the now younger face of domestic violence. She questions victims and abusers to try and understand how deep the issues surrounding domestic abuse are for those who have survived and those currently experiencing the abuse.

The Christmas Cure

A doctor returns home for Christmas to find that her father has decided to retire from his own practice. After reuniting with her high school sweetheart, she wonders if she should stay and take over her father's practice.

Love in Winterland

Ally, a final contestant on a dating show, must face her high school sweetheart when she is chosen for the Hometown Date.

The Lottery

Returning to his small hometown of Icara, Maine, a man discovers its horrible secret -- a bizarre, clandestine ritual that led to his mother's early death and his father's insanity.

A Christmas Open House

Melissa, an Atlanta property stager, teams with her old high school crush David to renovate and sell her mom's house, and as Christmas approaches and the tensions grow, so does a romantic relationship between them.

Mending Fences

When big-city TV journalist Kelly Faraday (Laura Leighton) gets fired, she moves back to her Nevada hometown, where a severe drought may force her aging mother, Ruth (Angie Dickinson), to sell the family farm to a casino developer. As Kelly and Ruth sort out old differences, the erstwhile reporter and her ex-beau Walt (David Lee Smith) begin to suspect the casino of manipulating the town's water supply. Stephen Bridgewater directs this drama.

Family Reunion

Elizabeth Winfield is a retired teacher, who desperately tries to keep her family together. While she's traveling through the country and meeting her relatives, back in her hometown, a group of shopping mall developers are planning to take over her family land in order to begin their ambitious project. Now she needs to find ways to stop this construction in time before the town's annual festivities.

Arizona Sky

Jake and Kyle are two boys who grew up together in rural Arizona. They are best friends, and they begin to take their relationship to the next level when Jake's father moves him and his family away to California. Jake and Kyle can never forget their strong emotional bond, and Jake, overworked and unattached, goes back to his hometown for the first time in 15 years to see Kyle and renew their special friendship.

Our Dream Christmas

It's Christmas Eve in Los Angeles, and hardworking Gabby, her husband and their two kids, Amber and TJ, are fresh from Mississippi to spend Christmas with her mother and brother. With her mother dying, the family wanted to spend one last Christmas together. Over the course of two days, Gabby uncovers the truth about her wayward husband, defends herself against her sick, judgmental mom, widens the gap between her pre-teen daughter and herself, and faces a potential job loss.

Recipe for Abduction

Chef mom opens her dream raw pepper restaurant. Chefs clearly bipolar daughter creates a stunning insta page but mystery ensues - Looking at YOU Tod. Join chef mom, dad, anger issues ex-bf and duck lips Dorothy in this gut wrenching tail.

Where is Primer Green?

As issues with his dying father remain unresolved, Primer Green comes home to visit his family after being gone for 15 years. During his visit, his sister disappears and police suspect she is involved in her husband's death. Primer decides to find his sister but during his search he also disappears, leaving his ranger brother to solve the mystery and uncover rampant corruption.

A Harvest Homecoming

The teacher Drew Granger accepts a temporary substitute job in his old hometown of Chestnut Hollow, Texas, where he meets Aiden, the proverbial new kid at school, desperate for a caring friend. While he would rather have taken a job anywhere else, Drew reconsiders Chestnut Hollow when he meets Lainie Abbott, the new manager of his parents’ massive apple orchard and cider mill business, and more importantly, Aiden’s mom.

Doin' It

After teenage Maya is caught in a sexually compromising position, her mom moves the family back to India so Maya can learn proper discipline. Years later, she returns to the US to find funding for her teen-focused app, and gets a job as a substitute high school teacher so she can research her target demo. But when the principal assigns her to teach sex ed, Maya —who’s still a virgin— sets out on a quest with her best friend to make up for the high school experience she lost out on.

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