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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.

After losing her husband in a tragic mass shooting, a grief-stricken young mother embarks on a journey to find solace and closure, all while carrying the heavy burden of single-handedly raising their son.

Ri̤se is still grieving the loss of her husband, Frank, when a mysterious dog shows up at her door. Mildly annoyed by the canine attempting to disrupt her mourning, she attempts to ignore him. But before long, a series of coincidences convince her that somehow this shaggy dog is her husband Frank reincarnated. Soon the dog will win over others in their small town, as well as becoming the unlikely coach to a shy, hurling-loving local boy, before mysteriously...

Unfolding in real time, a "riveting and pulse-pounding" thriller from award-winning director Phillip Noyce. Recently widowed mother Amy Carr is doing her best to restore normalcy to the lives of her young daughter and teenage son in their small town. As she's on a jog in the woods, she finds her town thrown into chaos as shooting takes place at her son's school. Miles away, on foot in the dense forest, Amy desperately races against time to save her...

Stella Davis is a widow who saves her ranch by working with convicts to rehabilitate a herd of wild horses that wandered on to her property. She must fight prejudice, greed, bureaucracy and vanity to finally understand that there is no better remedy to misfortune than helping another living creature.

A psychosomatically paralyzed war widow struggles to understand how her husband could have sacrificed himself to save five of his comrades.

Mercenary Nick Boon is trying to atone for his life as an enforcer for a ruthless syndicate. Running from his past, Boon moves to a remote area in the pacific northwest where he meets a struggling widow and her son. When he finds the pair living in fear of a criminal kingpin, Boon realizes the only way to protect them is to do what he does best: Kill.

Matilde, a woman in her sixties, has lived with her husband Porfirio since she was fifteen years old, in a relationship of violence and contempt for her. One day, Porfirio dies and leaves her alone in the company of her cat Fidel, but Matilde believes that Porfirio continues to torture her with his appearances and cannot be released. As if that were not enough, his insurance pension to survive is canceled. Miguel, her neighbor, a young and skilled...

Sixty-year-old penniless Manhattan socialite Frances Price had a plan. To die before the money ran out, but things didn't go as planned. Her husband Franklin has been dead for twelve years and with his vast inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days anonymously in a borrowed apartment in Paris. She is accompanied by her directionless son Malcolm and a cat named Small Frank, who may or may...

When the life of Grace Wyatt, an esteemed music professor, is disrupted by the tragic loss of her husband Eric, Grace retreats to substance abuse as a way to cope with her grief. Tossed out of her lavish academic world and finally at rock-bottom, Grace seeks help from a Christian recovery center.