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Birth: it’s a miracle. A rite of passage. A natural part of life. But more than anything, birth is a business. Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore the maternity care system in America. Focusing on New York City, the film reveals that there is much to distrust behind hospital doors and follows several couples who decide to give birth on their own terms. And their follow up sequel “More Business of Being Born” explores and compares various childbirth methods, including midwives, natural births, epidurals and cesarean sections. A must watch for any newly pregnant women trying to figure out her birth plan. – Taryn Cox for THE WIFE

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This holiday season, acclaimed filmmaker Cameron Crowe (Jerry Maguire, Almost Famous) directs an amazing and true story about a single dad who decides his family needs a fresh start, so he and his two children move to the most unlikely of places: a zoo. With the help of an eclectic staff, and with many misadventures along the way, the family works to return the dilapidated zoo to its former wonder and glory. In Theaters Now!

This was my very favorite Christmas movie as a kid! I would watch it over and over and over again! Perfect to get your kids in the Christmas spirit! – Taryn Cox for THE WIFE

Two New York children know what they want for Christmas and come up with a scheme to make sure they get it. Ethan and his younger sister Hallie plan to get their parents back together for the holidays. First, they need to rid themselves of pesky Tony, a businessman who has taken an interest with their mother. With the help of mice, an ice-cream truck, a few telephone calls and the magic of Santa, their plan might just work.

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944) is a delightful, classic, nostalgic, poignant, and romanticized musical film – and one of the greatest musicals ever made. It tells the story of a turn-of-the-century family in suburban, midwestern St. Louis of 1903, who live in a stylish Edwardian home at 5135 Kensington Avenue. The city, and the well-to-do Smith family (with four beautiful daughters), is on the verge of hosting (and celebrating) the arrival of the spectacular 1904 World’s Fair. However, the family’s head of the house is beckoned to New York due to a job promotion – an uprooting move that threatens to indelibly change the lives of the family members forever. Filmed during WWII, the decision to remain in St. Louis in the film’s conclusion affirmed that nothing will be altered for the American family.

I LOVED this film!! I got swept away in the era, the romance, the costumes and the music… If your a girl who gets swept up in Fairy Tales than it is definitely for you! – Taryn Cox for THE WIFE

W.E. tells the story of two fragile but determined women – Wally Winthrop (Abbie Cornish) and Wallis Simpson – separated by more than six decades. In 1998, lonely New Yorker Winthrop is obsessed with what she perceives as the ultimate love story: King Edward VIII’s abdication of the British throne for the woman he loved, American divorcee Wallis Simpson. But Winthrop’s research, including several visits to the Sotheby’s auction of the Windsor Estate, reveals that the couple’s life together was not as perfect as she thought. Weaving back and forth in time, the film intertwines Wally’s journey of discovery in New York with the story of Wallis (Andrea Riseborough) and Edward (James D’Arcy), from the glamorous early days of their romance to the slow unraveling of their lives in the decades that followed.