Continuation of page for movies about family responsibility:

Auntie Mame (1958, Warner Bros., dir. Moron DaCosta). Rosalind Russell plays the socialite who takes custody of her nephew and liberates him. Blogger.

A Season for Miracles (1999, Hallmark Hall of Fame, dir. Michael Pressman). A woman keeps her drug-addicted sister’s kids out of foster care and gets a miracle in a Christmas film. Blogger.

Louisa May Alcott: The Woman Behind ‘Little Women’ (2009, PBS/American Masters). The female author took care of her father, who died at the same time as here. She was also “husband” to her sister. Blogger.

Related films: “Little Women”

No Reservations (2007, Warner Bros., dir Scott Hicks). A single woman who works as chief chef takes on raising a sister’s daughter after a tragedy. Blogger.