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Home for the Holidays from Mgm/Ua Studios Price: $11.21 Customer Review:  Home for the Holidays has made my list of favorite movies. Why? It is full of warmth, biting wit, and brimming with...well...dysfunction. Holly Hunter is great as Claudia Larsen, a single mom approaching forty. Claudia (nicknamed Clyde), is petrified of going to her parents' for Thanksgiving. Anne... |
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The Graduate (Special Edition) from Mgm/Ua Studios Price: $11.21 Customer Review: The Graduate is a touchstone film. Released in 1967, it defined the 60's youth generation. As recent college graduate Benjamin Braddock is told at a pool party, the future is plastics. The movie portrays the coming of age, sexual freedom and wayward view of the young adults of the 60's, the almost... |
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Torch Song Trilogy from New Line Home Entertainment Price: $15.98 Customer Review:  I adore this movie for its lead performances and sheer sense of life. It's a one-of-a-kind film with the most unconventional leading man ever to appear in a Hollywood feature: the unforgettable Harvey Fierstein. Not only does Fierstein dominate every scene in which he appears, but he also wrote the... |
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Jesus of Nazareth from Lionsgate Price: $18.74 Customer Review: Jesus of Nazareth, a British production, directed by Franco Zeffirelli debuted on network television (NBC, I believe)in the spring of 1977--as a miniseries!--and was a ratings success. Needless to say, television producers would not try to duplicate the feat today. I watched Jesus of Nazareth... |
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84 Charing Cross Road from Columbia Tri-Star Price: $15.95 Customer Review: I thanked the man at Central Park who introduced "84 Charing Cross Road" to Anne Bancroft and Mel Brooks for help making it into a film. David Hugh Jones did a splendid directing. Marvellous adaptation of Helene Hanff's book which I cherish. Without this film I may never find such a terrific book.... |
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How to Make an American Quilt from Universal Studios Price: $13.48 Customer Review: This movie is phenomenal. It stars Winnona Ryder as Finn, a young woman about to be married, who is writing a thesis on the interpersonal relationships that are intertwined with in the making of an American quilt. The people that she is writing about are a group of women who have been quilting... |
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The Miracle Worker from MGM/UA Video Price: $11.96 Customer Review: Enough praise can't be given to this film. To me, the utterly striking performances of Patty Duke and Anne Bancroft are brought to a climax in the infamous dining room scene where Annie Sullivan attempts to teach Helen table manners above the protests of the family: "She is accustomed to eating off... |
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Keeping the Faith from Walt Disney Home Video Price: $11.99 Customer Review: This was not your typical romantic comedy by any stretch. A priest, a rabbi, and a business woman sounds like the beginning of a bad joke but it actually is the scenario for a wonderful film that explores faith, friendship, love, tradition, and conviction. The basic premise of the film are three... |
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The Elephant Man from Paramount Home Video Price: $11.99 Customer Review: Sad, disturbing, and powerful are all good words to describe this beautiful motion picture directed by David Lynch. Filmed in black and white, it tells the true and altogether touching story of John Merrick, a young man so grotesquely deformed he was forced to spend most of his short life as a... |
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Great Expectations from Twentieth Century Fox Price: $11.98 Customer Review:  Finnegan Bell/originally Pip (Ethan Hawke) has very low expectations for his future and as a child nurtures his artistic nature. The story starts rather peacefully as he sketches the fish swimming about in the warm water of Florida's Gulf Coast. Suddenly an escaped convict (Robert De Niro) appears... |
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Antz from Umvd/Dreamworks Price: $11.99 Customer Review: The Film: [Rating: 84%] Dreamworks challenger to the Disney ant favourite A Bug's Life arrives on a feature packed DVD complete with a truly sumptuous transfer. Ok, so it's a cartoon - but don't be put off since this one is loaded with far more wit and style than your average kiddie flick (isn't he... |
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G.I. Jane from Hollywood Pictures Price: $9.99 Customer Review:  I honestly don't know what possessed Ridley Scott to make this movie. It seems to have all the hallmarks for his particular style (military toys and a swashbuckling female). But the movie is well intended failure. It's main asset and ultimate flaw is Demi Moore. She embodies one track... |
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Heartbreakers from MGM/UA Video Price: $13.46 Customer Review: I hesitated about the three star rating, which might imply that this was a good movie. But is wasn't as horrific as some (like The Wedding Planner), and it was entertaining, if only to enjoy the beauty and charms of Sigourney Weaver, who at 51 is still stunning. Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt... |
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Point of No Return from Warner Studios Price: $9.97 Customer Review: Although lacking in some respects compared to the French original (you end up hoping that Bridget as assassin will pulverize her whimpering boyfriend with one of those big, big machine guns), Bridget Fonda as the star and Nina Simone with the soulful soundtrack give this movie the edge over La femme... |
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Malice from MGM/UA Video Price: $13.46 Customer Review: If, like me, you somehow missed "Malice' when it was originally released, then you are in for a treat if you view it now. Never being a really big Nicole Kidman fan, I discovered she was at the top of her game in this movie that is all about playing games with the viewer's mind. Alec Baldwin... |
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The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone from Showtime Entertainme Price: $24.29 Customer Review: Oh my, can Tennessee Williams write! I remmeber seeing the original film version "The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone" (1962) starring Vivian Leigh and Warren Beatty. The 1962 version was quite interesting because it had cast middle-aged Vivian Leigh (Gone With The Wind [1939]) and she played the role so... |
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Honeymoon in Vegas from Mgm/Ua Studios Price: $13.46 Customer Review: The wonderfully talented and versatile Nicholas Cage turns in a great comic performance in this Andrew Bergman comedy adventure. .............. Cage plays Jack Singer, a commitmentphobic private investigator who loves longtime galpal schoolteacher Betsy (Sarah Jessica Parker) but, "Just hasn't... |
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Demetrius and the Gladiators from Twentieth Century Fox Price: $13.48 Customer Review: One of the main reviewers of this movie in question, i.e., Demetrius and the Gladiators VHS ~ Victor Mature, claims that it is a "Hokey sequel to THE ROBE has Emperor Caligula (Jay Robinson) searching for magic robe of Christ; Mature dallies with royal Hayward. Cinemascope." However, I could not... |
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Mr. Jones from Columbia/Tristar Studios Price: $17.95 Customer Review: This movie looks as though it will be another one of those trite, over-simplified stories of a mentally ill man. Surprise! Barring the Hollywood idea that all therapists sleep with their patients, this is a great movie that accurately depicts a serious and complex mental illness. I will say that... |
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue from Warner Home Video Price: $17.98 Customer Review: This is the third in a trio of classic comedies written by Neil Simon and starring(onscreen) Jack Lemmon. This movie delivers laugh after laugh without slapsick, and without the cheesiness of some of Simon's later works. (The Goodbye Girl) This movie earns five stars from me not only because it's a... |
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Love Potion #9 from Twentieth Century Fox Price: $9.98 Customer Review: This movie is as cute and silly as it's title. I love Sandra Bullock in anything and this is a really enjoyable romantic comedy from before she was a star. The movie has a makeover theme which, ironically, is similar to her latest movie, Miss Congeniality. In both flicks, she goes from geek to... |
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Agnes of God from Columbia Tri-Star Price: $13.45 Customer Review: Agnes of God has a very tight script, plot and cinematography. It is gripping from end to end. The film is not about religion but about the inter-personal and intra-personal conflicts of a psychiatrist, the mother superior of a community of nuns and one of her young nuns. Set in Montreal, the... |
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The Hindenburg from Universal Studios Price: $13.48 Customer Review: This fictionalized account of the real life disaster takes a while to get going, but does deliver some good scenes in the final third of the film. George C. Scott is a Nazi colonel sent aboard the Hindenburg due to threats made about its voyage. He is joined by a cast of familiar actors, including... |
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Sidney Poitier: One Bright Light from Winstar Home Entertainment Price: $22.48 Customer Review: Throughout his career, Sidney Poitier captured the hearts and minds of his audience through his outstanding acting abilities. A Raisin In the Sun, Lillies of the Field and Guess Whose Coming to Dinner? are movies in which h gave memorable performances that touch us even today. Who is this man,... |
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Don't Bother to Knock from Fox Home Entertainme Price: $13.48 Customer Review: Marilyn Monroe proves she really could act in this film, a chilling psychological thriller set in a luxury hotel. Also starring Richard Widmark and Anne Bancroft, DON'T BOTHER TO KNOCK is a fascinating film. Monroe plays a psychotic babysitter assigned to look after a little girl in a big hotel.... |
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