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Harold and Maude
: :An outrageous tale of two loopy lovers that will change your ideas about romance forever. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 03/16/2004 Starring: Ruth Gordon Vivian Rickles Run time: 91 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972, and they don't come much funnier, either. It seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) ...
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The Day of the Jackal
: :An assassin targets the president of france in this tense frederick forsyth thriller. Features production notes talent bios film highlights and trailers. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 06/01/2004 Starring: Edward Fox Alan Badel Run time: 143 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:With its high-intensity plot about an attempt to assassinate French President Charles de Gaulle, the bestselling novel by Frederick Forsyth was a prime candidate for screen adaptation. Director Fred Zinnemann brought his veteran skills to bear on what has become a timeless classic of screen suspense. Not ...
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Fahrenheit 451
: :A fireman of the future burns books until he meets a book lover and becomes an outlaw. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 04/01/2003 Starring: Cyril Cusack Ann Bell Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Francois Truffaut essential video:The classic science fiction novel by Ray Bradbury was a curious choice for one of the leading directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut. But from the opening credits onward (spoken, not written on screen), Truffaut takes Bradbury's fascinating premise and makes it his own. The futuristic society ...
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Far and Away
: :A stubborn irish farmer and a fiesty landowners daughter emigrate to america in 1892 to make a new life for themselves. Includes notes bios highlights and trailer. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 02/27/2007 Starring: Tom Cruise Nicole Kidman Run time: 140 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Ron Howard essential video:Filmed in the widescreen splendor of 'Panavision Super 70' and blessed with the finest production values that Hollywood clout can buy, this tale of spunky Irish immigrants forgot one crucial ingredient: a decent screenplay. The film is entertaining enough, ...
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The Taming of the Shrew
: :Shakespeares fiercely funny battle of the sexes. Special features: widescreen version mono sound languages: english spanish portuguese subtitles: english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai talent files and theatrical trailer. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 05/22/2007 Starring: Elizabeth Taylor Richard Burton Run time: 122 minutes Rating: Nr essential video:Liz and Dick (a.k.a. Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton) almost seemed to be importing the psychodramas of their marriage into this 1967 film (of course, the same was true of every film they made together). Adapted from Shakespeare's play ...
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My Left Foot (Special Edition)
:Description:This cinematic masterpiece is the brilliant portrayal of legendary Irishman Christy Brown (Daniel Day-Lewis) who, despite crippling cerebral palsy, learned to use his one controllable extremity -- his left foot -- to become an accomplished artist and writer. The Miramax Collector’s Series proudly presents the release of the acclaimed motion picture that won Academy Awards® in 1989 for Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis) and Best Supporting Actress (Brenda Fricker) and earned Oscar(R) nominations for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Adapted Screenplay (1989). This special edition of MY LEFT FOOT has been ...
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The Spy Who Came in from the Cold
: :A cynical british spy plays cold war games with an east german spy. From the john le carre novel. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 04/11/2006 Starring: Richard Burton Oscar Werner Run time: 112 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Martin Ritt :John le Carre's classic spy yarn gets a suitably brisk, unromanticized telling in this quintessential Cold War movie. A British agent (Richard Burton) sets up an elaborate cover story for being lured into defecting to the Communists, but he hardly needs to manufacture his disgust and cynicism over spying. The ...
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The Man Who Never Was
:Description:Clifton Webb stars in this fascinating account of a daring intelligence operation designed to mislead the Nazis prior to the 1943 Allied invasion of Sicily. In an effort to convince the Germans to redeploy their defenses, Lt. Commander Montagu (Webb) creates a false English officer and fabricates letters that indicate the British intend to land in Greece. Montagu than plants these documents on a dead man and orchestrates the 'discovery' of this 'officer' on the coast of Spain, Knowing the papers will fall into German hands. What follows is a taut ...
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True Confessions
:Description:Detective Tom Spellacy (Duvall) and Catholic Monsignor Desmond Spellacy (De Niro) find their worlds colliding amidst a flurry of political finger-pointing and public outcries over a scandalous, headline-making murder. As Tom hunts down the elusive killer, his investigation threatens to expose secrets that could ruin his brotherÂ...and rock the foundation of his beloved church. :John Gregory Dunne turned the true story of Los Angeles's Black Dahlia murder case into a compelling novel and then adapted the novel (with wife Joan Didion) for this meaty movie mystery directed by Ulu Grosbard. A ...
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Les Miserables
: :Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: 06/22/2004 Run time: 123 minutes Rating: Nr
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