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Beauty and the Beast
: essential video:The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture Oscar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. It relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes her father's place, imprisoned in the Beast's ...
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Cinderella (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :Forced to do additional chores by her stepmother, Cinderella is about to miss the royal ball until her fairy godmother and friendly mice help her.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: DISNEYTitle: CINDERELLAStreet Release Date: 10/04/2005DomesticGenre: CHILDREN'S VIDEO :Worry not, Disney fans--this special edition DVD of the beloved Cinderella won't turn into a pumpkin at the strike of midnight. One of the most enduring animated films of all time, the Disney-fied adaptation of the gory Brothers Grimm fairy tale became a classic in its own ...
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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney Special Platinum Edition)
: essential video:One of the brightest nuggets from Disney's golden age, this 1937 film is almost dizzying in its meticulous construction of an enchanted world, with scores of major and minor characters (including fauna and fowl), each with a distinct identity. When you watch Snow White's intricate, graceful movements of fingers, arms, and head all in one shot, it is not the technical brilliance of Disney's artists that leaps out at you, but the very spirit of her engaging, girl-woman character. When the wicked queen's ...
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My Fair Lady
: :Lerner and Loewe's musical version of 'Pygmalion' about a Covent Garden flower girl who becomes a lady.Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 8-DEC-1998Media Type: DVD essential video:Hollywood's legendary 'woman's director,' George Cukor (The Women, The Philadelphia Story), transformed Audrey Hepburn into street-urchin-turned-proper-lady Eliza Doolittle in this film version of the Lerner and Loewe musical. Based on George Bernard Shaw's play Pygmalion, My Fair Lady stars Rex Harrison as linguist Henry Higgins (Harrison also played the role, opposite Julie Andrews, on stage), who draws Eliza into ...
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The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
: :In Wind in the Willows, Mr. Toad he sends his friends into a worried frenzy with his reckless driving, and in the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Ichabod confronts the headless horseman.No Track Information AvailableMedia Type: DVDArtist: DISNEYTitle: ADVENTURES OF ICHABOD & MR. TOADStreet Release Date: 08/28/2001DomesticGenre: CHILDREN'S VIDEO :This 1949 Disney feature has never been available on video in its original form until now. The 68-minute film contains two shorts: The Wind in the Willows and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow. The former ...
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The Music Man (Special Edition)
: :Meredith Willson's Broadway play is brought to the screen in this musical featuring Preston as Professor Harold Hill, a con artist whose schemes are unmasked by the lovely librarian, Marian (Jones).Genre: MusicalsRating: GRelease Date: 1-JUN-2004Media Type: DVD essential video:The Music Man was one of the last great movie musicals from any studio, and it proved to be that rarest of events: a Broadway show that was measurably improved by its transition to the screen. Robert Preston made his musical debut--both live and on ...
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Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (Widescreen Edition)
: :Lord Voldemort has returned but few want to believe it. In fact the Ministry of Magic is doing everything it can to keep the wizarding world from knowing the truth - including appointing Ministry official Dolores Umbridge as the new Defense Against the Dark Arts teacher at Hogwarts. When Professor Umbridge refuses to train her students in practical defensive magic a select group of students decides to learn on their own. With Harry Potter as their leader these students (who call themselves 'Dumbledore's Army') ...
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The Witches
:Description:From the great Muppet creator Jim Henson comes this classic bursting with enchantment and adventure. Academy Award winner Anjelica Huston stars as the Grand High Witch in this exhilarating tale.Year: 1990 essential video:This splendid adventure-fantasy from 1990 was adapted from Roald Dahl's book and directed by maverick British filmmaker Nicolas Roeg, who turned out to be a perfect (if seemingly unlikely) interpreter of Dahl's fiendishly clever tale of witchcraft in contemporary England. Scary, funny, and wildly entertaining, it's all about a young boy named ...
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The NeverEnding Story
: :A young boy named Bastian borrows a mysterious ornately-bound book that takes him into the fantastic world of Fantasia.Genre: Feature Film FamilyRating: PGRelease Date: 3-FEB-2004Media Type: DVD essential video:Wolfgang Petersen (In the Line of Fire) made his first English-language film with this 1984 fantasy about a boy (Barret Oliver) visualizing the stories of a book he's reading. The imagined tale involves another boy, a warrior (Noah Hathaway), and his efforts to save the empire of Fantasia from a nemesis called the Nothing. Whether ...
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Bedknobs and Broomsticks (30th Anniversary Edition)
:Description:An Academy Award(R) winner for Best Visual Effects (1971), BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS is a magical blend of live action and animation that makes it one of Disney's most enduring classics. This magical 30th anniversary edition version of the film is now yours to enjoy in digital splendor on this remastered, fully restored DVD! BEDKNOBS AND BROOMSTICKS is the enchanting story of an amateur witch who, along with three precocious orphans, flies into one fantastic adventure after another aboard a bewitched bed. The legendary Angela Lansbury ...
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