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The Color Purple (Two-Disc Special Edition)
: :The life and trials of a young african american woman Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 02/04/2003 Starring: Rae Dawn Chong Daniel Glover Run time: 154 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Steven Spielberg essential video:Steven Spielberg, proving he's one of the few modern filmmakers who has the visual fluency to be capable of making a great silent film, took a melodramatic, D.W. Griffith-inspired approach to filming Alice Walker's novel. His tactics made the film controversial, but also a popular hit. You can argue with the appropriateness of Spielberg's decision, but his astonishing ...
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Hombre
:Description:John Russell (Paul Newman), a white man raised by a band of Arizona Apaches, is forced to confront the society he despises when he sells the boarding house his father has left him. While leaving town by stagecoach, several bigoted passengers insist he ride outside with the driver (Martin Balsam). But when outlaws leave them all stranded in the desert, Russell may be their only hope for survival! Diane Cilento, Frederic March, Richard Boone and Barbara Rush co-star in this action-packed Western classic. :Paul Newman is the blue-eyed 'savage,' a white man raised ...
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The Anderson Tapes
: :A habitual criminal, looking for a big score immediately upon leaving prison, goes to the syndicate seeking funds for a massive robbery. He intends to ransack a posh East Side New York apartment building. Rounding up a gang of top-flight thieves, he proceeds to plan and carry out his caper unaware that he is being taped. :An early example of the techno-thriller, The Anderson Tapes--sharply directed by Sidney Lumet from the novel by Lawrence Sanders--follows just-out-of-jail Duke Anderson (a balding Sean Connery) as he plots the heist of an entire New York ...
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The Lathe of Heaven
:Description:For George Orr, sleep is not a respite. For Dr. William Haber, dreams are tools. For sci-fi fans, the wait is over. Praised as 'rare and powerful' by The New York Times, Ursula K. Le Guin’s THE LATHE OF HEAVEN is one of the most celebrated science fict :'Antwerp!' For science fiction fans, the long-awaited VHS and DVD release of The Lathe of Heaven is a dream come true. This haunting adaptation of Ursula K. Le Guin's genre-classic novel was broadcast but once on PBS in 1980 before rights and other legal snafus relegated ...
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Which Way Is Up?
: :A california fruit picker becomes a labor hero then a womanizing corporate flunky. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Richard Pryor Marilyn Coleman Run time: 94 minutes Rating: R Director: Michael Schultz :This 1977 American variation on Lina Wertmuller's The Seduction of Mimi, the story of a stupid man's troubles in sex and politics, is a run-of-the-mill Richard Pryor vehicle. Noteworthy only for its casting of two good actresses, Lonette McKee and Margaret Avery, and Pryor's multiple roles as an orange picker, a lecherous old man, and a minister, ...
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White Man's Burden
:Description:From the producer of 'Pulp Fiction' --set in a time where color roles have been reversed, John Travolta is Louis Pinnock--a poor man struggling to keep his wife and children fed and clothed. But when he loses his job, Pinnock snaps and decides to fight back the only way he knows how. :The premise is interesting, but the execution fails to live up to any of its potential. White Man's Burden imagines an America where black people are the ruling class and whites are underprivileged minorities. John Travolta stars as a factory worker ...
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Magnum Force
:Description:When a mysterious wave of killings sweeps the Mafia underworld, it's Inspector 'Dirty Harry' Callahan who answers with Magnum Force. Despite a demotion by Lt. Neil Briggs for his questionable methods, Harry will stop at nothing to find the killers. :This first sequel to Dirty Harry was written by a couple of strong voices, writer-directors Michael Cimino (The Deer Hunter) and John Milius (Farewell to the King). But that doesn't mean the film is particularly good. After Don Siegel's ferociously dark style in the first movie, Ted Post's blocky, television-ish direction in Magnum ...
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Tyler Perry's Meet The Browns (Two-Disc Special Edition + Digital Copy)
: : Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns is a sitcom taken to the next level. Brenda (Angela Bassett) is a single mom struggling to raise her family in Chicago. When she receives a letter inviting her to attend her father's funeral, she's not sure how to feel: Brenda never knew the man and hadn't interacted with that part of her family. But when she loses her job, she decides that now's the time to shake things up. (And, as a friend suggests, there's always the chance her father left her a little money.) While ...
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Lord Help Us
:Description:'FAITH SHOWED THEM THE WAY' SOMETIMES YOU FIND ROMANCE IN PLACES YOU'D NEVER IMAGINE! IN THIS HILARIOUS ROMP, UNLUCKY-AT-LOVE KAYLA AND HER BEST BUDDY JEWELS HELP A RECENTLY WIDOWED BAPTIST MINISTER REGAIN HIS FLOCK AND HIS LIFE AS THEY BATTLE A SCANDALOUS RUMOR. STARRING NEWCOMER BILL TOLIVER, NADIA TURNER (AMERICAN IDOL), JOE CLAIR (BET'S RAP CITY), DEBRA WILSON (MADTV, SCARY MOVIE 4) AND AMENTHA DYMALLY (BABY BOY) WITH APPEARANCES BY OMAR GOODING, AL JARREAU, TICO WELLS, SAM SARPONG THIS TOUCHING STORY OF LOVE, FAMILY AND FRIENDSHIP WILL LEAVE YOU PRAYING FOR MORE!
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Heat Wave
:Description:A powerful, fact-based drama set against the backdrop of the Watts riots of 1965. An aspiring black journalist, Bob Richardson (Blair Underwood), works as a messenger for the Los Angeles Times. After tensions flare in Watts, violence breaks out and Richardson gets a shot at the big time, reporting on the events and demanding change in the Civil Rights Movement.
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Diesel vehicles have nearly a 50-percent market share in Europe, thanks to tax incentives and diesel-friendly legislation across the EU. Diesels are so passé there that you can buy a BMW 730d and no one will think it odd that your luxury car burns oil. Pull up in a diesel 7-Series in America and people would leer at you like you've alighted from an amphibious vehicle reeking of saltwater and dead trout.