The Thorn Birds (DVD)
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The Thorn Birds (DVD)
Originally shot as a television mini-series, THE THORN BIRDS is the story of an Australian-based family who live on a ranch. Local priest Ralph de Bricassart (Richard Chamberlain) has a tortuous relationship with daughter of the family, Meggie (Rachel Ward), which ultimately proves doomed. Instead, Meggie chooses to marry a local man, Luke O'Neill (Bryan Brown), leaving a constant question mark looming over what might have been. Covering a vast 60 year period in the life of the family, plenty of twists and turns unfold for Meggie and co. over the course of THE THORN BIRDS, resulting in a fine piece of period drama that has proved highly popular since first airing in 1983.
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Second Sight 1 & 2 (DVD/4 Disc)
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Second Sight 1 & 2 (DVD/4 Disc)
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Reckless/Reckless - The Sequel (DVD)
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Reckless/Reckless - The Sequel (DVD)
A young doctor, Owen Springer (Green) applies for a surgery position at a Manchester hospital, only to be romantically distracted by the hiring consultant, Anna Fairley (Annis), who is beautiful, sophisticated, and, unfortunately, married to one of the supervising doctors. The attraction turns out to be mutual, and the two begin a torrid affair. Madly in love, Owen decides to expose Anna's husband for the adulterer he is, thus winning Anna for himself. A cheerfully lurid soap opera that is darkly humorous and blessed with a rapier wit, RECKLESS is a superior melodrama. Contains both RECKLESS and its sequel in a collector's box.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Trois Box Set (Trois-Rated R, Trois 2: Pandora's Box, Trois: The Escort (DVD)
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Trois Box Set (Trois-Rated R, Trois 2: Pandora's Box, Trois: The Escort (DVD)
TROIS: High-profile attorney Jermaine has a nearly perfect life - a well-paying job, a magnificent home, and a sexy, loyal wife named Jasmine (Kenya Moore). His only desire is for more sexual freedom, and, to that end, he convinces his wife to engage in a menage a trois in an effort to spice up their marriage. After recruiting an enigmatic beauty named Jade (Gretchen Palmer) for the deed, Jermaine finds himself embroiled in a passionate mystery that might just have some deadly consequences.TROIS 2: PANDORA'S BOX: When successful psychologist Mia (Monica Calhoun) takes sultry but troubled Tammy on as a patient, she is shocked when Tammy turns the tables and begins examining her life. Curious as to whether Tammy's advice will restore passion to her life, Mia follows her advice and finds herself in a sexual underworld. Involvement with a mysterious stranger entangles her ever deeper in a forbidden world of sex, money, and murder.TROIS: THE ESCORT: A triangle of lust, seduction, and betrayal ensues when Trent Meyer (Brian White, REDEMPTION) plans a rap concert that loses too much money. Forced to become a high-priced escort in order to pay back the money he owes to mobster Benny Grier (Isaiah Washington, Romeo Must Die), he is also enmeshed in a passionate affair with a high-powered, gorgeous businesswoman. But when he finds himself falling for one of the madam's beautiful call girls (Reagan Gomez-Preston, LOVE DON'T COST A THING), the precarious balance of his life threatens to give way under pressure from all sides, and the consequences may prove too great even for a man in love.
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WW II 60th Anniversary Commemorative Box Set
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WW II 60th Anniversary Commemorative Box Set
GUNS OF NAVARONE: One of the greatest war movies of all time, with an all-star cast and a gripping plot based on Alistair MacLean`s novel. A commando team is sent to a Greek island to destroy the giant guns of World War II Germany, which are controlling a strategic channel in the Aegean Sea. This was a groundbreaker in the special effects department. Academy Award Nominations: 7, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best (Adapted) Screenplay. Academy Awards: Best Special Effects.FROM HERE TO ETERNITY: With skill and grace, an all-star cast brought to the screen what was considered an unfilmable novel, the story of the loves, hopes and dreams of those in a close-knit army barracks in Hawaii shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. Montgomery Clift portrays a former boxer who refuses to fight after blinding a friend in the ring and is sent to this remote outpost as punishment for his insubordination. Love and tragedy combine in this unflattering look at life in the American military before the war. Based on the novel by James Jones.THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI: One of the all-time great war films, THE BRIDGE ON THE RIVER KWAI is yet another classic from the marvelous David Lean (LAWRENCE OF ARABIA, DR. ZHIVAGO). The film is an outstanding and psychologically complex adaptation of Pierre Boulle`s 1952 novel about English POWs in Burma forced to build a bridge to aid the war effort of their Japanese captors. British and American intelligence officers conspire to blow up the structure, but Col. Nicholson (a fabulous Alec Guinness), the commander who supervised the bridge`s construction, has acquired a sense of pride in his creation and tries to foil their plans. The climax is one of the great finales in film history. Although credited to screenwriter Carl Foreman, the script was actually written by blacklisted writer Michael Wilson. The film garnered seven Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor (Guinness).
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Single White Female/Single White Female 2: The Psycho 2-Pack (DV
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Single White Female/Single White Female 2: The Psycho 2-Pack (DV
SINGLE WHITE FEMALE: Traumatized by the discovery that her live-in fianci has cheated on her with his ex-wife, Allison Jones (Bridget Fonda) decides to find a roommate to share her apartment on Manhattan`s Upper West Side. After interviewing candidates, beautiful, sophisticated career woman Allison settles on Hedra Carlson (Jennifer Jason Leigh), a shy, mousy woman with a hopeless fashion sense, and, seemingly, a heart of gold. At first she s an ideal roommate, asking Allison for advice and attempting to emulate her cosmopolitan style. But Hedy s adulation grows more and more disturbing as Allison realizes that her new roommate has a dark side. Barbet Schroeder (BARFLY, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE) directed this taut psychological thriller. Jason Leigh is mesmerizing as the disturbed Hedy, and Fonda is well cast as the unwitting victim of another`s psychosis.SINGLE WHITE FEMALE 2: Following the successful scare tactics of the original, this horror outing sees a young woman (Holly Parker, THAT`S MY BUSH) moving in with a seemingly normal new roommate, Tess (Allison Lange, GACY). Unbeknownst to her unwitting tenant, however, Tess is an Angel of Mercy who makes the rounds, killing off those she deems in need. Unfortunately, Tess is also losing her ability to discern who those people are, and begins turning her
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WW II 60th Anniversary Box Set - Das Boot/Anzio/The Caine Mutiny
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WW II 60th Anniversary Box Set - Das Boot/Anzio/The Caine Mutiny
DAS BOOT: In the midst of World War II, as the tide turns against the Axis, a German U-boat crew is sent out to patrol the Atlantic and attack Allied ships bringing supplies to England. The submarine also carries a press correspondent, there to report from the front lines of naval warfare. Meanwhile, the crew`s captain (J rgen Prochnow) is becoming disillusioned with the Nazi regime and with war in general. What starts out as a routine mission is soon enlivened beyond the crew`s expectations when their boat`s surprise attack on a convoy is thwarted by a fast-moving destroyer. Battered by depth charges, the crew must pull together to survive the attacks of their unseen enemy.ANZIO: This film from director Edward Dmytryk (THE CAINE MUTINY) follows the Allied landing in Italy at the beaches of Anzio--one of the bloodiest battles of the war, thanks to an overly cautious general (Arthur Kennedy) whose delays gave the Germans time to erect the Caesar Line of defense around Rome. Robert Mitchum stars as Dick Ennis, an unarmed seen-it-all war correspondent who finds himself in the thick of the fray. Peter Falk is scrappy Corporal Rabinoff, a former shoe salesman who s grown addicted to the thrill of combat. Together they get stuck behind enemy lines and must fight their way back to warn the troops. THE CAINE MUTINY: In director Edward Dmytryk`s classic seafaring drama, privileged mama`s boy Ensign Keith (Robert Francis) gets assigned to the Caine, a rusty old minesweeper with a haggard, undisciplined crew, during the latter days of WWII. Soon the paranoid, strawberry-loving Captain Queeg (Humphrey Bogart) takes charge and tries to clean up the ship, arousing the hatred and suspicion of the other officers, especially a flippant lieutenant (Fred MacMurray). Eventually, the men stage a mutiny, and a dramatic trial follows, featuring a sharply intelligent military lawyer (Josi Ferrer). DEADMEN`S SECRETS: THE SECRETS OF SEAWOLVES: This documentary uses ar
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Panic Room - 3-Disc Special Edition (DVD)
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Panic Room - 3-Disc Special Edition (DVD)
As David Fincher's PANIC ROOM begins, recently divorced Meg Altman (Jodie Foster) halfheartedly tours an old New York City townhouse with her restless young daughter Sarah (Kristen Stewart). Using money from her divorce settlement, the unhappy mother decides to buy the spacious home. The former abode of a wealthy eccentric, this townhouse contains an unusual extra feature, a supposedly impenetrable panic room equipped with surveillance monitors, a separate phone line, and other survival aids, where residents can hide in case of emergency. When three men--Burnham (Forest Whitaker), Junior (Jared Leto), and Raoul (Dwight Yoakam)--break into their new home, Meg and Sarah end up using the panic room much sooner than they could have possibly imagined. And, unfortunately for them, these intruders are not simple burglars; they possess knowledge that makes the situation much more perilous.Hitchcockian in its confined setting and carefully doled-out suspense, Fincher's PANIC ROOM is more straightforward than his infamous FIGHT CLUB, though no less engaging. Foster (who replaced Nicole Kidman after she injured herself on the set of MOULIN ROUGE) gives her best performance since THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS. The thieves are equally compelling--Whitaker shines as a likeable, sad-eyed security expert; Leto provides comic relief as a talkative brat; and Yoakam is perfectly loathsome as an armed-to-the-teeth psycho. Although the film features some of Fincher's trademark hi-tech effects, its true bells and whistles are the excellent cast, the stunning photography, the moody score, and the simple yet thrilling story.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseSuperbitAnamorphic Widescreen - 2.35:1Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: TrailerInteractive Features: Interactive Menu Scene SelectionText/Photo Gallery: Filmographies
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Black Hawk Down (DVD)
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Black Hawk Down (DVD)
On October 3, 1993, Army Rangers and members of the elite Delta Force participated in a covert operation in Mogadishu, Somalia that went horribly wrong. Sent to abduct two lieutenants of a vicious Somali warlord, the soldiers found themselves surrounded by hostile militia. Two Black Hawk helicopters were shot down and many men lost their lives. Mark Bowden of the Philadelphia Inquirer told the story of the battle in his exhaustively researched, critically acclaimed book, BLACK HAWK DOWN, and filmmaker Ridley Scott (GLADIATOR) and screenwriter Ken Nolan have done an amazing job of bringing the dramatic story to the screen. Like Bowden's book, the film does not thoroughly examine the context of the conflict, but gives a detailed and intense blow-by-blow account of the fighting. The outstanding ensemble cast includes Josh Hartnett as a competent but nervous Ranger sergeant leading his first mission, Ewan McGregor as a desk jockey who excels when sent into combat, Eric Bana (THE INCREDIBLE HULK) as a cocky and enigmatic Delta, and Ron Eldard as a downed Black Hawk pilot. The violence of the film is brutal and nearly constant. Scott unflinchingly captures the chaos and mayhem of battle with tremendous visual finesse.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 2.35Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Trailers Featurette - 1. ON THE SET (24 mins.)Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene SelectionText/Photo Galleries: Filmographies Production Notes
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John Singleton 3-Pack - Boyz N The Hood/Poetic Justice/Highter Learning (DVD)
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John Singleton 3-Pack - Boyz N The Hood/Poetic Justice/Highter Learning (DVD)
Three films by writer/director John Singleton are collected in this three-pack: BOYZ N THE HOOD, POETIC JUSTICE AND HIGHER LEARNING.BOYZ N THE HOOD (1991, Rated R):John Singleton emerged from USC film school with his passionate script already written, and at age 23 he made the film that spawned a score of ghetto dramas. From the opening shot--a sign reading Stop--to the final message of Increase the Peace, Singleton's desire to galvanize his audience is clear. The violence destroying South Central Los Angeles is seen through the eyes of Tre Styles (Cuba Gooding Jr.), whose intelligence and common sense would be wasted in the'hood if not for his father, Furious (Laurence Fishburne), who imparts discipline and responsibility to his son. Tre's friends aren't so lucky, though, especially Doughboy (Ice Cube), who has been in and out of institutions since childhood and now sits on his porch with a forty in his hand and a pistol in his waistband. Singleton is ambitious enough to tackle a host of problems, from African American business practices to the bias of the SAT test, but the real power of the film lies in the performances of its principals. Cuba Gooding, in his first role, doesn't let Tre come off like a goody two-shoes, while Ice Cube gives a tragic nobility to a young man who knows he's doomed.POETIC JUSTICE (1993, Rated R):Pop princess Janet Jackson plays Justice, a hairdresser and poet living in South Central Los Angeles, in the second film from director John Singleton. Justice saw her first love killed over a gang grudge, and ever since she's been aloof and lonely. She agrees to go on a road trip with her friend, and meets Lucky (Tupac Shakur), a love-struck mailman who soon finds that Justice will not be easily won over. As they discover that they have ideas about life in common, Justice feels that she is not as alone as she had thought.HIGHER LEARNING (1994, Rated R):For the incoming freshman at Columbus University, academi
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Marlon Brando Collection 3-Pack - DVD (On the Waterfront SE, The Wild One, The Freshman) (DVD)
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Marlon Brando Collection 3-Pack - DVD (On the Waterfront SE, The Wild One, The Freshman) (DVD)
ON THE WATERFRONT: Marlon Brando is Terry Malloy, an ex-prize fighter struggling against union corruption along the New York waterfront, in Elia Kazan's film classic. Malloy's battle takes him all the way to the witness stand, where he finds himself testifying against union leaders. The film was Kazan's response to his decision to turn in the names of his Hollywood contemporaries during Senator Joe McCarthy's anti-Communism hearings. Cobb, Steiger, and Malden were all nominated for the Best Supporting Actor Oscars. Academy Award Nominations: 12.
Academy Awards: 8, including Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor--Marlon Brando, Best Story and Screenplay.THE WILD ONE: In one of his most famous roles, Brando stars as the head of a savage motorcycle gang which terrorizes a small town. He gets his first real chance at a normal and productive life when he falls in love with a young woman who lives there, but a psychotic rival to his position as leader threatens everything.THE FRESHMAN: A wry and winsome film about a freshman film student in New York City who is made an offer he can't refuse by a Mafia don who is the spitting image of Don Corleone. As he weighs the romance against the danger of his association, he finds himself rapidly more involved. The Godfather himself, Marlon Brando, brilliantly reprises his famous role in this oddly affecting comedy.DVD Features:Region 13-DVD Boxed SetFull Frame - 1.33
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Traffic - Criterion Collection (2-disc/DVD)
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Traffic - Criterion Collection (2-disc/DVD)
Steven Soderbergh followed up his critical and commercial smash ERIN BROCKOVICH with this wildly exhilarating exploration of the complex, multilayered international drug problem. The film tells three seemingly disparate stories that loosely intersect and overlap, unfurling at a frantic, relentless pace. In the first, a well-intentioned Mexican police officer, Javier Rodriguez Rodriguez (Benicio Del Toro), comes face-to-face with the hypocrisy and hopelessness of his situation after he learns that his superior, General Salazar (Tomas Milian), isn`t the law-abiding officer he claims to be. In the second, Robert Wakefield (Michael Douglas), a conservative Supreme Court judge from Ohio, takes a position as the president`s new drug czar. What he doesn`t realize is that his teenage daughter, Caroline (Erika Christensen), is falling prey to the dangerous narcotics that he has been hired to eradicate. In the third section, federal agents Montel Gordon (Don Cheadle) and Ray Castro (Luis Guzman) are baby-sitting Eduardo Ruiz (Miguel Ferrer), a drug smuggler who is about to testify against the wealthy Carlos Ayala (Steven Bauer). When Ayala`s pregnant wife, Helena (Catherine Zeta-Jones), learns of her husband`s illegal activities, she takes her family`s future into her own hands. Soderbergh`s bold decision to photograph the film using three strikingly different visual schemes adds even greater punch to TRAFFIC, which stands firmly as one of 2000`s most stirring motion picture events.
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