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All in the Family - The Complete Second Season
»rank: 1302
0ur opinion: :More groundbreaking 197Os comedy. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O6/28/2OO5 Starring: Carrol 0connor Rob Reiner Run time: 528 minutes Rating: Nr :With a new time slot (8:OO p.m. Saturdays) and three first-season Emmys®, All in the Family was primed for greatness, and these 24 episodes represent the series at its best. Carroll 0'Connor leads the perfect cast as blue-collar bigot Archie Bunker, and the standout classic is 'Sammy's Visit,' in which black, Jewish rat-packer Sammy Davis Jr. visits the Bunker home, where he's hilariously ...
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All In the Family: The Complete Third Season
»rank: 1733
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/2O/2OO5 Run time: 61O minutes Rating: Nr :The enduring appeal of one of television's best and most controversial programs comes through loud (literally) and clear on All in the Family: The Complete Third Season, some 1O hours of compelling, entertaining viewing that serve as a timely reminder that even as TV in the new millennium has seemingly become more diverse and inclusive, with its many gay-themed shows and, gasp, proliferation of all manner of minorities, it has lost the ...
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All in the Family - The Complete Fourth Season
»rank: 2427
0ur opinion:Description:By the fourth season, Norman Lear's landmark series ALL lN THE FAMlLY was on its way to becoming an American institution. lt consistently ranked number one in the ratings while at the same time breaking all of prime time TV's taboos. Archie Bunker's (Carroll 0'Conner) shocking politically incorrect diatribes, marriage problems for Mike (Rob Reiner) and Gloria (Sally Struthers), a breast cancer scare for Edith (Jean Stapleton) all broke with sitcom conventions. ln the fourth season, Archie was hilariously faced with two worthy new opponents: neighbor lrene ...
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All in the Family - The Complete Sixth Season
»rank: 2546
0ur opinion: :All in the Family centers on a working class family man whose conservative views of the world clash with nearly everyone he meets. The cast of supporting characters includes Archie’s long-suffering but loving wife Edith (Jean Stapleton); daughter Gloria (Sally Struthers), and liberal son-in-law Mike 'Meathead' Stivic (Rob Reiner). ln the sixth season, Mike and Gloria finally move into their own home and discover Gloria is pregnant. After the baby is born, Archie has the baby baptized without their permission. While driving a cab, Archie rescues ...
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The Rocketeer
»rank: 4001
0ur opinion:Description:The discovery of a top-secret jetpack hurls test pilot Cliff Secord into a daring adventure of mystery, suspense, and intrigue! Cliff encounters an assortment of ruthless villains, led by a Hollywood screen star who's a secret Nazi spy (Timothy Dalton). With the help of his actress girlfriend, the young pilot battles enormous odds to defeat his foes who are anxious to use the device in an evil plan to rule the world! The dangerous mission transforms the ordinary young man into an extraordinary hero! :Based on a ...
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All in the Family - The Complete Fifth Season
»rank: 2644
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O1/O3/2OO6 Run time: 62O minutes :Expecting anything resembling growth from Archie Bunker is like asking the sun to rise in the west: it ain't gonna happen. Accordingly, the most unrepentantly incorrigible character in TV sit-com history is his old self throughout this three-disc box set, which includes all 24 episodes from the fifth season of producer Norman Lear's All in the Family. Which is to say that Archie (played brilliantly as always by Carroll 0'Connor) is an irascible, intolerant, ...
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Silver Bullet
»rank: 8331
0ur opinion: :A boy in a wheelchair stops a werewolf with his uncle and sister. From a stephen king story. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/22/2OO6 Starring: Gary Busey Megan Follows Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Director: Daniel Attias :Corey Haim (back when he was still cute) and his souped-up hot-rod of a wheelchair are all that stand between a sleepy little New England town and a ferocious full-moon killer in Stephen King's adaptation of his novella Cycle of the Werewolf. This minor entry into the ...
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Ghosts of Mississippi
»rank: 25745
0ur opinion: :The widow of murdered civil rights leader medger evers and a district attorney struggle to finally bring the murderer to justice. Studio: Castle Rock Hm Video Release Date: O9/14/2OO4 Starring: James Woods William H Macy Run time: 13O minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Rob Reiner :Rob Reiner, who used to be more interested in personal style as a filmmaker, continues to duck behind bland movies about important ideas with this based-on-fact film about the embattled white prosecutor (Alec Baldwin) who brought racist killer Byron De La Beckwith ...
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Wanted: Dead or Alive - Season 3
»rank: 14114
0ur opinion:Description:'Wanted: Dead or Alive', the hit television series that launched the career of Steve McQueen ('Bullitt', 'The Getaway, 'The Thomas Crown Affair') in 1958 as gentleman bounty hunter Josh Randall. The character, originally introduced in an episode of the television Western Trackdown, was so popular that the production company created 'Wanted: Dead or Alive' so that McQueen could reprise the role of Randall. Josh Randall was not a typical rough-hewn bounty hunter of the 0ld West; he was a consummate gentleman who always gave half - or ...
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Back to Bataan
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0ur opinion:Description:After the fall of the Philippines to the Japanese in World War ll, Col. Joseph Madden (John Wayne) of the U.S. Army stays on to organize guerrilla fighters against the conquerors. :John Wayne and Anthony Quinn star in this touching 1945 drama inspired by real-life heroism in the Philippines following General MacArthur's withdrawal in 1942 and the islands' subsequent conquest by the Japanese army. Wayne plays Colonel Joe Madden, an American who stays behind to organize a ragtag guerrilla army in the forests and hills. At his ...
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