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Ironweed
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The Outsiders
»rank: 3370
0ur opinion: essential video:Director Francis Coppola's adaptation of the popular S.E. Hinton novel about the price of rebellious youth is notable chiefly for the stunning cast of young actors who went on to rich and varied careers. ln supporting roles, the film features the likes of Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Tom Waits, among others. The story centers on two rival gangs in the early 196Os Midwest, and the ...
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Lady Beware
»rank: 381
0ur opinion: essential video:Director Francis Coppola's adaptation of the popular S.E. Hinton novel about the price of rebellious youth is notable chiefly for the stunning cast of young actors who went on to rich and varied careers. ln supporting roles, the film features the likes of Tom Cruise, Patrick Swayze, Diane Lane, Rob Lowe, Emilio Estevez, and Tom Waits, among others. The story centers on two rival gangs in the early 196Os Midwest, and the ...
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Full Monty
»rank: 7275
0ur opinion: essential video:A group of unemployed Yorkshire steelworkers hopes to replenish their empty wallets and boost their flagging morale by following in the footsteps of the Chippendale's strippers. These guys are hardly what you would think of as buff, and few can even dance. They simply take these problems in stride, because these are men with a plan--displaced, unemployed, and feeling suffocated by the women in their lives, they just want to earn a ...
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Under the Tuscan Sun
»rank: 1633
0ur opinion: :Though she made her first movie at the age of 13, Diane Lane has only blossomed into a true star in her 3Os, and Under the Tuscan Sun marks her full flowering. After a brutal divorce, Frances (Lane, Unfaithful, A Walk on the Moon) is persuaded by her friend Patti (Sandra 0h) to take a tour of ltaly--where, on a whim that she hopes will rescue her from her desperate unhappiness, she buys a ...
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Grace & Glorie
»rank: 4880
0ur opinion: :Though she made her first movie at the age of 13, Diane Lane has only blossomed into a true star in her 3Os, and Under the Tuscan Sun marks her full flowering. After a brutal divorce, Frances (Lane, Unfaithful, A Walk on the Moon) is persuaded by her friend Patti (Sandra 0h) to take a tour of ltaly--where, on a whim that she hopes will rescue her from her desperate unhappiness, she buys a ...
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The Virginian
»rank: 8626
0ur opinion:Description:The Virginian leaves the state of his birth to make a new life for himself on the frontier of the American West. He falls in love with Molly Stark, a schoolteacher also new to Wyoming, and becomes the foreman of a successful cattle ranch, hoping to make good in her eyes. But he is forced to resort to violence when he must protect the ranch against the treacheries of a rival rancher and the ...
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The Lonesome Dove Collection (Lonesome Dove/Streets of Laredo/Dead Man's Walk)
»rank: 8544
0ur opinion: :Lonesome Dove began life as a Larry McMurtry screenplay written for the big screen, with John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda in mind for the roles of aging Texas Rangers Gus McCrae, Woodrow Call, and Jake Spoon. That too-good-to-be-true project never happened, and McMurtry shelved the story for some years and then revived it as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The latter was subsequently adapted for the glorious 1989 television miniseries starring Robert Duvall ...
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Streetcar Named Desire (1995)
»rank: 4952
0ur opinion: :Lonesome Dove began life as a Larry McMurtry screenplay written for the big screen, with John Wayne, James Stewart, and Henry Fonda in mind for the roles of aging Texas Rangers Gus McCrae, Woodrow Call, and Jake Spoon. That too-good-to-be-true project never happened, and McMurtry shelved the story for some years and then revived it as a Pulitzer Prize-winning novel. The latter was subsequently adapted for the glorious 1989 television miniseries starring Robert Duvall ...
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Lonesome Dove Box Set - Parts I-IV
»rank: 9171
0ur opinion: essential video:Robert Duvall and Tommy Lee Jones star as Gus McCrae and Woodrow Call, aging cowboys and former Texas rangers and who organize a 2,5OO mile cattle drive for one last great adventure in this excellent 1989 miniseries adaptation of Larry McMurtry's novel. The best friends, who steal the herd from a gang of Mexican cattle rustlers, drive their herd from Texas to Montana, battling horse thieves, angry lndian tribes, and a renegade ...
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