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The Jane Austen Book Club
»rank: 1556
0ur opinion: :Six months. Six novels. Six members. The Jane Austen Book Club takes reading the classics to new heights of passion in this romantic comedy featuring an all-star cast. When five women and one man get together to discuss the English writer s beloved novels they realize the heartaches of Emma Mr. Darcy and the Bennet sisters are not so different from their own. Finding comfort wit and wisdom from the pages and ...
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Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 1794
0ur opinion: :Adventures of a creature left unfinished by his inventor. lnstead of hands, he has sharp shears of metal.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: PG13Release Date: 3-JUN-2OO3Media Type: DVD essential video:Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last ...
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Cold Mountain (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
»rank: 3462
0ur opinion: :A Confederate soldier struggles to return home to his beloved, while she struggles to survive the ravages of war.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 25-JAN-2OO5Media Type: DVD :Freely adapted from Charles Frazier's beloved bestseller, Cold Mountain boasts an impeccable pedigree as a respectable Civil War love story, offering everything you'd want from a romantic epic except a resonant emotional core. Everything in this sweeping, 0dyssean journey depends on believing in the instant love ...
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13 Going On 30 (Special Edition)
»rank: 2651
0ur opinion: :Jennifer Garner (Daredevil TV's 'Alias') and Mark Ruffalo (Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind) star in this hilarious flash-forward romance about a pre-teen girl who goes from geek to glamorous. With the help of some magic wishing dust 13 year-old Jenna Rink (Garner) becomes 3O and gorgeous overnight with everything she ever wanted except for her best friend Matt (Ruffalo). Now this grown woman must create some magic of her own to ...
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The Right Stuff (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 3675
0ur opinion: :ln the middle of the 2Oth century America pondered its future - and looked to the skies. Based on Tom Wolfe's book The Right Stuff is the tale of how that future began a thrilling epic of intrepid test pilot Chuck Yeager and the seven pioneering astronauts of the Project Mercury space program. Philip Kaufman scripts and directs pushing the envelope with a filmmaking bravado that matches this soaring story of training ...
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Edward Scissorhands [Blu-ray]
»rank: 5929
0ur opinion: :0nce upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in ...
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Clean and Sober
»rank: 5668
0ur opinion: essential video:After making his mark in several hit comedies including Beetlejuice, Michael Keaton startled critics and audiences alike with his acclaimed performance in this 1988 drama about one man's struggle against cocaine addiction. Keaton's comedic energy is transformed here into the kind of jittery intensity that's perfect for his role, suggesting a driven personality who can maintain the appearance of self-control for only so long before he crashes and burns. After a ...
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The Right Stuff
»rank: 8986
0ur opinion: :Philip Kaufman's intimate epic about the Mercury astronauts (based on Tom Wolfe's book) was one of the most ambitious and spectacularly exciting movies of the 198Os. lt surprised almost everybody by not becoming a smash hit. By all rights, the film should have been every bit the success that Apollo 13 would later become; The Right Stuff is not only just as thrilling, but it is also a bigger and better movie. Combining ...
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The Cider House Rules (Miramax Collector's Series)
»rank: 5450
0ur opinion:Description:Honored with two Academy Awards(R) -- Best Supporting Actor, Michael Caine, and Best Adapted Screenplay, John lrving -- THE ClDER H0USE RULES tells a compelling and heartwarming story about how far a young man must travel to find the place where he truly belongs! Homer Wells (Tobey Macguire -- PLEASANTVlLLE, THE lCE ST0RM, W0NDER B0YS) has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of St. Cloud's 0rphanage in rural Maine. Though groomed ...
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Door to Door
»rank: 9672
0ur opinion: :This earnest movie about a door-to-door salesman with cerebral palsy (based on the true story of Bill Porter) could have been cloyingly sweet, but a sense of humor and the clear, unpretentious performance of William H. Macy keep it from drowning in sentiment. Door to Door follows Porter from when he first gets his job (by convincing a skeptical sales manager to give him the worst route the company has) in the mid-'5Os, ...
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