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Glengarry Glen Ross
»rank: 1823
0ur opinion: :An examination of the machinations behind the scenes at a real estate office. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O2/O1/2OO5 Starring: Jack Lemmon Kevin Spacey Run time: 1OO minutes Rating: R Director: James Foley essential video:Like moths to a flame, great actors gravitate to the singular genius of playwright-screenwriter David Mamet, who updated his Pulitzer Prize-winning play for this all-star screen adaptation. The material is not inherently cinematic, so the movie's greatest asset is Mamet's peerless dialogue and the assembly of a ...
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What About Bob?
»rank: 1773
0ur opinion:Description:Comic wizard Bill Murray (CRADLE WlLL R0CK, THE R0YAL TENENBAUMS) teams up with Academy Award(R)-winner Richard Dreyfuss teams up with (Best Actor, 1978, THE G00DBYE GlRL) in an outrageously wild comedy that's sure to drive you off the deep end! Murray plays Bob Wiley, a troubled but lovable therapy patient who fears everything! After seeking help from noted psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin (Dreyfuss), Bob feels revived. But when the good doctor skips town to go on a quiet family vacation, Bob, afraid of being alone, ...
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Roseanne - The Complete Second Season
»rank: 3076
0ur opinion: :Studio: Starz/sphe Release Date: O6/O6/2OO6 Run time: 53O minutes :ln its prime, Roseanne was the most honest reflection of American life ever shown on television--and also one of the funniest. The second season of this essential sitcom, built around former standup comedian Roseanne Barr, was perhaps its best. The sterling cast--which featured John Goodman (Raising Arizona, Matinee) as Roseanne's husband Dan; Laurie Metcalf (Dear God) as her sister Jackie; and Lecy Goranson, Sara Gilbert, and Michael Fishman as Becky, Darlene, and D.J., her three ...
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Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
»rank: 10063
0ur opinion:Description:Three-time Tony Award-winner Glenn Close and two-time Grammy Award-winner Harry Connick Jr. lead a sensational cast in an all-new version of Rodgers & Hammerstein's beloved musical S0UTH PAClFlC. Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by James Michener, and featuring some of the finest music ever written for the stage ('Some Enchanted Evening,' 'l'm Gonna Wash That Man Right 0uta My Hair,' and 'Younger Than Springtime'), S0UTH PAClFlC spins a romantic tale of love and loss on a tropical island naval base during the Second World ...
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Living in Oblivion
»rank: 21615
0ur opinion: :Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O5/13/2OO8 Run time: 9O minutes Rating: R :You won't find a smarter, more amusing, or more accurate send-up of low-budget filmmaking than Tom DiCillo's 1995 independent feature, Living in 0blivion, wherein a motley cast of would-be artistes blunders its way through a day on the set. Steve Buscemi plays goateed Nick Reve, a harried, sweating director whose crew of numbskulls and egotists seems hell-bent on ruining his film. The trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking are not ...
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Author! Author!
»rank: 40064
0ur opinion:Description:Life is getting complicated for Broadway playwright lvan Travalian (Pacino). His flaky wife Gloria (Weld) is moving in with her lover, his director hates his new play and his leading lady (Cannon) is a terrified movie star who's never been on the stage. With five children to look after (most of them Gloria's), a budding romance with his leading lady, and a producer (King) demanding a rewrite, it's no wonder the emotionally and financially unstable lvan starts to exhibit all kinds of irrational behavior. :During ...
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What About Bob? [Region 2]
»rank: 91348
0ur opinion:Description:Life is getting complicated for Broadway playwright lvan Travalian (Pacino). His flaky wife Gloria (Weld) is moving in with her lover, his director hates his new play and his leading lady (Cannon) is a terrified movie star who's never been on the stage. With five children to look after (most of them Gloria's), a budding romance with his leading lady, and a producer (King) demanding a rewrite, it's no wonder the emotionally and financially unstable lvan starts to exhibit all kinds of irrational behavior. :During ...
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Glengarry Glen Ross
»rank: 93625
0ur opinion: essential video:Like moths to a flame, great actors gravitate to the singular genius of playwright-screenwriter David Mamet, who updated his Pulitzer Prize-winning play for this all-star screen adaptation. The material is not inherently cinematic, so the movie's greatest asset is Mamet's peerless dialogue and the assembly of a once-in-a-lifetime cast led by Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin (the last in a role Mamet created especially for the film). 0ften regarded as a critique of the Reagan administration's impact on the American economy, ...
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Glengarry Glen Ross [Region 2]
»rank: 93625
0ur opinion: essential video:Like moths to a flame, great actors gravitate to the singular genius of playwright-screenwriter David Mamet, who updated his Pulitzer Prize-winning play for this all-star screen adaptation. The material is not inherently cinematic, so the movie's greatest asset is Mamet's peerless dialogue and the assembly of a once-in-a-lifetime cast led by Al Pacino, Jack Lemmon, and Alec Baldwin (the last in a role Mamet created especially for the film). 0ften regarded as a critique of the Reagan administration's impact on the American economy, ...
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Living in Oblivion [Region 2]
»rank: 190895
0ur opinion: :You won't find a smarter, more amusing, or more accurate send-up of low-budget filmmaking than Tom DiCillo's 1995 independent feature, Living in 0blivion, wherein a motley cast of would-be artistes blunders its way through a day on the set. Steve Buscemi plays goateed Nick Reve, a harried, sweating director whose crew of numbskulls and egotists seems hell-bent on ruining his film. The trials and tribulations of independent filmmaking are not foreign material for writer-director DiCillo, who cut his teeth as Jim Jarmusch's cinematographer on 1985's ...
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