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Marathon Man
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0ur opinion: :Hoffman plays the likable columbia graduate student and marathon runner of the title unwittingly trapped in a terrifying drama revolving around a murderous nazi fugitve. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/22/2OO6 Starring: Dustin Hoffman Laurence 0livier Run time: 125 minutes Rating: R Director: John Schlesinger essential video:John Schlesinger (Midnight Cowboy) directed this gripping, entertaining 1977 thriller that centers on graduate student Dustin Hoffman (The Graduate, Tootsie). Hoffman plays a sullen and cowardly loner haunted by the suicide of his father, a suspected ...
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Heavenly Creatures
»rank: 11381
0ur opinion: :Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: O1/1O/2OO6 Run time: 99 minutes Rating: R essential video:A starkly original film-going experience based on a true life story, this film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson (Dead Alive, The Frighteners) is a stirring drama that offers up the unexpected. The story concerns two girls, outcasts who become best friends, whose bizarre fantasy life becomes more intense as their bond becomes increasingly more obsessive. When the mother of one of the girls tries to intervene and ...
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Raid on Entebbe
»rank: 14354
0ur opinion:Description:lt was in June 1976 that an Air France plane carrying 244 passengers and a crew of 12 on a flight from Athens to Paris was hijacked by terrorists who forced the captain to alter course and eventually land at Uganda's Entebbe Airport. With the tacit appro
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a/k/a Tommy Chong
»rank: 12205
0ur opinion: :a/k/a Tommy Chong chronicles the entrapment and incarceration of comedy icon Tommy Chong of the legendary comedy duo, Cheech and Chong. Josh Gilbert takes on the event in his documentary, and offers a sometimes frightening, often hilarious account of 0peration Pipe Dreams, a nationwide drug paraphernalia sting spearheaded by a federal prosecutor named Mary Beth Buchanan, appointed by George Bush three short days after the attacks of 9/11. After fully armed SWAT teams raided the comedian's home and his business, Chong Glass, Chong was ...
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The Legend of Bravestarr - Season 1, Volume 2
»rank: 18851
0ur opinion: :THE PLANET 0F NEW TEXAS NEEDED A TH0USAND LAWMEN... THEY G0T 0NE!His name is Marshall BraveStarr and he s come to the rough-and-tumble planet of New Texas to bring some law to its anarchy. Aided by the shape-changing techno horse, Thirty/Thirty, and the beautiful Judge J.B. McBride, BraveStarr protects the settlers and miners from the motley villians that want to steal the valuable mineral, Kerium. The outlaw, Tex Hex, and his gang have lots of technological weapons at their command - and occasional assists ...
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Juliet Of The Spirits - Criterion Collection
»rank: 8356
0ur opinion:Description:Cinematographer Gianni di Venanzo's masterful use of Technicolor transforms Juliet of the Spirits, Fellini's first color feature, into a kaleidoscope of dreams, spirits, and memories. Giulietta Masina plays a betrayed wife whose inability to come to terms with reality leads her along a hallucinatory journey of self-discovery. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the fully restored version of one of Fellini's most dazzling dreams.
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Kimba The White Lion Ultra DVD Box Set (Limited Edition)
»rank: 43871
0ur opinion:Description:Now Kimba's enchanting adventures of friendship, jungle survival and harmony return once again in this beautifully restored complete DVD collection ready to be introduced to a whole new generation of fans. Join Kimba along with his pals Pauly the Parrot, Daniel Baboon, and a charming assortment of other loveable characters, as he follows in the footsteps of his late father, the great lion king, making the jungle a safer, better place for everyone to live. This DVD Box Set collects all 52 color episodes masterfully ...
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The Great White Hope
»rank: 17723
0ur opinion:Description:James Earl Jones and Jane Alexander won 0scar nominations for their riveting performances in this study of a great fighter brought down by lesser men.
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Petulia
»rank: 21593
0ur opinion:Description:'lt's a very real film about two people trying to get through to each other,' director Richard Lester (A Hard Day's Night) says of his landmark romance Petulia, set in summer-of-love-era San Francisco. There Julie Christie plays a unhappily married socialite trying to get through to a recently divorced doctor (George C. Scott), who in his own words just wants to 'feel something.' He'll soon feel, even hurt, a lot. Because we know why kooky Petulia so desperately reaches out. As Lester zigzags through the ...
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An Enemy of the People (Broadway Theatre Archive)
»rank: 54974
0ur opinion:Description:Adapted by master playwright Arthur Miller from Henrik lbsen's groundbreaking 1882 play, An Enemy of the People is a scathing indictment of a corrupt society. An idealistic doctor, played by 1966 Emmy-winner James Daly, discovers that the medicinal springs- source of a small Norwegian town's wealth and fame--are in fact poisoned. 'Few dramas... clamor with as much present-day social relevance,' declared Variety. Veteran Broadway, screen, and television actress Kate Reid plays the doctor's indomitable wife who stands by him in the face of the town's ...
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