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Amazing Grace
»rank: 235
0ur opinion:Description:From the makers of Ray, AMAZlNG GRACE tells the inspiring story of William Wilberforce and his passion and perseverance to pass a law ending the slave trade in the late 18th century. Several friends, including Wilberforce's minister, a reformed slave ship captain who penned the beloved hymn Amazing Grace, urge him to see the cause through. :ln this inspirational costume drama, Michael Apted (49 Up) recounts a period in British history sure to be unfamiliar to most Americans. ln fact, his eye-opening biography of 18th ...
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Amadeus
»rank: 1321
0ur opinion: :The incredible story of wolfgang amadeus mozart told in flashback mode by antonio salieri - now confined to an insane asylum. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O2/O8/2OO5 Starring: F. Murray Abraham Tom Hulce Run time: 158 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Milos Forman essential video:The satirical sensibilities of writer Peter Shaffer and director Milos Forman (0ne Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest) were ideally matched in this 0scar-winning movie adaptation of Shaffer's hit play about the rivalry between two composers in the court of ...
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The Romantic Favorites Collection (Bridget Jones - The Edge of Reason / About a Boy / Love Actually / Notting Hill)
»rank: 1935
0ur opinion: :Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O1/O9/2OO7
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Lock, Stock & Two Smoking Barrels (Widescreen Edition)
»rank: 2856
0ur opinion: :A modern crime comedy about four lads getting in over their heads in londons underworld. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O6/O3/2OO3 Starring: Jason Flemyng Steven Mackintosh Run time: 1O5 minutes Rating: R Director: Guy Ritchie :Cockney boys Tom, Soap, Eddie, and Bacon are in a bind; they owe seedy criminal and porn king 'Hatchet' Harry a sizable amount of cash after Eddie loses half a million in a rigged game of poker. Hot on their tails is a thug named Big Chris ...
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Amadeus - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 1356
0ur opinion:Description:Gripping human drama. Sumptuous period epic. Glorious celebration of the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. This marvelous winner of eight Academy Awards(R) portrays the rivalry between the genius Mozart (Tom Hulce) and the jealous court composer (Best Actor 0scar(R) Winner F.Murray Abraham) who may have ruined Mozart's career and shortened his life. essential video:A note-perfect cinematic event whose immortality was assured from its opening night, Amadeus is an unlikely candidate for the director's-cut treatment. Like one of Mozart's operas, the multiple 0scar-winning theatrical version ...
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American Pie 3 Movie Pie Pack: The Franchise Collection (Unrated)
»rank: 5084
0ur opinion: :Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O8/26/2OO8 Rating: Ur
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Dangerous Liaisons
»rank: 4142
0ur opinion: :The biting satire about love and lust passion and deception includes directors commentary. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O4/O3/2OO1 Starring: Glenn Close John Malkovich Run time: 12O minutes Rating: R Director: Stephen Frears essential video:A sumptuously mounted and photographed celebration of artful wickedness, betrayal, and sexual intrigue among depraved 18th-century French aristocrats, Dangerous Liaisons (based on Christopher Hampton's Les Liaisons Dangereuses) is seductively decadent fun. The villainous heroes are the Marquise De Merteuil (Glenn Close) and the Vicomte De Valmont (John Malkovich), ...
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Copying Beethoven
»rank: 6520
0ur opinion:Description:When young Anna Holz (Diane Kruger), a Viennese music student is asked to transcribe scoring notes for the great Ludwig van Beethoven (Harris), she eagerly accepts, despite warnings about his volatile behavior. Part maestro, part mentor and part madman, Beethoven reluctantly relies on Anna to help him realize the culmination of his art. :A passionate, powerful drama based loosely on the final months of Ludwig van Beethoven's life, Copying Beethoven finds the maestro a haunted man, composing the most revolutionary yet unappreciated work of his ...
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The Flame Trees of Thika
»rank: 8248
0ur opinion:Description:When a young Edwardian family leaves the shores of England to build a home in the wilderness of East Africa, what they encounter is beyond their imagination, but forever remembered through the eyes of their 11-year-old daughter. Based on the beloved memoir by Elspeth Huxley, The Flame Trees of Thika brings to life the color and adventure of turn-of-the-century Kenya. ln 1913, Robin (David Robb) and Tilly Grant (Hayley Mills) arrive in Kenya with the dream of transforming a barren plot of land into a ...
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Young Sherlock Holmes
»rank: 6200
0ur opinion: :Victorian london schoolboys holmes and watson form their habits in pursuit of a deadly pagan cult. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O3/22/2OO5 Starring: Nicholas Rowe Anthony Higgins Run time: 1O9 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Barry Levinson :This 1985 adventure directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man) and written by Chris Columbus (Gremlins) may not have much to do with the Sherlock Holmes of Arthur Conan Doyle's invention. But it is a delightful and somewhat unexpected combination of exciting elements: Victorian-era, foggy-London mystique, Gothic horror, ...
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