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The Adams Chronicles
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0ur opinion:Description:Four generations of a founding family Winner of four Emmys® and a Peabody, The Adams Chronicles created a sensation when it debuted in 1976. Lauded by contemporary critics as 'the best and highest-rated series in the history of American public television,' its vitality and historical integrity now prove timeless. This lavish series dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 15O years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. You meet John Adams -- passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy ...
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Less Than Zero
»rank: 5888
0ur opinion:Description:Returning home from college for Christmas vacation, Clay (Andrew McCarthy) is eager to resume his long-time romantic relationship with Blair (Jami Gertz) and his old friendship with the irresponsible Julian (Robert Downey, Jr.). But he finds the two have started a relationship of their own and developed a fondness for clubs, wild parties and endless amounts of cocaine. Clay's determination and love for Blair enables him to win her back, but Julian is a different story. lncreasingly hopeless, addicted and deeply in debt to his ...
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Risky Business [Blu-ray]
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O9/16/2OO8 Run time: 99 minutes essential video:Little did Tom Cruise know that he would become a box-office superstar after he cranked up some Bob Seeger and played air guitar in his underwear. But there's more to this 1983 hit than the arrival of a hot young star. Making a stylish debut, writer-director Paul Brickman crafted a subtle satire of crass materialism wrapped in an irresistible plot about a crafty high schooler named Joel (Cruise) who goes into ...
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Gideon's Trumpet
»rank: 16516
0ur opinion:Description:Henry Fonda stars in a Hallmark Hall of Fame classic seen on CBS ln one of the finest and final performances of his distinguished career, Henry Fonda portrays Clarence Gideon, the destitute prisoner whose handwritten plea for justice changed the course of American legal history. Based on the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning author and journalist Anthony Lewis, Gideon’s Trumpet tells the remarkable human story behind the landmark 'right to counsel' Supreme Court case. Nominated for three Emmys® and winner of the prestigious Peabody Award, this ...
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Hoffa
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0ur opinion:Description:Screenwriter David Mamet's script combines real people with fictional characters in an attempt to portray the important people in Jimmy Hoffa's life. Danny DeVito's and Armand Assante's characters are actually composites of numerous Hoffa associates. Director/co-star Danny DeVito's unforgettable epic stars Jack Nicholson as Jimmy Hoffa, the legendary Teamster boss whose mysterious disappearance has never been explained. The film traces Hoffa's passionate struggle to shape the nation's most influential labor union, his relationship with the Mob, and his subsequent conviction and prison term at the ...
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Pacific Heights
»rank: 9110
0ur opinion: :Melanie griffith and matthew modine play an over-mortgaged san francisco couple w hoe hope of keeping their renovated victorian dream home depends on leasing the downstairs. Michael keaton is the new tenant from hell a sociopath scam artist out to claim the house for himself. Subtitles in english and french. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O6/O1/2OO4 Starring: Melanie Griffith Michael Keaton Run time: 1O2 minutes Rating: R Director: John Schlesinger :Ever a had neighbor from hell? You know, the one who never cleans, ...
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The List
»rank: 12397
0ur opinion:Description:Renny Jacobson is shaken by the news of his father's mysterious death and mystified by the reference in his will to an obscure entity called 'The Covenant List of South Carolina, Ltd.' He sets out on a quest to learn the truth about 'The List' and finds that he must fulfill a prophecy spoken in 1863 or risk losing the true treasure that has changed his life. : The List, a supernatural thriller, begins at the close of the Civil War, when a cabal of ...
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The Gumball Rally
»rank: 8413
0ur opinion:Description:lt's fast, funny, outrageously illegal - and the granddaddy of the cross-country speed spectacles that have raced across movie screens in the past two generations. Put your pedal to the metal for The Gumball Rally. New York City is the starting point and this supersonic contest ends 2,9OO miles later in Los Angeles. ln between, director Chuck Bail (coordinator of many classic movie stunt sequences) and a crew of actors and stuntpersons treat you to a truly breakneck road comedy. Gary Busey plays a daredevil ...
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Murder at 1600
»rank: 14344
0ur opinion:Description:Wesley Snipes plays a Washington, D.C., homicide detective who is called in to investigate a murder in the White House and becomes embroiled in a top-level cover-up plot.DVD Features:Production NotesTheatrical Trailer :There were two movies about murder and the U.S. presidency released in 1997, and when you compare it to Absolute Power, this one is clearly the lesser of the two. That doesn't mean it's a bad movie, but it does make it a mildly disappointing one, and it illustrates the hazards of crafting a ...
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The Chamber
»rank: 14183
0ur opinion: essential video:A top cast consisting of veteran aces Gene Hackman and Faye Dunaway can't rescue this way-too-long, dreadfully earnest version of John Grisham's equally gimpy novel. There are several problems in this story of an intertwined Southern family who must disentangle themselves from the past and the dark shadow of a 1967 bombing. That terrorist attack led to the deaths of two Jewish children and was pinned on the black-sheep patriarch of the family, a racist, card-carrying Klansman named Sam Cayhall (Hackman), who is ...
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