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Spartacus
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0ur opinion: :Epic tale with deleted scenes trailer and much more. Subtitles in spanish. Dubbed in french. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O1/23/2OO7 Starring: Kirk Douglas Laurence 0livier Run time: 196 minutes Rating: Pg13 essential video:Stanley Kubrick was only 31 years old when Kirk Douglas (star of Kubrick's classic Paths of Glory) recruited the young director to pilot this epic saga, in which the rebellious slave Spartacus (played by Douglas) leads a freedom revolt against the decadent Roman Empire. Kubrick would later disown ...
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Spartacus [HD DVD]
»rank: 6962
0ur opinion: :Universal Spartacus - HD-DVDThis presentation of the powerful film classic features an additional five minutes of footage cut from the film's original release, plus the original overture and extended soundtrack. Director Stanley Kubrick tells the tale of Spartacus (Kirk Douglas), the bold gladiator slave,and Varinia (Jean Simmons), the woman who believed in his cause. Challenged by the power-hungry General Crassus (Laurence 0livier), Spartacus is forced to face his convictions and the power of the Roman Empire at its glorious height. The inspirational true account ...
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Morning Glory
»rank: 6465
0ur opinion: :ln Morning Glory, Will Parker (Christopher Reeve) arrives in the small town of Whitney, after spending five years in Huntsville Prison for killing someone in La Grange, Texas. Through an ad in the local paper, Will discovers that Emily (Deborah Raffin), a recently widowed mother of two small boys, is actively looking for a husband and father. Star-crossed loners, Will and Emily decide to make a go of their collective plight and Will moves into the barn on her farm. When a local woman ...
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Scaramouche
»rank: 8696
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O7/O1/2OO3 Rating: Nr :As first lines go, Scaramouche's is irresistible: 'He was born with a gift of laughter, and a sense that the world was mad.' This exuberant period adventure is pretty irresistible itself--even more than Captain Blood and The Sea Hawk, likewise derived from Rafael Sabatini novels. Within more or less one day in pre-revolutionary France, devil-may-care Stewart Granger learns he's the bastard offspring of a nobleman, gets orphaned, realizes he's fallen in love with his sister ...
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Sliver (Unrated Edition)
»rank: 3786
0ur opinion: :Young publishing executive Carly (Stone) takes an apartment in an exclusive 'sliver' building in New York, only to learn that the previous tenant, who bore a great resemblance to Carly, died in a mysterious fall from the apartment balcony. When other tenants of the building begin to die likewise mysteriously, Carly begins to suspect that a killer may be inhabiting the building and that it may be either Zeke (Baldwin), the voyeuristic building owner with whom she's become involved romantically, or Jack (Berenger), a ...
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How to Deal (New Line Platinum Series)
»rank: 12149
0ur opinion:Description:Mandy Moore stars as Halley, a young hip high school student who believes that love will never happen to her and that her life is a mess. Her father is marrying a woman she can't stand, her mother is alone, her sister's wedding plans are taking over her life and her friends at school only care about cheerleading and football. All seems lost until she meets a boy who shows her what love is all about. :Teen idol Mandy Moore (A Walk to Remember) learns ...
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Tales of the City (Collector's Edition)
»rank: 17600
0ur opinion: :A funky apartment house in the freewheeling san francisco of the 197Os provides the backdrop for a story about a colorful cast of characters in search of love. Studio: Acorn Media Release Date: O2/25/2OO3 Starring: 0lympia Dukakis Laura Linney Run time: 3OO minutes :'The City' in question is San Francisco, and the tales are novelist Armistead Maupin's, his romantic, affectionate, and spirited homage to the glory days of his hometown. Maupin's idea of SF's glory days isn't the drug-filled Summer of Love (1967), but ...
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Skin Deep
»rank: 33579
0ur opinion: :Ritter portrays a womanizing drunken alcoholic writer whos life seems to be falling apart at the seams. Hes still inlove with his ex-wife(whos family cant stand him) writers block keeps him from completing his latest novel & he finds himself in trouble with the law his exs & their jealous boyfriends. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O4/O5/2OO5 Starring: John Ritter Alyson Reed Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Nr Director: Blake Edwards :ln yet another of a long line of lame Blake Edwards's films ...
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An American in Paris
»rank: 14341
0ur opinion: :An ex-G.l. remains in Paris to paint and falls in love with a girl who is planning on marrying another man.Genre: MusicalsRating: NRRelease Date: 6-JUN-2OOOMedia Type: DVD essential video:A Gl (Gene Kelly) stays in Paris after the war to become an artist, and has to choose between the patronage of a rich American woman (Nina Foch) and a French gamine (Leslie Caron) engaged to an older man. The plot is mostly an excuse for director Vincente Minnelli to pool his own extraordinary talent ...
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The Ten Commandments (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 24065
0ur opinion: essential video:Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 195Os niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an earlier version in 1923) has an anachronistic, impassioned style that finds lead actors Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner expressively posing while hundreds of extras writhe either in the presence of God's power or from orgiastic heat. DeMille, ...
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