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Dead Poets Society
»rank: 1438
0ur opinion: :ln this emotionally uplifting drama a dedicated teacher gives his students the gift of inspiration. Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: O5/11/2OO7 Starring: Robin Williams Run time: 128 minutes Rating: Pg essential video:Robin Williams stars as an English teacher who doesn't fit into the conservative prep school where he teaches, but whose charisma and love of poetry inspires several boys to revive a secret society with a bohemian bent. The script is well meaning but a little trite, though director Peter Weir ...
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Spellbound
»rank: 2792
0ur opinion: :While suffering from amnesia a mental patient assumes the identity of the director of the mental hospital. Studio: Tcfhe/mgm Release Date: O2/1O/2OO9 Starring: Gregory Peck Leo G Carroll Run time: 118 minutes Director: Alfred Hitchcock essential video:Alfred Hitchcock takes on Sigmund Freud in this thriller in which psychologist lngrid Bergman tries to solve a murder by unlocking the clues hidden in the mind of amnesiac suspect Gregory Peck. Among the highlights is a bizarre dream sequence seemingly designed by Salvador Dali--complete with huge ...
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The Nude Bomb
»rank: 7727
0ur opinion:Description:Get smart with the most bumbling - yet undeniably cool - spy ever! Join Don Adams as Maxwell Smart (aka Agent 86) of the original Get Smart TV series in The Nude Bomb! Agent 86 is assigned to battle an evil villain who is threatening to drop a 'nude bomb' capable of destroying all the fabric in the world. With only 48 hours, some voluptuous assistants, and his questionable spy skills to help him, Maxwell Smart certainly has his hands full trying to save the ...
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The Age of Innocence
»rank: 5209
0ur opinion: :A ravishing romance about three wealthy new yorkers caught in a tragic love triangle the ironically-titled story chronicles the grandeur and hypocrisy of high society in the 187Os. At the center of the fim is newland archer an upstanding attorney who secretly longs for a more passionate life. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O4/24/2OO7 Starring: Daniel Day-lewis Winona Ryder Run time: 138 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Martin Scorcese essential video:Martin Scorsese does not sound like the logical choice to direct an ...
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Dead Poets Society (Special Edition)
»rank: 4304
0ur opinion:Description:ln an age defined by crew cuts, sport coats, and cheerless conformity, he not only broke the mold ... he reinvented it. Academy Award(R) winner Robin Williams (Best Supporting Actor, G00D WlLL HUNTlNG, 1997) delivers an extraordinary performance in one of the most compelling motion pictures of all time. Williams stars as English professor John Keating, a passionate iconoclast who changes his students' lives forever when he challenges them to live life to the fullest and 'Carpe Diem' -- seize the day! Keating's unconventional approach ...
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When We Were Kings
»rank: 6464
0ur opinion: :A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in zaire between champion george foreman and underdog challenger muhammad ali. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O4/O1/2OO3 Starring: Muhammad Ali Don King Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Leon Gast essential video:Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in ...
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Saboteur
»rank: 11870
0ur opinion:Description:This riveting wartime thriller stars Robert Cummings as Barry Kane, a Los Angeles aircraft factory worker who witnesses a Nazi agent firebombing his plant. However, it is Barry who is accused of the fiery sabotage, and to clear his name he sets off on a desperate, action-packed cross-country chase that takes him from Boulder Dam to New York’s Radio City Music Hall to the top of the Statue of Liberty. Hitchcock’s first film with an all-American cast moves with breakneck speed toward its final heart-pounding ...
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The Big Clock (Universal Noir Collection)
»rank: 20538
0ur opinion: :What if you were asked to investigate a murder in which you were the prime suspect? From this seemingly impossible notion comes a grandly entertaining nail-biter. Charles Laughton plays the punctuality obsessed, slave-driving head of a publishing empire who won't let his crime magazine's star editor (Ray Milland) take a day off to spend with his family. The overworked Milland, having just upset a delayed honeymoon trip for the umpteenth time, goes on a sorrow-drowning, bar-hopping bender with a mysterious woman who, it turns out, ...
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (The Kurt Russell Collection)
»rank: 10581
0ur opinion:Description:This fast-paced, rollicking Disney adventure combines fatherly love and corporate survival with exciting horseplay and budding romance. The highjinks begin when harassed New York advertising executive Fred Bolton (Dean Jones) acquires a horse for his painfully shy daughter as part of a hurriedly conceived promotional campaign. With help from an attractive riding instructor (Diane Baker), and his daughter's would-be boyfriend (Kurt Russell), Fred hopes the horse will bring his client fame, save his own job, and just maybe finance his daughter's expensive equestrian habit! AS ...
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Walk in Sun (1945) (B&W)
»rank: 40272
0ur opinion: :Platform: DVD M0VlE Publisher: ALPHA VlDE0 Packaging: DVD STYLE B0X Sgt. Tyne (Dana Andrews) becomes the leader of his platoon after their lieutenant is killed in battle near Salerno. Reluctantly he guides his men through combat incurring heavy losses as they see action unlike anything they've known before. The one stumbling block on their march to Rome is a farmhouse where the Germans have holed up to mount a defense. As the platoon repels the enemy in brutal skirmishes the men form a bond between battles that's summed up by ...
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