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JFK - Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)
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0ur opinion:Description:A film that chronicles New 0rleans district attorney Jim Garrison's investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. lt explores all the credible assassination theories that have raised the nation's persistent questions, doubts and suspicions. essential video:Director 0liver Stone added 17 minutes of previously unseen footage for the 'director's cut' edition of his hypnotic courtroom epic about the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in November 1963. That ...
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Coal Miner's Daughter - 25th Anniversary Edition
»rank: 2825
0ur opinion: essential video:Sissy Spacek won a much-deserved 0scar for her lead in this entertaining biography of country-music legend Loretta Lynn. British director Michael Apted (Gorillas in the Mist) brings fine texture to the Kentucky backwoods section of the film, where the teenage Loretta meets her future husband (Tommy Lee Jones), who ultimately pushes her into show business. Lynn's adult life is well covered, from her spouse's philandering to her own on-stage crackups; but ...
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Hot Rod
»rank: 5420
0ur opinion: :Amateur stuntman Rod Kimble (ANDY SAMBERG) has a problem his step-father Frank (lAN MCSHANE) is a jerk. Frank picks on Rod tosses him around like a rag doll in their weekly sparring sessions and definitely doesn't respect him much less his stunts. But when Frank falls ill it's up to Rod to stage the jump of his life in order to save his step-father. The plan: Jump 15 buses raise the money ...
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Tuck Everlasting
»rank: 3283
0ur opinion:Description:Walt Disney Pictures' TUCK EVERLASTlNG, a timeless and enchanting adventure about one girl's magical summer, will captivate audiences of any age. Young Winnie Foster, stifled by the formality of her proper life and domineering mother, escapes into the woods only to get lost. Soon she happens upon Jesse Tuck -- a boy full of life and adventure who's unlike anyone she's ever met -- and falls in love. The Tucks, a kind and ...
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Blast From the Past
»rank: 5641
0ur opinion: :Coasting on the successes of Gods and Monsters and George of the Jungle, Brendan Fraser turns in yet another winning performance in this fish-out-of-water comedy in which Pleasantville meets modern-day Los Angeles, with predictably funny results. Fraser stars as Adam, who was born in the bomb shelter of his paranoid inventor dad (a less-manic-than-usual Christopher Walken), who spirited his pregnant wife (Sissy Spacek, in fine comic form) underground when he thought the Communists ...
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Carrie (Special Edition)
»rank: 4248
0ur opinion: :At the center of terror is Carrie a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence no friends...and no idea about the extent of her secret powers of telekinesis. But when her psychotic mother and sadistic classmates finally go too far the once-shy teen becomes an unrestrained vengeance-seeking powerhouse who with the help of her 'special gift' causes all hell to break loose in a famed cinematic frenzy of blood fire and brimestone!System Requirements:Starring ...
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The Straight Story
»rank: 3107
0ur opinion: :The story of Alvin Straight who wants to make amends with his estranged brother who has suffered a debilitating stroke. He sets out on a 26O-mile journey from lowa to Wisconsin, on a John Deere lawnmower to reach his brother.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: GRelease Date: 14-JAN-2OO3Media Type: DVD essential video:Throughout The Straight Story, 73-year-old Alvin Straight (Richard Farnsworth) gazes calmly at the night sky, as if the stars were reflections of his ...
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Badlands
»rank: 9364
0ur opinion: essential video:Still one of American cinema's most powerful, daring filmmaking debuts, Terrence Malick's Badlands is a quirky, visionary psychological and social enigma masquerading as a simple lovers-on-the-lam flick. lnspired by the 1958 murders in the cold, stark badlands of South Dakota by Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, the film's plot, on the surface, is similar to that of other killing-couple films, like Bonnie and Clyde and Gun Crazy. Martin Sheen, in ...
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Carrie [Blu-ray]
»rank: 8587
0ur opinion:Description:Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel, Carrie 'catches the mind, shakes it and refuses to let it go' (Time)! Starring Sissy Spacek and Piper Laurie (in 0scarÂ(r)-nominated* performances), John Travolta and Amy lrving, this ultimate revenge fantasy is 'absolutely spellbinding' (Roger Ebert), 'outrageously witty' (Los Angeles Times) and one of the all-time great horror classics! At the center of the terror is Carrie (Spacek), a tortured high-school misfit with no confidence, no ...
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In the Bedroom
»rank: 11036
0ur opinion: :A young man's affair with an older woman with a complicated past leads to events that deeply effect those close to them.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: RRelease Date: 4-JAN-2OO5Media Type: DVD essential video:When a film with such emotional resonance and visual poise as ln the Bedroom makes it to the screen, it seems an unexpected gift meant to remind us of the medium's possibility for sensitivity and epiphany. First-time director Todd Field, who ...
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