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• Fast Food Nation | DVD | (27/08/2007) from £1.95  |  Saving you £14.04 (87.80%)  |  RRP £15.99

  Do You Want Lies WIth That? Inspired by the incendiary bestseller that exposed the hidden facts behind America's fast food industry comes a powerful drama that takes an eye-opening journey into the dark heart of the All-American meal. Richard Linklater's Fast Food Nation traces the birth of an everyday ordinary burger through a chain of riveting interlocked human stories - from a hopeful young immigrant couple who cross the border to work in a perilous meat-packing plant to a teen clerk who dreams of life beyond the counter; to the corporate marketing whiz who is shocked to discover that his latest burger invention - ""The Big One"" - is literally full of manure. As the film traverses from pristine barbeque smoke labs to the volatile U.S.-Mexican border it unveils a provocative portrait of all the yearning ambition corruption and hope that lies inside what America is biting into.

• The Jacket | DVD | (12/09/2005) from £2.83  |  Saving you £16.16 (85.10%)  |  RRP £18.99

  1991: Jack Starks a U.S. Marine Sergeant serving in the Persian Gulf War receives a near-fatal gunshot wound to the head. Although he recovers the incident leaves him with shock-related amnesia. After his release with nowhere to go Starks who has no relatives returns to his native Vermont. Nine months later hitchhiking along a snowbound Vermont highway Starks encounters a broken down pick-up truck. The driver a drunken disoriented mother named Jean and her eight-year-old

• Silver City | DVD | (14/11/2005) from £2.50  |  Saving you £17.49 (87.50%)  |  RRP £19.99

  Corruption runs deep. American iconoclastic director John Sayles (Lone Star) takes aim at contemporary politics and corporate influence with more than a vague reference to George W. Bush and Republican politics in this neo-noir detective story. Grammatically challenged ""user friendly"" gubernatorial candidate Dicky Pilager has just launched a campaign for the citizens of the New West. But things take an unexpected turn when the taping of an environmental pol