Joe Tyler is a process server who will do anything it takes to deliver legal documents to unsuspecting victims. But nothing in Joe's bag of tricks prepares him for Sara the stunning soon-to-be ex-wife of a playboy cattle baron named Gordon Moore. When Joe serves Sara with Gordon's divorce papers Sara presents an offer Joe can't refuse: serve Gordon with Sara's papers first and earn a cool million dollars! Pursued by Joe's greedy boss and bumbling office rival Joe and Sara begin a wildly funny journey to find Gordon and discover that nothing heats up romance like riches and revenge... Included in this DVD double pack is the Brendan Fraser / Elizabeth Hurley movie 'Bedazzled'!
The book was better" has been the complaint of many a reader since the invention of movies. Frank Darabont's second adaptation of a Stephen King prison drama The Green Mile (The Shawshank Redemption was the first) is a very faithful adaptation of King's serial novel. In the middle of the Depression, Paul Edgecomb (Tom Hanks) runs death row at Cold Mountain Penitentiary. Into this dreary world walks a mammoth prisoner, John Coffey (Michael Duncan) who, very slowly, reveals a special gift that will change the men working and dying on the mile. With Darabont's superior storytelling abilities, his touch for perfect casting, and a leisurely 188-minute running time, his movie brings to life nearly every character and scene from the novel. Darabont even improves the novel's two endings, creating a more emotionally satisfying experience. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.comPay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Kevin Spacey, Helen Hunt, and Haley Joel Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitises the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. One may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humour, clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. --Jim Gay, Amazon.comWhen someone in Proof of Life says "Don't leave me hanging", you can bet they're going to be left hanging. There's little room for delicacy in Tony Gilroy's screenplay, adapted from an article by William Prochnau and the book Long March to Freedom by kidnapping survivor Thomas Hargrove. A hint of romance between Russell Crowe (the soldier-turned-"K&R") and Meg Ryan adds tension as the story shifts back and forth to David Morse's captivity. Avoiding that pitfall, director Taylor Hackford crafts the plot as a latter-day Casablanca that unfolds on a grander canvas (at stunning locations in Ecuador) while favouring an exciting rescue-mission climax over the tragedy of an ill-timed affair. It might have worked better as a straightforward macho action flick (with David Caruso doing lively work as Crowe's gung-ho K&R cohort), but Proof of Life effectively conveys the two-sided torment of a hostage crisis. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
Filmed in Chicago & finished in 1959 The Cry Of Jazz is film maker composer and arranger Edward O Blands polemical essay on the politics of music and race - a forecast of what he called 'the death of jazz'. A landmark moment in film forseeing the civil unrest of subsequent decades it also features the only known footage of visionary pianist Sun Ra from his beloved Chicago period. Featured are ample images of tenor saxophonist John Gilmore and the rest of Ra's Arkestra in windy city night clubs all shot in glorious black and white.
An urban romantic comedy available on DVD for the first time ever! Stacey and Michael are co-workers unexpectedly forced to become roomies. Can they forge a relationship in the face of office politics jealous friends nosey landlords or are they just...fair game? Fair Game won the Blockbuster Audience Award at the 2005 Pan African Film Festival.
This spectacular underwater adventure follows Captain Nemo and his crew aboard the atomic submarine Nautilus. A monster from the deep is destroying ships at sea and the government vessel sent to investigate suffers the same fate. As his ship sinks sailor Ned Land and a government official are rescued from certain death by a fantastic futuristic submarine under the command of Captain Nemo...
Greyfriar's Bobby (Dir. Don Chaffey 1961): The true story of a Skye terrier who after a vigil at his master's grave for fourteen years became well-known throughout Scotland and eventually received a gold licence from the Lord Provost of Edinburgh. Darby O'Gill (Dir. Robert Stevenson 1959): Take a wee bit of ancient folklore mix in some spectacular special effects and a magical cast (including Sean Connery) - and you've got one of the most enchanting fantasies of all time! A frisky old storyteller named Darby O'Gill is desperately seeking the proverbial pot of gold. There's just one tiny thing standing in his way: a 21-inch leprechaun named King Brian. In order to get the gold Darby must match his wits against the shrewd little trickster - which proves no small task indeed!
The rollicking adventures of Robin Hood in the long running TV series starring Richard Green as the titular green tight-clad hero. Includes the complete first series with the following episodes: The Coming Of Robin Hood The Moneylender Dead Or Alive Friar Tuck Maid Marian A Guest For The Gallows The Challenge Queen Eleanor Checkmate The Ordeal A Husband For Marian The Highlander The Youngest Outlaw The Betrothal The Alchemist The Jongleur The Brothers The Intruders The Sheriff's Boots Errand Of Mercy The Vandals Richard The Lionheart Ladies Of Sherwood Will Scarlet The Deserted Castle The Miser Trial By Battle Children Of The Freewood The May Queen The Wanderer The Byzantine Treasure Secret Mission The Inquisitor Tables Turned The Traitor The Thorkil Ghost The Knight Who Came To Dinner The Wager The Prisoner.
Title Comprise: The Fox And The Hound:This highly acclaimed classic blends vibrant animation and breathtaking action to tell the story of two best friends who didn't know they were supposed to be enemies. The fun and adventure begin when a lonely widow adopts an orphaned fox cub named Tod. The mischievous fox soon meets up with Copper an adorable hound puppy. As the innocent pair grow up together in the forest they become inseparable friends. But the day soon arrives when their friendship is put to the test! The Fox And The Hound 2: Disney heads to the country with this sequel to the beloved animated movie The Fox And The Hound. Things are pretty much the same between Tod and Copper. Still best buds the two stick together when Copper gets a chance to show off his vocal chords in a hound dog chorus. But will their different paths drive them apart? The animated comedy comes alive with voice-work by Patrick Swayze Reba McEntire and Jeff Foxworthy as well as country music by Lucas Grabeel and Trisha Yearwood.
Ronald Howard takes up the mantle of the super sleuth in 4 classic episodes from 1954.
Ronald Howard takes up the mantle of the super sleuth in 4 classic episodes from 1954.
The Glasgow crime fighting police team in three cases: 'An Eye For An Eye' 'Penthouse And Pavement' and 'Atonement'.
Gabby refuses to breed his horse the Golden Sovereign with Roy's. When the Sovereign and Roy's horse escape Skoville shoots the Sovereign by mistake but Roy is blamed and jailed. A year later Roy returns with Trigger the son of the Sovereign. When Skoville slips and reveals he was present when the horse was shot Roy sees a chance to clear his name.
Adrift: Katy and Guy Nest set sail on a trip to try to save their marriage and find love again. However things don't go according to plan when their quiet cruise turns into a deadly nightmare after rescuing Nick and Eliza from a stranded cabin cruiser. Adrift on a sea of fear they become prisoners who must fight desperately to save their lives. Nevada: A beautiful and mysterious woman comes into a miss-if-blink Nevada town with a secret that threatens the status quo of the tightly knit group of women who run the town Monday through to Friday. Their men work at a dam a few hours away and can only return on the weekends for rowdy fun and raucous love. Her beauty and demeanour make Christy the obvious scapegoat for several of the women's frustrations and loneliness. Several others see her as a beacon of hope in an otherwise downtrodden existence. The ensuing conflicts sends their normally placid lives into a state of chaos. 'Nevada' is an insightful and witty exploration of the choices women must make in their lives as mothers lovers wives and as individuals. Dirty Tricks: 'Dirty Tricks' follows the hapless exploits of an unscrupulous English tutor at a seedy language school in Oxford. On the surface he is an eternal student: charming witty and accomplished. Beneath the facade however he displays a brilliant and ruthless talent for lying and manipulating everyone around him. Our 'hero' becomes friendly with wealthy couple Dennis and Karen Parsons but his initial feelings of bitterness regarding their success become complicated by a frenzied affair with Karen. This spawns a wild chain of events from sex and adultery to marriage money and accusations of murder. Eventually he escapes the leafy Oxford suburbs and the long arm of the law and flees to South America leaving a trail of madness and intrigue in his wake.
Chief Inspector Birkett (Ian Hendry) and Sergeant Saunders (Ronald Fraser) are called in to investigate the murder of a glamorous model. They discover that the murdered girl has led a chequered life and that her acquaintances include drug pushers. Jordan Barker (Jeremy Brett) and Hammond Barker (Peter Arne) are reluctant to help but when the police finally make an arrest another murder occurs in a seedy Soho Jazz caf. But are the two murders connected?
Years and Years follows the Lyons, a busy Manchester family. Daniel's getting married to Ralph. Stephen and Celeste worry about their kids. Rosie's chasing a new fella. Edith hasn't been home for years. All presided over by Gran, the imperial Muriel. But when their lives all converge on one crucial night in 2019, the story accelerates into the future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons over the next 15 years. And what a world! Everything we fear, and everything we hope for, happening around this tight-knit family. Society gets hotter, faster, madder, with the turmoil of politics, technology and distant wars affecting the Lyons in their day-to-day lives. Set against this, the Lyons have to navigate their everyday hopes and fears, knowing that one ordinary family could never change the world. Or could they?
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