Radio psychologist Jack Black (Mark Harmon) takes his children Joshua (Joshua Jackson) and Ashley (Sarah Wayne) on a ""vacation"" to a lake in British Columbia. While he grinds away at work the children discover that the famous local lake monster ""Orky"" may not be just a gimmick to attract tourists after all. In fact Orky may enable them to get closer to their workaholic dad and help keep local polluters from dumping toxic waste into Orky's home.
The second of the Merchant/Ivory films (A Room with a View, Howard's End), Maurice deals with a theme few period pieces dare mention--a young man's struggle with his homosexuality. It's not just a gay coming-of-age story, however. The hero wrestles with British class society as much as his personal and sexual identity.The film opens on a stormy, windswept beach, as an older man awkwardly instructs young, fatherless Maurice Hall (James Wilby) in the "sacred mysteries" of sex. The same turbulent, wordless struggle with passion lasts throughout this slowly evolving, beautifully filmed story. Novelist E M Forster's brainy, British melodrama hinges on choice and compulsion, as the pensive hero falls for two completely different men. First comes frail, suppressed Clive (Hugh Grant), who wants nothing more than classical Platonic harmony ... and a straight lifestyle. (Grant's performance is so convincing, one wonders how he ever became a heterosexual sex symbol.) After Clive's wedding, Maurice turns to hypnosis to cure his unspeakable longings. Unfortunately, his "cure" is interrupted by Clive's lustful, brooding, barely literate gamekeeper Scudder (Rupert Graves), a worker more at home gutting rabbits than discussing the classics. Maurice's love for a "social inferior" forces him to confront his illicit desire and his ingrained class snobbery. --Grant Balfour
You see there was a time when Elephant had no nose. He couldn't swat away the flies, or scrub his belly... he couldn't even blow his nose. Then one day snappy Crocodile snapped! Crocodile pulled and he pulled and he pulled until Ker-doing!! Crocodile let go and Elephant's nose was all long and wiggly! And that's why Elephant's have a trunk.
Married and supposedly retired from duty Sean Dillon (Rob Lowe) is dragged back into the dangerous world of international espionage when a plan is discovered by Brigadier Ferguson (Kenneth Cranham) to kill off the British Royal Family. Dillon must discover who is behind the plot but the suspects are many and varied. Is the IRA involoved Middle East fundamentalists or old guard Russian leaders tightening their fingers on the trigger that will set Britain on the road to a Republic? The stage is set for a deadly game of cat and mouse between former comrades turned adversaries. In such a barren climate of cold hearts can love survive and good finally triumph over evil?
One man's conviction divided a nation Australia 1958. A nine year old white girl is found murdered in a remote cave and the local police are quick to arrest an illegitimate Aborigine by the name of Max Stuart. Under interrogation Max admits to the the killing and signs the statement that will send him to the gallows. With no Court of Appeal established in the country and a legal system compromised by intimidation tactics from institutional racism gifted but naive lawyers David O'Sullivan (Carlyle) and Helen Devaney (Fox) are put to the test in their efforts to take the case all the way to the Privy Council in London... This compelling real-life drama is based on a landmark case that irrevocably changed a nation.
Placid Lake isn't your average rebel.... He wants to work on insurance. Placid Lake has always been very different. His crayon eating scientific genius of a best friend Gemma also has a few issues with 'blending in'. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive nor
He had a great job a beautiful wife and a habit the size of Utah. Based on the acclaimed autobiography of the same name Permanent Midnight stars Ben Stiller and Elizabeth Hurley in this emotionally riveting story about a hot television writer who learns first-hand about the dark side of success in Hollywood.
It's hard to know who thought it would be a good idea to make a live-action version of Disney's animated classic, 101 Dalmatians (and originally Dodie Smith's classic children's story). The one bright notion anyone had was casting Glenn Close as Disney Übervillainess Cruella de Vil; her flashing eyes and angular features are a perfect match and do credit to what is one of the most indelible animated characters Disney has ever created. The story remains essentially the same, focusing on Cruella's plot to kidnap the puppies of a young married couple (Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson) and make them into a coat. But the dreaded John Hughes, who wrote this script, fills it with sadistic slapstick and far too few genuine laughs. The human actors work hard, but to little avail; thankfully, there's a posse of puppies to regularly steal scenes when the going gets dreary--although there are only so many laughs to be had from inappropriate dog puddles. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com Don't be fooled by the title, there are four reasons to like 102 Dalmatians, the sequel to the successful live-action remake of Disney's 101 Dalmatians. There are the 101 spotted pooches, Glenn Close back in fine form as Cruella DeVil, Oddball--the spotless Dalmatian pup--and Waddlesworth, a parrot who thinks he's a rottweiler (and is voiced by Monty Python's Eric Idle). There are just as many reasons to be disappointed: like most sequels, the story line is virtually a rewrite of t he first; the secondary casting isn't as interesting; the dialogue merely serves to move the plot along; and the third act substitutes mean-spiritedness for comedy. After a period of rehabilitation, Cruella has returned to her old tricks. Once again, she simply must have a spotted coat and will go to any lengths to get hold of the 102 Dalmatians needed to make one with a hood. She sets her sights on the pups owned by her probation officer, Chloe (Alice Evans), and the owner of a local animal shelter, Kevin (Ioan Gruffudd). Her servant Alonso (Tim McInnerny) and flamboyant furrier Monsieur Le Pelt (Gerard Depardieu, in one ridiculous outfit after another) are drafted to aid in her quest. It should come as no surprise that Chloe and Kevin fall in love, Oddball helps to save the day and Cruella is defeated. Children should enjoy the animal high jinks, but adults are less likely to be enamoured by this perfectly competent, but relatively charmless affair. --Kathleen C Fennessy, Amazon.com.
Animated adventures with Clifford the big red dog. Episodes Comprise: 1.My Best Friend 2.Fair Weather Friend 3.A New Friend 4.The Dog Who Cried Woof 5.Friends 6.Morning 7.Noon And Night 8.Screaming For Ice Cream
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.
Species (Dir. Roger Donaldson 1995): Men cannot resist her. Mankind may not survive her! When a creature geneticaly engineered through extraterrestrial intelligence escapes from observation scientist Xavier Fitch (Kingsley) assembles an elite team of experts to track it down. The crew - a government assassin (Madsen) an empath (Whitaker) a biologist (Helgenberger) and an anthropologist (Molina) - combines their expertise and traces their prey to Los Angeles. The
Young co-eds Lynette and Barbara will do anything to get into the most popular sorority on campus. Their final pledge is to spend the night at an abandoned Halloween Spooky House. The sorority sisters have all kinds of scary plans for the girls. Unfortunately what they all don't know is that there is psychotic killer squatting in the building. One by one they try to escape the labyrinth of death!
A film student follows a Melbourne-based hitman in this Australian hit.
3 breakdancing beauties on 3 discs! 'Breakin': Breakdance The Movie A struggling young jazz dancer (Lucinda Hickey) meets up with two break-dancers. Together they become the sensation of the street crowds. Features Ice-T in his film debut as a club MC. 'Breakin 2': Electric Boogaloo All the gang from 'Breakin' are back and this time they're up against a greedy developer who wants to turn their community centre into a shopping mall... Beat Street Rapper K
Titles Comprise: Ben Stiller leads an all-star cast including Robin Williams and Dick Van Dyke in this hilarious comedy hit. When good-hearted dreamer Larry Daley (Stiller) is hired as night watchman at the Museum of Natural History he soon discovers that an ancient curse brings all the exhibits to life after the sun sets. Suddenly Larry finds himself face-to-face with a frisky T. Rex skeleton tiny armies of Romans and cowboys and a mischievous monkey who taunts him to the breaking point. But with the help of President Teddy Roosevelt (Williams) Larry may just figure out a way to control the chaos and become a hero in his son's eyes. Boasting jaw-dropping special effects and laugh-out-loud moments Night At The Museum is your ticket to non-stop fun! Night At The Museum 2: Escape From The Smithsmonian: Ben Stiller is back as Larry the security guard who continues to encounter living and breathing museum exhibits in Night In The Museum 2: Escape From The Smithsonian!
Based on the best-selling book by Michael Foreman, War Game is the award-winning animated story of three English boys who leave their idyllic country lives to fight in the trenches of World War One. During a ceasefire on Christmas Day 1914, as if by a miracle, a soccer match is started between the Germans and the English soldiers, fulfilling a long-held dream of the three protagonists to one day play football for England. This powerful, moving story for the whole family features the voice of Kate Winslet, among others.
In this new comedy the lives of several Miami denizens, from ad agents to gunrunners to street thugs to law enforcement to school-children, intersect with dangerous results.
Internationally renowned jazz pianist Ben Sidran performs some of his best-loved hits in this concert performance recorded live at the Palais Des Festivals Hall Cannes in 1989. Track Listing: 1.Lets Make a Deal (5:18) 2.Walking with the Blues (5:07) 2.Be Nice (1:46) 4.Song for a Sucker Like You (6:20) 5.Piano Players (5:15) 6.Broad Daylight (8:55) 7.Mitsubishi Boy (5:17) 8.Face Your Fears (1:46) 9.Riffing with Biff (7:22)
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