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• Mr and Mrs Smith | DVD | (25/11/2005) from £4.59   |  Saving you £15.40 (335.51%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie star in this black comedy about married assassins from director Doug Liman.

• About a Boy | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £4.80   |  Saving you £15.19 (316.46%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Hugh Grant stars in this adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel about a feckless, wealthy, single 30-something who invents an imaginary son as a way of meeting available single parents, and consequently develops a friendship with a troubled 12 year old boy.

• Chuck And Buck | DVD | (06/12/2004) from £6.54   |  Saving you £-3.55 (-118.70%)   |  RRP £2.99

  Once upon a time, in a childhood land of lollipops and sleepovers, Chuck and Buck were the best of friends; their days marked out with "fun, fun, fun". The trouble is that Chuck grew up and Buck did not. When the pair are reunited at a family funeral, Chuck (now a thrusting music exec with a pert girlfriend and an apartment in the Hollywood hills) finds himself bothered and bewildered by the creepy lost boy he thought he'd left behind. "I like your house," mumbles Buck, sticking out like a sore thumb at an uptight yuppie party. "It's very old person-y." Shot on a shoestring budget by Miguel Arteta, Chuck and Buck offers a uniquely rich and strange comedy of retarded childhood. Think of this as a Peter Pan for modern-day America, or the Tom Hanks film Big viewed through a glass darkly. The slender premise contains deep pockets of ambiguity. After all, who's the real victim here? The harassed Chuck (played by American Pie co-creator Chris Weitz) or the spurned, saucer-eyed Buck (Mike White, who also wrote the script)? And who is the hero: the successful, status-conscious professional or the dopey, tearful wild card? Throughout the tale, you find your sympathies swinging back and forth between them. Make no mistake, Chuck and Buck is alive with hilarious, often horrific set-pieces. Yet Arteta's direction keeps it on a tight leash, prevents it from descending to the level of a simple freak-show. Instead his film blossoms from an odd-couple farce into a drolly provocative (and oddly humane) portrait of that shadow period between infancy and adolescence. White's character comes across as a very human kind of movie monster. Resplendent in stripy T-shirt, Buck is Chuck's conscience, his id, the ghost of childhood come back to haunt him. --Xan Brooks

• Chuck And Buck | DVD | (24/12/2007) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  When does a close friend become too close? From Mike White the writer of Dead Man On Campus and producer of TV's Freaks and Geeks comes a tale of comically twisted obsession. Chuck and Buck are childhood best friends whose lives have taken very different paths. While Chuck moved away and now has a real life Buck stayed behind and developed a dangerous fixation -- on Chuck's life. The result is a wickedly hilarious story of two guys about to learn that growing up is the strangest trip of all. Stars Lupe Ontiveros (As Good As It Gets Picking Up The Pieces Selena) and marks the acting debuts of Chris Weitz (writer of Nutty Professor II and Antz producer of American Pie) and Mike White.

• Mr And Mrs Smith | UMD | (25/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Released amidst rumours of romance between co-stars Angelina Jolie and soon-to-be-divorced Brad Pitt, Mr. and Mrs. Smith offers automatic weapons and high explosives as the cure for marital boredom. The premise of this exhausting action-comedy (no relation to the Alfred Hitchcock comedy starring Carole Lombard and Robert Montgomery) is that the unhappily married Smiths (Pitt and Jolie) will improve their relationship once they discover their mutually-hidden identities as world-class assassins, but things get complicated when their secret-agency bosses order them to rub each other out. There's plenty of amusing banter in the otherwise disposable screenplay by Simon Kinberg (xXx: State of the Union, Fantastic Four), and director Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity) gives Pitt and Jolie a slick, glossy superstar showcase that's innocuous but certainly never boring. It could've been better, but as an action-packed summer confection, Mr. and Mrs. Smith kills two hours in high style. --Jeff Shannon

• Mr And Mrs Smith / Life Or Something Like It | DVD | (25/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Mr And Mrs Smith (Dir. Doug Liman 2005): A sexy action packed thrill ride about a bored married couple who discover that they are enemy assassins... Life Or Something like It:(Dir. Stephen Herek 2002): Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) is a beautiful blonde reporter for a Seattle news station. With a baseball-superstar boyfriend a wonderful apartment and a job opportunity with a national network in New York Lanie's life is all going according to plan. The only thorn in her side is the cameraman and ex-lover she's been teamed with called Pete (Burns). Pete is funny charming and utterly disinterested in a career much to Lanie's disbelief but the pair have an undeniable chemistry that Pete exploits at every turn. Everything changes for Lanie in an instant when she meets homeless Prophet Jack (Shalhoub) for an interview. After he gives her routine predications about the weather and football scores he breaks the ominous news that she will be dead in seven days...