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• Equus | DVD | (04/08/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A film adaptation of the play by Peter Shaffer, Equus stars Richard Burton as Martin Dysart, a psychiatrist who takes on an unusual case: a young stable boy (Peter Firth) who, in frenzy, has blinded six horses. Their sessions reveal that the boy has a quasi-religious fetish for horses and he rides them in the dead of night, experiencing an ecstasy unlike anything Dysart has ever known. Dysart begins to question: Is the pursuit of normalcy worth the loss of individual passions? Equus features a lot of hokum--its therapy scenes are absurd crescendos of revelation and insights--but its central question has substance, the direction is energetic, and the performances are powerful; Burton, handsome and haggard, brings a complex self-loathing to his role. It also features Jenny Agutter and Joan Plowright. --Bret Fetzer

• Road To Avonlea - Proof Of The Pudding | DVD | (22/10/2001) from £5.99   |  Saving you £12.00 (200.33%)   |  RRP £17.99

  When her widowed father encounters financial trouble young Sara Stanley is sent to live with relatives on rustic Prince Edward Island. At first she is unhappy as she adjusts to rural life and the antics of her jealous cousins. Sara proves to be feisty and resilient and is soon the centre of mischief and adventure in Avonlea. Based on the stories of L.M. Montgomery starring Sarah Polley and Jackie Burroughs and directed by Bruce Pittman Harvey Frost and Dick Benner. Old Lady Lloyd: Sara Felicity and Cecily go snooping on the land of eccentric old Miss Lloyd. They get caught trespassing and discover the sad truth about the old lady. Proof of the Pudding: Uncle Alec Aunt Janet and Aunt Hetty are called out of town leaving Felicity in charge. However her know it all attitude provokes instant mayhem. Aunt Abilgail's Beau: Aunt Abigail is visited by her former suitor Malcolm McPherson. Now a wealthy man he sets about wooing prim Aunt Abilgail all over again.