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• Fargo Special Edition | DVD | (21/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper with Fargo that's simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a taut suspense thriller and a violent tale of criminal misfortune. It all begins when a hapless car salesman (played to perfection by William H. Macy) ineptly orchestrates the kidnapping of his own wife. The plan goes horribly awry in the hands of bumbling bad guys Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare (one of them being described by a local girl as "kinda funny lookin'" and "not circumcised"), and the pregnant sheriff of Brainerd, Minnesota, (played exquisitely by Frances McDormand in an Oscar-winning role) is suddenly faced with a case of multiple murders. Her investigation is laced with offbeat observations about life in the rural hinterland of Minnesota and North Dakota, and Fargo embraces its local yokels with affectionate humour. At times shocking and hilarious, this is utterly unique and distinctly American, bearing the unmistakable stamp of its inspired creators. --Jeff ShannonOn the DVD:Fargo, Special Edition presents the movie in anamorphic widescreen (16:9) with Dolby 5.1 available in a choice of English, French or Spanish. Extras include a rare 20-minute interview with the Coens and Frances McDormand, dating from the time of the movie's release, and the 27-minute retrospective documentary, "Minnesota Nice", which has more interviews with the principal cast and crew. There's a "Coen Brothers' Family Tree" listing actors who have collaborated with the duo, and an on-screen trivia track which, among other nuggets, provides a history of pancakes after Peter Stormare's character famously demands "Where is pancakes house?". Cinematographer Roger Deakins provides an intermittent commentary mostly concerned with technical issues. The text of an American Cinematographer article about Deakins and the Coens, trailers and a behind-the-scenes photo gallery complete the package. --Mark Walker

• Patch Adams | DVD | (17/04/2019) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Patch Adams raises two schools of thought: there are those who are inspired by the true story of a troubled man who finds happiness in helping others--a man set on changing the world and who may well accomplish the task. And then there are those who feel manipulated by this feel-good story, who want to smack the young medical student every time he begins his silly antics. Staving off suicidal thoughts, Hunter Adams commits himself into a psychiatric ward, where he not only garners the nickname "Patch" but learns the joy in helping others. To this end, he decides to go to medical school, where he clashes with the staid conventions of the establishment as he attempts to inject humour and humanity into his treatment of the patients ("We need to start treating the patient as well as the disease", he declares throughout the film). Robin Williams, in the title role, is as charming as ever, although someone should tell him to broaden his range--the ever-cheerful, do-gooder à la Good Will Hunting and Dead Poets Society is getting a little old. His sidekick Truman (Daniel London) steals the show with his gawky allure and eyebrows that threaten to overtake his lean face--he seems more real, which is odd considering that Patch Adams does exist and this film is based on his life. Monica Potter is the coolly reluctant love interest and she makes the most of her one-dimensional part. While moments of true heartfelt emotion do come through, the major flaw of this film is that the good guys are just so gosh-darn good and the bad ones are just big meanies with no character development. Patch Adams, though, does provide the tears, the giggles and the kooky folks who will keep you smiling at the end. --Jenny Brown

• The Family Man | DVD | (02/07/2001) from £4.96   |  Saving you £15.03 (303.02%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Nicolas Cage stars in this seasonal tale as a single, hugely successful Wall Street dealer who gets to see what his life could have been like, had he married his college sweetheart.

• Pecker | DVD | (30/09/2000) from £8.22   |  Saving you £11.77 (143.19%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Pecker a sandwich shop clerk takes photos of his rather odd family and friends and nobody thinks anything of them until one day a New York art dealer discovers his work and makes him famous. Is this what Pecker really wants? Another quirky entry from cult director John Waters.

• Paint Your Wagon | DVD | (04/02/2002) from £5.99   |  Saving you £7.00 (116.86%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Set in No Name City California during the gold rush this musical comedy concerns prospectors Ben and Pardner and their unusual nuclear family. The business partners strike a deal to share Ben's wife Elizabeth whom Ben purchased from a Mormon. But the free-thinking Ben is worried about rivalry over Elizabeth from the town's all-male population hungry for female company. So he arranges to kidnap a stagecoach full of working girls on their way to a nearby city and sets up a brothel

• Face/Off | DVD | (11/06/2001) from £5.98   |  Saving you £10.01 (167.39%)   |  RRP £15.99

  At his best, director John Woo turns action movies into ballets of blood and bullets grounded in character drama. Face/Off marks Woo's first American film to reach the pitched level of his best Hong Kong work (Hard-Boiled). He takes a patently absurd premise--hero and villain exchange identities by literally swapping faces in science-fiction plastic surgery--and creates a double-barrelled revenge film driven by the split psyches of its newly redefined characters. FBI agent Sean Archer (John Travolta) must play the villain to move through the underworld while psychotic terrorist Castor Troy (Nicolas Cage) becomes a perversely paternal family man, while using every tool at his disposal to destroy his nemesis. Travolta vamps Cage's tics and flamboyant excess with the grace of a dancer after his transformation from cop to criminal, while Cage plays the sullen, bottled-up agent excruciatingly trapped behind the face of the man who killed his son. His attempts to live up to the terrorist's reputation become cathartic explosions of violence that both thrill and terrify him. This is merely icing on the cake for action fans, the dramatic backbone for some of the most visceral action thrills ever. Woo fills the screen with one show-stopping set-piece after another, bringing a poetic grace to the action freakout with sweeping camerawork and sophisticated editing. This marriage of melodrama and mayhem ups the ante from cops-and-robbers clichés to a conflict of near-mythic levels. --Sean Axmaker

• Mr Deeds | DVD | (05/09/2005) from £3.95   |  Saving you £6.04 (152.91%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A sweet-natured, small-town guy inherits a controlling stake in a media conglomerate and begins to do business his way.

• Walking Across Egypt | DVD | (04/03/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £3.99

  Picking Up The Pieces: Tex (Woody Allen) a kosher butcher from New York under the witness protection program in Arizona has a problem. He has just killed his wife Candy (Sharon Stone) in a jealous rage after discovering she's having an affair with the local sheriff (Keifer Sutherland). He's cut her body into pieces and has taken them to the Mexican border but he's lost one of her hands! A blind old village woman stumbles upon the hand hits her head and miraculously regains her eyesight. Soon thousands are flocking to the local church to see the hand of the 'Madonna' and miracles are granted to all who ask. But the village priest (David Schwimmer) who is in love with the town hooker (Maria Grazia Cucinotta) senses that the hand's origin is not quite 'virginal'. Tex the Sherrif and the Priest all want something done with the hand and the unpredictable outcome proves to be both magical and hilarious. Miss Firecracker: Comedy about Carnelle (Hunter) a sexually-loose hellraiser who enters the Miss Firecracker contest in the very old-fashioned town where she was raised Yazoo City Mississippi. Carnelle's not the usual kind of contestant -- but her cousin is a famous winner -- and Carnelle's determined to equal her no matter what the obstacles.

• The Chamber | DVD | (06/06/2005) from £7.14   |  Saving you £-1.15 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  With just 28 days until before his impending execution young attorney Adam Hall sets out to trace the events of a grisly event in an effort to prevent his grandfather from going to the gas chamber for a racist murder... Chris O'Donnell and Gene Hackman star in this electrifying thriller based on the novel by John Grisham with a screenplay from Oscar winner William Goldman.

• The Unsinkable Molly Brown | DVD | (03/04/2006) from £6.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (220.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Majestic mountains are in the background and a waterfall in the foreground. Is that a canoe on the river? No it's a cradle with a baby. The buoyant Molly Brown has survived the first crisis of her life - a flood. Sixteen years later she sets out to make her way in the world. Can she sing and play the piano? She assures the Leadville saloon keeper that she can and learns quickly. Soon she is the bride of Johnny Brown who in a few years will be able to replace the original cigar wrappe

• Larger Than Life | DVD | (06/10/2003) from £11.47   |  Saving you £-2.49 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  A man inherits his dead father's estate in the shape of an elephant. To sell his inheritance he must first cross America taking his oversized companion along for the ride...

• Whole Wide World | DVD | (11/02/2008) from £8.08   |  Saving you £1.91 (19.10%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Director Dan Ireland shows a talent for authenticity with this heartbreaking love story based on Novalyne Price's 1988 account of her prickly romance with 1930s pulp-fiction writer Robert E. Howard the creator of Conan the Barbarian. She was a schoolteacher in a small Texas town; he was the odd-ball writer who lived at home and created comic-book characters that were sexier and more violent than was considered decent by the locals.

• Nicholas Cage Collection - The Rock / Face/Off / Gone In 60 Seconds | DVD | (04/10/2004) from £29.93   |  Saving you £5.06 (16.91%)   |  RRP £34.99

  Gone In 60 Seconds: Remake of the 1974 classic car-chase movie. Nicolas Cage is Randall 'Memphis' Raines a legendary car thief. When he retired car crimes fell by almost 50% but he is being forced out to retirement to save his brother Kip from an evil mobster Raymond Calitri. Kip has to find 50 cars by Friday or he will be killed. Randall gets his old team back (including Robert Duvall and Vinnie Jones) to save his brother's life. With the police on his case and Calitri threatening to kill him and Kip time is soon running out... The Rock (2-Disc Set): Academy Award winners Sean Connery and Nicolas Cage star in the action-adventure blockbuster. Millions of lives hang in the balance after a military madman (Ed Harris) seizes control of the island prison Alcatraz and threatens to launch deadly poison gas missiles at San Francisco. With time ticking away a chemical weapons expert (Cage) and a cunning federal prisoner (Connery) - who happens to be the only man to have broken out of Alcatraz - must now break in and disarm the missiles! Face Off: Oscar-winning superstar Nicolas Cage and screen icon John Travolta battle head to head in 'Face/Off' the ultimate cat and mouse thriller directed by the world's most acclaimed action film director John Woo! To avenge the senseless murder of his son FBI agent Sean Archer (Travolta) undergoes radical new surgery allowing him to switch faces with the comatose terrorist Castor Troy (Cage) and assume his identity. But when Castor awakes and assumes Sean's identity the real Sean is thrust into an unimaginable nightmare fighting not only for his life but also those of his wife (Joan Allen) and daughter!

• The Glory Guys | DVD | (27/04/2009) from £13.48   |  Saving you £2.51 (15.70%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Renowned for its authentic depiction of frontier life The Glory Guys follows the lives and loves of a group of young cavalry men from their initial recruitment and training to eventually being lead towards their tragic fate by a sadistic war mongering General. Ordered to decimate anything that stand in the way of his brutal crusade his troops are soon drawn into a bloody relentless battle and a breathtaking climax. Starring Tom Tryon Harve Presnell (Fargo Flags of Our Fathers Evan Almighty) Senta Berger (Cross of Iron The Quiller Memorandum) and James Caan (The Godfather Get Smart) in one of his first film appearances. The Glory Guys is directed by TV veteran Arnold Laven (The A-Team) and based on a screenplay by Hollywood maverick Sam Peckinpah (The Iron Cross Billy The Kid).

• Jackie, Ethel, Joan: The Women Of Camelot | DVD | (01/03/2004) from £6.25   |  Saving you £1.74 (27.84%)   |  RRP £7.99

  They were more than mere Washington wives. They were part of the American dream known as Camelot. With strength and cunning they upheld their public image but concealing their private truths. They had no other choice. They were Kennedy women. For Joan wife of senatorial hopeful Ted Kennedy the nomination will thrust her into the spotlight. For the tenacious Ethel wife of future Attorney General Bobby Kennedy the political life is as vital to her as her own. And for John's en

• Anchorman / Old School (Box Set) | DVD | (03/07/2006) from £5.98   |  Saving you £19.01 (317.89%)   |  RRP £24.99

• Daft As A Brush | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £6.17   |  Saving you £-1.92 (N/A%)   |  RRP £2.99

  In his most hilarious role since the legendary 'Dumb And Dumber' Jeff daniels is Fred Barlow a luckless door to door vacuum salesman. But business is not the good clean fun that it used to be as the competition gets dirty in their attempt to brush Fred off of his coveted sales patch. With Fred and his sales team failing miserably the competition are set to clean up until he discovers his wife in an uncompromising position using the vacuum cleaners unique attachemnt for some 'personal pleasure'. Once word spreads that Fred's machine gets into 'those hard to reach places' the team have discovered a new hilarious sales angle!