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• Run Lola Run | DVD | (10/04/2000) from £9.22   |  Saving you £10.77 (116.81%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It's difficult to create a film that's fast paced, exciting and aesthetically appealing without diluting its dialogue. Run Lola Run, directed and written by Tom Tykwer, is an enchanting balance of pace and narrative, creating a universal parable that leaps over cultural barriers. This is the story of young Lola (Franka Potente) and her boyfriend Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu). In the space of 20 minutes, they must come up with 100,000 deutsche marks to pay back a seedy gangster, who will be less than forgiving when he finds out that Manni incompetently lost his cash to an opportunistic vagrant. Lola, confronted with one obstacle after another, rides an emotional roller coaster in her high-speed efforts to help the hapless Manni--attempting to extract the cash first from her double-dealing father (appropriately a bank manager), and then by any means necessary. From this point nothing goes right for either protagonist, but just when you think you've figured out the movie, the director introduces a series of brilliant existential twists that boggle the mind. Tykwer uses rapid camera movements and innovative pauses to explore the theme of cause and effect. Accompanied by a pulse-pounding soundtrack, we follow Lola through every turn and every heartbreak as she and Manni rush forward on a collision course with fate. There were a variety of original and intelligent films released in 1999, but perhaps none were as witty and clever as this little gem--one of the best foreign films of the year. --Jeremy Storey, Amazon.com

• Run Lola Run | Blu Ray | (18/02/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Manni (Moritz Bleibtreu) who works as a small-time courier for a big-time gangster is in huge trouble. He has accidentally left the cash from a mob deal on the subway and he has only twenty minutes to deliver the 100 000 marks to his unforgiving boss. Desperate he calls his girlfriend Lola (Franka Potente) the only person who can rescue him from certain death. As the seconds tick away and the tiniest choices become life altering Lola must try to reach Manni before the line between fate and fortune begins to blur. One story told from three different perspectives Run Lola Run is a veritable maze of intriguing plot twists and heart-stopping suspense in a high-octane thrill ride about one woman's desperate attempt to save her lover.

• Big Girls Don't Cry | DVD | (12/01/2004) from £8.07   |  Saving you £11.92 (59.60%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Highschoolers Kati and Steffi have been best friends forever. Now that their love lives are heating up they're hitting the books less and going out to nightclubs more. But when Steffi sees her father out with another woman her life begins to spiral out of control. Steffi hatches an outrageous revenge plan against her father's mistress. Meanwhile Kati begins a fun romance with an older man. As the two teens begin to grow apart they need each other now more than ever... Written