"Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon" director Ang Lee brings the brutal Marvel Comics character to the silver screen.
Eric Bana stars as David Banner, whose involvement in a freak lab accident exposes him to gamma radiation. As a result, whenever the mild-mannered man becomes angry, he transforms into a huge, rampaging creature that destroys everything in his path. Banner's ex-girl friend Betty Ross (Academy Award( R) winner Jennifer Connelly) believes that his father (Nick Nolte) may hold the answer to the desperate situation but can she make the connection in time to save a terrified world?
This box set features the following films: Million Dollar Baby (Dir. Clint Eastwood) (2004): Frankie's previous career was blighted by an injury to one of his prize fighters Scrap (Morgan Freeman) who lost the sight in his right eye during a particularly brutal bout; Scrap now wiles away the hours working as a cleaner in Frankie's gym. Wary of similar occurrences being inflicted on the prestigious young talent that passes before him Frankie lets a succession of great boxers slip through his fingers. But when the brash confident young boxer Maggie Fitzgerald (Hilary Swank) strides into the gym Frankie's life is irretrievably altered. Initially refusing to train Maggie due to her gender and age Frankie relents when faced with her tenacity spirit and burning ambition. The combination of Maggie's talent and Frankie's tutelage paves the way for the adroit fighter to rise steadily through the ranks of women's boxing with the unlikely coupling forming a genuinely touching bond in the process. Brokeback Mountain (Dir. Ang Lee) (2005): From Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee comes an epic American love story Brokeback Mountain; the winner of the Golden Lion Award for Best Picture at the 2005 Venice Film Festival winner of four Golden Globes and winner of three Oscars (Best Director for Ang Lee Best Score for Gustavo Santaolalla and Best Adapted Screenplay for Diana Ossana & Larry McMutry)! The film is based on the short story by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Proulx adapted by Diana Ossana and the great Larry McMurtry (scribe and author of The Last Picture Show). Set against the sweeping vistas of Wyoming and Texas the film tells the story of two young men - a ranch-hand and a rodeo cowboy - who meet in the summer of 1963 and unexpectedly forge a lifelong connection; one whose complications joys and tragedies provide a testament to the endurance and power of love. Hotel Rwanda (Dir. Terry George) (2005): Ten years ago some of the worst atrocities in the history of mankind took place in the country of Rwanda and in an era of high-speed communication and round the clock news the events went almost unnoticed by the rest of the world. In only three months one million people were brutally murdered. In the face of these unspeakable actions inspired by his love for his family an ordinary man summons extraordinary courage to save the lives of over a thousand helpless refugees by granting them shelter in the hotel he manages.
ARTH 101258; ARTHAUS MUSIK - Germania; Classica Lirica
Chicago 10 tells the story of the buildup and unraveling of the Chicago Conspiracy trial. Interweaving footage of the brutal clashes between police and demonstrators during the 1968 Democratic convention with 3D animated reenactments of the outrageous trial that followed it it presents the turmoil of what unfolded which descended into an absurdist spectacle. Set to a blazing soundtrack that ranges from Black Sabbath to the Beastie Boys and Eminem Chicago 10 is a stirring account of taking a stand in the face of an authoritarian and punitive government.
the true story of a man who fought the impossible odds to save everyone he could
This lavish suspense-filled film was made from Peter (Jaws) Benchley's best-selling novel. Gail Berke (Bisset) and David Sanders (Nolte) are on a romantic holiday in Bermuda when they come upon the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter. Near it they find an ampule of morphine one of tens of thousands still aboard the wrecked ship. Their discovery leads them to a Haitian drug dealer Henri Cloche (Gossett Jr.) and an old treasure hunter Romer Treece (Shaw). With Cloche in pursuit Gail David and Treece try to recover the sunken treasure...
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