Seventeen year old Justine (Laura Fraser) is fed up with the lack of success she has with guys. It seems as though the boys have it easier. But now she's ready to take that big step, but with whom?
First aired on British television in 1996 This Life chronicles the lives of a group of house-sharing twentysomething professionals as they try to make sense of life love and each other. This Life - Series 1: Providing a timely shake-up of TV drama conventions This Life's refusal to conform was its key to success. While critics deemed it 'immoral' for its graphic depictions of homosexuality and blas attitude to drug-taking fans revelled in its
Few would have guessed from its initial headline-grabbing shock tactics, but the BBC's This Life went on to become one of the most influential television dramas of the 1990s. The show's creators certainly went for the jugular with liberal smatterings of sex, drugs and general debauchery--not many television shows then or now come with an 18 certificate. But beneath all the surface gloss lay a drama of real substance. The first 11 episodes begin with the five individuals coming together in London's legal world and then take us through their shared experiences. This Life's great strength was that there was enough drama between the main protagonists to maintain the show's momentum, while introducing just the right amount of secondary characters (Delilah, Ferdy)--a trick that Queer as Folk, perhaps the show's natural successor, was also to employ. The chemistry between the leading players has rarely been bettered since and, all in all, This Life has aged not a jot. On the DVD: while there is little in the way of extra features, the DVD format suits This Life perfectly. And where 430 minutes of VHS would be too unwieldy, this two-disc collection is sharp and snappy. The menu layout is excellent, enabling easy access to those classic moments, and the hip soundtrack (The Prodigy, Iggy Pop, Dubstar) sounds crisp and clear. --Phil Udell
Miles Anna Egg Milly Warren and Ferdy return for the second series of the groundbreaking BBC drama This Life. This time around life is even more complicated: Egg is having serious problems with money and direction; Milly enters an affair with her boss O'Donnell; Anna is still in love with Miles but having a hard time accepting it; meanwhile Miles gets engaged despite his feelings for Anna; Warren gets arrested for 'cruising' in the local park and decides to le
Virtual Sexuality: Seventeen year old Justine (Laura Fraser) feels like she's the last virgin on earth. It seems as though boys have a far easier deal. But now she's ready to take that big step.. First she needs to find that perfect match - her Mr Barcode. School stud Alex (Keiran O'Brien) fits the bill so with the help of best friend Fran (Marcelle Duprey) and geeky mate Chas (Luke de Lacey) Justine hatches a plan to set up a date at a Computer Exhibition. Alex however has other ideas and abandons Justine to go out with the man-eating Hoover (Natasha Bell). A dejected Justine decides to cheer herself up by trying out the Narcissus make-over machine and has a great time creating her perfect man on screen. But just as she finishes a huge explosion rips through the exhibition. Clambering out of the rubble something seems very different..somehow Justine has morphed into Jake (Rupert Penry - Jones) - her dream guy! Chaos ensues with hilarious consequences as Jake deals with life as a girl trapped in a (gorgeous) guy's body and Justine continues her search for true love in this hip sexy Brit flick! Evil Woman: The story of a group of young guys who will do anything to save their friend (Jason Biggs) from marrying the wrong girl even if it means kidnapping his ex-girlfriend his true love in order to bring them back together before she becomes a nun... Dick: The year is 1972 and like most high-school students Betsy Jobs (Kirsten Dunst) and Arlene Lorenzo (Michelle Williams) just want to have a good time. However during a class field trip to the White House they cluelessly wander into a behind-closed-doors top secret shredding session. It's time to both wag the dog and walk it. Seeking to uncover just how much the witless duo discovered the Commander-In-Chief appoints them 'Official White House Dog Walkers ' and it isn't long before the girls go from walking Checkers to taking out Tricky Dick in this fun-raising comedy of historic distortions.
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