"Director: Andrew Bergman"

• The Freshman | DVD | (10/12/2007) from £7.14   |  Saving you £2.85 (39.92%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Marlon Brando triumphs in his first starring role in ten years as Carmine Sabatini a powerful New York importer. Matthew Broderick co-stars as Clark Kellogg a naive film student who accepts a job working for Sabatini. As if trapped in a comic nightmare Clark finds himself drawn deeper and deeper into an ingenious scam involving an endangered Komodo Dragon Sabatini's daughter and a group of very hungry eccentrics. But when the FBI asks Clark to snitch on his colorful employer he discovers a strange loyalty to this fatherly figure.

• It Could Happen To You | DVD | (14/01/2008) from £7.80   |  Saving you £2.19 (28.08%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Warm-hearted cop Charlie Lang (Nicholas Cage) lives in Queens with socially ambitious wife Muriel (Rosie Perez) faithfully completing his lottery ticket every week. Charlie's life changes forever when he walks into the caf where bankrupt waitress Yvonne Biasi (Bridget Fonda) brings him a cup of coffee. Realising he has no money for a tip Charlie promises Yvonne that if he wins the lottery he'll give her half the prize. Amazingly they win - to the tune of $4 million! Muriel is furious when Charlie insists on keeping his promise but when she reluctantly agrees the whole of New York celebrates. But they soon find that money brings out both the best and worse in people and that instant fortune and fame has changes their lives forever...

• It Could Happen To You | DVD | (01/10/1999) from £11.93   |  Saving you £8.06 (67.56%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Inspired by an actual incident, this unassuming, wonderfully good-natured romantic comedy tells the story of a New York City street cop named Charlie (Nicolas Cage) who makes a promise to a coffee-shop waitress named Yvonne (Bridget Fonda) that will change both their lives. One day after coffee, Charlie is embarrassed to discover he doesn't have money for a tip, so he tells Yvonne that he'll share half of his winnings if the lottery ticket he's holding comes up a winner. Sure enough, he wins the jackpot--a whopping US$4 million payoff--and Charlie's wife, Muriel (Rosie Perez), goes ballistic when he tells her about his deal with Yvonne. From this point, It Could Happen to You follows Charlie's dilemma as he is forced to decide the proper course of action, and director Andrew Bergman smoothly incorporates a gentle love story into this amusing crisis of conscience. Fonda and Cage have an easygoing chemistry that adds a pleasant touch to the movie's fairy-tale plot, and It Could Happen to You's kindhearted sentiment is never so thick that it becomes sticky-sweet or artificial. As feel-good comedies go, this one's a class act. --Jeff Shannon

• Striptease (1996) | DVD | (24/04/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £13.99

  This horrible misfire from the usually reliable writer-director Andrew Bergman (The Freshman) has nothing funny, provocative, timely or interesting to say (despite being based on a novel by Carl Hiaasen) once Demi Moore gets her clothes off. Moore plays a single, unemployed mum caught up in a custody battle who elects to make some money by stripping at a club. The character's troubles don't end there, however: her ex-husband is posing a threat, and a perverted congressman (Burt Reynolds) is looking for more than a lap dance. Bergman's great wit is nowhere in sight, and the film primarily becomes another opportunity for Moore to function like a special effect. --Tom Keogh, Amazon.com

• It Could Happen to You/My Best Friend's Wedding/Sleepless... | DVD | (26/12/2006) from £8.54   |  Saving you £6.45 (75.53%)   |  RRP £14.99

  It Could Happen to You: (1994) Warm-hearted cop Charlie Lang (Nicholas Cage) lives in Queens with socially ambitious wife Muriel (Rosie Perez) faithfully completing his lottery ticket every week. Charlie's life changes forever when he walks into the caf where bankrupt waitress Yvonne Biasi (Bridget Fonda) brings him a cup of coffee. Realising he has no money for a tip Charlie promises Yvonne that if he wins the lottery he'll give her half the prize. Amazingly they win - to the tune of $4 million! Muriel is furious when Charlie insists on keeping his promise but when she reluctantly agrees the whole of New York celebrates. But they soon find that money brings out both the best and worse in people and that instant fortune and fame has changes their lives forever... My Best Friend's Wedding: (1997) Roberts' dazzles as commitment-shy Julianne Potter who suddenly realises she is in love with her best friend Michael (Dermot Mulroney). There's just one catch - he's about to marry someone else. Now she has to win him back and with just four days the help of her resourceful boss (Rupert Everett) and the benefits of an extremely devious mind Jules will do anything to steal him back - except tell him the honest truth! Sleepless In Seattle: (1993) Sam Baldwin (Tom Hanks) is a widowed father who thanks to the wiles of his worried son becomes a reluctant guest on a radio call-in show. He's an instant hit with thousands of female listeners who deluge his Seattle home with letters of comfort. Meanwhile inspired in equal parts by Sam's story and by classic Hollywood romance writer Annie Reed (Meg Ryan) becomes convinced that it's her destiny to meet Sam. There are just two problems: Annie's engaged to someone else and Sam doesn't know that they're made for each other.

• Honeymoon In Vegas | DVD | (07/06/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Writer-director Andrew Bergman is capable of funny, funny stuff, but Honeymoon in Vegas runs out of jokes long before it runs out of comic ideas. The result is a series of comedy concepts that never get past the one-liner stage and are distinctly unsatisfying. Still, there is plenty to be amused by in this story of a reluctant bridegroom (Nicolas Cage) who finally agrees to marriage, only to lose his fiancée (Sarah Jessica Parker) in a crooked poker game to a professional gambler (James Caan). The rest of the movie deals with his frantic attempt to get his fiancée back, while coping with a Vegas in the throes of an Elvis-impersonator convention. That's the funniest thing about the whole movie (most notably the team of parachuting Elvises at the end), but even that is drawn out in ways that are more clever than laughter-inducing.--Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• The Freshman | DVD | (20/05/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Andrew Bergman’s tongue-in-cheek comedy The Freshman keeps the spoofing low key, underplaying the outrageous situations even as he piles them higher. Young Clark Kellog (Matthew Broderick) had no idea film school would drop him into the hands of a real-life Godfather, but after a street punk robs him during his first day in New York City, that’s just where the road leads. Marlon Brando lets everyone know he’s in on the joke with his hammy, good-humoured performance as the bulldog-jowled Mafioso Carmine Sabatini, the man Clark’s prissy, self-important professor swears was the real-life inspiration for Don Corleone. Carmine has a modest proposal for the naive kid from Vermont involving Carmine’s gorgeous daughter Tina (Penelope Ann Miller) and the illegal importing of an endangered lizard. And if the sight of a six-foot-long lizard scattering shoppers as it runs wild through a New York City mall doesn’t do it for you, there’s always Bert Parks’ rousing rendition of Bob Dylan’s "Maggie’s Farm".--Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com

• Honeymoon In Vegas | DVD | (01/01/2007) from £6.22   |  Saving you £6.77 (108.84%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A comedy about one bride two grooms and 34 flying Elvises..... Jack Singer (Cage) is terrified of commitment...but even more terrified of losing his beautiful schoolteacher fiancee Betsy (Parker). So as an act of faith he takes the plunge and agrees to tie the knot in a quickie Vegas ceremony. But when he makes a bad $60 000 bet with mobster Tommy Korman (Cann) the marriage ""knot"" - and all of Jack's dreams - start unraveling fast. The only way that Korman will forgive the debt he says is if Jack will loan him Betsy for the rest of the weekend! It's yet another sucker bet for Jack though - because Korman plans to win Betsy away for good!

• Romantic Comedy: Four Weddings And A Funeral, Honeymoon In Vegas, Martha - Meet Frank, Daniel and Laurence | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Four Weddings And A FuneralCharlie (Grant) is always the best man but never the groom. Determined to avoid even a hint of commitment this handsome English gentleman is notoriously late to every wedding. But today he's in for a surprise because not only did he forget the ring...but he also just caught a glimpse of the girl of his dreams. Honeymoon In VegasJames Caan (The Godfather) Nicolas Cage (Face/Off) and Sarah Jessica Parker (Sex In The City) are three sides of a deliriously funny triangle in this refreshing blast of comic lunacy (WCBS-TV) that gambles with an offbeat premise and hits the jackpot with big laughs! Martha Meet Frank Daniel And LaurenceMeet Martha she's single sexy and sick of her life. With her last she buys a plane ticket to London... one way! Meet Daniel he's single successful and he thinks he's sexy. When he bumps into Martha at the airport in America it's love at first sight... well at least Daniel thinks so! Meet Frank and Laurence Daniel's best friends... although it doesn't always look that way! Frank is constantly engaged in a game of one-upmanship with Daniel while Laurence always appears to be stuck in the middle. They haven't met Martha yet but they will; and when they do you'll soon discover that two's company three's a crowd but four is definitely a catastrophe!

• Honeymoon In Vegas | Blu Ray | (21/09/2009) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99