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• Christmas Shoes | DVD | (14/11/2011) from £4.69   |  Saving you £0.30 (6.00%)   |  RRP £4.99

  Seasonal drama based on the novel by Donna van Liere. Two stories intertwine: in the first, Rob Lowe stars as Robert Layton, a workaholic lawyer who is drifting away from his wife, Kate (Maria del Mar) and his family. In the second, a little boy, Nathan (Max Morrow), tries to raise the cash to buy a pair of red shoes for his mother, who is dying from a congenital heart defect. As Robert's path crosses with Nathan's, he is moved to learn the value of love, family and giving.

• Without A Trace - Season 2 | DVD | (16/01/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £61.99

  The sole responsibility of the FBI special task force is to find missing persons by applying advanced psychological profiling techniques to peel back the layers of the victims' lives and trace their whereabouts in an effort to discover whether they have been abducted been murdered committed suicide or simply run away... The complete second season of the Emmy Awarding winning TV series. Episodes comprise: 1.The Bus 2.Revelations 3.Confidence 4.Prodigy 5.Copycat 6.Our Sons An

• Christmas Box Set - Christmas Shoes/A Christmas Romance/I'll Be Home For Christmas | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £8.99   |  Saving you £4.00 (44.49%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Christmas Romance: It is Christmas and Julia Stonecypher (Olivia Newton-John) has just lost her husband. Life is bleak for her and her two daughters and it looks like getting worse when the bank manager (Gregory Harrison) turns up saying that her house will be repossessed, making them homeless. When he leaves, he crashes his car during a snowstorm and his only refuge is the single mother's house. The four of them are now trapped by the storm and the hostility begins to thaw.I'll Be Home For Christmas: Part-time mayor Sarah (Ann Jillian) heads a town council desperate to find a doctor to keep open the small town's clinic. Fearing the town's decline, her hopes are raised when widower Michael (Robert Hays), a surgeon, returns to visit during the holidays. Unfortunately, the mayor's attempt to recruit Michael is complicated by their previous high school romance.The Christmas Shoes: Seasonal drama based on the novel by Donna van Liere. Two stories intertwine: in the first, Rob Lowe stars as Robert Layton, a workaholic lawyer who is drifting away from his wife, Kate (Maria del Mar) and his family. In the second, a little boy, Nathan (Max Morrow), tries to raise the cash to buy a pair of red shoes for his mother, who is dying from a congenital heart defect. As Robert's path crosses with Nathan's, he is moved to learn the value of love, family and giving.

• The Christmas Shoes | DVD | (10/10/2005) from £7.29   |  Saving you £-1.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Kate Layton the wife of high-flying workaholic Robert throws herself into helping at her daughter's school when she realises that her family is drifting apart. When the music teacher is diagnosed with a life-threatening condition however Kate is forced to take control of the choir. As the two families intertwine Robert comes to discover that there is more to life than money and status.

• The Christmas Shoes | DVD | (19/11/2007) from £8.07   |  Saving you £-2.08 (-34.70%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Workaholic lawyer Robert Layton didn't even know he needed a miracle until it happened. But when it did it transformed his life opened both his eyes and heart to a totally new world and made him realise what matters most in life. The heart-warming - and often heart-breaking - story of how this happened is told in The Christmas Shoes a delightful 'festive season' drama for all the family.

• Christmas Box Set - I'll Be Home For Christmas/The Christmas Shoes/A Christmas Romance | DVD | (21/11/2011) from £12.59   |  Saving you £0.40 (3.18%)   |  RRP £12.99

  A Christmas Romance: It is Christmas and Julia Stonecypher (Olivia Newton-John) has just lost her husband. Life is bleak for her and her two daughters and it looks like getting worse when the bank manager (Gregory Harrison) turns up saying that her house will be repossessed, making them homeless. When he leaves, he crashes his car during a snowstorm and his only refuge is the single mother's house. The four of them are now trapped by the storm and the hostility begins to thaw.I'll Be Home For Christmas: Part-time mayor Sarah (Ann Jillian) heads a town council desperate to find a doctor to keep open the small town's clinic. Fearing the town's decline, her hopes are raised when widower Michael (Robert Hays), a surgeon, returns to visit during the holidays. Unfortunately, the mayor's attempt to recruit Michael is complicated by their previous high school romance.The Christmas Shoes: Seasonal drama based on the novel by Donna van Liere. Two stories intertwine: in the first, Rob Lowe stars as Robert Layton, a workaholic lawyer who is drifting away from his wife, Kate (Maria del Mar) and his family. In the second, a little boy, Nathan (Max Morrow), tries to raise the cash to buy a pair of red shoes for his mother, who is dying from a congenital heart defect. As Robert's path crosses with Nathan's, he is moved to learn the value of love, family and giving.

• The Sopranos: Series 1 (Vol. 4) | DVD | (16/04/2001) from £4.99   |  Saving you £9.00 (180.36%)   |  RRP £13.99

  The Sopranos, writer-producer-director David Chase's extraordinary television series, is nominally an urban gangster drama, but its true impact strikes closer to home: this ambitious TV series chronicles a dysfunctional, suburban American family in bold relief. And for protagonist Tony Soprano, there is the added complexity posed by heading twin families, his collegial mob clan and his own, nouveau riche brood.The series' brilliant first season is built around what Tony learns when, whipsawed between those two worlds, he finds himself plunged into depression and seeks psychotherapy--a gesture at odds with his mid-level capo's machismo, yet instantly recognisable as a modern emotional test. With analysis built into the very spine of the show's elaborate episodic structure, creator Chase and his formidable corps of directors, writers and actors weave an unpredictable series of parallel and intersecting plot arcs that twist from tragedy to farce to social realism. While creating for a smaller screen, they enjoy a far larger canvas than a single movie would afford, and the results, like the very best episodic television, attain a richness and scope far closer to a novel than movies normally get.Unlike Francis Coppola's operatic dramatisation of Mario Puzo's Godfather epic, The Sopranos sustains a poignant, even mundane intimacy in its focus on Tony, brought to vivid life by James Gandolfini's mercurial performance. Alternately seductive, exasperated, fearful and murderous, Gandolfini is utterly convincing even when executing brutal shifts between domestic comedy and dramatic violence. Both he and the superb team of Italian-American actors recruited as his loyal (and, sometimes, not-so-loyal) henchman and their various "associates" make this mob as credible as the evocative Bronx and New Jersey locations where the episodes were filmed.The first season's other life force is Livia Soprano, Tony's monstrous, meddlesome mother. As Livia, the late Nancy Marchand eclipses her long career of patrician performances to create an indelibly earthy, calculating matriarch who shakes up both families; Livia also serves as foil and rival to Tony's loyal, usually level-headed wife, Carmela (Edie Falco). Lorraine Bracco makes Tony's therapist, Dr Melfi, a convincing confidante, by turns "professional", perceptive and sexy; the duo's therapeutic relationship is also depicted with uncommon accuracy. Such grace notes only enrich what is not merely an aesthetic high point for commercial television, but an absorbing film masterwork that deepens with subsequent screenings. --Sam Sutherland, Amazon.com