"Director: Bruno Barreto"

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  • View from the Top [DVD]View from the Top | DVD | (16/05/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

    This breezy comedy from director Bruno Barreto stars Gwyneth Paltrow as Donna a young woman who dreams of escape from her rural Nevada home town. Her life changes when she sees Sally Weston (Candice Bergen) on TV talking about her book My Life in the Sky and her fabulous career traveling the world as a flight attendant. Soon the plucky Donna has a job at a small Nevada airline that caters to gamblers and drunks and along with fellow trainees Sherry (Kelly Preston) and Christine (Christina Applegate) dreams of working the international routes on a large airline. That opportunity arises when Royalty Airlines holds a job fair where the girls are drilled by former airline attendant John Whitney (Mike Myers). Soon Donna and Christine find themselves in training at Royalty's home base with the manic Whitney where the ambitious Donna makes it clear that she's headed for the international routes by acing all of Whitney's tests. However Donna finds that success doesn't come without its pitfalls when she ends up stationed in Cleveland where she strikes up a romance while still dreaming about jetting around Europe as a first class flight attendant...

  • Reaching for the Moon [DVD]Reaching for the Moon | DVD | (12/05/2014) from £7.99   |  Saving you £8.00 (100.13%)   |  RRP £15.99

    This award winning drama is set at the height of 1950s glamour and recounts the sensual relationship between Pulitzer Prize-winning poet Elizabeth Bishop (played by Miranda Otto Lord of the Rings) and Brazilian architect Lota de Macedo Soares (the beautifully handsome Brazilian TV star Gloria Pires). When Bishop leaves America in search for inspiration she never counted on meeting the love of her life. At first the two women voice their differing world views but animosity quickly turns to affection and their long-lasting affair dramatically alters Bishop's relationship to the world around her. From Oscar nominated director Bruno Barreto Reaching for the Moon is an intimate portrait of two women finding the most incredible love.

  • View From the Top [2002]View From the Top | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £6.73   |  Saving you £8.26 (122.73%)   |  RRP £14.99

    Gwyneth Paltrow stars in this new comedy as a young woman from meager beginnings who dreams of becoming a first class international flight attendant

  • Acts Of Love [1996]Acts Of Love | DVD | (10/01/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

    Available for the first time on DVD! No love is safe from desire. Joseph (Dennis Hopper) is a small town teacher who has given up on both life and his tentative relationship with his childhood sweetheart Rosealee (Amy Irving). That is until he becomes caught up in a passionate affair with Catherine (Amy Locane) the vivacious 17 year old daughter of a gruff retired major (Gary Busey) and an alcoholic mother. As his steamy liasion with Catherine develops Joseph begins to realise tha

  • Last Stop 174 [DVD]Last Stop 174 | DVD | (05/04/2010) from £13.24   |  Saving you £6.75 (50.98%)   |  RRP £19.99

    The tragic events that informed Jose Padilha's 2003 documentary BUS 174 serve as the inspiration for this docudrama detailing the events that unfolded when on the morning of June 12 2000 the passengers on a bus traveling through the wealthy Rio de Janeiro district of Jardim Bot''nico were taken hostage by a disturbed young man who had been abandoned by society. Marisa (Cris Vianna) is a drug addict whose baby Alessandro was taken from her by drug dealers after she failed to pay a lingering debt. Later after becoming sober Marisa becomes obsessed with finding her son and begins searching the local juvenile detention homes. Meanwhile on the outskirts of Rio a young boy named Sandro wanders into his mother's shop to find her lifeless body riddled with knife wounds. Wistfully recalling his mother's promises to take him to Copacabana the grieving boy runs away ultimately falling in with a group of street kids and becoming addicted to drugs. Later Sandro somehow manages to survive the notorious Candelaria massacre only to be locked away in a juvenile detention centre. It's there that Sandro meets Alessandro. When Marisa arrives at the centre in search of her son she mistakes Sandro for Alessandro and tenderly takes the troubled boy under her wing. But Sandro's scars run deeper than Marisa could ever imagine so deep that he believes his only hope for survival is taking a busload of hostages.

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