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  • Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael [1991]Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | DVD | (17/09/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £6.99

    In 1990, Welcome Home Roxy Carmichael showed Winona Ryder as cinema's top teenage role model. Her edge was a delinquency-equals-sympathy angle that held true throughout Beetlejuice, Mermaids, Heathers and Edward Scissorhands. Here as Dinky Bossetti she's chasing the ghosts of a past no one can explain. She's adopted; her town of Clyde, Ohio is mysteriously stuck in the 1950s; but weirder still is everyone's fixation with the imminent return of once-famous homecoming girl Roxy Carmichael. Dinky's school peers conform to the John Hughes 80s look and mindset, but it's the retro adult population that really winds her up. Jeff Daniels ought to be a perfectly conditioned suburbanite, but can't get over having once been married to Roxy. Imparting the secret that they'd had a child and given it away, Dinky's own confusions and obsessions suddenly make sense. The tangle of B-plots are given purpose at the same time she is. Her silent admirer (Thomas Wilson Brown) is able to approach her at last, and her school guidance counsellor becomes the friend she's never had. Ultimately the story's about the notion that no teenager ever feels like they fit in. Of course the real problem facing Ryder, Dinky and any viewer is that all teens grow up. What then? On the DVD: This is a bare-bones package with a simple two-channel stereo and 16:9 anamorphic ratio transfer. That said, it looks and sounds just fine. There's only one trailer, but someone's tried with the diner-style menu at least. --Paul Tonks

  • First Do No Harm [1997]First Do No Harm | DVD | (24/02/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

    When Laura and Dave Reimuller's son Robbie suffers an epileptic fit it's merely the start of the nightmare. As the fits worsen Robbie becomes little more than a 'laboratory rat' for testing highly dangerous drugs - and Dave and Laura stand by helpless as their delightful little boy turns into a disruptive mentally retarded monster. Driven by despair Laura starts her own research and comes across a possible 'miracle cure' which involves neither drugs nor radical surgery. It's a special diet and much frowned on by Robbie's doctors. But to Laura it's his last chance and she's going to take on the medical establisment. Double Academy Award winner Meryl Streep gives a magnificent performance as a mother fighting for her epileptic son's rights to a miracle cure in this heart-rending but inspiring true story.

  • Airplane!/Top Secret!Airplane!/Top Secret! | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

    Airplane (Dir. Jerry Zucker David Zucker & Jill Abrahams 1980): Voted ""one of the ten funniest movies ever made"" by the American Film Institute Airplane! is a masterpiece of off-the-wall comedy. Featuring Robert Hays as an ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning; Julie Hagerty as his girlfriend/ stewardess/ co-pilot; and a cast of all-stars including Robert Stack Lloyd Bridges Peter Graves Leslie Nielsen Kareem Abdul-Jabbar...and more! Their hilarious high jinks spook airplane disaster flicks religious zealots television commercials romantic love...the list whirls by in rapid succession. And the story races from one moment of zany fun to the next! Top Secret (Dir. Jerry Zucker David Zucker & Jill Abrahams 1984): 'Top Secret!' pits American rock star Nick Rivers (Val Kilmer) against the dreaded East German High Command. It's a race against time as Nick teams up with Hillary Flammond (Lucy Gutteridge) to find her father before he can create the ultimate super weapon - the Polaris Mine. Along the way 'Top Secret!' manages to do for war epics and Elvis films what 'Airplane!' did to disaster movies!

  • Amazing True Stories Box Set [DVD]Amazing True Stories Box Set | DVD | (01/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

    Titles Comprise:First Do No HarmDead Before DawnTo Live ForShattering the SilenceBehind the MaskFatal LoveDeath in the ShadowsDeep In My HeartJudgement Day: The Ellie Nesler StoryFalse Arrest

  • First Do No Harm (Fatal Love BONUS) [DVD]First Do No Harm (Fatal Love BONUS) | DVD | (12/09/2011) from £5.38   |  Saving you £-0.39 (N/A%)   |  RRP £4.99

    She went looking for help. What she found was a miracle.Meryl Streep (Sophie's Choice, The French Lieutenant's Woman), two-time Oscar-winner and regarded by many as the most brilliant actress of her generation, gives a magnificent performance (for which she was Emmy Award and Golden Globe nominated) as a mother fighting for her epileptic son's right to a possible miracle cure in this heart-rending and inspiring drama.

  • Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael [DVD] [1991]Welcome Home, Roxy Carmichael | DVD | (26/04/2010) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

    The imminent homecoming of rock star Roxy Carmichael sends the good folks of her small Ohio hometown into a frenzy of preparation. Among those anxiously anticipating this joyous reunion are Denton Roxy's old boyfriend and Dinky a troubled fifteen-year-old obsessed with the notion that Roxy is her mother...

  • Hot Shots! [Blu-ray]Hot Shots! | Blu Ray | (08/07/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    Special Features: Making of an Important Movie Trailer

  • Hot Shots! - Part Deux [Blu-ray]Hot Shots! - Part Deux | Blu Ray | (08/07/2013) from £16.18   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

    Special Features: An Adventure in Film Making Early Awareness Theatrical Trailer

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