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• Pelleas Et Melisande | DVD | (23/09/2002) from £17.29   |  Saving you £-2.30 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  A performance of Debussy's beautiful opera recorded in France in 1987.

• Verdi: Simon Boccanegra - Abbado | DVD | (22/12/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  A performance of Verdi's Simon Boccanegra which tells the story of the struggle for power in 14th Century Genoa. Claudio Abbado conducts.

• Kids Pack - The BFG / Gulliver's Travels / Titanic / A Kid Called Danger / Home Team | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The BFG: When little Sophie is taken from her orphanage bed one night it's just the beginning of a thrilling adventure with The Big Friendly Giant. As they catch dreams together in Dream Country and blow them into children's bedrooms trouble appears in the shape of The Bloodbottler and Fleshlumpeater - big bad giants who like to gobble children for breakfast! It's up to Sophie and The BFG to persuade the Queen of England to help them stop the giants and thwart their fiendish plans. Gulliver's Travels: Based on Jonathan Swift's literary classic this was one of the first feature films to combine live action with animation. Titanic (Animated): Southampton - April 1912: The Titanic is ready to sail. Early that morning the first passengers begin to board and stare in amazement at the huge ship. Excited children create mischief while the First Second and Third class passengers line up at their respective gangplanks. But out of sight of human eyes all the animals that populate the Titanic will tell their own story. Geoffrey the cat a family of mice the ducks and squirrels and the two Dalmations belonging to the famous singer Molly Harte. Together they embark on the real adventures on board the Titanic. A Kid Called Danger: 13 year old Dano wants to be a cop like his dad and is ready to plunge head first into the case of a wanted jewel thief... a crime even the police cannot solve. Home Team: A former soccer hero is forced into community service at a children's home. He must train a bunch of no-hopers into winning an almost impossible game.

• The Hollywood Drama Box Set | DVD | (30/01/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Five great dramas in one amazing value box set! Drunks 'Drunks' dramatizes an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting from beginning to end as characters discuss their bout with the bottle. The attendees include Jim who falls off the wagon during the meeting; Louis who is obviously still in denial about his addiction; and Joseph whose drinking caused a drunk-driving death. Others at the meeting from a twenty-something slacker to a well-to-do doctor illustrate the wide range of people affected and sometimes destroyed by alcoholism. The Trial An adaptation by Harold Pinter of Franz Kafka's classic novel about one man's paranoia and persecution. Josef K. for no reason he can imagine is suddenly arrested. As he wanders through a maze of bureaucracy declaring his innocence he becomes more and more entangled in the system putting himself in ever greater danger. And no matter what he does he can't make the nightmare end... Original Intent Jessica Cameron works for a high-powered Los Angeles ad agency. Her husband Matthew is a successful attorney. Although they are happy with their career-driven lives they reconsider their values after Matthew's old college pal Alex drops in for a visit. The guest convinces Matthew to come to the rescue of a homeless shelter that a cold-blooded developer has been trying to shut down. However a major complication develops for the lawyer when he learns that his wife's company represents the villain in another capacity. Power Of Attorney An assistant D.A. becomes obsessed with a mafia chief who he had originally vowed to prosecute and put away for good but finds that he must defend him instead when he leaves the district attorney's office to work for a private law firm who represents the mob... Walking Across Egypt This adaptation of the touching Clyde Edgerton novel stars Ellen Burstyn as Mattie Rigsbee a churchgoing lady in a Deep Southern town whose grown children--a stodgy son (Judge Reinhold) and cold daughter (Gail O'Grady)--have left her lacking for companionship. That need is filled when she makes the acquaintance of the town's dogcatcher played by an unrecognizable Mark Hamill in a scroungy and unexpectedly funny character turn. Through him she makes the acquaintance of his orphaned nephew Wesley (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) a troubled delinquent doing time for car theft. In the unloved teen Mattie sees the chance to practice her Christian ideals of helping the lesser of these thy brethren. In Mattie Wesley sees a chance to get food and cash. Will her religious beliefs be enough to put up with such a troubled and unappreciative child?