"Director: Ted Demme"

• Blow | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £3.99   |  Saving you £16.00 (401.00%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz star in this true life story of a young man who worked with Colombian drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine into the United States in the 1970s.

• Life | DVD | (06/03/2000) from £6.20   |  Saving you £9.79 (157.90%)   |  RRP £15.99

  New York City, 1932: Small-time hustler Ray Gibson (Eddie Murphy) has just sweet-talked his way into Club Spanky's, a swank nightclub, when he spies his evening's first victim-the naïve Claude Banks (Martin Lawrence).

• The Ref | DVD | (13/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Caustic wit gets a full-body workout in this 1994 comedy (known as The Ref in the US), in which a cat burglar (Denis Leary) gets trapped in an affluent Connecticut neighbourhood and is forced to hold a bickering couple hostage on Christmas Eve, only to discover that their Yuletide spirit is anything but cheerful. Caroline (Judy Davis) and her husband, Lloyd (Kevin Spacey), have been at each other's throats for so long that they've developed domestic arguments into an art form, and the would-be kidnapper turns into a reluctant mediator, even after he's got the battling couple wound up in bungee cords. The situation grows even more complicated when the couple's smart-aleck son comes home from military school, but it's not the plot here that's a top priority. Instead it's the sheer pleasure of witnessing a three-way verbal jousting match, written with razor-sharp skill and delivered by actors who are perfect for their roles. The movie's got a dark edge, but it never gets too dark--you know that it's not going to slide into more seriously damaging territory, so you can sit back and enjoy the volleys of scathing insults and sarcasm the way you would a Bill Hicks performance. If that sounds like your idea of entertainment, Hostile Hostages will serve it up with style. --Jeff Shannon

• Beautiful Girls | Blu Ray | (31/10/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  An all-star cast sparks this captivating comedy about a group of old friends whose 10-year high school reunion creates some hilariously unexpected surprises. Willie, Tommy, and Paul may have lost a bit of their youth, but they're still ready to party with Uma Thurman, Rosie O'Donnell, Lauren Holly and Mira Sorvino - the beautiful girls who've turned their world upside down! Also featuring a hot soundtrack, 'Beautiful Girls' is a must-see comic delight!

• Denis Leary - Lock 'N' Load | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £6.95   |  Saving you £3.04 (43.74%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The abrasive and straight-talking comedian delivers a dose of his uncomprimising stand up covering topics such as life coffee religion and Michael Flatley. If you like your comedy obscene and to the point Mr. Leary is the man for you!

• Beautiful Girls | DVD | (07/01/2002) from £8.92   |  Saving you £7.33 (95.69%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This town drama from Ted Demme centres on former classmates coming together for their 10-year reunion. Scott Rosenberg's (Things to Do in Denver When You're Dead) script thoughtfully passes over the usual grumblings of young adults who can't believe they still live in the same snowbound town. They accept--even welcome--their blue-collar jobs, whether ploughing snow or cutting hair. Willie (Timothy Hutton), the lone wanderer, returns to his listless house in a state of flux, the piano-bar circuit wearing thin as is his relationship with Tracy, a well-off attorney (Annabeth Gish). He isn't the only one with problems. Tommy (Matt Dillon) occasionally sleeps with his now-married high school sweetheart Darian (Lauren Holly) while the earnest Sharon (Mira Sorvino) is left to wait. Paul (another thick-headed role for Michael Rapaport) refuses to commit to Jan (Martha Plimpton) until it's too late. Paul is enamoured with the idea of the supermodel (the title's "beautiful girls") that, he believes, can make life perfect. It's a very satisfying comedy, with some forced poignancy (Willie's description of Tracy as a "seven and a half" comes off as a death sentence). Rosie O'Donnell's dissertation on why Playboy and Penthouse have ruined male expectations is much like Meg Ryan's orgasm scene in When Harry Met Sally: it's hilarious, even memorable, but never wholly believable. The two wild cards thrown into Beautiful Girls give the film its kick. Uma Thurman enters as the local barman's (Pruitt Taylor Vince) radiant cousin. From the big city, she can flirt with the awestruck guys and still keep her head. Willie's true emotional tug is from Marty, his precocious 13-year-old neighbour. If you didn't see Natalie Portman's sophisticated work in Leon, her performance here will come as a revelation. You deeply believe that Willie and Marty are connected despite their age difference. Their courtship will never come to be, but the way the two talk (and talk some more) about their lives is the most insightful part of Rosenberg's script. Everyone's so comfortable in his or her roles that you may truly feel sad when the film ends. --Doug Thomas, Amazon.com

• Blow | Blu Ray | (13/10/2008) from £4.94   |  Saving you £13.05 (72.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Johnny Depp and Penelope Cruz star in this true life story of a young man who worked with Colombian drug traffickers to smuggle cocaine into the United States in the 1970s.

• Bowfinger/the Nutty Professor/Life | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Bowfinger: How does Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) Hollywood's least successful director get Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) Hollywood's biggest star in his ultra low-budget film? Any way he can. With an ingenious scheme and the help of the eager nerd Jiff an ambitious and sexy wannabe (Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva (Christine Baranski) Bowfinger sets out to trick Kit Ramsey into the performance of a lifetime.... (Dir. Frank Oz 1999) The Nutty Professor: Eddie Murphy stars as Dr Sherman Klump a kind ""calorically challenged"" genetics professor who longs to shed his 400-pound frame in order to win the heart of beautiful Jada Pinkett. So with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum Sherman becomes ""Buddy Love"" a fast-talking pumped-up plumped-down Don Juan. Can Sherman stop his buff alter ego before it's too late or will Buddy have the last laugh? (Dir. Tom Shadyac 1996) Life: Eddie Murphy is the fast talking con-artist Rayford Gibson and Martin Lawrence is the conservative bank teller Claude Banks. The two are accidentally teamed up to become the funniest ""odd couple"" east of the Mississippi. In an effort to pay off Ray's debt and restore Claude's reputation they travel south on a bootlegging run for some quick cash. There is no limit to their comical misfortune as they are placed at the scene of a crime and their mistaken identity lands them right in front of the judge. This hysterical comedy gives a whole new meaning to friends for life. (Dir. Ted Demme 1999)

• Beautiful Girls | DVD | (02/05/2011) from £10.78   |  Saving you £9.21 (85.44%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An all-star cast sparks this captivating comedy about a group of old friends whose 10-year high school reunion creates some hilariously unexpected surprises. Willie Tommy and Paul may have lost a bit of their youth but they're still ready to party with Uma Thurman Rosie O'Donnell Lauren Holly and Mira Sorvino - the beautiful girls who've turned their world upside down! Also featuring a hot soundtrack 'Beautiful Girls' is a must-see comic delight!

• Life | Blu Ray | (07/05/2012) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Martin Lawrence and Eddie Murphy play it surprisingly straight in this film by director Ted Demme. Though there are laughs to be had, this is a story about perseverance in the face of a life of disappointment (yet the film was sold as a prison comedy). But Stir Crazy this isn't. Rather, Lawrence and Murphy play a couple of New Yorkers making a moonshine run from New York to Mississippi during the Prohibition who find themselves framed for murder and sentenced for life to a prison chain gang. As they age, the two become close friends, although the strait-laced Lawrence always resents the freewheeling Murphy for getting him into the situation in the first place. Ultimately, these two men learn to find meaning where they can, taking value from friendship and their limited ability to affect the lives of others. At times preachy, it ends on an upbeat note; the film's biggest laughs are reserved for the final section, in which Lawrence and Murphy don age makeup and play octogenarians. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com

• Denis Leary - No Cure For Cancer | DVD | (12/03/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £5.00 (100.20%)   |  RRP £9.99

  ""This is the most exciting place in the world to live. Oh yeah! There are so many ways to die in New York City! Race riots drive by shootings subway crashes construction cranes collapsing on the sidewalks manhole covers blowing up and asbestos shooting into the sky."" - Denis Leary Denis Leary brings his own very unique brash style of stand up to DVD on the acclaimed No Cure For Cancer. Leary covers an array of his favourite topics including smoking red meat drugs rehab and yes cancer.

• Decade Under The Influence | DVD | (26/04/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £16.99

  A documentary examining the last truly 'Golden Age' of Hollywood film production the 1970s in which arthouse successes such as 'The Godfather' and 'French Connection' became bona fide blockbusters at the box office in the days before multimedia conglomerations and pre-release test scores...

• Denis Leary - No Cure For Cancer | DVD | (08/04/2002) from £9.74   |  Saving you £0.25 (2.57%)   |  RRP £9.99

  No Cure introduces Denis Leary as a man who rants swears and hisses. Being the funniest of the American shock comedians this DVD is not for the faint hearted. Leary takes his audience through the bitter debate against non-smokers the politically correct and the crusading rock stars of the 80's and 90's pausing only to glorify simple meat-eating men like himself. Pleasure comes in small doses; it's a cigarette a chocolate chip cookie a five second orgasm. You come you eat the cookie you smoke the butt you go to sleep you get up you go to f***ing work. End of story okay!

• Don Juan De Marco/Blow/The Libertine | DVD | (16/10/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Don Juan De Marco: Marlon Brando plays a psychiatrist whose last case that of Don Juan is his most difficult. Don Juan (Johnny Depp) is the world's greatest lover having seduced over 1000 women and his amorous tales totally captivate the analyst re-awakening passions which he thought had been lost forever. Blow: George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and always berated by his mother. So he sets off for California to live on the beach. George finds he can make a living selling drugs. One day he learns he could make more money by shipping drugs across the country. So he does. Needing a bigger supply of drugs he goes to Columbia finds his way to Medellin and meets Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). George stumbles into becoming the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the U.S. Libertine: Based on the play by Stephen Jeffreys The Libertine recounts the life of the scandalously decadent John Wilmot (Johnny Depp) the second Earl of Rochester. Married but not satisfied he has a passionate romance with a young actress Elizabeth Barry (Samantha Morton) and writes a scurrilous play that lampoons its commissioner King Charles II (John Malkovich who starred in the play when it was staged at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre).

• Bowfinger/Life | DVD | (29/01/2007) from £10.78   |  Saving you £5.21 (32.60%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Bowfinger: How does Bobby Bowfinger (Steve Martin) Hollywood's least successful director get Kit Ramsey (Eddie Murphy) Hollywood's biggest star in his ultra low-budget film? Any way he can. With an ingenious scheme and the help of the eager nerd Jiff an ambitious and sexy wannabe (Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva (Christine Baranski) Bowfinger sets out to trick Kit Ramsey into the performance of a lifetime.... Life: Eddie Murphy is the fast talking con-artist Rayford Gibson and Martin Lawrence is the conservative bank teller Claude Banks. The two are accidentally teamed up to become the funniest ""odd couple"" east of the Mississippi. In an effort to pay off Ray's debt and restore Claude's reputation they travel south on a bootlegging run for some quick cash. There is no limit to their comical misfortune as they are placed at the scene of a crime and their mistaken identity lands them right in front of the judge. This hysterical comedy gives a whole new meaning to friends for life.

• Noose | DVD | (15/09/2003) from £10.23   |  Saving you £-4.24 (-70.80%)   |  RRP £5.99

  On the mean streets of Boston's Charlestown trouble is a way of life. It's home to Bobby O'Grady who makes his cash from thieving and gets his kicks from fighting gambling and hanging out with his buddies at the local bar. The neighbourhood's Mr. Big is Jackie O'Hara a ruthless gangster whose rule of terror guarantees that a wall of silence surrounds the robberies and murders he commits. No-one crosses Jackie and no-one ever talks to the cops. But when Bobby's cousin arrives from Dublin and is witness to a killing it triggers a chain of events that challenges the code of loyalty and threatens to tear Charlestown apart...

• Gun - Vol. 1 | DVD | (18/07/2005) from £5.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (33.39%)   |  RRP £7.99

  This anthology series follows the path of a handgun and the impact it has on the lives of those that it encounters. A rotating all-star cast is helmed by renowned directors Robert Altman Ted Demme and James Foley. Volume 1 features the following episodes: Columbus Day: When forced to work nights security guard Walter DiFideli buys a gun to protect his family. However unbeknownst to Walter the weapon once belonged to an assassin who will resort to any measure of force to re

• Gun: Fatal Betrayal | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  This anthology series follows the path of a handgun and the impact it has on the lives of those that it encounters. A rotating all-star cast is helmed by renowned directors Robert Altman Ted Demme and James Foley. Columbus Day: When forced to work nights security guard Walter DiFideli buys a gun to protect his family. However unbeknownst to Walter the weapon once belonged to an assassin who will resort to any measure of force to recover the evidence that could incriminate him... All The President's Women: Bill Johnson is on the verge of realising a dream; the post of president of his Texas country club. Yet in addition to his wife Bill juggles a variety of mistresses each unaware of the others and all seems well until his current squeeze receives an unloaded gun in her mailbox. Further unnerved as his wife and another mistress receive the gun's clip and bullets respectively Bill must piece together the mystery that threatens to wreck his inauguration party... The Hole: A gun lies buried at the bottom of a small town's swimming pool. To a group of young kids it looks like buried treasure and to Sandra a young woman who dreams of leaving her abusive stepfather it looks like her ticket out of town. Yet to James a loner with a dark past the gun is an object that he simply must recover as he placed it there years earlier and holds the key to a previous mystery... The Shot: Harvey packs up his family and moves them from Hollywood to a potentially more stable life in Virginia. His dreams of making it as an actor are seemingly over until he unwittingly foils a convenience store robbery and is cast to play himself in a movie of the incident. However the would-be thieves have powerful friends who wish to permanently curtail Harvey's movie career and he finds that his 'shot' at fame is intrinsically linked to that particular weapon... Father John - An Article Of Faith: Newspaper columnist Jack returns to Los Angeles for the funeral of his uncle Father John Farragut. Surprised to find a great deal of money and a gun in his uncle's possessions in the church Jack is forced to investigate the secrets in the cleric's life and unknowingly puts the life of a young woman in great peril... Ricochet: A homeless man discovers a gun at a murder scene and rather than take his chances with the police decides to keep it. As the cops close in the gun changes hands several times and provides the investigators with an unexpected discovery...

• Noose | DVD | (15/01/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

• Don Juan De Marco/Blow/What's Eating Gilbert Gilbert Grape | DVD | (24/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Don Juan De Marco (Dir. Jeremy Leven 1995): Dr Jack Mickler ten days before his retirement takes on his last case as a psychiatrist. The case is that of Don Juan who has seduced more than a thousand women and starts Dr Mickler re-evaluating his own life... Blow (Dir. Ted Demme 2001): George Jung (Johnny Depp) doesn't want to live like his father (Ray Liotta)--always short of money and always berated by his mother. So he sets off for California to live on the beach. George finds he can make a living selling drugs. One day he learns he could make more money by shipping drugs across the country. So he does. Needing a bigger supply of drugs he goes to Columbia finds his way to Medellin and meets Pablo Escobar (Cliff Curtis). George stumbles into becoming the biggest trafficker of cocaine in the U.S. What's Eating Gilbert Grape? Meet Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp) a young man who lives in Endora Iowa population 1 091. Gilbert lives with his mother whose 36 stone frame is slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead his brother Arnie (Leonardo DiCaprio) who was never expected to survive childhood and his two sisters. Gilbert's only excitement is his affair with Mrs. Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Besides that Gilbert's life is weird. And he doesn't seem to enjoy it. But one day a mysterious beautiful girl named Becky (Juliette Lewis) moves into town with her grandmother and Gilbert's world begins to change...