Posted by admin | Posted in Drama | Posted on 18-10-2010-05-2008
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Amazon.com This film, which again pairs Richard Gere and Kim Basinger (who starred in 1986’s No Mercy), offers up elements of classic noir: a hapless man becomes intimately involved with a beautiful blonde who may or may not be who or what she appears to be. Dedicated psychiatrist Isaac Barr (Gere) reluctantly, and then more obsessively, becomes involved with Heather Evans (Basinger), the sister of his patient, Diana Baylor (Uma Thurman). Evans is unhappily married to a gangs…
Posted by admin | Posted in Drama | Posted on 17-10-2010-05-2008
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Amazon.com essential video Spencer Tracy won an Oscar for his portrayal of Father Flanagan, who opens Boys Town and dedicates himself to helping juvenile delinquents go straight. Mickey Rooney plays one of the tougher kids, figuring out early on that Flanagan is nobody’s fool. Warmhearted and inspiring, the film’s inevitable sentimentality is nicely cut by Tracy’s performance and a smart script by Eleanore Griffin and Dore Schary (who also won Oscars). A good film for all ages, directe…
Posted by admin | Posted in Drama | Posted on 15-10-2010-05-2008
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Amazon.com essential video Based on a Larry McMurtry novel, this Martin Ritt film was a testament to the sex appeal of the young Paul Newman. Playing the title character–a total rotter who, by the end of the film, has double-crossed or screwed over everyone he knows, including his hard-working father and brother–Newman turns him into an intriguing antihero. Things are tough on the ranch and Hud’s dad (Melvyn Douglas) needs help, but Hud is too busy looking out for number one, even as…
Posted by admin | Posted in Drama | Posted on 15-10-2010-05-2008
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Amazon.com Emma Thompson scores a double bull’s-eye with this marvelous adaptation of Jane Austen’s novel. Not only does Thompson turn in a strong (and gently humorous) performance as one of the Dashwood sisters–the one with “sense”–she also wrote the witty, wise screenplay. Austen’s tale of 19th-century manners and morals provides a large cast with a feast of possibilities, notably Kate Winslet, in her pre-Titanic flowering, as Thompson’s deeply romantic sister. Winslet attracts the…
Posted by admin | Posted in Drama | Posted on 13-10-2010-05-2008
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Product Description Assisted by a Fellowship of heroes, Frodo Baggins plunges into a perilous trek to take the mystical One Ring to Mount Doom so that it and its magical powers can be destroyed and never possessed by evil Lord Sauron. The astonishing journey begins in the first film of director/co-writer Peter Jackson’s epic trilogy that redefined fantasy filmmaking. This imaginative foray into J.R.R. Tolkien’s Middle-earth won 4 Academy Awards®* and earned 13 total nominations in…
