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• Nobel Son | DVD | (21/06/2010) from £5.38   |  Saving you £0.61 (10.20%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Living in the shadow of his curmudgeonly Nobel-prize winning father and struggling to finish his Phd are trouble enough for Barkley Michaelson. However things are about to get worse for him when he's kidnapped on the eve of his father's prize-giving and the requested ransom is the 000 000 that the Nobel foundation dole out to winners. His father in keeping with his selfish cavalier ways refuses to pay the fee and in doing so opens up a plethora of family divides and dysfunctions.

• 12 Drama and True Story DVD Movies | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Contains;- A Place For Annie - A nurse battles to keep the AIDS baby she has looked after since it was abandoned.- First Do No Harm - A woman seeks help for her son as the medical establishment closes ranks against her.- Nicholas' Gift - Two grieving parents turn a tragedy into an act that would bring hope to other blighted lives.- The Shell Seekers - Rosamunde Pilcher's story centres on a mother and her troubled relationship with her 3 children.- Fifteen & Pregnant - The searing true story of a 15 year-old girl's experience of teenage parenthood.- Too Young To Die - Shocking drama about 2 teenagers and the death penalty.- Untamed Love - Through love patience and extraordinary commitment a teacher 'tames' a highly disturbed child.- A Message For Holly - Holly's daughter is her life. In six months she must give up both.- Ginger In The Morning - Whilst hitch-hiking in New Mexico Ginger is picked up by Joe and the attraction is mutual.- Circle Of Two - A 16 year-old girl finds comfort in an ageing artist leading to an ill-fated romance.- No One Could Protect Her - Jessica is raped and almost killed in her own home by an intruder...and he's coming back.- Sad Inheritance - To regain custody of her affected baby a drug addict must clean up her life.

• About A Boy/Love Actually/Notting Hill | DVD | (01/10/2007) from £19.99   |  Saving you £-5.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Love Actually: (Dir. Richard Curtis) (2003): The story of a group of people who find themselves surrounded by love... There's the new Prime Minister who falls for his personal assistant the Prime Minister's sister Karan who realises that her husband is attracted to his secretary. Author Jamie who flees England to escape his unfaithful girlfriend and then falls for his housekeeper. Movie stand-ins John and Judy who become attracted to each other on the film set. Recently widowed Daniel who helps his stepson who is smitten with one of his class-mates and Billy Mack an ageing rock star who discovers that love can be found in the most unlikely of places... About A Boy (Dir. Paul Weitz Chris Weitz) (2002): Growing up has nothing to do with age... Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously. A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women. Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) and his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette). The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will's secret and so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place and watch afternoon telly. However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship... Notting Hill (Dir. Roger Michell) (1999): A famous actress in disguise (Julia Roberts) in London runs into a divorced bookstore owner (Hugh Grant). They strike up a friendship with each other as they each find something that was previously missing from their own lives...

• Blood Money | DVD | (22/03/2004) from £7.99   |  Saving you £-6.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £1.99

  This is the story of Clinton and Nadine. Clinton is a small time bird smuggler who gets caught up in a twisted web of danger and deception. Nadine's an ex-hooker who is inexorably pulled in with him. So what could arms traffickers possibly want from them?

• Prime Suspect 4: Scent of Darkness | DVD | (06/11/2006) from £8.22   |  Saving you £6.03 (86.64%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Det. Superintendent Jane Tennison's (Helen Mirren) relationship with psychologist Patrick Schofield (Stuart Wilson) has developed into a promisingly happy affair. When a series of murders take place which resemble those investigated in the first Prime Suspect she is faced with a possible miscarriage of justice and promptly suspended. Are they copy-cat crimes or is George Marlow (Tim Woodward) innocent as he always insisted? Prevented from working possibly betrayed by her lover and haunted by the past Tennison is forced to re-examine her most fundamental beliefs about her life and work.

• A Year at Kew - The Collection | DVD | (07/01/2008) from £37.78   |  Saving you £2.21 (5.50%)   |  RRP £39.99

  This high rating critically acclaimed BBC Two series is a month-by-month journey through the world's greatest botanical garden narrated by Alan Tichmarsh. Contains the first three series.

• The Three Sisters | DVD | (28/06/2004) from £9.93   |  Saving you £4.06 (40.89%)   |  RRP £13.99

  In a remote little town in turn of the century Russia three sisters - Olga (Jeanne Watts) Irina (Louise Purnell) and Masha (Joan Plowight) - and their brother Andrei (Derek Jacobi) fantasise about their return to their former home in Moscow. For them Moscow is a city of dreams magnetism and inspiration - a far cry from their current life - an oppressive and overbearing existence devoid of hope. As they muddle through life they hold on to the memory of a place they once knew and

• Ghostwriter | DVD | (29/12/2008) from £4.98   |  Saving you £5.01 (100.60%)   |  RRP £9.99

  When John Vandermark (Alan Cumming) a music teacher with a weakness for young men with great aspirations and nothing much else encounters Sebastian (David Boreanaz) he is stirred to help him in any way he can. But Vandermark soon grows bitter when his charity is abused and he finds that every woman in town is getting a piece of Sebastian. Vandermark wants to teach Sebastian a lesson...and changes their lives forever.

• Urbania | DVD | (12/04/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £7.99

  Charlie (Dan Futterman) is a tormented young gay man who has recently become romantically unattached. Unable to reconcile himself to the loss of his long term companion Charlie decides to live on the edge. One night as he aimlessly wanders the streets of downtown Manhattan he locks gaze with a mysterious stranger. This chance encounter marks the beginning of a nightmarish quest as he haunts the city nightly in an increasingly desperate attempt to find him. Charlie meets a host of bizarre characters on his journey each of whom recounts an urban myth. Charlie finds his borders of reality quickly shifting - the lines separating past and present truth and illusion hate and healing gay and straight have been blurred. As a result the urban myths that are imparted - the man with the stolen kidney the poodle in the microwave - as well as his own visions fuse to create a new reality round him. Disturbed and dejected Charlie decides to punish those people responsible for his misery. 'Urbania' is a provocative sexually charged noir that probes the powerful and the trancendant nature of love

• Britten: Death In Venice | DVD | (28/02/2001) from £28.99   |  Saving you £-4.00 (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Britten's last opera, Death in Venice will always be associated with the two voices for which the major parts in it were written. It is the achievement of Robert Tear and Alan Opie, in this magisterial performance by Graeme Jenkins with the Glyndebourne touring company, to produce telling performances that are entirely separate from our memories. Tear's Aschenbach is more bull-like than Peter Pears' moralist dreamer; his drift into sentimental eroticisation of the boy Tadzio upsets him as much for the weakness it reveals as for the collapse of his virtue. Alan Opie is as much of a virtuoso as John Shirley-Quirk in the multiple roles that culminate in the corrupting voice of Dionysus--the hotelier who persuades Aschenbach to stay, the barber who gives him a toupee and paints his face, the street entertainer, the rake who flirts with sailors; the otherworldly counter-tenor of Michael Chance is spookily right as Apollo. The scenes for dancers manage to be at once dreams of the erotic and plausible adolescent sea-side wrestling; the direction by Stephen Lawless and Martha Clarke manages to capture the mistiness of the piece from which fate and strangeness suddenly emerge. On the DVD: The DVD has subtitles in German, French and Spanish, as well as an acoustic which brings out the subtleties of Britten's string, brass and percussion in this difficult work. --Roz Kaveney

• Indian Summer | DVD | (08/03/2004) from £6.46   |  Saving you £8.53 (56.90%)   |  RRP £14.99

  Settle back for a delightful INDIAN SUMMER -- the heartwarming comedy about eight friends who reunite at their summer camp after 20 years! Starring an impressive ensemble cast including Elizabeth Perkins (CATS AND DOGS, 28 DAYS) and Alan Arkin (AMERICA'S SWEETHEARTS, GROSSE POINTE BLANK), no sooner do the visitors arrive than they return to the best summer of their lives -- practical jokes, midnight kitchen raids, boat races, campfire stories, and secret romances pick up right where they left off! And with so much hilarity and excitement, the fun never stops. Pack your gear, this week at camp is sure to be a hilarious, feel-good treat for everyone.

• The Medusa Touch | DVD | (29/03/2004) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Richard Burton stars as successful novelist John Morlar who believes he has 'a gift for disaster' - the power to cause death and destruction through unconscious telekinesis. When Morlar is viciously assaulted and left for dead on the night of the Moon Mission disaster and a jet crash police investigating the attack quickly turn to Morlar's mysterious therapist Zonfeld (Lee Remick) in the belief that there is a link between the assault and Morlar's disturbing complex...

• The Sherlock Holmes Catalogue - The Master Blackmailer | DVD | (28/04/2003) from £5.93   |  Saving you £4.06 (68.47%)   |  RRP £9.99

  The Master Blackmailer is a two-hour 1991 Granada TV adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's story The Adventure of Charles Augustus Milverton, which for the most part sticks close to the details of the original. Holmes (Jeremy Brett) takes on the reputed king of all blackmailers, Milverton (Robert Hardy), who has made a fortune extorting money from the famous and the blue-blooded and who routinely ruins others' lives when not pleased. Unable to talk Milverton into turning over letters belonging to Lady Eva Brackenwell, Holmes decides to steal them, going undercover as a plumber and even romancing Milverton's housemaid, Agatha (Sophie Thompson), to gain better access in the house. (The ethical Watson, played by Edward Hardwicke, is upset to hear of Holmes's deception of an innocent woman.) The story builds to a surprisingly violent finale, but the real hook is Brett's performance as the disguised detective and the startling suggestion that Holmes's close contact with Agatha truly moved the bachelor sleuth. --Tom Keogh

• Sam - Series 2 - Part 3 | DVD | (08/11/2004) from £8.78   |  Saving you £11.21 (127.68%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Sam returns from the sea and finds many things in Skellerton have changed. He is upset about the loss of his grandfather. His mind strays back to his boyhood and he relives the actual day his father left and his last words. Arthur Corby in desperation asks Sam for help. Episode titles include: Land Half A Loaf Tow Steps Forward One Step Back Moving On

• The Plane Makers - Volume 3 | DVD | (08/04/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £39.99

  The prequel to ATV's celebrated boardroom drama The Power Game, The Plane Makers follows the fortunes of a leading airplane development company and its managing director, the ruthlessly ambitious John Wilder (Patrick Wymark). This series features guest appearances by, among others, Garfield Morgan, Geoffrey Chater, Anthony Newlands and Malcolm Tierney. Scott Furlong Ltd. is about to launch into the fiercely competitive world of government-backed military contracts, with the prototype develop...

• To Serve Them All My Days - Part 3 | DVD | (10/05/2004) from £19.29   |  Saving you £0.70 (3.63%)   |  RRP £19.99

  John Duttine stars as David Powlett-Jones who has been invalided out of the army during the First World War and is sent to work in a large public school in Devon....

• Henry Fonda - Grapes Of Wrath / My Darling Clementine / Ox-Bow Incident | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £16.05   |  Saving you £8.94 (55.70%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Grapes Of Wrath (1940): John Ford's memorable screen version of John Steinbeck's epic novel of the Great Depression--often regarded as the director's best film--stars Henry Fonda as Tom Joad. After having served a brief prison sentence for manslaughter Joad arrives at his family's Oklahoma farm only to find it abandoned. Muley (John Qualen) a neighbor now nearly mad with grief tells Tom of the drought that has transformed the farmland of Oklahoma into a desert and of the pre

• Quartet | DVD | (12/02/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  A young woman (Isabelle Adjani) in Paris in the 1920s is left penniless and without means of support. A rather strange English couple (Maggie Smith Alan Bates) offer her refuge but at the price of seduction by the husband...

• The Runaway | Blu Ray | (16/05/2011) from £23.19   |  Saving you £4.80 (20.70%)   |  RRP £27.99

  From the makers of the hit series The Take the latest tale of crime and corruption from best-selling crime writer Martina Cole follows the lives of two childhood sweethearts. Cathy Connor and Eamonn Docherty are brought up together in the East End. As the daughter of a prostitute Madge Cathy's life is difficult especially when everyone assumes that she will be following in her mother's footsteps. But when Cathy is forced to protect Madge from a violent attack by a punter it changes her life forever. Cathy is taken into care but she suffers institutional abuse which leaves her with no choice but to run away. She ends up destitute on the streets of Soho when Desrae a transvestite unexpectedly comes to her rescue. Meanwhile Eamonn is rising up the ranks of the East End criminal underworld.

• Gordon The Garden Gnome - Spring Adventures | DVD | (10/04/2006) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Gordon The Garden Gnome tells the story of gordon and his daily adventures as a Gnome gardener working alongside all his animal friends and Gnome neighbours. Cheerful friendly and optimistic Gordon's caring attitude to the environment and the animals helps him to solve problems and make the world a better place. Episodes Comprise: 1.The Best Garden Competition 2.Gordon's Marrow 3.Meadow Mow Day 4.Horace And Doris 5.Back To The Land 6.Robo Gnome 7.Water Water Everywh