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• Red Letter Day - The Complete Series | DVD | (01/07/2013) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It happens in almost everyone's life. There is a special day - a day of unusual significance. A turning point in life, perhaps in career, romance or fortune; a day to remember. This anthology of plays, each as individual as the people and events portrayed, looks at seven such Red Letter Days. Ranging from the poignant to the surreal, all of the plays are infused with a wry and tender humour. Featuring performances by some of British television's most accomplished actors - including Alison Steadman, Jack Shepherd, Peter Barkworth and Ronald Radd - the series' outstanding screenplays include Jack Rosenthal's BAFTA-nominated Ready When You Are, Mr. McGill, alongside similar bittersweet offerings from notable writers Willis Hall and Donald Churchill.

• Goodnight Sleep Tight | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £12.98   |  Saving you £-2.99 (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  It's time for bed! After a long and busy day young children need to calm down before getting ready for bed. This fully animated collection of films is the perfect way to end the day and make bedtime fun! Featuring stories from the best-loved children's writers and illustrator such as Penelope Lively Colin & Jacqui Hawkins and Tony Ross each eppisode has its own theme. Episodes Comprise: 1. Dad! I Can't Sleep 2. Bedtime Story 3. Get Into Bed 4. Go To Sleep! 5. Little Princess' Bedtime 6. Sleep Tight 7. I'm Not Sleepy 8. Goodnight Everyone

• Wilt | DVD | (07/07/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Based on the hilarious novel by Tom Sharpe and starring Grif Rhys-Jones and Mel Smith, "Wilt" is a story of a disappearance, mistaken identity and a blow-up doll.

• Nuts In May | DVD | (27/03/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  An early masterpiece from Mike Leigh, Nuts in May is a filmed-for-TV adaptation of an earlier stage play. The cast is small (only five characters who matter), but the acting is impeccable, and the mix of wicked humour and social observation make this one of Leigh's best works. Keith Pratt, a man who fully earns his surname due to his nit-picking obsessions with order and detail, takes his partner Candice-Marie, a well-meaning but irritating hippie, on a camping trip. There they meet Trevor, a shy teacher who finds their enforced friendship intrusive but is too polite to extricate himself, and a brash young couple of bikers, Honky and Finger, whose loud and chaotic personalities lead them into conflict with the repressed and dogmatic Keith. Plot isn't the issue here, since Leigh is far more interested in teasing out the subtleties of human behaviour, which he does with forensic skill in several unforgettable scenes. Funny and painful at the same time, like all Leigh's successes, Nuts in May is brilliantly acted by all concerned, though special mention must go to Roger Sloman, for bringing to life the appalling but ultimately pitiable Keith, and Alison Steadman, whose portrayal of fey, goofy and tragi-comic Candice-Marie is every bit as memorable and nuanced as her more famous turn as Beverley in Leigh's Abigail's Party. --Andy Medhurst

• Alan Plater at ITV | DVD | (25/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Jarrow-born Alan Plater was one of Britain's most cherished playwrights. Equally at home either adapting existing works or crafting his own stories the pinnacle of his prolific output is arguably the highly successful Beiderbecke trilogy starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn. Plater excelled in the creation of credible engagingly ordinary characters embroiled in drama and intrigue (exemplified in Beiderbecke's jazz-loving Geordie woodwork teacher Trevor Chaplin); with a dry humour class consciousness and frequent acknowledgement of the north-south divide his skilful dialogue has been described as combining 'The voice of Coronation Street with the spirit of Chekhov'. The winner of three BAFTA Awards he received a CBE in 2005 and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Lifetime Achievement Award in 2007. This anthology celebrates the diversity of Alan Plater's work for ITV with a collection of single plays and classic episodes featuring outstanding performances by Helen Mirren Kenneth Branagh James Bolam Alison Steadman Michael Gambon Dennis Waterman and Ray Brooks among many others. The Beiderbecke Affair: What I Don't Understand Is This... Jazz fan Trevor Chaplin wants only one thing: a set of Bix Beiderbecke records. Oranges and Lemons: Brotherly Love An ex-docker is grieved that his two sons seem irreconcilable. Play for Love: The Party of the First Part Peter makes sure his eighteenth birthday party is one that his guests won't forget. The Loner: Dawson's Complaint Dawson is a man who aims is to change the world. This is the story of his failure. Coming Through Two plays set in different eras examine polarised attitudes towards D.H. Lawrence. Flambards: Christina Orphan Christina learns - painfully - the art of living among men. Shades of Darkness: The Intercessor A writer lodging in a 'quiet' house is disturbed by the sound of a child crying.

• First Wives Club / Shirley Valentine - Double Pack | DVD | (28/02/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £12.99

  Shirley Valentine: Shirley Bradshaw has always been able to see the funny side of any situation. She was a high-school rebel and now she's a housewife and mother who one day looks back at her life and realises that she has lost touch with her dreams. When her best friend wins a magazine contest and asks Shirley to accompany her on a fortnight's holiday in Greece Shirley begins a voyage of self-discovery. On the island of Mykonos as Shirley luxuriates among sun sand and taramasalata she encounters islander Costas Caldes and falls in love...with life! The First Wives Club: Marriage has turned into a crash dive for Brenda Cushman Elise Atchison and Annie Paradise. These three well-heeled Manhattan women chums during their college days all took different paths. Now they're reunited by catastrophe--each has just been callously dumped by her husband for a younger sexier trophy wife. Smarting from the pain Brenda Elise and Annie join forces and concoct a plan to exact the most exquisitely bitter vengeance upon their exes. War has been declared.

• Ivor the Invisible | DVD | (11/08/2003) from £5.71   |  Saving you £4.28 (74.96%)   |  RRP £9.99

  One Saturday morning little John wakes up to find an invisible something sitting on the end of his bed. The something seems to be gigantic but John can't work out just how big it is. He tries to measure it but the invisible giant won't let him. When John asks this strange new friend his name the letters IVO appear on his mirror so John decides to call him Ivor. The invisible giant plays tricks on John's mum and dad and gets up to lots of mischief especially when John takes Ivor to the park and school!

• Life Is Sweet | Blu Ray | (28/05/2012) from £8.99   |  Saving you £11.00 (122.36%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Life is Sweet is the remarkable story of an unremarkable British family told in the classic tragi-comedy style that is uniquely Mike Leigh's. It covers issues of unemployment, anorexia, failure, nervous breakdown, and hope, as they affect one suburban London family and their friends and acquaintances. The characters and story were created with and by the actors - giving a special edge and momentum to the unfolding events.Leigh's sharply satirical and unsentimentally compassionate view of life strikes a chord with audiences and critics alike. Life is Sweet brings together an impressive cast - including Alison Steadman ('Let Them Eat Cake'), Jim Broadbent ('The Avengers'), Jane Horrocks ('Little Voice') and Timothy Spall ('Topsy Turvey') - many of whom have worked with Leigh in the past, as has producer Simon Channing-Williams.

• Mike Leigh: Secrets And Lies, Life Is Sweet, Career Girls | DVD | (30/09/2002) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Secrets And LiesNominated for 5 Oscars winner of 3 BAFTA Awards and the winner of 'Best Film' at the Cannes Film Festival Mike Leigh's hilarious bittersweet comedy is an unmissable and moving slice of real life. Life Is SweetLife is Sweet is the remarkable story of an unremarkable British family told in the classic tragi-comedy style that is uniquely Mike Leigh's. It covers issues of unemployment anorexia failure nervous breakdown and hope as they affect one suburban London family and their friends and acquaintances. The characters and story were created with and by the actors - giving a special edge and momentum to the unfolding events. Leigh's sharply satirical and unsentimentally compassionate view of life strikes a chord with audiences and critics alike. Life is Sweet brings together an impressive cast - including Alison Steadman ('Let Them Eat Cake') Jim Broadbent ('The Avengers') Jane Horrocks ('Little Voice') and Timothy Spall ('Topsy Turvey') - many of whom have worked with Leigh in the past as has producer Simon Channing-Williams. Career GirlsFormer college flatmates Annie (Lynda Steadman) and Hannah (Katrin Cartlidge) decide to meet up in London for the weekend. Naturally both girls have changed since their student days of some 10 years earlier. The curry loving Cure obsessed acne ridden and moody flatmates of yesteryear have been replaced by confident career girls of today. As they talk go flat-hunting get drunk and bump into numerous people from their past the girls start to reminisce upon their earlier friendship.

• Safecracker - In The Blood | DVD | (01/06/2015) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  The death of his safecracking Grandfather has left Johnny the only one alive who can open a safe for a degenerate crew of violent gangsters. Johnny however is a low-life junkie with nothing more on his mind than getting his next fix. Snatched in the middle of the night Johnny is taken by the gang to a dark farmhouse in order to finish the job his Grandfather started. As withdrawal sets in and tensions rise in this increasingly bloody crime gone awry Johnny’s time is most definitely running out. “In the Blood” is the hard hitting and redemptive story of a young man’s journey from the lowest of the low.

• Chunky Monkey | DVD | (22/08/2005) from £12.85   |  Saving you £3.14 (24.44%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Fitness fanatic Donald Leek indulges in a monthly Chunky Monkey experience with someone vaguely resembling movie-songstress Julie Andrews who he's expecting at 7:30pm. His obsession with Ms. Andrews (and her posterior) is somewhat disturbing to say the least. Before she arrives however he has to dispose of the body parts of Mr Azam manager of his favourite Indian restaurant who has neglected to send him a Christmas card. He is interrupted by a peculiar assortment of unwelcome

• Secrets And Lies / Life Is Sweet | DVD | (03/05/2004) from £29.95   |  Saving you £-11.96 (-66.50%)   |  RRP £17.99

  Secrets And Lies Nominated for 5 Oscars and winner of 3 BAFTA Awards Secrets and Lies is a hilarious bittersweet comedy and moving slice of real life. Life Is Sweet A remarkable story of an unremarkable family and their interactions and conflictions in every day life.

• Gone To The Dogs | DVD | (07/04/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Made for televison comedy which follows the antics of trio anxious to make it big on the greyhound racing circuit...

• Karaoke | DVD | (06/09/2010) from £20.23   |  Saving you £-0.24 (-1.20%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Karaoke is the first of two television dramas written by the acclaimed TV playwright Dennis Potter. Having been diagnosed with terminal cancer and with less than six months to live Potter undertook a race against mortality to complete two television dramas which were uniquely to be shared between Channel 4 and the BBC. In a televised interview with Melvyn Bragg he said My only regret is if I die four pages too soon. He didn't - and the result is a fitting tribute to a life committed to the creation of some of the finest television drama ever written. Daniel Feeld (Albert Finney) is working on a fictional play for television. The play entitled Karaoke concerns a beautiful young woman working in a sleazy karaoke bar run by Arthur Pig Mallion. Fiction and reality begin to intertwine when Feeld overhears snatches of his dialogue in the world around him - and encounters real people bearing his character's names. The lines between the world he has created and the world in which he lives begin to blur - and a desperate struggle to control both becomes enmeshed in his evolving sickness and a terminal diagnosis. Re-writing his will to right wrongs leaving his body to a cryogenics laboratory and plotting to go out with a bang Daniel Feeld is about to write an ending for one world that will have great repercussions in the next.

• Bear, The / Ivor The Invisible / Last Polar Bears | DVD | (29/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  The Bear Based on Raymond Briggs' bestselling storybook 'The Bear' is the enchanting and magical tale from the makers of 'The Snowman'. A young girl Tilly visits the zoo with her mum and dad but accidentally drops her best loved toy her teddy into the polar bear's pit. That night Tilly cries herself to sleep only to wake and find a huge polar bear standing over her - he's come to return her precious teddy. Ivor The Invisible One Saturday morning little John wakes up to find an invisible something sitting on the end of his bed. The something seems to be gigantic but John can't work out just how big it is. He tries to measure it but the invisible giant won't let him. When John asks this strange new friend his name the letters IVO appear on his mirror so John decides to call him Ivor. The invisible giant plays tricks on John's mum and dad and gets up to lots of mischief especially when John takes Ivor to the park and school! The Last Polar Bears An eccentric Grandfather and his dog Roo embark on an expedition to the North Pole. Also includes 'Roo Reveals All' which is a behind-the-scenes look at the making of the film.

• Raymond Briggs' Ivor The Invisible | DVD | (19/11/2001) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  From Raymond Briggs the author of such children's hits as The Snowman Father Christmas and The Bear.One Saturday morning John wakes up to find an invisible something sitting at the end of his bed. The something seems to be gigantic but John can't work out just how big it is. He tries to measure it but the invisible giant wont let him.When John asks this strange new friend it's name the letters IVO appear on his mirror so John decides to call him Ivor. The invisible giant plays tricks on Johns mum and dad and gets up to lots of mischief especially when John takes Ivor to the park and to school.

• The Happy Birthday | DVD | (13/08/2007) from £4.99   |  Saving you £2.00 (40.08%)   |  RRP £6.99

  This adorable animated collection of stories, celebrates the most exciting day in every child's life, one which happily returns every year! Featuring stories from the best-loved children's writers and illustrators, each with its very own birthday theme.Badger's Bring-Something Party.It's My Birthday.The Trouble With Jack.How Many Days To My Birthday?Elephant Pie.Bear's Birthday.Surprise! Surprise!