The body of criminal Ronnie Stokes is found in the middle of a crop circle in Midsomer Parva with his hands burnt puncture wounds in his back and a chunk of his hair missing. Lloyd Kirby the local UFOlogist believes that it is the work of aliens however Barnaby and Troy are not convinced by his theory. John Nettles and Daniel Casey star in another installment of this rural detective series based on the novels by Caroline Graham.
Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby finds himself investigating the strange goings-on in his Aunt's rest home. Aunt Alice reports a death and footsteps in the night. Now Barnaby and Troy are forced to take notice...based on the novel by Caroline Graham.
Small quirky comedy thrillers such as Drowning Mona are one of the things that American cinema does best and far too rarely. Peter Steinfeld's appealing script attracted a solid cast of stars under the direction of newcomer Nick Gomez (whose previous work includes episodes of The Sopranos). It seems that someone has cut Mona's brake cables and she drove to her death by drowning. Bette Midler's Mona manages to make it entirely plausible that almost everyone might have wanted to kill her: from her son's business partner Eddie (Casey Affleck) to her husband's mistress Rona (Jamie Lee Curtis). The local police chief (Danny DeVito), already burdened with subordinates who refer to running away from danger as "securing the perimeter" and the impending marriage of his daughter (Neve Campbell) to the sweet but unreliable Eddie, has to make sense of the farrago of lies and half-truths which is all anyone will tell him. This is an ingenious tightly plotted film which is never too busy to scatter odd little gags at its margins; it's a tall tale, whose complicated telling is half the fun. On the DVD The DVD comes with the theatrical trailer, a director's commentary, interviews with the stars and four deleted scenes. The picture is 1.85:1 anamorphic and the sound is Dolby Surround. --Roz Kaveney
Thank god for friends because you can't choose your own family. Sean's family isn't just off the beaten track they're on another road entirely! Social climbing Sean is embarrassed at the prospect of his West Side girlfriend meeting his South Central family. Sometimes sanity isn't what it is cracked up to be but with a little Parental Guidance things can only go from bad to worse.
Welcome to Beverly Hills where upper class white married couples like Bill and Bernadette (Andrew Duggan and Joyce Van Patten) enjoy their happy life of wealth and privilege. But when a violently unstable black criminal (Yaphet Kotto) invades their home each will be forced to explore their own nightmares of lies and desire where every perverse secret is exposed and nothing is ever really black and white. This is the daring disturbing and still controversial directorial debut of one
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