"Actor: Gena Rowlands"

• My New Best Friend | DVD | (09/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  After constant fights detentions and suspensions from high school Charlie Proud is heading in one direction - a prison sentence. However a disciplinary meeting between Charlie's parents and the School Principal Dewitt (James Caan) convinces the principal that if he can remove the boy from the bad influences of both the local gangs and his dysfunctional family there may yet be a future for Charlie. Forced to work for the elderly and eccentric Mrs Ritchie (Gena Rowlands) the pensioner he robbed Charlie slowly learns to respect his victim. Conflicted by the love and kindness he sees in Mrs Ritchie's family Charlie is forced to deal with the dark secrets of his own life as well as the destructive influence of his gang mates.

• A Woman Under The Influence | DVD | (23/10/2006) from £8.81   |  Saving you £7.18 (81.50%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A tough-minded moving film about a working-class housewife's mental breakdown caused by imposed social rules. This insightful study of sexual politics earned an Oscar nomination for both Gena Rowlands and John Cassavetes.

• Gloria | DVD | (01/08/2005) from £6.73   |  Saving you £6.26 (93.02%)   |  RRP £12.99

  She's tough...but she sides with the little guy. Jack Dawn and his family were eliminated by the mob because he was their accountant feeding information to the FBI. However his six year old son Phil escaped with neighbour - and former gangster's girlfriend - Gloria. Now in his possession Phil has his father's black book containing account details of the mobsters. They want it back and the pair dead... Winner of the Best Picture at the Venice Film Festival the film also s

• Jim Jarmusch - Down By Law / Night On Earth | DVD | (17/10/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Two classic films from auteur(!) director Jim Jamursch. Down By Law: 'It's not where you start - it's where you start again...' In one of the hippest comedies ever made three misfits find themselves thrown together in a New Orleans jail cell. There's Zach the unemployed DJ Jack the small time pimp and Bob the crazy Italian tourist. Unavailable for many years this cult hit stars Tom Waits John Luries and the Oscar-winning director and star of 'Life Is Beautiful' Roberto Be

• Minnie & Moskowitz - (Mr Bongo Films) (1971) | DVD | (04/04/2011) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

  'Minnie and Moskowitz' is a romantic comedy by pioneering Director, John Cassavetes, starring Gena Rowlands as Minnie and Seymour Cassel as Seymour Moskowitz. The story starts with Minnie, a divorced museum curator who goes on a blind date with Zelmo Swift, (Val Avery) who happens to be married. But later she rejects the date which results in a big argument between the two. Car park attendant, Seymour manages to defuse the situation but surprisingly falls in love with Minni upon first sight despite their differences.

• Parts Per Billion | DVD | (06/10/2014) from £5.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

  A devastating biological disaster is unleashed threatening to annihilate the human race. Three couples are forced to make life-altering decisions as the earth's population rapidly decreases towards extinction. With martial law declared and the streets in chaos the couples must struggle through the anarchy in a bid to try to survive. Each decision that they make could either save their lives or threaten to tear them apart. Starring Josh Hartnett (Sin City) Rosario Dawson (Sin City) Teresa Palmer (Warm Bodies) and Frank Langella (Superman Returns) Parts Per Billion is a gut-wrenching tale of humanity's will to survive.

• A Child Is Waiting | DVD | (06/07/2009) from £17.53   |  Saving you £-1.54 (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  A Child Is Waiting

• Broken English | DVD | (20/05/2013) from £11.50   |  Saving you £4.49 (28.10%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Made by the daughter of iconoclastic filmmaker John Cassavetes, Broken English is about Nora, beautifully played by Parker Posey, a thirty-something Manhattanite plugging away at her job in a posh downtown hotel, but can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to establish a successful relationship. Nora is constantly reminded by her tactless mother (Gena Rowlands) just how unlucky she has been in love. Though Nora longs to enter into a blissful union she finds that the dating pool just isn't what it used to be. Things soon begin to look up, when Nora makes the acquaintance of handsome but quirky Frenchman with a passion for living. However things don't go quite to plan and Inevitably Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.

• The Skeleton Key | HD DVD | (10/12/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  It can open any door. From the writer of The Ring (Ehren Kruger) and the director of K-PAX (Iain Softley) comes the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key. Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans The Skeleton Key stars Kate Hudson as Caroline a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Rowlands) ailing husband (Hurt) in their home... a foreboding and decrepit mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple their mysterious secretive ways and their rambling old house Caroline begins to explore the mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret...

• Opening Night | DVD | (09/07/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Opening Night (1977)

• Thursday's Child | DVD | (30/04/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £9.99

  Life is about to change for young Sam Alden. Home for a traditional Christmas celebration the usually robust young man worries his family with his drawn appearance and persistent coughing. Subsequent tests reveal the cause-degenerative heart disease. His condition rapidly deteriorates until his doctors determine that only a heart transplant can offer him any hope of survival. Putting aside their fears Sam's large and loving family rallies round him. Drawing strength from each other and from an optimistic Sam his parents keep watch over him-awaiting decisions that could give him the chance to fulfil the promise of Thursday's Child.

• My New Best Friend | DVD | (26/05/2008) from £20.00   |  Saving you £-14.01 (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  After constant fights detentions and suspensions from high school Charlie Proud is heading in one direction - a prison sentence!

• Skeleton Key/The Grudge | DVD | (14/08/2006) from £12.13   |  Saving you £12.86 (51.50%)   |  RRP £24.99

  The Skeleton Key: It can open any door. From the writer of The Ring (Ehren Kruger) and the director of K-PAX (Iain Softley) comes the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key. Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans The Skeleton Key stars Kate Hudson as Caroline a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Rowlands) ailing husband (Hurt) in their home... a foreboding and decrepit mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple their mysterious secretive ways and their rambling old house Caroline begins to explore the mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret... The Grudge: American nurse Karen Davis (Sarah Michelle Gellar) living and working in Tokyo is drawn to an odd house and exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim... Produced by Sam Raimi 'The Grudge' sees Sarah Michelle Gellar changing tack from her 'Buffy' guise in this superior chiller directed by Takashi Shimizu adapted from his own Japanese horror classic.

• The Notebook/She's the Man/the Wedding Date | DVD | (22/10/2007) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £14.99

  This box set contains the following films: The Notebook (Dir. Nick Cassavetes) (2004): A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands). The Notebook follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams). Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn't stop Noah and Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents and then by WWII. After the war is over everything is different. Allie is engaged to a successful businessman and Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores. But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah's handiwork. She knows that she's got to find him and make a decision once and for all about the path her life - and her love - must take... She's The Man (Dir. Andy Fickman) (2006): Viola Johnson (Amanda Bynes) had her own good reasons for disguising herself as her twin brother Sebastian (James Kirk) and enrolling in his place at his new boarding school Illyria Prep. She was counting on Sebastian being AWOL from school as he tried to break into the music scene in London. What she didn't count on was falling in love with her hot roommate Duke (Channing Tatum) who in turn only has eyes for the beautiful Olivia (Laura Ramsey). Making matters worse Olivia is starting to fall for Sebastian who-for reasons Olivia couldn't begin to guess-appears to be the sensitive type of guy she'd always dreamed of meeting. If things weren't complicated enough the real Sebastian has come back from London two days earlier than expected and arrives on campus having no clue that he's been replaced... by his own twin sister. The Wedding Date (Dir. Clare Kilner) (2005): In this sparkling romantic comedy Debra Messing plays Kat a never-married New Yorker who is invited to her parents' London home for her younger sister's wedding. What should be a joyous occasion bodes disaster for Kat however when she discovers that the best man will be none other than her ex-fianc'' who two years before inexplicably dumped her. In a desperate attempt to face the ordeal with dignity Kat hires Nick (Dermot Mulroney) a charming and handsome professional male escort to pose as her new boyfriend and escort her to the wedding. Even more valuable to Kat than Nick's good looks and charisma is his keen insight into human behavior--a well-learned trick of his trade. Over the course of the weekend Nick takes on the role of the bride's therapist the father's ideal son-in-law the groom's new best friend and the object of every woman's affection. For Kat what starts out as a pretend relationship with Nick begins to turn into something entirely unexpected: a second chance at love.

• The Skeleton Key | UMD | (28/11/2005) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £17.99

• Notebook/August Rush/Ladies In Lavender | DVD | (20/10/2008) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £19.99

  The Notebook (Dir. Nick Cassavetes) (2004): A sweeping love story told by a man reading from his faded notebook (James Garner) to a woman in a nursing home (Gena Rowlands - real-life mother of Nick Cassavetes). 'The Notebook' follows the lives of two North Carolina teens from very different worlds (Ryan Gosling and Rachel McAdams). Though her upbringing takes place in an antebellum mansion and he grew up in the kind of house where musicians strum on the porch that doesn't stop Noah and Allie from spending one incredible summer together before they are separated first by her parents and then by WWII. After the war is over everything is different. Allie is engaged to a successful businessman and Noah lives alone with his 200-year-old house that he lovingly restores. But when Allie reads a newspaper article about Noah's handiwork. She knows that she's got to find him and make a decision once and for all about the path her life - and her love - must take... August Rush (Dir. Kirsten Sheridan) (2007): August Rush tells the story of a charismatic young Irish guitarist (Jonathan Rhys Meyers) and a sheltered young cellist (Keri Russell) who have a chance encounter one magical night above New York's Washington Square but are soon torn apart leaving in their wake an infant August Rush orphaned by circumstance. Now performing on the streets of New York and cared for by a mysterious stranger (Robin Williams) August (Freddie Highmore) uses his remarkable musical talent to seek the parents from whom he was separated at birth. Ladies In Lavender (Dir. Charles Dance) (2004): Cornwall in 1936 remains as ever a timeless place. Sisters Janet and Ursula Widdington discover a castaway on the beach below their house. With the help of the local doctor they nurse him back to health. During his convalescence the sisters discover his talent as a musician and the unsettling effect he has on them both - especially Ursula whose life will never be the same again.

• Undertow/The Skeleton Key | DVD | (18/09/2006) from £22.55   |  Saving you £2.44 (10.82%)   |  RRP £24.99

  Undertow (Dir. David Gordon Green 2004): The Munns father John (Mulroney) and sons Chris (Bell) and Tim (Alan) withdraw to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel (Lucas) though the tragedy that follows forces troubled youngster Chris to become a man... The Skeleton Key (Dir. Iain Softley 2005): From the writer of The Ring (Ehren Kruger) and the director of K-PAX (Iain Softley) comes the supernatural thriller The Skeleton Key. Set largely in the dark atmospheric backwoods just outside of New Orleans The Skeleton Key stars Kate Hudson as Caroline a live-in nurse hired to care for an elderly woman's (Rowlands) ailing husband (Hurt) in their home... a foreboding and decrepit mansion in the Louisiana delta. Intrigued by the enigmatic couple their mysterious secretive ways and their rambling old house Caroline begins to explore the mansion. Armed with a skeleton key that unlocks every door in the house she discovers a hidden attic room that holds a deadly and terrifying secret...

• Hope Floats | DVD | (31/01/2000) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99