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• The Shipping News | DVD | (02/12/2002) from £6.38   |  Saving you £9.61 (150.63%)   |  RRP £15.99

  Based on the Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Kevin Spacey stars as a man who moves to his family's ancestral home in Newfoundland after a tragedy. Slowly, he starts to put his life back together.

• Boys Don't Cry | DVD | (18/02/2002) from £4.80   |  Saving you £8.19 (170.62%)   |  RRP £12.99

  When Brandon Teena, a young man with an infectious, aw-shucks grin and an angelic face that's all angles, wanders into Falls City, Nebraska, he takes to the town as if it's a second skin. In little time he's fallen in with a gang of goofy if temperamental redneck boys, found himself a girlfriend, and befriended enough people to form something of a small family. In fact, it's the best time Brandon's ever had. However, there are shadows looming over Brandon's life: a court date for grand theft auto, a chequered criminal record, and a seemingly innocuous speeding ticket that could prove to be his undoing. Why? Because as it turns out, Brandon Teena is actually Teena Brandon, a woman masquerading as a man. This fascinating story was based on real-life events (as documented in The Brandon Teena Story) that occurred in 1993 and ended in tragedy: Brandon's rape and murder by two of his supposed friends. Despite this horrible outcome, however, in the hands of director Kimberly Peirce (who co-wrote the unfettered screenplay with Andy Bienen), Brandon's story becomes not oppressive or preachy, but rather oddly and touchingly transcendent, anchored by Hilary Swank's phenomenal, unsentimental (and Oscar-winning) performance. Swank inhabits Brandon's contradictions and passions with a natural vitality most actresses would refuse to give themselves over to. Brandon's deception is doomed from the start, but Swank's enthusiasm is infectious, and when Brandon starts romancing the sloe-eyed Lana (a pitch-perfect Chloë Sevigny), he finds a soulmate who wants to transcend boundaries and fated identities as much as he does. The last part of the film, when Brandon's true identity is discovered, is truly painful to watch, but in between the agony there are touching moments of sweetness between Brandon and Lana, who wrestles with the truth of who Brandon actually is. You'll come away from Boys Don't Cry with affection and respect for Brandon, not pity. --Mark Englehart, Amazon.com

• Waking up dead | DVD | (15/04/2024) from £6.99   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £N/A

• Prime Gig | DVD | (21/01/2002) from £6.54   |  Saving you £13.45 (67.30%)   |  RRP £19.99

  Deep down Pendleton 'Penny' Wise (Vince Vaughn) is a good man but you wouldn't believe it if his job is anything to go by. Everyday he convinces unwary sun worshippers to part with their hard earned cash for dodgy package holidays until the operation closes down and he winds up in financial dire straits. Tired of working on small time deals Penny yearns for that deal that will bring in the mega bucks. It arrives when he gets headhunted by Caitlin Carson (Julia Ormond) to work on a

• Somebody Is Waiting | DVD | (01/09/2003) from £N/A   |  Saving you £N/A (N/A%)   |  RRP £5.99

  Leon Ellis is a kind-hearted well-intentioned boy who just can't seem to stay out of trouble. His mother Charlotte is the soul of goodness dedicated to her five children but burdened with the sorrows of her cruel and nasty alcoholic husband who leaves the family destitute. However when Charlotte dies Leon must learn to take care of his family and himself.