this uproarious hit from the Director and Producers of The Nutty Professor comic genius Jim Carrey stars as a fast talking attorney and habitual liar who forced by his son's birthday wish must tell the truth for 24 hours. With co-stars Maura Tierney Jennifer Tilly Swoosie Kurtz and Amanda Donahoe this great film is a laugh-a-minute!
An Englishman In New York
Marshall Seymour is a divorced stressed-out workaholic executive vice-president with little time for his young son Charlie. But they become much closer when a mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son and vice versa!
Some people need love spelled out for them. An illiterate cook (Robert De Niro) at a company cafeteria tries for the attention of a newly widowed woman (Jane Fonda). As they get to know one another she discovers his inability to read. When he is fired she takes on trying to teach him to read in her kitchen each night....
Fantasy mixes with the harsh reality of addiction and the desire for hope in Requiem for a Dream. Beginning at the dawn of a new summer in Coney Island, the film charts the relationship of Sara Goldfarb (Ellen Burstyn) and her son Harry (Jared Leto)--two characters who are lost with in a world of the self-absorbed desire to feed their addictions at the cost of hope and love. With a sublime score (performed by the Kronos Quartet) accompanying some intense visual imagery, the film sets up an almost fairy-tale wash over the characters' lives, with every hit of their chosen drug turning them into beautiful people surrounded by a haze which enhances all their features. However, unlike films such as Trainspotting which turn the dream into a nightmare then end with a huge dose of hope, Requiem for a Dream forces the viewer through all loss of hope and the descending madness of reality, as winter begins. Darren Aronofsky's follow-up to the critically acclaimed Pi is a movie which exposes not only the terror caused by addiction of any kind--be it TV or Heroin--but also offers a powerful insight into the destruction caused by the desire to achieve "the American Dream". Based on the novel by Hubert Selby Jr, the film sacrifices dialogue in favour of imagery and movement: the editing and cinematography are reminiscent of MTV, however the movie takes this very aggressive style and moulds it to its own needs, adding a beautifully haunting narrative and powerful performances by its four main characters (Burstyn just missing out on an Oscar for Best female lead to Julia Roberts). Ultimately the viewer is left with a sense of desperation and despair: Requiem for a Dream exposes drugs and addiction in the most powerful and truthful way a film has ever managed, leaving no stone unturned. On the DVD: This disc is bursting with excellent special features. The anamorphic widescreen picture makes the most of the film's stylish visuals, and the soundtrack offers choice of either Dolby Digital 5.1 or 2.0. As well as offering the obligatory theatrical trailer, scene selection and a fantastic director's commentary, there's also a "making-of" featurette, TV trailers charting the reviews and success of the film, an "Anatomy of a scene", and a wide range of deleted scenes. By far the best feature is Hubert Selby Jr's interview with Ellen Burstyn, which offers the writer a chance to put across not just his opinions on his work but also on life as a whole. All these features are placed within an impressively formatted menu. --Nikki Disney
A man is offered anything he wants for the sum total of his soul. But the price is too much when his daughter's life is at stake.
James Woods doesn't get to play many romantic leads--and he certainly doesn't get the girl in this handsome, if occasionally hollow, remake of Out of the Past. As the mover-and-shaker lover of Rachel Ward, he loses her--if only temporarily--to ex-football star Jeff Bridges. Woods captures the insecurity behind a man of power who understands that the women in his life love his money first. But he also shows us the real tenderness that kept Ward close when money lost its glitter. Bridges is at his best, playing the should-have-been trying to keep his future from repeating his dead-end past. Look for actress Jane Greer (who played the Ward role in the 1947 original opposite Robert Mitchum and Kirk Douglas) in a small role. --Marshall Fine, Amazon.com
Alex Rose (Ben Stiller - Meet the Parents, Zoolander, Tropic Thunder) and Nancy Kendricks (Drew Barrymore - Charlie's Angels, The Wedding Singer) are a young, professional, New York couple in search of their dream home. When they finally find the perfect Brooklyn brownstone they are giddy with anticipation. The duplex is a dream come true, complete with multiple fireplaces, except for one thing: Mrs. Connelly (Eileen Essel), the cranky old lady who lives on the rent-controlled top floor. Assuming she is elderly and ill, they take the apartment but their hopes are quickly dashed when they realize that Mrs. Connelly is an energetic senior who enjoys watching her television at top volume day in and day out and rehearsing in a brass band.A writer, Alex is attempting to finish his novel against a looming deadline. However, each day as he begins to write, he is interrupted by Mrs. Connelly's numerous demands and requests and what begins as a nuisance quickly escalates into an all-out war. When Nancy loses her job and the pair are trapped at home together with Mrs. Connelly, their rage turns to homicidal fantasy as they plot ways to get rid of their no-good neighbour..
Set Comprises: Liar Liar Blues Brothers Uncle Buck Groundhog Day The Jerk Parenthood
2179: Mars has been colonized by Earth populated by humans and ""Second Type"" robots - machines designed to perform the menial tasks humans won't do. Then there are the ""Third Types"" - illegal humanoid robots designed by a nationalist force to look and behave exactly like humans - living undetected among the Martian population as citizens until one man Rene D'anclaude declares war on the ""Thirds"" vowing to destroy them all... This is a story of technology and emotion hatred and
Every not-so-often, along comes a show that's different. Wonderfuly different.Pushing Daisies, ''ITV1's Best Saturday Night Offering In Recent Memory'' Time Out. It's the story of Ned, a lonely pie maker whose touch can reanimate the dead. Neat, but there's a hitch. If Ned touches the person again, the miracle is reversed. If he doesn't, a bystander goes toes up. What to do? Easy: Team with a private eye, bring murder victims back just long enough to discover whodunit, and collect the rewards. Things go well until Ned's boyhood sweetie is the next dear departed, and he can't resist bringing her back for keeps! Dig the wit!, style and quirky romance: If you're not laughing, you may need a visit from Ned.
Michael Caine stars as Graham Marshall a career-minded business-man passed over for promotion by a younger man. In anger he discovers that he has the power to kill any person who gets in his way....
She wanted to give her daughter the best shot at being a cheerleader... The things you do for your kids. What happens when the pursuit of happiness drives you round the bend? Holly Hunter finds out when she stars as Wanda Holloway a loving mother who wants the best for her daughter -- at almost any price. Wanda and her close neighbor and fellow stage mother Verna each want their own daughter to win a coveted spot on the high school cheerleading team. The battle for the prized pom-poms is so intense that while her daughter is doing the splits Wanda is busy devising a plan to try and guarantee her winning. Her plan leads her to talk of murder. Wanda says it started as a joke but when her brother- in- law Terry (Beau Bridges) goes to the cops Wanda becomes entangled in a trial for solicitation of murder making for a movie that would be tragic -- if it weren't so hysterically funny.
Amanda Nelson and the widowed Joan Bixler have enjoyed a life-long friendship. But the day that Joan comes home to a shocking surprise - her 20-year-old daughter Dana making love to Amanda's husband Rob - the 25-year-friendship between the women seems shattered irreparably. There are bitter confrontations between Joan and Amanda and other members of their families as Joan tries to reason with her friend. But as recriminations about the affair fly about the causes behind it emerge and Amanda and Joan soon discover that it's now that they need each other more than ever.
This is the splendid film adaptation of John Irving's bestseller. Robin Williams plays the role of T.S. Garp a complex and unpredictabale young man at odds with a violent and cruel world... The World According To Garp earned two Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actor: one for John Lithgow; and the other for Glenn Close as Best Supporting Actress.
A young couple has a chance to move into a gorgeous apartment in the perfect New York neighborhood. All they have to do is bump off the current tenant, an apparently harmless little old lady.
Eight-year-old Buddy has been living an idyllic existence in rural Alabama with his young-hearted cousin Sook. But all that is about to change when he's sent to New Orleans to spend Christmas with the father he barely knows. Though realizing his dad has some terrible problems to overcome, Buddy and his father take the first steps towards becoming a real family during this one Christmas they'll never forget.
Their story is written on his arm. If they can get a grip on each other maybe they can turn their lives around. Former hairdresser turned smart-mouthed junkie/loser known as J (Segal) spends his days looking for 'just one more fix' as his lifestyle alienates all those around him... This film is a gritty story of lust greed and deceit with Segal playing small time hustler lurking in the back alleys of the Big Apple trying to escape the self-spun web of treachery that threate
Bob and his daughter Beth who are both golf professionals show that long drives are not essential and lower scores can come from short game skills and on-course strategies.
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