The English Patient (Dir. Anthony Minghella) (1996): Winner of an outstanding nine Academy Awards The English Patient is the sweeping World War II romantic epic that's being compared to such legendary films as Casablanca and Doctor Zhivago. After a badly burned pilot (Ralph Fiennes) is pulled from the wreckage of his plane in the Sahara Desert he's placed in the care of an army nurse (Juliette Binoche) and identified only as ""the English patient."" As his memory slowly returns a passionate and consuming love affair with a married woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) is unveiled and lives from both the past and the present become inextricably altered. Set against breath taking backdrops in North Africa and Italy this film is a riveting cinematic masterpiece that stirs the heart and touches the soul like no other film in years! Cold Mountain (Dir. Anthony Minghella) (2003): In the dying days of the American Civil War a wounded soldier (Law) embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart (Kidman).
A collection of great movies featuring the ruggedly suave George Clooney! The Peacemaker: (Dir. Mimi Leder 1997) When a train carrying atomic warheads mysteriously crashes in the former Soviet Union brilliant US nuclear specialist Dr. Julia Kelly discovers the accident is really part of a diabolical plot to cover up the theft of these weapons. Assigned to help her recover the explosives is crack Special Forces Colonel Thomas Devoe whose brash take-no-prisoners style clashes with Kelly's more diplomatic approach. Putting aside their personal differences - and their budding romance - together they race against time and as they track the last remaining warhead to the steps of the United Nations in this taut apocalyptic thriller from director Mimi Leder. Out Of Sight: (Dir. Steven Soderbergh 1998) Meet Jack Foley (George Clooney) the most successful bank robber in the country. On the day he busts out of jail he finds himself stealing something far more precious than money: Karen Sisco's (Jennifer Lopez) heart. She's smart sexy and unfortunately for Jack she's a Federal Marshal. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law... Intolerable Cruelty: (Dir. Joel Coen 2003) From the Coen brothers comes this witty sharp comedy about a man who wins in court and courts to win! Divorce attorney Miles Massey has got it all. Serial gold-digger Marilyn Rexroth wants it all. A hilarious battle of deceit and cunning ensues when Miles falls for Marilyn with each one trying to outsmart the other. Underhand tactics deceptions and an undeniable attraction escalate as Marilyn and Miles square off in this classic battle of the sexes...
Into the world of the Emperor Penguins, who find their soul mates through song, a penguin is born who cannot sing. But he can tap dance something fierce!
Set in 1899, this musical drama from director Baz Luhrmann ("Romeo + Juliet") stars Ewan McGregor as a young poet who begins a passionate but doomed affair with the most famous courtesan in Paris (Nicole Kidman).
Bugsy: Benjamin Bugsy Siegel ( Warren Beatty) is the legendary power broker whose disarming charm and elegant good looks hide a violent and dangerous personality. Virginis The Flamingo Hill ( Annette Bening) is a stunning glamorous starlet with a wise guy wit and tough past. Their attraction is magnetic - together sex risk and danger to fight their underworld bosses and builds their dream of a city in the desert - Las Vegas drive them. To Die For: Suzanne Stone (Kidman) has always dreamed of being on TV - and she's dead-set on making that dream come true. But there is just one obstacle: Larry Maretto her husband (Dillon). So Suzanne convinces a love-struck teenager (Phoenix) to get Larry out of the way - for good. Circus: 'Circus' is a modern crime thriller of cross double-cross and triple-cross. Set in Brighton away from the funfair and day-trippers it is a violent and darkly humorous tale that twists like an epileptic Boa Constricter riding a helter skelter.
Moulin Rouge (Dir. Baz Luhrmann 2001): A spectacle beyond anything you've ever witnessed. An experience beyond everything you've ever imagined. Behind the red velvet curtain the ultimate seduction of your senses is about to begin. Welcome to the Moulin Rouge! Nicole Kidman and Ewan McGregor sing dance and scale the heights of passionate abandon in this most talked-about movie from visionary director Baz Luhrmann (William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet Strictly Ballroom). Enter a tantalizing world that celebrates truth beauty freedom and above all things love. Down With Love (Dir. Peyton Reed 2003): When best-selling feminist author Barbara Novak (Zellweger) becomes the target of dashing playboy Catcher Block (McGregor) the sparks they generate will fly you to the moon and back! Set in the early sixties every frame pops with 60's technicolour.
Bewitched: Be warned. Be ready. A producer remaking the classic sitcom ""Bewitched"" unknowingly casts an actual witch for the lead role! Nicole Kidman and Will Ferrell headline this hilarious romantic comedy based on the beloved sitcom starring Elizabeth Montgomery. (Dir. Nora Ephron 2005) Wimbledon: She's the golden girl. He's the longshot. It's a match made in... A pro tennis player has lost his ambition and has fallen in rank to 119. Fortunately for him he meets a young female player on the women's circuit who helps him recapture his focus for Wimbledon at the cost of losing hers... (Dir. Richard Loncraine 2004) The Perfect Man: Is it all too good to be true? Teenager Holly Hamilton (Hilary Duff) is fed up of moving every time her single-parent mother Jean (Heather Locklear) breaks-up with another dead-beat boyfriend. To distract her mother from her latest bad choice Holly conceives the perfect plan for the perfect man - an imaginary secret admirer who will romance Jean and boost her self-esteem. When the virtual relationship takes off Holly finds herself having to produce a suitor from somewhere; borrowing her friend's charming and handsome uncle Ben (Chris Noth) as the face behind the emails notes and gifts! Holly must resort to increasingly desperate measures to keep the ruse alive and protect her Mother's newfound happiness... Almost missing the real perfect man when he does come along. (Dir. Mark Rosman 2005)
Based on Charles Frazier's best-selling Civil War novel of the same name, Cold Mountain tells the story of Inman (Jude Law), a wounded confederate soldier who is on a perilous journey home to his mountain community, hoping to reunite with his pre-war sweetheart, Ada (Nicole Kidman). In his absence, Ada struggles to survive, and revive her father's farm with the help of intrepid young drifter Ruby (Renee Zellweger).
Will Ferrell and Nicole Kidman star in this comedy based on the beloved '60s sitcom.
Oh Marbella Where a weekend can change your life! Welcome to Marbella the original Costa De Sol paradise for the rich and famous - and for those wishing they were. Where the sun shines down on you regardless of how bad your luck is who your last 'hit' was or however much you just enjoy hanging out with your fellow nudists - oh Marbella where dreams are made! Cake Have Your Life And Eat It Too Always the bridesmaid but never the bride Pippa McGee flies home for yet another wedding. Jet-lagged and late she downs one martini too many and flirts with every guy in sight. It's a disaster made worse when Pippa discovers her publisher dad urgently needs a new editor for one of his magazines. She volunteers only to discover the job is her idea of hell - she's in charge of 'Wedding Bells'. My Date With Drew My Date With Drew is a digital diary through the rose-tinted glasses of 27-year-old Brian Herzlinger who aspires to have a date with his dream girl: Drew Barrymore. Shot entirely for 100 that Herzlinger won on a game show the production used a camera purchased on credit from Circuit City and then returned it under the store's 30-day refund policy. My Brother The Pig When her younger brother is turned into a pig a young girl her brother's friend and their nanny head south to Mexico to reverse the spell before the parents get home! Girls Just Want To Have Fun Two teenage girls Janey and Lynne dream of being selected as the new 'DTV' dance regulars so they attend an open audition. There they meet two teenage boys Drew and Jeff who have the same idea... Emerald City A tale of two cities four people and life's little pleasures... money lust temptation greed power and ambition. My Five Wives The Nugget Picking Up The Pieces Tex (Woody Allen) a kosher butcher from New York under the witness protection program in Arizona has a problem. He has just killed his wife Candy (Sharon Stone) in a jealous rage after discovering she's having an affair with the local sheriff (Keifer Sutherland). Daydream Believer Nell (Miranda Otto) always loved horses more than she loved people until she meets a millionaire playboy (Martin Kemp). He's the kind of guy women always fall for she's the kind men fall over. Romatic fairytale comedy.
In the waning days of the American Civil War, a wounded soldier embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain, North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart.
The Invasion deserves a second chance on DVD. This ambitious sci-fi thriller represents a flawed yet worthy attempt to bring contemporary vitality to Jack Finney's classic science fiction novel, previously filmed as Don Siegel's 1956 classic Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Philip Kaufman's suspenseful 1978 remake, and Abel Ferrara's highly underrated Body Snatchers from 1994. And while those earlier films are superior in many respects, The Invasion is not without strengths of its own, particularly for those who prefer action and suspense. Unfortunately these strengths were compromised by the unpredictable misfortunes of production: Original director Oliver Hirschbiegel (hired on the strength of Downfall) was eventually replaced by James McTiegue (V for Vendetta), and the Wachowski Brothers (of Matrix trilogy fame) added high-octane action sequences to the original screenplay by David Kajganich. Perhaps the movie had a curse on it (star Nicole Kidman was almost seriously injured in a stunt-car mishap during last-minute re-shoots), but it's really just a matter of disparate ingredients that don't always fit together, resulting in a slick-looking film that can't decide if it's a sci-fi mystery, action thriller, or political allegory. It tries too hard to be all things at once. Despite this, Kidman rises to the occasion with a solid performance as Carol, a Washington, D.C. psychiatrist who's convinced (with the help of costars Daniel Craig and Jeffrey Wright) that a flu-like virus is spreading throughout the population, its alien spores turning victims into soulless "pod people"... only in this case without the pods. The idea is that you'll be fine if you don't fall asleep, and especially if you don't let anyone sneeze or vomit on you. (There's a lot of vomiting; don't say you weren't warned.) With a crashing space shuttle to deliver the alien threat, cute tyke Jackson Bond as Carol's threatened son, and a nod to Kaufman's film with a small role for Veronica Cartwright, The Invasion will surely fare better on DVD than it did in theaters. If nothing else, it proves the timeless relevance of Finney's original premise, which continues to inspire a multitude of variations. --Jeff Shannon
In the great nation of Emperor Penguins deep in Antarctica you're nobody unless you can sing-which is unfortunate for Mumble (Elijah Wood) who is the worst singer in the world. He is born dancing to his own tune...tap dancing. Though Mumble's mum Norma Jean (Nicole Kidman) thinks this little habit is cute his dad Memphis (Hugh Jackman) says it 'just ain't penguin.' Besides they both know that without a Heartsong Mumble may never find true love. As fate would have it his one friend Gloria (Brittany Murphy) happens to be the best singer around. Mumble and Gloria have a connection from the moment they hatch but she struggles with his strange 'hippity- hoppity' ways. Mumble is just too different-especially for Noah the Elder (Hugo Weaving) the stern leader of Emperor Land who ultimately casts him out of the community. Away from home for the first time Mumble meets a posse of decidedly un-Emperor-like penguins-the Adelie Amigos. Led by Ramon (Robin Williams) the Adelies instantly embrace Mumble's cool dance moves and invite him to party with them. In Adelie Land Mumble seeks the counsel of Lovelace the Guru (also voiced by Robin Williams) a crazy-feathered Rockhopper penguin who will answer any of life's questions for the price of a pebble. Together with Lovelace and the Amigos Mumble sets out across vast landscapes and after some epic encounters proves that by being true to yourself you can make all the difference in the world.
Stanley Kubrick's daring last film is many things. It is a compelling psychosexual journey. A haunting dreamscape. A riveting tale of suspense. A major milestone in the careers of stars Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman. And a worthy final chapter to a great director's career. Cruise plays Dr William Hartford who plunges into an erotic foray that threatens his marriage - and may even ensnare him in a lurid murder mystery - after his wife's (Kidman) admission of sexual longings. As the story sweeps from doubt and fear to self-discovery and reconciliation Kubrick orchestrates it with masterful flourishes. Graceful tracking shots controlled pacing rich colours startling images: bravura traits that make Kubrick a filmmaker for the ages are here to keep everyone's eyes wide open.
This box set contains 10 films featuring some of Hollywood's leading ladies. The Cartier Affair: Con man Curt Taylor is fresh out of prison but still needs to repay a debt to an underworld boss - as secretary to a beautiful TV star (Joan Collins)... Emerald City: Starring Nicole kidman. A tale of two cities four people and life's little pleasures... money lust temptation greed power and ambition. Emerald City comes from the pen one of Australia's best known writers David Williamson. Blood And Sand: A fiery young heiress (Sharon Stone) begins a passionate and destructive relationship with a promising young bullfighter and sets out to ruin his career. Grace Quigley: After spotting hitman Seymour Flint in action senior citizen Grace Quigley (Katharine Hepburn) gets the idea for an offbeat scheme that could garner the two of them loads of money. Her plan: kill elderly people who have become tired of living. Complications develop with hilarious results... Blue Desert: A woman tormented by a recent attack moves to the desert to get her life back together. There she befriends two men one of whom is playing maniacal tricks on her forcing her to decide which one to trust. Gun Crazy: Anita (Drew Barrymore) is a poor white-trash teenager trapped in the boredom and misery of a small rural town who becomes infatuated with a very strange penpal... an exotic and dangerous new friend who is to change her life forever. Courage: Marianna's (Sophia Loren) son is a drug addict and her family is in tatters. Desperate to save her family she seeks the aid of a drug agent and fights her way through a life-threatening battle in the New York City underworld. When The Party's Over: It's a non-stop party for a group of beautiful teens living it up in a posh area of Los Angeles. And one very sexy lady M.J. has found a congenial way to capitalize on her friendships and advance her position. But when the music stops and the mad whirl starts to slow down M.J. must suddenly face up to a void in her life. Along For The Ride: Ben and Lulu (Melanie Griffith) had a passionate affair that ended badly. 15 years later he receives a desparate call from Lulu. She reveals a huge secret that they alone must deal with. Together on a fiery cross-country journey they will find a new direction that points to their future. Wildflower: When Ellie Perkins (Reese Witherspoon) came across a shed that she has been forbidden to approach she makes a discovery that shall forever change her and lives of those around her. Locked inside is 17 year old Alice Guthrie (Patricia Arquette) epileptic and partly deaf imprisoned like a wild animal by her abusive stepfather and ignored by her mother...
Chicago: At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn, the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend!; ; The Hours: An adaptation of the novel by Michael Cunningham, this is the story of three women living...
Set in 1899, this musical drama from director Baz Luhrmann ("Romeo + Juliet") stars Ewan McGregor as a young poet who begins a passionate but doomed affair with the most famous courtesan in Paris (Nicole Kidman).
Far And Away (1992): Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman star in this critically acclaimed romantic adventure from director Ron Howard. This breathtaking epic opens on the West Coast of Ireland 1892. Joseph Donelly (Cruise) a poor tenant farmer is determined to bring justice to an oppressive landlord. Instead he finds himself accompanying the landlord's daughter Shannon (Kidman) to America in a quest for land. Arriving in Boston Joseph finds a place for them to live while proving a natural at bare-fisted boxing. But his triumph is short-lived as he and Shannon are thrown out into the bitter cold. Joseph sets off for work on the railroad until a passing wagon train reminds him of his original goal to possess his own land. Preparing to stake his claim in the new territory he runs into Shannon who is unhappily reunited with her former fiance. In the excitement of the Oklahoma land rush they realise their dreams of land and life together in this satisfying grand-scale adventure that has been called ""a wondrous epic!"" The Boxer (1997): When Danny Flynn (Daniel Day-Lewis) returns to his Belfast neighbourhood after 14 years in prison all he wants is to find peace resume his career and reclaim the love of the woman who has remained etched in his mind. As they slowly embrace the possibilities of renewed romance they realise cultural taboos stand in the way and fighting for love could cost them their lives. Angela's Ashes (1999): Angela's Ashes the Pulitzer Prize-winning memoir comes to life in this stirring film from acclaimed director Alan Parker starring Academy Award-nominee Emily Watson and Robert Carlyle. Life in impoverished Depression-era Ireland holds little promise for young Frank McCourt the oldest son in a tightly knit family. Living by his wits cheered by his irrepressible spirit and sustained by his mother's fierce love Frank embarks on an inspiring journey to overcome the poverty of his childhood and reach the land of his dreams: America.
Emerald City A tale of two cities four people and life's little pleasures: money lust temptation greed power and ambition. Emerald City comes from the pen one of Australia's best known writers David Williamson. Scissors Angie Anderson (Sharon Stone) is a beautiful young woman who harbours a dark childhood secret - one that has kept her from having meaningful relationships with men. She works as a temporary secretary and spends her evenings at home alone working on her doll collection the one source of pleasure in her life. One night in her apartment elevator Angie is brutally attacked by a red-bearded assailant. She fights off the would-be rapist by stabbing him with a pair of scissors. Angie gradually becomes convinced someone is trying to drive her insane... The Trial An adaptation by Harold Pinter of Franz Kafka's classic novel about one man's paranoia and persecution. Josef K. for no reason he can imagine is suddenly arrested. As he wanders through a maze of bureaucracy declaring his innocence he becomes more and more entangled in the system -- and he puts himself in ever greater danger.
The Aviator: When Howard Hughes was a child his father made a fortune by patenting a new cutting head for oil drilling. As an old man Hughes holed up in Las Vegas hotel and didn't wash. But it's the middle section of his life that's the foundation of Martin Scorsese's lavish bio-pic where we see the young Hughes become one of America's most famous men.... Nominated for 11 Oscars at the 2005 Academy Awards. Cold Mountain: In the dying days of the American Civil War a wounded soldier (Law) embarks on a perilous journey back home to Cold Mountain North Carolina to reunite with his sweetheart (Kidman). Directed by Anthony Minghella the film was nominated for no less than 7 Oscars with Renee Zellweger picking up the Best Supporting Actress award.
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