The unluckiest man in Vegas (William H. Macy) is used by the last of the old time mob run casinos to kill high rollers' action. That is, until he falls in love which throws the situation into reverse.
The first thing you need to know about Sleepers is that it's based on a novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra that was allegedly based on a true story. The movie repeats this bogus claim, which was attacked and determined by a wide majority to be misleading. Knowing this, Sleepers becomes problematic because it's too neat, too clean, too manipulative in terms of legal justice and dramatic impact to be truly convincing. And yet, with its stellar cast directed by Barry Levinson, it succeeds as gripping entertainment, and its tale of complex morality--despite a dubious emphasis on homophobic revenge--is sufficiently provocative. It's about four boys in New York's Hell's Kitchen district who are sent to reform school, where they must endure routine sexual assaults by the sadistic guards. Years after their release, the opportunity for revenge proves irresistible for two of the young men, who must then rely on the other pair of friends (Brad Pitt, Jason Patric), a loyal priest (Robert De Niro), and a shabby lawyer (Dustin Hoffman) to defend them in court. Despite the compelling ambiguities of the story, there's never any doubt about how we're supposed to feel, and the screenplay glosses over the story's most difficult moral dilemmas. At its best, Sleepers grabs your attention and pulls you into its intense story of friendship and the price of loyalty under extreme conditions. The movie's New York settings are vividly authentic, and Minnie Driver makes a strong impression as a long-time friend of the loyal group of guys. --Jeff Shannon, Amazon.com
When orphan Polly discovers her horse may die giving birth she wishes with all her heart for help from the King of the Horses the Unicorn. As the mare dies she thinks her wish has gone unanswered until she sees the foal... a baby unicorn which totters its way into Polly's heart. When a sneaky photo of the unicorn appears in a newspaper media uproar ensues. Polly's Aunt Lucy (Emma Samms) sends Polly away to boarding school leaving no one to protect the little unicorn except her ageing grandfather (David Warner). He soon has his hands full when bumbling magician 'The Great Allonso' (George Hamilton) decides that the unicorn can restore his failing magic abilities and unscrupulous ringmaster Tiny (Joe Penny) prepares to steal the foal to exploit it in his run down circus. Can Polly and her best friend Toby rescue the unicorn and so free it to work the magic it has come into the world to perform...?
Classic BBC TV series about the struggles of the Low Countries population during their occupation by the Nazi's during World War II. Episodes comprise: Lisa - Code Name Yvette Sergeant on the Run Radishes with Butter Child's Play Second Chance Growing Up Lost Sheep Guilt Too Near Home Identity in Doubt A Question of Loyalty Hymn to Freedom Bait Good Friday Suspicions Be the First Kid in Your Block To Rule the World.
Charlatan medium Martha Travis (Arquette) and her alcoholic father Walter (Robards) make their living travelling from town to town putting on spiritualist performances during which Martha delivers false messages of hope from the dead to their surviving loved ones. At one such performance Martha gives a message to Mary Kuron from her husband Tom. The problem is Tom isn't dead. When Tom is killed exactly as Martha envisioned the case attracts the attention of sceptical journalist
The war between the two alien races escalates with the Greys contaminating mankind with violence and the Morphs using humans as pawns. One human operative ambivalent about his situation in New York City wants to experience the same time over and over again with his new girlfriend because he knows of the fateful events that will soon happen. Yet he can't seem to get the relationship right. A cult classic sci-fi flick!
A romantic comedy with an absurdist edge, Just a Kiss begins when Dag (Ron Eldard), a commercial director, sleeps with his best friend's girlfriend, Rebecca (Marley Shelton), a dancer, while she's touring in Europe. When their infidelity is revealed back home in New York City it sets off a cascade of people falling into bed together, including Dag's girlfriend Halley (Kyra Sedgwick), Rebecca's other lover Andre (Taye Diggs) and a waitress at a bowling alley (Marisa Tomei) with strange obsessions and loose morals. Just a Kiss slips to and fro in time and veers in and out of rotoscope animation, but even the live sequences have a cartoonish edge; it's hard to care about what happens to these caricatures, no matter how tight their pants or how skimpy their tank tops. Also featuring Patrick Breen (who wrote the screenplay) and Sarita Choudhury. --Bret Fetzer
This new British comedy from "The Full Monty" director Peter Cattaneo stars Jimmy Nesbitt and Olivia Williams as an in-mate and a prison councillor whose unlikely romance blossoms behind bars.
South Park co-creator Trey Parker goes straight for the gross-out humour in this live-action farce set in the adult-movie industry. Parker stars as an innocent Mormon kid who gets sucked into the world of pornographic film-making and becomes an international sensation as the stud superhero Orgazmo, all the while hiding his secret life from his milk-fed fiancée. It's practically a one-man show for Parker, who directs, writes, stars, and even performs the self-penned theme song as frontman for his rock band, and perhaps he should have spread the responsibilities a little. As an actor he's surprisingly appealing--his dazed grin and bleached white surfer-dude hair give him an engaging air of innocence. Paired with long-time crony Dian Bachar, the diminutive actor who plays his superhero sidekick Chodo Boy, they bring a Hardy Boys naiveté to the rude world of mobbed-up producers and jaded adult film stars. But the film is only fitfully funny, with vulgar jokes that are often more disgusting than humorous and clumsy comic timing sabotaging promising scenes. Only rarely does it reach the heights of his hilarious cut-out cartoon series South Park, but when he delivers he does so with the carefully cultivated tasteless excess his fans have come to know and love. Matt Stone co-stars as a clueless photographer while the real-life adult film star Ron Jeremy appears as a gross gangster henchman. --Sean Axmaker, Amazon.com
The true story of Richard Pimentel, a man with a troubled past, who returns from Vietnam severely hearing impaired and finds a new purpose in fighting for disabled rights. Product Features The First-Ever UK Blu-Ray Release Starring Rebecca De Mornay The Hand that Rocks the Cradle/li> Starring Ron Livingston The Conjuring/li>
The story of the life and career of TT winner and World Championship 500CC racer Ron Haslam with archive racing footage and revealing interviews with Ron and his wife at their Derbyshire home.
Angela Lansbury stars in the role that earned her 12 consecutive Emmy nominations as everyone's favorite super-sleuth Jessica Fletcher a famous mystery writer who has a knack for solving murders on and off the page.
This is a hilarious but true-to-life look at love dating and commitment. David is informed by his girlfriend of five years that she is leaving to go to New York for two months in order for him to decide whether he is ready to marry her. Seeking advice from his wacky womanising best friends David begins to navigate the treacherous Los Angeles singles scene until fate intervenes and he falls for a mystery woman! Sarah meanwhile gets an offer from her handsome boss that she may not
If the prospect of two-plus hours of 250-foot mechanical men pummeling enormous alien creatures from another dimension is just what you've been waiting for, oh, boy, does Guillermo del Toro have a treat for you. The celebrated director--one might even say visionary--has pulled off the most elaborate B-movie heist ever with this huge-budget special effects extravaganza that revels in catchphrase cliché dialogue, a howlingly obvious script, and the most breathtaking homage to Japanese monster and mecha cinema, manga, and comic tradition. It's all by design, of course, and is a stunning spectacle that also acts as antidote to the bloated, self-important superhero genre and typical bombastic Hollywood tent-pole fare. Pacific Rim has plenty of bloat and bombast, mind you. But it's in the service of a wondrously geeky story that throws all logic and seriousness to the wind, transporting the viewer to a realm of childlike popcorn escapism no matter their age. A dense and breathless prologue dumps us into the near-future global warfare of Kaiju vs. Jaeger. Kaiju are reptilian monstrosities that emerge from deep in the sea through a portal that leads to a world where Kaijus are systematically bred to destroy. They annihilate coastal cities and claim millions of lives before the world's citizens band together to fight back. The humans build fantastic robots called Jaegers (German for fighters) that are able to vanquish the early Kaiju enemies by employing "pilots" who drive the mechanized behemoths in pairs, joining minds in a process known as the Drift. But as the years go by, the war has taken a toll on the humans and the Jaegers, both of whom are nearly defeated. From beginning to end there's really no point in asking questions or trying to calculate details about the outrageous goings-on in the world of Pacific Rim. This is a pure thrill ride ruled by del Toro, the wild visual flair of his artistry and his sheer delight for wallowing in tropes and genre chestnuts leading at full volume. The cast is mainly window dressing for the astounding computer images. The pilots Charlie Hunnam, Max Martini, Rob Kazinsky, and Rinko Kikuchi are merely types. The same goes for Idris Elba, but his glowering presence as the unwavering commander is the best real-life thing about Pacific Rim. A pair of nerdy scientists (Charlie Day and Burn Gorman) add to the plot (simple as it is), though their primary purpose is wacky comic relief. Del Toro favorite and Hellboy himself, Ron Perelman steals his few short scenes as a bootlegger in Kaiju corpses. His character says a lot about the movie's self-effacing attitude. Pacific Rim is deeply in cahoots with itself over the ridiculousness of the story, but also delights in the awesomeness of its invention. The action is both coherent and mind-blowing, which is why most people will find it such a kick. Just like driving a Jaeger, throw your head into the battle and hang on. --Ted Fry
Susan (Bobby Bresee) was ten when her mother died. Now thirty passionate and beautiful she is heiress to the family fortune. But for the women of the Nomed family there is another legacy - an ancient and terrible curse. Possessed by powers she cannot control Susans life becomes a nightmare of lust terror and murder until even her husband finds himself confronting the face of hell. Susans only salvation lies within the Mausoleum... but dare she return?
The Governor was written by Lynda La Plante and tells the story of a female governor who is put in charge of a high-security male prison. Facing various problems including hostage situations and escape attempts the new Governor is challenged not only to overcome the difficulties with in the prison but also the attitude of her fellow male prison guards. Is she up to the task? Features all 6 episodes of Series 1.
Jackie Chan in his first American film takes on heavy-hitting 1930's mobsters in the ultimate street-fighting competition. A young Chinese American takes part in 'The Brawl' - a gigantic knock-down drag-out street fight in which the toughest roughest and meanest fighters gather to pound each other into the dust for a huge cash prize.
The Spider's Web is a 1960 British murder mystery farce directed by Godfrey Grayson and starring Glynis Johns, John Justin, Peter Butterworth, Cicely Courtneidge and Jack Hulbert. An adaptation of the play by Agatha Christie, this classic who done it, set in the traditional country house, follows the appearance and then disappearance of a dead body. The household of Diplomat Henry Hailsham-Brown and wife Clarissa (Glynis Johns) are thrown into turmoil, as each character suspects that another is guilty of the murder and endeavours to cover it up from Police Inspector Lord (Peter Butterworth, star of the Carry On series of British films) who has the unenviable job of unravelling their various ham fisted deceptions and solving the mystery.
Times are hard for Toxie. What's a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength to do after he's eliminated crime from his hometown? Desperate to raise money for the experimental surgery that could restore his blind fiancées eyesight Toxie accepts a lucrative job with the evil multinational conglomerate Apocalypse Inc. Now Toxies transforming into an even more monstrous creature: a yuppie. And all of Tromaville is paying the price of Toxies Faustian bargain. The Toxic Avenger must defeat his own inner demons before taking on the Devil himself in a battle royale while the fate of Tromaville hangs in the balance. Special Features: Region Free Biohazardous introduction by Lloyd Kaufman Radioactive commentary with director Lloyd Kaufman and Troma Superstar Joe Fleishaker Interviews with Satan himself and other cast members Never-before-seen uncut scenes from the Japanese release of the film A Troma-rific slide show of the Toxic Avenger memorabilia Trailers Booklet Notes by Calum Waddell
More episodes from the cult television series starring Lewis Collins Martin Shaw and Gordon Jackson. Episodes include: 'The Acorn Syndrome' 'Wild' 'Need to Know' 'Takeaway' 'Blackout' 'Blood Sports' 'Slush Fund' 'The Gun' 'Hijack' 'Mixed Doubles' 'Weekend in the Country' 'Kickback' and 'It's Only a Beautiful Picture'.
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