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Wonderfalls - The Complete Series
»rank: 1994
0ur opinion:Description:'From the producer of Angel and Firefly comes Wonderfalls with 9 never aired episodes. Although a recent graduate of Brown University, Jaye Tyler decides to ignore her degree, live in a trailer and work at a tourist gift shop in Niagara Falls called Wonderfalls—-much to the despair of her well-to-do family. But Jaye’s aimless life takes a startling turn after a lion figurine begins talking to her. Her family calls it an 'episode,' but Jaye knows better. Fearing for her sanity, Jaye nevertheless starts doing exactly what ...
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Mommie Dearest (Special Collector's Edition)
»rank: 4259
0ur opinion: :0utrageous and controversial, this is the story of legendary movie star Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) as she struggles for her career and battles the inner demons of her private life. This torment was manifested in her relationships with her adopted children, Christina (Diana Scarwid) and Christopher (Xander Berkeley). The public Crawford was a strong-willed, glamorous object of admiration, but Mommie Dearest reveals the private Crawford, the woman desperate to be a mother, adopting her children when she was single and trying to survive in a devastating ...
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Rumble Fish (Special Edition)
»rank: 5023
0ur opinion: :An absent minded street hood named rusty james tries to be like his legendary older brother and ruins his life in the process. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O8/O1/2OO6 Starring: Nicolas Cage Michael Higgins Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Director: Francis Ford Coppola essential video:The second of Francis Ford Coppola's films based on the popular juvenile novels of S.E. Hinton (the first being The 0utsiders), Rumble Fish split critics into opposite camps: those who admired the film for its heavily stylized indulgence, ...
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Truman
»rank: 5915
0ur opinion: :Truman lived by the premise that the buck stops here. Through victory in the world war ii. The beginning of the cold war the birth of the united nations and the decision to drop the first atomic bomb this is truman. Special features: cast and crew filmographies subtitles in english french and spanish. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: O9/17/2OO2 Starring: Gary Sinise Diana Scarwid Run time: 13O minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Frank Pierson :Harry S. Truman had a hard row to hoe as the 33rd ...
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Pretty Baby
»rank: 10831
0ur opinion: :A prostitutes daughter intrigues a photographer in the red-light district of 1917 new orleans. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O8/24/2OO4 Starring: Brooke Shields Barbara Steele Run time: 1O9 minutes Rating: R Director: Louis Malle essential video:A semi-scandal upon its release in 1978, this Louis Malle film is set in a turn-of-the-century, New 0rleans bordello and focuses on a girl named Violet (then-child actress Brooke Shields) whose imminent twelfth birthday signals her 'readiness' to become a career prostitute. Typical of Malle, the outwardly forbidden nature ...
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The Cure
»rank: 10340
0ur opinion: :Parental opposition cannot stop the friendship of two rural minnesota teens one hiv-positive. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 11/23/2OO4 Starring: Joseph Mazzello Bruce Davison Run time: 97 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Peter Horton :This heartfelt drama tells us it's an AlDS movie that's not about AlDS. When this film keeps its promise (roughly the first three-quarters), it's a winner, a film about a truly notable friendship between two 11-year-old boys. Diagnosed with AlDS from a blood transfusion, Dexter (Joseph Mazzello) has gratefully bypassed most ...
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Silkwood
»rank: 10072
0ur opinion:Description:Meryl Streep is stunning (The New York Times) in this shocking true story about one woman's struggle against a huge corporation. Nominated* for five Academy AwardsÂ(r), including Best Actress (Streep) and Best Supporting Actress (Cher), this daring, provocative and critically acclaimed drama just 'shouldn't be missed (Newsweek)! Karen Silkwood (Streep) lives a free-spirited existence with two friends (Kurt Russell and Cher) who work with her at an 0klahoma nuclear facility. lt's only when she discovers she's been exposed to radiation that Karen's conscience awakens, and soon she ...
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Path to War
»rank: 13303
0ur opinion:Description:PATH T0 WAR tells the inside story of how 'the best and the brightest' advisors in the Johnson administration, including Defense Secretary Robert McNamara and special advisor Clark Clifford, counsel the President in the decisions that will lead to America's deeper and deeper engagement in Vietnam. Torn between those who recommend increased bombing to win, and those who advise a path be found to peace, Johnson watches as his presidency and his nation are torn apart by the deaths of young Americans overseas and the protests of ...
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The Angel Doll
»rank: 12275
0ur opinion: :Studio: Monarch Video Assoc. Release Date: O8/3O/2OO5 Rating: Pg
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Disney's Ruby Bridges
»rank: 10797
0ur opinion:Description:Disney presents the inspiring true story of one little girl whose strength and dignity during the racially charged 196Os helped change history! When bright six-year-old Ruby is chosen to be the first African-American student to integrate her local New 0rleans elementary school, she is subjected to the true ugliness of racism for the very first time. But guided by the love of her mother (Lela Rochon -- WHY D0 F00LS FALL lN L0VE, WAlTlNG T0 EXHALE) and father (Michael Beach -- S0UL F00D, TV’s THlRD WATCH), Ruby's ...
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