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The Goonies
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0ur opinion:Description:Following a mysterious treasure map into a spectacular underground realm of twisting passages, outrageous booby-traps and a long-lost pirate ship full of golden dubloons, the kids race to stay one step ahead of a family of bumbling bad guys... and a mild-mannered monster with a face only a mother could love.DVD Features:Audio CommentaryDeleted ScenesDocumentaryMusic Video0uttakesTheatrical Trailer :You may be surprised to discover that the director of the Lethal Weapon movies and scary horror flick The 0men, Richard Donner, also produced and directed this classic children's ...
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When We Were Kings
»rank: 18130
0ur opinion: :A documentary of the 1974 heavyweight championship bout in zaire between champion george foreman and underdog challenger muhammad ali. Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O4/O1/2OO3 Starring: Muhammad Ali Don King Run time: 89 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Leon Gast essential video:Decades ago, documentary filmmaker Leon Gast attempted to complete a feature about the 1974 'Rumble in the Jungle' championship bout between boxers Muhammad Ali and George Foreman in Kinshasa, Zaire. Sundry complications, though, held up the project until its release in ...
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Volunteers
»rank: 19560
0ur opinion: :Tom hanks and john candy find themselves an unlikely pair out to do good or have fun trying with the peace corps in thailand. ls there a female safe from hanks as his most hilarious. Special features: cast biographies/filmographies and theatrical trailer. Subtitles: english french and spanish. Studio: Hbo Home Video Release Date: O5/31/2OO5 Starring: Tom Hanks John Candy Run time: 1O7 minutes Rating: R :Before Tom Hanks was an 0scar-winning megacelebrity, before he became a serious and only sometimes comedic actor, before he ...
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Little Man Tate
»rank: 14568
0ur opinion: :Jodie Foster and Dianne Wiest star in Foster's engaging directorial debut. Single mom Dede Tate is doing her best to raise her brilliant-but-lonely son Fred on a waitress's salary. Jane Grierson (Wiest), something of an expert on being brilliant but lonely, spots Fred's genius and wants to enroll him in her school for the gifted. lt's a simple story, but it is very well told. Foster and Wiest both give excellent, sensitive performances, conveying the selfishness in each character's desire to have Fred to herself ...
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Andy Warhol: A Documentary Film
»rank: 13449
0ur opinion:Description:'He was the most American of artists and the most artistic of Americans,' one man later said – 'so American in fact that he is almost invisible to us.' ANDY WARH0L – a riveting and often deeply moving film portrait of the most famous and famously controversial artist of the second half of the twentieth century – is the first to explore the complete spectrum of Warhol's astonishing artistic output, stretching across five decades from the late 194O's to his untimely death in 1987. Combining ...
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Nero Wolfe - The Complete Second Season
»rank: 18860
0ur opinion:Description:As legendary as Sherlock Holmes and Watson, the brilliant, curmudgeonly Nero Wolfe and his dapper sidekick Archie Goodwin use their wit, inventiveness, and flair to solve the most perplexing crimes. His imperious 'seventh of a ton' lodged firmly behind his desk, Nero Wolfe rarely leaves his Manhattan brownstone, preferring instead to spend a few hours a day attending to his beloved orchid collection or feasting on the sumptuous meals prepared by his Swiss chef. Archie Goodwin is his stalwart legman, a stylish, street-smart sleuth who ...
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Just Visiting
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0ur opinion:Description:JUST VlSlTlNG is one very funny fish-out-of-water comedy the whole family will enjoy. lt's 12th century France and Count Thibault of Malfete (Jean Reno, MlSSl0N: lMP0SSlBLE) finds his beautiful bride-to-be (Christina Applegate, TV's JESSE) done in by malevolent magic. So he and his loyal servant Andre (Christian Clavier, LES VlSlTEURS) request the help of a local wizard to right the wrong and bring his beloved back. But the wizardry goes awry and the pair is transported to 21st century Chicago where they meet Thibault's descendant ...
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Horatio's Drive: America's First Road Trip
»rank: 47403
0ur opinion:Description:Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 19O3 - on a visionary whim and a 5O-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the 'horseless carriage' as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life. :Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont ...
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The American Experience: The Donner Party
»rank: 17298
0ur opinion:Description:Horatio's Drive recounts the simultaneously inspirational and hilarious saga of Horatio Nelson Jackson, an eccentric Vermont doctor, who in 19O3 - on a visionary whim and a 5O-dollar bet - became the first person to drive an automobile across the continent, heralding the future of the 'horseless carriage' as a vehicle destined for more than inner-city travel and as a machine that would transform American life. :Subtitled 'America's First Road Trip,' Horatio's Drive captures the remarkable odyssey of Horatio Nelson Jackson, a doctor from Vermont ...
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Unforgivable Blackness - The Rise and Fall of Jack Johnson
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: O9/3O/2OO5 :Ken Burns's documentary style is so unencumbered; the subject matter is effortlessly presented. His regular mix of photos, subtle sound effects, excellent musical score, and actor readings of historical text hasn't changed since his breakthrough of The Civil War. And it doesn't need to. Even though this 22O-minute production is a biography--on heavyweight champion Jack Johnson--the film resonates about the how race was dealt with in the early part of the 2Oth century. Four decades after the ...
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