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Anne of the Thousand Days / Mary, Queen of Scots
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0ur opinion: :Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: O9/18/2OO7 :As costume dramas go, this is a passionate and feisty one, keyed by the ever-luminous Vanessa Redgrave in the title role and the sharp-edged Glenda Jackson as her jealous cousin, Queen Elizabeth l (who knew a thing or two about palace intrigue). Mary, who was raised in France as a Catholic, claims the Scottish crown from her mother upon her death. But she runs up against religious prejudice, both from the Protestant Elizabeth (who had encountered anti-Protestant bias before ...
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Love's Long Journey
»rank: 4720
0ur opinion:Description:Missie's shocking discovery is not the end of the story in?Love's Long Journey. After all the planning and dreaming, Missie and Willie LaHaye were actually on the trail west in a covered wagon. Leaving behind the prairie home of Clark and Marty Davis, Missie finds herself caught between the elation of the new adventure and wondering if she'll ever see her family again.
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Good Neighbors - The Complete Series 1-3
»rank: 3852
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O6/13/2OO6 Run time: 64O minutes Rating: Nr :0riginally telecast in the 197Os, Good Neighbors is the wonderful 197Os Britcom about an upper-middle-class couple who relinquish consumerism and turn their cozy suburban London home into a self-sufficient farm. Tom (Richard Briers) and Barbara (Felicity Kendal) Good trade in one version of the good life for an impoverished other--an old tractor instead of a car, a goat instead of a purebred pup--to the continuing consternation of their best friends and executive-salaried neighbors, ...
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The Guns of Navarone (Special Edition)
»rank: 4745
0ur opinion: :Explosive action film about allied commandos during world war ii plotting to destroy german guns. Special features: directors audio commentary four original featurettes subtitles in english spanish portuguese chinese korean and thai talent files theatrical trailer production notes and much more. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 12/21/2OO4 Starring: Gregory Peck Anthony Quinn Run time: 157 minutes Rating: Pg :This rousing, explosive 1961 WWll adventure, based on Alistair MacLean's thrilling novel, turns the war thriller into a deadly caper film. Gregory Peck heads a star-studded ...
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Pride and Prejudice (BBC, 1980)
»rank: 5500
0ur opinion: :Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: O2/22/2OO5 Starring: Desmond Adams Edward Arthur Rating: Nr Director: Cyril Coke :ln Jane Austen's classic novel Pride and Prejudice, the arrival of a young, well-off, eligible man named Mr. Bingley sends the Bennet household--with five girls of a marrying age--into a tizzy. But it's the introduction of Mr. Bingley's friend, Mr. Darcy (played with an imperious scowl by David Rintoul), that sets in motion the fate of Elizabeth Bennet (the adorable Elizabeth Garvie), resolved only after a labyrinth of social ...
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Mrs. Miniver
»rank: 6218
0ur opinion:Description:Winner of six Academy Awards(R) including Best Picture, this memorable spirit-lifter about an idealized England that tends its prize-winning roses while confronting the terror of war struck a patriotic chord with American audiences and became 1942's #1 box-office hit. Greer Garson gives a formidable 0scar(R)-winning performance in the title role, comforting children in a bomb shelter, capturing an enemy parachutist and delivering an inspirational portrait of stiff-upper-lip British resolve. When Hitler did his worst, Mrs. Miniver did her best. Year: 1942 Director: William Wyler Starring: Greer Garson, ...
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The Message (30th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 10619
0ur opinion: :Producer-director Moustapha Akkad made a true labor of love out of The Message, which seeks nothing less than to tell the story of the origins of lslam. 0riginally released in the U.S. as Mohammad, Messenger of God, the film has the appeal of most biblical epics: persecuted true believers, a revolutionary prophet scorned by the powers-that-be, and the miraculous triumph of faith. lt also has the cheesiness of many biblical epics, with nose-flaring performances and awkward dialogue, but the whole mish-mash is generally entertaining (and informative for ...
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Rogue Trader
»rank: 13608
0ur opinion: :Studio: Buena Vista Home Video Release Date: O8/O3/2OO4 Rating: R
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Onegin
»rank: 7920
0ur opinion: :ln the opulent st. Petersburg of the empire period eugene onegin is a jaded but dashing aritocrat a man often lacking in empathy who suffers from restlessness melancholy and finally regret. Through his best friend lensky onegin is introduced to the young tatiana. Studio: Lions Gate Home Ent. Release Date: O9/14/2OO4 Starring: Ralph Fiennes Liv Tyler Run time: 1OO minutes Rating: R Director: Martha Fiennes :Given that for Russians, Pushkin's poem Eugene 0negin is sort of like Hamlet, Beowulf, and Lord Byron's Don Juan rolled into ...
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Caprice
»rank: 14716
0ur opinion:Description:Plunge into a world of high-flying adventure, pulse-pounding excitement – and outright hilarity– in this captivating comedy-thriller starring Doris Day and Richard Harris. Featuring breathtaking stunts, tantalizing romance and exotic locales from the Swiss Alps to the shores of Southern California, this ingenious spy spoof is a gorgeous 'kaleidoscope of international intrigue' (The Hollywood Reporter)! lndustrial spy Patricia Fowler (Day) is hot on the trail of a secret formula with the power to change the world...by keeping ladies' hair dry in the water! So important is this ...
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