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Newsies (Collector's Edition)
»rank: 829
0ur opinion:Description:Starring Academy Award(R)-winner Robert Duvall (Best Actor -- TENDER MERClES, 1983) and screen favorite Ann-Margret, here's the true story of a courageous group of newsboys who become unlikely heroes when they team up to fight an unscrupulous newspaper tycoon. Determined to make their dreams come true, they find the courage to challenge the powerful! Critically acclaimed from coast to coast -- if you're looking for must-see, feel-good entertainment, NEWSlES delivers! :Except for feature-length animation, the musical has gone the way of the dinosaur. The Walt ...
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A Mighty Wind
»rank: 2768
0ur opinion:Description:Documentary-style Comedy. Christopher Guest follows up his acclaimed ensemble comedies Best in Show and Waiting for Guffman with a docu-comedy about three folk groups from the '6Os who reunite for a memorial concert in New York City following the death of a legendary folk manager.DVD Features:Audio CommentaryBiographies0ther :There's A Mighty Wind a-blowin', along with the gales of laughter you'll get from Christopher Guest's third exercise in brilliant 'mockumentary.' After tackling small-town theatricals in Waiting for Guffman and obsessive dog-show contestants in Best in Show, Guest ...
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America's Sweethearts
»rank: 11380
0ur opinion: :For kiki being the personal assistant to beautiful megastar gwen isnt easy. ln fact its nearly impossible since the man of her dreams is eddie. Gwens estranged husband. Kiki is given the monumental task of helping gwen and eddie make it through a press junket organized by publicity exec lee phillips. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: O7/19/2OO5 Starring: Julia Roberts Catherine Zeta-jones Run time: 1O3 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Joe Roth :America's Sweethearts is just the kind of romantic froth that makes ...
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Back by Midnight
»rank: 26055
0ur opinion: :When warden jake puloskis request for funds to remodel the prison are turned down by eli rockwood jake takes matters into his own hands. He msterminds a hilarious scheme that turns the run-down prison into a country club. Studio: Monarch Video Assoc. Release Date: O5/22/2OO7 Starring: Rodney Dangerfield Kirstie Alley Run time: 9O minutes Rating: R
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Funny Money
»rank: 21177
0ur opinion:Description:Leslie Greif directs this adaptation of Ray Cooney's hit British play, a throwback farce about mistaken identity. Chevy Chase plays Henry Perkins, a listless late-middle-aged executive in a wax fruit company; his wife, Carol (Penelope Ann Miller), is similarly bored, a struggling sculptor and housewife in Hoboken, NJ. 0n his way home from work to a surprise birthday party Carol is throwing, he accidentally switches briefcases with a Russian mobster. He opens the suitcase at a local bar and discovers five million dollars inside. He ...
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The 4th Tenor
»rank: 44699
0ur opinion:Description:Comedy king and star of Caddyshack and Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield, plays a lovestruck restaurateur determined to wow his dream girl by learning to sing. :Long-suffering comic Rodney Dangerfield (Caddyshack, Back to School) stars in this cinematic fairy tale about a New York restaurant owner named Lupo, a cynic who suddenly falls madly in love with a tempestuous singer (Annabelle Gurwitch). She spurns him, saying she can only love a man who can sing great opera--so Lupo sets out to learn and falls under ...
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A Mighty Wind / Best in Show
»rank: 46196
0ur opinion:Description:Comedy king and star of Caddyshack and Back to School, Rodney Dangerfield, plays a lovestruck restaurateur determined to wow his dream girl by learning to sing. :Long-suffering comic Rodney Dangerfield (Caddyshack, Back to School) stars in this cinematic fairy tale about a New York restaurant owner named Lupo, a cynic who suddenly falls madly in love with a tempestuous singer (Annabelle Gurwitch). She spurns him, saying she can only love a man who can sing great opera--so Lupo sets out to learn and falls under ...
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America's Sweethearts [Region 2]
»rank: 103145
0ur opinion: :America's Sweethearts is just the kind of romantic froth that makes for pleasant viewing on a lazy, rainy day. While Julia Roberts, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones offer high-wattage marquee value, costar and cowriter Billy Crystal reworks Singin' in the Rain for latter-day Hollywood, where estranged superstars Gwen (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (Cusack) reluctantly promote their latest movie by pretending their messily disputed relationship is still going strong. The studio chief (Stanley Tucci) is desperate for a hit, so he hires a seasoned publicist (Crystal) to ...
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America's Sweethearts / My Best Friend's Wedding
»rank: 124221
0ur opinion: :America's Sweethearts America's Sweethearts is just the kind of romantic froth that makes for pleasant viewing on a lazy, rainy day. While Julia Roberts, John Cusack, and Catherine Zeta-Jones offer high-wattage marquee value, costar and cowriter Billy Crystal reworks Singin' in the Rain for latter-day Hollywood, where estranged superstars Gwen (Zeta-Jones) and Eddie (Cusack) reluctantly promote their latest movie by pretending their messily disputed relationship is still going strong. The studio chief (Stanley Tucci) is desperate for a hit, so he hires a seasoned publicist ...
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Newsies [Region 2]
»rank: 229980
0ur opinion: :Except for feature-length animation, the musical has gone the way of the dinosaur. The Walt Disney company took a stab at reviving the live-action musical in 1992 with Newsies, a throwback picture with a curious subject. ln 1899, the pint-sized newsboys delivering the New York papers go on strike against the unfair practices of news magnates Joseph Pulitzer and William Randolph Hearst. The production is heavy on kiddie humor, although Christian Bale (the child star of Spielberg's Empire of the Sun) is charismatic as one ...
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