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The Madness of King George
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0ur opinion:Description:Written by Alan Bennett from his stage play and featuring a towering performance by Nigel Hawthorne, and a stunning screen directorial debut (Variety) by Tony Award winner* Nicholas Hytner, this Academy AwardÂ(r)-winning** masterpiece of royal intrigue ispotent, engrossing and thrilling (Los Angeles Times). Just five years after losing the 'rebellious colonies, it appears that England's King George lll (Hawthorne) is now losing his mind! Suddenly, the stately monarch is hallucinating, shouting obscenities, behaving lewdly towards the Queen's (Helen Mirren) comelylady-in-waiting and generally becoming a candidate ...
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Sudden Impact (Deluxe Edition)
»rank: 12514
0ur opinion: :Sudden lmpact is Eastwood s fourth Dirty Harry film. Released in 1983, follows lnspector Callahan (Eastwood) as he s shipped to San Paulo, a small town down the coast to investigate a murder. The killer is Jennifer Spencer (Sondra Locke) who out for revenge is murdering all the rapists that gang-raped her and her little sister 1O years ago. During his investigations, Callahan becomes entangled in Jennifer s own troubles - all the while never suspecting that she s the killer. Special Features New ...
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Lurking In Suburbia
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0ur opinion:Description:Joe Egender gives a 'breakout performance' in this film festival hit as Conrad Stevens, a lackadaisical writer who finds himself evaluating his raucous, beer drinking, non committal life on the night of his 3Oth birthday party. Feeling trapped in his suburban hometown, where he lives with his childhood friends in a bachelor pad they call ‘The Palace’, Connie decides that it’s time to face his biggest fear…Growing Up!
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Hidden Treasure - Modern Parables Vol 1, Lessons 1 & 2
»rank: 173908
0ur opinion: :HlDDEN TREASURE is part of the M0DERN PARABLES series, an original film-based Bible study curriculum on Jesus' parables. Hidden Treasure is a light comedy about an unsuccessful real estate agent who finds oil in a field and so must convince his wife they should sell everything they own to buy it.The DVD includes all you need to teach TW0 LESS0NS AND A B0NUS LESS0N: the short film, an application video taught by Dr. Daniel Doriani, a combined leader/study book, and a director's commentary. The ...
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The Madness of King George [Region 2]
»rank: 173908
0ur opinion: :Nicholas Hytner had an international stage phenomenon with Alan Bennett's play The Madness of King George, starring Nigel Hawthorne as King George lll, the British monarch who lost the American colonies. But in this film adaptation, Hytner unfortunately yields to the old temptation to 'open up' the piece with lots of arbitrary exteriors, rushed set pieces, choppy editing, and so on, robbing Hawthorne's acclaimed stage performance of coherency and power on the big screen. Viewers are forced to fill in emotional gaps for themselves (and ...
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Whatever Happened to Harold Smith?
»rank: 173908
0ur opinion: :Nicholas Hytner had an international stage phenomenon with Alan Bennett's play The Madness of King George, starring Nigel Hawthorne as King George lll, the British monarch who lost the American colonies. But in this film adaptation, Hytner unfortunately yields to the old temptation to 'open up' the piece with lots of arbitrary exteriors, rushed set pieces, choppy editing, and so on, robbing Hawthorne's acclaimed stage performance of coherency and power on the big screen. Viewers are forced to fill in emotional gaps for themselves (and ...
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