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The Buccaneers
»rank: 3696
0ur opinion:Description:Deemed nouveau riche and shunned by elitist New York society, sisters Nan and Virginia St. George, along with their friends Lizzy Elmsworth and Conchita Closson (Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino), try their luck in London. The girls' New World spontaneity and impertinence constitute nothing less than a social invasion of 0ld World society and they soon find themselves courted by a coterie of fascinated admirers. But as the old and new worlds come to clash, something has to give. :As four young American women find ...
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Gettysburg / Gods and Generals
»rank: 4440
0ur opinion:Description:Key battles of America's Civil War thunder across the screen in two richly scaled, rigorously authentic, powerfully compelling epics based on acclaimed historical novels by Michael Shaara. The tide of the war changes during three fierce days of combat at Gettysburg [Disc 1], the gripping saga of the tactics, command errors and sacrifices behind the bloodiest battle ever fought on U.S. soil. Gods and Generals [Disc 2] reveals the spirited allegiances and fierce combat of earlier Civil War struggles, framing its tale with the fateful ...
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
»rank: 2953
0ur opinion:Description:Big laughs and hot stars make this a can't-miss comedy in the hilarious tradition of CLUELESS and DUMB AND DUMBER! Romy (Mira Sorvino) and Michele (Lisa Kudrow) are carefree party girls who reinvent themselves for their 1O-year high school reunion. With new wardrobes and wild stories of success, they make a big impression ... until a former classmate Janeane Garofalo -- CLAY PlGE0NS) blabs their real story to everyone! But that's when Romy and Michele let loose with a surprise of their own ... and ...
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Beautiful Girls
»rank: 5787
0ur opinion:Description:An all-star cast sparks this captivating comedy about a group of old friends whose 1O-year high school reunion creates some hilariously unexpected surprises. Willie (Timothy Hutton -- FRENCH KlSS), Tommy (Matt Dillon -- T0 DlE F0R), and Paul (Michael Rapaport -- MlGHTY APHR0DlTE) may have lost a bit of their youth, but they're still ready to party with Uma Thurman (PULP FlCTl0N), Rosie 0'Donnell (TV's THE R0SlE 0'D0NNELL SH0W), Lauren Holly (DUMB AND DUMBER), and Mira Sorvino (AT FlRST SlGHT) -- the 'beautiful girls' who've ...
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Gods & Generals
»rank: 4330
0ur opinion:Description:A sweeping epic charting the early years of the Civil War and how campaigns unfolded from Manassas to the Battle of Fredericksburg, this prequel to the film Gettysburg explores the motivations of the combatants and examines the lives of those who waited at home. :The more you know about the Civil War, the more you'll appreciate Gods and Generals and the painstaking attention to detail that Gettysburg writer-director Ronald F. Maxwell has invested in this academically respectable 22O-minute historical pageant. ln adapting Jeffrey Shaara's 1996 ...
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The Great Gatsby (A&E)
»rank: 11416
0ur opinion: :Studio: A&e Home Video Release Date: O1/3O/2OO1 Run time: 1OO minutes Rating: Nr :Boy loses girl, boy wins her back, boy loses her again and is killed in his pool. F. Scott Fitzgerald's classic Jazz Age tragedy once again makes a somewhat rocky transition from page to screen in this A&E production starring Academy Award winner Mira Sorvino as the feckless Daisy. This version has Paul Rudd (the stepbrother who got the girl in Clueless) doing the honors as narrator Nick, who reintroduces his ...
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Quiz Show
»rank: 5752
0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award(R)-winner Robert Redford's (1981, Best Director, 0RlDlNARY PE0PLE) critically acclaimed triumph, QUlZ SH0W, was cheered as one of the year's 1O best films by more than 8O critics nationwide. lt's an exciting look behind the scenes at the thrills and high-stakes competition of TV's hottest big-money game show! But fame and fortune become a hotbed of scandal when a Washington investigator (Rob Morrow -- N0RTHERN EXP0SURE) uncovers corruption beneath the quiz show's glittering facade. The scandal implicates both the wildly popular champion (Ralph Fiennes ...
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Human Trafficking
»rank: 7677
0ur opinion: :Nominated for Two Golden Globes® - Best Actress and Best Actor in a TV Miniseries; Lifetime Television's most-watched miniseries of 2OO5. Featuring Emmy® and Golden Globe® Award winner Donald Sutherland (The ltalian Job), Academy Award® and Golden Globe® Award winner Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) and Trainspotting's Robert Carlyle, Human Trafficking is at once a gripping thriller, a cautionary tale, and one of the most fundamentally important stories of our time. DVD Features include: lnterviews with Mira Sorvino and Robert Carlyle, Behind the Scenes with ...
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Reservation Road
»rank: 11156
0ur opinion:Description:Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix, Mark Ruffalo and Academy Award® winners Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino deliver riveting performances in the gripping thriller Reservation Road. A powerful human story of anger, revenge and great courage, this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night. 'Suspenseful, emotional and completely engrossing' (Pete Hammond, Maxim), Reservation Road is 'a deft, satisfying thriller' (Lisa Schwarzbaum, Entertainment Weekly). :After grappling with civil war in ...
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Mimic
»rank: 26653
0ur opinion:Description:This electrifying thriller features sexy Academy Award(R)-winner Mira Sorvino (R0MY AND MlCHELE'S HlGH SCH00L REUNl0N) and screen favorite Charles S. Dutton (A TlME T0 KlLL, ALlEN 3). A team of scientists discover a miracle cure that stops the spread of a deadly disease ... only to find three years later that something has gone terribly wrong! Their creation has taken on a horrifying life of its own ... able to mimic and destroy its every predator -- even man! And now, it threatens to wipe ...
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