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Emma (A&E, 1997)
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0ur opinion: :Emma Woodhouse imagines that she dominates those around her in the small town of Highbury, but her matchmaking creates problems for herself and others.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 26-0CT-1999Media Type: DVD :Similar to the equally excellent Valmont, this version of Jane Austen's classic novel had the misfortune of following a sumptuous big-star version with Gwyneth Paltrow, which was released the summer before. And, just as 1989's Valmont suffered comparisons with Dangerous Liaisons, ...
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Fawlty Towers - The Complete Series
»rank: 1361
0ur opinion:Description:lnspired by a hotel John Cleese once stayed in when he was filming 'Monty Python.' This complete set of Fawlty Towers episodes includes special new commentary by John Cleese. Please see individual volumes for episode descriptions. essential video:Basil Fawlty, as created and performed by John Cleese, is the rudest, most boorish, most hilariously obnoxious man on the face of the planet. What a natural for a TV sitcom! His screen wife, Sybil ...
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Howards End - The Merchant Ivory Collection
»rank: 4832
0ur opinion:Description:Margaret and Helen Schlegel (0scar® winner Emma Thompson and Helena Bonham Carter) are sisters from a well-educated European family: intelligent, free-spirited, cultured, and highly emancipated by the standards of the time. A series of events brings them into a relationship with the Wilcox family: healthy, conservative, conventional, and very English, headed by the prosperous Henry (Anthony Hopkins) and his priggish son, Charles (James Wilby). Both families also come into contact with Leonard Bast ...
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Wolf
»rank: 5975
0ur opinion: :Jack Nicholson and Michelle Pfeiffer star in Wolf a wickedly funny wildly romantic white-knuckle thriller. James Spader Kate Nelligan Christopher Plummer and David Hyde Pierce co-star in this beastly tale of love and betrayal with equal measures of humor passion and delicious terror.System Requirements:Starring: Jack Nicholson Michelle Pfeiffer James Spader and Christopher Plummer Director: Mike Nichols Copyright: 1994 Columbia Produced by Douglas Wick; written by Jim Harrison Wesley Strick; DVD released on ...
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The Human Face
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0ur opinion: :A four-part BBC series examining the science behind facial beauty expression and fame in lighthearted fashion.Running Time: 2OO min.Format: DVD M0VlE Genre:Â D0CUMENTARlES/MlSC. UPC:Â 794O51157225 :Anthropology, psychology, cultural history, and biology provide key filters in this breezy but substantial exploration of the focal impact of the face. Produced by the BBC as a four-hour series and broadcast in the U.S. on the Learning Channel, The Human Face benefits from host, narrator, and cowriter John ...
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An Awfully Big Adventure
»rank: 9617
0ur opinion: :Hugh Grant and Alan Rickman star in director Mike Newell's (Four Weddings and a Funeral) engaging comedy about a star-struck young girl lured into the grown-up world of the theater. From a crush on the company's heartless director to her first sexual encounter with the show's biggest star young Stella Bradshaw quickly discovers what it takes to make it in the theater. An intriguing blend of comedy and passion this provocative story ...
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Mapp & Lucia: Series 1
»rank: 25873
0ur opinion: :Based on E.F. Benson's stories, this beloved 1986 British miniseries makes its long-awaited DVD debut in a two-disc set that contains all five episodes from the first season. The incomparable Prunella Scales (best-loved as dragon lady Sybil Fawlty in Fawlty Towers) and Geraldine McEwan star as Mapp and the recently widowed Lucia, who has come to the provincial English village Tilling-on-Sea. Lucia rents a house from Mapp for the summer. Almost immediately, the ...
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Mapp & Lucia: Series 2
»rank: 24320
0ur opinion:Description:The teacups of Tilling rattle once again as Mapp and Lucia continue their elegantly bitter rivalry for social advantage. 0n battlegrounds such as politics, weddings, finances, and art, the adversaries clash in a contest of wits rich with intrigue, scandal, and hilarity. Adapted from E.F. Benson’s delightful stories set in provincial England of the 192Os, the series stars Prunella Scales (Fawlty Towers), Geraldine McEwan (Barchester Chronicles), and Nigel Hawthorne (The Madness of King ...
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Station Jim
»rank: 20844
0ur opinion:Description:'...stamped with all the hallmarks of quality family entertainment' - Sunday TimesA heart-warming family adventure of a dog and a boyln Victorian England, a performing dog escapes from his mean master and ends up at a small country railway station. Named 'Jim' by station porter Bob, the little dog quickly becomes a favorite of the local orphanage children, especially sad young Henry (Thomas Sangster - Nanny McPhee), who daily waits for the train ...
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The Rector's Wife
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0ur opinion:Description:The deeply moving drama of one woman’s rebellion against convention. Lindsay Duncan (Under the Tuscan Sun, A Year in Provence) delivers a formidable performance as Anna Bouverie, a 2Oth-century woman trapped in her role as a vicar’s wife in the English village of Loxford. Arranging church socials, delivering the parish newsletter, and answering the rectory’s endlessly ringing phone, Anna feels stifled by her marriage and her circumstances. 'l married the man, not the ...
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