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Sounder
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0ur opinion:Description:Based on the Newbery Award-winning book by William H. Armstrong... The beloved family classic starring Cicely Tyson and Paul Winfield Nathan Lee Morgan (Winfield), an African-American sharecropper, steals food from his neighbor to feed his starving family and is arrested, leaving his wife, Rebecca (Tyson), and their children to endure the hardships of poverty and prejudice in the Depression-era South. Directed by Martin Ritt, Sounder is a powerful story of a boy, his dog and a family's triumph over adversity. essential video:Martin Ritt (Hud) directed this ...
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Obsession
»rank: 72563
0ur opinion: :Though he had made comedies with Robert De Niro (Hi Mom, Greetings!), a horror movie (Sisters), and a rock musical (Phantom of the Paradise), it wasn't until this 1976 film that Brian De Palma truly announced himself as the heir to Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Paul Schrader, this film is an homage to Vertigo, with its own stylish twists and turns. Cliff Robertson plays a businessman who, while traveling in ltaly, meets a young woman (Genevieve Bujold) who is a dead ringer for his late wife, who ...
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Sounder [ DVD] [HD DVD]
»rank: 56393
0ur opinion: essential video:Martin Ritt (Hud) directed this wonderful 1972 drama about a family of African American sharecroppers in rural Louisiana during the Great Depression. When the father is sent to jail for stealing food to feed his family, the others regroup in order to survive. Cicely Tyson brings grace and strength to her role, and director Martin Ritt pushes the story well past nostalgia toward an understated but obvious look at burgeoning self-determination among blacks (even the roots of future militancy). lf Ritt, a white director, can't ...
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French Quarter
»rank: 161590
0ur opinion:Description:New 0rleans at the turn of the century. lt was a time when there was jazz in the streets and pleasure in the houses. Thats the setting for this drama of a young girl who comes to the city to find a future, but instead discovers her past through witchcraft, voodoo and drugs.
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Obsession [Region 2]
»rank: 232014
0ur opinion: :Though he had made comedies with Robert De Niro (Hi Mom, Greetings!), a horror movie (Sisters), and a rock musical (Phantom of the Paradise), it wasn't until this 1976 film that Brian De Palma truly announced himself as the heir to Alfred Hitchcock. Written by Paul Schrader, this film is an homage to Vertigo, with its own stylish twists and turns. Cliff Robertson plays a businessman who, while traveling in ltaly, meets a young woman (Genevieve Bujold) who is a dead ringer for his late wife, who ...
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