Checking Out (DVD) Full Frame When Ray`s best friend dies in mid-joke, Ray (Jeff Daniels) is convinced that he is going next. As he rushes madly from doctor to doctor desperately looking for something to cure him of his imagined symptoms, eventually even...
When Ray`s best friend dies in mid-joke, Ray (Jeff Daniels) is convinced that he is going next. As he rushes madly from doctor to doctor desperately looking for something to cure him of his imagined symptoms, eventually even his wife wishes he would just go ahead and die already.
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Director: David Leland
ACTORS: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Mayron, Michael Tucker, Ann Magnuson
Prime Suspect 1 (DVD)
Helen Mirren plays tough, chain-smoking London detective Jane Tennison in this highly praised, taut, and sharp-witted mystery program originally produced for PBS. In the first episode, Tennison becomes the first female DCI to lead her own murder investigation. Along the way, stubborn detectives and a hard-to-catch suspect give her more than she bargained for."
ACTORS: Helen Mirren
Screw Loose (DVD)
Bernardo`s aging father is near death, and he has one last request: to see his old war buddy Jake one last time. Bernardo goes to America only to find Jake in an insane asylum. Having no other choice, Bernardo breaks Jake out of the institution and takes him back to see his father, and wackiness takes off from there. A silly farce from top Italian comedian Greggio and legendary comic Brooks.R"
Director: Ezio Greggio
Women in Cages (DVD)
For the inmates, escape is the only way to avoid the sadistic head matron who takes pleasure in brutalizing the prisoners. Only watching this film could be a more tortuous experience!R"
Director: Gerardo De Leon
ACTORS: Pam Grier, Judy Brown, Roberta Collins
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (DVD) Special Edition DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is Stanley Kubrick`s Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia ...
DR. STRANGELOVE OR: HOW I LEARNED TO STOP WORRYING AND LOVE THE BOMB is Stanley Kubrick`s Cold War masterpiece. Based on the novel RED ALERT by Peter George, the film is set at the height of the tensions between Russia and the United States, when all it would take to destroy the world was one push of a button. And General Jack D. Ripper (Sterling Hayden) is just the man to do it.
Convinced that the Russians have infiltrated America`s vital essence, the crazed Ripper gives the go code to the 843rd bomb wing to attack Russia, setting in motion a series of darkly hilarious vignettes involving gung-ho soldiers, wacky generals, spying Russians, drunken premiers, battles with soda machines, fights in the War Room, and the Russians` top-secret Doomsday Machine. Shot in black and white, the film has three main centers of action: one of the B-52 bombers, on which a group of loyal men know they are about to start World War III; Burpelson Air Force Base, where Group Captain Lionel Mandrake (Peter Sellers) is trying to convince everyone that Ripper has gone mad and the bombing must be stopped; and the War Room, where President Merkin Muffley (Sellers again) is trying to make peace with the Russians. The finale featuring Sellers as Dr. Strangelove is a comic gem. Hayden, George C. Scott, Slim Pickens, Keenan Wynn, and Sellers (in three roles) are especially terrific in what may be the funniest, most poignant black comedy ever made, a vicious satire on the farcical aspects of the military and the cold war.
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Director: Stanley Kubrick
ACTORS: Peter Sellers, George C. Scott, Sterling Hayden, Slim Pickens, Peter Bull
