Trading Places (DVD)
In this screwball comedy of manners, millionaire commodity brokers Randolph and Mortimer Duke (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy) wager a bet that pits environment vs. biology and turns the lives of their two unsuspecting victims upside down. Eddie Murphy costars as Billy Ray Valentine, a streetwise hustler who gets dragged off the street and into the proper life of top Duke Bros. broker Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd), who in turn gets tossed out of his posh townhouse and onto the mean city streets. The comic team of Murphy and Aykroyd is deliriously funny as they both struggle to comprehend their new lives. Billy Ray is forced to learn proper etiquette, manners, and business sense while uptight Louis scrambles to make it on the streets, befriending a prostitute (Jamie Lee Curtis) who takes him in and saves him from starvation--or worse. When the two innocent victims realize the scheming brothers` plot, they unite and devise a fabulous revenge to prove that their lives can`t be controlled by the power-grubbing Duke brothers. The film features outstanding work by Denholm Elliott as the butler and Curtis as the prostitute with a heart of gold. Curtis especially shines in the scene in which she removes all of her hustler accoutrements to reveal her true looks.R"
Director: John Landis
ACTORS: Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche, Jamie Lee Curtis
I`ll Make You Happy (DVD)
Auckland`s red light district is really no place for a teenage girl. A certain teenage prostitute, however, has other ideas. In fact, she is actually putting together a scam to steal her pimp`s drug money. Comedy and suspense follow as the awkward plot becomes a little more complicated to deal with.NR"
ACTORS: Lucy Lawless
Sugar Hill (DVD) Widescreen & Full Frame Two brothers risk death battling the Mob for control over their own neighborhood and lives.
Two brothers risk death battling the Mob for control over their own neighborhood and lives.
R"
Director: Leon Ichaso
Who`s the Man? (DVD)
After two bungling barbers are reluctantly turned into cops they, surprising everyone, clean up the mean streets of Harlem and become heroes.R"
Director: Ted Demme
ACTORS: Doctor Dre, Ed Lover, Denis Leary, Conlin Quinn, Heavy D
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (DVD) Marilyn Monroe Diamond Collection Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her friend Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls, Dorothy the sassy one looking for true love, Lorelei the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire, with her ...
Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) and her friend Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell) are a pair of showgirls, Dorothy the sassy one looking for true love, Lorelei the blonde hoping to marry a millionaire, with her sights set on Gus Esmond, a wealthy nerd stuck under his father`s thumb. When Lorelei and Dorothy take a transatlantic cruise to Paris, an undercover detective follows to find out if Lorelei is really a gold-digging schemer. Unfortunately, the irrepressible Lorelei is a born flirt and soon finds herself in a compromising position with Sir Francis Beekman (Charles Coburn), owner of a diamond mine. The girls have to use all their wits to get out of trouble and still find love and marriage. Thanks to the talents of the luminous stars and director Howard Hawks, plus stunning technicolor cinematography, GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES emerges as one of the most charming, entertaining musicals of the 1950s. Marilyn Monroe, never more luminous, sings her legendary musical number Diamonds Are a Girl`s Best Friend (which later inspired Madonna`s Material Girl video). GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES is based on the hit Broadway musical which was adapted from the book by Anita Loos.
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Director: Howard Hawks
ACTORS: Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid, Tommy Noonan
