The Waterdance (DVD)
Eric Stoltz is Joel Garcia, a talented young writer who awakens from a hiking accident to find that he is paralyzed from the waist down. In order to put his life back together, he must graduate from a rehabilitation center. There he meets ladies` man Raymond (Wesley Snipes) and racist biker Bloss (William Forsythe), both recovering from similar accidents. As the three men strive to reconcile the bitterness they each feel, they become friends and learn to live with their reality. Co-Director and screenwriter Neal Jimenez`s (RIVER`S EDGE) script is loosely based on his own experiences. Winner of the Audience Award and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival.R"
Director: Neal Jimenez|Michael Steinberg
ACTORS: Wesley Snipes, Eric Stoltz, Helen Hunt, William Forsythe, Elizabeth Peqa
Latino Comedy Fiesta - Vol. 2 (DVD)
This second installment of LATINO COMEDY FIESTA features Carlos Alazraqui, Luke Torres, Gene Pompa, and Edwin San Juan, each performing their own brand of ethnic-flavored standup.NR"
ACTORS: Luke Torres
On the Beach (DVD)
After the entire Northern Hemisphere is destroyed by a nuclear war, a group of survivors in Australia prepare for their own inevitable demise. As a deadly cloud of radiation creeps toward the continent, some survivors cling to hopes that life as they know it has continued somewhere, hopes that are fed by the discovery of a mysterious, erratic radio signal emanating from San Diego. Others, such as Astaires sardonic, race-car driving physicist and Gardners world-weary, tippling party girl, throw their energies into squeezing the last drops from their lives. A grim, unflinching clarion call for sanity that inches along at a maddeningly deliberate and suspenseful pace. Based on the novel by Nevil Shute. Academy Award Nominations: 2, Best Editing (Frederic Knudtson) and Best Score (Ernest Gold).NR"
Director: Stanley Kramer
ACTORS: Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire, Anthony Perkins, Donna Anderson
Kiss Me Kate (DVD)
This Cole Porter hit based on the Shakespeare play The Taming of the Shrew features such hits as So in Love and Always True to You in My Fashion. Academy Award Nominations: Best Scoring of a Musical Picture.NR"
Director: George Sidney
ACTORS: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller, Bobby Van, Keenan Wynn
Sayonara (DVD)
Marlon Brando is an American serviceman on leave in Japan during the Korean War who discovers that his long-distance relationship with his fiancee has faltered. He soon finds that he has fallen in love with a Japanese entertainer (Miko Taka), despite the policies and standards set by the American government. Based on James Michener`s best-selling novel.NR"
Director: Joshua Logan
ACTORS: Marlon Brando, James Garner, Ricardo Montalban, Red Buttons, Miyoshi Umeki
