Baby Cakes (DVD)
Ricki Lake plays Baby Cakes, a woman who falls in love with a subway motorman and stops at nothing to win him over from his fiance in this comedy of extremes.NR"
Director: Paul Schneider
ACTORS: Ricki Lake, Craig Sheffer, Betty Buckley, John Karlen
Spy Game (DVD) Widescreen; Collector`s Edition Robert Redford stars as veteran CIA agent Nathan Muir in this thriller from Tony Scott (TOP GUN, ENEMY OF THE STATE). Set in 1991, Muir expects his last day before retirement to be an easy one. Instead, ...
Robert Redford stars as veteran CIA agent Nathan Muir in this thriller from Tony Scott (TOP GUN, ENEMY OF THE STATE). Set in 1991, Muir expects his last day before retirement to be an easy one. Instead, he finds that his protigi, Tom Bishop (Brad Pitt), is being held on espionage charges in a Chinese prison will be executed in 24 hours. A seasoned agent, Muir has played spy games for a long time and quickly realizes that the CIA may not be acting in Bishop`s best interest. Even as an agency committee is grilling Muir, he is secretly working to secure his former charge`s freedom. Action-packed flashbacks establish the relationship between the two men: their first meeting during the Vietnam War, Muir`s recruitment of Bishop following the war, Bishop`s training and early missions in Berlin, and an important operation in Beirut. Similarly, the flashbacks trace the evolution of Bishop from an eager, brand-new agent in 1975 to a disillusioned veteran in the mid-1980s who is at odds with his mentor, Muir. This last layer of conflict adds extra suspense to SPY GAME, as Muir must decide whether to help his old friend or take the easy way out.
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Director: Tony Scott
ACTORS: Robert Redford, Brad Pitt, Catherine McCormack, Stephen Dillane, Larry Bryggman
Hook/Little Women (DVD) 2-Pack A two-pack of two family hits, HOOK and LITTLE WOMEN.
HOOK (PG): Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barries PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grow...
A two-pack of two family hits, HOOK and LITTLE WOMEN.
HOOK (PG): Director Steven Spielberg brings J.M. Barries PETER PAN to the screen with a delightfully modernized twist. Forty-year-old Peter (Robin Williams) has grown up to be a workaholic lawyer with more affection for his cell phone than his wife and two children. When the family travels to England to visit Granny Wendy (Maggie Smith), Peters son and daughter are kidnapped by the villainous Captain Hook (Dustin Hoffman). Peters faithful pal, Tinkerbell (Julia Roberts), helps him return to Neverland-- Second star to the right and straight on til morning --to the world Peter has forgotten. There the Lost Boys welcome Peter back and try to get him in shape for his fight with Captain Hook. Peter must somehow remember his long-forgotten boyhood in Neverland and learn how to fly again before he can rescue his children away from the evil clutches of Captain Hook. Bob Hoskins costars as Hooks right-hand man, Smee, and Gwyneth Paltrow, in her first film role, plays the young Wendy. The film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song for John Williamss When Youre Alone.
LITTLE WOMEN (PG): The fourth screen adaptation of Louisa May Alcotts classic 1869 novel, LITTLE WOMEN, is given a realistic and rounded treatment by screenwriter Jo Swicord and Australian director Gillian Armstrong, whose perspective emphasizes a feminist tone. The story chronicles the lives of a mother and four daughters and their daily toils during the Civil War in the absence of their father, a Union army chaplain. Winona Ryder (in an Oscar-nominated performance) is vibrant as Jo, the least conventional of the sisters. Christian Bale captures the ebullience of their neighbor, Laurie, whose company Jo enjoys so much it seems inevitable that they will end up together. Kirsten Dunst (at age 12) gives a fiery performance as the younger Amy, proving even more willful than Jo; Claire Danes brings a mysterious otherworldlines
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Director: Steven Spielberg|Gillian Armstrong
ACTORS: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Kirsten Dunst
Quicksand (DVD)
Military psychologist Bill Turner (Michael Dudikoff) has fallen in love with his new patient (Brooke Theiss)--who also happens to be the general`s daughter. As their relationship progresses, he finds out that she is involved in a dangerous, far-reaching web of danger--a web that he can no longer extract himself from.R"
Director: Sam Firstenberg
ACTORS: Michael Dudikoff, Brooke Theiss, Douglas Weston, Michael O`Hagan, Pamela Salem
Thirhse Raquin (DVD) 2-Disc Set Thirhse Raquin is a young woman married to an older man. She has an affair with her husband`s best friend, and passion soon leads to violence, murder, guilt, and betrayal. Based on the novel by Emile Zola, as seen on Masterp...
Thirhse Raquin is a young woman married to an older man. She has an affair with her husband`s best friend, and passion soon leads to violence, murder, guilt, and betrayal. Based on the novel by Emile Zola, as seen on Masterpiece Theatre.
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Director: Simon Langton
ACTORS: Kate Nelligan, Brian Cox, Alan Rickman, Timothy Bateson, Philip Bowen
