Homework (DVD) Widescreen Version Tommy (Michael Morgan) is at the end of his senior year in high school and learns the ultimate lesson from the beautiful and older Diana (Joan Collins). His best friend Ralph`s education comes from a chance meeti...
Tommy (Michael Morgan) is at the end of his senior year in high school and learns the ultimate lesson from the beautiful and older Diana (Joan Collins). His best friend Ralph`s education comes from a chance meeting with the refined Ms. Jackson (Lee Purcell). By year`s end, the two lads are ready for whatever awaits them in the future.
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Director: James Beshears
ACTORS: Joan Collins, Michael Morgan, Lee Purcell, Shell Kepler, Wings Hauser
The Pianist (DVD) Full Frame Roman Polanski`s THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody), a Polish Jew, who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Pola...
Roman Polanski`s THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody), a Polish Jew, who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Poland, and brings it to life clearly and believably. Szpilman is a tall, handsome, winsome man who is revered for his piano performances on public radio. He lives with his family--an intelligent, loving, and spirited bunch--in an upscale flat in central Warsaw. Bombings have begun to torment the citizens of Warsaw, and step by step, the Nazis infiltrate, the Jews are branded and set apart from their neighbors, imprisoned in a ghetto, and slowly exterminated. The story is told through Szpilman`s eyes, and thus carries as much confusion and fear as disgust and torment. Polanski paints Warsaw in bleak shades of gray and black, expressing the helplessness of the Jewish people and the cruelty of the Nazis with captivating photography. In the second half of the film, which takes place in the early 1940s, Szpilman is alone, having managed to avoid the trains to the death camps. His struggle to survive, with some help from non-Jews but mostly his own will to thrive, takes place in long, silent, languid stretches filled with the imagined piano music that inspires Szpilman to live. In a climactic scene of immense beauty and spine-tingling tension, Szpilman must actually perform for a German soldier who is inexplicably patrolling the near-deserted and utterly dilapidated Warsaw ghetto. THE PIANIST, in the subtlety of its sublime and heartbreaking tale, is carried by the intensely moving performance of Brody, whose transformation is truly unforgettable.
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Director: Roman Polanski
ACTORS: Adrien Brody, Emilia Fox, Thomas Kretschmann, Frank Finlay, Maureen Lipman
The Breakfast Club (DVD)
When five high school students from different social groups are forced to spend a Saturday together in detention, they find themselves interacting with and understanding each other for the first time. A jock (Emilio Estevez), a criminal (Judd Nelson), a princess (Molly Ringwald), a basket case (Ally Sheedy), and a brain (Anthony Michael Hall) talk about everything from parental tension to sex to peer pressure to hurtful stereotypes while serving time. Ultimately, the five find that they may have more in common than they ever imagined and learn more about themselves as well as each other. The only question is, Will they remember what theyve learned after they leave detention? Director and writer John Hughes, along with the stellar Brat Pack, cast makes this a memorable, moving film filled with believable dialogue, intelligent humor, and a sufficient dose of high school hijinx. Its timeless appeal makes this film a teen classic along with Hughess other teen films from the 1980s: SIXTEEN CANDLES and FERRIS BUELLERS DAY OFF. A great soundtrack features the hit Dont You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds.R"
Director: John Hughes
ACTORS: Emilio Estevez, Paul Gleason, Anthony Michael Hall, John Kapelos, Judd Nelson
Mean Guns (DVD)
One hundred mean assassins are called to a competition to determine who are the best. Their weapons: machine guns and baseball bats. The three winners will receive $10 million dollars--and remain alive to spend it. A fighting-action extravaganza in the vein of Mortal Kombat. R"
Director: Albert Pyun
ACTORS: Christopher Lambert, Ice-T, Michael Halsey, Deborah Van Valkenburgh, Tina Cote
Master Keaton Vol. 4: Blood & Bullets (DVD)
In the five episodes contained on MASTER KEATON VOL. 4: BLOOD & BULLETS, Keaton takes a break from working cases, but still finds himself in the midst of dangerous action and intrigue. While visiting a friend in Scotland, members of the Polish Mafia running from a gun battle with police take over Keaton`s hotel! Chastised by his friend for not getting involved in the situation, Keaton eventually sides with The White Leopard of Angola to show his heroic side.NR"
