Rob Roy (DVD)
A rousing film version of Sir Walter Scott`s sweeping romantic adventure based on the life of Scottish hero Robert Roy MacGregor who battled a despotic English secretary appointed by the king to watch over Scottish highlands.R"
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
ACTORS: Liam Neeson, Jessica Lange, John Hurt, Tim Roth, Eric Stoltz
The Man Who Knew Too Little (DVD)
When bumbling lummox Wallace Ritchie threatens a visit to his successful, handsome, and socially mobile brother`s posh London flat, the only thing to keep him out of trouble is the so-called Theatre of Life, in which participants play a game of intrigue with hired actors masquerading as spies and hitmen. Unfortunately, Wallace inadvertently intercepts a phone call from real spies, who peg him for the gunman in their assassination plot--but Wallace himself is none the wiser.PG"
Director: Jon Amiel
ACTORS: Bill Murray, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Richard Wilson, Alfred Molina
A Couch in New York (DVD)
A funky Parisienne dancer trades her slummy apartment for the palatial Manhattan digs of a stuffy psychoanalyst, setting in motion a chain of events that leads--inexorably--to their falling in love.R"
Director: Chantal Akerman
ACTORS: William Hurt, Juliette Binoche, Stephanie Buttle, Barbara Garrick, Paul Guilfoyle
City by the Sea (DVD) Widescreen In CITY BY THE SEA, Robert De Niro plays Vincent, a New York City cop who is investigating a murder that leads him back to the place where he grew up--Long Beach. A born loner who is pained by his past but never shows it, Vi...
In CITY BY THE SEA, Robert De Niro plays Vincent, a New York City cop who is investigating a murder that leads him back to the place where he grew up--Long Beach. A born loner who is pained by his past but never shows it, Vincent rarely opens up to his partner (George Dzunda) or his girlfriend (Frances McDormand). However, when his son Joey (James Franco) is named as the murder suspect, he is challenged to confront his duties as a father and a cop.
A constant dialogue between the good times and the bad, the past and the present, and the choices made along the way gives CITY BY THE SEA an emotional, contemplative edge. In its opening scene, a colorful vintage photograph of the happily crowded seaside at Long Beach in the 1970s fades into the cold gray dilapidated locale of the early 21st Century. Joey has similarly faded from a cheerful young boy to a broken junkie loitering on the boardwalk and living in an abandoned merry-go-round. And while Vincent maintains a contented balance between work and his noncommitted romance, it is clear that he feels his best days have passed. The violence and neglect that permeates life on Long Beach is the evil from which Vincent must now save his son, a gesture which breathes new life and new hope into the family he nearly deserted.
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Director: Michael Caton-Jones
ACTORS: Robert De Niro, Frances McDormand, George Dzundza, James Franco, William Forsythe
Dinner With Friends (DVD)
In this HBO original film, two couples (played by Dennis Quaid and Andie MacDowell, Greg Kinnear and Toni Collette) have been close friends for 12 years--passing long nights over dinner talking about their relationships and their children and life in general. But when one couple announces its decision to separate and the relationships between the four friends begin to change, they find that their collective love of cooking may be the one thing that can keep them together.NR"
Director: Norman Jewison
ACTORS: Dennis Quaid, Greg Kinnear, Andie MacDowell, Toni Collette
