Mrs. Dalloway (VHS)
This is the critically-acclaimed adaptation of the Virginia Woolf novel of the same name. It`s a lovely summer day and Clarissa Dalloway is preparing for an elaborate party. During the day of her party, she remembers another summer in the past, when she was a beautiful, vivacious and much-courted young woman. Her preparations are interrupted however, by the unexpected arrival of a former suitor from that long-ago summer - a once-dashing man she thought she would marry but ultimately rejected. As the day of the party unfolds, Mrs. Dalloway`s life also becomes strangely intertwined with a young man she never meets, but whose tragic fate strikes a chord of truth, deep in her soul, that she cannot deny.PG-13"
Director: Marleen Gorris
Lord Love a Duck (DVD)
A high school student with telepathic powers woos a stuck-up co-ed by making all her dreams come true in this alternately light and dark comedy. Based on Al Hine`s novel lampooning Southern California`s youth culture.NR"
Director: George Axelrod
ACTORS: Roddy McDowall, Tuesday Weld, Lola Albright, Martin West, Ruth Gordon
The Big Easy (DVD)
In this steamy, spicy mystery a prosecutor is sent to New Orleans to investigate police corruption. All the evidence points to a Cajun detective she falls in love with immediately, and though the trial forces him temporarily off the squad it doesn`t stop him from investigating the case or from seeing her.R"
Director: Jim McBride
ACTORS: Dennis Quaid, Ellen Barkin, Ned Beatty, Charles Ludlam, Lisa Jane Persky
For the Boys (DVD)
In this ambitious musical saga, unknown USO singer Dixie Leonard (Bette Midler) is teamed up with one of America`s beloved song-and-dance men--Eddie Sparks (James Caan)--in England during World War II, beginning a 50-year partnership of music, laughter, and tears. Eddie is a seductive comedian and singer as notorious for his roving eye as he is for his jokes, while Dixie is a feisty but vulnerable and incredibly talented entertainer. Through three wars, a Golden Era television show, the McCarthy trials, and, in later years, an awards ceremony, FOR THE BOYS chronicles the relationship of this perfect onstage, tumultuous offstage couple as it`s highlighted by historic events. George Segal adds further complexities to the couple`s relationship as Dixie`s showbiz uncle who is interrogated during the McCarthy era. With this nostalgic film, director Mark Rydell creates--in the spirit of old MGM musicals laced with a serious, modern look at war--a highly entertaining and touching film. The heroic cinematography, authentic period costumes and sets, and wonderful musical numbers all enhance this gripping melodrama.R"
Director: Mark Rydell
ACTORS: Bette Midler, James Caan, George Segal, Patrick O`Neal, Christopher Rydell
Dead Presidents (DVD)
A young black man from Brooklyn leaves his girlfriend and his numbers-running mentor to fight in Vietnam in 1968 only to return three years later to find no welcome and little hope for him and his buddies. Unemployed and desperate, he plans and executes an armored car robbery to secure enough dead presidents (slang for cash) to give him a fresh start.R"
Director: Allen Hughes|Albert Hughes
ACTORS: Larenz Tate, Keith David, Chris Tucker, N`Bushe Wright, Freddy Rodriguez
