Tom Sawyer (DVD)
An animated version of Mark Twain`s classic American tale.NR"
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden (DVD) The Actors` Series This gripping drama recounts a schizophrenic teenager`s struggle to cope with her mental illness. Deborah Blake (Kathleen Quinlan) fights inner demons that manifest themselves as visual hallucinations, and attempts s...
This gripping drama recounts a schizophrenic teenager`s struggle to cope with her mental illness. Deborah Blake (Kathleen Quinlan) fights inner demons that manifest themselves as visual hallucinations, and attempts suicide as an escape. After a stay in a mental hospital, and with the help of a caring psychiatrist, Deborah is eventually able to control her condition. An emotional and worthy adaptation of the autobiographical best-seller by Joanne Greenberg. Academy Award Nominations: Best (Adapted) Screenplay.
R"
Director: Anthony Page
Crime Story: Season One (DVD)
CRIME STORY: SEASON ONE features the complete first season and the original pilot episode of the television crime drama that has become a cult favorite. Produced by Michael Mann, of MIAMI VICE fame, this series follows the ongoing battle between a hardened cop, played by Dennis Farina, and a young, upcoming Mob gangster, played by Anthony John Denison. In addition to the outstanding regular cast, the show features numerous gifted guest starts, such as David Caruso, Michael Madsen, Pam Grier, Ving Rhames, Lorraine Bracco, and Julia Roberts.NR"
Director: Abel Ferrara
ACTORS: Dennis Farina, Anthony John Denison, Stephen Lang, Billy Campbell, Ted Levine
Contaminated Man (VHS) Spanish Subtitled A security guard at a chemical plant (Peter Weller) unknowingly becomes exposed to a secret and very deadly form of biological warfare. Soon he is on the run, contaminated and infecting any person he comes in contact ...
A security guard at a chemical plant (Peter Weller) unknowingly becomes exposed to a secret and very deadly form of biological warfare. Soon he is on the run, contaminated and infecting any person he comes in contact with, dooming them to quick and painful death. Geneticist William Hurt has come into contact with viral and chemical agents like this before, and is contacted by the powers-that-be to find and stop the deadly contagion before the entire world can become infected.
NR"
Director: Anthony Hickox
ACTORS: William Hurt, Peter Weller, Natascha McElhone
Mona Lisa Smile DVD
Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society.
Mike Newell's MONA LISA SMILE is a pretty period film that combines a quaint pedagogical tale with a feminist dissection of traditional female roles in 1950s society. Julia Roberts leads an impressive cast of top young actresses including Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, and Julia Stiles. Roberts is Katherine Watson, a revolutionary art history teacher at Wellesley College in 1953. Though she has true admiration for her intelligent all-female students, she is perturbed that their interest in finding husbands takes precedence over their studies. Determined to instruct them in feminist values and teach them to be independent--defying the college's emphasis on breeding good wives, mothers, and homemakers--Watson is deemed subversive by the administration. Even Watson's identity--from California, over 30 years old, and unmarried--is problematic. And when she turns her class onto modern art rather than teaching the recommended classical curriculum, Watson is severely chastised by the staunchly conservative students and faculty.
Beautiful photography of the picture-perfect Wellesley campus combined with a perpetual parade of lovely period costumes makes MONA LISA SMILE a visual delight. Strong performances by each of the actresses, including Dunst uncharacteristically cast as a prim and proper prude, and Marcia Gay Harden as a boring tv-addicted spinster, only add to the splendor of this enjoyable film.
PG-13"
Director: Mike Newell
ACTORS: Julia Roberts, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Marcia Gay Harden
