Backbeat (DVD)
This hard-driving, energetic drama chronicling the Beatles` ascendance to fame in Hamburg`s club circuit centers on fifth Beatle Stu Sutcliffe and his close relationship to John Lennon. Driven by art rather than music, Sutcliffe ultimately must choose between his true passion and certain superstardom.R"
Director: Iain Softley
ACTORS: Sheryl Lee, Stephen Dorff, Ian Hart
Ride With The Wind (DVD)
Craig T. Nelson (POLTERGEIST and TV`s COACH) is a motorcycle racer whose life slows down when he makes room in his life for a young boy with leukemia and the boy`s mother. Also starring Helen Shaver and Max Gail.NR"
Director: Bobby Roth
ACTORS: Craig T. Nelson, Max Gail
While You Were Sleeping (DVD)
Lucy Moderatz, a charming but shy token seller, spends her evenings home alone with her cat and her holidays working for the Chicago Transit Authority -- she has neither family nor boyfriend to keep her company. But she does have a secret crush: sexy Peter Callaghan, a regular customer who has never even given her a second glance. One day, Peter is mugged on the subway platform and falls in front of an oncoming train. The courageous Lucy jumps down onto the tracks and pushes him to safety, but the ordeal leaves Peter in a deep coma. Lucy remains at his side in the hospital until his family arrives -- at which point a confused nurse, who misunderstood one of Lucy`s comments, informs the Callaghans that Lucy is Peter`s fiancee. And Lucy just can`t manage to set them straight. But now she`s beginning to fall in love with Peter`s handsome and kind brother, Jack, and has one big problem: what will happen when Peter wakes up?PG"
Director: Jon Turteltaub
ACTORS: Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher, Peter Boyle, Jack Warden
In America (VHS) Spanish Subtitled Jim Sheridan`s autobiographical film, IN AMERICA, begins as Irish immigrants Johnny (Paddy Considine), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton), and their two daughters drive their wood-paneled station wagon across the Canadi...
Jim Sheridan`s autobiographical film, IN AMERICA, begins as Irish immigrants Johnny (Paddy Considine), his wife Sarah (Samantha Morton), and their two daughters drive their wood-paneled station wagon across the Canadian border and into the United States. As they enter New York City at night, 10-year-old Christy (Emma Bolger) records the lights, skyscrapers, and general excitement on her camcorder. Her little sister Ariel (Sarah Bolger) coos at all there is to see, and the whole family is filled with new hope. With no money to live on, they settle into the top floor of a flophouse tenement inhabited by transvestites and drug addicts. The dilapidated building is at first intimidating, but with a little redecorating and a change of perspective, the family turns it into a bohemian paradise. While Johnny goes to auditions, trying to get his break as an actor, Sarah works at the ice cream shop down the street and the girls go to Catholic school. A budding friendship with their ominous neighbor, Mateo (Djimon Hounsou), brings a much-needed spirituality to the family`s happy but difficult struggle to survive. A beautiful and touching film about the risks that families take striving for a colorful, successful, happy life, IN AMERICA is above all a tribute to New York City in all its glory: its diversity of people and opportunity, its violence and grit, and its sometimes overwhelming energy.
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Director: Jim Sheridan
ACTORS: Paddy Considine, Samantha Morton, Djimon Hounsou, Sarah Bolger, Emma Bolger
Othello - The Lost Masterpiece (DVD)
Long believed lost, this is the newly restored masterpiece of Orson Welles` 1952 classic based on the famous Shakespearian play. Also includes a special introduction by his daughter Beatrice Welles-Smith.NR"
Director: Orson Welles
ACTORS: Orson Welles, Robert Coote, Michael Laurence
