The Deep (DVD) Subtitled in French, Spanish, Chinese, Thai, and Portuguese This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic h...
This visually stunning action-adventure film, based on the best-selling novel by JAWS author Peter Benchley, stars Nick Nolte and Jaqueline Bissett as a couple on a romantic holiday in Bermuda. New Yorkers, David Sanders (Nolte) and Gail Berke (Bissett) are enjoying a much-needed vacation; while diving one day they discover the sunken wreck of a WWII freighter and unearth a gold coin as well as a mysterious glass ampule. Excited, they believe their discovery could be a long lost treasure, but they soon learn that their most valuable discovery is actually an ampule of morphine, one of thousands left behind on the medical supply ship. This discovery leads them into the hands of Henry Cloche (Louis Gossett Jr.), an extremely dangerous and powerful Haitian drug dealer who will stop at nothing to unearth the dangerous treasure. With the help of Romer Treece (Robert Shaw), an old treasure hunter, David and Gail soon realize that they have made a much more important discovery than the morphine and set out to keep their actual treasure a secret. Director Peter Yates`s suspenseful film features death-defying dives and exquisite underwater photography. Posters of Bissett underwater in a T-shirt adorned many a dorm wall in the late 1970s.
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Director: Peter Yates
ACTORS: Robert Shaw, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Louis Gossett, Eli Wallach
Parla Italiano: Nouns, Verbs, & Adjectives (DVD)
Recommended for both beginners and those with basic knowledge of Italian, this instructional video delves further into the grammatical nuances of the Italian language. Includes lots of vocabulary, example dialogues, verb conjugation, nouns, articles, adjectives, interrogatives, and much more.NR"
Beg, Borrow and Steal (VHS)
601 Film Group, the company which gave you the hits MONKEY ON A STRING and MAYDAY, comes BEG, BORROW AND STEAL--a beautifully filmed 16mm production which captures all the beauty and insanity of today`s hottest wakeboarders in action set to pulse-pounding music.NR"
Akira (DVD)
A landmark film that introduced much of the Western world to modern animi, AKIRA is a marvel of modern animation. Based on Katsuhiro Otomo`s 2,000 page manga, AKIRA begins on July 16, 1988, when what was believed to be an atomic bomb was dropped on Tokyo, completely destroying the city and marking the beginning of WWIII. Thirty-one years later, Neo-Tokyo has sprung from the ruins of the old city and is experiencing a prolonged period of civil unrest caused by student uprisings, political instability, and, most destructively, biker gangs. One of the members of these biker gangs, Tetsuo, is detained by the military after a near accident with a strange young boy. After recognizing innate psychic ability in him, the military begins using Tetsuo as a test subject to channel Akira, a source of unimaginable power and the cause of the explosion that destroyed the original Tokyo. However, the military`s plan backfires, and instead of locating the source of Akira`s power, Tetsuo becomes a medium for it. Endowed with incredible psychic powers that make every one of his destructive impulses a reality, Tetsuo begins to go on a rampage that threatens to completely annihilate Neo Tokyo. Combining a complex science-fiction universe with intricately detailed animation and phantasmagoric images, AKIRA is a stunning visual experience and a disturbing vision of the future.R"
Director: Katsuhiro Otomo
Magnificent Butcher (VHS) Spanish Dubbed This classic martial arts comedy stars the charming and disarming master of bumbling--the corpulent Sammo Hung. In this Yuen Woo-Ping film, he plays a lovable, klutzy butcher who studies diligently under legendary kung f...
This classic martial arts comedy stars the charming and disarming master of bumbling--the corpulent Sammo Hung. In this Yuen Woo-Ping film, he plays a lovable, klutzy butcher who studies diligently under legendary kung fu master Wong Fei-Hong (Kwan Tak-Hing), but he can`t quite seem to get his moves together. However, when dastardly crooks nab his sister-in-law, the young protigi throws his weight behind saving her.
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Director: Yuen Woo-ping
