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Next Voice You Hear
2008-06-01 07:19:00
Director:  William A. Wellman VHS Tape:  Black & White, NTSC Company: MGM (Warner)  (1993-12-23) ISBN: 6301972228 List Price: $14.98 Amazon Price: $114.95 Used Price: $99.95 Buy Next Voice You Hear at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites

Matilda (1996) (Clam)
2008-05-31 08:01:00
Danny DeVito’s adaptation of the Roald Dahl book for children is mostly just fine, helped along quite a bit by the charming performance of Mara Wilson (Mrs. Doubtfire) as young Matilda, a brilliant girl neglected by her stupid, self-involved parents (DeVito and Rhea Perlman). Ignored at home, Matilda escapes into a ...
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I Remember Mama (1948)
2008-05-28 15:25:00
This high point in the 1940s vogue for movies about family life at the turn of the century was directed by George Stevens (Shane), and stars Irene Dunne as the matriarch of a Norwegian family that faces hard knocks with grace in 1910 (or so) San Francisco. Based on John Van ...
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Ruby in Paradise
2008-05-26 03:20:00
An uncommon gem of a film, this story of a young woman finding herself is a marvelous sleeper. Ashley Judd (Kiss the Girls) makes her film debut as Ruby , who moves to a Florida beach town and tries as best she can to earn a living. She begins working in a ...
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Shadowlands (1993)
2008-05-21 07:03:00
This emotionally moving romantic drama was adapted by William Nicholson from his own acclaimed play, based upon the real-life romance (during the 1950s) between the British writer C.S. Lewis and a divorced American poet named Joy Gresham. Best known for writing The Lion, The Witch, and The Wardrobe, Lewis (Anthony Hopkins) ...

Odyssey
2008-05-18 05:28:00
Andrei Konchalovsky’s expansive television mini-series production of Homer’s epic poem gets off to clumsy start as he tries to squeeze the Trojan War into a mere half hour, but once the arrogant but honorable Odysseus (strikingly played by Armand Assante) and his loyal crew begin their doomed voyage home, this film ...

Bronx Tale
2008-05-18 05:28:00
Chazz Palminteri wrote the script for this excellent story of an Italian American boy (Lillo Brancato) who grows up in the 1960s caught between the strong influences of his blue-collar, straight- arrow father (Robert De Niro) and a Mafia chieftain (Palminteri) who is his all-purpose mentor. De Niro makes his directorial ...
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Singing Nun
2008-05-16 05:51:00
One of the unlikeliest pop stars of the 1960s gets the bio treatment in The Singing Nun, a fictionalized account of the Belgian nun dubbed “Soeur Sourire” (Sister Smile). The cute tone is regrettable, and it’s difficult to adjust to Debbie Reynolds in a habit, but the movie isn’t bad for ...

The D.I.
2008-05-13 13:00:00
Jim Moore is a tough-as-nails Drill Instructor with a chip on his shoulder: Pvt. Owens, who isn’t quite up to snuff. Sgt. Moore is convinced that “there’s a man underneath that baby powder” and sets out to force the private to rise to the occasion. Instead, he drives Owens to bail out altogether. Things only get worse when the Captain steps in and gives Moore three days to make the a Marine out of the petrified private. VHS Tape:  Black & White, NTSC Company: Warner Home Video  (1995-06-13) ISBN: 6300271315 List Price: $14.98 Amazon Price: $29.95 Used Price: $30.00 Buy The D.I. at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites

Pay It Forward
2008-05-11 13:37:00
Pay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of ...
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
2008-05-09 13:13:00
The Indiana Jones (Harrison Ford) adventure after Raiders of the Lost Ark is more violent than its predecessor, but also looser, more imaginative, and finally more satisfying. Still organized like a series of connected cliffhangers, the story (set 10 years before Raiders) involves Indy’s attempted rescue of stolen children from a ...
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Anne of Green Gables - The Continuing Story
2008-05-09 13:13:00
In a departure from L.M. Montgomery’s book series, this third TV movie jumps ahead to World War I and puts Anne and her beloved Gilbert smack in the middle of it. Instead of marrying Gilbert after her teaching days–as she does in the books–Anne spends a disillusioning year ...
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A Stolen Life (1946)
2008-05-06 12:47:00
Director:  Curtis Bernhardt VHS Tape:  Black & White, NTSC Company: MGM/UA Home Video  (1998-09-01) ISBN: 6301977084 List Price: $19.98 Amazon Price: $49.50 Used Price: $21.50 Buy A Stolen Life (1946) at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites

Inherit the Wind (1999)
2008-05-05 21:13:00
The word classic can readily be applied to the story of what became known as the Scopes Monkey Trial, which led to the Broadway hit that has now been filmed for the third time. With Jack Lemmon and George C. Scott playing adversarial attorneys, this period piece deals in ideas and ...
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Homeward Bound (The Incredible Journey)
2008-05-04 12:46:00
Walt Disney studios had previously adapted Sheila Burnford’s classic animal-adventure novel The Incredible Journey in 1963, and the story proves just as durable in this popular 1993 version, in which the heroic trio of animals are given voices provided by Don Ameche, Michael J. Fox, and Sally Field. They don’t actually speak (like the clever critters in Babe), but we hear their “voices” as the lost household pets–Shadow the golden retriever, Chance the bulldog, and Sassy the cat–survive a harrowing series of adventures as they struggle to find their way home. Perfect entertainment for kids, this frequently clever movie offers an abundance of wildlife and beautiful location scenery, and the vocal performances by Ameche, Fox, and Field are surprisingly effective. A hit with parents and children alike, the film was followed by a sequel in 1996. –Jeff Shannon Director:  Duwayne Dunham VHS Tape:  Closed-captioned,Â...
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The Last of the Mohicans
2008-05-04 12:46:00
Wildly romantic, daringly exciting, Michael Mann’s film of James Fenimore Cooper’s novel created a new babe magnet out of Daniel Day-Lewis, he of the heaving pecs and flowing mane. As Hawkeye, he plays an American settler raised by the Mohicans who is forced to serve as a guide for British adventurism in upstate New York. But the British have been outflanked by the French (and their Indian allies); then British honor is betrayed when a band of renegades assaults them during their retreat. Mann captures the viciousness of this era’s hand-to-hand combat in startling battle scenes. But he also invests the film with heartfelt romance, as the feelings swell between Day-Lewis and Madeleine Stowe. The ending is a stunner, a long, nearly wordless sequence of battle and loss. Strong performances all around, particularly by Russell Means as Chingachgook and Wes Studi as the evil Magua. –Marshall Fine Director:  Michael Mann VHS Tape:  Clo...

Grapes of Wrath (1940)
2008-05-03 22:46:00
Ranking No. 21 on the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 greatest American films, this 1940 classic is a bit dated in its noble sentimentality, but it remains a luminous example of Hollywood classicism from the peerless director of mythic Americana, John Ford. Adapted by Nunnally Johnson from John Steinbeck’s ...
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One on One
2008-05-03 12:51:00
A young basketball phenom battles the business-driven college coaching system, putting his own sports scholarship at risk. VHS Tape:  Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Company: Warner Home Video  (1992-04-01) ISBN: 6302877814 List Price: $14.98 Amazon Price: $125.89 Used Price: $22.74 Buy One on One at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites

The Broken Chain
2008-05-02 23:56:00
Director:  Lamont Johnson VHS Tape:  Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC Company: Turner Home Entertainment  (1995-09-26) ISBN: 6303095151 List Price: $14.98 Amazon Price: $69.95 Used Price: $14.48 Buy The Broken Chain at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites

Goonies (Clam)
2008-04-24 06:59:00
You may be surprised to discover that the director of the Lethal Weapon movies and scary horror flick The Omen, Richard Donner, also produced and directed this classic children’s adventure (which, by the way, was written by Donner’s screen-wizard friend Steven Spielberg). Then again you may not. The Goonies, like Donner’s other movies, is the same story of good versus evil. It has its share of bad guys (the Fratelli brothers and their villainous mother), reluctant-hero good guys (the Walsh bothers and their gang of friends), and lots of corny one-liners. Like in an old-fashioned Hardy Boys or Nancy Drew plot, the Goonies need to solve a problem: a corrupt corporate developer has bought out their neighborhood and plans to flatten all their homes. Luckily, the beloved gang stumbles on a treasure map. In the hopes of finding the treasure to buy back their houses, the Goonies embark on their quest through underground passages, aboard pirate ships, and behind waterfalls...
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Dinosaur
2008-04-20 14:19:00
Dinosaurs come alive like never before in this costly computer-animated film from Disney. After a breathtaking opening (a dino egg is kidnapped), the film changes style; realistic dinosaurs are given human characteristics and voices. The kidnapped egg grows into an iguanodon named Aladar (voiced by D.B. Sweeney), who is raised by lemurs (shades of Tarzan) on a lush island void of other dinosaurs. When a meteorite destroys their island home in a thrilling sequence, the lemur family and Aladar become part of a dinosaur troop roaming the mainland deserts looking for the lush nesting grounds (shades of the fourth installment of the Land Before Time series and Fantasia). Disney’s usual mix of modern language (one lemur calls himself “a love monkey”) is present, as is its typical capital punishment law: anyone against our forward-thinking hero (or even disagreeing with him) ends up dead. Curiously, the meanies, a pair of carnotaurs following the group, are nameless and v...

O Brother Where Art Thou
2008-04-18 00:15:00
Only Joel and Ethan Coen, the fraternal director and producer team behind art-house hits such as The Big Lebowski and Fargo and masters of quirky and ultra-stylish genre subversion, would dare nick the plot line of Homer’s Odyssey for a comic picaresque saga about three cons on ...
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The Magic School Bus - The Busasaurus
2008-04-18 00:15:00
A visit to a dinosaur dig turns exciting when the Magic School Bus becomes a time machine that takes Ms. Frizzle’s class back 67 million years, to the time when dinosaurs roamed the Earth. There, they must put aside their prejudices and preconceptions about dinosaurs, as they investigate which are dangerous ...

Quo Vadis (1951)
2008-04-18 00:15:00
“Welcome to Nero’s House of Women” greets a concubine to a slave girl, Lygia (Deborah Kerr). Later this self-same greeter reveals that she, too, like Lygia, is really a fellow Christian neophyte. And it’s that mixture of tawdry Hollywood sex and a strong Christian message that makes this film an enjoyable ...
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Red Headed Stranger
2008-04-18 00:15:00
Director:  William D. Wittliff VHS Tape:  Color, NTSC Company: MGM (Video & DVD)  (1998-03-24) ISBN: 630477334X List Price: $9.94 Amazon Price: $8.99 Used Price: $6.99 Buy Red Headed Stranger at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites

Mulan (1998)
2008-04-18 00:15:00
Solid entertainment from a new group of Disney animators. The story source is a Chinese fable about a young girl who disguises herself as a man to help her family and her country. When the Huns attack China, a call to arms goes out to every village, and Mulan’s father, ...

Tarzan (1999)
2008-04-18 00:15:00
After viewing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Edgar Rice Burroughs wrote to Walt Disney about adapting his novel of an ape-man into a feature animated cartoon. Sixtysome years later, the tale is finally told with brilliant design work that looks unlike any previous animated film. The story is a natural ...
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Moonwalker
2008-04-18 00:15:00
Director:  Jerry Kramer (II), Jim Blashfield, Colin Chilvers VHS Tape:  Color, HiFi Sound, Soundtrack, NTSC Company: Sony  (1991-07-01) ISBN: 6301174240 List Price: $9.98 Amazon Price: $84.99 Used Price: $12.98 Buy Moonwalker at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites

Ben Hur (1959)
2008-04-18 00:15:00
William Wyler (Wuthering Heights) had directing duties on most of this 1959 version of the story by Lew Wallace, starring Charlton Heston as the Jewish friend of a Roman (Stephen Boyd), who inevitably become enemies during the time of Christ. Stodgy but engrossing, the film has never lost its initial ...

Private War of Major Benson
2008-04-11 13:56:00
Director:  Jerry Hopper VHS Tape:  Closed-captioned, Color, HiFi Sound, NTSC Company: Universal Studios  (1997-05-27) ISBN: 6304436998 List Price: $14.98 Amazon Price: $12.85 Used Price: $9.50 Buy Private War of Major Benson at Amazon.com Now Credit Bookmark Toy Product Hide Sites