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Price not listed for this item.101 Dalmatians
Actors: Glenn Close, Jeff Daniels, Joely Richardson, Joan Plowright, Hugh Laurie
ASIN : 1558908374
Sales Rank : 53986
Director : Stephen Herek
Studio : Walt Disney Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781558908376
ISBN : 1558908374
UPC : 717951000347
Release Date : December 12, 2000
Publisher : Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer : Walt Disney Video
Label : Walt Disney Video
Running Time : 103
Amazon.com essential videoIt's hard to know who thought it would be a good idea to make a live-action version of Disney's animated classic. The one bright notion anyone had was casting Glenn Close as Disney über-villainess Cruella de Vil; her flashing eyes and angular features are a perfect match and do credit to what is one of the most indelible animated characters Disney has ever created. The story remains essentially the same, focusing on Cruella's plot to kidnap the puppies of a young married couple (Jeff Daniels and Jolie Richardson) and make them into a coat. But the dreaded John Hughes, who wrote this script, fills it with sadistic slapstick and far too few genuine laughs. The human actors work hard, but to little avail; thankfully, there's a passel of puppies to regularly steal scenes when the going gets dreary--although there are only so many laughs to be had from inappropriate dog puddles. --Marshall Fine
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New Price: $34.00Charlie: The Lonesome Cougar
Actors: Ron Brown, Brian Russell, Linda Wallace, Jim Wilson (III), Lewis Sample
ASIN : B00003L9BZ
Sales Rank : 94701
Director : Winston Hibler
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0013131109399
UPC : 013131109399
Release Date : December 22, 2000
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 74
Amazon.comRereleased on video 30 years after its initial release, this classic Disney movie about a motherless cougar looks great, if not quite perfect. Originally filmed in 1967 in the Cascade Mountains of the Pacific Northwest, the scenery and wildlife are absolutely spectacular. The story is somewhat formulaic, but entertaining just the same. A forester named Jess adopts an abandoned cougar he names Charlie, nursing him from an eyedropper and enduring many sleepless nights in the process. As Charlie grows, he's a fixture in the local logging community, where mischief abounds and laughs are plentiful. When Charlie enters his teenage years, his natural curiosity and playfulness begin to hinder the logging process, and Jess is forced to release his beloved friend. Highlights include several comic chase scenes between Charlie and a terrier named Chainsaw, an amazing logrolling sequence in which Charlie shows off some fancy footwork, and a toboggan ride that Charlie and his viewers will remember for a long time. All in all, this 75-minute adventure-comedy is perfect for the whole family. (Ages 5 and older) --Tami Horiuchi
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New Price: $64.95The North Avenue Irregulars
Actors: Edward Herrmann, Barbara Harris, Susan Clark, Karen Valentine, Michael Constantine
ASIN : B00000JKTI
Sales Rank : 97652
Director : Bruce Bilson (II)
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0013131082999
UPC : 013131082999
Release Date : December 29, 1999
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 100
Amazon.comTypical of Disney's 1970s output, this squeaky-clean comic adventure about a group of church volunteers and soccer moms who take on local gangsters is packed with slapstick humor, sight gags, and nonlethal car crashes. Curiously enough, it's based on the true story of Reverend Albert Fay Hill, who wrote a book about his efforts to stop mob-run gambling in his city. Edward Herrmann plays the fictionalized Presbyterian minister Mike Hill, a soft-spoken widower with two kids who ruffles the feathers of the dedicated church secretary (Susan Clark) when he organizes a group of women to help the Treasury Department catch the bookies in the act. The mobsters are more Damon Runyon than John Gotti: no one gets hurt and everything ends in a demolition derby free-for-all as the suburban-lady volunteers play bumper cars with the mobsters. There's a potentially fascinating story in there that Disney keeps a G-rated cap on (though seeing Karen Valentine swingin' her booty under the cover of pounds of makeup and a little halter top is a surprise in a family film), but it's a harmless little comedy enlivened by plucky performances by Barbara Harris and Cloris Leachman and a fun turn by Ruth Buzzie as a church elder with a CB-radio handle. --Sean Axmaker
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New Price: $16.95The Island at the Top of the World
Actors: David Hartman (II), Donald Sinden, Jacques Marin, Mako, David Gwillim
ASIN : B00000J112
Sales Rank : 101644
Director : Robert Stevenson
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0013131082593
UPC : 013131082593
Release Date : December 18, 1999
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 94
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New Price: $69.95Nikki - Wild Dog of the North
Actors: Jean Coutu, Jacques Fauteux, Émile Genest, Don Haldane, Uriel Luft
ASIN : B00003L9BY
Sales Rank : 89937
Director : Don Haldane
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0013131099294
UPC : 013131099294
Release Date : December 22, 2000
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 73
Amazon.comThis story, based on the novel Nomads of the North by James Oliver Curwood, is about the adventures of a malamute dog named Nikki. Nikki and his kind master, Andre Dupas, are traveling via canoe through the Canadian Rockies. When Nikki encounters Neewa, a bear cub that's lost its mother, Andre ties the two animals together, plops them in the canoe, and heads for the rapids. When the two animals become separated from Andre, the unlikely pair must learn to survive in the wilderness. What is initially a relationship of hate and incompatibility transforms into one of compromise and friendship between species. Encounters with timber wolves, lynx, wolverines, and many other wild animals are vividly photographed and give viewers a real sense of life in the wild . When Neewa begins his long winter hibernation, Nikki sets off alone on a desperate hunt for food. Man's scent leads him not to the friendly Andre Dupas, but to an angry trader who attempts to trap and poison him, eventually capturing him and training him as a fighting dog. This 73-minute feature has absolutely breathtaking animal and nature photography and the action is plentiful and absorbing. Especially forward-thinking for its time (1961) are its declaration that Indians don't deserve to be treated as slaves, but as equals in the quest to trap animals, and its assertion that dog fights are "cruel, savage, not human, and bloodthirsty." Nonetheless, animal-rights activists and sensitive children alike will find disturbing the shots of steel traps in use, the incident in which Neewa and Nikki almost choke one another with the line that joins them, and the gruesome dog fight scene. (Ages 9 and older) Tami Horiuchi
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New Price: $76.95The Happiest Millionaire
Actors: Fred MacMurray, Tommy Steele, Greer Garson, Geraldine Page, Gladys Cooper
ASIN : 6305512043
Sales Rank : 60280
Director : Norman Tokar
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305512042
ISBN : 6305512043
UPC : 013131082890
Release Date : December 20, 1999
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 141
Amazon.comReportedly the last feature to be personally shepherded by Walt Disney himself, The Happiest Millionaire is a stubbornly old-fashioned musical intended to build on the success of Mary Poppins, relying on songs and score from Richard M. and Robert B. Sherman, the studio's resident songwriting team responsible for the hits of Poppins. Despite that pedigree, and a cast headlined by Fred MacMurray, Greer Garson, Tommy Steele, Geraldine Page, and, in their screen debuts, Lesley Anne Warren and John Davidson, the would-be successor wound up a white elephant. Released in 1967, a watershed year for youth culture and social upheaval, The Happiest Millionaire romanticizes Philadelphia's upper crust circa 1916. Its title character, Anthony J. Drexel Biddle (MacMurray), is a militant industrialist urging America's mobilization against Germany, and noteworthy for an eccentric lifestyle that includes his own bible study classes, martial arts training, and (in a lone nod toward any remotely modern social values) a readiness to empower his lovely, headstrong daughter, Cordelia (Warren). Under Norman Tokar's busy but routine direction, the project does muster moments of charm, and packs its story line with enough twists to partly explain its excessive 144-minute length. But the unintended irony of paeans to capitalism and conservative politics in an era of Sgt. Pepper isn't masked by the Shermans' music, which is eminently forgettable, despite the game mugging of Tommy Steele as an immigrant Irish butler. Equally game is MacMurray, but as a singer, he's no Rex Harrison. --Sam Sutherland
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New Price: $6.95My Favorite Martian
Actors: Christopher Lloyd, Jeff Daniels, Elizabeth Hurley, Daryl Hannah, Wallace Shawn
ASIN : 0788816462
Sales Rank : 50093
Director : Donald Petrie
Studio : Walt Disney Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780788816468
ISBN : 0788816462
UPC : 717951002846
Release Date : December 21, 1999
Publisher : Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer : Walt Disney Video
Label : Walt Disney Video
Running Time : 94
Amazon.comTired but watchable adaptation of the popular '60s TV show of a friendly Martian who lives with an agreeable earthling. Like Disney's other live-action remakes 101 Dalmatians and Flubber, the emphasis is on quick-moving scenes and special effects--not character. Jeff Daniels is the bemused earthling who gets to know Christopher Lloyd's alien ways. Much of the film feels like a retread borrowing heavily from other sci-fi comedies (and "fish out of water" films), including Lloyd's own Back to the Future. Lloyd and his talking space suit (voiced by Wayne Knight who brings the same personality as his Newman role on Seinfeld) don't know simple Earth customs but inexplicably know every pop culture reference in the last 10 years. Daryl Hannah and Elizabeth Hurley are along for the ride as Daniels's good-girl and bad-girl flames. TV's Martian, Ray Waltson, shows up as a secret agent alien hunter--and pours more emotion into his scenes than the rest of the movie combined. Ages 6 and up. --Doug Thomas
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New Price: $99.95Big Red
Actors: Walter Pidgeon, Gilles Payant, Émile Genest, Janette Bertrand, Georges Bouvier
ASIN : B00003L9B1
Sales Rank : 100893
Director : Norman Tokar
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0013131106398
UPC : 013131106398
Release Date : December 25, 2000
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 89
Amazo.com Disney has always done right by the classic "boy and his dog" adventure, and Big Red, adapted from the popular novel by Jim Kjelgarrd, is no exception. Wealthy sportsman Walter Pidgeon buys a beautiful Irish setter to turn into a champion show dog and hires spunky young Gilles Payant, a French-speaking country boy teaching himself English, to care for the dog. But boys will be boys and as Gilles and the setter run through forests, chasing critters and rolling down hills, Red loses all interest in show business discipline as he bonds with the kid. Pidgeon makes a gentle and understanding paternal father figure who grows to love the uneducated but hard-working lad, who grows from impulsive adolescent to courageous young man, but apart from a shattering accident that leaves Red near death, there's little real excitement to the lolling tale. Disney house director Norman Tokar proves more adept in filming the stately wilderness landscape than developing the dramatic possibilities of the script, but there's a charm to the innocent scenes of the boy and his dog at play in the great outdoors. It's a nostalgic world of blue skies, green meadows, rushing rivers of blue and white water, and mountain peaks shooting into the sky. What more could a boy and his dog ask for? --Sean Axmaker
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New Price: $64.95The Great Locomotive Chase
Actors: Fess Parker, Jeffrey Hunter, Jeff York, John Lupton, Eddie Firestone
ASIN : 630580804X
Sales Rank : 48893
Director : Francis D. Lyon
Studio : Starz / Anchor Bay
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305808046
ISBN : 630580804X
UPC : 013131109795
Release Date : December 25, 2000
Publisher : Starz / Anchor Bay
Manufacturer : Starz / Anchor Bay
Label : Starz / Anchor Bay
Running Time : 87
Amazon.comDisney's Great Locomotive Chase relates a true Civil War story about the Andrews Raiders, a team of 22 Union spies. In 1862 they snatched a train out from under the normally watchful eyes of Confederate troops based near Atlanta in a daredevil attempt to wreck the track and bridges of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. It was a high-stakes operation with a huge payoff. If they succeeded, they would effectively win the war; if they were caught, they were sure to be hanged. This 1956 feature shores up the suspense of the scheme masterfully. We watch, transfixed, as the relentless Confederate train conductor, William Fuller (played by the all-business Jeffrey Hunter) roars through a bevy of Southern stations hot on the heels of his hijacked locomotive. Will James Andrews (Fess Parker), leader of the Raiders, outrun him? History buffs won't need to keep watching for long, but they'll want to anyway--the portrayal of the Raiders' gumption and against-all-odds heroics pushes the basest, most human of audience buttons. It's not that The Great Locomotive Chase is a simple but well-done film about good vs. evil. Instead, it explores both sides' motives and draws gentle conclusions about honor, and it does so at an invigoratingly high clip. In that way, it's a movie worth sharing with kids 8 and older--there's no blood and only a sprinkling of violence here, but as with all war stories, tragedy plays a prominent role. --Tammy La Gorce
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Price not listed for this item.So Dear to My Heart (Disney Gold Classic Collection)
Actors: Burl Ives, Beulah Bondi, Bobby Driscoll, Luana Patten, Harry Carey
ASIN : B000059XUZ
Sales Rank : 110115
Director : Hamilton Luske, Harold D. Schuster, Jack Hannah, Jack Kinney
Studio : Walt Disney Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780788828393
ISBN : 0788828398
UPC : 786936152937
Release Date : December 01, 2002
Publisher : Walt Disney Video
Manufacturer : Walt Disney Video
Label : Walt Disney Video
Running Time : 82
DescriptionOne of Walt Disney's most precious film classics, SO DEAR TO MY HEART combines live action and animation to tell the heartwarming story of a young boy with big dreams and an even bigger imagination! Jeremiah is the determined country boy who adopts a rejected and mischievous black lamb named Danny. While drawing a picture of Danny in his scrapbook, Jeremiah daydreams of winning a blue ribbon at the County Fair. Then, from the pages of the scrapbook, Danny and other animal pictures magically come to life and convince Jeremiah to enter the real-life Danny -- a pet without a pedigree -- into the upcoming County Fair! But the road to the fair is filled with tough challenges for Jeremiah, who must learn the importance of dedication, love, and repsonsibility. Featuring the Academy Award(R)-nominated song "Lavender Blue" (performed by Burl Ives), and a host of enjoyable songs for children and adults, SO DEAR TO MY HEART is high-spirited, sentimental fun for everyone!
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