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Just in Time for Christmas

ASIN : B000BTPVA4
Sales Rank : 14743
Studio : Vision Video
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0727985008479
UPC : 727985008479
Release Date : December 20, 2005
Publisher : Vision Video
Manufacturer : Vision Video
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Label : Vision Video
Running Time : 52

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Grandpa Jim is scheduled to make a guest appearance in a special Christmas program in Branson, Missouri. Backstage at the program , it is chaos--the children are out of control, and the director is out of patience. To make matters worse, Grandpa Jim's truck breaks down on the way to the performance. Fortunately he is able to convince a reluctant police officer to give him a lift to the program, or we all would have missed out on a wonderful presentation filled with original music, new talent, and a lot of fun. The entire family will enjoy this special treat as they consider in a more meaningful way the great gift God gave us--His only Son. OPTIONAL ENGLISH SUBTITLES

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The Cross and the Switchblade-DVD

ASIN : B00009KYDK
Sales Rank : 15341
Director : Don Murray
Studio : Ross Records
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9781563646294
ISBN : 1563646293
UPC : 727985005065
Release Date : December 01, 2003
Publisher : Ross Records
Manufacturer : Ross Records
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Running Time : 105
Actors: Pat Boone, Erik Estrada, Jackie Giroux, Jo-Ann Robinson, Dino DeFilippi

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Although the original events depicted in this classic from the drug infested, gang dominated streets happened over thirty years ago, the life-changing solution that David Wilkerson brought to desperate lives was just beginning. The beat goes on. The change in the life of notorious gang leader Nicky Cruz, as shown in the film, proved to be wonderfully lasting and real. Nicky continues today to reach young people around the world with the same life-changing message of the gospel of Jesus Christ that delivered him from violence and despair. And what about the skinny preacher, David Wilkerson, who braved the meanest streets of New York to tell desperate and drug crazed youth that there was a better way? Now, three decades later, he is still at it with a ministry based in Times Square that is still changing lives and offering genuine hope to countless souls who had given up on life.

Now in over 25 languages, The Cross and the Switchblade, starring Pat Boone and Eric Estrada, is one of those rare films that has shown its unique power to connect with the deepest hopes and fears of youth around the world. It remains today one of the most compelling stories of love, grace and the truth that no one is ever so far gone that they cannot find the way out.

DVD Features:
Languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Italian, German and Polish language tracks with or without English
Subtitles: English
Viewing Format: Widescreen
Digitally remastered from the original 35mm negative.
Bonus Material:
- Director's Commentary
- Producer's Commentary
- Biographical information on actors, director's commentary, testimony by Nicky Cruz, and a look back on the making of the film and its impact
- Chapter titles for easy scene access

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Eclipse Series 7 - Post-War Kurosawa Box - Eclipse from Criterion (No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday, Scandal, The Idiot, I Live in Fear) (1980) (Criterion Collection)

ASIN : B000XPSC0C
Sales Rank : 31696
Director : '
Studio : Eclipse from Criterion
Region Code : 1
Format : Box set, Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0715515027021
UPC : 715515027021
Release Date : December 15, 2008
Publisher : Eclipse from Criterion
Manufacturer : Eclipse from Criterion
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Label : Eclipse from Criterion
Running Time : 593
Actor: Postwar Kurosawa

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The most popular Japanese moviemaker of all time, Akira Kurosawa began his career by delving into the state of his nation immediately following World War II, with visual poetry and direct emotion. Amid Japan s economic collapse, moral waywardness, and American occupation, Kurosawa managed to find humor and redemption existing alongside despair and anxiety. In these five films, which range from the whimsically Capraesque to the icily Dostoyevskian, from political epics to courtroom potboilers, Kurosawa established both the artistic range and social acuity that would inform his entire career.

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One of the more obscure early finds in master filmmaker Akira Kurosawa's oeuvre, this earnest 1946 film explores the nature of politics and passion. The plot centers around the daughter (Setsuko Hara) of an academic as she is thrust into the political and social turmoil of the years leading into the Second World War. As the fascists rise to power she sees her father stripped of his teaching position and her young lover arrested and executed as her other love interest goes to work for the state. The girl must try to make sense of the tumultuous world around her as she struggles to find her own identity and convictions. The film features some trademark visual sequences of the chaos that consumed pre-war Japan, including riots and military occupation. Director Kurosawa (Rashomon, The Idiot) maintains a studied and deliberate pace as he examines the pull of the girl between her romantic impulses and her sense of right and wrong. A powerful story of loss, redemption and empowerment, No Regrets for Our Youth is a prime opportunity to see one of the cinema's masters at work. --Robert Lane

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Tears in the Rain

ASIN : B000E40TIU
Sales Rank : 8625
Director : Don Sharp
Brand : PEACE ARCH HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Studio : Trinity Ent
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Digital Sound, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full length, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0692865209331
UPC : 692865209331
Release Date : December 28, 2006
Publisher : Trinity Ent
Manufacturer : Trinity Ent
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Running Time : 100
Actor: Sharon Stone; Christopher Cazenove; Stephanie Cole

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Sharon Stone stars in this gripping tale of a woman looking for her past. Left only with a letter after her mothers death with instructions to deliver the letter to a Lord Bredon. Upon delivery she is met with hostility. She meets Lord Bredon s son and the two fall in love. But everything is turned upside down when the true nature of her relationship with Lord Bredon is revealed.System Requirements:Running Time - 100 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: PG-13 UPC: 692865209331 Manufacturer No: T-2093

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Knights of the South Bronx

ASIN : B000UJBYBK
Sales Rank : 18469
Director : Allen Hughes
Studio : Allumination
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0783722273999
UPC : 783722273999
Release Date : December 30, 2007
Publisher : Allumination
Manufacturer : Allumination
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Running Time : 90
Actors: Stephen Suckling, Keke Palmer, David Clement, Scott Patterson, Michael Hanrahan

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Middle-aged and recently unemployed, Richard Mason (Ted Danson) decides to return to his first love: teaching. He finds a job as an inner-city schoolteacher teaching fourth grade. Richard discovers a way to reach out to his skeptical students through the game of chess. Against all odds, he inspires his students to become champions, not only at chess, but in life! Ted Danson gives a compelling performance in this heroic, heartwarming story based on true events co-starring Keke Palmer and Malcolm David Kelley. Knights of the South Bronx proves that no matter who you are or where you come from, if you play like a winner, you can be a king!

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Under-funded schools with a large percentage of poverty-ridden students often find it difficult to provide a high quality education, but sometimes it just takes one special teacher to spark the interests and intellects of an entire classroom of children. Richard Mason (Ted Danson), a white-haired, recently unemployed businessman, decides to revive his long-dormant passion for teaching by accepting a substitute teaching position at a poverty ridden public school in the South Bronx. Thrown into a fourth-grade classroom, Mr. Mason is at first doubtful of his ability to positively impact a classroom of students that include a smart-mouthed, seemingly stupid boy named Jimmy (Malcom David Kelley), a crack-addict's daughter Kenya (Keke Palmer), French immigrant M.D. (Yves Michel-Beneche), and Kindergartner Dawson (Antonio Ortiz) who has no place to go but his sister's classroom once his half-day Kindergarten class finishes for the day. When student Jimmy stumbles upon Mr. Mason in the park one weekend, he discovers that his teacher is a brilliant chess player and becomes completely intrigued by the game. Suddenly, Mr. Mason realizes that the game of chess might just provide a whole new way to reach a classroom full of unwilling students. Soon, his students are showing up early for school in order to play chess, participating in class, and even doing their homework. As Mr. Mason encourages his students to perfect their games and enter a local chess tournament, each child's sense of self-worth grows as do their test scores in all subjects. Ultimately, the children become superior chess players as well as firm believers that if they refuse to give in to anger and use their intellect, they can become just about anything they want to be. Based on the true experience of David MacEnulty, Knights of the South Bronx is a well-acted, potent presentation about the power of intellect and self-confidence. (Ages 8 and older with parental guidance) --Tami Horiuchi

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What We Do Is Secret

ASIN : B001ECDVIG
Sales Rank : 10278
Director : Rodger Grossman
Studio : Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0625828432101
UPC : 625828432101
Release Date : December 04, 2008
Publisher : Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Peace Arch Home Entertainment
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Label : Peace Arch Home Entertainment
Running Time : 110
Actors: Shane West, Bijou Phillips, Rick Gonzalez, Chris Pontius, Noah Segan

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What We Do Is Secret is the true-life story of Darby Crash (Shane West), who became an L.A. punk icon with his band The Germs. With his friends, Lorna Doom (Bijou Phillips), Pat Smear (Rick Gonzalez), and Don Bolles (Noah Segan), Darby Crash completely transformed the L.A punk scene, while sacrificing everyone he loved, his career, and ultimately his life

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Penny Serenade

ASIN : B000054OT4
Sales Rank : 16798
Studio : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0096009006839
UPC : 096009006839
Release Date : December 06, 1999
Publisher : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
Manufacturer : Echo Bridge Home Entertainment
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Running Time : 120
Actors: Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, Edgar Buchanan, Beulah Bondi

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A marriage is put to the test when an earthquake leads to a miscarriage, leaving the woman barrenbut this is only the beginning. When the couple is barely able to scrape by financially due to a new job, and their adopted daughter suddenly becomes fatally ill, their despair drives them to the brink of a breakdown.

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The Great Debaters (2-Disc Special Collector's Edition)

ASIN : B00125WAXC
Sales Rank : 9594
Brand : GREAT DEBATERS, THE: SPECIAL CE (DVD MOVIE)
Studio : Genius Products (TVN)
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Collector's Edition, Color, Dolby, NTSC, Widescreen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0796019811583
UPC : 796019811583
Release Date : December 13, 2008
Publisher : Genius Products (TVN)
Manufacturer : Genius Products (TVN)
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Running Time : 124
Actors: Denzel Washington, Forest Whitaker, Damien Leake, Gregory Nicotero, Brian Smiar

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Two-time Academy Award® winner Denzel Washington (American Gangster) directs and stars with Academy Award® winner Forest Whitaker (Last King of Scotland) in this important and deeply inspiring page from the not-so-distant past (Richard Roeper, At the Movies with Ebert and Roeper). Inspired by a true story, Washington shines as a brilliant but politically radical debate team coach who uses the power of words to transform a group of underdog African American college students into an historical powerhouse that took on the Harvard elite. DVD Special Features:

Disc One: Deleted Scenes
The Great Debaters: An Historical Perspective;That's What My Baby Likes Music Video. My Soul Is A Witness; Music Video. Theatrical Trailer
Sneak Peeks: Grace is Gone, Cassandra's Dream, I'm Not There, Hunting Party
Disc Two: The Great Debaters: A Heritage Of Music
Scoring The Great Debaters With James Newton Howard & Peter Golub
Learning The Art: Our Young Actors Go To Debate Camp
Forest Whitaker On Becoming James Farmer, Sr.
A New Generation Of Actors
The 1930's Wardrobe Of Sharen Davis
The Production Design Of David J. Bomba
The Poetry Of Melvin B. Tolson

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Inspired by real events, the fascinating The Great Debaters reveals one of the seeds of the Civil Rights Movement in its story of Melvin B. Tolson (Denzel Washington in a captivating performance) and his champion 1935 debate club from the all-African-American Wiley College in Texas. Tolson, a Wiley professor, labor organizer, modernist poet, and much else, runs a rigorous debate program at the school, selecting four students as his team in ’35, among them the future founder of the Congress of Racial Equality, James Farmer Jr. (Denzel Whitaker). Washington, who directed The Great Debaters from a script by Robert Eisele (The Dale Earnhardt Story), anchors the story with the team’s measurable progress, but the film is also about the state of race relations in America at the height of the Great Depression. With lynchings of black men and women a common form of entertainment and black subjugation for many rural whites, the idea of talented and highly intelligent African-American young people learning to think on their feet during debates would seem almost a hopeless endeavor. But that’s not the way Tolson sees it, as his students serve themselves and the cause of racial equality in America with energetic arguments in favor of progressive government and non-violence as a viable social movement. There are some startling moments in this movie, particularly the sight of a man found lynched and burned to death, and an extraordinary moment in which we see black sharecroppers and white farmers engaged with Tolson in arguments about unionizing together. Forest Whitaker is outstanding as Farmer’s emotionally-reserved father, also a Wiley professor. This is the kind of film where one hopes two great actors such as the elder Whitaker and Washington will have a scene together, and when it comes it’s as powerful as one might hope. --Tom Keogh

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Crash - The Director's Cut (Two-Disc Special Edition)

ASIN : B000EHQUOE
Sales Rank : 17904
Director : Paul Haggis
Brand : Lions Gate
Studio : Lions Gate Films
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Director's Cut, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, DVD-Video, Full Screen, HiFi Sound, Special Edition, Subtitled, Surround Sound, THX, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0031398187868
UPC : 031398187868
Release Date : December 04, 2006
Publisher : Lions Gate Films
Manufacturer : Lions Gate Films
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Label : Lions Gate Films
Running Time : 115
Actors: Don Cheadle, Sandra Bullock, Thandie Newton, Karina Arroyave, Dato Bakhtadze

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This compelling urban thriller tracks the volatile intersection of a multiethnic cast of characters struggling to overcome their fears as they careen in and out of one another's lives. In the gray area between black and white, victim and aggressor, during the next 36 hours, they will all collide.

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Movie studios, by and large, avoid controversial subjects like race the way you might avoid a hive of angry bees. So it's remarkable that Crash even got made; that it's a rich, intelligent, and moving exploration of the interlocking lives of a dozen Los Angeles residents--black, white, latino, Asian, and Persian--is downright amazing. A politically nervous district attorney (Brendan Fraser) and his high-strung wife (Sandra Bullock, biting into a welcome change of pace from Miss Congeniality) get car-jacked by an oddly sociological pair of young black men (Larenz Tate and Chris "Ludacris" Bridges); a rich black T.V. director (Terrence Howard) and his wife (Thandie Newton) get pulled over by a white racist cop (Matt Dillon) and his reluctant partner (Ryan Phillipe); a detective (Don Cheadle) and his Latina partner and lover (Jennifer Esposito) investigate a white cop who shot a black cop--these are only three of the interlocking stories that reach up and down class lines. Writer/director Paul Haggis (who wrote the screenplay for Million Dollar Baby) spins every character in unpredictable directions, refusing to let anyone sink into a stereotype. The cast--ranging from the famous names above to lesser-known but just as capable actors like Michael Pena (Buffalo Soldiers) and Loretta Devine (Woman Thou Art Loosed)--meets the strong script head-on, delivering galvanizing performances in short vignettes, brief glimpses that build with gut-wrenching force. This sort of multi-character mosaic is hard to pull off; Crash rivals such classics as Nashville and Short Cuts. A knockout. --Bret Fetzer

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Eclipse Series 7 - Post-War Kurosawa Box - Eclipse from Criterion (No Regrets for Our Youth, One Wonderful Sunday, Scandal, The Idiot, I Live in Fear) (1980) (Criterion Collection)

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