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List Price: $14.96Price: $8.99You Save: $5.97 (40%)Menace II Society
Actors: Tyrin Turner, Larenz Tate, June Kyoto Lu, Toshi Toda, Samuel L. Jackson
ASIN : 630469623X
Sales Rank : 2409
Director : Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes
Studio : New Line Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : AC-3, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786304696231
ISBN : 630469623X
UPC : 794043416521
Release Date : December 22, 1997
Publisher : New Line Home Video
Manufacturer : New Line Home Video
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Label : New Line Home Video
Running Time : 104
DescriptionDirected by twin brothers, Allen and Albert Hughes, this critically acclaimed cinematic masterpiece brilliantly details real life in today's tough inner city. With the powerhouse performances by Tyrin Turner (Deep Cover), Larenz Tate (The Fresh Prince of Bel Air) and Jada Pinkett (A Different World), the film also features dynamite supporting roles by Charles S. Dutton (Roc) and Bill Duke (Predator). DVD Features:
Interviews
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer
Amazon.com essential videoTyrin Turner may not have broken out into stardom as was initially expected, but his work in Menace II Society is one of the more powerful cinematic debuts. The film, from the brother writer-director team of Allen and Albert Hughes, chronicles life in the Los Angeles 'hood. Similar territory was covered in the equally commanding Boyz N the Hood, but what makes this cautionary tale stand out is not only the Hughes brothers' forceful story, (written with their friend, Tyger Williams) and direction, but the naturalness of then-newcomer leads Turner as Caine, Larenz Tate as O-Dog, and Jada Pinkett as Ronnie. They are so credible--occasionally frighteningly so--that the repressive universe of violent ghetto life is captured effectively. Life as portrayed here--and no doubt accurately so--is both figuratively and literally narrow. As a very young boy, Caine witnesses his dad murdered over something inconsequential, and his mom OD. His is a world where respect comes from intimidation, power from violence. Despite his understanding of right and wrong (values passed on by a good friend, his kind grandparents, a caring teacher), his life and its entrapments are too much to overcome. --N.F. Mendoza
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List Price: $9.98Price: $8.99You Save: $0.99 (10%)The Conversation
Actors: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Frederic Forrest, Cindy Williams
ASIN : B00003CX9I
Sales Rank : 4344
Director : Francis Ford Coppola
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792160878
ISBN : 0792160878
UPC : 097360230741
Release Date : December 12, 2000
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
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Label : Paramount
Running Time : 113
Product DescriptionA young couple is being trailed by a surveillance expert. The problem is are they planning a murder or are they the intended victims. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/22/2006 Starring: Michael Higgins Harrison Ford Run time: 113 minutes Rating: Pg Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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List Price: $14.94Price: $8.49You Save: $6.45 (43%)The Wild One
Actors: Marlon Brando, Mary Murphy, Robert Keith, Lee Marvin, Jay C. Flippen
ASIN : 0767818172
Sales Rank : 3445
Director : Laslo Benedek
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 1
Format : Black & White, Closed-captioned, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767818179
ISBN : 0767818172
UPC : 043396062399
Release Date : December 10, 1998
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
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Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 79
Product DescriptionBrando burns up the screen in this 50s classic as a moody supercool biker leader whose gang terrorizes a small town. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 10/04/2005 Starring: Marlon Brando Run time: 79 minutes Rating: Nr Amazon.com essential videoThis is the original motorcycle movie, starring Marlon Brando as the brooding leader of a biker gang that invades a small town. The film always looked like one of those synthetic Hollywood ideas of subculture life in the 1950s, which means it looks even more artificial today. But it is an actor's piece more than anything, and toward that end Brando's performance really is an important one in the context of his revolutionary reinvention of film acting during that decade. Directed by Lásló Benedek (Namu, the Killer Whale) and produced by the socially conscious Stanley Kramer. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $9.98Price: $7.99You Save: $1.99 (20%)Dolores Claiborne
Actors: Kathy Bates, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Christopher Plummer, Judy Parfitt, David Strathairn
ASIN : 630523650X
Sales Rank : 4750
Director : Taylor Hackford
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9786305236504
ISBN : 630523650X
UPC : 053939254822
Release Date : December 01, 2004
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 132
Amazon.comDark secrets, family torments, and two murders swirl around the stoic, hardened figure of Dolores Claiborne (Kathy Bates), a housekeeper accused of murdering her employer of 22 years. Then there was that timely accident that took Dolores's husband (David Strathairn) during the solar eclipse of 1975. Yet with all the somber suffering that follows Dolores like a miasma of pain, none of it compares with the heartache of a relationship she has with her grown daughter (Jennifer Jason Leigh). Although this flick is rife with horror, it is not of the supernatural kind, but rather of the torment only real people can impose on one another. The script is full of colorful language, and director Taylor Hackford successfully weaves several plot threads and psychological dilemmas throughout this engrossing tale without diminishing any of them. He not only culls intense performances from his cast, but he also brings to life the landscape around them. When the film's best-kept secret is finally given up, it occurs under the surreal backdrop of a solar eclipse that is a truly sensational bit of cinematography. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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List Price: $9.98Price: $6.99You Save: $2.99 (30%)Juice
Actors: Omar Epps, Tupac Shakur, Jermaine 'Huggy' Hopkins, Khalil Kain, Cindy Herron
ASIN : B0000541AK
Sales Rank : 4798
Director : Ernest R. Dickerson
Brand : Paramount
Studio : Paramount
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792171362
ISBN : 0792171365
UPC : 097363275848
Release Date : December 16, 2001
Publisher : Paramount
Manufacturer : Paramount
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Label : Paramount
Running Time : 94
Product DescriptionFour harlem buddies hold up a store and one of them gets hooked on the thrill of the gun. Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 01/25/2005 Starring: Omar Epps Jermaine Hopkins Run time: 95 minutes Rating: R Director: Ernest R. Dickerson Amazon.comSpike Lee's longtime cinematographer, Ernest R. Dickerson, made his directorial debut with this violent story about four Harlem teens whose lives are changed when a store robbery goes wrong. The film has been likened to an urban The Wild Bunch, but it is far too artificial for that. With Dickerson's eye, Juice understandably looks great, but at the end of the day it is only a slightly better version of the heavily clichéd crime movies that have artificially dominated perceptions of black cinema in the U.S. in the '90s. Rap fans might enjoy seeing some familiar stars on board, including Queen Latifah and Tupac Shakur. --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $12.98Price: $9.99You Save: $2.99 (23%)Absolute Power
Actors: Clint Eastwood, Gene Hackman, Ed Harris, Laura Linney, Scott Glenn
ASIN : 0790731959
Sales Rank : 5769
Director : Clint Eastwood
Brand : Absolute
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790731957
ISBN : 0790731959
UPC : 012569250826
Release Date : December 08, 1997
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Label : Warner Home Video
Running Time : 121
DescriptionHe was there he shouldn't have been and saw what he shouldn't have seen. Now, who will believe the word of a career thief and ex-con? Who will trust Luther Whitney when he says he saw a woman killed and that the man responsible for her death is the President of the United States? Clint Eastwood portrays Whitney and directs this crisp, finely acted thriller based on David Baldacci's best-selling novel. A stellar cast which includes Gene Hackman and Ed Harris creates well-rounded characters that intensify constantly spiraling game of cat and mouse between Whitney, local police and the highest levels of White House power. Eastwood is a master at steadily raising the stakes in thrillers. Here his mastery is absolute. Amazon.com essential videoDirector Clint Eastwood's 1997 box-office hit stars himself as Luther Whitney, a highly skilled thief who finds himself in the wrong place at the wrong time, witnessing the murder of a woman involved in a secret tryst with the U.S. president (played by Gene Hackman). Determined to clear his name, Whitney cleverly eludes a tenacious detective (Ed Harris) while investigating a corruption of power reaching to the highest level of government. Adapted by veteran screenwriter William Goldman from David Baldacci's novel, this thriller balances expert suspense with well-drawn characters and an intelligent plot that's just a pounding heartbeat away from real White House headlines. Absolute Power features the great Judy Davis in a memorable supporting role as the White House chief of staff who desperately attempts to cover up the crime. --Jeff Shannon
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List Price: $14.98Price: $13.49You Save: $1.49 (10%)Bonnie and Clyde
Actors: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard, Gene Hackman, Estelle Parsons
ASIN : B00000ING1
Sales Rank : 7110
Director : Arthur Penn
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Region Code : 1
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790741598
ISBN : 0790741598
UPC : 085391727422
Release Date : December 18, 1999
Publisher : Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Manufacturer : Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
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Label : Warner Brothers/Seven Arts
Running Time : 112
Product DescriptionA somewhat romantized account of the career of the notoriously violent bank robbing couple and their gang. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/26/2006 Starring: Faye Dunaway Warren Beatty Run time: 111 minutes Rating: R Director: Arthur Penn Amazon.com essential videoOne of the landmark films of the 1960s, Bonnie and Clyde changed the course of American cinema. Setting a milestone for screen violence that paved the way for Sam Peckinpah's The Wild Bunch, this exercise in mythologized biography should not be labeled as a bloodbath; as critic Pauline Kael wrote in her rave review, "it's the absence of sadism that throws the audience off balance." The film is more of a poetic ode to the Great Depression, starring the dream team of Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway as the titular antiheroes, who barrel across the South and Midwest robbing banks with Clyde's brother Buck (Gene Hackman), Buck's frantic wife Blanche (Estelle Parsons), and their faithful accomplice C.W. Moss (the inimitable Michael J. Pollard). Bonnie and Clyde is an unforgettable classic that has lost none of its power since the 1967 release. --Jeff Shannon
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Price: $14.94Boyz 'N the Hood
Actors: Hudhail Al-Amir, Lloyd Avery II, Angela Bassett, Mia Bell, Lexie Bigham
ASIN : 0767811070
Sales Rank : 4377
Brand : Sony
Studio : Sony Pictures
Region Code : 1
Format : Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, Full Screen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780767811071
ISBN : 0767811070
UPC : 043396508194
Release Date : December 14, 1998
Publisher : Sony Pictures
Manufacturer : Sony Pictures
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Label : Sony Pictures
Running Time : 107
Product DescriptionThe story about three friends growing up in a south central los angeles neighborhood and of street life where friendship pain danger and love combine to form reality. the hood is a place where drive-by shootings and unemployment are rampant. But it is also a place where harmony co-exists with adversity. Studio: Sony Pictures Home Ent Release Date: 02/20/2007 Starring: Ice Cube Cuba Gooding Jr. Run time: 112 minutes Rating: R Director: John Singleton Amazon.com essential videoJohn Singleton, at the age of 23, was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay for his debut film, Boyz N the Hood. The film stars Laurence Fishburne, Angela Basset, Ice Cube, and Academy Award-winning actor Cuba Gooding Jr. in his first starring role in a feature film. Gooding plays Tre Styles, a teenager growing up in South Central Los Angeles. His father, Furious (Fishburne), is divorced and living away from Tre and his mother (Basset), but he's still involved in Tre's upbringing, teaching him the values of right and wrong and responsibility. Meanwhile, Tre's childhood buddies Ricky (Morris Chestnut) and Doughboy (Ice Cube) are living their lives in terms of the epidemic of violence and poverty that has plagued their neighborhood. Ricky, a talented football player, strives to get a full athletic scholarship to college. If only his SAT scores were higher. Doughboy lives a life full of crime but still remains true to his friends. The obstacles that these three young men come across result in dire consequences, devastatingly avoidable and inevitable at the same time. Boyz N the Hood is a landmark film beyond its commercial success, presenting a portrait of South Central in the late '80s and early '90s as painted by Singleton (who grew up in that neighborhood), achieving accuracy and dramatic resonance in this story of at-risk youth. --Shannon Gee
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List Price: $14.98Price: $9.99You Save: $4.99 (33%)Richard III
Actors: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne
ASIN : 0792844041
Sales Rank : 8899
Director : Richard Loncraine
Studio : MGM (Video & DVD)
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Letterboxed, Widescreen, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780792844044
ISBN : 0792844041
UPC : 027616841926
Release Date : December 28, 2000
Publisher : MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer : MGM (Video & DVD)
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Running Time : 104
DescriptionShakespeare's immortal tale of ambition, lust and murderous treachery is brilliantly updated and brought to life in this riveting, 20th-century masterpiece. Boasting breathtaking performances, unforgettable imagery and two OscarÂ(r) nominations*, this astounding wartime spectacle is mesmerizing...it will rivet you and shock you (Jeffrey Lyons, 'sneak Previews ). In 1930s Britain, a savage, civil war between two royal families has just concluded. But even as the newly installed King Edward (John Wood) takes the reins of power, his ruthless, younger brother Richard (Ian McKellen) sets in motion a monstrous scheme to claim the crown for himself. Enlisting the aid of equally duplicitous allies in the court, Richard embarks on a merciless, single-minded campaign of betrayal, seduction and cold-blooded murder to achieve the goal that has obsessed him all of his tortured life: to beking...at any price. *1995: Costume Design, Art Direction Amazon.comThis film adaptation of a critically acclaimed stage production of Shakespeare's historical drama stars Ian McKellen in the title role. The setting is a comic-book vision of 1930s London: part art deco, part Third Reich, part industrial-age rust and rot. The play's force is turned into a synthetic high by art directors and storyboard sketchers, all of whom have a field day condensing the material into disposable pop imagery. This is a fun film, more than anything, so infatuated with its own monstrous stitchery that even the most awkward casting (Annette Bening and Robert Downey Jr.) seems a part of the ridiculous design. McKellen is the best thing about the movie, his mesmerizing portrayal of freakish despotism and poisoned desire a thing to behold. Directed by Richard Loncraine (Bellman and True). --Tom Keogh
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List Price: $14.98Price: $9.99You Save: $4.99 (33%)Strangers on a Train
Actors: Leo G. Carroll, Farley Granger, Patricia Hitchcock, Marion Lorne, Ruth Roman
ASIN : 0790731029
Sales Rank : 4756
Director : Alfred Hitchcock
Brand : Warner Brothers
Studio : Warner Home Video
Region Code : 1
Format : Closed-captioned, Full Screen, Black & White, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780790731025
ISBN : 0790731029
UPC : 085391532422
Release Date : December 11, 1997
Publisher : Warner Home Video
Manufacturer : Warner Home Video
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Running Time : 101
DescriptionStrange thing about this trip. So much occurs in pairs. Tennis star Guy (Farley Granger) hates his unfaithful wife. Mysterious Bruno (Robert Walker) hates his father. How perfect for a playful proposal: I'll kill yours, you kill mine. Now look at how Alfred Hitchcock reinforces the duality of human nature. The more you watch, the more you'll see. "Isn't it a fascinating design?" the Master of Suspense often asked. Actually, it's doubly fascinating. Hitchcock left behind two versions of Strangers on a Train. The original version (Side A) is an all-time thriller classic. A recently found longer prerelease British print (Side B) offers "a startling amplification of Bruno's flamboyance, his homoerotic attraction to Guy and his psychotic personality," according to Bill Desowitz of Film Comment. The laying bare of Bruno's hidden nature, along with the great set pieces (head-turning tennis match, disintegrating carousel) and suspense as only Hitchcock can deliver, makes for a first-class trip. DVD Features:
Interactive Menus
Newsreel:Hitchcock newsreel footage
Production Notes
Scene Access
Theatrical Trailer:Five trailers of Hitchcock movies
Amazon.com essential videoFrom its cleverly choreographed opening sequence to its heart-stopping climax on a rampant carousel, this 1951 Hitchcock classic readily earns its reputation as one of the director's finest examples of timeless cinematic suspense. It's not just a ripping-good thriller but a film student's delight and a perversely enjoyable battle of wits between tennis pro Guy (Farley Granger) and his mysterious, sycophantic admirer, Bruno (Robert Walker), who proposes a "criss-cross" scheme of traded murders. Bruno agrees to kill Guy's unfaithful wife, in return for which Guy will (or so it seems) kill Bruno's spiteful father. With an emphasis on narrative and visual strategy, Hitchcock controls the escalating tension with a master's flair for cinematic design, and the plot (coscripted by Raymond Chandler) is so tightly constructed that you'll be white-knuckled even after multiple viewings. Better still, the two-sided DVD edition of this enduring classic includes both the original version of the film and also the longer prerelease British print, which offers a more overt depiction of Bruno's flamboyant and dangerous personality, and his homoerotic attraction to Guy by way of his deviously indecent proposal. In accordance with the cautious censorship guidelines of the period, Hitchcock would later tame these elements of Walker's memorable performance by trimming and altering certain scenes, so the differences between the original and prerelease versions provide an illuminating illustration of censorship's effect on the story's thematic intensity. Beyond all the historical footnotes and film-buff fascination, Strangers on a Train remains one of Hitchcock's crowning achievements and a suspenseful classic that never loses its capacity to thrill and delight. --Jeff Shannon
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