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Linda Kandel's MASCARA is a character study of three female friends approaching 30 and struggling to deal with the men in their lives. Rebecca (Ione Skye) seems happy in her relationship with a middle-aged photographer (the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones) until she notices his unhealthy attachment to his sexy teenage daughter. Laura (Lumi Cavazos) is a newlywed who discovers that her husband (Steve Schub) has racked up a mountain of credit card debt in the seven months since their wedding. And Jennifer (Amanda de Cadenet) is unhappily married to a successful attorney (Barry del Sherman) whose emotional distance prompts her toward alcohol and a series of vengeful affairs. Director Kandel examines the impact of these women's life choices--and the bonds of friendship that see them through their trials and tribulations.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Additional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Linda Kandel - Director TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos Filmographies
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This acclaimed drama, directed by Robert Redford, tells the true story behind the quiz show scandal of 1959. Herbert Stempel (John Turturro), a disgruntled former champion, prompts a congressional investigation into the popular game show TWENTY-ONE with his charge that the current champion, Charles Van Doren (Ralph Fiennes), a handsome professor who has become a celebrity, has been provided with answers by the producers. Rob Morrow stars as Dick Goodwin, the investigator on the case and the author of the book that inspired the film.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLetterboxed - 1.85Audio: Dolby Surround - English Dolby Surround - FrenchAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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The sweet story of two teens--one a cellist who loves horses, the other a dance student--whose budding love is threatened when the boy's father plans to relocate the family.DVD Features:Region (Unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Trailers - 1.Original Theatrical Trailer
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IN THEATERS SEPTEMBER 30, 2005The second film directed by actor Bill Paxton is a marked departure--in both form and content--from his debut, 2001`s FRAILTY, a shadowy, gothic tale of murder. THE GREATEST GAME EVER
PLAYED is a sports movie slash Horatio Alger rags-to-riches tale with undertones of class consciousness and social critique. The story is based on a real-life event--the 1913 U.S. Open golf championship--at which two equally sympathetic young men, both of whom grew up economically and socially disadvantaged, go club to club in one of the most exciting and dramatic athletic events of the early 20th century. The film focuses on the competition between the British star Harry Vardon (Stephen Dillane) and the young American prodigy Francis Ouimet (HOLES star Shia LaBoeuf). Though they hail from opposite sides of the Atlantic, the struggles that the two young golfers have had to overcome are markedly similar; both grew up in hard-scrabble, working-class homes that happened to be adjacent to golf courses, and both were preternaturally disposed to the game. In addition, both must defy the disdain of the golfing gentry. Vardon is already a reigning champion and international darling when Ouimet makes it to his first tournament to battle him. Though enough backstory is provided to connect the viewers to the characters, the meat of the film is the dramatic unfolding of the tournament. With expert editing and fluid camera work, Paxton films close-up views of the golfing action in a manner that recalls the kinetic pool shots in Martin Scorsese s THE COLOR OF MONEY. With each stroke, the competition becomes closer and the mood more tense, culminating in an explosive outcome that, while not unexpected, pulls at the heartstrings as do all good tales of triumph over adversity.
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Stephen Soderbergh's 2000 film TRAFFIC was based on the 1989 British miniseries, TRAFFIK. This U.S. miniseries--which, like its two predecessors, details the complicated path that drugs take from their countries of origin, the hands that they pass through, the money the they make, and the lives they ruin--is, in turn, based on Soderbergh's film. Elias Koteas and Martin Donovan star as a duo of Drug Enforcement agents saddled with the task of taking down a drug operation operating in Afghanistan. Meanwhile, an Ivy League graduate (Balthazar Getty) working at his father's garment business discovers that his father has ties to the Chinese underworld, and soon finds himself working for the true family business. These are but two of the interlocking stories that comprise this dense, challenging television production.DVD Features:Region 1Snap CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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