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A headstrong airline tycoon pays the ransom for his abducted son, despite the pleas of his wife and FBI agents, then must gamble on the consequences of attempting to turn the tables on the kidnapper, setting up a gut-wrenching confrontation between the anguished father and the increasingly desperate criminals. This tightly conceived nail-biter, with head-spinning plot twists, is another fine effort from the director of Apollo 13.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLetterboxed - 1.85:1Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Roman Polanski's THE PIANIST is based on the memoirs of the talented pianist Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrian Brody), a Polish Jew, who miraculously survived World War II. The first half of the film transports viewers to 1939 Poland, and brings it to life clearly and believably. Szpilman is a tall, handsome, winsome man who is revered for his piano performances on public radio. He lives with his family--an intelligent, loving, and spirited bunch--in an upscale flat in central Warsaw. Bombings have begun to torment the citizens of Warsaw, and step by step, the Nazis infiltrate, the Jews are branded and set apart from their neighbors, imprisoned in a ghetto, and slowly exterminated. The story is told through Szpilman's eyes, and thus carries as much confusion and fear as disgust and torment. Polanski paints Warsaw in bleak shades of gray and black, expressing the helplessness of the Jewish people and the cruelty of the Nazis with captivating photography. In the second half of the film, which takes place in the early 1940s, Szpilman is alone, having managed to avoid the trains to the death camps. His struggle to survive, with some help from non-Jews but mostly his own will to thrive, takes place in long, silent, languid stretches filled with the imagined piano music that inspires Szpilman to live. In a climactic scene of immense beauty and spine-tingling tension, Szpilman must actually perform for a German soldier who is inexplicably patrolling the near-deserted and utterly dilapidated Warsaw ghetto. THE PIANIST, in the subtlety of its sublime and heartbreaking tale, is carried by the intensely moving performance of Brody, whose transformation is truly unforgettable.
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In the early 19th century, young aristocrat Richard Devine is wrongly accused of murder and shipped off to the British penal colony in Australia. There he suffers under the harsh prison conditions, but resolves to escape and restore his good name. Only the help of Sylvia, the prison Commandant's daughter, can save him. Based on the novel by Marcus Clarke.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseBoxed SetFull Frame - 1.33:1Interactive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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From Academy Award-winning screenwriter Steven Tesich (BREAKING AWAY) and three-time Oscar-nominated director Arthur Penn comes a semiautobiographical film dealing with the trials and tribulations of a Yugoslavian immigrant living in the United States. The story follows Danilo Prozor (Craig Wasson) and his three friends as they graduate high school and begin their journey into adulthood. Marriages come and go, children are born, lovers are lost, careers are made and broken during the 10-year span of the film. Over the course of these difficult years, the four friends hold on to their friendship as the one, ture constant in their lives. FOUR FRIENDS is an emotional look at life in America during the tumultuous 1960s.
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