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Further adventures lie in store for Inspector Wexford in this double-helping of RUTH RENDELL MYSTERIES. In Road Rage, Wexford has to deal with a harrowing kidnapping, as five people are held hostage by a group of protesters. Unhappy with the road being built through a picturesque slice of countryside, Wexford has to use all his experience to coerce them into giving up the captured folk, who include his own wife amongst them. Simisola sees the beleaguered Inspector tackling some racial problems, as a murdered black girl turns up, just when Wexford had been asked to find someone who fits her description. Packed full of drama and intrigue, the pen of Ruth Rendell works wonders yet again with this double-feature.
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Three beautiful young women, who meet by chance, decide to follow their dreams of stardom to Malibu. As they become more accustomed to the Los Angeles lifestyle, they each explore fantasies they never knew existed.DVD Features:Region 0 encodingKeep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus
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This subtle blend of drama, music, and life-affirming beliefs offers a fascinating glimpse into the world of tortured artists. Karen (Denise Coates) is an artist struggling to grasp the recent suicide of her mother. Kyle is a similarly frustrated musician who cannot stand the way his day job is draining his creative impulses. The two bond after being mugged at a bus stop, causing some irrevocable changes for the two talented strangers. The score is provided by Nate Mendel from the Foo Fighters.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary Deleted Scenes Outtakes Rehearsal Footage TV Spots
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FAMILY PLOT was Alfred Hitchcock's 54th and final film; he died on April 29, 1980. The film was Hitchcock's second biggest box office success. Once again the master has made a film that involves one of his favorite themes--doubling--with one character providing a dark counterpoint to the hero, acting out all his or her repressed, negative desires, as in SHADOW OF A DOUBT and STRANGERS ON A TRAIN. In this film, the two couples, one criminal but amiable and the other criminal but violent, provide a stark contrast with one another. The parallel couples also provide emotional counterbalance to one another as Hitchcock weaves alternating threads of humor and cruelty to create this layered story. When a rich, guilt-ridden dowager visits a psychic (Barbara Harris) for help in finding her family's long-abandoned heir, she sets off more than a search for a missing person. Unbeknownst to the lady, the psychic is a phony, and the lure of dollars sends her, along with her cabdriver husband (Bruce Dern), in hot pursuit of the lost beneficiary. Their bumbling search, however, threatens to interfere with established criminal interests, and, unknowingly, the couple's doggedness leads them into harm's way. The film was based on THE RAINBIRD PATTERN, a novel by Victor Canning.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - English Dolby Digital Mono 2.0 - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Featurette - 1. PLOTTING FAMILY PLOTText/Photo Galleries: Storyboards Stills/Photos - 1. Production Photos
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David Duchovny makes his feature-film debut as a writer-director in the very funny, very poignant HOUSE OF D. Living in Paris, Tom Warshaw (Duchovny) is an American expatriate who feels it is time to tell his wife and son the truth about what happened when he was a kid. The action then shifts to Greenwich Village in the 1970s, when young Tom (the remarkable Anton Yelchin) has recently lost his father and is trying to survive with his severely depressed mother (Duchovny`s real-life wife, Tea Leoni). His best friend is an older, mentally challenged man named Pappass (Robin Williams); the two of them deliver meat together, go to the movies, and see each other in school, where Pappass is the assistant janitor. As his mother`s mental state deteriorates, Tom becomes friendly with Lady (Erykah Badu), an inmate at the Women`s House of Detention on Tenth Street; they talk about life and love, but Tom can`t see her, as she speaks with him from behind the window of her cell up high in solitary confinement. When Tom starts falling for a rich girl, Melissa (Robin Williams`s real-life daughter, Zelda Williams, in her feature-film debut), Pappass acts out, changing everything. Duchovny`s film is both charming and moving, filled with believable characters caught in believable situations. The acting is uniformly excellent, as is the 1970s soundtrack, including songs by Van Morrison, the Allman Brothers Band, the James Gang, the Doobie Brothers, Stevie Wonder, and Elton John.
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