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A group of short films featuring well-known Hollywood stars, with plotlines using Tinseltown as their backdrops, are collected in HOLLYWOOD STORIES. In SAMMY THE SCREENPLAY, a script is tossed around Hollywood on its way towards being made, but nobody has ever bothered to read the thing. In WHO'S KYLE, Kyle steals a loan shark's money and escapes to the desert to hide. Once there he meets with a cast of characters whose weirdness at least makes his self-imposed exile more bearable. CUT, a horror film praised by Wes Craven, features an obsessive film student who fails to distinguish between fantasy and reality. EXIT 8A is about a troubled skinhead and his violent overreaction to the news that his girlfriend is pregnant. Finally, DON'T GIVE ME THE FINGER takes place in a bar on the outskirts of Los Angeles, where unusual characters gather and strange events occur.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep Case
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A pair of young Gypsy lovers elope into the woods, followed by the girl's mad father. In the woods the couple encounter a series of bizarre characters including gnomes and goblins. MANOUSHE is a colorful and romantic love story combining legends from all over the world, magic, and dreams. Featuring a score by the master of flamenco, Paco de Lucia.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Would-be rapper Rich (Jeffrey Sams) leaves behind his girlfriend, child, and dead-end job to go to New York and pursue his dream. Not long after his arrival, he meets fellow MC hopeful, I-Tick (Ron Brice), whose in-your-face style is much different than his own. Thinking that their styles could work together, they decide to collaborate. But it's not long before his new friend's violent lifestyle begins to catch up with Rich. Winner of the Filmmaker's Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull FrameAudio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - English
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This is the classic cinematic version of Tennessee Williams's breathtaking play about a crazed southern family torn apart by greed. Larger-than-life patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives) lays dying, and the members of his brood clamor for the inheritance. Paul Newman is Brick, the alcoholic son struggling in the shadow of his powerful father, and Elizabeth Taylor is Maggie, Brick's lingerie-clad temptress of a wife who will do anything for the love of her cold husband. Brick's younger brother, Gooper (Jack Carson), and his wife, Mae (Madeleine Sherwood), strive for Big Daddy's approval, but even though they have children and a successful marriage, Big Daddy is dedicated to Brick, a former football star with his own personal demons. Tensions mount as the family is forced together under one roof, where secrets are revealed and relationships are lost and found. Elizabeth Taylor and Paul Newman's performances serve as cinematic icons; the heat and hatred between them ignites the screen, fueled by Tennessee Williams's insightful and brilliant dialogue.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingSpecial Features: Scene access/trailer
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In this dramatic film, director Karel Reisz and screenwriter Harold Pinter adapt the complex romantic novel by John Fowles, THE FRENCH LIEUTENANT'S WOMAN. Set in 1867, Sarah Woodrough (Meryl Streep), a beautiful young woman, is condemned by society and driven into a deep melancholy because of her tragic affair with a French lieutenant. Fowles adds depth and texture to the story by including direct historical asides and scientific lessons by Charles Smithson (Jeremy Irons), a wealthy amateur paleontologist and follower of Charles Darwin. In addition, there is a film within the film in which modern-day (1981) characters Anna (Streep) and Mike (Irons) provide comments on the characters they're portraying, and a little history, but primarily provide a parallel story as they enter an adulterous affair of their own. The contrast between the Victorian and the contemporary affairs, at first jarring, is beautifully staged and photographed. Streep's two performances, as the passionate Sarah, with her beautiful head of pre-Raphaelite hair and as the cool, modern Anna, never converge; the distinctness of the division between the two characters symbolizes the almost unconscious perception that however distant a person feels from his repressed Victorian sexuality, it's still connected to him, as Darwin would say.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - English Dolby Digital Mono - French Dolby Digital Mono - SpanishAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
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