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Set in New York City in 1961, 61* is a film directed by Billy Crystal for baseball lovers. Zooming in on Yankee players Roger Maris and Mickey Mantle, the film follows these two opposites as they attempt to break Babe Ruth's 1927 home run record. In heated competition, the two players each try to score over 60 home runs and set the new world record. While the fans align themselves with one player to be the winner, the players choose the other, igniting the playing field with tension, excitement, and anticipation.DVD Features:Region 1Snap CaseAnamorphic WidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Surround - English Dolby Digital Stereo - SpanishAdditional Release Material: Making-Of - 1. THE MAKING OF 61* Audio Commentary - 1. Billy Crytal - DirectorText/Photo Galleries: Essay - 1. Historical Information on Mantle, Maris, and 61*
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Meg Ryan stars in this fictionalized account of real-life boxing manager Jackie Kallen, the first female to ever make a name for herself in the sport. As the film begins she's just an assistant to the owner of a sleazy sporting arena, but her antagonism toward a mafia-affiliated boxing bigwig (Tony Shalhoub) and her hunch about the innate boxing talent of a young street thug named Luther (Omar Epps) lead her to take up managing. She recruits a retired trainer (Charles S. Dutton, who also directed) to mold Luther into a champ, and starts pushing and climbing through the sport's rampant sexism. The script by Cheryl Edwards is packed with platitudes and great throwaway lines, and to its credit the film doesn't shy away from showing Kallen's less flattering angles. Ryan looks and sounds great, sporting a fun Midwestern accent and a series of sexy outfits as she sashays through the cigar smoke and testosterone, tough-talking her way to victory in argument after argument. Though set in the present, AGAINST THE ROPES has a grungy 1970s feel to it, recalling ROCKY, THE CHAMP, THE MAIN EVENT and other films of the era. The real-life Kallen served as an associate producer.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Surround - English Dolby Surround - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Featurettes - 1. A RINGSIDE SEAT










2. QUEEN OF THE RING: JACKIE KALLEN THEN AND NOW Theatrical TrailerInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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In this elaborate made-for-TV production of the classic Charles Dickens novel, young orphan Oliver Twist (Alex Trench) joins a gang of impoverished pickpocketing children, along with their leader, Fagin (Richard Dreyfuss), and the Artful Dodger (Elijah Wood). Poor Oliver struggles to break free of this harsh life, the pickpockets, and a sweatshop, before he sets off to London to find his relatives.DVD Features:Region 1Keep Case
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A liquor trade war threatens to turn deadly in the Mexican drama CORAZON DE TEQUILA. Don Pancho Murguia is an honest businessman who has a secret formula for making delicious tequila. However, his primary competitor, the unscrupulous Mateo San Juan, is jealous of his success and fine tasting liquor, and orders his underlings to steal the formula from Don Pancho. When the Don and his family uncover who is behind the theft, the situation teeters on the edge of all-out violence. CORAZON DE TEQUILA is a stirring drama about family honor and the lengths people go to maintain it.DVD Features:Interactive Features: Scene Access Trivia Game Interactive Menus
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On a cruise to Istanbul in celebration of their seventh wedding anniversary, uptight British couple Nigel (Hugh Grant) and Fiona (Kristin Scott Thomas) encounter American expatriate Oscar (Peter Coyote), a wheelchair-bound unpublished novelist traveling with his young French wife, Mimi (Emmanuelle Seigner). Nigel is immediately drawn to the sexy but distant Mimi, and Oscar, sensing the other man's fascination with his wife, takes him aside to recount in exhibitionistic detail the sordid tale of their once-passionate love affair, which gradually deteriorated into a series of increasingly sadistic and degrading sex games. In flashback scenes, it soon becomes clear that the self-serving Oscar represents the corrosive element in the couple's relationship--though the tables will eventually be turned. BITTER MOON provides several jarring twists, the last of which is especially unexpected, and no one escapes unscathed from this titillating yet excruciating menage-a-quatre. Polanski's erotic melodrama received mixed reviews but earned ardent praise from fans who appreciated the filmmaker's return to the themes (first treated in 1962's KNIFE IN THE WATER) of dark sexuality and thinly veiled violence in intimate relationships.DVD Features:Region 1Snap CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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