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WINDTALKERS begins quietly--with widescreen aerial shots of clouds that gradually clear to reveal the beautiful mesas of Monument Valley. A bus collects Navajo volunteers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). It's 1943, and the U.S. has developed an indecipherable secret military code based on the Navajo language. Yahzee and Whitehorse are to be trained as code talkers.Then John Woo's Pacific war film erupts into violence, with a savage battle that has one survivor, Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage). Badly wounded and feeling guilty at the loss of his companions, Joe recuperates in Hawaii where he is helped by a sympathetic nurse (Frances O'Connor). Joe disguises his hearing loss and he is promoted as Yahzee's battlefield bodyguard. Ordered to protect the code at all times, Joe must prevent Yahzee from being captured. At first, Yahzee and Whitehorse, whose bodyguard is Ox Henderson (Christian Slater), are subjected to prejudice--particularly from Rogers (Noah Emmerich). But when the unit is shipped to Saipan, the Marines begin to appreciate the code talkers.Director Woo has created a powerful drama. The visceral battle sequences are strikingly filmed and there is fine acting from Cage, Beach, Willie, Slater, Emmerich, and Frances O'Connor, who portrays the poignancy of love in uncertain times.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull-Screen - 1.33Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Surround - French
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Garbo talks! Greta Garbo's unforgettable throaty and seductive voice burst onto the screen in this daring production of Eugene O'Neill's dark drama. Garbo stars as Anna Christie, a bitter and disillusioned former prostitute who returns home to her father (George F. Marion), a New York barge captain, looking for a safe haven to repair her damaged psyche. Anna is desperate to forget her past and hides her sordid life from her father, letting him believe that she is an innocent young woman. But when Anna falls in love with Matt (Charles Bickford), an Irish sailor, it becomes more difficult to keep her dark secret. Finally, when Matt proposes, Anna must accept the consequences of her shameful past. This realistic and dark story of one woman's search for redemption is portrayed with gritty honesty by the great Greta Garbo, bringing a powerful sensuality and iron will to the screen. This legendary production ushered in a new era in film and made Garbo a star of of both silent and sound pictures. Clarence Brown's stunning film features an outstanding supporting cast, including Marie Dressler as Marthy, a down-and-out warf rat who sympathizes with the threadbare and downtrodden Anna.
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Heartbroken at the brutal death of his brother Tyrone, Donte (Daniel Outlaw) is bending under the pressures of the streets. He can`t forget that he could have stopped Tyrone from going to his death, and feels responsible even a year later, when revenge becomes an all-consuming obsession. The gang of notorious thugs that`s responsible for the shoot-out that felled Tyrone runs a dog-fighting outfit, and Donte will stop at nothing to take them down. He enters a world as hard-bitten as the dog fights it centers on, and gets caught up in the brutal culture that took his brother`s life.
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AMERICAN BEAUTY tells the story of Lester Burnham (Kevin Spacey), a suburban father who snaps when he becomes disgusted with his stale, repetitive existence. Burnham lets us know in voice-over from the film's opening that this is the day he dies (using the SUNSET BOULEVARD flashback approach), a technique that adds an inevitable tension to the proceedings and keeps the story moving forward at all times. On a whim, Lester quits his job and begins a regression into young adulthood, lifting weights, smoking pot, doing nothing, and discovering the overflowing sexuality of his 16-year-old daughter's best friend, Angela (Mena Suvari). His wife, Carolyn (Annette Bening), has her own midlife crisis of sorts. A real estate agent, she experiences a youthful awakening when super-agent Buddy Kane (Peter Gallagher) seduces her repeatedly. Meanwhile, Jane (Thora Birch), the Burnhams' daughter, is pursued by Ricky (Wes Bentley), the mysterious boy next door who carries a video camera around with him at all times. When Ricky's militaristic father, Colonel Fitts (Chris Cooper), discovers something potentially horrifying on one of his tapes, and when Carolyn's rage for Lester's actions boils over, the time bomb finally explodes.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 2.35Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English DTS Surround 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Making-Of - 1. AMERICAN BEAUTY...LOOK CLOSER Audio Commentary - 1. Sam Mendes - Director, Alan Ball - Writer














2. Sam Mendes - Director, Conrad L. Hall - Cinematographer Film-to-Script Comparison Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerText/Photo Galleries: Production Notes Storyboards Biographies - 1. Cast& CrewDVD-ROM Features: Chat Links
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Samuel Fuller's honest, visionary pulp film uses an insane asylum as a metaphor for American society. The inmates include a black man who thinks he's a white supremacist, a Korean War Vet who thinks he's a Civil War Confederate general, and a nuclear physicist who has reverted to childhood. This microcosm, which Fuller created in 1963, has lost none of its force over time. In addition, the film's treatment of journalistic hubris foreshadows the contemporary problem of media becoming corrupted by its compliant association with governmental elites. In SHOCK CORRIDOR, a journalist (Peter Breck) hoping to get a scoop on a murder suspect has himself committed to a mental institution where the inmates have information on the culprit. As the film unfolds, the purity of the hero's mission is undercut by his own monomaniacal ego. Things go terribly awry, and although he gets his story, he pays a high price for his success.The Home Vision Cinema VHS version is digitally remastered with original color sequences and letterboxed at the original aspect ratio. The print is from the Janus collection.
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