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Based on the book by her adopted daughter Christina, MOMMIE DEAREST is the now-legendary tale of Hollywood superstar Joan Crawford (Faye Dunaway) and the lengths that she went to in order to maintain her public image. After several screen successes, Crawford's plan to stay on top in Tinseltown includes adopting two children, Christina and Christopher, whom she plans on spoiling with love and gifts. As her career flags and her lack of success in her relationships with men chip away at her constitution, Crawford's treatment of her children becomes more and more brutal. Though this domestic horror tale is so over-the-top it that it is often celebrated as high camp, Dunaway's performance remains nothing short of astounding.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic WidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital Mono - English Dolby Digital Mono - FrenchAdditional Material: Trailer - 1. Original TheatricalInteractive Features: Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Photo Gallery
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Quentin Tarantino returns to the crime genre once again with this adaptation of Elmore Leonard's RUM PUNCH. Transplanting Leonard's crime story from Miami to Tarantino's city of choice, Los Angeles, JACKIE BROWN cruises along smoothly, much like the film's 1970s soul soundtrack. The film follows Jackie Brown (Pam Grier), a flight attendant who makes extra cash by running drugs and cash for sleazebag Ordell Robbie (Samuel L. Jackson). When Jackie sees the opportunity to make off with a large chunk of change, she begins to play everyone around her, including two detectives who are threatening her with jail time if she doesn't rat out Ordell, and a sympathetic bail bondsman (Robert Forster) who finds himself falling for Jackie.Tarantino sets a pace that is laid back and groovy, building to an eventual climax that determines whether or not Jackie walks away with the booty. In much the same way that Tarantino resuscitated John Travolta's career with PULP FICTION, he does the same thing here with Grier and Forster. Overall, JACKIE BROWN is a less in-your-face effort than Tarantino's previous films, but it's this downshift in gears that makes it so refreshing.DVD Features:Region 12-Disc SetAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.85:1Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English DTS Surround 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Alternate Scenes Deleted Scenes Bonus Feature - 1. JACKIE BROWN ON MTV Featurette - 1. HOW IT WENT DOWN: A LOOK BACK AT JACKIE BROWN Trailers Music Video - 1. Chicks With GunsInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Stills/Photos Filmographies Publicity
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Chiwetel Ejiofor gives a remarkably understated performance in director Stephen Frears's offbeat and gripping drama DIRTY PRETTY THINGS. Ejiofor stars as Okwe, a Nigerian who is trying to make a new life for himself in London, where he works days as a taxi driver and nights as a hotel desk receptionist. When he discovers a human heart in a hotel-room bathroom, he cannot go to the police because he is an illegal alien with a mysterious past that he refuses to talk about. Suddenly he is thrust into the middle of a dangerous situation that threatens to have tragic results for him and those around him. French ingenue Audrey Tautou costars as a Turkish woman who has sought asylum in England, where she is allowed to live but not work. But she must make money, so she works secretly while the government tries to catch her. Benedict Wong turns in a fine supporting performance as Guo Yi, a morgue employee who shares wise and humorous sayings with Okwe, and Sergi Lopez is absolutely chilling as the amorally opportunistic hotel manager. Frears directs the unusual proceedings with a deft hand, slowly revealing secrets that are as gruesome as they are poignant.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAdditional Release Material: Commentary - 1. Stephen Frears - Director Behind-the-Scenes
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A hit on the Spanish-language film festival circuit, AMOR EN CONCRETO is a Venezuelan film whose centerpiece is the capital city of Caracas. A group of individuals provide a picture of the variety of life in the city--Tony, rejected by his father, contemplates suicide when he meets transvestite Clemencia; Carlos finally decides to approach the woman of his dreams after 20 years of admiring her from afar; Hector finds himself beginning a criminal existence after being fired; and Claudia, fed up with her marriage and seeking to start anew, has her plans derailed by a mugger. AMOR EN CONCRETO is a multi-character view of life in the biggest city in Venezuela.DVD Features:Additional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Interactive MenusDVD-ROM Features: Web Links
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Based on Judith Krantz's bestseller, I'LL TAKE MANHATTAN follows Maxi Amberville (Valerie Bertinelli from One Day At A Time) from three-time divorcee to dynamic businesswoman. Set in New York's pressure cooker world of magazine publishing, Maxi finds that she must abandon her life of wealthy leisure to secure her father's wealth and family business when her mother decides to wed the brother of her dead husband. The brother only wishes to sell the magazine empire to destroy his brother's name, but Maxi decides to take him on in the name of honor and revenge. Among the actors in this production are numerous people who would later acclaim stardom such as Julianne Moore, Barry Bostwick, Timothy Daly, and Jane Kaczmarek.DVD Features:Region 0Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Interactive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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