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Mendy (Oren Rehany) is a young man living in Bnei Brak, Israel, struggling to keep his mind focused on rabbinical school. His family is supportive of him, and they realize that adolescence involves soul-searching and discontent. But his teacher sees that deep down Mendy is full of lust, and he tells Mendy to rid himself of these desires by visiting a prostitute in Tel Aviv. At a whorehouse called The Love Boat, Mendy falls head over heels in love with a Russian harlot named Sasha (Tchelet Semel)--a baby-faced rebel who secretly longs for an escape from her difficult life. Next Mendy meets Sasha's boyfriend, Mike (Saul Stein)--a gruff American who runs his own bar, a den where drunken Arabs and Jews mix merrily. Soon Mendy is working at the bar, living with Mike, and courting Sasha. Little does he know, a dark political and criminal current runs through Mike's Bar, and just behind it follows big trouble. Meanwhile, Mendy is asking himself important questions about God and life, but he's not finding any answers.Director Eitan Gorlin has crafted a multidimensional film with THE HOLY LAND. Under its coming-of-age veneer lies a darker story about sin, religion, faith, loyalty, and the fear of terrorism. Serene moments overlooking the prayer wall and the city of Jerusalem are contrasted with perturbing sexual sequences in the Love Boat. As Mendy, Rehany doesn't miss a beat, while it is Stein in the role of Mike who steals the show as the unpredictable father figure who is at times nurturing and at other times just plain scary.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreenAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1. Director and Cast Featurette - 1. Opening Night Party Interview with the DirectorText/Photo Gallery: Photo Album Narrated by Saul Stein
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Promising young lawyer Kevin Lomax (Keanu Reeves) has never lost a case--even when his client is guilty. When Kevin is seduced away from his sleepy hometown in Florida to work for a flashy, charming lawyer (Al Pacino, in a role he seems born to play), his mother (Judith Ivey) has reservations. But as he works his way up the corporate ladder, Kevin manages to put them aside, along with his wife's (Charlize Theron) needs and the stirrings of his conscience over knowingly defending the guilty. However, his vanity won't let him start losing now. As Kevin's career skyrockets, his neglected wife Mary Ann begins to see evil, violent visions. Hoping a visit from his mother will help, instead Kevin finds himself confronted with a secret his mother has never told him. As Mary Ann seemingly descends into madness, Kevin begins to suspect his boss may be much more than he seems, and he finds himself faced with a choice between saving his own life and saving his soul. Thought-provoking, inventive, and entertaining, director Taylor Hackford's film is reminiscent of psychological horror films like ROSEMARY'S BABY. Andrzej Bartkowiak's lush, innovative cinematography complements the smart script and dead-on acting.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseLetterboxedDual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - FrenchAdditional Release Material: Audio Commentary - 1.Taylor Hackford - Director Deleted Scenes Trailers - 1.Theatrical Trailers (5)






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IN THEATERS OCTOBER 14, 2005Director Rodrigo Garcia has become a master of short film anthologies, with this, his third venture into the genre. His previous work in this field--THINGS YOU CAN TELL JUST BY LOOKING AT HER (which stitched together five separate stories) and TEN TINY LOVE STORIES (comprised of ten tales)--was shot in 2001, and featured predominantly female casts. The vignettes that make up NINE LIVES follow in the same vein, with Garcia taking brief dips into the lives of various women who are all floundering in relationships with important people in their lives. An all-star cast helps Garcia achieve his vision, and a highly skilled team behind the camera ensures that the action is perfectly executed, as each story is shot in just one single take.Garcia doesn`t construct conventional narratives for his stories, he just drops viewers into situations, then pulls them out before any conclusions are reached. Some of the women we are exposed to are Robin Wright Penn, who plays a pregnant woman running into a former lover in a supermarket, resulting in a bout of anguish and self doubt; Ruth (Sissy Spacek), a woman caught up in an affair at a seedy motel; and Holly Hunter, playing a woman alarmed at her boyfriend`s antisocial behavior. The stories are thrilling in their inconclusiveness, with Garcia leaving plenty of question marks about where these women are heading with their lives. Indeed, the first story in the film ends just as it seems to be starting, with prison inmate Sandra (Elpida Carrillo) letting out a howling, primal scream as she is pulled away from her daughter by prison guards, leaving the audience hanging in midair as the next story immediately begins. A breathtaking work that plays beautifully with the cinematic medium, NINE LIVES is an exhausting and demanding piece of work.
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Based on the actual events that thrust Skokie, Illinois into the national spotlight and shook the nation. A small Midwestern town confronts the spectre of neo-Nazism and its own memories of war when a band of neo-Nazis announce their plans for a march through town.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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In 1869, five years after the abolition of slavery, 24 men find themselves to be captives in the hold of the slave ship Argon Miss anchored off of the New Guinea coast of West Africa. The incarcerated men, driven by a spiritual force, attempt to gain their freedom through a bloody uprising. This film shares both a star (Hounsou) and similar subject matter to Spielberg's AMISTAD, but the similarity ends there. This film premiered before AMISTAD began shooting, and is far grittier.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodingAdditional Release Material: Featurette - 1. THE MAKING OF ILL-GOTTEN GAINS: Deals with the Relationship to


Spielberg's AMISTAD Trailer - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
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