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Director Bruce Beresford's LAST DANCE stars Sharon Stone as Cindy Liggett, a lower-class Southern woman who has spent the previous 12 years on death row for killing two of her teenaged classmates. Her legal appeals seem to have run their course, and the judge who is charged with reviewing her case has never pardoned a murderer. However, Rick Hayes (Rob Morrow), the lawyer appointed by the clemency board, begins to examine the records of her original trial and believes there's evidence for a stay of execution. The prospect of spending her remaining years in prison does not appeal to the disillusioned Cindy, though, and she's indifferent to Hayes and resigned to her death. Hayes, motivated both by a personal interest in Liggett, as well as a desire to prove himself to his contemptuous, politically connected brother (Peter Gallagher), refuses to accept her passivity and gradually persuades her to fight for her life.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Istvan Szabo (SUNSHINE) brings this intense and thought-provoking film to the screen with his signature vibrant photography, precise rendering of period details, and strong direction of powerful actors. Here, Harvey Keitel plays Major Steve Arnold, a gruff and rude American sent to Berlin just after World War II on a mission to root out men who were part of the Nazi party and charge them with their war crimes. He is assigned to investigate Wilhelm Furtwangler (Stellan Skarsgaard), the highly esteemed conductor of the Berlin Philharmonic. Hiring two young assistants, Lieutenant David Wills and Emmi Straube (Moritz Bleibtreu and Birgit Minichmayr), to research the conductor and his orchestra, Major Steve runs a tight ship. In fact, David and Emmi cringe at his lack of respect for the accomplished musicians they interview, and his total disregard for their art. Major Steve plays Beethoven on high volume on the office record player, usually to fuel his anger and charge up his finger-pointing interrogation tactics; while David and Emmi--who provide a sideline love story to the plot--simply appreciate the music and Furtwangler's skill in conducting it. TAKING SIDES depicts the jarring debate between Major Steve and Furtwangler as they discuss art and politics, the separation between the two, the confusion of war, and Furtwangler's potential culpability in having stayed in his homeland of Germany instead of leaving the country to protest the war.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep CaseWidescreenAdditional Release Material: Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer
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After losing her husband to a younger woman, a N.Y. journalist is given the assignment of covering a story about an infamous madam in Paris. The tables turn and she unintentionally ends up being interviewed by the madam. It helps her gain a fresh new perspective on life and her future.DVD Features:Region 1
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With THE VISIT, director Jordan Walker Pearlman makes his feature film debut, adapting a story from a book of the same title written by Kosmond Russell. The movie stars Hill Harper as a young man dying in prison who beckons his family to him for one final visit, hoping that their meeting will heal old family wounds.
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This made-for-TV drama, based on a true story, focuses on Ira Einhorn (Kevin Anderson), a 1970s activist, who begins a tempestuous relationship with Holly Madux (Naomi Watts), an attractive, young Bryn Mawr graduate. When Holly realizes Ira has a dark side to his hippie exterior, she attempts to leave him. However, she soon disappears and is found 18 months later--dead in Ira's apartment. Ira flees the country, and next 16 years are spent trying to bring him to justice. The film also stars Tom Skerritt and Martin Donovan.DVD Features:Region 1Keep Case
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