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All 4 original episodes of A&E's popular Horatio Hornblower adaptations are included in this collection of tales about C.S. Forester's Napoleonic war hero. Ioan Gruffudd (TITANIC) stars as Hornblower, an intellectual young midshipman who enters Her Majesty's Navy as a bullied recruit but quickly rises through the ranks to take command of his first ship. Set against the backdrop of the 18th-century Anglo-French wars, he becomes a hero of the seas. The series was filmed on location in Turkey, the Crimea, and the Black Sea from the same team who produced the Emmy-winning JANE AUSTEN'S EMMA. Includes the episodes The Duel, The Fire Ships, The Duchess and the Devil, and The Wrong War. See individual titles for plot synopses.DVD Features:Region [unknown]Keep Case4-Disc SetFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Making-of - 1. THE MAKING OF HORATIO HORNBLOWER Bonus Feature - 1. ENGLAND'S ROYAL WARSHIPSInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Biography - 1. C.S. Forester - Author Additional Text - 1. Glossary of Nautical Terms
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Controversial rapper Eminem (real name Marshall Mathers) makes his big screen debut with 8 MILE, a bracing drama directed by the increasingly audacious Curtis Hanson. Set in 1995 in the bleak, urban battle zone of Detroit, the film follows the struggles of a young man who is desperate to make a better life for himself. Jimmy Smith, Jr., better known as Rabbit, is destined for a life of squalor. Living in a cramped trailer with his deadbeat mom (Kim Basinger), Rabbit works in a factory to make ends meet. His only outlet is hip-hop. Possessing a talent for freestyle rapping, Rabbit still hasn't managed to unleash his true potential. But his best friend, Future (Mekhi Phifer), is determined to make that happen. Future forces Rabbit to enter a freestyle battle that he blew the week before, giving him another chance at redemption. Hanson's stellar portrait of lower-class urban disillusionment, shot with uncompromisingly gritty realism by Rodrigo Prieto, proves that the issue is no longer about race, it's about money. Eminem delivers a bold performance as the troubled youngster who is still trying to find his place in a harsh, cruel world.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - English Dolby Digital 5.1 - French Dolby Surround - Spanish Dolby Surround - English DTS Surround 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Deleted Scenes - 1.Eminem Rap Battles Making-of - 1. THE MAKING OF 8 MILE Featurette - 1. THE MUSIC OF 8 MILE Music Video - 1. Eminem -SupermanInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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In this period romantic drama, Sanin (Timothy Hutton), an aristocratic young man, fights a duel for the hand of Gemma (Valeria Golino), a young bride-to-be. He plans to sell his family estate to finance the wedding, but his plans go awry when he falls prey to married seductress Maria (Nastassja Kinski).
She feigns interest in buying the estate as a way to be nearer Sanin, and he must fight against the possibility of losing both women.
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When a kindergarten teacher (Philippe Torreton) living in a rural town in France finds that the coal mines--the main source of income--have been closed down, his community changes, becoming increasingly poverty-stricken and decrepit. One day when a drunk mother collapses in the school yard, then abandons her children, Daniel decides to take the kids into his own home. That is the beginning of a critical, reactionary stand he decides to take against the deterioration of his village. A tough and endearing tale, director Bertrand Tavernier (ROUND MIDNIGHT) has made a fine picture with this one.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAnamorphic Widescreen - 1.66Additional Release Material: Interview - 1. Michael Moore with Bertrand Tavernier Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical TrailerAdditional Products: Booklet
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Poor Jerry Lundegaard. He's deep in debt. His wealthy father-in-law has no respect for him. He cheats customers at the car dealership where he works. And now he's hired a bumbling duo to kidnap his wife--a plan that goes horribly awry, leading to homicide.Enter Marge Gunderson, one of the most fabulous movie cops in film history. The very-pregnant Marge--played marvelously by Frances McDormand in an Oscar-winning and career-defining performance--just goes about her everyday business, eating (in nearly every scene), talking to the people in the community, and examining bloody corpses as if no day is different from the next. A multiple murder in the small town of Brainerd, Minnesota--home of Paul Bunyan, as the sign claims--seems to have little effect on her. Yet she has an innate cop sense--she is very, very good at her job and determined to solve the case in her offhanded manner.FARGO is yet another offbeat, highly entertaining film from the Coen brothers (BARTON FINK, BLOOD SIMPLE). The film is nearly colorless; instead, director of photography Roger Deakins washes the screen in the blinding white of the snow, occasionally breaking for the drab grays and browns of police uniforms and winter jackets. Carter Burwell's score further enhances the slow, steady pace of this oddly funny and compelling film. The Coens have once again populated their film with a slew of bizarre characters, with outstanding performances delivered by all, particularly the edgy William H. Macy, the quietly luminous McDormand, the nearly psychotic Steve Buscemi, and the oh-so-cold Peter Stormare.DVD Features:Region 1 EncodedInteractive MenusFilm and Cast BiographiesFrench DubbedSpanish Subtitled
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