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While searching for rare English books, New York writer Helene Hanff's (Anne Bancroft) letter to a London bookstore, run by Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins), begins a relationship between the two that spans two decades and two continents. Although their personalities and cultures are miles apart, their friendship blossoms into a deeper affection. Bancroft's performance earned her the BAFTA award, the British equivalent of the Oscar. Based on James Roose-Evans's play, which was based on Helene Hanff's memoir.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull ScreenAudio: Dolby Digital Mono - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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This collection of shorts from some prolific Czech directors is a great way to discover the dearth of filmmaking talent the country has produced. The common threads that bind each film is that they are all based on different tales by writer Bohumil Hrabal, and all the filmmakers emerged from the fertile 1960s Czech New Wave. Among the directors contributing works are Jiri Menzel, Jan Nemec, Evald Schorm, Vera Chytilova, and Jaromil Jires.DVD Features:Region (unknown)Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Additional Release Material: Biography Mini Biographies Featurette
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HIDE AND SEEK: Dakota Fanning and Robert De Niro slug it out for top acting honors in this creepy psychodrama. After his wife is found dead in the bathtub, Manhattan psychologist David Callaway (De Niro) decides to take his traumatized child, Emily (Fanning), to live in a big, gloomy country house upstate. The shadow of the twisty backyard woods--or something darker--soon creeps over the house and Emily finds a weird friend named Charlie, who her father believes is only imaginary. Charlie likes to play games, and is also very jealous of anyone who tries to come between Emily and her dad, like an attractive local divorcee (Elizabeth Shue) and Emily`s New York psychiatrist (Famke Jannsen).Director John Polson takes his time letting the little details of the story accrue in the patently somber tradition of directors like M. Night Shyamalan. John Ottman`s score is spooky, the photography is drenched in warm colors, and the mood is relentlessly strange and unsettling. De Niro is fine as a wheezing, aging doctor who can`t seem to fathom the extent to which his domestic situation has moved past his control.
Of course there`s a shocking twist or two, plenty of jolts, red herrings, and sinister woodland explorations (including a dark and foreboding cave), but the spookiest ingredient in this potboiler is the brilliant Fanning. With her jet black hair, pale skin, and wide blue eyes, she enters the realm of instant horror iconhood as the alternately frightened and frightening Emily. Other cast members include Dylan Baker as the local sheriff, and Amy Irving, excellent in her few scenes as Emily`s mother.MEN OF HONOR: A heroic life gets a suitably dramatic retelling in MEN OF HONOR,
a docudrama by George Tillman, Jr. Based on the true story of Carl Brashear, the first African American to become a United States Navy master diver, the film follows the conventional yet pleasurable against-all-odds narrative. Carl Brashear (played with noble grace by Cuba Gooding
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Ciaran Hinds (PERSUASION, CIRCLE OF FRIENDS) stars as the tormented Michael Henchard in this A&E movie adaptation of Thomas Hardy's classic novel THE MAYOR OF CASTERBRIDGE. One day, in a destitute and drunken state, Henchard sells his wife and daughter to a sailor at a county fair. Haunted by the memory of this betrayal, the itinerant farmhand decides to change his ways and in the process becomes a respectable, prosperous man. Twenty years later, his wife and daughter reappear on his doorstep, offering Henchard the choice of redemption or a further descent into the web of deceit and betrayal.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Biography - 1. Thomas Hardy - Author/Writer Bibliography - 1. Thomas Hardy - Author/Writer
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When a teenage boy`s father falls ill, the son consoles himself by trying on a pair of shoes given to his father by a fortune teller. The magical wingtips transport him back in time, where the boy discovers more about family secrets and his indelible bond with his father.
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