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Jane Fonda and Robert DeNiro star in this working class drama as Stanley and Iris, who are both employees at the same New England bakery. The two--who have never met even though they work together--come together when Stanley bumps into Iris on the street right after her purse is stolen. He offers to walk her home, and the two soon learn that they have much more in common than just their place of work; they both have tremendously trying personal lives. However, when Iris learns that Stanley is illiterate, she inadvertently gets him fired from his job, prompting Stanley, who is coming to grips with his handicap for the first time, to ask Iris if she will help him learn to read. In order to convey a sense of what being illiterate is like, director Martin Ritt infuses the film with a tremendous feeling for its locale, a small New England town, emphasizing Stanley's feeling of isolation as he goes about his daily business without being able to read. Of course, DeNiro's amazing performance as Stanley helps too, and, as Iris, Fonda plays wonderfully against him, making the film a great romance as well as a great drama.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 2.35Pan& Scan - 1.33Audio: Stereo Surround - English Mono - SpanishAdditional Release Material: Original Theatrical Trailer
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Wade Hampton is an assembly-line worker who realizes he has had enough of his ordinary life and decides to leave his job and family. He makes his way for Jerome, Arizona, a town he knows only by a postcard, in order to become an artist. Along the way he meets Jane, a drifter, who leads Wade to unforeseen trouble.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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Named after the band's wildly popular 1993 album, VH1's biopic HYSTERIA chronicles the career and struggles of 1980s pop-metal legends Def Leppard. When the band formed in England in the late'70s, they were seen as part of Britain's new wave of heavy metal. But the band cited glam rock and early metal as heavier influences, and soon became a leader among the hair metal bands of the'80s. With their good looks and pop riffs, Leppard proved that metal could be attractive to a wider audience while maintaining its integrity. Unfortunately, Leppard's long career was full of tragedy, starting with an accident that cost drummer Rick Allen his arm. While this event set the stage for a long line of hardships for the band (guitarist Steve Clark would later die), it did not stop them. Rather than calling it quits or replacing Allen, the band encouraged him to learn to play the drums with one arm, going on to find even greater success.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Audio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishInteractive Features: Scene Access
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Robson Green stars as Detective Inspector Dave Creegan of the Organized and Serial Crime Unit in the dark and moody British television mystery series TOUCHING EVIL. Along with his partner Susan Taylor (Nicola Walker), the unconventional Creegan must deal with crimes involving the seamier side of human nature, including pedophiles, mercy killers, and copycat murderers. This collection includes all three episodes from the series' debut season: The Lost Boys, To Death and Back, and What Amathus Wants.DVD Features:Region 13-Disc Boxed SetFull Frame - 1.33Interactive Features: Weblinks Scene Selection
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This compilation from Alfred Hitchcock, the master of suspense, features four films from his pre-Hollywood years in Britain.THE SECRET AGENT: It's 1916 and Edgar Brodie, an accomplished novelist, returns to England from a tour of duty in the war only to discover that he is officially dead. Given a new name, Brodie is sent into Switzerland with a small entourage to kill a German secret agent. Mistrust and tragedy complicate the mission, which proves to have serious political as well as romantic stakes.NUMBER 17: Alfred Hitchcock demonstrates once again his brilliance in creating visual suspense in this film from his British period. NUMBER 17 tells the story of a young detective who stumbles across a stash of jewel thieves hiding out in an abandoned house near a railway. Multiple identities and confusion are the background for this early Hitchcock thriller. The story, based on a play by J. Jefferson Farjeon, was previously filmed as a 1928 silent picture and was a studio assignment Hitchcock initially resented.THE SKIN GAME: This early Hitchcock talkie tells the tale of old money and new money feuding over a family estate in jolly class-conscious England. THE SKIN GAME closely follows the hit London play by John Galsworthy; for the film, Hitchcock was able to elicit superb performances from his stars in this study of the English family and the English class system. The film tracks a fierce rivalry between a landowner and his immediate neighbor, complete with nasty tactics, class-based hostility, and dirty secrets that beg to be unearthed.THE RING: The film, like its title, oscillates between marriage and boxing--the dramas of a boxing ring and the troubles of the heart. The story follows two fighters who are in love with the same woman. One man is a title holder, while the other is a carnival booth fighter hired to be his boxing partner. Hitchcock's small visual touches underscoring the complexities of emotions and his symbolic use of o
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