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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Ellen Barkin,
Jimmy Smits,
JoBeth Williams,
Lorraine Bracco,
Tony Roberts
Director:
Blake Edwards
Blake Edwards (Victor/Victoria) wrote and directed this sharp if somewhat underachieving satire about sexual politics, in which an unrepentant playboy (Perry King), with a long trail of broken hearts behind him, dies and comes back as a woman (Ellen Barkin). Barkin is terrific as a babe with the mind and soul of a stud, and her struggles to reconcile her male impulses with the realities of her new body are the best material in the film. Jimmy Smits is fine as her best friend (back when she was a he, however), and JoBeth Williams is memorable as one of the deceased fellow's castoffs--she ironically becomes an ally of his incarnation as a woman. This isn't Edwards at...
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Ken Marshall,
Lysette Anthony,
Freddie Jones,
Francesca Annis,
Alun Armstrong
Prince Colwyn sets off to rescue his bride who is held captive by the Beast, opposed at every turn by slayers and alien beings.
Genre: Science Fiction
Rating: PG
Release Date: 13-SEP-2005
Media Type: DVD
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
John Travolta,
Kirstie Alley,
David Gallagher,
Tabitha Lupien,
Lysette Anthony
Director:
Tom Ropelewski
The last film in the minifranchise goes to the dogs, literally, to keep the series' major gimmick intact--letting the audience hear the thoughts of the little newcomers in the Ubriacco family. The kids who were once babies in the two prior films can now babble for themselves, so the script finds the adult characters taking in two mutts who do a "Lady and the Tramp" thing while we listen in. Travolta (rescued a year later in 1994's Pulp Fiction) and Alley mark time while Danny De Vito and Diane Keaton provide the most entertainment performing the dogs' voices. Not awful, but not necessary either, and a long way from the small but real qualities of the first film.
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Rated: Unrated
Staring:
James Mason,
Anthony Andrews,
Sam Neill,
Michael Hordern,
Olivia Hussey
Director:
Douglas Camfield
This 1982, 180-minute television remake of the original MGM feature, produced 30 years before, is the rare makeover of a classic that works quite well under its own steam. Anthony Andrews plays the disinherited knight who returns from the Third Crusades and is determined to raise the ransom to free a kidnapped King Richard (Julian Glover). With his bid rebuffed by his estranged father (Michael Hordern), and the affection of the latter's ward, Rowena (Lysette Anthony), compromised, Ivanhoe looks toward the generosity of the beautiful Rebecca (Olivia Hussey)--whose father (James Mason) he rescued from anti-Semitic Normans--for help. But a plot by faithless friends to discre...
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Lysette Anthony,
William R. Moses
Director:
Martin Kitrosser
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Michael Caine,
Ben Kingsley,
Jeffrey Jones,
Lysette Anthony,
Paul Freeman
Without a Clue is an underrated comedy featuring stellar teamwork by two great actors, Michael Caine and Ben Kingsley. This Sherlock Holmes pastiche with a twist stars Kingsley as physician, writer, and self-effacing super-sleuth Dr. John Watson, who channels his genius for deduction into lucrative stories about Holmes. Watson wants the world to believe the fictional private eye actually exists, posing a problem when a steady stream of troubled souls come seeking Holmes's help. The doctor's prescription: hire a two-bit, drunken, skirt-chasing actor (Caine) to portray the Great Detective, an arrangement that causes Watson consternation whenever "Holmes" tries to imp...
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Leslie Nielsen,
Mel Brooks,
Peter MacNicol,
Steven Weber,
Amy Yasbeck
Director:
Mel Brooks
In 1995, it was promising to hear that Mel Brooks was creating "the companion piece to Young Frankenstein." He had also brought in the heavyweight of deadpan--Leslie Nielsen. As Lt. Frank Drebin in the Police Squad movies, Nielsen has no peer for silly stuff--just the player Brooks would seem to need for a strong movie, as any fan of Brooks perpetually hopes a new film may rekindle his madcap magic. Alas, the end results in Dracula: Dead and Loving It include a sprinkling of amusements and one big belly laugh. Brooks and his writers use a very tight adaptation of Bram Stoker's novel, but the spoofs can be spelled out as we go, as if they are paint-by...
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Pierce Brosnan,
William Takaku,
Polly Walker,
Ian Hart,
James Frain
Director:
George Miller, Rod Hardy
Pierce Brosnan stars in a new movie version of the classic adventure tale Robinson Crusoe. After killing a friend in a duel, Crusoe flees his native Scotland and takes to the high seas. A storm casts him ashore on an island in the Indian Ocean, where he builds himself a home out of bamboo and goes a little crazy from solitude--until he finds a footprint in the sand that isn't his. The relationship between Crusoe and Friday, a native from a neighboring island, gets a more contemporary (less colonial) interpretation than in the original story; the result is quite enjoyable. Brosnan is particularly good at depicting Crusoe's borderline madness from isolation, and Will...
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Woody Allen,
Blythe Danner,
Judy Davis,
Mia Farrow,
Juliette Lewis
Director:
Woody Allen
In 1992, Woody Allen and Mia Farrow--heretofore the Lunt and Fontanne of Hollywood on the Hudson--went public with a media-saturated battle over Allen's affair with Farrow's adopted daughter. Only a few months later, Allen released this film, starring himself and Farrow acting out a virtually identical plot line: an unhappy marriage begins to crumble when the husband strays with a much younger woman (in this case, one of his students, played by Juliette Lewis). It turned out to be one of Allen's most lacerating comedies, a story about the fragility of relationships and the foolishness of older men seeking to recapture their youth with younger women. It features strong per...
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
Lysette Anthony,
Ben Rodska,
Eric Porter,
Michael Attwell,
Pip Donaghy
Director:
Gareth Davies
Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 09/06/2005 Rating: Nr
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