Comedy VHS Movies
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Gilda Live
Price: $62.99
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Gilda Radner, Don Novello, Paul Shaffer, Nils Nichols, Bob Christianson Directed By: Lorne Michaels, Mike Nichols Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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In 1979, Gilda Radner threw a sommerlong party and Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre. Share the fun as Gilda's Saturday Night Live alter-egos take on new comedy material not even the Not Ready for Prime Time Players were quite ready for. Among the many highlights: Emily Litella substituting for a Bedford-Stuyvesant teacher who's been the unfortunate victim of a "stubbing". Lisa Hoopner whining through "The Way We Were". |
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Landlord
List Price: $14.95 Now Only: $8.95 You Save: $ 6.00 (40%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Beau Bridges, Lee Grant, Diana Sands, Pearl Bailey, Walter Brooke Directed By: Hal Ashby Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Movies like The Landlord just don't get made anymore. Nowadays, the plot--an idle, wealthy young man (Beau Bridges) buys a tenement house in a poor black neighborhood and finds himself confronted and changed by the radically different lives his tenants lead--would be the basis for a broad comedy or a ponderous, self-important statement picture in which the hero comes to a profound understanding of something bland and inoffensive. But in the 1970s, a movie could be something too slippery to categorize. The Landlord is part social satire, part character study, part serious examination of race and class--and it delves into these things without having any answers or even strong advice, just a sense of the reality it depicts. |
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Short Time
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Live / Artisan Starring: Dabney Coleman, Matt Frewer, Teri Garr, Barry Corbin, Joe Pantoliano Directed By: Gregg Champion Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Movies like The Landlord just don't get made anymore. Nowadays, the plot--an idle, wealthy young man (Beau Bridges) buys a tenement house in a poor black neighborhood and finds himself confronted and changed by the radically different lives his tenants lead--would be the basis for a broad comedy or a ponderous, self-important statement picture in which the hero comes to a profound understanding of something bland and inoffensive. But in the 1970s, a movie could be something too slippery to categorize. The Landlord is part social satire, part character study, part serious examination of race and class--and it delves into these things without having any answers or even strong advice, just a sense of the reality it depicts. |
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Purple People Eater
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Anchor Bay Entertainment Starring: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Ned Beatty, Thora Birch, John Brumfield, Chubby Checker Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Movies like The Landlord just don't get made anymore. Nowadays, the plot--an idle, wealthy young man (Beau Bridges) buys a tenement house in a poor black neighborhood and finds himself confronted and changed by the radically different lives his tenants lead--would be the basis for a broad comedy or a ponderous, self-important statement picture in which the hero comes to a profound understanding of something bland and inoffensive. But in the 1970s, a movie could be something too slippery to categorize. The Landlord is part social satire, part character study, part serious examination of race and class--and it delves into these things without having any answers or even strong advice, just a sense of the reality it depicts. |
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Sister Act
List Price: $9.99 Now Only: $0.50 You Save: $ 9.49 (95%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Touchstone / Disney Starring: Whoopi Goldberg, Maggie Smith, Kathy Najimy, Wendy Makkena, Mary Wickes Directed By: Emile Ardolino Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Relive all the fun, laughter, and irresistible music of SISTER ACT -- the inspired comedy hit that packed pews everywhere! Whoopi Goldberg stars as a sassy, low-rent lounge singer forced to hide out from the mob in the last place on earth anyone would look for her -- a convent. While she's there, her irreverent behavior attracts a flock of faithful followers and turns the nuns' tone-deaf choir into a soulful chorus of swingin', singin' sisters. But when the group earns rave reviews, her sudden celebrity jeopardizes her hidden identity. Harvey Keitel and Kathy Najimy join a heavenly cast in this habit-forming comedy bursting with '60s Motown hits.. |
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: George Segal, Jacqueline Bisset, Robert Morley, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Philippe Noiret Directed By: Ted Kotcheff Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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European chefs are being killed in the manner that their signature dishes are prepared.. |
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Kismet (1955)
Price: $26.49
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Howard Keel, Ann Blyth, Dolores Gray, Vic Damone, Monty Woolley Directed By: Stanley Donen, Vincente Minnelli Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Hollywood's excursions into Arabian Nights exotica don't come much daffier than Kismet, a 1955 MGM adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The score includes two standards, "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" and "Stranger in Paradise," but the blend of Broadway razzmatazz and Middle Eastern culture is, to say the least, awkward. (One comic number revolves around a man about to have his hand chopped off for thievery.) There's plenty here for musical fans to enjoy, and a well-cast Howard Keel does his chesty best as an itinerant poet who fast-talks his way to riches; this was Keel's last starring role in an MGM musical. Unfortunately, Vic Damone is a wet rag as the young prince, the garish Eastman Color photography has not aged well, and director Vincente Minnelli seems not entranced by the material. |
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Late for Dinner
Price: $16.99
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Peter Berg, Brian Wimmer, Marcia Gay Harden, Cassy Friel, Peter Gallagher Directed By: W.D. Richter Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Hollywood's excursions into Arabian Nights exotica don't come much daffier than Kismet, a 1955 MGM adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The score includes two standards, "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" and "Stranger in Paradise," but the blend of Broadway razzmatazz and Middle Eastern culture is, to say the least, awkward. (One comic number revolves around a man about to have his hand chopped off for thievery.) There's plenty here for musical fans to enjoy, and a well-cast Howard Keel does his chesty best as an itinerant poet who fast-talks his way to riches; this was Keel's last starring role in an MGM musical. Unfortunately, Vic Damone is a wet rag as the young prince, the garish Eastman Color photography has not aged well, and director Vincente Minnelli seems not entranced by the material. |
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Eight on the Lam
List Price: $14.95 Now Only: $11.54 You Save: $ 3.41 (23%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Bob Hope, Phyllis Diller, Jonathan Winters, Shirley Eaton, Jill St. John Directed By: George Marshall Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Hollywood's excursions into Arabian Nights exotica don't come much daffier than Kismet, a 1955 MGM adaptation of the hit Broadway musical. The score includes two standards, "Baubles, Bangles, and Beads" and "Stranger in Paradise," but the blend of Broadway razzmatazz and Middle Eastern culture is, to say the least, awkward. (One comic number revolves around a man about to have his hand chopped off for thievery.) There's plenty here for musical fans to enjoy, and a well-cast Howard Keel does his chesty best as an itinerant poet who fast-talks his way to riches; this was Keel's last starring role in an MGM musical. Unfortunately, Vic Damone is a wet rag as the young prince, the garish Eastman Color photography has not aged well, and director Vincente Minnelli seems not entranced by the material. |
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Jingle All the Way
List Price: $9.98 Now Only: $1.89 You Save: $ 8.09 (81%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad Directed By: Brian Levant Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad star in this frivolous comedy about two fathers who are trying to locate and purchase the same hugely popular action toy on Christmas Eve. Schwarzenegger plays a busy father who makes lots of promises to his son that he can't keep, while Sinbad is a crazy postman just trying to make his boy happy. There are some truly comic moments in the film, such as the sight of Schwarzenegger being chased by a reindeer, and the obsequious efforts of a neighbor (Phil Hartman) to insinuate himself on Schwarzenegger's wife in the big man's continual absence. But for the most part, Jingle All the Way is a disposable, live-action cartoon. |
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