Comedy VHS Movies
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Nobody's Fool (1994)
Price: $29.90
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Paramount Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh Directed By: Robert Benton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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"Worn to perfection" is the tag line promoting this crafted character study. It describes Paul Newman, the resourceful 70-year-old lead actor, but not his character, Sully, a North Bath, New York, loner who totally emulates the negative definition of the title. Newman gives a brilliant performance (Oscar-nominated and winner of two critics circle awards) relying on his well-honed subtleties. The dramatics are simple: the return of his son (Dylan Walsh) and grandson, offering a chance to reconcile; odd jobs for a construction company he's trying to sue for an injury; and a comedic grudge match against the owner (a reserved Bruce Willis). |
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The Sting
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $6.99 You Save: $ 7.99 (53%)
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Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston Directed By: George Roy Hill Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find themselves in a high-stakes game against the master of all cheating mobsters (Robert Shaw) when they set out to avenge the murder of a mutual friend and partner. Using a bogus bookie joint as a front for their con of all cons, the two feel the heat from the Chicago Mob on one side and encroaching police on the other. But in a plot that contains more twists than a treacherous mountain road, the ultimate scam is pulled off with consummate style and panache. |
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Pure Luck
Price: $145.99
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson Directed By: Nadia Tass Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This weak, 1991 remake of the French comedy La Chèvre stars Danny Glover as a detective who is sent to Mexico to find a businessman's daughter (Sheila Kelley) and who gets stuck with a hapless assistant (Martin Short). The film wears out its welcome very quickly, despite some passable physical comedy from Short. Both actors have made much better movies; don't be surprised if you can't make it through to the end of this one. --Tom Keogh. |
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Toy Story 2
List Price: $22.99 Now Only: $4.47 You Save: $ 18.52 (81%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Disney/Pixar Starring: Tim Allen, Jodi Benson, Joan Cusack, R. Lee Ermey, Kelsey Grammer Directed By: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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John Lasseter and his gang of high-tech creators at Pixar create another entertainment for the ages. Like the few great movie sequels, Toy Story 2 comments on why the first one was so wonderful while finding a fresh angle worthy of a new film. The craze of toy collecting becomes the focus here, as we find out Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is not only a beloved toy to Andy but also a rare doll from a popular '60s children's show. When a greedy collector takes Woody, Buzz Lightyear (Tim Allen) launches a rescue mission with Andy's other toys. |
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Enchanted April (1991)
Price: $59.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Paramount Starring: Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, Neville Phillips, Jim Broadbent Directed By: Mike Newell Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat (Polly Walker). Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long naps--they all have a soulful effect on the quartet, and then on the men in their lives who make a surprise visit. Mike Newell (Into the West) directs with seeming effortlessness, and it is impossible not to be swayed by the promise of restoration for these burdened characters--or for anyone alive. |
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Toy Story
List Price: $22.99 Now Only: $3.76 You Save: $ 19.23 (84%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn Directed By: John Lasseter Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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There is greatness in film that can be discussed, dissected, and talked about late into the night. Then there is genius that is right in front of our faces--we smile at the spell it puts us into and are refreshed, and nary a word needs to be spoken. This kind of entertainment is what they used to call "movie magic," and there is loads of it in this irresistible computer animation feature. Just a picture of these bright toys reawaken the kid in us. |
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Howard the Duck
Price: $49.98
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Pictures Starring: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien Directed By: Willard Huyck Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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If you concentrate on the fact that Howard the Duck was a notorious box office dud (still brought up today) and considered one of the worst films of the '80s, it's entirely possible to enjoy this special effects piffle. Howard, played by a special effect puppet, lives on a planet where ducks evolved instead of apes, but one day he's sucked into a vortex and deposited on Earth. There he befriends Beverly Switzler (Lea Thompson), lead singer for the Cherry Bombs, becomes their manager, and, oh yeah, saves the Earth from the Dark Overlords. Jeffrey Jones is the villain and Tim Robbins (!) is there for comic relief. |
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Monsters, Inc.
List Price: $24.99 Now Only: $7.99 You Save: $ 17.00 (68%)
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Publisher: Buena Vista Home Entertainment Starring: Jack Angel, Bob Bergen, Samuel Lord Black, Rodger Bumpass, Steve Buscemi Directed By: Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC. Rating G. The folks at Pixar can do no wrong with Monsters, Inc., the studio's fourth feature film, which stretches the computer animation format in terms of both technical complexity and emotional impact. The giant, blue-furred James P. "Sulley" Sullivan (wonderfully voiced by John Goodman) is a scare-monster extraordinaire in the hidden world of Monstropolis, where the scaring of kids is an imperative in order to keep the entire city running. Beyond the competition to be the best at the business, Sullivan and his assistant, the one-eyed Mike Wazowski (Billy Crystal), discover what happens when the real world interacts with theirs in the form of a 2-year-old baby girl dubbed "Boo," who accidentally sneaks into the monster world with Sulley one night. |
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Finding Nemo
List Price: $24.99 Now Only: $14.95 You Save: $ 10.04 (40%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Walt Disney Video Starring: Eric Bana, Nicholas Bird (II), Albert Brooks, Willem Dafoe, Ellen DeGeneres Directed By: Andrew Stanton Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in this wonderfully funny and nonstop thrill ride--rarely does more than 10 minutes pass without a sequence destined to become a theme park attraction. |
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Secret War of Harry Frigg
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley, John Williams (II) Directed By: Jack Smight Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both helpful and a hindrance, sometimes at the same time. Faced with sharks, deep-sea anglers, fields of poisonous jellyfish, sea turtles, pelicans, and much more, Marlin rises above his neuroses in this wonderfully funny and nonstop thrill ride--rarely does more than 10 minutes pass without a sequence destined to become a theme park attraction. |
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