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Mary Poppins
List Price: $26.99 Now Only: $7.99 You Save: $ 19.00 (70%)
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Walt Disney Home Video Starring: Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke, David Tomlinson, Glynis Johns, Hermione Baddeley Directed By: Robert Stevenson Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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There is only one word that comes close to accurately describing the enchanting Mary Poppins, and that term was coined by the movie itself: supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even at 2 hours and 20 minutes, Disney's pioneering mixture of live action and animation (based on the books by P.L. Travers) still holds kids spellbound. Julie Andrews won an Oscar as the world's most magically idealized nanny ("practically perfect in every way," and complete with lighter-than-air umbrella), and Dick Van Dyke is her clownishly charming beau, Bert the chimney sweep. The songs are also terrific, ranging from bright and cheery ("A Spoonful of Sugar") to dark and cheery (the Oscar-winning "Chim Chim Cher-ee") to touchingly melancholy ("Feed the Birds"). |
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The Wizard of Oz
Price: $10.92
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Judy Garland, Frank Morgan, Ray Bolger, Bert Lahr, Jack Haley Directed By: King Vidor, Mervyn LeRoy, Richard Thorpe Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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When it was released during Hollywood's golden year of 1939, The Wizard of Oz didn't start out as the perennial classic it has since become. The film did respectable business, but it wasn't until its debut on television that this family favorite saw its popularity soar. And while Oz's TV broadcasts are now controlled by media mogul Ted Turner (who owns the rights), the advent of home video has made this lively musical a mainstay in the staple diet of great American films. Young Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland), her dog, Toto, and her three companions on the yellow brick road to Oz--the Tin Man (Jack Haley), the Cowardly Lion (Bert Lahr), and the Scarecrow (Ray Bolger)--have become pop-culture icons and central figures in the legacy of fantasy for children. |
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The Miracle (1959)
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Warner Home Video Starring: Carroll Baker, Roger Moore, Walter Slezak, Vittorio Gassman, Katina Paxinou Directed By: Irving Rapper Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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During the war of 1812, a young nun leaves the convent to search for a series of romantic adventures, and during her journey the statue of the virgin Mary descends from the pedestal and takes the young nun's place until her return.. |
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Sarah Plain And Tall
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $7.25 You Save: $ 7.73 (52%)
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Publisher: Republic Pictures Starring: Glenn Close, Christopher Walken, Lexi Randall, Malgorzata Zajaczkowska, Jon DeVries Directed By: Glenn Jordan Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The most-watched made-for-television movie of the 1990s (50Â million viewers upon first broadcast in 1991), this fine adaptation of Patricia MacLachlan's novel stars Glenn Close as Sarah, a Maine schoolteacher who responds to a Kansas farmer's newspaper ad seeking a bride. Set in 1910, the story follows Sarah's trial run as stepmother to the children of the widowed Jacob Witting (Christopher Walken). The tough part of the experiment is the conflicting expectations the would-be couple have over Sarah's role in the household. The kids, too, have their doubts about a substitute for their mother, and Jacob isn't ready, emotionally, for a new beginning. |
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Odyssey
Price: $34.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Hallmark Entertainment Starring: Armand Assante, Greta Scacchi, Isabella Rossellini, Bernadette Peters, Eric Roberts Directed By: Andrei Konchalovsky Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Andrei Konchalovsky's expansive television mini-series production of Homer's epic poem gets off to clumsy start as he tries to squeeze the Trojan War into a mere half hour, but once the arrogant but honorable Odysseus (strikingly played by Armand Assante) and his loyal crew begin their doomed voyage home, this film turns into a fantastical adventure. Integrating often-stunning special effects with inventive art design, Konchalovsky achieves a beautiful look on a limited budget as he follows the 10-year ordeal of Odysseus from his battles with the Cyclops and the magical Circe (Bernadette Peters) to his secret homecoming and his confrontation with the treacherous Eurymachus (Eric Roberts). Isabella Rossellini appears as his spiritual guide, the goddess Athena, with Greta Scacchi as Odysseus's faithful wife and Vanessa Williams as the seductive Calypso. The rest of the cast includes Geraldine Chaplin, Jeroen Krabbé, Christopher Lee, and Irene Papas. |
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Christmas in Connecticut
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $9.95 You Save: $ 5.03 (34%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall Directed By: Peter Godfrey Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Christmas in Connecticut is a holiday film that plays 365 days of the year. Barbara Stanwyck gives a brilliant, sardonic performance as Elizabeth Lane, a columnist for Smart Housekeeping magazine, whose enticing descriptions of the exquisite meals she prepares for her husband and baby on their bucolic Connecticut farm earns her fame as "America's Best Cook." A writer, she is; a cook, she is not. As she types the words, "From my living room window, as I write, the good cedar logs cracking on the fire..." the view is of clothes flapping on the line outside her bachelorette Manhattan apartment. An able supporting cast keeps her lie on life support: her editor, her stuffy and detestable architect suitor, and the wonderful "Uncle" Felix (S.Z. |
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Turning Point
List Price: $9.98 Now Only: $3.44 You Save: $ 6.54 (66%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Anne Bancroft, Shirley MacLaine, Mikhail Baryshnikov, Leslie Browne, Tom Skerritt Directed By: Herbert Ross Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Mikhail Baryshnikov made his film debut in this lightweight but entertaining drama about the relationship between a renowned ballerina (Anne Bancroft) and the woman (Shirley MacLaine) who had trained with her but had given up dance to become a wife, mother, and teacher. Between MacLaine's envy over her friend's career and the attention her own ballerina daughter (Leslie Browne) is getting, MacLaine's character goes through a complicated crisis. The two actresses carry the story very well and probably camouflage its thinness; they even make a somewhat condescending climax involving a catfight seem like a good idea. A subplot involving a developing romance between the virginal Browne and Baryshnikov's womanizer makes for pretty window dressing. |
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The Education of Little Tree
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Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Paramount Starring: James Cromwell, Joseph Ashton, Tantoo Cardinal, Mika Boorem, Christopher Heyerdahl Directed By: Richard Friedenberg Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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In 1935, an 8-year-old orphaned boy is sent to live in the Tennessee mountains with his grandparents. He doesn't yet know that he is half Cherokee, on his grandmother's side. As he learns about life and the Cherokee "way" from his grandparents, Little Tree's sensitivity to nature and to others grows. At first it might seem easy to dismiss this movie as hokey, especially when Little Tree's Scottish grandfather teaches him to make whiskey and he befriends a dog. |
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Lili
Price: $68.85
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Warner) Starring: Leslie Caron, Mel Ferrer, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Kurt Kasznar Directed By: Charles Walters Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The wonderful Leslie Caron stars in this Oscar-winning musical fable with a touch of the bizarre. Caron plays Lili, a recently orphaned waif hopelessly in love with a carnival magician. Mel Ferrer plays Paul, a gruff puppeteer who can express his softer side only through his puppets. Sound weird? It is. |
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Little Lord Fauntleroy
Price: $22.00
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Starmaker Entertainment Starring: Alec Guinness, Rick Schroder, Eric Porter, Colin Blakely, Connie Booth Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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The wonderful Leslie Caron stars in this Oscar-winning musical fable with a touch of the bizarre. Caron plays Lili, a recently orphaned waif hopelessly in love with a carnival magician. Mel Ferrer plays Paul, a gruff puppeteer who can express his softer side only through his puppets. Sound weird? It is. |
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