Drama VHS Movies
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Cannery Row
Price: $43.99
Category: VHS Movies
 Publisher: Mgm/Turner Movie Classics Starring: Nick Nolte, Debra Winger, Audra Lindley, Frank McRae, M. Emmet Walsh Directed By: David S. Ward Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This 1982 effort at adapting John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday and Cannery Row is barely watchable, salvaged only by the thoughtful performances of Nick Nolte as a marine biologist and Debra Winger as a drifter. David S. Ward (Down Periscope) made his directorial debut and thoroughly botched such essentials as pacing and verisimilitude. (The sets look as artificial as any of Francis Ford Coppolla's more egregious contrivances.) If you can stay with it, however, there are plenty of good acting moments to hang your hat on. --Tom Keogh. |
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New Moon
Price: $22.50
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Warner) Starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Nelson Eddy, Mary Boland, George Zucco, H.B. Warner Directed By: Robert Z. Leonard, W.S. Van Dyke Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This 1982 effort at adapting John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday and Cannery Row is barely watchable, salvaged only by the thoughtful performances of Nick Nolte as a marine biologist and Debra Winger as a drifter. David S. Ward (Down Periscope) made his directorial debut and thoroughly botched such essentials as pacing and verisimilitude. (The sets look as artificial as any of Francis Ford Coppolla's more egregious contrivances.) If you can stay with it, however, there are plenty of good acting moments to hang your hat on. --Tom Keogh. |
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Stars & Stripes Forever
Price: $44.94
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Clifton Webb, Robert Wagner, Debra Paget, Ruth Hussey, Finlay Currie Directed By: Henry Koster Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This 1982 effort at adapting John Steinbeck's Sweet Thursday and Cannery Row is barely watchable, salvaged only by the thoughtful performances of Nick Nolte as a marine biologist and Debra Winger as a drifter. David S. Ward (Down Periscope) made his directorial debut and thoroughly botched such essentials as pacing and verisimilitude. (The sets look as artificial as any of Francis Ford Coppolla's more egregious contrivances.) If you can stay with it, however, there are plenty of good acting moments to hang your hat on. --Tom Keogh. |
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Chicago
List Price: $14.99 Now Only: $5.00 You Save: $ 9.99 (67%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Miramax Starring: Renée Zellweger, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Richard Gere, Taye Diggs, Cliff Saunders Directed By: Rob Marshall Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Winner of six Academy Awards(R) (2002) including Best Picture, and starring Academy Award nominee (Best Actress, CHICAGO) and Golden Globe winner (Best Actress in a Musical or Comedy, CHICAGO) Renee Zellweger (BRIDGET JONES'S DIARY), Academy Award winner (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO) Catherine Zeta-Jones (TRAFFIC), Academy Award nominee (Best Supporting Actress, CHICAGO) Queen Latifah (BRINGING DOWN THE HOUSE), Golden Globe winner (Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy, CHICAGO) Richard Gere (UNFAITHFUL), and Academy Award nominee (Best Supporting Actor, CHICAGO) John C. Reilly (GANGS OF NEW YORK) -- CHICAGO is a dazzling spectacle cheered by audiences and critics alike! At a time when crimes of passion result in celebrity headlines, nightclub sensation Velma Kelly (Zeta-Jones) and spotlight-seeking Roxie Hart (Zellweger) both find themselves sharing space on Chicago's famed Murderess Row! They also share Billy Flynn (Gere), the town's slickest lawyer with a talent for turning notorious defendants into local legends. But in Chicago, there's only room for one legend! Also starring Lucy Liu (CHARLIE'S ANGELS).. |
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Fiddler on the Roof
List Price: $29.98 Now Only: $4.10 You Save: $ 25.88 (86%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Starring: Topol, Norma Crane, Leonard Frey, Molly Picon, Paul Mann Directed By: Norman Jewison Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This rousing musical, based on the stories of Shalom Aleichem, takes place in pre-revolutionary Russia and centers on the life of Tevye (Topol), a milkman who is trying to keep his family's traditions in place while marrying off his three older daughters. Yet, times are changing and the daughters want to make their own matches, breaking free of many of the constricting customs required of them by Judaism. In the background of these events, Russia is on the brink of revolution and Jews are feeling increasingly unwelcome in their villages. Tevye--who expresses his desire for sameness in the opening number, "Tradition"--is trying to keep everyone, and everything, together. |
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Bizet - Carmen / Maazel, Migenes, Domingo
Price: $44.95
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: RCA/Columbia Starring: Julia Migenes, Plácido Domingo, Ruggero Raimondi, Faith Esham, François Le Roux Directed By: Francesco Rosi Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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This is the most popular opera production so far on DVD, surpassing even Franco Zeffirelli's lavish, symbol-laden La Traviata. It is an exciting Carmen, with a young-looking Placido Domingo in top form for a role he has sung hundreds of times. For Julia Migenes, it was her first performance in a role she would have trouble performing in an opera house. Her voice does not fit easily into Carmen's range, and she spent months training it, very successfully, before singing the role in a recording studio where the soundtrack was taped before the film was shot. |
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Sound of Music
List Price: $19.98 Now Only: $3.99 You Save: $ 15.99 (80%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: 20th Century Fox Starring: Julie Andrews, Christopher Plummer, Eleanor Parker, Richard Haydn, Peggy Wood Directed By: Robert Wise Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Some people may sneer at this 1965 musical, but the truth is the film has earned its status as a perennially watchable romantic-drama, largely on the strength of a fun story and chemistry between stars Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer. Veteran filmmaker Robert Wise (The Day the Earth Stood Still) mostly stays out of the way of the film's appealing elements, which include a based-on-fact tale of Austria's von Trapp family, who fled their Nazi-occupied country in 1938. Andrews is delightful and even fascinating as Maria, who sheds her tomboyish ways as a novice nun to accept the mantle of adulthood, becoming matron of the motherless von Trapp clan. Plummer is matinee-idol handsome and gives a smart performance to boot, and the cast of young people and kids who make up the singing von Trapp children make a strong impression. Based on the Rodgers and Hammerstein stage musical, the score includes such winners as "Maria" and the future John Coltrane hit "My Favorite Things." --Tom Keogh. |
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Wuthering Heights (1939)
List Price: $14.98 Now Only: $8.50 You Save: $ 6.48 (43%)
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Hbo Home Video Starring: Merle Oberon, Laurence Olivier, David Niven, Flora Robson, Donald Crisp Directed By: William Wyler Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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One of the most compelling tragic romances ever captured on film, Wuthering Heights is an exquisite tale of doomed love and miscalculated intentions. Though only half of Emily Bronte's classic tale of Heathcliff and Catherine was filmed by director William Wyler, it lacks for nothing. The story begins when a Yorkshire gentleman farmer brings home a raggedy gypsy boy, Heathcliff, and raises him as his son. The boy grows to love his stepsister Catherine, with catastrophic results. |
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The '60s
Price: $24.00
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Vidmark / Trimark Starring: Josh Hamilton, Julia Stiles, Jerry O'Connell, Jeremy Sisto, Jordana Brewster Directed By: Mark Piznarski Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Tackling an entire decade--and a turbulent one at that--within a three-hour movie is a challenge, and while The '60s is frequently entertaining, it unfortunately is not completely up to the task. The movie follows the lives of four young people, three from a white suburban family with parents out of The Wonder Years and one African American from the South. The characters are forced into one-dimensional clichés; they are their personas to the nth degree. Katie (Julia Stiles), the pretty young blond, is the lost hippie; Brian (Jerry O'Connell), the former high school football player, is the gung-ho-turned-disgruntled Vietnam solider; Michael (Josh Hamilton) exemplifies the political activist; and Emmet (Leonard Roberts), the only representative of the entire black movement of the '60s, plays first the pacifist who effects change through nonviolent means and then the Black Panther, and then he finally returns to his nonviolent ways. |
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At Play in the Fields of the Lord (2pc)
Price: $59.65
Category: VHS Movies
Publisher: Universal Studios Starring: Tom Berenger, John Lithgow, Daryl Hannah, Aidan Quinn, Tom Waits Directed By: Hector Babenco Prices subject to change. Please verify pricing during checkout. |
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Missionaries travel to the Brazilian rain forest and make a mess of everything. What else is new? Actually, plenty in this dark but beautifully realized adaptation of Peter Matthiessen's well-regarded novel, directed by Hector Babenco. Aidan Quinn, Daryl Hannah, Kathy Bates, and John Lithgow play the Americans who travel to the Brazilian interior in an effort to do some good. But their definitions of good vary wildly; Bates and Lithgow are old-fashioned puritans who want to convert the heathens to Christianity and remove all traces of their own culture. |
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