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Capitalism Stole My Virginity [EP] $8.99 Track Listing: 1. Capitalism Stole My Virginity, 2. Ever Felt Cheated? – (previously unreleased), 3. United by Haircuts – (previously unreleased) |
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The Virginity Hit – Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle AC3 $12.99 One teen’s quest to lose his virginity is broadcast on the Internet for the entire world to see in this comedy from producers Will Ferrell and Adam McKay. Matt always wanted his first time to be special, but then his plan to lose his virginity with longtime girlfriend Nicole went horribly awry. Unfortunately for Matt, his friends were videotaping the entire thing, and before long the clip goes viral. Embarrassed and heartbroken, Matt finds his luck turning around when a pretty online admirer offers to be his first. But her offer comes with a list of stipulations, and as Matt prepares to take the plunge, his pals keep the camera rolling to catch every painfully awkward moment of his transition into manhood. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Anticipation [PA] [Digipak] $4.99 Track Listing: 1. This Moment, 2. My……. Virginity, 3. Golfers, 4. Gamblers, 5. Xmas, 6. Xmas Half-Time, 7. Santa, 8. Chanooookah, 9. Chanukah, 10. Great Headline, A, 11. Blueberry Pancakes |
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Coupling Songs Collection $27.99 Track Listing: 1. Voice Print, 2. Japanese, 3. Japanese, 4. Japanese, 5. Japanese, 6. Girl School, 7. Never Told You But I Love You, 8. Japanese, 9. Virginity, 10. Noise from Your Heart, 11. One Way or Another, 12. Sexy Groove |
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Murmur of the Heart – Fullscreen $21.99 Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the conservative. This is one of director Louis Malle’s finest films: others include The Fire Within and Au Revoir Les Enfants. Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is 14 years old and anxious to lose his virginity. However, he has a very close family circle, and, between the family and school, he is too closely watched to get anywhere. He makes the most of an opportunity to neck with the girls at his older brothers’ party and later almost gets to lose his virginity in a bordello, but his boisterously drunken brothers interrupt him. His real opportunity arises while his mother takes him for a rest-cure for his heart murmur at a very conventional spa. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi |
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Dress To Kill $11.99 Track Listing: 1. San Francisco, 2. American Dream, 3. Empire, 4. 2nd World War, 5. Pearl Harbour to Russia, 6. Italians & Fascists, 7. European Union, 8. Male Tomboy, 9. Executive Transvestite, 10. Stonehenge, 11. Church of England, 12. Scooby Doo, 13. Heimlich Maneouvre, 14. I’m a Film Nut, 15. Great Escape, 16. President Kennedy, 17. One Step for Man, 18. Puberty, 19. Lost My Virginity, 20. Encore |
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Live at the Queen Elizabeth Hall $15.99 Track Listing: 1. Ten Whiskey Bottles, 2. Virginity, 3. Son of Lent, 4. Love Story, 5. Old Folks, 6. 2 Day’s Monday, 7. Father John, 8. This Must Be Love, 9. Poetry: Two Early Morning Poems/Lollipopman/Poem for National …, 10. Dear Diary, 11. Thank U Very Much |
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A New Morning, Changing Weather $11.99 Track Listing: 1. Northwest Passage, A, 2. Up for Sale, 3. Bigger Cages, Longer Chains, 4. Breakout 2001, 5. Body Treatise, A, 6. Born Into a Mess, 7. New Empire Blues, 8. Capitalism Stole My Virginity, 9. Last Century Promise, 10. Dead Language of Love, 11. New Morning, Changing Weather, A |
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High School Sucks: The Musical $16.99 Track Listing: 1. High School Sucks Theme Song – (featuring Christina Echeverria), 2. Tingle in My Pants – (featuring Lucas Ryder/Christina Echeverria), 3. Tell ‘Em All About ‘Em, 4. Cholos, The, 5. I Wonder, 6. E-Love, 7. At This Party, 8. Virginity Song, 9. Triangle, The, 10. Can’t Believe It, 11. High School Sucks (Reprise), 12. Where da Weed At? |
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Bliss – Widescreen Subtitle $19.99 Three people meet under unlikely circumstances and change each other’s lives in this Turkish drama from director Abdullah Oguz. When an unmarried teenage girl is believed by her family to have given up her virginity, she is ordered to be killed out of shame. But before her relative is able to complete the task, the two encounter a college professor in the midst of an existential crisis. With each of their futures held in the balance, the trio embarks on a journey together. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi |
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Huevos Rancheros - $8.99 Huevos Rancheros features two comical stories with a sexy edge. The first, “A Real Good Wot,” tells the tale of a beautiful housewife who gives herself fully to a total stranger by mistake. The second segment, “Virginity at the River,” features a rugged charro who demands proof that his bride-to-be is a virgin. The video features Spanish-speaking video stars Sasha Montenegro, Chelelo, and Carmen Salinas. ~ Betsy Boyd, Rovi |
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Sweet Potato Pie – Dolby $9.99 Taking its cue from the successful American Pie franchise, Dale Steely’s sex comedy Sweet Potato Pie follows the exploits of three friends named Chuck, Perry, and Trey. The threesome set out on a road trip in order to try and shed their pesky virginity, and end up involved with a sexually seasoned woman named Anaconda, a horny and very overweight neighbor, and the title food. ~ Perry Seibert, Rovi |
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Strange Fits of Passion - $14.99 Sex and the singles scene is a much explored and exploited subject in cinema, particularly in the 1990′s. Strange Fits of Passion tries to avoid clich?s in narrating a young woman’s desperate crusade to lose her virginity. The result is a bittersweet fable in which the protagonist takes the viewer along on her journey through hilarious sexual and social misadventures as she struggles to discover the meaning of sex, love, and desire in a world which is post-modern and post-everything. The first film of actress and stage director Elise McCredie, Strange Fits of Passion was chosen for the International Critics’ Week at the 1999 Cannes Film Festival. ~ G?n?l D?nmez-Colin, Rovi |
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Un ?t? ? La Goulette - $19.99 Set in a Tunisian melting-pot town in 1967 and loosely based on the reminiscences of filmmaker Ferid Boughedir, this bittersweet comedy-drama tells the tale of how the secret conspiracy between three teen girls to lose their virginity before they turn seventeen wreaks havoc on the lives and friendships between their disparate families. The fathers have known each other many years, but underneath their friendship lies a silent but strong undercurrent of tension that relates to their different religions and ethnic origins. One family is Muslim, one is Jewish and the last is Roman Catholic. The trouble erupts because each of the girls choose to dally with men outside their religions. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi |
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The Biggest Ragga Dancehall Anthems 2009 [PA] $13.99 Track Listing: 1. Never Change (From Mawning), 2. Wipe Those Tears – Jah Vinci, 3. Inna Life, 4. Mama – Vybz Kartel, 5. Better Dayz, 6. Dem Alone – Mavado, 7. Pre Dis, 8. Neve Believe You – Mavado, 9. Bend Over, 10. Da Style Deh – Busy Signal, 11. Sweetest Time – Mavado, 12. She Can’t Wait, 13. Come Breed Me – Vybz Kartel, 14. Virginity – Vybz Kartel, 15. Straight Forward – Konshens, 16. Pon Your Head, 17. Turn My Life Around, 18. Priority |
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American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile - $9.99 Upon realizing that he may be the first in his family to ever graduate from high school with his virginity intact, Erik Stifler sets out on a mission to slip between the sheets with a girl before slipping into his cap and gown. In order to accomplish his libidinous goal, however, Erik will first have to find a willing partner; and what better place to find a woman whose ready and willing to help him maintain family tradition than at the world famous Naked Mile? Who knows, with a little advice from Jim’s open-minded father (Eugene Levy), there may be some hope for Erik yet. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Ginger and Cinnamon – Subtitle $12.99 Italian filmmaker Daniele Luchetti directs the teen sex comedy Dillo con Parole Mie (Ginger and Cinnamon). Stefania Montorsi (who also co-wrote the screenplay) plays a woman obsessed by her break-up with boyfriend Andrea (Giampaolo Morelli). Luckily, her 14-year-old niece Meggy (Martina Merlino) shows up and suggests they spend the summer on a party island in Greece. Desperate to lose her virginity, Meggy runs into Andrea on the beach and many mix-ups occur. Ginger and Cinnamon was shown at the2003 Cannes Film Festival market. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi |
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A Night in Compton – Subtitle AC3 $5.99 From writer/director D Baptiste, this 2004 sex comedy stars Desiree Wynn as Lanise, a teenage girl who has recently begun turning heads after losing 75 pounds. Meanwhile, Zion (James A. Smith) is hoping to lose something of his own: his virginity. With only one night in town, Zion sets his sights on Lanise, but she’s got some business to take care of first. A Night in Compton screened at the 2004 edition of the Hollywood Black Film Festival where it was honored with the Audience Choice Award. ~ Matthew Tobey, Rovi |
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Aiyaya, Qu Buru – Subtitle $14.99 Written and directed by Cui Zi’en, Aiyaya, Qu Buru (Feeding Boys, Aiyaya) is a frank, sexually explicit look at the culture of gay male prostitutes in contemporary China. The plot revolves around Dabin, a Christian evangelist with a mission: He wants to reform China’s entire hustler population, particularly his own younger brother, Xiao Bo. Meanwhile, a young man plans to sell his virginity for 10,000 dollars, while another tries to explain why he believes prostitutes are actually a higher, if misunderstood, social class than most people. Other highlights include a traditional Chinese family’s reaction to their son’s untraditional line of work, a runaway, and a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of the lifestyle. ~ Tracie Cooper, Rovi |
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Absurd Nightclub Comedy… [CD & DVD] $14.99 Track Listing: 1. Hello, Credit Card, Fidelity, Kids Say the Darndest Things, 2. Seattle, Steakhouse, 3. Florida, 4. Dog, Dreams Predict the Future, My Own Culture, Jewish, 5. Stalking, Bathroom, 6. Russian and Atari, 7. Teen Wolf, Gay Marriage, Gay Rights, 8. Million, Rent a Car, Terminator and Matrix, My Day, 9. I’m Nervous, Virginity, People Quoting Stuff They’ve Read, Not Funny to…, Being Followed, 10. Shapes For Sale, 11. Skatepunk, Ice Cream Store, Talking Dirty, Protester on the Street, Terrible Prostitute, Nerd, 12. Cupid, 13. Fleet, 14. Special Ed, Ladies, Grandmother, Religion, 15. Pot Ads, 16. Mirman, 17. Dub Plasma Edit-Face Joke, Dance Party, 18. Untitled |
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American Virgin - $5.99 A prudish college freshman finds her prim and proper reputation compromised after she’s plied with alcohol by a deceptive classmate and caught baring it all for the popular video series “Chicks Go Crazy.” Priscilla White (Jenna Dewan) is a college freshman on an abstinence scholarship. She’d never dream of giving up her virginity before marriage, but when local legend Natalie “The Naz” (Brianne Davis) tricks her into drinking alcohol, Prescilla’s inhibitions fly out the window. After exposing herself for the “Girls Go Crazy” cameras, Prescilla realizes she risks losing it all for her one moment of bad judgment, and races to recover the tapes from sleazy producer Ed Kurtzman (Rob Schneider). Catching up with the “Girls Go Crazy” bus won’t be easy, but with a little help from The Naz and handsome traveling companion Chuck, it’s sure to be a trip Prescilla never forget. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Pleasure Factory – Widescreen Collector’s Subtitle $19.99 Director Ekachai Uekrongtham takes viewers on a walk through Singapore’s notorious red light district with this intimate look at the pleasure seekers who walk the streets and the providers who are willing to fulfill their fantasies if the price is right. Lust is the driving force of commerce in Geylang, and over the course of this long night some will experience rapture while others discover that money can buy much more than pleasures of the flesh. From the army boy whose loses his virginity thanks to the assistance of an experienced friend to the weary prostitute who pays a street musician for his silence and a teenage girl getting her first glimpse of the pleasure manufacturing industry, Uekrongtham offers viewers the chance to experience this thriving industry from a multitude of unique perspectives. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Caramel – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby $14.99 A Beirut beauty salon serves as a microcosm of modern society in director Nadine Labaki’s look at liberated conversation in a conflicted society. Over the course of their day it becomes readily apparent that women are truly the same everywhere, regardless of the society they live in. While single Layale struggles with her growing attraction to a married man, Muslim bride-to-be Nisrine fears that her husband will find out that she has already lost her virginity, and Rima wages a futile war against her lesbian instincts. As with many women who frequent the salon, Jamale does everything within her power to reverse the visible effects of aging. As Rose laments the fact that she has sacrificed her own happiness in order to care for her older sister, the intimate conversations shared over the course of a typical day reveal just how universal the lives, loves, and concerns of contemporary women truly are. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Higher Level $11.99 Track Listing: 1. Party Like This – (Patois, featuring Jagwa), 2. Nuh Come Fast – (Patois), 3. Elephant Message – (Patois), 4. No Hail Mi – (Patois), 5. Give Her It Good – (Patois), 6. Do Yuh Ting – (Patois), 7. Run for Your Life – (Patois), 8. Egyptian Dance – (Patois), 9. Krazy Riddim, 10. Bad Man a Bad Man – (Patois), 11. Low Mi Name – (Patois), 12. Making Money – (Patois), 13. Bring Di Sitten Come – (Patois), 14. Bumper – (Patois), 15. Higher Level – (Patois), 16. Tall Up Tall Up – (Patois), 17. Ghetto Girls – (Patois), 18. Approach – (Patois), 19. Gotcha – (Patois, featuring Jagwa), 20. Look – (Patois), 21. On Line – (Patois), 22. Virginity – (Patois), 23. Miss Matty Son – (Patois) |
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Ocean’s Twelve $11.99 Track Listing: 1. L’Appuntamento – Ornella Vanoni, 2. $165 Million + Intrest / Round Up, The – David Holmes , 3. L.S.D. Partie – Roland Vincent, 4. Lifting the Building – David Holmes, 5. 10:35 I Turn Off Camera 3 – David Holmes, 6. Crepuscolo Sul Mare – Piero Umiliani, 7. What R We Stealing – David Holmes, 8. Faust 72 – Dynastie Crisis, 9. Stealing The Stock / Le Renard De Nuit – David Holmes , 10. 7/29/04 the Day Of – David Holmes, 11. Lazy – David Holmes, 12. Explosive Corrosive Joseph – John Schroeder, 13. Yen on a Carousel – David Holmes, 14. Real Story, The – David Holmes, 15. Acension to Virginity – Dave Grusin, 16. Untitled – David Holmes (Hidden Track) |
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All I Want – Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle Dolby $12.99 The romantic comedy Try Seventeen is a coming-of-age tale directed by Jeffrey Porter. Jones Dillon (Elijah Wood) is a young writer who is living on his own for the first time. Jones continually writes letters to the father he has never met, while his mother Blanche (Elizabeth Perkins) resides in Texas. Enrolled in college, he quickly abandons the stifling dormitory setting and eventually his classes as well. He finds an apartment in an old building in the city and befriends his neighbors. The place is filled with colorful artists and other nonconformist types. Jones gets romantically involved with struggling actress Lisa (Mandy Moore) and photographer Jane (Franka Potente). He buys furniture from Ma Mabley (Debbie Harry) and proceeds to try and lose his virginity while searching for his absent father. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi |
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The Scheme – Subtitle Dolby $12.99 When three horny friends discover that the lusty daughter of a local politician is aching to experience her first sexual encounter, they quickly swing a deal with a sleazy tabloid to get pictures of the act and turn an easy profit in an outrageous sex comedy starring former Saturday Night Live newsman Jimmy Fallon. A stolen letter has revealed that the popular Catholic-school girl and politician’s daughter is ready and willing to lose her virginity. When bumbling, would-be Romeo Ray (Fallon) determines to help her make her dreams become a reality while turning a profit at the same time, his simple plan becomes a tangled mess as an enraged publisher pushes him to meet his deadline and he finds himself falling for his slightly less-than-innocent target. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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Clara’s Summer – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby $14.99 A week away from home has a profound impact on a young woman in this French drama. Clara (Selma Brook) and Zoe (Stephanie Sokolinski) are two close friends in their early teens who are being sent off to summer camp for a week. Zoe, who is very much aware of her burgeoning sexuality, sees their time away from home as a perfect opportunity to meet boys and lose their virginity, though Clara is a bit more cautious about such matters. Zoe sets her sights on cute Sebastien (Leo Grandperret), but when his lack of maturity angers her, Zoe decides she’s through with men, and declares her affection for Clara. Clara isn’t sure how she feels about this, but while the next day Zoe is back to flirting with Sebastien, Clara has found herself newly open to the idea of having a relationship with another girl. Clara begins seeking the attentions of Sonia (Salom?e Stevenin), a precocious teenaged bisexual, but when gossip begins to spread about Clara’s Sapphic desires, she is torn between her new feelings and fears about her reputation. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Wayne’s World 2 – Widescreen Subtitle $7.99 Everyone’s favorite headbangers from Aurora, Illinois, are back in this sequel to the 1992 hit comedy Wayne’s World. The success of their TV show allows Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) to finally move out of their parents’ homes, but now they have to figure out what to do with their lives. Wayne’s girlfriend, up-and-coming rock star Cassandra (Tia Carrere), is enjoying a career boost thanks to her new manager Bobby Cohn (Christopher Walker), but Garth thinks that Bobby is more interested in her body than her place on the charts. Meanwhile, Wayne is visited in a dream by the late Jim Morrison (Michael A. Nickles), who convinces him to promote a massive rock festival, “Waynestock,” featuring Aerosmith as headliners. Garth, on the other hand, is finally relieved of his pesky virginity by femme fatale Honey Hornee (Kim Basinger), though it turns out that Honey has a hidden agenda. Drew Barrymore, Harry Shearer, and Charlton Heston play cameo roles in Wayne’s World 2, and Jay Leno, Rip Taylor, and Todd Rundgren appear as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Preaching to the Perverted - $19.99 A young man learns that love hurts (or at least it does if you’re doing it right) in this saucy comedy from England. Henry Harding (Tom Bell) is a member of British Parliament and a self-styled moral crusader who is deeply disturbed by reports that Tanya Cheex (Guinevere Turner), a dominatrix from the U.S., has opened a night club for S&M enthusiasts in England. Harding is determined to put Cheex out of business, but first he needs to collect evidence of her activities, so Harding persuades Peter Emery (Christian Anholt) — a young man with political ambitions, Christian principles, and his virginity intact — to attend the club incognito and videotape the proceedings. To Peter’s great surprise, he discovers that he rather likes a bit of spanking and leather fetishism, and he soon becomes quite infatuated with Tanya, making him all the less inclined to help shut down her club. Preaching to the Perverted presented Guinevere Turner in her first starring role after her breakthrough in the acclaimed independent feature Go Fish. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Wayne’s World 2 – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby $12.99 Everyone’s favorite headbangers from Aurora, Illinois, are back in this sequel to the 1992 hit comedy Wayne’s World. The success of their TV show allows Wayne Campbell (Mike Myers) and Garth Algar (Dana Carvey) to finally move out of their parents’ homes, but now they have to figure out what to do with their lives. Wayne’s girlfriend, up-and-coming rock star Cassandra (Tia Carrere), is enjoying a career boost thanks to her new manager Bobby Cohn (Christopher Walker), but Garth thinks that Bobby is more interested in her body than her place on the charts. Meanwhile, Wayne is visited in a dream by the late Jim Morrison (Michael A. Nickles), who convinces him to promote a massive rock festival, “Waynestock,” featuring Aerosmith as headliners. Garth, on the other hand, is finally relieved of his pesky virginity by femme fatale Honey Hornee (Kim Basinger), though it turns out that Honey has a hidden agenda. Drew Barrymore, Harry Shearer, and Charlton Heston play cameo roles in Wayne’s World 2, and Jay Leno, Rip Taylor, and Todd Rundgren appear as themselves. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Km.0 – Subtitle $8.99 Located in Madrid’s Plaza del Sol, Km. 0 is the point from which all distances in Spain are measured from the capital. In Km. 0, it is also the meeting point for a gallery of characters. Bored, affluent housewife Marga (Concha Velasco) meets up with gigolo Miguel (Jesus Cabrero), who co-habitates with gay Benjamin (Miquel Garcia). Sergio, a soon-to-be-married office clerk who can’t wait to lose his virginity, makes the acquaintance of prostitute Tatiana (Elisa Matilla), while gay dancer Bruno (Victor Ullate Jr.) meets Maximo (Armando delRio). Meanwhile, wannabe director Pedro (Carlos Fuentes) arranges to meet up with Silvia (Merce Pons), an actress who wants to work in musicals directed by Gerardo (George Corraface), and bartender Mario (Tristan Ulloa) is caught between Amor (Silke), who wants to marry him, and her little sister Roma (Cora Tiedra), who is truly in love with him. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi |
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Stephanie Daley – Widescreen Subtitle $19.99 A frightened and irresponsible girl and an emotionally conflicted woman are brought together under tragic circumstances in this independent drama. Stephanie Daley (Amber Tamblyn) is a 16-year-old girl who while on a school-sponsored ski trip collapses in a puddle of blood; a medical examination reveals that Stephanie has recently given birth, and in a nearby bathroom a newborn child is found dead, flushed down a toilet with its mouth stuffed with toilet paper. While Stephanie insists the child was stillborn and she had no idea she was pregnant, she is charged with killing the infant, and court-appointed psychologist Lydie Crane (Tilda Swinton) is assigned to interview the teenager. Lydie has her own issues with possible parenthood; she’s been struggling to have a child after a recent stillbirth, and the matter is taking a toll on her marriage, with her husband, Paul (Timothy Hutton), seeking solace in the arms of another woman. As Stephanie shares with Lydie her feelings about her relationship with her parents, how she lost her virginity, and her growing conviction that God gave her a child as a form of punishment, Lydie finds herself dealing with her own feelings about the child she lost. Meanwhile, Right to Life and Pro-Choice groups threaten to turn Stephanie’s trial into a media circus. Stephanie Daley premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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JUBILEE CELEBRATION / (AC3 DOL DTS) – AC3 Dolby Dts $89.99 Includes:Whatever (1998), MPAA Rating: R Whatever Susan Skoog wrote and directed this coming-of-age tale set in a New Jersey suburb during the early ’80s and seen from the viewpoint of sensitive, rebellious teen Anna Stockard (Liza Weil), who is passionate about art. Anna lives with her obnoxious kid brother and her lonely divorced mom Carol (Kathryn Rossetter), a bitter woman who dates a wealthy but elderly man in hopes escaping future poverty. With little acceptance at home, Anna is eager for life and she hangs out with her party-loving pal Brenda (Chad Morgan), revealed to be a victim of sexual abuse. Anna loses her virginity to another artist wannabe, someone who has interested her since childhood. Anna’s constant partying results in a low grade point average at school, and despite the encouragement of her art teacher, failed artist Mr. Chaminsky (Frederic Forrest), Anna is insecure about her talent. Her attitude and lifestyle are beginning to seem like drawbacks to her dream of going to New York to study at Cooper Union. Soundtrack includes numerous pop tunes of the period, including David Bowie, The Ramones, Patti Smith, Iggy Pop, and Blondie. Shown at the 1998 Sundance Film Festival. ~ Bhob Stewart, Rovi |
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Glorious / Dressed To Kill $37.99 Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Glorious, 1. San Francisco, 2. American Dream, 2. In Bed With God, 3. Empire, 3. Noah on Speed, 4. 2nd World War, 4. Tyranny of Ducks, The, 5. Pearl Harbour to Russia, 5. River Styx, The, 6. Italians and Fascists, 6. Mystic Hopscotch, 7. European Union, 7. Fill Me With the Gobi Desert, 8. Male Tomboy, 8. Six Million Dollar Queen, 9. Do You Think I’m Sexy, 9. Executive Transvestite, 10. Helen of Troy, 10. Stonehenge, 11. Achilles Footwear, 11. Church of England, 12. Huge Fuck-Off Horse, A, 12. Scooby Doo, 13. Heimlich Maneouvre, 13. Play on Nativity, A, 14. Crazy St. Peter, 14. I’m a Film Nut, 15. Great Escape, 15. Swiss Protection, 16. Nottingham Twang, The, 16. President Kennedy, 17. My Name Is Tracy, 17. One Step for Man, 18. Deus Ex Machina, 18. Puberty, 19. Lost My Virginity, 19. They Lie to Us, 20. Encore, 20. Hell in a Shower, 21. Flight of the Volkswagen, The, 22. Birdsuck, 23. I’ve Got a Bad Feeling, 24. Death by Chocolate, 25. Armageddon |
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Voice Of The Blood $8.99 VOICE OF THE BLOOD is so named because the texts of Hildegard of Bingen’s songs performed here refer often to the spilled blood of St. Ursula and her 11,000 virgins. Sequentia wonderfully presents Hildegard’s monophonic “song cycle” here in the order she probably intended.Ursula lived in the 4th Century, but at the time Hildegard lived (12th Century) her tale of divine virginity inspired renewed interest in her cult, mainly through the supposed discovery of her bones and the visions of her received by Elisabeth of Sch?nau.Ursula was promised to a pagan English prince, but was saved from this marriage by an angelic order to make a pilgrimage to Rome. She was accompanied by 11 noblewomen (which over time was inflated to 11,000). On their way back her group was killed in Cologne by Attila the Hun (not historically viable, but such is folklore).Hildegard, a highly spiritual woman who herself received divine messages (the last song on this release contains words she created to depict the indescribable things she saw and heard), obviously knew, loved and related to Ursula’s story. Thanks, Sequentia, for bringing this savory piece of history to life! |
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Porky’s – Widescreen $12.99 Love it or loathe it (and there are a goodly number of people on either side), Porky’s was one of the most successful comedies of its day, spawning two direct sequels and inspiring an incalculable number of lowbrow teen comedies, most recently including American Pie (1999). Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), Billy (Mark Herrier), Tommy (Wyatt Knight), and Mickey (Roger Wilson) are four painfully horny high school kids growing up in South Florida in the 1950′s. Desperate to rid themselves of their cumbersome virginity, they head out to a sleazy bar near the swamps called Porky’s, where local legend has it that the owner will fix you up with a prostitute for a reasonable fee. After Porky takes their money and dumps them in the swamp, the guys vow to get revenge. Meanwhile, Pee Wee has to deal with his shrinking penis, someone drills a hole in the wall of the girl’s shower, the guys encounter a prostitute named Cherry Forever, and anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. Cheerfully rude in a manner few mainstream films had achieved at that time, Porky’s, for better or worse, changed the standard of what was acceptable in a screen comedy. Remarkably enough, two years later director Bob Clark made the holiday favorite A Christmas Story, which displayed his considerable range, if nothing else. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Porky’s – Widescreen Dubbed Subtitle Special $12.99 Love it or loathe it (and there are a goodly number of people on either side), Porky’s was one of the most successful comedies of its day, spawning two direct sequels and inspiring an incalculable number of lowbrow teen comedies, most recently including American Pie (1999). Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), Billy (Mark Herrier), Tommy (Wyatt Knight), and Mickey (Roger Wilson) are four painfully horny high school kids growing up in South Florida in the 1950′s. Desperate to rid themselves of their cumbersome virginity, they head out to a sleazy bar near the swamps called Porky’s, where local legend has it that the owner will fix you up with a prostitute for a reasonable fee. After Porky takes their money and dumps them in the swamp, the guys vow to get revenge. Meanwhile, Pee Wee has to deal with his shrinking penis, someone drills a hole in the wall of the girl’s shower, the guys encounter a prostitute named Cherry Forever, and anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. Cheerfully rude in a manner few mainstream films had achieved at that time, Porky’s, for better or worse, changed the standard of what was acceptable in a screen comedy. Remarkably enough, two years later director Bob Clark made the holiday favorite A Christmas Story, which displayed his considerable range, if nothing else. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Stealing Beauty - $8.99 This beautiful if ponderous souffl? of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with a handsome boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted. Lucy’s mother has committed suicide since then, and the teenager also hopes to discover the identity of her father, whom her mother hinted was a resident of the villa. Once she arrives, Lucy meets a variety of eccentric visitors, including a dying gay playwright (Jeremy Irons), a sculptor (Donal McCann), an entertainment lawyer (D.W. Moffet), and several others. Lucy has decided to lose her virginity and becomes an object of intense interest to the men of the household, but the suitor she finally selects is not the initial object of her affection. Stealing Beauty boasted an intriguing parallel between actress Tyler’s role and her real life. The daughter of a famed rock and roll star, she was brought up believing that her father was someone else, a fact that Bertolucci may have had in mind when writing the story. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi |
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Face - $19.99 Junji Sakamoto spins this tale of a socially inept yet indomitable woman searching for freedom and self-respect. Set in Kobe at the beginning of 1995, the film introduces Masako (Naomi Fujiyama), a withdrawn, middle-aged woman living above her mother’s dry cleaning shop. She rarely leaves the house and is often tormented by her pretty younger sister. After their mother suddenly dies, the sisters’ sibling rivalry takes a rather nasty turn. Immediately after the funeral, Masako strangles her sister in an explosion of rage and humiliation. Just as she stumbles into life on the run, the Kobe earthquake strikes. Terrified that the disaster is some divine retribution for her crime, she flees willy-nilly to Osaka, where, after losing her virginity to a rape, she finds shelter and eventually employment at a “love hotel.” When the owner of that establishment hangs himself to escape a mountain of bad debt, Masako flees to Beppu on the southern island of Kyushu. There she falls in love with a down-and-out salesman and finds camaraderie with a world-weary bar owner. In spite of the constant air of violence and the occasional rape, Masako blossoms in her new surroundings until her past — and the police — start to catch up with her. This film was screened at the 2000 Toronto Film Festival. ~ Jonathan Crow, Rovi |
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Friends & Lovers - $12.99 The Christmas holidays are fast approaching when Los Angeles native Ian (George Newbern) gets an unexpected invitation from his father (David Rasche) to join him for a vacation in Park City, Utah. The two don’t get along especially well, but Ian goes partly in hopes of patching up the relationship, and partly because his friends figure it would be a nice vacation. In fact, they’re so convinced that several of them end up tagging along. Good looking guy Jon (Stephen Baldwin) is determined to seduce good looking gal Carla (an obviously well-cast Claudia Schiffer), despite heavy competition from German ski instructor Hans (Robert Downey Jr.), while David (Danny Nucci) is equally determined to do something about his pesky virginity. Meanwhile, Keaton (Neill Barry) discovers his sister (Suzanne Cryer) is dealing with an unplanned pregnancy, and she wants Keaton to resolve his issues with their father before it’s too late. But Keaton has other emotional issues to deal with when he finds out his longtime friend Lisa (Alison Eastwood) wants them to move past friendship into a deeper relationship. This romantic comedy-drama was the debut feature from writer/director George Haas. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Skipped Parts – Widescreen Subtitle $12.99 In this comedy-drama, a teenage boy gets a crash course in the mysteries of love and sex. Lydia Callahan (Jennifer Jason Leigh) had her son Sam when she was only 14 years old. Now 14 himself, Sam (Bug Hall) finds himself in the small community of GroVont, WY, after his mother is run out of town by her own father (R. Lee Ermey). While Lydia is helped through her transition by Hank Elkrunner (Michael Greyeyes), Sam doesn’t fit in at school and runs afoul of bully Dothan Talbot (Brad Renfro). But he soon makes friends with classmate Maurey Pierce (Mischa Barton), who makes an unusual proposal: since she doesn’t want to seem inexperienced when she loses her virginity, perhaps Sam could help her practice the finer points of sex. While Sam is more than willing to help, this arrangement creates complications that his fantasies about his Dream Girl (Drew Barrymore) have not prepared him for. Skipped Parts is based on the novel of the same name by Tim Sandlin. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Fear – Widescreen $8.99 Mark Wahlberg stars in one of his first features as a hoodlum drug dealer from the wrong side of the trackswho falls in love with Nicole Walker, an upper-middle-class high school girl (Reese Witherspoon). In this psycho-drama (with the emphasis on psycho), Nicole happily loses her virginity to her first love, but, when she begins to doubt the relationship, his tenderness turns to violence, as he stalks and terrorizes her and her friends and family. The girl’s father never trusted him in the first place, but his reservations about his daughter’s first serious boyfriend are interpreted as Oedipal paranoia, until the boy and his drug-dealing, date-raping buddies besiege the overly fortified house in a twisted attempt to win back Nicole’s love. The Seattle setting juxtaposes a grunge rock underworld with an over-privileged suburban household, and includes a very sexual ride on a roller-coaster. And yes, former underwear model Wahlberg appears shirtless several times. ~ Laura Abraham, Rovi |
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Sunnyvale – Widescreen $14.99 A video game-obsessed, porn-addicted loser who sustains himself on artery-clogging junk food proves to be an amazing lover when fate delivers three beautiful but very different women right to his apartment door. A thirty year old virgin who generally passes his time eating, gaming, and masturbating, Opie collects unemployment while living rent-free in an apartment owned by his uncle. Then, one day, the hermetic seal on Opie’s carefully contained world is suddenly ripped open by an unexpected knock at the door. The visitor in question is his neighbor Thai, who is searching for her missing girlfriend. Taking note of Opie’s curious lifestyle, Thai and the reclusive social misfit engage in an intense philosophical debate that eventually culminates in Opie losing his virginity to his randy guest. Before long, Opie has also bedded Thai’s statuesque girlfriend Dakota as well, in addition to landing a rather promising date through the personals. Could it be that the world’s biggest loser is finally coming out of his shell, or is Opie destined to spend the rest of his life safely locked away from reality in his hedonistic fantasy world? ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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3 Films by Louis Malle [Criterion Collection] [4 Discs] - $89.99 Includes:The Immigrant (1917) Murmur of the Heart (1971), MPAA Rating: R Lacombe Lucien (1974), MPAA Rating: R Au Revoir Les Enfants (1987), MPAA Rating: PG The Immigrant Charles Chaplin’s next-to-last Mutual Studios 2-reeler is as funny as his other 11 Mutual entries, though there’s a stronger inner lining of poignancy. En route by boat from an unnamed country, immigrant Chaplin tries to make the best of the nausea-inducing rough seas. He then befriends fellow emigree Edna Purviance and her ailing mother. Months pass: Chaplin meets Purviance in a restaurant. Quickly ascertaining that her mother has died, Chaplin appoints himself Purviance’s protector. He even promises to pay for the meal; after all, he’s just found a silver dollar on the street. But when the dollar lands on the ground with a leadlike thud, Chaplin realizes he’s as broke as ever–and now he’s at the mercy of blood-in-his-eye headwaiter Eric Campbell. But fortune smiles on Chaplin and Purviance when a famous artist decides to hire the girl as his model. Chaplin negotiates an excellent contract for his bride-to-be, and everything comes up roses. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi Murmur of the Heart Told with fondness and precision, and set in France at the time of the IndoChina War (which later became an American problem known as the Vietnam War), this controversial feature handles teen coming-of-age, sexuality and even incest with a gentleness that disappointed the prurient and shocked the conservative. This is one of director Louis Malle’s finest films: others include The Fire Within and Au Revoir Les Enfants. Laurent (Benoit Ferreux) is 14 years old and anxious to lose his virginity. However, he has a very close family circle, and, between the family and school, he is too closely watched to get anywhere. He makes the most of an opportunity to neck with the girls at his older brothers’ party and later almost gets to lose his virginity in a bordello, but his boisterously drunken brothers interrupt him. His real opportunity arises while his mother takes him for a rest-cure for his heart murmur at a very conventional spa. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi Lacombe Lucien With a superb music score by Django Reinhardt, this is a Louis Malle film about the German occupation of France. Based on his own experiences in France during the occupation, Malle’s film does not paint a pretty picture of the French Resistance and eventually he emigrated to America because of the critical reaction to this film. Essentially the tale of a young boy who wants to join the Resistance but is shunned by them because of his youth, he joins the Gestapo. Unfortunately, he then falls in love with a young Jewish girl. Push comes to shove and he suddenly has the unsympathetic Resistance and the Gestapo hot on his trail. Not a pretty picture of either side. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi Au Revoir Les Enfants Gaspard Manesse plays Julien, an 11-year-old Catholic boarding-school resident during the Nazi occupation of France. He is witness to the c |
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Summer Palace – Widescreen Subtitle $19.99 A romance takes place against some of the most turbulent events in recent Chinese history in this epic-scale story from filmmaker Lou Ye. Yu Hong (Hao Lei) is a beautiful 17-year-old girl who is soon to leave the small border town where she was born and raised to attend college at Beijing University. Shortly before Yu Hong leaves for school, she gives her virginity to her longtime boyfriend, Xiao, and pledges to remain faithful to him. At Beijing University, Yu Hong makes friends with Li Ti (Hu Ling), another girl dealing with a long-distance relationship, and meets Zhou Wei (Guo Xiaodong), a handsome student who soon steals her heart. Yu Hong leaves her relationship with Xiao behind to commit herself to Zhou Wei, and she’s swept up by her feelings for him as they embrace the new social and economic freedoms which are being felt on campus. The empowerment felt by the students in Beijing comes to a head during a series of demonstrations in Tiananmen Square; the protests have tragic consequences, and the excitement of new possibilities gives way to a feeling of defeat. Yu Hong and Zhou Wei are separated and the heavy hand of the state is brought to bear on the rebellious students. The first Chinese film to feature full-frontal male and female nudity, Yiheyuan (aka Summer Palace) received its world premiere as an official selection at the 2006 Cannes Film Festival. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Pon Di Gaza 2.0 $19.99 Track Listing: (DISC 1:), (DISC 2:), 1. Carefull – (featuring Stephen “Di Genius” McGregor), 1. You a Me Baby, 2. Bicycle, 2. Life We Living, 3. Love Dem/Gallis Anthem, 3. Struggle, 4. Gal a Weh Me Do You, 4. Marie, 5. Mamma, 5. Nah Let Go, 6. Can’t Get Over Me, 6. Life Sweet, 7. Dollar Sign/Hustle the Money, 7. Wah Some Grades, 8. Ghetto Youth, 8. Something Ah Go Happen, 9. Mr. Officer, 9. Yea Though I Walk, 10. Bail for Me, 10. Like a Movie, 11. Go Go Club, 11. Tear Drops, 12. Story of My Life, 12. You Can’t Say, 13. Come Back Home, 13. Get Wild, 14. Gwaan So, 14. Love at First Sight, 15. Love of Money, 15. Super Star – (featuring Black Rhyno), 16. Dollars, 16. Gaza Ting a Ling, 17. Million Dollar by a Morning, 17. Romping Shop, 18. Video Recorder, 18. Virginity – (featuring Gaza Indu), 19. Bun Fi Bun, 19. Come Breed Me – (featuring Gaza Indu), 20. Mother on Law, 20. World Turns, The, 21. Gaza Love, 21. Nuh Fraid a Nobody/Neva Scared, 22. Biscycle [Radio Mix] – (remix), 22. Without My Own, 23. Free Style, 23. Last Man Standing |
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Coming Soon – Widescreen $8.99 Coming Soon is yet another youth comedy about the sexual misadventures of a group of high school students, but with a difference — this time, it follows three teenage girls who are in search of sexual and romantic fulfillment. Nell (Tricia Vessey), Jenny (Gaby Hoffmann), and Stream (Bonnie Root) are three friends enrolled at a respected private school, busy finishing up their senior year and trying to get into good colleges. But academia is not the only thing occupying their minds, especially when Stream admits to her friends that she’s never had an orgasm. Jenny and Nell quickly decide they must find Stream a boyfriend who can solve this problem once and for all. But neither of them has been doing much better; while both have had their share of significant others, none has been especially concerned their pleasure, leaving both young women unsatisfied. Stream’s fling with big man on campus Chad (James Roday) deprives her of her virginity but leaves her no closer to her stated goal; however, she meets Henry (Ryan Reynolds), a guy who is too much the individual to fit in at school but seems interested in her; he is also, for a change, not obsessed with himself. The supporting cast includes Spalding Gray as a guidance counselor and Ryan O’Neal and Mia Farrow (reunited nearly 35 years after appearing together on TV’s Peyton Place) as Stream’s parents. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Dead Presidents – Widescreen $4.99 Albert Hughes and his brother Allen Hughes followed their striking debut Menace II Society with this ambitious look at the social and political lives of the African-American community in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Anthony Curtis (Larenz Tate) is a young man coming of age in the Bronx in 1968. Working two part-time jobs — one as a milkman’s helper and another for local numbers runner Kirby (Keith David) — Anthony is torn between doing the right thing and trying to get by in a environment that offers few opportunities to young black men. After graduating from high school, Anthony decides to join the Marines, news that is not well-received by his parents, who want him to go to college, or his girlfriend Juanita (Rose Jackson), with whom Anthony recently lost his virginity. After serving a horrific tour of duty in Viet Nam with his friends Skip (Chris Tucker) and Jose (Freddy Rodriguez), Anthony finds himself back home in 1973, where Juanita has been raising the child he fathered before he shipped out, drugs and crime have crippled his community, and honest job prospects are practically nil. Eventually, Anthony falls in with Kirby, Skip, and Jose, who have teamed with Juanita’s sister Delilah (N’Bushe Wright), a Black Power activist, and Cleon (Bokeem Woodbine), in a scheme to rob an armored truck taking worn greenbacks (“dead presidents”) to a mint to be destroyed. Martin Sheen and Seymour Cassel appear unbilled in small roles. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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American Pie – Widescreen Collector’s Dubbed $12.99 It’s said that most American men think about sex once every two or three minutes, but this statistic would seriously underestimate the horniness of Jim (Jason Biggs), a high school senior in suburban Michigan. Jim is thoroughly obsessed with sex, a fact of which his parents become aware when they discover him performing the sin of Onan with a gym sock while watching scrambled pay-per-view porn. Jim’s buddies Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), and Oz (Chris Klein) are no less anxious to relieve themselves of their virginity, so they all make a pledge: they will go to bed with a woman in the three weeks before senior prom or die trying. Kevin appears to have the advantage, since he already has a girlfriend, Vicky (Tara Reid), but before he ventures into the Final Frontier, Kevin is urged to consult “The Bible,” a hand-written how-to manual possessing erotic wisdom passed down through the ages. Oz is a good-looking jock who is actually a nice guy — which is part of the problem, since he has his heart set on a nice girl, Heather (Mena Suvari), who does not seem the type to leap into bed within 21 days. Finch has no immediate prospects, though Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) is in a position to know if those rumors about him are true. And Jim is a truly hopeless case — after his attempted seduction of beautiful Czech exchange student Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) turns out to be a disaster, he ends up going to the prom with Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), an annoyingly chatty band geek who does, however, have a fascinating story about a flute. American Pie was the directorial debut of Paul Weitz, who, along with his brother Chris Weitz (who served as producer), previously wrote several screenplays, including Antz and Madeline (where they presumably worked all their wholesome ideas out of their system). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Fat Girl – Widescreen Subtitle Dolby Dts $24.99 Director Catherine Breillat, who courted international controversy with her film Romance, once again pushed the envelope with this disturbing (if somewhat less explicit) look at adolescent sexuality. Ana?s (Ana?s Reboux) is a 12-year-old girl with a weight problem and a downbeat disposition growing up in a family which offers her little in the way of understanding and affection. Ana?s has a typically adolescent love/hate relationship with her slimmer and prettier 15-year-old sister, Elena (Roxane Mesquida); she’s at once fascinated by her sister (and the boys who follow her around), and hates her for the love and attention she receives from others. While the family spends the summer at the beach, Elena attracts the attentions of Fernando (Libero de Rienzo), a college student from Italy who makes no secret of his attraction to Elena’s budding sexuality. Ana?s, on the other hand, is forced to make do with a sad game in which she pretends that a ladder and a diving board at a neighborhood swimming pool are two suitors vying for her affections. Ana?s shares a room with Elena, and finds herself a fascinated, if troubled, witness as Fernando uses both charm and deceit to rob her sister of her virginity, while Elena is too na?ve to see through the lies Fernando is spinning — and enjoys having Ana?s as an audience for her steadily advancing sex play with Fernando. Ana?s is more aware than her older sister of Fernando’s insincerity, but she finds Elena isn’t eager to believe her. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Sweet Movie – Widescreen $24.99 Like his WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Dusan Makavejev’s controversial 1974 feature Sweet Movie is firmly rooted in the principles of psychoanalyst Wilhelm Reich. In cinematic terms, this means bombarding the audience with an onset of imagery so visceral, disgusting and repellent that it “awakens” the viewer in a Brechtian manner by “short-circuiting” the audience’s reactions. Sweet Movie interweaves two narratives. One begins with a trip to the “Miss World Virginity Contest,” whose winner, Miss Monde 1984 (Carole Laure) is auctioned off to Mr. Kapital (Animal House’s John Vernon), a Texas oil billionaire with an odd perversion. Instead of deflowering her on her wedding night, he sterilizes the terrified girl’s body with rubbing alcohol and showers her in urine with his massive gold-plated penis, while an audience watches bemusedly through his bedroom window. She later escapes from her bridegroom, in a suitcase, and winds up at a wild Viennese commune whose participants indulge in public defecation and a food orgy that wraps with a massive display of gurgling, yakking, and vomiting. At the tale’s conclusion, Miss Monde shoots a television commercial that involves writhing nude in a giant vat of chocolate, with which she is completely drenched from head to toe, as the cameras roll. The second story involves a woman, Anna Planeta (Anna Prucnal) piloting a candy-filled boat down a river, with a massive papier-mache head of Lenin on the prow and a lover in-tow who is a refugee from the Battleship Potemkin. She eventually does a seductive striptease and seduces a pack of children, then makes love to her paramour in a vat of sugar and stabs him through the heart. Throughout the film, Makavejev includes shock cuts to Nazi autopsy footage and medical experimentation footage, some of which involves physical abuse of infants under the guise of “baby gymnastics.” Although it has its admirers, Sweet Movie is something of an acquired taste. And that’s putting it kindly. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi |
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Palindromes - $14.99 Palindromes opens with the dedication, “In loving memory of Dawn Wiener,” a reference to the lead character in writer/director Todd Solondz’ early feature, Welcome to the Dollhouse. Aviva has just attended Dawn’s funeral. Dismayed by her older cousin’s untimely death, Aviva asks her mother (Ellen Barkin) for assurance that she won’t grow up to be like Dawn. Aviva only dreams of one thing — having babies. Lots and lots of babies. As a teen, while Aviva has no interest in sex, she eagerly loses her virginity to Judah (Robert Agri), the son of a family friend in hopes of getting pregnant. She does, but her mother insists that she have an abortion. Worse yet, due to a complication during the procedure, the doctor is forced to perform a hysterectomy. Unaware of her medical condition, Aviva runs away from home and is picked up by a truck driver (Stephen Adly Guirgis) who has his way with her and then abandons her at a roadside motel. She wanders in the wilderness until she meets up with Jiminy (Tyler Maynard), a friendly boy who lives with the “Sunshine Family,” a group of disabled kids cared for by the cheerful Mama Sunshine (Debra Monk). The kids are also a Christian singing group. Aviva is happy until she learns that Mama Sunshine and her husband are virulently anti-abortion and that they are planning to murder a doctor. Solondz cast eight different actors in the lead role, each of whom play Aviva at different points in the story. Matthew Faber reprises the role of Mark Wiener from Welcome to the Dollhouse. Palindromes was shot at Bard College in upstate New York, using many film students as crew. It was selected by the Film Society of Lincoln Center for inclusion in the 2004 New York Film Festival. ~ Josh Ralske, Rovi |
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American Pie – Widescreen $9.99 It’s said that most American men think about sex once every two or three minutes, but this statistic would seriously underestimate the horniness of Jim (Jason Biggs), a high school senior in suburban Michigan. Jim is thoroughly obsessed with sex, a fact of which his parents become aware when they discover him performing the sin of Onan with a gym sock while watching scrambled pay-per-view porn. Jim’s buddies Kevin (Thomas Ian Nicholas), Finch (Eddie Kaye Thomas), and Oz (Chris Klein) are no less anxious to relieve themselves of their virginity, so they all make a pledge: they will go to bed with a woman in the three weeks before senior prom or die trying. Kevin appears to have the advantage, since he already has a girlfriend, Vicky (Tara Reid), but before he ventures into the Final Frontier, Kevin is urged to consult “The Bible,” a hand-written how-to manual possessing erotic wisdom passed down through the ages. Oz is a good-looking jock who is actually a nice guy — which is part of the problem, since he has his heart set on a nice girl, Heather (Mena Suvari), who does not seem the type to leap into bed within 21 days. Finch has no immediate prospects, though Jessica (Natasha Lyonne) is in a position to know if those rumors about him are true. And Jim is a truly hopeless case — after his attempted seduction of beautiful Czech exchange student Nadia (Shannon Elizabeth) turns out to be a disaster, he ends up going to the prom with Michelle (Alyson Hannigan), an annoyingly chatty band geek who does, however, have a fascinating story about a flute. American Pie was the directorial debut of Paul Weitz, who, along with his brother Chris Weitz (who served as producer), previously wrote several screenplays, including Antz and Madeline (where they presumably worked all their wholesome ideas out of their system). ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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The Ballad of Jack & Rose – Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby $14.99 A young woman kept at arm’s length from the world finds it suddenly appearing on her doorstep in this drama. In the 1960s, Jack (Daniel Day-Lewis) was a political radical and environmental activist who organized a self-sustaining commune on a small island off the East Coast as an alternative to what he saw as an ugly and destructive way of life. In 1986, the commune is down to two members — Jack and Rose (Camilla Belle), his 16-year-old daughter from a marriage that ended with his wife’s death. Educated by her father and isolated from “corrupting” outside influences, Rose is very close to her father, and keeps a close eye on his emotional needs as well as his health, which has been compromised by heart disease. Jack has an on-and-off relationship with Kathleen (Catherine Keener), a divorced mother of two teenage boys who lives on the mainland, and one day to Rose’s great surprise, Jack announces that Kathleen and her boys will be moving in with them. Startled and betrayed by Kathleen’s arrival, Rose is also disoriented by the sudden presence of outside influences and a sudden rush of adolescent lust. Rose first attempts to seduce sweet but stocky Rodney (Ryan McDonald), who opts instead to cut her long hair; she then takes up with moody Thaddius (Paul Dano), who takes her virginity. Before long, emotional war breaks out in the household with Rose battling Jack on all fronts; Jack, meanwhile, is taking a more direct tack on dealing with a developer (Beau Bridges) putting up buildings on nearby wetlands, attempting to chase him off with a shotgun. The Ballad of Jack & Rose was written and directed by Rebecca Miller, whose husband is leading man Daniel Day-Lewis and whose father was playwright Arthur Miller. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Porky’s: The Ultimate Collection [3 Discs] – Box $24.99 Includes:Porky’s (1981), MPAA Rating: R Porky’s 2: The Next Day (1983), MPAA Rating: R Porky’s Revenge (1985), MPAA Rating: R Porky’s Love it or loathe it (and there are a goodly number of people on either side), Porky’s was one of the most successful comedies of its day, spawning two direct sequels and inspiring an incalculable number of lowbrow teen comedies, most recently including American Pie (1999). Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), Billy (Mark Herrier), Tommy (Wyatt Knight), and Mickey (Roger Wilson) are four painfully horny high school kids growing up in South Florida in the 1950′s. Desperate to rid themselves of their cumbersome virginity, they head out to a sleazy bar near the swamps called Porky’s, where local legend has it that the owner will fix you up with a prostitute for a reasonable fee. After Porky takes their money and dumps them in the swamp, the guys vow to get revenge. Meanwhile, Pee Wee has to deal with his shrinking penis, someone drills a hole in the wall of the girl’s shower, the guys encounter a prostitute named Cherry Forever, and anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. Cheerfully rude in a manner few mainstream films had achieved at that time, Porky’s, for better or worse, changed the standard of what was acceptable in a screen comedy. Remarkably enough, two years later director Bob Clark made the holiday favorite A Christmas Story, which displayed his considerable range, if nothing else. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Porky’s 2: The Next Day The real world once more takes a back seat to a caricature of itself as the same Florida high-school teens who grossed profits in Porky’s by grossing out, have to band together to stop their Shakespeare festival (!!) from being cancelled, due to a crusading, right-wing reverend’s attack on the bard’s “lewd” content. The reverend is joined by Miss Balbricker(Nancy Parsons) the girls’ gym teacher and also the Ku Klux Klan who object to Romeo being played by an Indian. These unlikely allies come up against the libido-laden teens who strip the Ku Klux Klanners and send them running through town naked. Similar styles of revenge are taken to handle Miss Balbrick and the right-wing reverend — apparently all’s well that ends well at the box office. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, Rovi Porky’s Revenge In this third entry in the raunchy, sophomoric comedy series, the riotous students of Angel Beach High endeavor to get even with their old nemesis Porky who is trying to force the basketball coach into throwing the championship game. It seems Coach has been on a losing streak at Porky’s newest establishment, a riverboat converted into a casino. Plenty of slapstick mayhem ensues when his team rallies to save him and the big game. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi |
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Bachelor Party/Miss March/Porky’s [3 Discs] - $19.99 Includes:Porky’s (1981), MPAA Rating: R Bachelor Party (1984), MPAA Rating: R Miss March (2009), MPAA Rating: R Porky’s Love it or loathe it (and there are a goodly number of people on either side), Porky’s was one of the most successful comedies of its day, spawning two direct sequels and inspiring an incalculable number of lowbrow teen comedies, most recently including American Pie (1999). Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), Billy (Mark Herrier), Tommy (Wyatt Knight), and Mickey (Roger Wilson) are four painfully horny high school kids growing up in South Florida in the 1950′s. Desperate to rid themselves of their cumbersome virginity, they head out to a sleazy bar near the swamps called Porky’s, where local legend has it that the owner will fix you up with a prostitute for a reasonable fee. After Porky takes their money and dumps them in the swamp, the guys vow to get revenge. Meanwhile, Pee Wee has to deal with his shrinking penis, someone drills a hole in the wall of the girl’s shower, the guys encounter a prostitute named Cherry Forever, and anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. Cheerfully rude in a manner few mainstream films had achieved at that time, Porky’s, for better or worse, changed the standard of what was acceptable in a screen comedy. Remarkably enough, two years later director Bob Clark made the holiday favorite A Christmas Story, which displayed his considerable range, if nothing else. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Bachelor Party Tom Hanks stars in this raunchy teen comedy from veteran screenwriters Pat Proft and Neil Israel, who had previously collaborated on the amusing sketch film Tunnelvision (1976) and the disappointing Americathon (1980). Bus-driver Rick Gasko (Hanks) is engaged to wealthy Debbie Thompson (Tawny Kitaen), much to the chagrin of her father (George Grizzard), who considers Rick a loser. To keep an eye on her future groom, Debbie and her friends dress as prostitutes to attend his bachelor party, which quickly turns into a bacchanal of smutty debauchery. Familiar faces in the cast include action stars Michael Dudikoff and Ji-Tu Cimbuka, pin-ups Monique Gabrielle and Rosanne Katon, and teen-movie regulars Adrian Zmed and Wendie Jo Sperber. It’s an occasionally hilarious excursion into bad taste, although one which two-time Oscar winner Hanks would probably like to forget. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi Miss March Directors Zach Cregger and Trevor Moore collaborate on this comedy centering on the bizarre experiences of a man who awakens from a four-year coma to discover that his girlfriend has become a Playboy centerfold. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi |
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American Pie Presents: 4-Play Pack [Unrated] [4 Discs] - $24.99 Includes:American Pie Presents: Band Camp (2005), MPAA Rating: R American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile (2006), MPAA Rating: R American Pie Presents: Beta House (2007), MPAA Rating: R American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009), MPAA Rating: R American Pie Presents: Band Camp The “Stiffmeister” legacy lives on in this installment of the wildly popular teen comedy series that finds Steve Stifler’s younger brother Matt (Tad Hilgenbrinck) sentenced to a summer at band camp after a wild school prank goes awry. It seems that mischief runs in the family, and when Matt is told that he has to spend the entire summer surrounded by trombones and clarinets, he plans a serious of outrageous pranks in a bid to make the best of his nerdy new surroundings. As the summer and the hormones heat up, Stifler sets up a series of hidden cameras in hopes of catching some revealing images of the nubile “bandies.” When Stifler reconnects with his long-lost childhood sweetheart, Elyse (Arielle Kebbel), while serving out his sentence, the blossoming romance between the pair forces the perpetual prankster to consider the prospect of curbing his bad-boy ways. Original American Pie star Eugene Levy returns to offer some helpful advice for the band-camp bound Stifler sibling. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi American Pie Presents: The Naked Mile Upon realizing that he may be the first in his family to ever graduate from high school with his virginity intact, Erik Stifler sets out on a mission to slip between the sheets with a girl before slipping into his cap and gown. In order to accomplish his libidinous goal, however, Erik will first have to find a willing partner; and what better place to find a woman whose ready and willing to help him maintain family tradition than at the world famous Naked Mile? Who knows, with a little advice from Jim’s open-minded father (Eugene Levy), there may be some hope for Erik yet. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi American Pie Presents: Beta House It’s pledge time, and as fraternity row becomes rife with eager young freshman looking to make an impression on campus, the stage is set for Greek rivalry so fierce it will resurrect a competition that was previously banned by the administration. Great Falls high school graduates Erik and Cooze are about to become college freshmen, and once they do, the campus of a modest Michigan college will never be the same. Immediately aligning themselves with the notorious Beta Delta Xi house, the boys dive headlong into the party scene while suddenly being swept up in an ongoing rivalry between their new brothers and a rival house with a power-hungry president. Now the only way for the Beta Delta Xi brothers to prove their true worth is to resurrect The Games – a long-banned competition that will discern the true kings of campus once and for all. Featuring Eugene Levy and Christopher McDonald. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi American Pie Presents: The Book of Love Three East Great Falls High virgins stumble across the mythical “Book of L |
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Robert Downey, Jr. Star Collection [4 Discs] – Widescreen Fullscreen $19.99 Includes:Back to School (1986), MPAA Rating: PG-13 Home for the Holidays (1995), MPAA Rating: PG-13 Richard III (1995), MPAA Rating: R Charlie Bartlett (2007), MPAA Rating: R Back to School Self-made wealthy guy Thornton Melon (Rodney Dangerfield) decides he needs a better education — and also to spend some time away from his cheating new wife. Thornton joins his son, Jason (Keith Gordon) at college. Dad hopes to gain his son’s respect (isn’t that always Dangerfield’s motivation?), while his son tries to fit in with his snobbish and brutish fellow students. English professor Diane Turner (Sally Kellerman) forms a strong bond with Thornton, encouraging both father and son to stick out their first year despite all odds. The finale involves some slapstick at the swimming pool diving board, and the obligatory commencement address delivered by Dangerfield, who proves that he can crack jokes without tugging at his tie. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi Home for the Holidays It’s been said that while most people love their families, they don’t always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions with a certain trepidation, but as she prepares to fly from her home in Chicago to her parent’s place in Baltimore for Thanksgiving, she is more apprehensive than usual. Claudia has just lost her job, she’s not feeling at all well, and her teenage daughter, Kitt (Claire Danes), who is staying behind, informs Claudia on the way to the airport that she plans to use the weekend to lose her virginity with her boyfriend. The family festivities are already under way when Claudia arrives at the home of her mother, Adele (Anne Bancroft), and father, Henry (Charles Durning). Claudia’s brother, Tommy (Robert Downey Jr.), whose homosexuality is tolerated without being discussed on a practical basis, has brought along his new friend Leo Fish (Dylan McDermott). Tommy doesn’t get along well with his fussbudget sister, Joanne (Cynthia Stevenson), who wears her self-sacrifice like a badge of honor, and he simply hates her husband, Walter (Steve Guttenberg), who has often been the target of Tommy’s barbed sense of humor. While the siblings and in-laws struggle to remain civil, their quite eccentric aunt Gladys (Geraldine Chaplin) arrives; she insists on discussing her digestive problems, and after a few drinks, she confesses her long-ago lust for Henry. Home for the Holidays was Jodie Foster’s second film as a director, and the first in which she didn’t also star. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Richard III Richard Loncraine takes Shakespeare’s classic tale of treachery, Richard III, and transplants it to the 1930s. Ian McKellen is Richard who, as the film opens, begins plotting against his brother Edward, who has just ascended to the throne after a bloody civil war. Richard begins by seducing and wedding Lady Anne (Kristin Scott Thomas), whom he made a widow during the war. Wi |
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Fear/The Watcher/Raising Cain [2 Discs] – Widescreen $12.99 Includes:Raising Cain (1992), MPAA Rating: R Fear (1996), MPAA Rating: R The Watcher (2000), MPAA Rating: R Raising Cain A complicated thriller, directed with great visual style by Brian De Palma, Raising Cain is the story of twin brothers, Carter and Josh (John Lithgow), one good and one evil, who will stop at nothing to find children to further their father’s psychological experiments. John Lithgow is outstanding in the role of the brothers. Lolita Davidovich, is also good as his wife Jenny, who he may or may not have murdered. To even identify the other characters would give away too much of the complicated plot, which twists and turns, leaving the audience constantly guessing who is really who. The film is darkly comic and De Palma and his unusual plot devices play homage to Alfred Hitchcock, along with Orson Welles and Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom. ~ Linda Rasmussen, Rovi Fear Mark Wahlberg stars in one of his first features as a hoodlum drug dealer from the wrong side of the trackswho falls in love with Nicole Walker, an upper-middle-class high school girl (Reese Witherspoon). In this psycho-drama (with the emphasis on psycho), Nicole happily loses her virginity to her first love, but, when she begins to doubt the relationship, his tenderness turns to violence, as he stalks and terrorizes her and her friends and family. The girl’s father never trusted him in the first place, but his reservations about his daughter’s first serious boyfriend are interpreted as Oedipal paranoia, until the boy and his drug-dealing, date-raping buddies besiege the overly fortified house in a twisted attempt to win back Nicole’s love. The Seattle setting juxtaposes a grunge rock underworld with an over-privileged suburban household, and includes a very sexual ride on a roller-coaster. And yes, former underwear model Wahlberg appears shirtless several times. ~ Laura Abraham, Rovi The Watcher A detective is urged on by the lunatic he’s trying to put behind bars in this crime thriller. Joel Campbell (James Spader) is a police detective who has recently relocated to Chicago after spending eight frustrating years trying to track down a vicious serial killer who has been terrorizing Los Angeles. However, the slayer, David Allen Griffin (Keanu Reeves), doesn’t want the game of cat and mouse to end; even though he previously put his murderous activities on hold, Griffin has started murdering young women again — and is sending clues to Campbell, mailing him photos of his intended victims and urging Campbell to save them while he still can. Also starring Marisa Tomei, Ernie Hudson, and Chris Ellis, The Watcher was directed by Joe Charbanic. It marked Charbanic’s first feature project after directing videos for a number of alternative rock groups, including Soul Coughing, Sonic Youth, and Reeves’ band, Dogstar. The film was produced under the title Driven. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi |
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Frat Boy Collection [3 Discs] - $14.99 Includes:Porky’s (1981), MPAA Rating: R Bachelor Party (1984), MPAA Rating: R PCU (1994), MPAA Rating: PG-13 Porky’s Love it or loathe it (and there are a goodly number of people on either side), Porky’s was one of the most successful comedies of its day, spawning two direct sequels and inspiring an incalculable number of lowbrow teen comedies, most recently including American Pie (1999). Pee Wee (Dan Monahan), Billy (Mark Herrier), Tommy (Wyatt Knight), and Mickey (Roger Wilson) are four painfully horny high school kids growing up in South Florida in the 1950′s. Desperate to rid themselves of their cumbersome virginity, they head out to a sleazy bar near the swamps called Porky’s, where local legend has it that the owner will fix you up with a prostitute for a reasonable fee. After Porky takes their money and dumps them in the swamp, the guys vow to get revenge. Meanwhile, Pee Wee has to deal with his shrinking penis, someone drills a hole in the wall of the girl’s shower, the guys encounter a prostitute named Cherry Forever, and anti-Semitism rears its ugly head. Cheerfully rude in a manner few mainstream films had achieved at that time, Porky’s, for better or worse, changed the standard of what was acceptable in a screen comedy. Remarkably enough, two years later director Bob Clark made the holiday favorite A Christmas Story, which displayed his considerable range, if nothing else. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Bachelor Party Tom Hanks stars in this raunchy teen comedy from veteran screenwriters Pat Proft and Neil Israel, who had previously collaborated on the amusing sketch film Tunnelvision (1976) and the disappointing Americathon (1980). Bus-driver Rick Gasko (Hanks) is engaged to wealthy Debbie Thompson (Tawny Kitaen), much to the chagrin of her father (George Grizzard), who considers Rick a loser. To keep an eye on her future groom, Debbie and her friends dress as prostitutes to attend his bachelor party, which quickly turns into a bacchanal of smutty debauchery. Familiar faces in the cast include action stars Michael Dudikoff and Ji-Tu Cimbuka, pin-ups Monique Gabrielle and Rosanne Katon, and teen-movie regulars Adrian Zmed and Wendie Jo Sperber. It’s an occasionally hilarious excursion into bad taste, although one which two-time Oscar winner Hanks would probably like to forget. ~ Robert Firsching, Rovi PCU Is it possible to be politically correct and unified? Find out in this satire set on a fictional eastern university. Port Chester University espouses pc thinking. From the Womynists to the Republicans, everyone there is involved in a cause; many of them are militant. So involved are they, that there is no time to go to class. Much of the story focuses upon residents of the Pit, a co-ed dorm devoted to anarchy and anti-pc philosophy. They are led by Droz. All of the other groups loathe the Pit dwellers, and wish to close it down. President Garcia-Walker is also unpopular for her unbending uptight demeanor. The film’s highlight is a giant party f |
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Rites of Passage 3-Pack [3 Discs] - $19.99 Includes:Stealing Beauty (1996), MPAA Rating: R Thirteen (2002), MPAA Rating: R Garden State (2004), MPAA Rating: R Stealing Beauty This beautiful if ponderous souffl? of a film from director Bernardo Bertolucci serves more as an Italian travelogue than a drama. Liv Tyler stars as Lucy Harmon, an American teenager arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to visit family friends residing there. Lucy visited four years earlier and exchanged a kiss with a handsome boy with whom she hopes to become reacquainted. Lucy’s mother has committed suicide since then, and the teenager also hopes to discover the identity of her father, whom her mother hinted was a resident of the villa. Once she arrives, Lucy meets a variety of eccentric visitors, including a dying gay playwright (Jeremy Irons), a sculptor (Donal McCann), an entertainment lawyer (D.W. Moffet), and several others. Lucy has decided to lose her virginity and becomes an object of intense interest to the men of the household, but the suitor she finally selects is not the initial object of her affection. Stealing Beauty boasted an intriguing parallel between actress Tyler’s role and her real life. The daughter of a famed rock and roll star, she was brought up believing that her father was someone else, a fact that Bertolucci may have had in mind when writing the story. ~ Karl Williams, Rovi Thirteen Prolific production designer and art director Catherine Hardwicke makes her directorial debut with the coming-of-age drama Thirteen. Los Angeles teenager and overachiever Tracy (Evan Rachel Wood) is an excellent student in her seventh grade class and gets along well with her mother, Melanie (Holly Hunter). She fears that she’s not cool enough to be friends with Evie (Nikki Reed), the most popular girl in school. Fueled with genuine adolescent energy, Tracy follows Evie’s lead into the harsh realities of sex, drugs, and hard-edged adventure. Consumed with temptations and conflicting desires, Tracy loses her good-girl identity, greatly affecting her relationship with her mom. Partly autobiographical, Thirteen was co-written by Hardwicke and actual 13-year-old Reed, who are close family friends. Originally intending to write a teen comedy, they ended up creating a hard-hitting drama exposing the contemporary teenage experience. Thirteen was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival, with Catherine Hardwicke taking home the Director’s Award. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi Garden State In the wake of his success on the hit NBC sitcom Scrubs, actor Zach Braff made his debut behind the camera writing, directing, and starring in this bittersweet romantic comedy. Braff plays Andrew Largeman, a young man who has just received word of his mother’s passing. With this news, Andrew returns to the town in which he grew up, where he is greeted by his father, Gideon (Ian Holm), a psychiatrist. In addition to mourning the loss of his mother, Andrew is also attempting to adjust to life without the emot |
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