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"This is suspense to die from!...so exciting your heart might stop!" -Joel Siegel,-WABC-TV. Are you afraid to die? Kiefer Sutherlands isn't. He's an ambitious, charismatic medical student who persuades Julia Roberts and Kevin Bacon to take part in a reckless experiment. To see if there is life after death, they will kill themselves: temporarily shut down ("flatline") their heart and brain functions to briefly experience clinical death. After Sutherland survives the first experiment, the others flatline for increasingly longer intervals. But their horror begins when they realize that although they've come back alive ...they haven't come back alone. Flatliners is a chilling suspense thriller of obsession, fear and redemption that will take you across the line to a place where terror lives forever.
Rated R
The Best-Loved Bandit of All Time!
Pageantry, romance and adventure abound in this definitive version of the legend of Robin Hood. Never before has good triumphed over evil with such spectacular color and panache. Errol Flynn is magnificent as the gallant and brave Sir Robin of Locksley, valiant defender of the downtrodden. Whether swinging from trees, splitting the shaft of an arrow with his own, or trading amorous glances with the beautiful Maid Marian (Olivia de Havilland), Flynn displays an irrestible charm. As Robin's nemesis, the treacherous Prince John, Claude Rains is rightly despicable. And never has there been a better screen sword fight than the climactic duel between Flynn and Basil Rathbone's haughty Sir Guy of Gisbourne. Made in 1938 for the then enormous budget of nearly $2,0000,000, the film's lush art direction, crisp film editing and lavish musical score by Erich Wolfgang Korngold all won Academy Awards. Enjoy this classic treatment of a timeless legend. A never ending delight!" - Rudy Behler, The Films of Errol Flynn.
Not Rated
Dr. Suess' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
Dr. Seuss is back with his tongue-twisting verse and lighthearted music to delight children of evey age. What Christmas holiday would be complete without this timeless tale of the mean-spirited Grinch who feebly attempts to steal the Yuletide celebration of Whoville? The crotchety Grinch, with "termites in his smile" and "garlic in his soul," tries once again to wipe out Christmas for the cheerful Whovillians, only to discover that the true spirit of the holiday season lies beyond his covetous grasp. Narrated by the great Boris Karloff and featuring such musical favorites as "You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch" and "Trim Up the Tree," Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas! will warm even the most miserly heart. Don't miss this animated confection. It's a perfect festival of fun for the entire family!
Not Rated
"...warm, perceptive, funny and every bit as good as the original, maybe even better." -Rex Reed, New York Observer. She's back - and as delightfully feisty as ever! Aurora Greenway (Shirley MacLaine, reprising the role that won her the 1983 best Actress Academy Award) returns in an acclaimed continuation of the much-loved saga that began with the 1983 best Picture Oscar winner Terms of Endearment. The generations grow, but life still spins around Aurora like a cyclone: her rebellious grandaughter (Juliette Lewis) wants to run off with Mr. Wrong; a snooty rival (Miranda Richardson) has come up with new ways to meddle in Aurora's life; her longtime spinster housekeeper (Marion Ross) is ready to ditch domestic work for the domestic bliss of matrimony; her great-grandson is like a poison pill; and her shrink (Bill Paxton) is more that eager to cross the line separating client relationships and romantic entanglement. Welcome hack, Aurora. We've missed you.
Rated PG-13
"Thumbs Up!" -Roger Ebert, Siskel & Ebert. Millionaire playboy Charley Pearl has got it all. Charm, looks, style and he's about to marry the daughter of the most powerful man in Hollywood. But a funny thing happens on his way to the altar...he meets sultry Las Vegas lounge singer Vicki Anderson. And it's lust at first sight! Charley discovers the hard way that his attraction to Vicki is going to get him into trouble over and over again! Handsome Alec Baldwin (The Hunt for Red October) and sexy Kim Basinger (Batman) heat up the screen in one of the most sizzling and funny romances in modern courtship history! See for yourself what all the heat's about!
Rated R
Rose Morgan (Barbra Streisand), who still lives with her mother (Laureen Bacall), is a professor of Romantic Literature who desperately longs for passion in her life. Gregory Larkin (Jeff Bridges), a mathematics professor, has been burned by passionate relationships and longs for a sexless union based on friendship and respect. They're two people with almost nothing in common, but Fate-in the form of a personal and a meddling sister-brings them together. And without physical attraction to complicate matters, Rose and Greg become best friends and soon agree to an uncoventional marriage built on intellectual passion instead of sexual heat. But when two people meet, marry, try to remain celibate and then fall in love-they realize they are courting chaos. Directed by Barbra Streisand and co-starring Pierce Brosnan, George Segal, Mimi Rogers and Brenda Vaccaro, The Mirror Has Two Faces explores our modern myths of sex, and beauty with a brilliant combination of humor and poignancy that makes it "the year's best romantic comedy." Jim Ferguson, Prevue Channel.
Rated PG-13
Tia Carrere stars as Samantha, a successful woman with a great career and loving friends, but no real sign of a love life until she tries out an exclusive online dating service and she meets Jack (David Charvet, Melrose Place). It starts out as a typical e-mail infatuation as they chat, flirt and pretend to be in love. As their connection grows, they finally get the courage to meet face to face and get the surprise of their lives. Brimming with cyber-sophistication and sizzling with techno-attraction, it's the romantic comedy that goes looking for love all over the web and finds it right next door.
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"Overboard offers something for everyone!"-Janet Maslin, New York Times. It's the craziets mix-up ever! Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell dazzle the screen in this buoyant screwball comedy of memory-making and memory-faking. Hawn portrays Joanna Stayton, the demanding, pampered, inconsiderate wife of a pretentious, yacht-owning socialite. When their boat gets stuck for repairs in the harbor of a tiny Oregon town, bored and impatient Joanna employs carpenter Dean Proffitt (Russell) to improve her closet space. After completing the job, Dean aks to be paid, only to be turned down by Joanna who, of course, deems his work unaceptable. So, when in one of her trademark snits, Joanna falls overboard and gets amnesia, Dean hatches a no-fail plot for revenge. Taking Joanna home with him he renames her Annie and - in a stroke of retributive genius - tells her that she's his wife and the mother of his four unruly children! One of Hollywood's most dynamic screen pairs Hawn and Russell make the most of every hilarious situation. Overboard is a delightful riches-to-rags romance and perfect entertainment for anyone who appreciates a great practical joke.
Rated PG
The picturesque seaside resort of Mystic, Connecticut, is home to three young waitresses who decide their futures are as appetizing as yesterday's pizza. Feisty Jojo (Lili Taylor) is teetering on the verge of a stable married life with Bill (Vincent Phillip d'Onofrio-Adventures In Babysitting, Full Metal Jacket), but visions of diapers and dusting make her faint at the altar. Bookworm Kat (Annabeth Gish-Hiding Out, Desert Bloom) has a Yale scholarship, but takes a summer recess to fall for a handsome married man (William R. Moses),. Beautiful, sexy Daisy (Julia Roberts-Satisfaaction, Blood Red, Steel Magnolias) plans to build a future on her smile, but "rich white bread" Charlie (Adam Storke) turns out to be more challenging than she bargained for. These three couple discover that life has a secret ingredient. Romance is a spice worth savoring and the future can always deliver...during one special summer in a place called Mystic.
Rated R
Michael Keaton and Nicole Kidman star in this soaring family love story about a high-powered executive, diagnosed with terminal cancer, who's forced to make plans for his unborn son. And so he begins filming a home movie, "My Life," in which he teaches his son all the things a man must know: how to shave, how to slam dunk, and most of all, how to love. "A 10. An emotional roller-coaster of love, family and forgiveness, it's one of the year's best pictures" (Susan Granger, CRN, American Movie Classics).
Rated PG-13
"Two thumbs up!"-Siskel & Ebert. They're engaged, but not to each other. So Mike Gambril and Terry McKay agree to put their sudden love to a test. They'll break off all contact, then reunite in three months atop the Empire State Building if their love is still strong. But fate will test their love more than Mike and Terry ever could. Warren Beatty and Annette Bening of Bugsy catch romantic lightning again in Love Affair, an irrestible blend of light comedy and passionate ardor that updates the beloved screen story previously filmed in 1939 and 1957. It's "a big, handsome dollop of stardust," according to The Boston Globe's Jay Carr, and sparkling performances from Katharine Hepburn and Garry Shandling as well as the swirling music of Ennio Morricone add to the glittery mix, Love Affair is your rendezvous for joy, tears, laughter and radiant starpower. "Wonderful! Don't miss this!"-Joel Siegel, "Good Morning America"/ABC-TV.
Rated PG-13
"Fast And Funny From First Joke to Last!"- US Magazine. Casting Joe Pesci in the lead role of "My Cousin Vinny" was a natural choice, since the character of Vinny was actually insipred by the character of Joey La Motta in "Raging Bull", which Pesci played a dozen years earlier! In this must-see comedy hit, two carefree pals travelling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a lawyer friend in the family - Vincent Gambini (Joe Pesci), a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who has never been in court - or in Alabama. When cousin Vinny arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend (Marisa Tomei in her Oscar-winning Supporting Actress performance) to handle this first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!
Rated R
It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
For children of all ages. Trick or treat, Charlie Brown! It sure is fun when Charlie Brown and his Peanuts pals get together for the big Halloween celebration. In fact, it's downright spooktacular in a feature whose bag of treats overflows with "charm, wit and wisdom" (Hollywood Reporter). This Halloween is very special for good ol' Charlie Brown. He's finally been invited to a party! Snoopy gets to join the fun, so look out Red Baron! Linus will find out once and for all if the Great Pumpkin will rise up out of his pumpkin patch "with his bag of toys for all the good children." Nominated for an Emmy award, It's The Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown has been digitally remastered for excellent sound and picture quality.
"Crackling good. Nail-bitingly tense. Tautly directed." - Janet Maslin, The New York Times.
The best-reviewed thriller of 1995 is Copycat, a sensational adrenaline pumper about the desperated hunt for a mass murderer with an elusive m.o..he copies serial killers of the recent past. He's out there but who is he? When, where and how will he next strike? An ambitious San Francisco homicide detective (Academy Award winner Holly Hunter) and a noted criminal psychologist (Sigourney Weaver) piece together a jigsaw puzzle of crime as they close in on a fiend with a knack for staying a step ahead...and leaving a body behind. Jon Amiel (Sommersby) directs "the smartest and most gripping thriller since The Silence of the Lambs" (Jack Mathews, Newsday). Dermot Mulroney, William McNamara, Harry Connick, Jr., Will Patton and other co-stars bring extra heat to the film's feverish race against time. For the ultimate in suspense and excitement, choose Coypcat. But remember: he's out there.
Rated R
"Irrestible!"-USA Today. "Marvelous!"-NBC-TV, Los Angeles. In this hilarious update of the much-loved Hollywood classic, Steve Martin turns in a winning performance as George Banks, the befuddled father who has a hard time letting go of his young daughter (charming newcomer Kimberly Williams) when she unexpectedly announces her plans to wed. Tickling funnybones and touching hearts of critics and audiences alike, this entertaining treat chronicles George's hysterical trials and tribulations leading up to the big event. Diane Keaton shines as George's patient, level-headed wife, while funnyman Martin Short lights up the screen as the off-the-wall wedding consultant. Father Of The Bride promises to love, honor and deliver the kind of motion picture fun you'll thoroughly enjoy!
Rated PG
"A Terrific Brew Of Fun And Fantasy." - Bonnie Churchill, National News Syndicate. If a broom falls, company is due. When a circle rings the moon, trouble looms. Should you misplace your broom, sorry; a hand vac can't be used in an excorism rite. Fun and excitement abound in the Owens family of wily witches. One problem, though: the men the Owens women fall in love with are doomed to an untimely death. Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman bring a sparkling screen magic to Practical Magic, adapted from Alice Hoffman's bestseller and directed by Griffin Dunne (Addicted to Love). They play Sally and Gillian Owens, sisters hexed by a centuries-old curse...and coping with a witches brew of events involving a possible love match (Aidan Quinn) for one, a zombie (Goran Visnjic) for the other and a need to resume the age-old witchcraft taught by two doting Owens aunts (Stockard Channing and Dianne Wiest). Sit for a spell and enjoy!
Rated PG-13
Weather forecast: rain. Action forecast: Hard Rain, the torrential, excitement-swept thriller featuring a screenplay from the writer of Speed and the on-screen talents of Morgan Freeman (Driving Miss Daisy), Christian Slater (Broken Arrow), Randy Quaid (Independence Day) and Minnie Driver (Good Will Hunting). The setting is the flood-ravaged, evacuated town of Huntingburg, where armored car driver Tom (Slater) is in deep danger. A gang of thieves (led by Freeman) figures the flood is its chance to heist the $3 million Tom's transporting from local banks. But there's one thing the gun-carrying criminals don't count on-Tom. Come hell, high water or both, he's determined to deliver the money entrusted to him. Before he does, he'll have to survive a relentless pursuit filled with close calls, ever-rising waters, uncertain loyalties and heart-stopping heroics.
Rated R
"Sweet, Smart And Sexy..." - Peter Travers, Rolling Stone. Meg Ryan ("Sleepless in Seattle") and Kevin Kline ("Dave") star in this bouncy romantic comedy about life, love and larceny. When her fiance is smitten by a beautiful Frenchwoman, Kate (Ryan) flies to Paris determined to win him back. However, nothing prepares her for Luc (Kline), a cunning, sexy Frenchman with a gift for gab and a fondness for thievery. A self-proclaimed expert on affairs of the heart, Luc promises to help Kate win back her man. But one star-crossed misadventure after another sweeps them across France, ultimately changing them in ways they never dreamed possible. Directed by Lawrence Kasdan ("The Big Chill", "Grand Canyon") French Kiss is "a delightful cinematic bon bon...the stuff of classic moviemaking." (The Hollywood Reporter)
Rated PG-13
"Compelling and altogether remarkable...a raw, startling work." - Stephen Farber, New West Magazine. From director Adrian Lyne (Flashdance, Fatal Attraction) comes this" precarious comedy of non-manners about kids growing up on the edge of an emotional San Andreas Fault" (David Ansen, Newsweek). With an on-target realism all too rare are in "coming of age" films, Foxes delivers and uncompromising look at that tremulous transition from adolescence to adulthood. Jodie Foster, Cherie Currie, Kandice Stroh and Marilyn Kagan are like no teenage girls seen on the screen before. Tough, sexy, and world-wise beyond their years on the surface, underneath each reveals a touching vulnerability that must withstand broken homes, hostile fathers and embittered mothers. As the natural leader of the group, Foster struggles to hold together the lives of those around her while trying to understand herself. It is a remarkably controlled, unaffected perforance by one of the finest talents in film today. Enhanced by its unique visual style, Gerald Ayres' keenly observant script and driving Giorgio Moroder musical score, Foxes captures the pains and passions of growing up in a very grown-up world.
Rated R
John Boorman's astonishing vision of a time when magic ruled the earth. Through the centuries, the story of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table has inspired poets and artists, plowmen and beggars. And now the 1,5000-year-old-tale, first relayed from generation to generation by wandering balladeers, receives its most shimmering, brooding, glorious retelling: Excalibur. (Deliverance, Zardoz, The Emerald Forest) comes this luminious re-creation of the waning age of magic and the dawn of rational thought, a legendary saga of war and passion told in an unforgettably exquisite cinematic style. All the elements of Sir Thomas Malory's classic Le Morte Darthur are here: Arthur (Nigel Terry) the boy king, removing he magical sword Excalibur from the stone and setting out to unite the land; the valorous Knights of the Round Table, sworn to the chivalric ideals of truth, courage and purity of heart, but decaying into drunkenness and squabbling; the gallant attempt to resore honor by seeking out the Holy Grail, the cup used by Christ during the Last Supper; and the wizard Merlin (Nicol Williamson) and temptress Morgana (Helen Mirren), medieval alchemists who use their powers to affect the course of human events...but are powerless to prevent the old pagan gods of wood and stream from giving way to the new gods of logic and science. Excalibur takes you back to that glorious once-upon-a-time that remains timeless in its retelling. Said the Los Angeles Times: "You enter utterly into a world of magic and history. Excalibur is Boorman's finest creation.
Rated R
On a snowy Christmas Eve in the nation's capitol, a team of terrorists has seized a major international airport, and now holds thousands of holiday travelers hostage. The terrorists, a renegade band of crack military commandos led by a murderous rogue office (William Sadler), have come to rescue a drug lord from justice. They've prepared for every contingency, except one: John McClane, an off-duty cop seized by a feeling of deadly deja vu. Bruce Willis returns as the heroic copy who battles not only terrorists, but also an incompetent airport police chief (Dennis Frantz), the hard-headed commander (John Amos) of the army's anti-terrorist squad and a deadly winter snowstorm. The runways are littered with death and destruction, and McClane is in a race against time. His wife (Bonnie Bedelia) is trapped on one of the planes circling somewhere overhead, desperately low on fuel. it's all out war, a heart-stopping, jet-propelled journey through excitement and terror. Faster your seatbelts!
Rated R
"Rip-roaring entertainment." - Chris Hewitt, St. Paul Pioneer Press. The chase is on! Ashley Judd shines in this unstoppable, untoppable box-office smash that co-stars Tommy Lee Jones in his "best performance since The Fugitive." Judd plays Libby Parsons, who discovers that the husband she's convicted of murdering staged his own 'death" and framed her for the crime. Released on parole, she skips town to find him - and that puts parole officer Travis Lehman (Jones) on her trail. Packed with more crowd-pleasing excitement than several movies put together, Double Jeopardy delivers "lots of action and spine-tingling suspense from start to finish."
Rated R
"The Fatal Attraction of the '90s! A sexy, suspenseful thriller." - Jeff Craig, "Sixty Second Preview." His career. His marriage. His future. It's all on the line for DigiCom executive Tom Sanders (Michael Douglas). He rejected the passionate advance of his new boss (Demi Moore). Now she's charging him with sexual harassment. Suddengly, long-time company man Tom must scramble for his corporate life - a scramble that will lead him into the dazzling cyberworld of of DigiCom's new virtual reality corridor...and lay bare a shocking consipiracy among key company personnel. High-tech intrigue and lowdown sexual politics combine in this bristling thriller based on the best seller by Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, Congo) and directed by Barry Levinson (Rain Man, Bugsy). Sleek, sensual and cybernetic, disclosure hotwires you to one exhilarating buzz after another. It's "the hot-button date movie of the year! Spectacularly entertaining, bang-on funny and provactive" (Peter Travers, Rolling Stone).
Rated R
"One of the best, most exciting police action thrillers since The French Connection." - Jeffrey Lyons, Sneak Previews/INN. Martin Riggs (Mel Gibson) is no ordinary cop. He's a Mad Max gone maniacal, a man whose killing expertise and suicidal recklessness make him a Lethal Weapon to anyone he works against. Or with. Roger Murtaugh (Danny Glover) is an easy-going homicide detective with a loving family, a big house and a pension he doesn't want to lose. Imagine Martaugh's shock when he learns his new partner is a guy with nothing to lose: wild-eyed, burnt-out Martin Riggs. Lethal Weapon is the thrill-packed story of two Vietnam-vets-turned-cops who have just one other thing in common: both hate to work with partners. But their partnership becomes the key to survival when a routine murder investigation leads to all-out, take-no-prisoners, martial-arts-and-machine-guns war with an international heroin ring. Director Richard Donner (Superman: The Movie, The Goonies) moves that war at two speeds: fast and faster. Hot L.A. days and nights explode in one show-topping scene after another, culminating in a no-holds-barred battle between Riggs and his Angel-of-Death nemesis (Gary Busey) - an electrifying sequence incorporating three martial-arts styles and requiring four full nights to film. Fierce, fast and frequently funny, Lethal Weapon fires off round after round of can't-miss entertainment.
Rated R.
Lethal Weapon 2 "Pure dynamite. Enough humor, excitement and action for two movies." - Rex Reed, At the Movies. The magic is back! Buddy-cops Riggs (Mel Gibson) and Murtaugh (Danny Glover) are off and running, trying to keep a key witness and themselves alive in Lethal Weapon 2. It's been two years since we last caught up with this battle-hardened pair. Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the reckless man without a family, but now he counts the odds before plunging into a seemingly impossible situation. He cracks more jokes, too. "I thought in this film I could take Riggs in a slightly different direction and maybe have some fun," Gibson says. Fun it is. And exciting, from its breathless, opening chase through the streets of L.A. to its raging gun-battle finale. In between, there's a six-story plummet from a window, a booby-trapped toilet, a Houdini-like underwater escape and more power-packing thrills, including the incredible destruction of a chic hillside stilt house. (It's a real house, right down to its 35-foot deep foundation, demolished spectacularly as nine cameras rolled. "I hate miniatures,"explains director Richard Donner, who also guided Lethal Weapon.) Joe Pesci (Raging Bull, Easy Money) co-stars as the wheedling witness guarded by the two cops. "With Mel and Danny, Joe is the third stooge," Donner says. That makes three drop-dead funny guys. And one of them is lethal.
Rated R.
"The best weapon yet." - Pat Collins, WWOR-TV. "The action is dynamite." - Joel Siegel, Good Morning America/ABC-TV. OK, OK, OK. They're back. Big time! Lethal Weapon 3 is loaded with a full clip of action, laughs and shoot-the-works effects. Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as Riggs and Murtaugh, L.A. police detectives whose work routine is anything but routine. Joe Pesci also returns as Leo Getz. ("Anything you need, Leo Getz.") And Rene Russo adds a lethal kick as Internal Affairs investigator Lorna Cole, who loves taking risks as much as Riggs does. Lethal Weapon 3. Not just more of everything: the most!
"High-voltage entertainment. Fast, furious and feverishly funny." - David Sheehan, CBS-TV. Pure dynamite! The "Lethal Weapon" team of producer Joel Silver has done it again, putting the match to the fuse and putting the WOW! back on screen for "Lethal Weapon 4." Picking up where they never left off, Mel Gibson and Danny Glover return as buddy cops Riggs and Murtaugh, with Joe Pesci riding comedy shotgun as chatterbox Leo. Murtaugh is still the family man. Riggs is still the gonzo loose cannon and-what's this? - family man. His will he/won't he marriage to Cole (Rene Russo) is one of the new wrinkles in this powerhouse crowd-pleaser that also stars comedy favorite Chris Rock and international action star Jet Li. Wedding bells, ammo shells, explosive laughter-this one's fully loaded!
Rated R.
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