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MASTER& COMMANDER: Based on a series of books by Patrick O'Brian, and directed by Peter Weir, MASTER AND COMMANDER plunges viewers deep into the story of a British Navy ship at sea during the Napoleonic war. Russell Crowe stars as Aubrey, the charismatic captain who wrestles with issues like honor, pride, duty, sacrifice and loyalty while using ingenious tactics to engage his prey--a much larger and better-equipped French Man o' War. Paul Bettany plays his friend, the ship's doctor, who cautions Aubrey about letting revenge cloud his judgement after the French Man o' War almost sinks them in an early battle. Before the incredibly intense final skirmish the men battle a raging storm, launch an excursion to the Galapagos Islands, find time for grog-enhanced merriment, and endure some primitive surgery. Weir fills the film with a rich wealth of period detail, convincing dialogue and the same haunting, dreamlike mood that has informed his best films, like PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, THE LAST WAVE and THE TRUMAN SHOW. The wealth of sounds and sights on display are so evocative one can practically smell the salt air and feel the heave of the ocean beneath their seats. Russell is intense and inspiring as Aubrey and Bettany proves a worthy match. MASTER AND COMMANDER is another triumph for Weir, and further evidence of his ability to fuse poetic realism with rousing entertainment.CAST AWAY: Tom Hanks is Chuck Noland, a man in a hurry. His job for Federal Express has him traveling the world on a moment's notice, exhorting the company's employees to speed things up--never turn your back on the clock. When he's suddenly called away for business on Christmas night, his tolerant longtime girlfriend Kelly (Helen Hunt) drives him to the airport. They have their Christmas in the car--and Chuck plunks an engagement ring into her lap right before he gets on the plane, telling her, I'll be right back. But an unexpected storm cuts the plane's crew off from radio contact and blows t
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In Robert Aldrich's HUSTLE, when a hard-boiled detective, Lt. Phil Gaines (Burt Reynolds), tries to solve a case involving the death of a teenage call girl, he soon finds himself wrapped in a dark, complicated riddle of urban corruption and vice. While Gaines faces off against the main suspect, powerful lawyer Leo Sellers (Eddie Albert), the dead girl's father (Ben Johnson) muddies the water of the investigation by doing his own ham-handed sleuthing. As the detective spirals ever-deeper into the murky, violent world of the case, he starts a sizzling affair with a hooker, Nicole (Catherine Deneuve), that could put his own job at stake.Reynolds transcends his simplistic sex symbol persona--which had made him one of Hollywood's most bankable stars by the mid-1970s--with a nuanced, volcanic portrayal of a man no longer sure of the difference between right and wrong, or even whether a difference would matter. Aldrich uses this second collaboration with Reynolds (THE LONGEST YARD was the first) to dive fully into the morally ambiguous and cynical undertones fringing earlier efforts such as THE DIRTY DOZEN and KISS ME, DEADLY. The result is a suspenseful, glittering disco-era noir with an alluringly troubled heart and a touch like ice.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 16.9Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - English
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DAY AFTER TOMORROW: With THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW, director Roland Emmerich (INDEPENDENCE DAY, GODZILLA) trades evil aliens and radioactive lizards in for some seriously bad weather. When a radical change in the temperature of the world's oceans causes deadly storms and sets a new Ice Age in motion, climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) must race from Washington D.C. to save his son, Sam (Jake Gyllenhaal), in the subzero climes of New York City. Elsewhere, tornadoes and hail menace the globe, leading to international disasters on an extraordinary level.MASTER& COMMANDER: Based on a series of books by Patrick O'Brian, and directed by Peter Weir, MASTER AND COMMANDER plunges viewers deep into the story of a British Navy ship at sea during the Napoleonic war. Russell Crowe stars as Aubrey, the charismatic captain who wrestles with issues like honor, pride, duty, sacrifice and loyalty while using ingenious tactics to engage his prey--a much larger and better-equipped French Man o' War. Paul Bettany plays his friend, the ship's doctor, who cautions Aubrey about letting revenge cloud his judgement after the French Man o' War almost sinks them in an early battle. Before the incredibly intense final skirmish the men battle a raging storm, launch an excursion to the Galapagos Islands, find time for grog-enhanced merriment, and endure some primitive surgery.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.332 Disc Set
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Clinton's a small-time bird smuggler who gets caught up in a twisted web of danger and deception. Nadine's an ex-hooker who is inexorably pulled in with him. So what could Contra weapons traffickers possibly want from them?DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - English
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Lewis Milestone's adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque's anti-war novel is a masterpiece whose power to disturb remains undiminished by the passage of time. The film stars Lew Ayres as the young Paul Bauman, who, along with a group of his teenaged classmates, are conscripted into the German army during WWI. The youths quickly realize that the patriotic hogwash they had been fed by their schoolmaster has absolutely has nothing to do with the horror they observe and experience on the front lines.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33Single LayerAudio: Dolby Digital Mono - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Film Highlights TrailersInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive MenusText/Photo Galleries: Production Notes BiographiesDVD-ROM Features: Web Links
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