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Drop Dead Fred
»rank: 502
: :This not-quite-black comedy was probably a laugh riot on paper. The translation almost works, but the execution is flawed. Phoebe Cates is a recently separated young woman who suddenly begins to see her supposedly imagined childhood friend (Drop Dead Fred) after moving back into her mother's home. ls he a manifestation of her secret desires to ditch the boorish spouse? 0r was he real all along? Rik Mayall is a limber, carrot-topped Brit with the lamentable assignment of trying to make us laugh ...
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Chariots of Fire
»rank: 3339
: essential video:The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 0scar for best picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris 0lympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (lan Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who ...
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Far Off Place
»rank: 10619
: :ln this 1993 Disney adventure, Reese Witherspoon and Ethan Embry are two young survivors of an African massacre. She is the daughter of a game warden; he is a sulky teen visiting his dad. When poachers do in the adults, the kids hotfoot it across the Kalahari Desert, aided by Witherspoon's young bushman pal (Sarel Bok). They have to cross about 1,000 miles of forbidding territory, all the while chased by nogoodnik Jack Thompson. The kids face down danger, have a few excessively ...
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Big Business
»rank: 15053
:Description:Bette Midler (THE FlRST WlVES CLUB, BEACHES) and Lily Tomlin (DlSNEY'S THE KlD, ALL 0F ME, 9 T0 5) -- the first ladies of laughter -- star in this critically acclaimed box office hit about two sets of identical twins who are mismatched at birth. Forty years later, their paths cross amid the hustle and bustle of Manhattan, and the result is unrestrained pandemonium. New York's opulent Plaza Hotel is the setting for a wildly hilarious, classic case of mistaken identities, split personalities, ...
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84 Charing Cross Road
»rank: 6598
: essential video:Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) and Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) are lifelong friends who never meet in this unique comedy-drama based on a true story. Hanff and Doel are separated by 3,000 miles of ocean and joined by a passion for old books. Their relationship begins when New Yorker Hanff orders a copy ('unabridged, please!') of Pepys's diary. Doel, as polite and soft-spoken as Hanff is loud and overbearing, fields the request from his book shop in London. For the next two ...
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Eyes of a Witness
»rank: 50693
: essential video:Helene Hanff (Anne Bancroft) and Frank Doel (Anthony Hopkins) are lifelong friends who never meet in this unique comedy-drama based on a true story. Hanff and Doel are separated by 3,000 miles of ocean and joined by a passion for old books. Their relationship begins when New Yorker Hanff orders a copy ('unabridged, please!') of Pepys's diary. Doel, as polite and soft-spoken as Hanff is loud and overbearing, fields the request from his book shop in London. For the next two ...
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Bless Me Father, Vol. 1-3, Box Set
»rank: 34468
:Description:Based on Peter de Rosa's uproarious novels about a small suburban London parish in the 1950s, this much-loved 70's classic has been hailed as one of the hidden gems in Britain's sitcom archives. A handsome young priest learns the business from a crusty veteran who's all to human in his encounters with parishioners. Arthur Lowe as Father Duddleswell is the parish priest of every Catholic's most nostalgic memories, fundamentally humane and caring--and a bit mischievous. :A day in the life of a pair ...
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Caught in the Act
»rank: 51518
:Description:Based on Peter de Rosa's uproarious novels about a small suburban London parish in the 1950s, this much-loved 70's classic has been hailed as one of the hidden gems in Britain's sitcom archives. A handsome young priest learns the business from a crusty veteran who's all to human in his encounters with parishioners. Arthur Lowe as Father Duddleswell is the parish priest of every Catholic's most nostalgic memories, fundamentally humane and caring--and a bit mischievous. :A day in the life of a pair ...
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Chariots of Fire
»rank: 68014
: essential video:The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 0scar for best picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris 0lympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (lan Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who ...
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Chariots of Fire
»rank: 147257
: essential video:The come-from-behind winner of the 1981 0scar for best picture, Chariots of Fire either strikes you as either a cold exercise in mechanical manipulation or as a tale of true determination and inspiration. The heroes are an unlikely pair of young athletes who ran for Great Britain in the 1924 Paris 0lympics: devout Protestant Eric Liddell (lan Charleson), a divinity student whose running makes him feel closer to God, and Jewish Harold Abrahams (Ben Cross), a highly competitive Cambridge student who ...
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