Central Station

Portuguese with English subtitlesInteractive MenusAudio Commentary by Walter Salles, Arthur Cohn, and Fernanda MontenegroTalent and FilmographiesWidescreen formatTwo very unlikely souls, a motherless young boy and a lonely retired school teacher become inextricably linked and form an uncommon bond as they venture from the bustling city to Brazil's remote northeast region in search of the boy's father.Genre: Foreign Film - PortugeseRating: RRelease Date: 13-JUL-1999Media Type: DVDIn the opening scenes of Central Station, colorful crowds of Brazilians stream into and out of a Rio de Janeiro train, pushing through doors and windows. You're immediately pulled into the brutal vitality of a nation in motion, setting the tone for a picturesque...

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Deadly Sweet (Col Cuore in Gola)

Starring 17-year-old beauty-contest winner Ewa Aulin (CANDY), and Jean-Louis Trintignant (A MAN AND A WOMAN), Deadly Sweet is a most unusual crime story. In the film, a French actor finds his business contact lying murdered on the floor. Rather than call the police, he decides to protect the young woman at the scene and nail down the true killers, which puts him on a collision course with the LondIN ITALY, A WOMAN FEARS HER SISTER MAY HAVE BEEN KIDNAPPED. INSPECTOR ENZO AVOLFI FEARS IT'S WORSE. THEY TEAM UP TO RESCUE HER FROM A SADISTIC KILLER KNOWN ONLY AS 'YELLOW'."Giallo" films are characterized by extended murder sequences featuring excessive bloodletting, stylish camera work and unusual musical arrangements. The literary whodunit element...

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The Best Laid Plans: A Novel

ISBN13: 9780345491190Condition: NewNotes: BRAND NEW FROM PUBLISHER! 100% Satisfaction Guarantee. Tracking provided on most orders. Buy with Confidence! Millions of books sold!Selected as the 2011 CBC Canada Reads Winner!This book beat out work by Douglas Coupland and Will Ferguson because it is very, very good â€" a terrific Canadian political satire.Here’s the set up: A burnt-out politcal aide quits just before an election â€" but is forced to run a hopeless campaign on the way out. He makes a deal with a crusty old Scot, Angus McLintock â€" an engineering professor who will do anything, anything, to avoid teaching English to engineers â€" to let his name stand in the election. No need to campaign, certain to lose, and so on.Then a great...

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Freaky Friday

In the tradition of THE PRINCESS DIARIES, Disney's FREAKY FRIDAY is the extremely funny and heartwarming comedy everyone will love. Dr. Tess Coleman (the hilarious Jamie Lee Curtis) and her teenage daughter Anna (rockin' Lindsay Lohan) have one thing in common -- they don't relate to each other on anything. Not clothes or men or Anna's passion to be in a rock band. Nothing. Then onFeatures include: •MPAA Rating: PG•Format: DVD•Runtime: 97 minutes...

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Code Name - The Cleaner

The laughs fly like bullets in this action comedy about a man with amnesia who can't remember whether he's a super spy.or a janitor.Jake Rogers (Cedric the Entertainer) just woke up in a hotel room next to a dead CIA agent and a briefcase full of money. Things go from bad to worse when his blonde bombshell wife (Nicollette Sheridan) arrives to inform him that he's a Special Forces Operative entanA man with amnesia cant remember whether hes a super spy .. Or a janitor. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 09/30/2008 Starring: Cedric The Entertainer Nicollette Sheridan Rating: Pg13...

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Hell Ride

The story deals with the characters Pistolero, the Gent and Comanche and the deadly, unfinished business among them. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R Age: 796019810876 UPC: 796019810876 Manufacturer No: 81087Actor Larry Bishop, who made his name in the '60s as the star of biker pictures like The Savage Seven, revives the genre with Hell Ride, a rough and raunchy action-drama produced by indie director and cult film aficionado Quentin Tarantino. Bishop, who wrote, produced and directed the film, is also top-billed as Pistolero, chief of the outlaw Victors, who cruise the sunbaked Southwest to avenge a fallen mama. Their target is Billy Wings (Vinnie Jones), head man for the Six-Six-Sixes, and...

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Maximum Risk / Double Team

English 5.1 Dolby Digital, SpanishSubtitles English French SpanishFull ScreenNo Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-Action/AdventureRating: RRelease Date: 1-MAR-2005Media Type: DVDLook ma, no script! As expected from a movie by Hong Kong action director Hark Tsui, there are many explosive, fast-paced sequences in this Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle. Some are thrilling, others inconsequential. There is also another mumbling, overdone performance by Mickey Rourke, who looks as if he performed his own plastic surgery. Except for an unintentionally humorous ending, the only surprise is Dennis Rodman as Van Damme's partner in exploitation. Rodman has plenty of charisma, but needs someone to weed out those inferior scripts. He plays an eccentric...

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