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2000 Catalog of Releases
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- 28 Days Sandra Bullock plays a writer whose substance abuse lands her in a drug and alcohol rehab center for a court-mandated 28-day stay. The film focuses in on her attempt to reclaim her life -- as well as showing us the various oddball denizens of the center as they go about their own rehabilitations. Sketchy at best as to the underlying causes and effects leading to the woman's addictions, the film should nevertheless appeal mightily to Bullock fans. Director: Betty Thomas. Stars: Sandra Bullock, Viggo Mortensen, Diane Ladd, Dominic West, Elizabeth Perkins, Steve Buscemi. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 103 min., Drama, Box office gross: $36.300 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- 4th Floor, The A young woman (Juliette Lewis) moves into her first apartment -- much to the chagrin of her boyfriend (William Hurt) -- and while moving furniture around in her new fifth floor digs she invokes the ire of her neighbor downstairs. Soon things get out of control as the fourth floor denizen 's threatening actions move from nasty notes and pounding to break-ins and attacks. But who lives down there? Director: Josh Klausner. Stars: Juliette Lewis, William Hurt, Shelly Duvall. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Thriller, A-Pix Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Absence of the Good Homicide detective investigating seemingly unrelated series of murders in Salt Lake City unravels a tangled web surrounding a malignant family with a history of abuse and murder. Director: John Flynn ("Brainscan"). Stars: Stephen Baldwin, Tyne Daly, Allen Garfield, Shawn Huff, Rob Knepper. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Adventures of Sebastian Cole, The Coming of age story about a high school junior, living with his mother and stepfather in the suburbs in the 1980s. His life changes drastically when the stepfather decides he would rather live life as a woman, and Sebastian stands by him. Director: Tod Williams. Stars: Adrian Grenier, Clark Gregg, Aleksa Palladinom, Margaret Colin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Drama, Paramount.
- After Life Delightful fantasy-morality tale about a waystation on the road to the afterlife in which the recently deceased are told they have one week in which to choose one memory that they can take with them for all eternity. "Staff members" will take that memory, make a film of it, and give it to the dead, who will live out that single happy memory forever, forgetting all else. Stunning and profound work that examines the core of existence -- the memories and longings that make us human. Director: Kore-eda Hirokazu. Stars: Takashi Mochizuki, Ichiro Watanabe, Shiori Satonaka, Satoru Kawashima. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 118 min., Fantasy Drama, Box office gross: $ million, New Yorker. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Agent of Death In order to generate positive publicity for their candidate -- the President of the U.S. up for re-election, facing certain defeat -- a group of advisors stage a kidnapping in order to tape a heroic escape. Unfortunately the plan goes terribly wrong. Director: Sam Firstenberg. Stars: Ice-T, Eric Roberts, Michael Madsen. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.
- Agnes Browne The unexpected death of her husband sends Agnes Browne -- and her seven children -- into emotional and financial trouble. Browne must turn to an insidious loan shark just to pay for the funeral. In an attempt to pay back her debt, Agnes sells fruit at a market stall, there meeting a French baker who may be able to put love and solidity back into her family's life. Set in 1967 Dublin, the film's set piece is a Tom Jones concert Agnes and her new beau go to. A realistic, yearning-for-life drama. Director: Anjelica Huston. Stars: Anjelica Huston, Arno Chevier, Marion O'Dwyer. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.100 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Air Bud: World Pup Second sequel to "Air Bud." Here the dog with all the right sports moves (Wally) takes on soccer, with the added attraction of love (with another Golden Retriever) and fatherhood. Stars: Kevin Zegers, Brittany Paige Bouck, Caitlin Wachs, Dale Midkiff, Wally. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 83 min., Children, Disney, $19.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- All About My Mother This Oscar-winning film traces the search of an emotionally devastated mother -- honoring the wishes of her dead 18-year-old son -- to learn more about her son's father, whom she left 20 years before. Her journey takes her to Barcelona, where she meets up with an actress performing in a production of "A Streetcar Named Desire" and gets drawn into criss-crossing narrative threads, female solidarity and new emotional connections. Director: Pedro Almodovar. Stars: Cecilia Roth, Marisa Paredes, Penelope Cruz, Antonio San Juan, Candela Pena, Rosa Maria Sarda. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Drama, Box office gross: $7.373 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- All I Wanna Do Five intelligent students at an all-girls school who resort to rebellion -- seduction, intoxication and high-spirited vengeance -- in a plot to sabotage the merger of all-male St. Ambrose with Miss Godard's Prep School for Girls. Released theatrically as "Strike." Director: Sarah Kernochan. Stars: Gaby Hoffmann, Kirsten Dunst, Lynn Redgrave, Rachael Leigh Cook. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 96 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $.780 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- American Beauty Fabulous black comedy that takes a jaundiced look at American suburban living and the disintegration of the family, narrated from the grave by Kevin Spacey, with jabs at parenting, gay bashing, teen sex, advertising, real estate agents and fantasy. An auspicious first-outing for stage director Sam Mendes. Director: Sam Mendes. Stars: Kevin Spacey, Annette Bening, Thora Birch, Wes Bentley, Mena Suvari, Peter Gallagher, Chris Cooper. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 117 min., Black comedy, Box office gross: $108.468 million, DreamWorks. DVD: 4th quarter.
- American Movie Wild comedy about an independent filmmaker (Mark Borchardt) living in Menomonee Falls, Wisc., and his trials and tribulations in trying to bring his filmic vision to reality -- including wheedling money from his 82-year-old uncle -- during the course of a two year period. Director: Chris Smith. Stars: Mark Borchardt. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $1.031 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- American Pimp The Hughes brothers' expose on real-life pimps (Filmore Slim, C-Note, Gorgeous Dre, Rosebudd) from the dirty streets of New York and Milwaukee to the clean but sleazy streets of Los Angeles and San Francisco. Director: Albert and Allen Hughes. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 87 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $0.258 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- American Psycho Rude and crude adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis' notorious 1980s novel about a bloodthirsty Wall Street yuppie -- Harvard educated and full of himself and his privileged life -- whose stock in trade is murder most foul. Whereas the novel could be seen as a criticism of the me-decade's lust for self-absorption, the film comes off just as a boring study of a serial killer. Director: Mary Harron. Stars: Christian Bale, Wilem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Reese Witherspoon, Samantha Mathis, Chloe Sevigny. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R and unrated versions, 104 min., Drama, Box office gross: $14.400 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- American Tail: Mystery of the Night Monster Direct-to-video sequel 2000, CC, Animated, DreamWorks, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- American Tale: Treasure of Manhattan Island A wonderful third act for the American Tail franchise, here with Fievel and friends in New York City at the turn of the 19th century finding a treasure map leading to a magical, secret world under the city inhabited by Native American mice who reveal the gift of hope and the dreams of a better future. Director: Larry Latham. Voices of Dom DeLuise, Lacey Chabert, David Carradine. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 78 min., Animated, Universal, $14.98 SRP.
- American Virgin (a k a Live Virgin) Ronny Bartolit (Robert Loggia), the king of adult filmmaking, becomes threatened when his rival announces that he has just discovered the next big thing -- a young virgin who will share her first sexual experience with millions of Americans -- Ronny' s daughter (Mena Suvari). Director: Jean-Pierre Marois. Stars: Mena Suvari, Bob Hoskins, Robert Loggia. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 87 min., Comedy, Studio (Sterling) Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- American Women (a k a The Closer You Get) Off-beat Irish comedy about a group of Irish men who -- feeling that their village has a shortage of available women -- places an ad in a Miami newspaper seeking American beauties for potential marriage. Naturally their endeavor leads to unforeseen results -- the men discover that, the more they look elsewhere, the more the girls next door become attractive. Director: Aileen Ritchie. Stars: Ian Hart, Niamh Cusack, Sean McGinley, Ewan Stewart. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 90 min., Comedy, Fox.
- Angela's Ashes Frank McCourt's best-selling memoir of his impoverished Irish childhood in the 1930s comes to the big-screen via the deft hand of director Alan Parker. Director: Alan Parker. Stars: Emily Watson, Robert Carlyle, Joe Breen, Ciaran Owens, Michael Legge. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 145 min., Drama, Box office gross: $12.867 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Animal Farm Telefilm adaptation of George Orwell's classic satire/allegory about a group of farm animals who revolt against their human masters and set up their own totalitarian regime. Stars: Voices of Kelsey Grammer, Pete Postlethwaite, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Patrick Stewart, Ian Holm. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 91 min., Animated, Artisan, $14.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.
- Anna and the King Sweeping interpretation of the classic story about an opinionated English schoolteacher (Jodie Foster) who travels to Siam to educate the children of the tradition bound king (Chow Yun-Fat). Banned by the current Thai government. Director: Andy Tennant. Stars: Jodie Foster, Chow Yun-Fat, Bai Ling, Tom Felton. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 140 min., Drama, Box office gross: $35.956 million, Fox. DVD: October 31. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Annie Get Your Gun After decades of being stalled in legal complications, the 1950 musical classic finally wends its way to home video. The VHS edition will include performances by Judy Garland (originally cast as Annie before bowing out -- because of health and emotional problems; the DVD will also feature audio commentary by director George Sidney, a bonus recording session of the original cast performing "There's No Business Like Show Business" and a rare production dailies gallery of Garland. Director: George Sidney. Stars: Betty Hutton, Howard Keel. 1950, CC, Musical, Warner, $19.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Any Given Sunday Director Oliver Stone's take on football, with Al Pacino the rabid coach of the fictional Miami Sharks and Cameron Diaz the team's owner-without-a-heart. The team has stumbled on the way to the playoffs (their star quarterback is injured) and the coach puts in a third-string player (Jamie Foxx) who goes on to become a national celebrity. Stone takes shots at race, the media, big bucks (both for team owners and players), and other easy targets, but in the end he's created a lavish tribute to Football. Director: Oliver Stone. Stars: Al Pacino, Cameron Diaz, Dennis Quaid, James Woods, Jamie Foxx, LL Cool J, Matthew Modine. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 160 min., Sports drama, Box office gross: $75.530 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Anywhere but Here Susan Sarandon and Natalie Portman are splendid as mother and daughter who relocate to Beverly Hills from Bay City, Wisc., finding new lives (as well as boyfriends) but also learning to be each other's best friend. A warm, delightful film from director Wayne ("Joy Luck Club") Wang. Director: Wayne Wang. Stars: Susan Sarandon, Natalie Portman, Ray Baker, Bonnie Bedelia, Hart Bochner. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 110 min., Comedy-Drama, Box office gross: $19.653 million, Fox.
- Around the Fire Coming of age drama set against the backdrop of a rock festival. Soundtrack features music by Bob Marley & the Wailers, the Grateful Dead, the Meters, Dire Straits, Phish and the Neville Brothers. Stars: Devan Sawa, Tara Reid, Eric Mabius. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Drama, A-Pix Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Art of War, The Fast-paced, exciting actioner with great stunts and a James Bond story line, about a secret United Nations task force that carries out covert ops against its members in order to keep world peace. Here, against the background of a trade treaty that will open China to world markets, the U.N. force's chief operative (Wesley Snipes) is framed for the assassination of the Chinese U.N. ambassador and must go on the run -- with the aid of a U.N. translator -- to clear himself and discover the real killer. Hunted by the FBI, the cops and the Chinese Tongs, Snipes uses his skills and wits to keep one step ahead of death. Director: Christian Duguay. Stars: Wesley Snipes, Anne Archer, Maury Chaykin, Marie Matiko, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa, Michael Biehn, Donald Sutherland. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 119 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $30.006 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Astronaut's Wife, The A NASA astronaut retruns from a shuttle mission a changed man, impregnating his wife with mysterious babies in this sci-fi horror tales that borrows from "I Married a Monster From Outer Space" and "Rosemary's Baby." Director: Rand Ravich. Stars: Johnny Depp, Charlize Theron, Joe Morton, Clea DuVall, Nick Cassavetes, Samantha Eggar, Blair Brown. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 110 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $10.600 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at at up to 20% discount
- Attention Shoppers Rival soap opera stars fight it out for audiences for personal appearances at K-mart. Director: Philip Charles Mackenzie. Stars: Luke Perry, Nestor Carbonell, Lin Shaye, Casey Affleck, Kathy Nijimy, Martin Mull. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Comedy, MGM. DVD: Day & Date.
- Audrey Hepburn Story, The ABC bio-drama about the life of Audrey Hepburn. Stars: Jennifer Love Hewitt, Frances Fisher, Eric McCormick. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 133 min., Bio-Drama, Columbia TriStar, $19.96 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- B. Monkey Director Michael Radford's first film since 1995's "Il Postino" has Asia Argento starring as B. Monkey, a confirmed armed robber who attempts to reform her life by taking up with a passionate and committed schoolteacher. But her past comes back to haunt them. Director: Michael Radford. Stars: Asia Argento, Jared Harris, Rupert Everett, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.034 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Bachelor, The Confirmed bachelor has 24 hours in which to get married in order to inherit $100 million. Although he has finally fallen in love, he must go through his list of ex-sweethearts to find one who will marry him instantly. Loosely based on Buster Keaton's classic 1928 film. Director: Gary Sinyor. Stars: Chris O'Donnell, Renee Zellweger, James Cromwell, Brooke Shields, Artie Lange, Edward Asner. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 101 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $21.290 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Backlash A hot shot federal prosecutor strikes a blow against a Colombian drug cartel, instigating the death of her partner and her placement in protective custody. With her life now in danger, she uncovers a conspiracy involving high-level government officials. Director: Jack Ersgard. Stars: Charles Durning, JoBeth Williams, Tracey Needham, James Belushi. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 103 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar.
- Bandits Four women behind bars form a jailhouse band, escape, and become underground rock stars on the run when their demo tape hits the airwaves. As they become more successful, it gets harder and harder to stay one step ahead of the police. In German with English subtitles. Director: Katja Von Garnier. Stars: Katja Riemann, Jasmin Tabatabai, Nicolette Krebitz, Jutta Hoffmann. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 109 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.024 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Batman Beyond: Return of the Joker Latest animated Batman direct-to-video feature has new Batman Terry McGinnis investigating what really happened the night of the last battle between Batman Bruce Wayne and the Joker, with the new caped crusader vowing to finally take down the seemingly immortal master criminal. Voices of Melissa Joan Hart, Mark Hamill, Will Friedle, Angie Harmon. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, Animated, Warner, $19.96 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Bats Experimental bats escape and go on a rampage, threatening to gather together a hoard of common bats to eat their way across America. Director: Louis Morneau. Stars: Lou Diamond Phillips, Dina Myer, Leon, Carlos Jacott. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Horror, Box office gross: $10.117 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Beach, The Adventure yarn about a chain-smoking American backpacker (Leonardo DiCaprio) who has traveled to Thailand to escape Western culture. There he comes across a map leading him to a hidden eden on a Thai island, where the paradise of a beach commune turns sour. For DiCaprio fans only. Director: Danny Boyle. Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Virginie Ledoyen, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Guillaume Canet. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Drama, Box office gross: $39.758 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Beautiful People First-time director Jasmin Dizdar's film examines the personal and political consequences of the war in former-Yugoslavia through the lives of four English families and their random involvement with the people and events in the war-torn country. Director: Jasmin Dizdar. Stars: Dado Jehan, Faruk Pruti, Danny Nussbaum, Gilbert Martin, Charlotte Coleman. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 107 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.248 million, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Beethoven's 3rd Direct-to-video sequel follows the Newton family on a road trip with their beloved St. Bernard. Stars: Judge Reinhold, Julia Sweeney. 2000, CC, Family, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Being John Malkovich Commercial and music video director Spike Jonze has put together an incredibly offbeat and original movie about a street puppeteer (John Cusack) who takes a filing job on the 7 1/2-floor of a New York office building, where the ceilings are so low that workers must hunch over to move. One afternoon he discovers a door which leads to a portal that enters the consciousness of actor John Malkovich. Soon his friends partake of the weirdness inside Malkovich's head. Astounding. Director: Spike Jonze. Stars: John Cusack, Cameron Diaz, Mary Kay Place, Catherine Keener, Orson Bean, John Malkovich. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 112 min., Black comedy, Box office gross: $22.268 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date.
- Bellyfruit An official selection of the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival, this gripping feature follows the lives of three teen mothers living in urban Los Angeles. Director: Kerri Lee Green. Stars: Tamara Laseon Bass, Tonatzin Mondragon, Kelly Vint. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: 95, NR min., Drama, Vanguard Cinema. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Beowulf Sci-fi horror version of the classic 8th century tale. Here futuristic warrior Beowulf learns of an evil and menacing man-eating force (Grendel) who feeds on warriors and sets off on a battle of good vs. evil. Give us a break! Director: Graham Baker. Stars: Christopher Lambert, Rhona Mitra. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 89 min., Science Fiction, Dimension. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Best Man, The A steamy new novel complicates things for a commitment-shy writer when the contents of the book -- which contains more than passing resemblances to his friends -- leaks out during the weekend of a big wedding at which he's the best man. Director: Malcolm D. Lee. Stars: Taye Diggs, Nia Long, Morris Chestnut, Harold Perrineau Jr. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 115 min., Comedy, Boxoffice gross: $34.074 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Best Laid Plans Convoluted but interesting con game thriller about a pair of hustlers who try to swindle a recent college grad just returned to his small home town; the con game involves rape and robbery. Elaborate twists and turns. Director: Mike Barker. Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Brolin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.025 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date.
- Beyond the Clouds Four tales of love and lust. Music by U2, Van Morrison and Brian Eno. Director: Michelangelo Antonioni. Stars: John Malkovich, Peter Weller, Jeanne Moreau. 1995, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 109 min., Drama, Vanguard Cinema.
- Beyond the Mat No holds barred documentary on the world of professional wrestling and all that that entails: hype and promotion. Includes interviews with WWF head Vince McMahon, Chyna, New Jack, Coco BWare, Jesse Ventura. Director: Barry Blaustein. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R - 103 min., Unrated director's cut - 107 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $2.000 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Bicentennial Man Sci-fi tale based on an Isaac Asimov short story that follows two centuries in the life of a family and their robot who, as the years go by, becomes more and more human. Too predictable and tame for all but the kiddies. Director: Chris Columbus. Stars: Robin Williams, Sam Neill, Wendy Crewson, Oliver Platt, Embeth Davidtz. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 140 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $57.527 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Big Brass Ring, The Based on an Orson Welles' screenply, this indie production follows the intrigue behind the political campaign of rising Midwest politician (his presidential aspirations are the "brass ring" of the title) and his jaded wife, involving blackmail, scandals, a menacing security guard and an eager reporter who will do anything to make a name for herself. Director: George Hickenlooper. Stars: William Hurt, Nigel Hawthorne, Miranda Richardson, Irene Jacob. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Big Momma's House Wild comedy has Martin Lawrence as an FBI agent who impersonates the grandmother of the ex-girlfriend (Nia Long) of an escaped bank-robbing killer. There's plenty of slapstick, physical comedy and double entendres as Lawrence's agent -- gussied up as the big-boned, big bosomed Big Mamma -- insinuates himself into the young woman's life to find out what she knows about her ex. Some gross-out humor but not nearly as bad as "Nutty Professor II." Director: Raja Gosnell. Stars: Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Paul Giamatti, Jascha Washington, Terrence Howard. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $116.511 million, Fox. DVD: November 28.
- Big Kahuna, The Three industrial-lubricant salesmen host a party in a hotel suite at a convention in Wichita, Kansas, in hopes of snaring the account of a major customer, referred to only as The Big Kahuna. The film takes place almost exclusively in the room, with existential analysis of the three main characters: a young married man just starting out in sales (Peter Facinelli), a crisis-ridden salesman down-on-his luck but hoping for a rebound (Danny DeVito) and a hard-charging and jaded ubersalesman (Kevin Spacey). A "Glengarry Glen Ross" for the 21st century. Director: John Swanbeck. Stars: Kevin Spacey, Danny DeVito, Peter Facinelli. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.700 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Big Tease, The Story of Scottish hairdresser Crawford Mackenzie and his journey to Los Angeles with dreams of competing in the prestigious Platinum Scissors Award at the World Freestyle Hairdressing Championship. Stars: Craig Ferguson, Frances Fisher, Mary McCormack, David Rasche, Chris Langham. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 86 min., Comedy, Warner Bros.. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Black Cat, White Cat Wild ride of a film about a group of Gypsies who live on the banks of the Danube River and get involved with mobsters, dirty deals, a botched train robbery, betrayals, lust, a shotgun wedding and the pursuit of true love and friendship. Serbo-Croatian with English subtitles. Director: Emir Kusturica ("When Father Was Away on Business"). 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 129 min., Comedy, USA.
- Black and White Multi-layered look at pop culture -- including hip-hop, sex, race, celebrityhood -- by idiosyncratic director James ("Fingers") Toback. The main story keys in on a group of Upper East Side white kids who hang out in the world of hip-hop, but also has side trips with a sleazy white gambler trying to fix a basketball gang, a female documentarian and her husband filming the kids, and a rap producer trying to protect his turf. Appearances by Mike Tyson, Marla Maples. Director: James Toback. Stars: Robert Downey Jr., Jared Leto, Claudia Schiffer, Brooke Shields, Ben Stiller, Gaby Hoffman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Drama, Box office gross: $5.100 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Blowback When a serial killer is finally executed, a police inspector thinks he can finally close the case that almost destroyed his marriage and sanity. But when the former jury members turn up brutally murdered, the clues all point to the killer. Has he come back from the dead? Director: Mark L. Lester. Stars: Mario Van Peebles, James Remar. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Horror, Sterling Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Blue Streak Martin Lawrence plays a talented jewel thief who stashes his loot of diamonds in a construction site when his heist goes bad. Three years later, out of prison, he discovers a police station has been built on the spot. He impersonates a cop to get the loot, but he's a bit too good at the job, winning the admiration of his "fellow" officers. What a dilemma! Director: Les Mayfield. Stars: Martin Lawrence, Dave Chappelle, Luke Wilson, William Forsythe. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 94 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $66.808 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Body and Soul An ambitious small-town boxer travels to Reno with dreams of making it as a professional. But on the climb to the top he risks losing himself and the people he cares for. Remake of the classic 1947 John Garfield-starrer. Director: Sam Henry Kass. Stars: Rod Steiger, Jennifer Beals, Michael Chiklis, Joe Mantegna, Tahnee Welch, Ray "Boom Boom" Mancini. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Drama, MGM. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Body Shots A group of young men and women face off against each other in Los Angeles' adult single's scene, with a lot of talking, some action, and a lot of sex (and talking about sex). Director: Michael Cristofer. Stars: Sean Patrick Flanery, Jerry O'Connell, Amanda Peet, Tara Reid, Ron Livingston, Emily Procter. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Comedy drama, Box office gross: $0.699 million, New Line. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Boiler Room Fast-paced, exciting drama about young stockbrokers making millions in stock-market scams -- making cold calls from a boiler room and selling worthless stock to gullible clients. The film follows the rise and fall of Seth (Giovanni Ribisi), who moves up fast in this tainted world only to uncover a secret dirtier than he imagined (which may be surprising since he's already involved in duping people out of their life's earnings) behind the company he works for. Director: Ben Younger. Stars: Giovanni Ribisi, Vin Diesel, Nia Long, Nicky Katt, Scott Caan, Ben Affleck, Jamie Kennedy, R Rifkin. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 117 min., Drama, Box office gross: $16.889 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Bonanno: A Godfather's Story Telefilm based on the true-life story of Mafia boss Joseph Bonanno. Stars: Martin Landau, Robert Loggia, Costas Mandylor, Edward James Olmos. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 129 min., Crime drama, Artisan, $29.98 SRP.
- Bone Collector, The Exciting cop thriller about a quadriplegic forensics expert (Denzel Washington) and a young female cop (Angelina Jolie) who team up to track down a gruesome serial killer who has a penchant for leaving behind bizarre clues. Director: Phillip Noyce ("Patriot Games," "Clear and Present Danger"). Stars: Denzel Washington, Angelina Jolie, Michael Rooker, Queen Latifah, Mike McGlone, Luis Guzman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 120 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $63.722 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Book of Stars, The Life affirming film about an emotionally damaged young woman (Mary Stuart Masterson) who spends her days caring for her 15-year-old sister (Jena Malone), who suffers from cystic fibrosis, and her nights selling her body and popping pills. Into her life comes a convict (D.B. Sweeney) who writes her poetic letters and an immigrant from a war-torn country who clerks at a neighborhood store. Also on hand is her next door neighbor, The Professor (Delroy Lindo). Human interconnections come to the fore. Director: Michael Miner. Stars: Mary Stuart Masterson, Jena Malone, D.B. Sweeney, Delroy Lindo. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 98 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Boom! Based on Tennessee Williams' "The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore." On a volcanic Mediterranean island which she owns, a dying millionairess begins a passionate affair with a wandering poet, hoping that he will become her angel of death and provide the ultimate fulfillment to her discontented life. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Noel Coward, Michael Dunn, Joanna Shimkus. 1968, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 113 min., Drama, Universal, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Bossa Nova Dull but wonderful-to-look-at art-house comic drama set in luscious Rio de Janeiro concerning the reawakening to life of an English teacher (Amy Irving) who stays in Rio following the death of her Brazilian husband. Director: Bruno Barreto. Stars: Amy Irving, Antonio Fagundes, Alexandre Borges, Debora Bloch, Stephen Tobolowsky, Drica Morales. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Comic Drama, Box office gross: $1.338 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Bowfinger Wacky comedy about a low-class indie filmmaker (Steve Martin) who schemes to get a big-action star (Eddie Murphy) in his film by surreptitiously filming him, driving the star crazy. Coincidentally, the filmmaker discovers the star's look-a-like brother (also Murphy), who he cons into filling in for the star -- in the wildest of ways. Funny outing for all. Director: Frank Oz. Stars: Steve Martin, Eddie Murphy, Heather Graham, Christine Baranski, Terence Stamp, Jamie Kennedy. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $65.433 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Boys, The Disturbing drama about a primal thug of a man who returns home from prison to find his mother has taken up with another man, his brothers have fallen under the control of their women, and his girlfriend may or may not have been unfaithful. In an effort to exert control over his family, the man unites his brothers in a brutal rampage against society, the man who put him in jail, and women. Stars: Toni Collette, David Wenham. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 85 min., Drama, A-Pix Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date.
- Boys Don't Cry True story of Teena Brandon, a sexually distraught 19-year-old girl who passes herself off as a young man (Brandon Teena), dates a beautiful though also confused young woman, and is raped and murdered when her ruse is discovered. Powerful drama. Director: Kimberly Peirce. Stars: Hilary Swank, Chloe Sevigny, Peter Sarsgaard, Brandon Sexton III, Alison Folland. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 114 min., Drama, Box office gross: $7.802 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Boys and Girls Weak college-age romantic comedy about pair of unlikely lovers: A compulsive, repressed engineering student (Freddie Prinze Jr.) and a free-spirited Latin major (Claire Forlani). Not much happens. Director: Robert Iscove. Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Claire Forlani, Jason Biggs, Amanda Detmer, Heather Donahue, Alyson Hannigan. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $20.627 million, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Breakfast of Champions Misfired attempt at adapting Kurt Vonnegut Jr.'s classic book to the big screen, with fine ensemble cast lost in a mish-mash of events and out-of-control filmmaking. Director: Alan Rudolph ("Afterglow," "Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle," "Welcome to L.A."). Stars: Bruce Willis, Albert Finney, Nick Nolte, Barbara Hershey, Glenne Headly, Lukas Haas, Omar Epps. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 110 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.157 million, Miramax.
- Bringing Out the Dead Director Martin Scorsese paints a bleak picture of one weekend in the life of a paramedic (Cage) looking for redemption, haunted by the ghost of a victim he couldn't save, as he travels the dark streets of NYC populated by the dead, the near-dead and the living dead. Director: Martin Scorsese. Stars: Nicolas Cage, Patricia Arquette, John Goodman, Tom Sizemore, Ving Rhames, Mary Beth Hurt, Marc Anthony. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 120 min., Drama, Box office gross: $16.640 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Brokedown Palace Gritty drama about two American women (Claire Danes and Kate Beckinsale) in a Thailand prison serving 33-year sentences for drug smuggling. Kind of a waterdowned, female "Midnight Express." Director: Jonathan Kaplan. Stars: Claire Danes, Kate Beckinsale, Bill Pullman, Lou Diamond Phillips, Jacqueline Kim. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 101 min., Drama, Box office gross: $10.000 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Bumblebee Flies Anyway, The A young amnesia victim (Elijah Wood) struggles with his present and past while at a medical facility for the terminally ill. Stars: Elijah Wood, Janeane Garofalo, Rachael Leigh Cook, Joseph Perrino. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, Drama, USA.
- But I'm a Cheerleader Subversive comedy about an all-American girl (Natasha Lyonne) whose parents send her off to a gay rehabilitation camp because they suspect her of being a lesbian (after all, she eats tofu, listens to Melissa Etheridge, and won't allow her overzealous boyfriend to French-kiss her). Once at the camp, she starts to fall for a lesbian tomboy (Clea Duvall), throwing everyone's plans out of kilter. Fine performances by Lyonne and Duvall. Director: Jamie Babbit. Stars: Natasha Lyonne, Clea Duvall, Cathy Moriarty, RuPaul Charles, Eddie Cibrian, Mink Stole, Bud Cort. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 86 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $2.122 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Buzz Lightyear of Star Command: The Adventure Begins Direct-to-video adventures of Buzz Lightyear from the "Toy Story" films, with the defender of the universe fending off an attempt by the Evil Emperor Zurg to usurp the Uni-mind -- the mysterious force that lets the Little Green Men think as one -- and take control of the entire galaxy. Buzz is aided in his mission by three intergalactic rookies: Mira Nova, Booster and XR. Voices of Tim Allen, Wayne Knight, Nicole Sullivan, Stephen Furst, Larry Miller, Patrick Warburton. 2000, CC, Animated, Disney, $24.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Cabaret Balkan Series of vignettes about life in modern Belgrade, with an ensemble cast of characters, some who appear briefly and then disappear, others whose paths intersect in one whirlwind evening, including a disenchanted professor, a boxer, a travelling widow and a robber. In Serbo- Croatian with English subtitles. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Comedy, Paramount.
- Casper's Haunted Christmas CGI-animated direct-to-video feature has Casper the Friendly Ghost being forced by the supreme ruler of all ghosts to scare one person before Christmas. But loveable Casper doesn't want to do it -- so his three cousins -- Fatso, Stinky and Stretch -- hire Casper's look-alike cousin to do the dirty deed. Features songs by Randy Travis. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 80 min., Children, Universal, $19.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Cell, The Jennifer Lopez plays a psychologist who helps her patients with the aid of something called a Neurological Cartography and Synaptic Transfer System, allowing her to enter their severely emotionally damaged minds. But she gets more than she bargained for when she enters the mind of a serial killer -- fond of videotaping his victims as they drown in a water-filled glass cage -- to find the whereabouts of his latest victim before it's too late. Both Lopez -- and the audience -- get stuck in a weird, ethereal world that's kind of a music video-inspired "Silence of the Lambs." Not surprisingly, director Tarsem Singh (just call him Tarsem, please) comes from the world of music videos. Vince Vaughn plays an FBI agent who saves the day. Director: Tarsem Singh. Stars: Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D'Onofrio, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Jake Weber, Dylan Baker. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 108 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $54.985 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Center Stage Trials and tribulations of a group of gifted young ballet dancers as they struggle to get accepted into the American Ballet Company. Director: Nicholas Hytner. Stars: Peter Gallagher, Susan May Pratt, Ethan Stiefel, Donna Murphy, Ilia Kulik. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 116 min., Drama, Box office gross: $16.864 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Chicken Run Delightful Aardman studio clay animation (the folks who created the award-winning "Wallace & Gromit" series) about chickens unsuccessfully trying to escape the confines of the English Tweedy Egg Farm. Into their midst flies Rocky, an American rooster with a large ego who eventually helps the confined egg-layers fly the coop -- so to speak -- before the evil Mrs. Tweedy bakes them all into chicken pies. "The Great Escape," anyone? Director: Peter Lord, Nick Park. Voices of Mel Gibson, Julia Sawalha, Miranda Richardson, Jane Horrocks, Tony Haygarth. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 85 min., Animated, Box office gross: $103.000 million, DreamWorks, $16.95 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Chill Factor Chase movie about pair of average guys -- Cuba Gooding Jr. and Skeet Ulrich -- who get entrusted with a doomsday chemical that activates above 50 degrees -- and must save the world by heading for an army base in a refrigerator truck -- trailed by the bad guys, of course. Call this one cold speed. Director: Hugh Johnson. Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Skeet Ulrich, Peter Firth, David Paymer. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $11.227 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Chuck & Buck Unsatisfying indie film has childhood pals Buck and Chuck reuniting at (now-called) Charlie's mother's funeral, where infantile and emotionally needy Buck fixates on the now rich music executive. Following Charlie and his stylish fiancee back to L.A., Buck stalks the pair, trying to insinuate himself into Charlie's life. Failing that, he writes a play about himself and Charlie, putting it on at a local theater. When Charlie and his girl attend the play, there's a final confrontation between the men: Buck loves Chuck. Get it? Director: Miguel Arteta. Stars: Mike White, Chris Weitz, Lupe Ontiveros, Beth Colt, Paul Weitz. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.015 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Cider House Rules, The Wonderful coming-of-age drama about a young man (Tobey Maguire) raised at an orphanage in St. Cloud, Maine, during World War II, who learns the way of the world by leaving his mentor (orphanage head Dr. Wilbur Larch, played by Michael Caine), a doctor who would rather perform abortions than bring unwanted children into the world. Based on John Irving's novel. Director Lasse Hallstrom has elicited fine performances from all concerned and imbues the film with real feelings and emotions. Director: Lasse Hallstrom. Stars: Tobey Maguire, Charlize Theron, Michael Caine, Paul Rudd, Delroy Lindo, Erykah Badu, Kathy Baker. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 134 min., Drama, Box office gross: $56.818 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Closer You Get, The Wacky Irish comedy in the vein of "Waking Ned Devine," about the men of a small County Donegal village who lust for ripe American women (after a reel of Blake Edward's "10" is misprojected during a screening of "The Ten Commandments" at the local church) and advertise for mail-order brides. Naturally this upsets the entire village's status quo, and the women, in particular, discover their own brand of revenge. Director: Aileen Ritchie. Stars: Niamh Cusack, Ian Hart, Ewan Stewart, Sean McDonagh, Cathleen Bradley, Pat Shortt. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 92 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.212 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date.
- Cold Blooded An investigative reporter helps the police track down a serial killer before he gets his 13th victim. Direct-to-video. Stars: Michael Moriarity, Gloria Reuben, Patti LaPone, John Kapelos. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, MTI Home Video. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Colorz of Rage An interracial married couple enters the violent world of urban racism. Starring a slew of rap, R&B and Hip-Hop artists Stars: Redman, Cheryl Pepsi Riley, the DJ Twins, Nikki D, La the Darkman, Nicki Richards. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 91 min., Urban drama, A-Pix. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Committed A New York City housewife (Heather Graham) sets out on a cross-country trip to find her midlife-crisis-stricken husband (Luke Wilson), who left her for parts unknown. She tracks him to a trailer park in El Paso, Texas, where, with the aid of a Native American medicine man, she tries to make him come back to his senses, all the while fending off a passionate desert artist (Goran Visnjic). Weak romantic comedy. Director: Lisa Krueger. Stars: Heather Graham, Luke Wilson, Goran Visnjic. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Romantic Comedy, Box office gross: $0.031 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Crackerjack 3 An ex-Navy S.E.A.L., on the verge of retiring from the CIA, puts his fishing plans aside as he must stop the new CIA director of covert operations from conspiring to cause a global economic collapse. He enlists some loyal operatives, using old-style techniques, to ward off the villains and their high-tech killing gear. Director: Lloyd A. Simandi. Stars: Olivier Gruner, Bo Svenson, Leo Rossie. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Thriller, Monarch Home Video. DVD: Day & Date.
- Cradle Will Rock Based on Orson Welles' final screenplay, this wonderful ensemble piece traces the development and attempt to perform Marxist writer Marc Blitztein's 1936 WPA sponsored theatre project musical "Cradle Will Rock," despite unsurmountable odds and conservative political opposition. Director: Tim Robbins. Stars: Hank Azaria, Emily Watson, Joan Cusack, Susan Sarandon, John Turturro, Bill Murray, Ruben Blades. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 133 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.828 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date.
- Crazy in Alabama Offbeat comedy that takes place in Alabama in the summer of 1965, about a woman (Melanie Griffith) who takes her murdered husband's head in a tupperware container and returns home to her mother, then takes off for Las Vegas to be a star; a parallel story revolves around the civil rights movement and a racial murder down South. Directed by Antonio Banderas. Director: Antonio Banderas. Stars: Melanie Griffith, David Morse, Cathy Moriarty, Meat Loaf, Rod Steiger, Robert Wagner. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 111 min., Comedy-Drama, Box office gross: $1.954 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Crocodile Eight college students on a houseboat trip are stalked by a giant crocodile. Director: Tobe Hooper. Stars: Mark McLaughlin, Caitlin Martin, Chris Solari. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Horror, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.
- Cup, The Chronicle of the impact of World Cup Soccer fever on spirited boys in a remote Tibetian monastery. A 14-year-old soccer-obsessed monk turns his monastery topsy-turvy in his efforts to see the World Cup games. Filmed on location, in English, in the Chokling Monastery in a refuge settlement nestled in the hills of the Himalayas; the first feature-length film made in Bhutan. Director: Khyentse Norbu. Stars: Orgyen Tobgyal, Jamyang Lodro, Neten Chokling, Kunzang Nyima, Lama Chonjor, Godu Lama. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 93 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.067 million, New Line. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Deal of a Lifetime All hell breaks loose in this teen angst comedy when the Devil's agent (Kevin Pollak) tempts a teenage reject into selling his soul for a date with the hottest girl in school. Director: Paul Levine. Stars: Kevin Pollak, Shiri Appleby, Michael Goorjian, Jennifer Rubin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 95 min., Comedy, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Decalogue, The A 10-film modern re-interpretation of the Ten Commandments, originally created for Polish television but screened around the U.S. during the past decade to sold-out audiences of respectful moviegoers and critics. This is the first time the legendary masterpiece has been released to video. In Polish with English subtitles. Available in 5 volumes: $19.95 each or $99.95 the set. Director: Krzysztof Kieslowski. 1988, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 584 min., Drama, New Yorker.
- Defender, The Originally released as "The Beijing Bodyguard," this Hong Kong actioner stars Jet Li as a bodyguard hired by a wealthy businessman to protect his girlfriend, who has witnessed a murder. But the assignment heats up when the pair develop feelings for each other and Li kills the brother of an assassin sent to silence the girl. Stars: Jet Li, Christy Chung. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: R, Martial Arts, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Delivered A college drop-out turned pizza delivery boy becomes the center of a killer's psychotic rampage when he witnesses one of the murders. Not only is his life in danger, but the killer is framing him for the deaths. Director: Guy Ferland. Stars: David Strickland, Ron Eldard, Leslie Stefanson. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Thriller, Winstar, $14.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.
- Deterrence Political thriller in the vein of "Fail Safe," this first effort by film critic-turned director Rod Lurie will keep you on the edge of your seat. The film plots the events of one snowy primary election night in 2008 as an embattled incumbent president struggles with the threat of nuclear war. Stranded with his staff by a blizzard in a local diner in Colorado, the president must determine how to respond to an international military crisis: Saddam Hussein's son has invaded Kuwait, killing Americans. Director: Rod Lurie. Stars: Timothy Hutton, Kevin Pollak, Sheryl Lee Ralph, Sean Astin. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.080 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Detroit Rock City Coming-of-age comedy about four Cleveland teenagers who do everything possible to travel to Detroit to go to a 1978 concert featuring their idols, KISS. Features music by the eponymous band. Director: Adam Rifkin. Stars: Giuseppe Andrews, James De Bello, Edward Furlong, Sam Huntington, Natasha Lyonne, Shannon Tweed. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Rock comedy, Box office gross: $4.193 million, New Line. DVD: Dec. 21. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo Gross-out comedy about fish tank cleaner (Rob Schneider) who puts himself on the escort service market to pay back damages he made to a high-priced gigolo's house. Naturally, the women he meets aren't top-drawer, setting the scene for plenty of physical humor. Director: Mike Mitchell. Stars: Rob Schneider, William Forsythe, Eddie Griffin, Arija Bareikis. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 83 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $65.061 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Devil's Island Intricate saga set in Iceland after WWII, about three generations of an impoverished family living in one of many deserted American army barracks. There's the family matriarch, whose fling 40 years earlier left her pregnant; the years, despite a later marriage to a kindly man who took pity on her, have left their unhappy mark on her. There's middle-aged daughter Gogo, who has three sons from a first marriage, and who now marries a G.I. and leaves Iceland to start a new life. Then there's her two sons -- one who travels with his mother to the States, later returning as an "American boor," the other staying behind to secretly fall in love with the girl next door. A vividly realized slice of life. Icelandic with English subtitles. Director: Fridrik Thor Fridriksson. Stars: Saga Jonsdottir, Gisli Halldorsson, Baltasar Kormakur, Sveinn Geirsson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 103 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date.
- Diamond Run The planned diamond heist masterminded by an elite special forces unit gone bad is foiled when a female master thief beats them to it. An NYPD cop enters the fray and tracks down the woman, only to find out that they're both being stalked by the bad guys. Stars: Richard Lynch, Linda Ljoka, Michael J. Valentine, Fred Glleck. 1996, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Thriller, MTI Home Video. DVD: Day & Date.
- Diamonds This slight comedy has an octogenarian ex-boxer and stroke victim (Kirk Douglas) -- fearful of a future languishing in an old age home -- persuading his estranged son and grandson to take off from Canada in search of three diamonds hidden by a gangster named Duff the Muff in the walls of a house in Reno. The diamonds will make the old man's dream come true -- to retire on a spacious ranch -- but what's most important is how the three overcome their differences on the road to become a family. Director: John Asher. Stars: Kirk Douglas, Dan Aykroyd, Corbin Allred, Lauren Bacall, Jenny McCarthy, Kurt Fuller, Mariah O'Brien. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.081 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Dirty Pictures Telefilm based on the banning of the Robert Mapplethorpe photography exhibit at the Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center. Director: Frank Pierson. Stars: James Woods, Craig T. Nelson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, MGM. DVD: Day & Date.
- Dog of Flanders, A Weak adaptation of the children's novel about a poor Dutch boy and his grandfather who find am abandoned dog and nurture it back to life. This version concentrates more on the lad, who aspires beyond his station in life to become an artist. Director: Kevin Brodie. Stars: Jack Warden, Jeremy James Kissner, Jon Voight, Cheryl Ladd. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 101 min., Family, Box office gross: $2.148 million, Warner, $19.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Dog Park A young man re-enters the dating scene after breaking up, but his heart remains true to -- his dog, Mogley, who has ended up in joint custody with his ex. Dumb comedy take on dating, sex and dog-owners. Director: Bruce McCulloch. Stars: Natasha Henstridge, Luke Wilson, Janeane Garofalo, Kathleen Roberston. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.242 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date.
- Dogma Wild religious satire has two celestial outcasts journeying across the U.S. looking for a loophole to get into heaven; God sends two prophets to enlist the aid of the Last Scion to stop them. Controversial and not for everyone. Originally produced for Disney-owned Miramax Films, but sold to and released through Lions Gate after the mouse factory made a stink. Director: Kevin Smith. Stars: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Linda Fiorentino, Chris Rock, Alan Rickman, Salma Hayek, Alanis Morissette. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 128 min., Dark Comedy, Box office gross: $26.385 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Don't Drink the Water Woody Allen TV outing, set behind the Iron Curtain in the early 1960s. Comedy has the Hollander family vacationing in Europe, causing an international incident when dad (Woody Allen) takes a photograph in a sensitive region. Fleeing the authorities they take refuge in the American Embassy (along with a variety of other refugees), run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son (Michael J. Fox) who struggles to hold everything together. Director: Woody Allen. Stars: Woody Allen, Mayim Bialik, Don DeLuise, Michael J. Fox, Edward Herrmann, Julie Kavner. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 92 min., Comedy, Buena Vista.
- Double Jeopardy Ashley Judd plays a married woman imprisoned for murdering her husband, who actually has taken up an assumed life in another city with Judd's best friend. Fresh out of prison, Judd goes after the cad, knowing she can't be tried for killing him twice. Tommy Lee Jones plays the parole officer out to stop her. Director: Bruce Beresford. Stars: Ashley Judd, Tommy Lee Jones, Bruce Greenwood, Annabeth Gish. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $113.035 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Down to You Romantic comedy about first love of two collegians (played by Freddie Prinze Jr. and Julia Stiles), told in non-linear fashion and sprinkled with post-modern conceits (actors addressing the camera), with all sorts of oddball side characters: a post-Harvard porn actress, a Jim Morrison wannabe, party dudes, egotistical actors, etc. Director: Kris Isacsson. Stars: Freddie Prinze Jr., Julia Stiles, Selma Blair, Shawn Hatosy, Zak Orth, Rosario Dawson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $19.847 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Dragonheart: A New Beginning Sequel to "Dragonheart," here about a young dragon named Drake discovered in a forbidden dungeon by a stable boy. When the evil chief advisor to the king finds out about Drake, he seeks the dragon's heart, which will give him invincible powers, and it's up to the stable boy to save the dragon -- and the kingdom. Direct-to-video. Director: Doug Lefler. Voices of Robby Benson, Chris Masterson, Henry Van Gorkum, Rona Figueroa. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 85 min., Animated, Universal. DVD: Day & Date.
- Dreaming of Joseph Lees Passion, taboos and betrayal come to the fore in this tale of a romantic triangle in which a young woman must choose between the man who loves her and the man she can't live without. Official selection at the AFI, Chicago, Montreal and Boston film fests. Stars: Samantha Morton, Rupert Graves, Lee Ross. 1999, CC, Romantic Drama, Fox.
- Drive Me Crazy Teen comedy with a twist: A popular female high school senior (Melissa Joan Hart) in need of a date for the school's big dance makes over the grunge-loving boy next door (instead of the other way around). Naturally these two from different cliques fall for each other. Director: John Schultz ("Next to You"). Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Adrian Grenier, Stephen Collins, Susan May Platt. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $17.793 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Drowning Mona Exceedingly boring slapstick comedy about a small town police investigation (led by chief Danny DeVito) into the accidental death of the town shrew (Bette Midler) -- killed when her Yugo mysteriously plunges into the Hudson River -- and the various denizens who all have a motive for her demise. Director: Nick Gomez. Stars: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Jamie Lee Curtis, Neve Campbell, Casey Affleck, Will Ferrell. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 91 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $15.427 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- East/West Wonderfully imagined film that follows the plight of a young couple who return to the Soviet Union after WWII. At the end of the war, Stalin invited expatriate Russians to return to rebuild their country, and young doctor Alexei and his French wife Marie take up the offer, only to discover upon arrival the brutality of the reality of Cold War Russia. Many expatriates are murdered, but Alexei and family survive, battling during the course of years to survive and perhaps escape to the West. Director: Regis Wargnier. Stars: Sandrine Bonnaire, Oleg Menchikov, Catherine Deneuve, Serguei Bodrov Jr., Tatiana Doguileva. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 125 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.170 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- East Is East Set in England during the youth revolution of the 1970s, this black comedy follows the conflict between a proud Pakistani father and his seven young boys as they battle over the traditional Eastern values he wants to inspire and their desire for the swingin' lifestyle of the West: It's bell-bottoms vs. saris. Director: Damien O'Donnell. Stars: Om Puri, Linda Bassett, Jordan Routledge, Archie Panjabi, Chriss Bisson, Emil Marwa. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 96 min., Comedy drama, Box office gross: $1.514 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Eel, The Surrealistic tale of the offbeat adventures that befall a Japanese businessman when he's released from prison for killing his adulterous wife. The eel of the title is a pet the man raised in prison, who listens to everything he says. In Japanese with English subtitles. Director: Shohei Imamura. Stars: Koji Yakusho, Misa Shimizu. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 117 min., Comic Drama, New Yorker.
- Emperor and the Assassin, The Historical Chinese epic set in the 20th century B.C. about a power-hungry heir to the throne of the Qin Kingdom and his goal to conquer the other kingdoms in China. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Director: Chen Kaige. Stars: Ging Li, Zhang Fengyi, Li Xuejian. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 161 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.169 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- End of Days A return to form for Arnold Schwarzenegger. Here he plays an ex-cop turned security expert who must save the world from the Devil himself, who has come to Earth in the last hours of 1999 to sire the Antichrist. Great action and effects. Director: Peter Hyams ("Outland," "The Presidio," "The Relic"). Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Pollak, Robin Tunney, Rod Steiger, CCH Pounder. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $63.185 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- End of the Affair, The Based on a Graham Greene novel, this slow-moving, dreary film follows an adulterous affair between a moody writer (Ralph Fiennes) and a lapsed Catholic (Julianne Moore) that begins during the London Blitz. Two years later -- after the affair has ended -- he meets his ex-lover's husband, causing him to reenter her life. Director: Neil Jordan. Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Julianne Moore, Stephen Rea, Ian Hart, Jason Isaacs. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Romance, Box office gross: $10.614 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Endurance Biopic about the journey of long-distance runner Haile Gebrselassie from the farmland of Ethiopia to the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, where he won the Olympic Gold Medal. Director: Leslie Woodhead. Stars: Haile Gebrselassie, Alem Tellahun. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 83 min., Biography, Box office gross: $0.229 million, Buena Vista. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Erin Brockovich Smash spring hit starring Julia Roberts as Erin Brockovich, a foul-mouthed ex-beauty queen who, as a low-wage employee for a small law firm, helped put together one of the largest class action suits in history -- a $333 million settlement against Pacific Gas & Electric for polluting the water supply in a small community in the Mojave Desert. This is Roberts' film through and through as she rips through the role -- and her clothes. Director: Steven Soderbergh. Stars: Julia Roberts, Albert Finney, Aaron Eckhart, Marg Helgenberger, Cherry Jones, Peter Coyote. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 131 min., Drama, Box office gross: $121.529 million, Universal, $22.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Exorcist, The One of the scariest horror films of all time has been made even scarier with the addition of 11 extra minutes cut from the original. Director William Friedkin added in the footage to bring this version in line with writer William Peter Blatty's original vision, sharpening some of the characters, deepening the spiritual foundation of the film and adding some more truly terrifying moments. The film's mono soundtrack has been digitally remastered into six-track surround and has been enriched with new special sound effects, new atmospheric sounds and some new music. Director: William Friedkin. Stars: Linda Blair, Ellen Burstyn, Jason Miller, Max von Sydow, Lee J. Cobb. 1973, CC, MPAA rating: R, 132 min., Horror, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Extremely Goofy Movie, An New direct-to-video feature, with Goofy enrolling in college with son Max, bringing along some time-warped 1970s ideas that upsets the campus -- particularly when he teams up with the sultry but shy school librarian. Meanwhile, Max becomes the school's hot new extreme sports star. What happens when dad and son meet on the playing field? Voices of Bill Farmer, Jason Marsden, Pauly Shore, Vicki Lewis, Bebe Neuwirth. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 79 min., Animated, Disney, $24.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.
- Eye of the Killer Routine thriller about a legendary serial killer named Jabberwocky who resurfaces after 10 years and the detective who tracks him down. Aired on HBO in May. Director: Paul Marcus. Stars: Kiefer Sutherland, Henry Czerny, Polly Walker. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Eye of the Beholder Off-kilter thriller about a British spy (Ewan McGregor) investigating the corrupt son of a British ambassador in Washington who becomes obsessed with a serial killer (Ashley Judd) when he inadvertently records her latest murder. Much of the film -- a clone of Brian De Palma's clones of Hitchcock -- attempts to psychologically bind the two characters but instead wanders off into a frenzy of action. Director: Stephan Elliott. Stars: Ashley Judd, Ewan McGregor, Jason Priestly, k.d. lang, Genevieve Bujold. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $16.392 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Eyes Wide Shut Director Stanley Kubrick's last film, with Tom Cruise entering a strange, nocturnal world of eroticism and longing when a minor tiff with wife Nicole Kidman (after each are sensually tempted at a posh Christmas party) jangles his faith in their complacent marriage. Director: Stanley Kubrick. Stars: Tom Cruise, Nicole Kidman, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson, Julienne Davis, Rade Sherbedgia, Leelee Sobieski. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 159 min., Drama, Box office gross: $55.637 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Face Direct-to-video thriller about a full-time robber forced to reflect on his life of crime when his gang's latest heist turns each accomplice against the other in a spree of deceit and betrayal. Director: Antonia Bird. Stars: Robert Carlyle. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 107 min., Thriller, New Line.
- Faeries A brother and sister spending their summer on the Fairy Oak Farm are magically transported to a land of Faeries, where they must battle a wicked shapeshifter to save themselves and all of Faerie land. Direct-to-video Voices of Kate Winslet, Jeremy Irons, Dougray Scott, Jane Horrocks. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 76 min., Animated, Paramount, $19.95 SRP.
- Family Tree Story of a nine-year-old boy who sets out to save a very special tree when he discovers his father is planning to build a factory on the site of the town's legendary landmark, Old Oak. The film follows the boy as he rallies friends and neighbors in hopes of saving the it. Stars: Naomi Judd, Robert Forster, Andy Lawrence, Matt Lawrence, Cliff Robertson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 90 min., Family, Warner Bros., $19.96 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Fantasia 2000 A new compilation of the marriage of music and animated images, with a nod to the past by way of featuring "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" from the 1940 Fantasia. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 75 min., Animated, Box office gross: $58.333 million, Disney. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Felicia's Journey Fine crafted thriller about a young, pregnant Irish woman who travels to England in search of her errant boyfriend (and father of her child), along the way being befriended by a mild-mannered caterer (Bob Hoskins) whose tastes run far from the normal: his back yard is planted with corpses. Typically weird Egoyan shaping of time highlights this tale of a quiet serial killer. Director: Atom Egoyan. Stars: Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Peter McDonald, Arsinee Khanjian, Claire Benedict. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 111 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.819 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date.
- Fever Pitch Love and soccer take hold of a mismatched pair of lovers. Director: David Evans. Stars: Colin Firth, Ruth Gemmell. 1996, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Romantic Comedy, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Fight Club Controversial film about a group of alienated young men who test themselves by conducting bare-handed fights, leading to out-of-control terrorism. Not for the squeamish. Director: David Fincher. Stars: Edward Norton, Brad Pitt, Helena Bonham Carter, Meat Loaf Aday, Jared Leto. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 135 min., Drama, Box office gross: $35.635 million, Fox. DVD: June 6. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Filth and the Fury, The Shocking portrait of the rise and fall of The Sex Pistols, the British band that, in just two years and with just one album, solidified the punk movement that changed rock music forever. Director: Julien Temple. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 103 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $0.606 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Final Destination Slick, stylish teen thriller about cheating death. When a jet carrying a group of high school students on its way to Paris crashes on takeoff, the only survivors are six students and a teacher, pulled off the plane when one of the boys has a premonition of the impending doom. But the group is not really safe: death comes stalking them all in weird and unusual ways. What sets this apart from most run-of-the-mill teen scenarios is the bizarre, almost tongue-in-cheek, elaborate death sequences. Director: James Wong. Stars: Devon Sawa, Ali Larter, Kerr Smith, Kristen Cloke, Amanda Detmer, Seann William Scott, Chad Donella. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $52.268 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- First Daughter Made-for-TV movie about a Secret Service agent (Mariel Hemingway) who goes against protocol to save the president from an assassination attempt. When she's reassigned to protect the president's daughter, the girl is kidnapped during a hiking trip and it's up to the agent and a river guide to rescue her. Director: Armand Mastroianni. Stars: Mariel Hemingway, Doug Savant, Monica Keena, Gregory Harrison. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 94 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Fist of Legend Remake of Bruce Lee's "Chinese Connection" (U.S. title for "Fist of Fury") about a Chinese martial arts master who avenges the death of his teacher at the hands of the Japanese during their occupation of the mainland just before WWII. Great action by the incredibly talented Jet Li. Stars: Jet Li. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Martial Arts, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Flawless A former tough-guy security guard (Robert De Niro) suffers a stroke and, too ashamed to leave his apartment for rehab, seeks help from a fellow tenant -- a brash drag queen (Philip Seymour Hoffman) -- and the two develop a reluctant friendship. Director: Joel Schumacher. Stars: Robert De Niro, Philip Seymour Hoffman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 111 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $4.469 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Flintstones in Viva Rock Vegas, The A prequel of sorts to the 1994 live action version of animated TV series "The Flintstones." Here Fred and Barney are on the hunt for girlfriends, latching onto Wilma and Betty, whisking them off to Rock Vegas for a weekend of fun. All kinds of subplots get played out here, most resulting in sight gags for the kiddies, featuring the Great Gazoo, a pint-sized visitor from outer space (a delightfully rude Alan Cummimg); Chip Rockefeller, an evil rich dude who will go to no ends to win over wealthy heiress Wilma; and more. Great production design, colors and eye candy. Director: Brian Levant. Stars: Mark Addy, Stephen Baldwin, Kristen Johnston, Jane Krakowski, Alan Cumming, Joan Collins. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 91 min., Family, Box office gross: $31.087 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Floating Tragic story of the friendship of an embittered high-school grad, Van, and Doug, an all-American swimmer. Van, the only caregiver for his housebound father, drags Doug into his life of petty crime, while Doug drags Van into his life as an overachiever. As their friendship deepens, Van discovers that the perfect life isn't always perfect. Director: William Roth. Stars: Norman Reedus, Chad Lowe. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 92 min., Drama, Winstar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Florentine, The Trials and tribulations of a group of people who frequent The Florentine, a neighborhood bar in the shadow of a deteriorated mill town, and their dreams of adolescence that fade to the realities of adulthood. Director: Nick Stagliano. Stars: Luke Perry, James Belushi, Mary Stuart Masterson, Michael Madsen, Tom Sizemore, Virginia Madsen, Chris Penn. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, Monarch Home Video. DVD: Day & Date.
- Flypaper Back-stabbing and double-dealing come to the fore in three unrelated stories about low-lifers who maim and rob each other on a sunny California afternoon. Director: Klaus Hoch. Stars: Lucy Liu, Craig Sheffer, Sadie Frost, Robert Loggia, Illeanna Douglas, Talisa Soto. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: R, 111 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.
- For Love of the Game Absorbing baseball drama has Kevin Costner as an aging pitching ace reminiscing about his life and career on what may be the most important day of his life -- he's on his way to a no-hitter against the New York Yankees. Director: Sam Raimi. Stars: Kevin Costner, Kelly Preston, John C. Reilly, Jena Malone, Brian Cox. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 137 min., Drama, Box office gross: $35.168 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Fortress 2: Re-Entry Sci-Fier about a renegade -- an escapee from a maximum security prison known as The Fortress -- who is recaptured and sent to an orbiting jail some 26,000 miles above the Earth. Here -- with a camera implanted in his body -- he must plan another escape to be with his wife and son. Director: Geoff Murphy. Stars: Christopher Lambert, Pam Grier. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Science Fiction, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day and Date.
- Frequency A ham radio mysteriously connects a father and son through a 30-year time warp as the two struggle to prevent a murder that will seal their destinies. The film works amazingly well on many levels -- as a sci-fier that postulates the effects on the future of changing the past -- and as a love story between a father and his son -- that it's a sad commentary on today's movie-going habits that it didn't do better at the box office. This is a must-rent film for your friends and loved ones. Director: Gregory Hoblit. Stars: Dennis Quaid, Jim Caviezel, Andre Braugher, Elizabeth Mitchell, Noah Emmerich. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 115 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $44.670 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Frozen Condemnation/philosophical statement on making art in totalitarian China, about a performance artist obsessed with death who devises four art pieces in which he dies, with the last having him freeze to death. After two of the pieces are completes, he's officially declared dead and spends his time unhappily observing the world around him. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Director: Wang Xiaoshuai. Stars: Jia Hongshen, Ma Xiaoquing. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 95 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date.
- Full Tilt Boogie Documentary on the making of Robert Rodriguez's hit "From Dusk Till Dawn" featuring the entire cast and crew (George Clooney, Juliette Lewis, Harvey Keitel, Quentin Tarantino). Director: Sarah Kelly. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Documentary, Box office gross: $0.009 million, Miramax. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Galaxy Quest Funny sci-fi spoof about the aging stars of a defunct sci-fi TV series (a la "Star Trek") summoned to save an alien civilization under attack. The aliens think the show is real -- and the actors really space heroes -- and whisk them away into space for adventures that they're certainly not prepared for. Director: Dean Parisot. Stars: Tim Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Alan Rickman, Tony Shalhoub, Sam Rockwell. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 102 min., Sci-Fi Comedy, Box office gross: $65.761 million, DreamWorks, $22.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.
- Games A young, bored couple devote their time to the pursuit of games (more than the board kind, mind you), getting more than they bargained for when a woman of mystery moves in on them and the game becomes murder. Director: Curtis Harrington. Stars: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross. 1967, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 101 min., Thriller, Universal, $14.98 SRP.
- Gen-X Cop Hong Kong actioner (not released Stateside) about three youthful crime-fighters who aid the police in tracking down a nefarious villain with plans to destroy the city. Director: Benny Chan. Stars: Nicholas Tse, Stephen Fung, Sam Lee, Grace Kip, Toru Nakamura. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 113 min., Martial arts, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Get Bruce Behind the scenes look at one of the funniest men in Hollywood -- Bruce Vilanch -- who has written jokes for a pantheon of celebrities as well as for "Hollywood Squares," the Oscars, the Emmys, the Tonys and the Grammys. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Documentary, Box office gross: $0.043 million, Miramax.
- Get Real Coming of age story about gay adolescent who falls in love with the handsome top athlete at school -- and, surprisingly, the other boy returns his love. Edinburgh Film Festival award winner. Director: Simon Shore. Stars: Ben Silverstone, Brad Gorton, Charlotte Brittain. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 111 min., Comedy/Drama, Box office gross: $1.152 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai Weird and wonderful Jim Jarmusch take on hitmen and Samurai, with Forest Whitaker as Ghost Dog, a samurai mafia hitman on the outs with his employers when they hire him to whack a made man and then turn on him. Not unprepared, Ghost starts to knock off the mobsters one by one. Director: Jim Jarmusch. Stars: Forest Whitaker, John Tormey, Henry Silva, Camile Winbush, Isaach De Bankole, Cliff Gorman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 116 min., Action, Box office gross: $3.090 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Girl, Interrupted Film version of Susanna Kaysen's memoir of her two-year stay in a mental institution during the height of the 1960s for displaying anti-social behavior and her friendship with a sociopath (Angelina Jolie), a pathological liar (Clea Duvall) and others. An indictment of mental health institutions and a strong performance for lead Winona Ryder. Director: James Mangold. Stars: Winona Ryder, Angelina Jolie, Clea Duvall, Brittany Murphy, Jared Leto, Vanessa Redgrave, Jeffrey Tambor, Whoopie Goldberg. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 125 min., Drama, Box office gross: $21.160 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Girl Dominique Swain plays an 18-year-old virgin on the verge of womanhood who gets involved in the world of hip clubs and rock 'n' roll. Will she graduate from girl to woman or just become another groupie? Definitely for the teenage crowd. Director: Johnathan Kahn. Stars: Dominique Swain, Sean Patrick Flanery, Portia Derossi, Channon Roe, Selma Blair. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Drama, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Gladiator The glory and horror of Rome (about 200 A.D.) comes to the screen in this spectacular epic about a Roman general (Russell Crowe) at the peak of his conquering powers (the opening scene of warfare has to be one of the most spectacular -- and gory -- put on screen) betrayed by the nasty son of the dying Emperor and ordered executed. Escaping death, he falls into the hands of a slaver, becomes a gladiator, and eventually makes his way back to Rome, where he becomes a hero of the Colosseum to face off against the new Emperor. Director: Ridley Scott. Stars: Russell Crowe, Joaquin Phoenix, Connie Nielsen, Oliver Reed, Richard Harris, Derek Jacobi. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 150 min., Roman Epic, Box office gross: $181.632 million, DreamWorks. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Godzilla 2000 Killed off in 1995, Godzilla here mysteriously returns to battle invaders from outer space. Ya gotta love this 170-foot high monster (still played by a man in a latex suit) even though the story line waxes and wanes, and is oh, so predictable. It starts out with the Godzilla Prediction Network tracking the big guy (or is it girl?) as it lumbers back to the city, stumbles when a 60-million year-old UFO is unearthed, and starts up again as Godzilla comes to the rescue of an embattled city. For Godzilla diehards only. Dubbed in English. Director: Takao Okawara. Stars: Takehiro Murata, Shiro Sano, Hiroshi Abe, Naomi Nishida, Mayu Suzuki, Godzilla. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $9.794 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Gone in 60 Seconds Exciting remake of 1974 cult movie of the same name. Nicolas Cage plays a reformed car thief dragged back to his craft in order to save the life of his brother (Giovanni Ribisi) -- also a car thief but one who has botched a big order. Cage has one night in which to steal 50 cars, and he must face off against a rival gang, a police detective hot on his trail, and a key-eating canine. Not as much road carnage as the original, but nevertheless a slick, high-speed production. Director: Dominic Sena. Stars: Nicolas Cage, Giovanni Ribisi, Angelina Jolie, Robert Duvall, Delroy Lindo, Will Patton, Christopher Eccleston. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 119 min., Action, Box office gross: $96.926 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Good Baby, A Cinemax movie about a withdrawn young loner who finds an abandoned baby; his search for the mother and a home for the infant leads him into a showdown between good and evil. Director: Katherine Dieckmann. Stars: Henry Thomas, Cara Seymour, David Strathairn. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 90 min., Drama, Winstar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Gorgeous A young woman travels from her Taiwan fishing village to Hong Kong in hopes of meeting her prince charming but gets involved with some nasty characters. Jackie Chan plays a millionaire entrepreneur who comes to her rescue. Released in Hong Kong only. Stars: Jackie Chan, Shu Qi, Tony Leung, Hsien-Chi Jen. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Action comedy, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Gossip A trio of young cads -- adrift in a world of money and privilege in New York -- spread a rumor about a young woman (besmirching her chastity) at college to see where the gossip will lead. Naturally the rumor spins out of control, dragging down not only the young woman but all involved. But the viewer is far from involved in this inane, lackluster film. Director: Davis Guggenheim. Stars: James Marsden, Lena Headley, Norman Reedus, Kate Hudson, Joshua Jackson, Marisa Coughlan. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Drama, Box office gross: $5.108 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Grandfather, The Set in Spain at the turn of the century, this moral tales follows the spiritual transformation of the penniless and almost blind old Count of Albrit, who has returned from Peru to be with his granddaughters. But there is a secret tearing at him -- his daughter-in-law was unfaithful to his now-deceased son, and only an unlikely angel can cure his rancor and teach him that blood ties are meaningless -- only love matters. In Spanish with English subtitles. Director: Jose Luis Garci. Stars: Fernando Fernan-Gomez, Cayetana Guillen Cuervo. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.050 million, Miramax. DVD: Yes. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Green Mile, The Set during the Depression, this prison drama focuses in on the inmates and guards at a Southern penitentiary, in particular head guard Tom Hanks and death row inmate Michael Clarke Duncan, a giant hunk of a man with a gentle, spiritual healing nature. Hanks suspects that the man's incarceration -- for raping and murdering twin 9-year-old sisters -- is a miscarriage of justice. The plot is melodramatically predictable. Director: Frank Darabont. Stars: Tom Hanks, David Morse, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Clarke Duncan, James Cromwell, Michael Jeeter, Gary Sinise. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 180 min., Drama, Box office gross: $135.780 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Grey Owl True story of a 1930s frontier trapper who fought for his native people and their land in the woods of Canada's great north. Director: Richard Attenborough ("Shadowlands," "Gandhi"). Stars: Pierce Brosnan. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 118 min., Adventure, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Groove It's rave time in an abandoned warehouse in San Francisco. Watch if you dare. Director: Greg Harrison. Stars: Lola Glaudini, Denny Kirkwood, Rachel True, Steve Van Wormer. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 86 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.827 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Guinevere A young college student (Sarah Polley) from a family of attorney's goes against her parent's wishes to study photography, meeting up with a bohemian Irish photographer who takes her under his wing and in to his bed. A wonderful look at independence. Director: Audrey Wells. Stars: Sarah Polley, Stephen Rea, Jean Smart, Gina Gershon, Paul Dooley. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 107 min., Romantic comedy, Box office gross: $0.614 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Gun Shy Liam Neeson stars as a DEA agent who's lost his nerves of steel. While working undercover as a money laundering go-between for a wealthy Colombian and a disgruntled hit man (Oliver Platt), he enters group therapy and falls for a nurse (Sandra Bullock), further complicating his life. Director: Eric Blakeney. Stars: Liam Neeson, Oliver Platt, Sandra Bullock, Jose Zuniga, Michael Mantell. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $1.523 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Hamlet Hip contemporary adaptation of Shakespeare's "Hamlet," set in New York City circa 2000, but hewing to the Bard's English and iambic pentameter (i.e., no rap or colloquial language). In this version, Ethan Hawke is filmmaker Hamlet troubled by the murder of his father (president of the Denmark Corp.) and the marriage of his mother (Diane Venora) to his uncle (Kyle MacLachlan). There's corporate takeovers, treachery, lies, greed, distrust and, of course, Shakespeare's words. Director: Michael Almereyda. Stars: Ethan Hawke, Kyle MacLachlan, Sam Shepard, Bill Murray, Diane Venora, Liev Schreiber, Julia Stiles. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 113 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.309 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Hammers Over the Anvil Russell Crowe stars as a tough horsebreaker who gets involved with a disabled young man and a married English aristocrat, leading to disastrous consequences. Stars: Russell Crowe, Charlotte Rampling. 1991, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 101 min., Drama, Winstar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Hanging Up Three very different sisters -- one a stylish magazine publisher (Diane Keaton), one a party-planner (Meg Ryan), the third an insecure soap actress (Lisa Kudrow) -- battle each other, their own demons and a combative, hospital-ridden dad (Walter Matthau) in this lackluster, uninvolving comedy. The main connection between the protagonists: lengthy phone conversations, with Ryan's Eve the human switchboard. Director: Diane Keaton. Stars: Meg Ryan, Diane Keaton, Lisa Kudrow, Walter Matthau, Adam Arkin, Cloris Leachman, Jesse James. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 92 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $35.900 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Happy, Texas Off-beat and overlooked delightful comedy about pair of escaped prisoners who steal an RV belonging to two gay men and end up in Happy, Texas as the pageant coordinators for the Little Miss beauty contest, along the way making connections with the townspeople. Director: Mark Illsley. Stars: Jeremy Northam, Steve Zahn, William H. Macy, Illeana Douglas. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 104 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $1.943 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Heart of Light A family in Greenland is torn apart by the conflict between past traditions and the modern world in the aftermath of a bloody tragedy when the eldest son suffers a mental collapse and goes on a killing rampage. The father, in shame and disgrace, heads out to the icy inland, where he meets an old hermit who magically helps him find his inner compass. In Danish with English subtitles. Director: Jacob Gronlykke. Stars: Rasmus Lyberth, Viva Nielsen, Anda Kristiansen. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 92 min., Drama, Vanguard Films. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Heavy Metal 2000 Sequel of sorts to 1981's cult classic "Heavy Metal" and follows the adventures of a steel-eyed huntress and expert warrior (Julie Strain) as she tracks a group of ruthless space pirates. Features music by Bauhaus, Billy Idol, Monster Magnet, Machine Head, Queens of the Stone Age, other hard rockers. First aired earlier this year on the STARZ! cable network. Director: Michael Coldewey and Micel Lemire. Voices of Julie Strain, Billy Idol, Michael Ironside, Pierre Kohl, Sonja Ball. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 88 min., Animated, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Held Up It hasn't been a good day for Michael Dawson (Jamie Foxx). Stuck in the desert at the local Sip & Zip, he's deserted by his fiancee, his prized 1957 Studebaker Golden Hawk is stolen, and now he's being held hostage with an assortment of yahoos when the convenience store is held-up by inept robbers. And to top it off, the cops who surround the place think he's Mike Tyson. Things can only go downhill from here in this weak comedy that's tedious to watch. Director: Steve Rash. Stars: Jamie Foxx, Nia Long, Barry Corbin, Jake Busey. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 88 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $4.500 million, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Hellraiser V: Inferno Latest in the "Hellraiser" franchise with Craig Sheffer as an L.A. cop who wakes up one day in Hell. His only way out: a puzzle box in the possession of the evil Pinhead. Direct-to-video. Director: Scott Derrickson. Stars: Craig Sheffer. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Horror, Dimension. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Here on Earth Ill-fated teen romance about lovers from disparate backgrounds. Chris Klein plays a rich kid whose arrogance gets him into trouble when he visits a lower-class diner and he meets up with farm boy Josh Hartnett. The ensuing vitriol between the two results in the destruction of the diner, and to pay off his debt, the rich kid must spend the summer rebuilding the restaurant. Naturally the rich boy and the poor girl girlfriend (Leelee Sobieski) of the farm boy fall for each other. You know where it goes from here. Director: Mark Piznarski. Stars: Chris Klein, Leelee Sobieski, Josh Hartnett, Bruce Greenwood, Annette O'Toole, Stuart Wilson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Romance, Box office gross: $10.494 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Hide and Seek A successful husband and wife's idyllic world is turned into a living nightmare when a deranged couple kidnap the woman as part of a secret, evil plan, setting off a deadly game of hide and seek. Direct-to-video. Director: Sidney Furie. Stars: Daryl Hannah, Bruce Greenwood, Jennifer Tilly, Vincent Gallo. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.
- High Fidelity A savvy post-modern movie about love, work and commitment (or lack thereof) -- to music and life -- and the central role music plays in defining who we are. John Cusack plays the proprietor of a vinyl record store in Chicago -- aided and abetted by his music junkie employees -- whose passion for Top 5 lists extends way past the world of music. When his current girlfriend walks out on him, he begins to confess to the audience his Top 5 relationships -- in an effort to understand his past and present. Director: Stephen Frears. Stars: John Cusack, Jack Black, Todd Louiso, Lisa Bonet, Lili Taylor, Sara Gilbert, Iben Hjejle. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 114 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $24.751 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Hitman's Journal When a mob enforcer (Danny Aiello) is accused of leaking information to the Feds, he must defend his name and honor and try to do away with his accuser before his Family gets him first. Stars: Danny Aiello, William Forsythe, Polly Draper, Vincent Pastore, Aida Turturro. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, Drama, MTI Video. DVD: Day & Date.
- Hollywood Knights, The One of the most requested movies has finally made it to video. The long overdue "Hollywood Knights" follows the misadventures of a group of car club members on Halloween night, 1965, as they cruise around and wreak havoc on the snobs and cops of Beverly Hills. A cross between "Animal House" and "American Graffiti." Notable for a young Tony Danza and Michelle Pfeiffer in their first major feature leads. Tame (by today's standards) gross-out comedy has lots of "mooning," bare breasts and bathroom jokes (and a fabulous soundtrack) but little else in story line or continuity (the editing is notably weak). Director: Floyd Mutrux. Stars: Robert Wuhl, Fran Drescher, Tony Danza, Michelle Pfeiffer. 1980, CC, MPAA rating: R, 91 min., Comedy, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Holy Smoke! When a young Australian woman (Kate Winslet) travels to India to find meaning in her life she gets caught up in a religious cult and decides to stay there. When she returns home, an American spiritual deprogrammer (Harvey Keitel) awaits her. Director: Jane Campion. Stars: Kate Winslet, Harvey Keitel, Pam Grier, Julie Hamilton. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 116 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.758 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- House on Haunted Hill Terrific remake of William Castle's 1958 film about a millionaire who offers a substantial amount of money to a group of people if they can spend one night in a spooky, haunted mansion. Director: William Malone. Stars: Geoffrey Rush, Famke Janssen, Taye Diggs, Peter Gallagher, Ali Larter. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Horror, Box office gross: $40.486 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Human Traffic After a boring week of dead-end jobs, five friends hop into a car and go on a weekend of non-stop clubbing, pubbing and partying, along the way dealing with their idiosyncrasies and problems and hopefully finding meaning in their lives. Director: Justin Kerrigan. Stars: John Simm, Lorraine Pilkington, Shaun Parkes, Danny Dyer, Nicola Reynolds. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.104 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Hurricane, The Story of boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter (Denzel Washington) who was framed by a racist cop for the murder of three people in a bar in Paterson, N.J., in 1966, and his 20-year fight for freedom. Carter became a cause celebre among celebrities and politicians, and Bob Dylan even wrote a song about him. The film is a moving tribute to one man's spirit and triumph in the face of despair. Director: Norman Jewison. Stars: Denzel Washington, Vicellous Reon Shannon, John Hannah, Liev Schreiber, David Paymer, Deborah Kara Inger. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 146 min., Drama, Box office gross: $50.669 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- I Dreamed of Africa The mysteries and wonders of Africa come to the fore in this true tale of an Italian family that moves to Kenya to live on and run a large cattle ranch. Life is one trial and tribulation after another, with personal tragedies, poachers, and crises dominating the characters on screen. Director: Hugh Hudson. Stars: Kim Basinger, Vincent Perez, Eva Marie Saint, Lance Reddick. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 112 min., Drama, Box office gross: $6.344 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Ideal Husband, An Chamber comedy (based on Oscar Wilde's play) set in the late 19th century about an eligible bachelor who must attempt to keep a fortune-seeking seductress from revealing a scandalous event that will ruin the marriage and career of his politician friend. Director: Oliver Parker. Stars: Cate Blanchett, Rupert Everett, Julianne Moore, Jeremy Northam, Minnie Driver. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $18.535 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date.
- If You Only Knew A young man seeking a new home not only finds a place to stay but also the woman of his dreams. The only problem -- she'll only rent her extra room to gay men. Guess what happens next. Stars: Alison Eastwood, Jonathan Schaech, James LeGros, Gabrielle Anwar. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 111 min., Romantic Comedy, York/Maverick Home Video. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- In Too Deep Typical thriller about a cop (Omar Epps) who goes undercover to catch a Cincinnati drug lord (LL Cool J). As the cop gets closer to his target, he starts to enjoy his gangster role a bit too much. Highlight of the film is the delightful --but underused -- Pam Grier. Director: Michael Rymer. Stars: Omar Epps, LL Cool J, Stanley Tucci, Pam Grier, Nia Long. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $13.900 million, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Inferno Typical thriller about a man with amnesia (Ray Liotta) -- who wakes up alone and disoriented in the middle of the desert -- whose violent past catches up with him. Gloria Reuben plays a reclusive artist who comes to his aid. Director: Harley Cokeliss. Stars: Ray Liotta, Gloria Reuben, Armin Mueller-Stahl. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.
- Insider, The Controversial film about the way in which TV's 60 minutes tried to tell the story of Jeffrey Wigan, the celebrated whistle blower who blew the lid on the tobacco industry's coverup of their lies about the dangers of tobacco. In widescreen only. Director: Michael Mann. Stars: Al Pacino, Russell Crowe, Christopher Plummer, Diane Venora, Philip Baker Hall, Lindsay Crouse. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 155 min., Drama, Box office gross: $28.152 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Intern Fashion comedy about a young, underappreciated intern at an ulta-hip magazine, "Skirt," and her dealings with kissy-face phoniness, model tantrums and bulimic editors while trying to steal the heart of a dashing British art director from the grips of a supermodel. Cameos by Gwyneth Paltrow, Tommy Hilfiger, Kenneth Cole, and world-famous designers and fashion editors. Director: Michael Lange. Stars: Dominique Swain, Peggy Lipton, Paulina Porizkova, Joan Rivers, Kathy Griffin. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 93 min., Comedy, York/Maverick. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Isn't She Great This highly underrated "bio" of Jacqueline ("Valley of the Dolls") Susann has Bette Midler at her best as the pulp fiction writer who stimulated millions with her "vulgur" books that unabashedly tore through the sleazy side of show business; she was there at the birth of mass culture in the 1960s and became one of its first handmaidens. Director Andrew ("The Freshman," "Honeymoon in Vegas") Bergman has more than a bio in mind here -- his characters are born full-blown at the beginning of the film and relentlessly move forward without stopping to take a breath. The film, like the culture it surveys, is designed as one big gloss, a puff piece that hardly taps into the real demons and horrors sitting below the surface of Susann's life (her terrible domestic life, her drug use, her bout with cancer, her affairs) - - and that's the idea. Director: Andrew Bergman. Stars: Bette Midler, Nathan Lane, Stockard Channing, David Hyde Pierce, John Cleese, Amanda Peet. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 96 min., Bio-Drama, Box office gross: $2.954 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- It's the Rage The lives of nine angry strangers converge: an affluent couple on the brink of divorce, a paranoid computer mogul, an adulterous lawyer, a disillusioned cop, a jilted lover, a video store manager, a street urchin and her schizophrenic brother. Director: James D. Stern. Stars: Jeff Daniels, Joan Allen, Gary Sinise, Robert Forster, David Schwimmer, Anna Paquin, Andre Braugher, Giovanni Ribisi. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 97 min., Drama, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Jakob the Liar Set in the Lodz, Poland ghetto in 1944, this Holocaust-era drama tells the story of Jakob, a Jew who inadvertently discovers that the Russians are advancing against the Nazis. When he tells his friends the news, he inadvertently becomes a celebrity and a "prophet." Director: Peter Kassovitz. Stars: Robin Williams, Liev Schreiber, Bob Balaban, Alan Arkin, Armin Mueller-Stahl. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 120 min., Drama, Box office gross: $4.956 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Jerry and Tom Used car salesman Tom (Joe Mantegna) lets his co-worker Jerry in on a secret -- he's a moonlighting hitman. Soon Tom is mentoring Jerry in the skills of the criminal trade. Tom wants to retire after burying their latest victim, but Jerry's appetite for the profession gets in the way -- his lust for murder has become a full-blown obsession. Now Tom must plan one last hit. Stars: Joe Mantegna, Sam Rockwell, Maury Chaykin, Charles Durning, Peter Riegert, William H. Macy, Ted Danson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Thriller, Miramax. DVD: Yes. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Jesus TV miniseries about Jesus Christ. Double-cassette. Director: Robert Young. Stars: Jeremy Sisto, Jacqueline Bisset, Debra Messing, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gary Oldman. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 173 min., Religious drama, Trimark, $24.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Jesus' Son Acclaimed film follows a young man's journey and quest for love in the freewheeling 1970s. Billy Crudup plays FH, a rumpled, hapless man in his 20s who bounces through his days with dreams and hallucinations blurring into reality. He wanders from one misadventure to another -- from Iowa to Chicago to Phoenix -- looking for his place in the world until he finally reaches sobriety -- and the state of grace and fulfillment he had unknowingly been searching for. Director: Alison Maclean. Stars: Billy Crudup, Samantha Morton, Holly Hunter, Dennis Hopper, Denis Leary. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 108 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $11.282 million, Universal.
- Joe Gould's Secret Stanley Tucci directs and stars in this literate study of cantankerous 1940s New York bohemian Joe Gould (based on a pair of articles by New Yorker writer Joseph Mitchell, who championed Gould) who claimed to be writing a multi-million word long masterpiece "An Oral History of Our Time." Gould lived on handouts and donations and, aside from a few fragments here and there, never wrote his proposed epic. By the 1960s Mitchell admitted there never was such a work, and he retired from the writing life. Director: Stanley Tucci. Stars: Stanley Tucci, Ian Holm, Hope Davis, Susan Sarandon. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.500 million, USA. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Joseph: King of Dreams DreamWorks' first direct-to-video animated feature takes a wonderfully loving look at the biblical tale of Joseph and his rise to power in Egypt. As would be expected, the story line here takes some liberties with the Old Testament, but it's a small price to pay for the overriding educational value of the production. The characters are sympathetic, intelligent and multidimensional; they're thrust into adventures more thought-provoking than sensationalized or stripped of their inherent symbolic meaning. The production pays homage to a great tale and to the tradition of good storytelling. The only shortcoming: some musical numbers that don't quite stand up to the strength of the story and the animation. A must for children -- and adults. Voices of Ben Affleck, Mark Hamill, Steven Weber, Judith Light. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, Animated, DreamWorks, $24.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat Special staging of the Andrew Lloyd Webber Broadway musical shot as a feature film for home video. Director: David Mallet and Steven Pimlott. Stars: Donny Osmond, Maria Friedman, Richard Attenborough, Joan Collins. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 78 min., Theater, Universal, $19.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Keeping the Faith Edward Norton stars in and directs this comedy about two hip men of God -- one a priest (Norton), the other a rabbi (Ben Stiller), friends since childhood -- whose very successful religious and emotional lives are upset when a childhood sweetheart (Jenna Elfman), now a high-powered corporate executive, re-enters their lives: both fall for her. Director: Edward Norton. Stars: Edward Norton, Ben Stiller, Jenna Elfman, Anne Bancroft, Eli Wallach, Ron Rifkin, Milos Forman. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 125 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $36.527 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Kikujiro When a tough guy takes an 8-year-old boy on a quest to find the mother he never met, the trek through the Japanese countryside introduces them to a lively cast of offbeat characters. Their madcap tour includes the races, an abandoned hotel, and a gangster-invested carnival. And along the way they come across a destination that neither could have imagined. In Japanese with English subtitles. Director: Takeshi Kitano. Stars: Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Yusuke Sekiguchi. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 116 min., Comedy-Drama, Box office gross: $0.198 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- King of Masks, The The King of Masks, the rare master of the ancient Chinese mask art, must pass on his trade to a male heir but has none, so he purchases a destitute child on the black market, only to have this new relationship test his tradition and established Chinese customs. In Chines with English subtitles. Director: Wu Tianming. Stars: Chu Yuk, Chao Yim Yin, Zhou Ren-Ying. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 101 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.014 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Kiss Toledo Goodbye When a young man finds out that his biological father is a mob kingpin, he tries to keep it a secret from his fiancee -- until his father is killed and he's appointed the new boss. Now he's on the run instead of on his honeymoon. Stars: Christopher Walken, Michael Rapaport, Christine Taylor, Robert Forster. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Comedy, A-Pix. DVD: Day & Date.
- Kiss the Sky Two middle-aged businessmen (William Petersen, Gary Cole), dissatisfied with their successful lives and loving families, head for an exotic island off the coast of the Philippines, where they enter into a menage a trois with a beautiful Australian traveler (Sheryl Lee). Director: Roger Young. Stars: William Petersen, Gary Cole, Sheryl Lee, Terence Stamp. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Drama, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Kitten With a Whip A young woman escapee from a reform school takes refuge with a politician, whose wife is away. Everyone gets in trouble in this cult classic. Director: Douglas Heyes. Stars: Ann-Margret, John Forsythe, Patricia Barry, Ann Doran, Audrey Dalton. 1964, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 84 min., Drama, Universal, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Komodo A young boy is confronted by the horror of Komodo dragons on a vacation trip with his parents to the Emerald Isle. Left an orphan and catatonic, the boy can only be saved by a dedicated doctor (Jill Hennessy), who returns the youngster to the scene of the horror to snap him back to reality. Director: Michael Lantieri. Stars: Jill Hennessy, Billy Burke, Kevin Zegers, Paul Gleeson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 89 min., Horror, Studio (Sterling) Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date.
- L'Ennui A 40-something philosophy professor in the throes of a mid-life crisis takes up with a wild 17-year-old. Based on a novel by Alberto Moravia. Nominated for three French Cesar Awards and an official selection of the Venice Film Festival. Director: Cedric Kahn. Stars: Charles Berling, Arielle Dombasle. 1994, CC, MPAA rating: NR, Drama, Winstar. DVD: Day & Date.
- La Cucaracha Thriller about an American expatriate in Latin America, whose dreams of writing a great novel have dissolved in drunkenness and paranoia, and his involvement in a botched gangland assassination. Director: Jack Perez. Stars: Eric Roberts, Joaquim de Almeida, Tara Crespo. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Thriller, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Labor Pains One week after her boyfriend leaves her on the day they were to move in together, Sarah (Kyra Sedgwick) discovers she's pregnant. She keeps her condition a secret from everyone but her best friend, Lulu (Lela Rochon), which eventually causes trouble when she goes into labor and Lulu panics, calling everyone she can think of for help. During the 12 hours leading up to childbirth, the ex-boyfriend (unknowingly the father of the child), his family, and Sarah's family, descend on the hospital to discover the impending birth. Stars: Kyra Sedgwick, Rob Morrow, Lela Rochon, Mary Tyler Moore. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, Comedy, USA.
- Lake Placid Incredibly dumb thriller about a 30-foot Asian crocodile snacking on humans in an isolated lake in Maine. Feeble attempt at horror; intended comic moments come off as pretentious. Fine cast wasted for want of dialogue, story. Should have been called "Lake Flaccid." Director: Steve Miner. Stars: Bridget Fonda, Bill Pullman, Oliver Platt, Brendan Gleeson, Betty White. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 87 min., Horror, Box office gross: $32.000 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Land Before Time VII: The Stone of Cold Fire Latest addition to "The Land Before Time Franchise" has Littlefoot the dinosaur witness a "stone of cold fire" blaze through the night sky and land somewhere in the smoking mountains. The only one who believes him is Pterano (voiced by Michael York), the long-lost uncle of Petrie the pterodactyl, who has worrisome reasons for wanting to find the stone. The kid dinos set off on an adventure to find the stone and uncover its strange power. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 75 min., Children, Universal, $19.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.
- Last Night With only six hours to go before the end of the world, various people go about tidying up their lives in both mundane and absurd ways. Director: Don McKellar. Stars: Don McKellar, Sandra Oh, Sarah Polley. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.239 million, Lions Gate. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Last September, The Kind of a Romeo and Juliet set in Ireland in the 1920s about a young aristocratic woman being courted by a British army captain. When she discovers an old childhood friend, now an Irish freedom fighter, hiding out on her estate, the resulting turmoil ensnares everyone in violence. Director: Deborah Warner. Stars: Maggie Smith, Michael Gambon, Jane Birkin, Fiona Shaw. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Drama, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Last Stop, The A Colorado State Highway Patrol officer forced to stop at The Last Stop Cafe and Motel because of a brutal snowstorm gets much more than he bargained for when he stumbles on a crime scene involving murder, a bag of cash and two bank robbery suspects. Stars: Rose McGowan, Adam Beach, Jurgen Prochnow, Callum Keith Rennie. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, Sterling Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date.
- Legend, The (Fung Shi Yu) Jet Li plays a martial arts expert and member of a secret group out to overthrow the treacherous Manchu Emperor. Typical Hong Kong actioner, here dredged up to cash in on Jet Li's popularity. Director: Corey Yuen. Stars: Jet Li. 1993, CC, MPAA rating: NR, min., Martial arts, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date.
- Letters From a Killer Direct-to-video suspenser about a con who spends most of his time in prison writing love letters to four women. One of his letters inadvertently goes to the wrong woman, and when he's released from prison, he becomes the target of a brutal murderer. Director: David Carson. Stars: Patrick Swayze, Gia Carides, Kim Myers, Mark Rolston, Bruce McGill. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Thriller, Sterling Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date.
- Liberty Heights Director Barry Levinson goes back to his roots in Baltimore (home of his "Diner" and "Avalon") for this study of three young Jewish men growing up in the mid-1950s -- a time of desegregation, comic books, and the liberation of the automobile -- and their encounters in the non-Jewish world. Director: Barry Levinson. Stars: Adrien Brody, Ben Foster, Bebe Neuwirth, Joe Mantegna, Orlando Jones, Rebekah Johnson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 127 min., Drama, Box office gross: $3.732 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Life According to Muriel Told through the eyes of a child, this poignant drama is the tale of a young woman, abandoned by her husband, who leaves Buenos Aires with her daughter, bound for the tranquility of Argentina's countryside. There they meet up with the female proprietor of a run-down motel where a makeshift family is created, only to be threatened when the husband tracks them down, looking to make amends. In Spanish with English subtitles. Director: Eduardo Milewicz. Stars: Jorge Perugorria. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 97 min., Drama, Vanguard Films. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Animated Christmas yarn that answers such questions as: How does Santa make all the toys? How does he get in and out of a house without being seen? Why do reindeer pull the sleigh? The feature follows the adventures of Nicholas, the only human ever admitted to the magical Forest of Burzee, where he is raised by wood nymphs, knooks and pixies. Eventually he must seek his destiny among humankind, becoming the jolly old man we love at Christmas time. Voices of Robby Benson, Hal Holbrook, Dixie Carter. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 78 min., Children, Universal, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Light It Up When a teacher at a rundown inner city high school is suspended for taking his students to a make-shift off-campus classroom, his students revolt and barricade themselves inside the building with a wounded campus security guard as hostage. Director: Craig Bolotin. Stars: Usher Raymond, Forest Whitaker, Judd Nelson, Sara Gilbert, Rosario Dawson, Fredo Starr. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Drama, Box office gross: $5.871 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Limey, The Misfired thriller about an English ex-con who travels to the U.S. to uncover the real reasons behind the death of his daughter in a fiery car crash. His investigation leads him through drug dealers and to a sleazy money-laundering music producer. Director: Steven Soderbergh ("Out of Sight"). Stars: Terence Stamp, Lesley Ann Warren, Luis Guzman, Peter Fonda, Barry Newman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 88 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $2.934 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Little Mermaid II, The: Return to the Sea Direct-to-video sequel to 1989's hit, continuing the saga of the Little Mermaid, now happily married on land to Prince Eric. The pair have a daughter, Melody, who ventures into the water against her mother's wishes and gets everyone involved in another devious plot by Morgana, still trying to overthrow good King Triton. Naturally Ariel must return to her roots and rejoin her old friends Sebastian, Flounder and Scuttle to save the day. Stars: Voices of Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Buddy Hackett, Pat Carroll, Tara Charendoff, Max Cassella. 2000, CC, Animated, Disney, $26.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Loser From the director of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" and "Clueless" comes this meek college comedy about a pair of outsiders at a private New York City college: Jason Biggs as a geeky small towner out of his league with the hip crowd, and Mena Suvari as a hard-working student who needs a night job to make ends meet. He gets kicked out by his pot-smoking roommates and lives in a veterinary hospital; she has an affair with a snotty professor. Do these unlikely people meet? Only the scriptwriter knows for sure. Director: Amy Heckerling. Stars: Jason Biggs, Mena Suvari, Zak Orth, Tom Sadoski, Greg Kinnear, Dan Aykroyd, Jimmi Simpson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 98 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $15.248 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Love Stinks Battle-of-the-sexes comedy about successful television comedy writer being lured into marriage by his new girlfriend. When he doesn't go for tying the knot, the pair live together for a year, at each other's throats until he hatches a scheme to end it. Director: Jeff Franklin. Stars: French Stewart, Bridgette Wilson, Bill Bellamy, Tyra Banks. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $2.622 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Love & Basketball Quincy (Omar Epps) and Monica (Sanaa Lathan) are childhood friends and adversaries since they first met as children when her family moved next door. Hoping to become pro basketball players, they pursue their dreams through high school and college, helping each other on and off the court. But when forced to make a choice between love and basketball, which will they choose? A warm romance that shines brightly. Director: Gina Prince-Blythewood. Stars: Omar Epps, Sanaa Lathan, Dennis Haysbert, Debbie Morgan, Alfre Woodard. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 124 min., Romantic drama, Box office gross: $27.372 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Love's Labour's Lost Director-producer-star Kenneth Branagh transposes Shakespeare's comedy to 1939, backing it up with the irresistible music of Cole Porter and Irving Berlin. Director: Kenneth Branagh. Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Nathan Lane, Alicia Silverstone, Adrian Lester, Matthew Lillard, Alessando Nivola. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, min., Romantic Comedy, Box office gross: $0.245 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date.
- Lovers on the Bridge, The Released in the States for the first time in 1999, this romantic fable revolves around an upper-class artist losing her eyesight who meets and falls in love with a street performer on the famous Pont-Neuf bridge in Paris, where they stay to repair their shattered lives. Director: Leos Carax. Stars: Juliette Binoche, Denis Lavant, Klaus-Michael Gruber, Daniel Buain. 1991, CC, MPAA rating: R, 125 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.117 million, Miramax.
- Lucie Aubrac Remarkable true story of a member of the French resistance captured and sentenced to death by the Nazi, and his cunning and resourceful wife who conceives an outrageously bold plan for his escape. French with English subtitles. Director: Claude Berri ("Jean de Florette"). Stars: Daniel Auteuilm, Carol Bouquet. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: R, 116 min., Drama, USA. DVD: .
- Magnolia Director Paul Thomas Anderson followed his epic "Boogie Nights" with this three-hour ensemble exploration of one day and night in the interlocking lives of a dozen people in Los Angeles' San Fernando Valley, examining their dour lives and dreams -- replete with an apocalyptic (of sorts) ending. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson. Stars: Jason Robards, Julianne Moore, Tom Cruise, William H. Macy, John C. Reilly, Philip Baker Hall. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 188 min., Drama, Box office gross: $22.170 million, New Line. DVD: August 29. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Mambo Cafe A young woman's (Latin pop star Thalia) dream of college is shattered when her family's restaurant hits financial shoals. While on summer break, she cooks up a scheme to bring in more customers but the plan ends up involving the mob, a murder and plenty of comic mayhem. Stars: Thalia, Paul Rodriguez, Danny Aiello, Robert Costanzo, Rosanna DeSoto, Kamar De Los Reyes. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 94 min., Romantic Comedy, A-Pix Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date.
- Man on the Moon Director Milos Forman takes on the life of wacky comedian Andy Kaufman, with Jim Carrey uncannily melding into the lead role, a man who truly blurred reality and unreality on stage and off. Director: Milos Forman. Stars: Jim Carrey, Danny DeVito, Paul Giamatti, Courtney Love. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Comedy Bio, Box office gross: $34.580 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date.
- Mansfield Park This adaptation of Jane Austen's 1814 novel loses much of its intricate characterizations when translated to the big screen. Director Patricia Rozema also loses sight of the story when she combines the novel with biographical elements from Austen's life. Still, an Austen costume drama -- this one is about a young woman who moves in with relatives and overcomes familiar adversity to become a woman of letters -- is always involving. Director: Patricia Rozema. Stars: Frances O'Connor, Embeth Davidtz, Jonny Lee Miller, Lindsay Duncan, Sheila Gish. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 116 min., Drama, Box office gross: $4.764 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Map of the World, A The emotional and spiritual destruction of a woman is essayed by Sigourney Weaver in this tale of a nurse in a small Wisconsin community whose fall from grace begins when a child entrusted to her care drowns on her property. Soon accusations of child abuse spring up, and the woman is shunned by her husband, family and friends. The fiercely independent woman ends up as a female Job. A harrowing journey. Director: Scott Elliott. Stars: Sigourney Weaver, Julianne Moore, David Strathairn, Arliss Howard, Chloe Sevigny, Louise Fletcher. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 125 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.506 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Me Myself I Sydney, Australia-based journalist Pamela (Rachel Griffiths) has it all but is plagued by the feeling that -- since she doesn't have a man -- life has passed her by. Then, suddenly, she finds herself living a parallel life as a soccer mom with three kids, married to the Mr. Right she had said yes to 13 years before. And now she gets to be the alterego she always only wondered about. Director: Pip Karmel. Stars: Rachel Griffiths, David Roberts, Sandy Winton, Yael Stone, Trent Sullivan, Shaun Loseby. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 104 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.050 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Meeting Daddy When a neurotic New Yorker meets a Southern belle, he's sure he's found his soulmate -- until he meets her hilariously manipulative father. Last role for Lloyd Bridges before his death. Director: Peter Gould. Stars: Lloyd Bridges, Alexanda Wentworth, Josh Charles, Kristy Swanson, Beau Bridges. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 91 min., Comedy, Paramount.
- Mercy Erotic suspense thriller about a homicide detective investigating the deaths of prominent women at the hands of a sexually-deviant serial killer. Her investigation leads to an erotic underground and an off-kilter psychotherapist. Director: Damian Harris. Stars: Ellen Barkin, Pete Wilson, Julian Sands. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Messenger, The: The Story of Joan of Arc Big screen extravaganza about the 15th century teenage girl who led the French to victory against the English; extravagant battle scenes galore. Director: Luc Besson. Stars: Milla Jovovich, Tcheky Karyo, John Malkovich, Faye Dunaway, Dustin Hoffman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 148 min., Drama, Box office gross: $14.271 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Mifune In the early hours of his wedding night a young man is awakened by news of his father's death, and he travels from Copenhagen to the ruined family farm in the country to tidy up family affairs. There, he must decide what to do about the farm and his mentally handicapped brother. He hires a housekeeper, who turns out to be a hooker on the run from the city, and the fun begins: his suspicious wife decides to come to the farm, he has a nutty brother in the back garden, old enemies in the farmyard, and a strange, beautiful woman in bed. Director: Soren Kragh-Jacobsen. Stars: Anders W. Berthelsen, Iben Hjejle, Jesper Asholt. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Comedy, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Miracles Hong Kong version of Frank Capra's "Pocketful of Miracles," with Jackie Chan directing and starring as a poor country boy in 1930s Hong Kong who kicks his way to the top of the dangerous crime world and wins the heart of a beautiful night club singer. Director: Jackie Chan. Stars: Jackie Chan. 1990, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 106 min., Martial arts, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Miss Julie Director Mike ("Leaving Las Vegas") Figgis' take on August Strindberg's play about sexual repression in 19th century England, follows a wealthy noblewoman who breaks social convention and begins a scandalous affair with her father's footman. Director: Mike Figgis. Stars: Saffron Burrows, Peter Mullen. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.013 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date.
- Mission to Mars Great effects abound in this sci-fier about the failure of the first manned flight to Mars and the subsequent rescue mission. It's 2020 and all but one member of the first flight to Mars is mysteriously killed. A second, accident-plagued mission is mounted, and when the crew finally land they're confronted with the remnants of a Martian civilization -- and learn about the impact that civilization had on the evolution of life on Earth. Despite a promising story line, the film moves all too abruptly from realism to mysticism, and the actors and characterizations are far overshadowed by the realistic Martian landscape. Director Brian De Palma's first stab at science fiction. Director: Brian De Palma. Stars: Gary Sinise, Don Cheadle, Connie Nielsen, Jerry O'Connell, Kim Delaney, Tim Robbins. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 112 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $59.537 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Mission: Impossible 2 Tom Cruise is back with the M:I force, but this time in the adept hands of action-director John Woo. And that makes all the difference in the world as this thrill-ride of a film starts out with gung-ho action and never stops, with plenty of Woo's trademarked destructive action sequences. The plot is rather weak, about an ex-M:I operative who steals a deadly virus and the efforts of Cruise and his cohorts to track him down and thwart his plans. Check your vertigo at the door. Director: John Woo. Stars: Tom Cruise, Dougray Scott, Thandie Newton, Ving Rhames, Brendan Gleeson, John Poison, Rade Serbedzija. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 123 min., Action, Box office gross: $212.571 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Molly Autistic since birth, 28-year-old Molly (Elisabeth Shue) is carefree with an incredible zest for life. Her brother -- a 32-year-old with a full social calendar and a booming career -- has had little contact with her until the facility that cares for her closes down. Now it's up to him to take her in, which throws his ordered world for a loop. A vibrant comment on life. Stars: Elisabeth Shue, Aaron Eckhart, D.W. Moffett. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 100 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.017 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date.
- Molokai Set in the late 1880s, the film tells the epic story of Father Damien who gave his life to bring dignity and hope to a colony of lepers on the Hawaiian island of Molokai. Director: Paul Cox. Stars: David Wenham, Derek Jacobi, Alice Krige, Kris Kristofferson, Sam Neill, Peter O'Toole. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 112 min., Biodrama, A-Pix. DVD: Day & Date.
- Mother and Son Russian drama about the deep affection that exists between a mother and her son -- a simple narrative told via the acts of a devoted son caring for his dying mother. A visual experience of the loneliness and heartfelt emotion of the pair that explores themes of death and life in a world that offers no comfort. In Russian with English subtitles. Director: Alexander Sokuroy. Stars: Aleksei Ananishnov, Gudrun Geyer. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 73 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Mumford A young psychologist named Mumford hangs out his shingle in a town that, curiously, is also called Mumford. The town embraces the sage doctor's counseling and all is well until -- he falls for one of his patients and, it turns out, he's not a shrink after all. Director: Lawrence Kasdan. Stars: Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee, Alfre Woodard, Ted Danson, Mary McDonnell. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 96 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $4.554 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Muse, The Delightful comedy/satire that casts a jaundiced eye at the culture of the film industry. Albert Brooks plays a screenwriter whose last three scripts have been rejected by the studio on the grounds that he's lost his "edge." When a friend introduces him to a muse -- in the form of a delightfully wacky Sharon Stone -- he recovers his confidence. Director: Albert Brooks. Stars: Albert Brooks, Sharon Stone, Andie MacDowell, Jeff Bridges, Steven Wright. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $11.614 million, USA.
- Music of the Heart Based on the true story of a teacher in East Harlem who passionately believes that music and art provides a strong catharsis for disadvantaged students. Though her violin program was a success, it was nearly destroyed by the faceless bureaucrats who run the school system. An uplifting tale. Based on the 1996 documentary "Small Wonders." Director: Wes Craven. Stars: Meryl Streep, Aidan Quinn, Angela Bassett, Gloria Estefan, Cloris Leachman, Jane Leeves. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 126 min., Drama, Box office gross: $14.849 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- My Life So Far Delightful tale of one year in the life of a 10-year-old boy growing up in the misty Scottish Highlands in the 1930s, with an eccentric father, his wife, the family matriarch, his practical-minded uncle and the uncle's child bride, who upsets the mild-mannered bedlam of the household with her freewheeling ways. Director: Hugh Hudson. Stars: Colin Firth, Rosemary Harris, Irene Jacob, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Malcolm McDowell, Robert Norman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 97 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.616 million, Miramax.
- My Son the Fanatic Tale of a Pakistani immigrant in England supporting his family driving a taxi who finds himself at odds with his family -- his son becomes an Islamic fundamentalist and brings a group of Muslims home -- and turns to a prostitute for solace -- and romance. Director: Udayan Prasad. Stars: Om Puri, Rachel Griffiths, Stellan Skarsgard. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 86 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.408 million, Miramax.
- My Dog Skip Delightful coming-of-age tale, based on the memoirs of Rhodes scholar Willie Morris, about a young boy -- and his constant companion, a Jack Russell terrier he receives on his 9th birthday -- growing up in Yahoo, Mississippi during WWII. Diane Lane (as the mother) and Kevin Bacon (as dad) are great. Director: Jay Russell. Stars: Frankie Muniz, Kevin Bacon, Diane Lane, Luke Wilson, Catlin Wachs, Bradley Coryell. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 93 min., Family, Box office gross: $30.582 million, Warner, $22.96 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Mystery Men Group of misfit superheroes try to rid their town of an evil villain (Cassanova Frankenstein) using unorthodox powers. Director: Kinka Usher. Stars: Geoffrey Rush, William H. Macy, Janeane Garofalo, Greg Kinnear, Kel Mitchell, Paul Reubens, Lina Olin, Wes Studi, Ben Stiller. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 122 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $29.655 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Mystery, Alaska A town of hockey players -- whose Saturday ritual hockey games draws the attention of a Sports Illustrated writer and profile -- is persuaded to face off against the New York Rangers in an exhibition game, providing the basis for all kinds of plot problems and weird characterizations. Director: Jay Roach. Stars: Russell Crowe, Mary McCormack, Hank Azaria, Burt Reynolds, Lolita Davidovich, Colm Meaney. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $8.888 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date.
- New Blood A father gets involved with his estranged son -- a petty hood -- and a botched kidnapping in order to secure a heart transplant for his ailing daughter -- who happens to be the son's twin. Director: Mike Hurst. Stars: Nick Moran, John Hurt. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Thriller, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Newsbreak An investigative reporter gets in over his head when he digs into the death of a fellow reporter, uncovering citywide corruption involving a construction bigwig and his own father, a judge with an impeccable reputation. Stars: Judge Reinhold, Michael Rooker, Robert Culp. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Thriller, MTI Home Video. DVD: Day & Date.
- Next Best Thing, The Strange comedy about mismatched couple who start out as friends -- she's a yoga instructor (Madonna) and he's a gay landscape architect (Rupert Everett) -- and end up parents when they spend an evening together commiserating after her latest breakup with a callous lover. The pair live together, raising their boy until, six years later, she falls for an investment banker and the prospect of marriage fosters a custody lawsuit. Director: John Schlesinger. Stars: Madonna, Rupert Everett, Benjamin Bratt, Illeana Douglas, Michael Vartan, Lynn Redgrave. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 107 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $14.983 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Next Friday Sequel to the surprise hit "Friday," this version finds laid-back Craig (Ice Cube) heading out to the suburbs to hide from the local bad guy when he escapes from prison and comes looking for the guy who put him there. Plenty of kookiness and fun. Director: Steve Carr. Stars: Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Justin Pierce, John Witherspoon, Tamala Jones. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $56.000 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Ninth Gate, The Johnny Depp plays a book detective hired by a weird client (Frank Langella) to locate copies of an extremely rare 17th century book -- "The Nine Gates of the Kingdom" -- which supposedly holds the key to a spell to conjure up the devil. Naturally all kinds of occult bad things befall Depp on his journey. A visually stunning work by director Roman Polanski in his first film since 1994's "Death and the Maiden." Director: Roman Polanski. Stars: Johnny Depp, Frank Langella, Lena Olin, Emmanuelle Seigner, James Russo. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 133 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $18.410 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- No Code of Conduct Run of the mill crime thriller set in the world of drug traffickers, about a father and son cop team hot on the trail of the city's largest heroin dealer amidst devastating betrayal on the police force. Stars: Charles Sheen, Martin Sheen. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Thriller, Dimension. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- No Alibi A successful businessman becomes involved with a beautiful stranger, sent by her ruthless criminal lover to find the whereabouts of a large sum of drug money. But she has the wrong man -- or does she? Director: Bruce Pittman. Stars: Dean Cain, Eric Roberts. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 94 min., Thriller, Studio (Sterling) Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Not One Less In the crushing poverty of rural China, a young woman is ordered to a remote village to be a substitute teacher. She's charged with keeping the class intact for one month or she won't get paid, so when one student disappears into the city to find work, she travels after him, determined to bring him back to school. But she's in the big city now, and her simple peasant pleas fall on deaf ears -- until a local TV station takes up the cause. In Mandarin with English subtitles. By the director of "Raise the Red Lantern." Director: Zhang Yimou. Stars: Wei Minzhi. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 106 min., Drama, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Nutty Professor II: The Klumps Eddie Murphy returns in eight roles in this sequel of sorts to the remake of Jerry Lewis' "The Nutty Professor." This outing -- so obviously made to cash in on 1996's remake that it's painful -- has Professor Klump isolating the Buddy Love DNA (that cause him to turn from a 400-pound fattie to a svelte, lady-chasing lothario) but accidentally creating Buddy as a separate person. While the plot ostensibly has the Professor and Buddy fighting it out for a youth serum, it takes off in all direction as it focuses on the weird Klump family. Too many bodily function jokes. Director: Peter Segal. Stars: Eddie Murphy times 8, Janet Jackson, Larry Miller, Richard Grant. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 105 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $112.000 million, Universal, $22.98. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Octopus An American submarine on a classified mission carrying an international terrorist is attacked by a giant octopus. Director: John Eyres. Stars: Jay Harrington, David Beecroft, Carolyn Lowery, Ravil Isyanov, Ricco Ross. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Action, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Olive, the Other Reindeer An animated musical adventure based on the children's book of the same name, about a small dog who believes she's been recruited by Santa when one of his reindeers falls ill. The video was originally broadcast on the Fox Television Network during the 1999 holiday season. Voices of Drew Barrymore, Ed Asner, REM's Michael Stipe, Jay Mohr, Joe Pantoliano and Peter MacNicol. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 69 min., Children, Fox, $14.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.
- Omega Code, The Created by the film division of the Trinity Broadcasting Network, this religious thriller follows the rise of the Antichrist (Michael York as the leader of the evil World Union) and the destruction and resurrection of the world by "Good." The Code of the title refers to the hidden messages about the coming of the Messiah in the Torah. Director: Rob Marcarelli. Stars: Casper Van Dien, Michael York, Catherine Oxenberg, Michael Ironside. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 99 min., Religious thriller, Box office gross: $12.276 million, GoodTimes Entertainment. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- One Man's Hero Fact based historical drama about a battalion of Irish nationals who initially was recruited to fight for President Polk during the Mexican War of 1846 but instead joined the Mexican forces and became heroes of the Mexican Revolution. Director: Lance Hool ("Steel Dawn"). Stars: Tom Berenger, Daniela Romo, Joaquim de Almeida, Patrick Bergin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 121 min., Historical drama, Box office gross: $0.229 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Onegin Directed by commercial/video director Martha Fiennes (sister to Ralph), this sensuous and leisurely paced love story (set in Russia in the early 19th century and based on a Pushkin poem) revolves around a young aristocrat who rejects the love of a young woman he meets in the countryside, flirts instead with the fiancee of his neighbor, kills the man in a duel and goes into self-imposed exile. Six years later he again meets the woman he rejected, only to find her married to his cousin. Ah, those Russians and their bleakness. Director: Martha Fiennes. Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Liv Tyler, Lena Headley, Toby Stephens. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: 106, R min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.183 million, Sterling Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Our Lips Are Sealed The Olsen twins are back for their pre-teen fans, here with the girls witnessing a crime and being whisked away into the FBI's Witness protection Program. Unfortunately, the blabbermouthed girls blow their cover in town after town until there's only one hiding place left -- Australia. For girl viewers there's plenty of super spies and surfer guys. Stars: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, Kids, Warner, $19.96 SRP.
- Outside Providence Delightfully funny coming of age comedy about a misfit 17-year-old (Shawn Hatosy) sent by his father (Alec Baldwin) to a stuffy prep school as punishment for his latest stunt (crashing into a police car). Nothing could prepare the conservative school for this boy. Director: Michael Corrente ("American Buffalo"). Stars: Shawn Hatosy, Alec Baldwin, Amy Smart, George Wendt. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $7.296 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Paper Bullets Actioner about a gritty cop whose closest friends are murdered and whose son is kidnapped by a vicious Chinese drug lord, and the all-out war he embarks on to bring justice to the fore. Stars: Ernie Hudson, James Russo, William McNamara, Jeff Wincott. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Thriller, MTI Home Video. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Passion of Mind This English-language debut of director Alain ("My Vie en Rose") Berliner fell flat on the art-house audience it was aimed at. Could it have been Demi Moore, or the screenplay (remarkably similar to 1998's "Shattered Image")? Moore plays a woman who has existences in two worlds: as Marie, a widow living in Provence, France with her two daughters, and as Marty, a literary agent in New York. When one falls asleep, the other comes into existence. Which one is real? Director: Alain Berliner. Stars: Demi Moore, Stellan Skarsgard, William Fichtner, Sinead Cusack, Peter Riegert. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 105 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.700 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Patriot, The The birth of a nation through the eyes of producer and star Mel Gibson. This Revolutionary War costume drama has Gibson as a South Carolina farmer who, though he supports the Colonies and their uprising against the British, is reluctant to take part -- until the nasty British kill one of his sons and is about to kill another. He jumps into action, joining the militia and attacking the redcoats in hit-and-run ambushes, eventually becoming a leader and hero of the war. Stirring battle sequences make up for the lack of historical accuracy, which brought the film much criticism from scholars and pundits and undoubtedly helped its box office. Director: Roland Emmerich. Stars: Mel Gibson, Heath Ledger, Joely Richardson, Jason Isaacs, Chris Cooper, Donal Logue. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 164 min., Historical Epic, Box office gross: $108.357 million, Columbia. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Perfect Storm, The Director Wolfgang Petersen's big budget adventure about blue-collar fisherman who venture out into stormy seas for one last catch of the season has all the essential elements of good old-fashioned storytelling: human drama, truth, love and, of course, insurmountable odds when men face off against nature. The odds favor nature as the film traces the journey of the small ship into the fast approaching "storm of the century": the real 1991 convergence of three rampaging weather fronts in the North Atlantic. Director: Wolfgang Petersen. Stars: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, John C. Reilly, Diane Lane, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Karen Allen. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 129 min., Adventure, Box office gross: $170.483 million, Warner Bros., $14.95 SRP, Pan-and-scan and widescreen. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Picking Up the Pieces When a mild-mannered kosher butcher (Woody Allen) in a small Southwest town discovers his wife cheating on him, he hacks her to bits and sets out to bury the pieces in the New Mexico countryside. Along the way one of her hands falls out and is picked up by a blind woman, whose sight is immediately restored. Now the hand becomes "The Hand of the Virgin," turning the small town into a bizarre carnival of comic delights. Cameos by Sharon Stone, Fran Drescher, Andy Dick, Lily Tomlin, Elliott Gould. Director: Alfonso Arau. Stars: Woody Allen, Maria Grazia Cucinotta, Cheech Marin, David Schwimmer, Kiefer Sutherland. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Comedy, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date.
- Pitch Black An interstellar space ship carrying an assortment of travelers -- including a killer convict (Vin Diesel) whose eyes have been enhanced to provide him with night vision -- crashes on a desolate planet. The planet has three suns, meaning there's never any night, and the survivors struggle to repair their ship before the heat -- and lack of water -- gets to them. Little do they know that every 22 years the three suns line up behind another planet in the solar system and an eerie night falls, bringing with it hideous flying monsters that eat everything in their path. What a coincidence that halfway through the movie night falls. Will the castaways -- now lead by the convict, who's the only one who can see the monsters -- get off the planet before their numbers are decimated? Fine special effects and chilling suspense make one forget the lame plot. Director: David Twohy. Stars: Vin Diesel, Radha Mitchell, Cole Hauser, Keith David, Claudia Black. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 107 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $39.235 million, USA. October 24. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Play It to the Bone Two out-of-work boxers (and best buddies) Vince (Woody Harrelson) and Cesar (Antonio Banderas) get the chance of a lifetime -- a match against each other in Vegas as a second bill to Mike Tyson. The catch: they have one day to get there, provoking a day-long Vegas-bound ride with Grace (Lolita Davidovich), who happens to be both Cesar's girl and Vince's ex, causing the pair to unspool their past histories for the camera. Director: Ron Shelton. Stars: Woody Harrelson, Antonio Banderas, Lolita Davidovich, Tom Sizemore, Robert Wagner, Lucy Liu. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 124 min., Action Comedy, Box office gross: $8.427 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Plunkett & Macleane This "Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid" meets "Barry Lyndon" costume drama has a pair of English highwaymen in the mid-18th century robbing the rich and getting involved in political intrigue. Based on real-life criminals. Director: Jake Scott. Stars: Jonny Lee Miller, Robert Carlyle, Liv Tyler, Alan Cumming. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Action, Box office gross: $0.176 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Pokemon the Movie 2000 Two Pokemon short films tied together to capitalize on last year's smash hit "Pokemon the Movie" (and fad now fast fading): "Pikachu's Rescue Adventure" (22 minutes) and "The Power of One" (80 minutes); the former about Pikachu's adventures in an underground forest and the latter about Pokemon trainer Ash's attempts to restore the balance of nature set askew by a greedy Pokemon collector. Most definitely for Pokemon kids only. Director: Kunihiko Yuyama (Japanese production), Michael Haigney (U.S. production). Voices of Veonica Taylor, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Ted Lewis, Ikue Otani. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 102 min., Animated, Box office gross: $43.492 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date.
- Pokemon: The First Movie Japanese computer game and collectible figures make it to the big screen in this full-length feature that is just the first of several that will grace U.S. theaters this year. Kids love Pikachu and the Pokemon minions, making it a multi-billion dollar industry. Enough said. Director: Kunihiko Yuyama. Stars: Voices of Veronica Taylor, Philip Bartlett, Rachael Lillis, Eric Stuart, Ikue Otani, Addie Blaustein. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 95 min., Animated, Box office gross: $84.091 million, Warner, $26.98.
- Pop & Me A retired Wall Street banker (Richard Roe) and his filmmaker son (Chris Roe) traveled the world collecting candid and touching stories from fathers and sons, including those of an Egyptian general, an Outback farmer, a South African recovering alcoholic, and Julian Lennon, John Lennon's son. Director: Richard & Chris Roe. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 92 min., Documentary, MGM. DVD: Day & Date.
- Price of Glory Jimmy Smits is an ex-boxer who leads his family with tough love as he imposes his own broken dreams of championship glory onto his three sons. Fine acting and tender story line highlight this film about hard-headed Arturo Ortega (Smits), whose world-champion aspirations were cut short. Now the father of three boys, he supports the family with a menial job, hoping that the boys will rise to take his destiny --- but his wishes are met with mixed results as the boys want to decide their own fates. Director: Carlos Avila. Stars: Jimmy Smits, Jon Seda, Clifton Collins Jr., Ernesto Hernandez, Maria Del Mar, Ron Perlman, Paul Rodriguez. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 118 min., Drama, Box office gross: $3.434 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date.
- Prince of Central Park When a young boy chooses the streets of New York over his foster mother, he finds he must live by a new set of rules or risk becoming a statistic. Pursued by a street hustler, he seeks shelter in Central Park, only to find a world ruled by a frightening eccentric. His only salvation: one couple who have a dark secret of their own. Director: John Leekley. Stars: Danny Aiello, Harvey Keitel, Cathy Moriarty, Jerry Orbach, Kathleen Turner. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 105 min., Drama, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Princess Mononoke Anime -- based on Japanese folklore -- about a young warrior who must fight mythical forest creatures -- and solve the mystery of a curse placed on him by those monsters -- in order to save his village. On his journey for salvation, he enlists the aid of Princess Mononoke. Director: Hayao Miyazaki. Voices of Billy Crudup, Billy Bob Thornton, Minnie Driver, Claire Danes, Jada Pinkett-Smith. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 135 min., Animated, Box office gross: $2.300 million, Miramax. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Private Confessions With a screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, Liv Ullmann's probing work continues the exploration of Bergman's childhood memories of his parents' turbulent marriage, of the frustration and futility of passionate souls unable to escape or reconcile the strict moral framework they live. Director: Liv Ullmann. Stars: Liv Ullmann, Max von Sydow. 1996, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 127 min., Drama, Home Vision, $29.95 SRP.
- Prophecy 3, The: The Ascent Second sequel in this popular horror series revolves around a young man (born of an angel and a woman) who must stop rebel rebel angels on a mission to destroy the Earth. Direct-to-video. Stars: Christopher Walken, Vincent Spano. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Horror, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Pufnstuf A dejected boy is lead by his talking flute to the Living Island, a magical place filled with strange but friendly animals who live in fear of an incompetent witch. Live action with life-sized puppets. Director: Hollingsworth Morse. Stars: Jack Wild, Martha Raye, Billy Hayes, Mama Cass. 1970, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 95 min., Children, Universal, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Pups Cross between "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Natural Born Killers," about a 13-year-old boy with asthma ready to burst from sensory overload who finds his mother's gun, drags his girlfriend from school and holds up a bank. An FBI agent (Burt Reynolds) tries to negotiate with the pair, whose demands run the gamut from large condoms to an interview with MTV's Kurt Loder. Director: Ash. Stars: Burt Reynolds, Adam Farrar, Mischa Barton, Kurt Loder, Cameron Van Hoy. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Thriller, Monarch. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Quarry, The This Grand Prize winner at the Montreal World Film Fest begins as a manhunt for a criminal but soon weaves into a rich, intriguing tale that questions race, justice and morality. After a mysterious fugitive kills a man near a small, desolate South African coastal town, he takes on the identity of his victim -- a Baptist minister who is coming to take over the local church. The subsequent sequence of events that this sets into motion leads to repercussions for all the town's inhabitants. Director: Marion Hansel. Stars: John Lynch, Jonny Phillips, Serge-Henri Valcke, Oscar Petersen, Jody Abrahams, Sylvia Esau. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 112 min., Suspense, First Run Features. DVD: Day & Date.
- Race Against Time This TNT telefilm has Eric Roberts starring as a dying boy's father who agrees to sell his own body for organ transplants to pay mounting hospital bills. But when the doctors want the organs now rather than later, the man goes on the run. Stars: Eric Roberts, Cary Elwes. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 90 min., Sci-Fi, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Random Hearts An airplane cash throws two very different people together: a tough-minded cop and a high profile congresswoman. Both their spouses were on the ill-fated flight -- sitting together as "Mr. and Mrs." -- and the cop starts a gut-wrenching investigation into his married life that threatens all concerned. Director: Sydney Pollack. Stars: Harrison Ford, Kristin Scott Thomas, Charles S. Dutton, Bonnie Hunt, Dennis Haysbert, Sydney Pollack. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 131 min., Romantic drama, Box office gross: $31.054 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Ready to Rumble Two sanitation workers, obsessed with World Championship Wrestling, become despondent when their hero, King, is dethroned as WCW champion and they take it upon themselves to track the wrestler down, whip him into shape and bring him back to Las Vegas for a rematch. The characters are brainless, the action gruesome (plenty of S&M wrestling thrills) and the storyline predictable. Features acting turns by WCW's Diamond Dallas Page, Steve Sting Borden and others. For diehard wrestling fans only. Director: Brian Robbins. Stars: David Arquette, Scott Caan, Oliver Platt, Rose McGowan, Martin Landau, Joe Pantoliano. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 107 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $12.372 million, Warner Bros.. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Red Dwarf, The Quirky art-house film about a little man who works for a law firm, writing violently incriminating letters for use as false evidence in divorce cases. When called upon to help a Countess, he falls for and has an affair with her. But when she returns to her husband, the little man can't control his emotions and joins the circus as the Red Dwarf, living on an emotional tightrope between debauchery and redemption. Stars: Jean-Yves Thual, Anita Ekberg. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.006 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Reindeer Games Trifle of a thriller about an ex-con (Ben Affleck) who takes on the identity of his dead cell-mate, getting himself way over his head in crime. His cell-mate was corresponding with a beautiful woman (Charlize Theron) (who never saw a picture of the con) and when released, he visits her with his new identity and falls in love. But all is not well -- the woman's crazy criminal brother (Gary Sinise) shows up, convinced the man knows the layout of a casino, and kidnaps the pair. Plenty of blood before the final twists play out. Not an auspicious outing for director John Frankenheimer. Director: John Frankenheimer. Stars: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron, Clarence Williams III, Dennis Farina. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 104 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $23.153 million, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Replacements, The Typical sports comedy, in which a group of inept athletes come together and become winners in spite of themselves, here based on the NFL football strike more than a decade ago. When the Washington Sentinels go on strike late in the season, the team's down-to-earth owner (Jack Warden) hires an ex-coach (Gene Hackman) who puts together a team of misfit replacements: a blue-collar worker (Keanu Reeves), a butter-fingered sprinter, an overzealous cop, a Japanese Sumo wrestler and a chain-smoking soccer kicker (Rhys Ifans). Director: Howard Deutch. Stars: Keanu Reeves, Gene Hackman, Brook Langton, Orlando Jones, Jon Favreau, Rhys Ifans, Jack Warden. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 118 min., Sports Comedy, Box office gross: $43.487 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date.
- Return to Me All-too-pat comedy of the heart about a heart transplant recipient, a waitress (Minnie Driver) in a Chicago Irish-Italian restaurant, who receives the organ from the wife of an architectural engineer (David Duchovny) who, one year after his wife dies, walks into the restaurant and is mysteriously smitten by -- guess who. Need we say more. ALT=" walks into the restaurant and is mysteriously smitten by -- guess who. Need we say more. Director: Bonnie Hunt. Stars: David Duchovny, Minnie Driver, Carroll O'Connor, Robert Logia, Bonnie Hunt, Joely Richardson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 115 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $32.283 million, MGM.
- Ride With the Devil Drama set in the 1860s surrounding the tensions between pro-slavery Missouri and anti-slavery Kansas and the cross-border raids by Kansas Jayhawkers and Missouri Bushwhackers that carried through the Civil War -- taking the lives of many innocents -- and the infamous massacre in Lawrence Kansas by William Quantrill and his Quantrill Raiders. Savagely beautiful, with nice turns by Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich as Bushwhackers, and Jewel as a friend of the pair. Director: Ang Lee. Stars: Tobey Maguire, Skeet Ulrich, Jewel, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Jim Caviezel. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 138 min., Civil War Drama, Box office gross: $0.630 million, USA. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Road to El Dorado, The Disappointing animated outing about pair of bumbling adventurers in the early 16th century who travel to the New World -- one step ahead of Cortes and his Conquistadors -- in search of the mythical city of El Dorado and its gold. Music by Elton John and Tim Rice. Director: Eric Bibo Bergeron, Don Paul. Voices of Kevin Kline, Kenneth Branagh, Rosie Perez, Armand Assante, Edward James Olmos, Jim Cummings. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 98 min., Animated, Box office gross: $50.802 million, DreamWorks, $15.95 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Road Trip Sex comedy about a New York college student (Breckin Meyer) whose long-distance romance with an Austin, Texas co-ed is jeopardized by a videotaped tryst with another woman -- one of his dumber friends mails the tape to the girlfriend. Sooner than you can say Food Fight (Road Trip is a direct descendent of "Animal House") we've embarked on a road trip to Austin to intercept the tape, with all sorts of funny events unfolding on the 800-mile jaunt. Some inspired lunacy. Director: Todd Phillips. Stars: Breckin Meyer, Seann William Scott, Amy Smart, Paul Costanzo, DJ Qualls, Rachel Blanchard. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $68.525 million, DreamWorks. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Rock-a-Bye Baby New to video. Jerry Lewis is the bachelor fan of a glamorous movie star who doesn't want her public to know that she's the mother of triplets. Naturally Lewis becomes a full-time baby-sitter and dad for the kids. Stars: Jerry Lewis. 1957, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 103 min., Comedy, Paramount, $9.95 SRP.
- Romance French art-house film exploration of feminine sexuality as a young woman, dumped by her latest boyfriend, spends time in search of sexual misadventures. Director: Catherine Breillat. Stars: Caroline Ducey, Sagamore Stevenin, Franois Berlean, Rocco Siffredi. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 105 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.282 million, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Romeo Must Die Romeo and Juliet transported to modern San Francisco, with Jet Li coming to America to track down the killers of his little brother and getting involved with the daughter of a black mobster. Plenty of Li's trademarked martial arts action. Director: Andrzej Bartkowiak. Stars: Jet Li, Aaliyah, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, DMX, Delroy Lindo. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 115 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $55.700 million, Warner Bros.. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Rosetta Winner of 1999 Cannes International Film Festival's highest honor -- the Palm d'Or -- this film by Belgium filmmakers Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne follows a young woman forced to make decisions she's unprepared to make. Sick of her alcoholic mother and angry at being poor and living in a trailer, Rosetta equates employment with happiness and seeks a steady job to claim her place in the world. But she eventually finds that it's not work that gives meaning to one's life. Director: Luc and Jean-Pierre Dardenne. Stars: Emile Dequenne, Fabrizio Rongione, Anne Yermaux, Oliver Gourmet. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.261 million, USA. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- RPM Direct-to-video comedy about a vintage car thief who flees to Europe one step ahead of the police. When he attends the famous Concourse D'Elegance, where vintage cars are displayed and judged by highly regarded auto aficionados, he gets an offer he can't refuse -- steal and deliver to another car thief the RPM, the latest buzz in the industry and a car that will revolutionize the auto industry. But events don't pan out as planned Stars: David Arquette, Famke Janssen, Emmanuelle Seigner. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 91 min., Comedy, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Rules of Engagement Courtroom drama that centers around the court-martial of a Marine colonel (Samuel L. Jackson) whose mission to rescue an American ambassador and his wife from violent protesters in Yemen resulted in a steep political body count -- three dead marines and 83 Yemen citizens. Tommy Lee Jones plays the defense attorney in need of redemption -- he's an alcoholic loser -- and Bruce Greenwood plays a nasty national security advisor attempting to crucify Jackson as part of a coverup. Director: William Friedkin. Stars: Tommy Lee Jones, Samuel L. Jackson, Guy Pearce, Philip Baker Hall, Blair Underwood, Bruce Greenwood. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 128 min., Action, Box office gross: $61.223 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Runaway Bride Richard Gere, Julia Roberts and director Garry Marshall reteam ("Pretty Woman") in this comedy about a USA Today reporter inspired to write a column about a serial engager -- a woman who loves being engaged but runs away from the altar. Director: Garry Marshall. Stars: Richard Gere, Julia Roberts, Joan Cusack, Hector Elizondo, Rita Wilson, Laurie Metcalf, Paul Dooley. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 116 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $150.000 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Running Free Adventurous story of a remarkable friendship between a boy and an abandoned young colt named Lucky. In an African mining town, an orphaned servant boy raises a young horse and together find the strength to stand up to a cruel plantation owner. Director: Sergei Bodrov. Stars: Chase Moore, Arie Verveen, Lukas Haas, Jan Decleir. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 85 min., Adventure, Box office gross: $0.101 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Saludos Amigos Gold Classic Collection Live-action/animated adventure has Walt Disney and a group of studio artists and musicians travel to South America as part of a "Good Neighbor" policy, with Donald Duck and Goofy joining the travelogue with singing and dancing fun. First time on video. Stars: Walt Disney, Donald Duck, Goofy. 1943, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 42 min., Animated, Box office gross: $ million, Disney, $19.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date.
- Santitos: Esperanza's Box of Saints Tale about a young widow's search for her missing child -- a mission that takes her from a humble Mexican village to the rowdy brothels of Tijuana to East Los Angeles and changes her from a religious innocent to an independent, passionate woman. In Spanish with English subtitles. Director: Alejandro Springall. Stars: Dolores Heredia, Demian Bichir, Alberto Estrella. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Comedy, Columbia TriStar.
- Saving Grace Delightful comedy, set in a small English village, about middle-aged Grace (Brenda Blethyn), who discovers that her recently deceased husband not only was a philanderer but a scoundrel as well: he squandered the family wealth and left his wife with more debts than she could ever hope to repay. Her saving grace comes in the form of Matthew (Craig Ferguson), who works at the local vicarage and has a crop of marijuana plots in need of a home. Grace -- who has a green thumb of her own -- takes on the chore, and soon the pair are dope entrepreneurs, on their way to making enough money to pay off her bills. The dichotomy of a pair of middle-aged small-villagers raising pot and hustling their high quality wares in London is one of many fine set pieces in this charming film. Director: Nigel Cole. Stars: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tcheky Karyo. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $9.690 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Scary Movie Spoof of all those teen slasher horror films that have captured the box office ("Scream," "I Know What You Did Last Summer," etc.) in recent years. Here a group of high school kids try to solve the murder of one of their friends, discovering that the killer is among them. Jokes range from the raunchy to the disgusting, with every kind of toilet, gay-baiting and sexual joke thrown in for good measure. Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans. Stars: Shawn Wayans, Marlon Wayans, Cheri Oteri, Carmen Electra, Shannon Elizabeth, Regina Hall. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 85 min., Horror Comedy, Box office gross: $149.348 million, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Scooby-Doo Meets the Boo Brothers Animated feature length direct-to-video Scooby-Doo adventure has Scooby and Shaggy get close-up and spooky with some supernatural siblings. On a scavenger hunt for Shaggy's inheritance in the haunted old Beauregard mansion, the pair enlist the aid of the ectoplasmic Boo Brothers to help find the loot. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, Kids, Warner, $14.95 SRP.
- Scooby-Doo and the Alien Invaders One of the best Scooby-Doo adventures yet. Stranded in a remote desert town, Scooby, Shaggy and the Mystery, Inc. kids discover the place is crawling with flying saucer buffs, secret scientists and nasty extra-terrestrials. One night Scooby and Shaggy even get beamed aboard a UFO -- and are discovered abandoned in the desert the next day by a beautiful photographer and her female dog. Love blossoms -- as does the plot, leading to a network of caves hidden under the town as well as other top secrets. Fun for all. Voices of Jeff Glen Bennett, Mary Kay Bergman, Jennifer Hale, Mark Hamill, Scott Innes. 2000, CC, 70 min., Animated, Warner, $19.98 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Scream 3 The guys and girls of "Scream" are back in this second sequel, this time grown past the adolescence of high school and off to the adolescence of Hollywood (save for Neve Campbell's linchpin character, who's hiding out in Northern California, still licking her wounds). Guess who calls? Not as scary as the series' predecessors. Billed as the final chapter. Director: Wes Craven. Stars: Neve Campbell, Courteney Cox Arquette, Parker Posey, Jenny McCarthy, Patrick Dempsey, Lance Henriksen. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 117 min., Horror, Box office gross: $84.896 million, Miramax. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Screw Loose Ezio Greggio plays Bernardo, the dutiful son of an Italian patriarch who's deathbed wish is to be reunited with an old war buddy, Jake, (Mel Brooks). Bernardo flies from Milan to California and finds his father's friend -- in a hospital for the mentally insane. Not wishing to disappoint his father, Bernardo kidnaps jake and the pair fly back to Italy -- where Jake quickly disappears. Now it's Bernardo's turn to go crazy as he must find the American before his father dies. Ugh! Director: Ezio Greggio. Stars: Ezio Greggio, Mel Brooks. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 85 min., Comedy, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Screwed Silly comedy about the chauffeur (Norm Macdonald) to a mean and nasty woman (Elaine Stritch) who gets fed up with being mistreated and hatches a plot to kidnap the old lady's dog and ransom it off for $1 million. With the help of a friend (Dave Chappelle) he does the deed, only to lose the dog and discover that everyone thinks he's been kidnapped instead. Now the pair ask for $5 million, making things more complicated and unfunny. There's more, including a faked death, before the film is thankfully over. Director: Scott Alexander. Stars: Norm Macdonald, Dave Chappelle, Elaine Stritch, Danny Devito, Daniel Benzali, Sherman Hemsley. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 82 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $6.982 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Secret Ceremony Psychological drama about the relationship between an aging prostitute and a young, aimless waif who resembles her dead daughter. Director: Joseph Losey. Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Robert Mitchum, Mia Farrow, Pamela Brown, Peggy Ashcroft. 1969, CC, MPAA rating: R, 110 min., Drama, Universal, $14.98 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Secrets of the Heart Poignant tale of the mysterious and magical adult world seen through the eyes of a nine-year-old growing up in a small provincial town in Spain in the 1960s. In Spanish with English subtitles. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 108 min., Drama, New Yorker. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Shaft Director John Singleton and Samuel L. Jackson definitely score big with "Shaft," an homage/sequel of sorts to the 1971 and 1972 blaxploitation films starring Richard Roundtree. Jackson plays the ultra-cool and hip John Shaft, nephew of the original Shaft, trying to nail an ultra-rich white racist (Christian Bale) for the murder of a black man. Naturally Shaft has to fight corrupt cops and judges before he gets his man. Director: John Singleton. Stars: Samuel L. Jackson, Vanessa Williams, Jeffrey Wright, Christian Bale, Busta Rhymes, Dan Hedaya, Toni Collette, Richard Roundtree. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $69.498 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Shanghai Noon Martial arts comedy take on Westerns with Jackie Chan playing Chinese Imperial Guard Chon Wang who travels across the Nevada desert by train to rescue a princess kidnapped from the Forbidden City. Along the way Wang foils a hijack attempt by a group of misfit robbers and when he later meets the band's leader in a local saloon, a brawl ensues and the two end up in jail. They soon team up to break out of jail and set out to rescue the princess and a trunk full of gold. Director: Tom Dey. Stars: Jackie Chan, Owen Wilson, Lucy Liu, Brandon Merrill, Roger Yuan, Xander Berkeley, Walter Goggins. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 110 min., Western comedy, Box office gross: $54.268 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Shower (Xizao) Wonderful Chinese comedy about a successful, conservative businessman summoned by his younger brother to come home to his father's old-style bathhouse in Beijing. When he arrives, he gets involved in fast-paced modern life and a crazy cast of characters that gives him an appreciation for traditional old ways. In Mandarin with English subtitles. Director: Zhang Yang. Stars: Zhu Xu, Jiang Wu, Pu Cunxin. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 94 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $1.077 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Simpatico Weak, convoluted drama about blackmail and retribution, based on the play by Sam Shepard, involving a down-and-outer living in Los Angeles (Nick Nolte), a Kentucky millionaire horse breeder (Jeff Bridges), and the former racing commissioner (Albert Finney) they blackmailed in their younger days. When out of the clear blue sky Nolte calls up Bridges, the millionaire flies to L.A., while Nolte flies to Kentucky with photos and evidence that he wants to sell to Finney to exonerate him. But Finney, who has found happiness by dropping out of the rat race, could care less. Meantime, in L.A., the millionaire takes on the life of his on-the-edge friend. There's a couple more subplots and briberies, but we'll stop here. Director: Matthew Warchus. Stars: Nick Nolte, Jeff Bridges, Sharon Stone, Albert Finney, Catherine Keener. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: R, 106 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.920 million, New Line. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Sixth Sense, The Surprise blockbuster of 1999 has child psychologist Bruce Willis investigating a young boy who is tormented by the restless ghosts of dead people. A nifty twist ending and concentration on psychological scares rather than effects made this a smash hit. Director: M. Night Shyamalan. Stars: Bruce Willis, Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Haley Joel Osment, Donnie Wahlberg. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 107 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $290.288 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Skulls, The It's been done so many times before: A hard working student at an Ivy League college accepts an invitation to join a prestigious (and secret) college service organization usually reserved for more well-to-do students -- and gets much more than he bargained for. Despite the weary premise and despite the stereotypical characters -- blue-collar kid from the wrong side of the tracks, stuck-up, spoiled rich kids, pretty and smart female love interest -- director Rob Cohen has woven an absorbing melodrama that pits morality and ethics against self-serving vested interests. The Skulls of the title is a 300-year-old secret "fraternity" of rich men that's spawned a host of judges, senators and congressmen and at least three presidents, and acceptance into the club means unfathomable wealth and prestige (not to mention free cars and women) bestowed on new members. But when Luke McNamara joins up (his membership will mean the law school tuition he can never hope to earn at part- time jobs) he finds that the secret society uses coercion and even murder to foster their values. Put away your thinking cap and have fun. Director: Rob Cohen. Stars: Joshua Jackson, Paul Walker, Hill Harper, Leslie Bibb, Craig T. Nelson, William Peterson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, min., Drama, Box office gross: $35.007 million, Universal. DVD: October 24. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Sleepy Hollow Director Tim Burton's graphic/gory take on Washington Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," with Johnny Depp's Ichabod Crane (a schoolteacher in the book) a New York constable using "modern methods" to solve a series of beheadings in the Hudson River Valley in 1799. Director: Tim Burton. Stars: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Casper Van Dien, Michael Gambon. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Horror Thriller, Box office gross: $99.174 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Small Time Crooks Woody Allen comedy about a crew of bumbling, dimwitted crooks whose attempts to rob a bank meet all kinds of frustrations -- including a burst water main when Allen drills into a wall and hits a pipe. But the crew does strike it rich, when the front for their operation -- Allen's wife's cookie store -- hits it big and the money comes rolling in. The Allen-esque comedy doesn't end here, of course, as the slapstick continues despite a move to wealthier digs uptown. A bit too vulgar and not one of his best outings. Director: Woody Allen. Stars: Woody Allen, Tracey Ullman, Elaine May, Hugh Grant, Michael Rapaport, Jon Lovitz, Elaine Stritch. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 94 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $17.071 million, DreamWorks. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Snow Falling on Cedars A murder mystery unfolds on a small island off the Puget Sound in the Pacific Northwest, bringing up painful memories of Japanese-American internment during WWII. Director: Scott Hicks. Stars: Ethan Hawke, James Cromwell, Richard Jenkins, James Rebhorn, Sam Shepard, Max von Sydow, Youki Kudoh. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 130 min., Drama, Box office gross: $14.378 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date.
- Snow Day It's Snow Day -- a blizzard hits town and school is closed -- and the kids take the opportunity to have fun, destroy property and flaunt parental rules. This goofy Nickelodeon comedy has a host of subplots featuring a workaholic mom (Jean Smart), a struggling newsman (Chevy Chase) and teens in love, but the piece de resistance is the kid's attack on the dreaded Snowplowman (Chris Elliott), whose job it is to ensure that there are never two Snow Days in a row. For the youngsters. Director: Chris Koch. Stars: Chris Elliott, Mark Webber, Jean Smart, Chevy Chase, Schuyler Fisk, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Zena Gray. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 89 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $59.993 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Soft Fruit Warm and cuddly family matriarch Patsy (Jeanie Dryan) is terminally ill, precipitating the return of her four eccentric children to her middle class Australian household, where kids and mom work out their anxieties, disagreements and problems in this bittersweet family comedy. Stars: Jeanie Dryan, Genevieve Lemon, Sacha Horler, Alicia Talbot, Russell Dykstra. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 101 min., Comedy Drama, Fox. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Something More Sam (Michael Goorjian) and his friends have two obsessions: basketball and women, with better luck on the court than off. When Sam and his best friend fall for the same woman, their friendship is put to the ultimate test. Stars: Michael Goorjian, Jennifer Beals, Chandra West, Thomas Cavanagh. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 97 min., Romantic Comedy, First Look Pictures.
- Sparkler Three college grads on their way to Vegas pick up a trailer princess (Park Overall) -- who has dreams of becoming a dance star -- and her bottom-of-the-barrel stripper friend (Veronica Cartwright) for a wild adventure through the rude underbelly of the road to glitter. Director: Darren Stein. Stars: Park Overall, Veronica Cartwright, Freddie Prinze Jr., Jamie Kennedy, Steven Petrarca. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 96 min., Comedy, Columbia TriStar.
- St. Francisville Experiment, The Four researchers descend upon a haunted mansion -- supposedly containing the spirits of tortured slaves --in the French Quarter of New Orleans, getting more than they bargained for. Stars: Madison Cjarap, Tim Thompson, Ryan Larson, Paul Cason. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 76 min., Horror, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.
- Star Wars: Episode I -- The Phantom Menace The first prequel to the most popular series of films of all times traces the origins of Darth Vader and lays the groundwork for the creation of the evil Empire. Great effects overshadow a disappointing story line. Director: George Lucas. Stars: Liam Neeson, Ewan McGregor, Natalie Portman, Jake Lloyd, Frank Oz, Samuel L. Jackson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 132 min., Sci-Fi, Box office gross: $431.065 million, Fox. Pan-and-scan: $24.98. Special Widescreen Video Collector's Edition (includes behind-the-scenes footage, a 35mm film strip from the film, 48-page booklet: $39.98. Buy the VHS editions
- Stiff Upper Lips This spoof on period piece romances follows the adventures of a young woman whose heart has been stolen by the son of a lower-class peasant. To maintain class propriety, the woman's Aunt attempts to separate the lovers by sending her niece and her friends on a trip, first to Italy, and then India. Will love win out over the British class system? Stars: Peter Ustinov, Prunella Scales, Georgina Cates. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.069 million, Miramax. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Stigmata Chilling thriller stars Patricia Arquette as a young Philadelphia woman whose mother sends her a package containing the rosary of a dead priest from Brazil. Suddenly she starts having visions and exhibits the symptoms of the stigmata: bleeding from the wounds inflicted on Christ during his crucifixion. Gabriel Byrne plays a scientist/priest sent from the Vatican to investigate the events. Director: Rupert Wainwright. Stars: Patricia Arquette, Gabriel Byrne, Jonathan Pryce, Nia Long, Portia de Rossi. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 102 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $49.896 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Stir of Echoes Horror thriller about a young boy and his father who have paranormal visions that their house is haunted by the spirit of a murdered teenage girl. Stars Zachery David Cope, Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas. Director: David Koepp. Stars: Zachery David Cope, Kevin Bacon, Kathryn Erbe, Illeana Douglas, Kevin Dunn. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Horror, Box office gross: $20.909 million, Artisan. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Stonebrook Higher education meets high stakes crime when a pair of college students get involved delivering money for the mob as a way to earn money for school. But when they decide to double-cross the gangsters, they soon find out they're in fact being double-crossed. Director: Byron W. Thompson. Stars: Seth Green, Brad Rowe, Zoe McLellan. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 89 min., Thriller, MGM, $49.95 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Story of Us, The After 15 years together, the magic has gone out of Katie and Ben's marriage. In order to figure things out, the pair attempt a trial separation while the kids are at summer camp, triggering a host of flashbacks to happier times. Low key comedy attempts to look at the meaning of the "us" in a relationship. Director: Rob Reiner ("Ghosts of Mississippi," "The American President," "When Harry Met Sally ..."). Stars: Bruce Willis, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rob Reiner, Rita Wilson, Paul Reiser, Julie Hagerty, Tim Matheson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $27.067 million, Universal. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Straight Story, The Director David Lynch eschews his trademark darkness for this G-rated story (based on real events) about an Iowa farmer who hooks up a trailer to a John Deere lawn mower and travels 350 miles to Wisconsin to visit his sick brother, whom he hasn't seen in a decade. Wonderful look at the indomitable American spirit. Director: David Lynch. Stars: Richard Farnsworth, Sissy Spacek, Harry Dean Stanton, Everett McGill. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 112 min., Drama, Box office gross: $5.686 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date.
- Strawberry Fields Set in 1971 against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, a rebellious 16-year-old Japanese-American girl hits the road with her boyfriend in search of a better life after a visitation from the ghost of her sister. She hooks up with activist friends and reconciles her past and present when she discovers that her parents were incarcerated in an internment camp during WWII. Director: Rea Tajiri. Stars: Suzy Nakamura, James Sie, Chris Tashima. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 86 min., Drama, Vanguard Cinema. DVD: Day & Date.
- Stuart Little Delightful live-action and CGI telling of E.B. White's 1945 kids classic about a family that adopts a mouse as their new son. Though slow at times, the performances (especially Stuart the mouse -- voiced by Michael J. Fox -- and Snowball the cat -- voiced by Nathan Lane) are terrific. Director: Rob Minkoff. Stars: Geena Davis, Hugh Laurie, Jonathan Lipnicki, voices of Michael J. Fox and Nathan Lane. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 85 min., Family, Box office gross: $137.465 million, Columbia TriStar, $24.96 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Submerged When a crew of international terrorists hijack a commercial airplane and intentionally plunge it into the Pacific Ocean, a band of Navy Seals must enact a daring underwater rescue -- not only for the passengers but a computer board that controls the National Defense satellite that controls nuclear weapons. Director: Ed Raymond. Stars: Coolio, Nicole Eggert, Denis Weaver, Fred Williamson. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 95 min., Action, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Substitute 3, The The substitute teacher and his mercenaries are back in a second sequel in the "Substitute" series, here going undercover at a respected university to teach a good lesson to the bad boys of the football team who have been messing with drugs and blackmail. Direct-to-video. Director: Robert Radler. Stars: Treat Williams, Rebecca Staab, Claudia Christian, James Black. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Thriller, Artisan.
- Suburbans, The The members of 1980 pop band -- who had one big hit and then went on to obscurity in middle class lives -- are brought together 18 years later to perform at wedding. There they attract the eye of a record executive, who persuades them to cash in on the 1980s retro fad and make a pay- per-view special. Naturally things go greatly awry. Director: Donal Lardner Ward. Stars: Amy Brenneman, Tony Guma, Craig Bierko, Jennifer Love Hewitt. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.006 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Summer's Tale, A (Conte d'ete) This beguiling third chapter in Eric Rohmer's Tales of the Four Seasons series tells the story of a handsome young man, spending the summer in a borrowed apartment on the coast of Brittany, and the three women who tear at his heart. There's Lena, whom he pines away for; Margot, a smart and charming waitress; and Solene, Margot's friend, who just wants a summer fling. The choices he makes reveals the nature of human interactions. Director: Eric Rohmer. Stars: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet. 1996, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 113 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Supernova Original director Walter Hill pulled his name from this sci-fi adventure (the credited director is Thomas Lee, a fake name used when director's are unhappy with studio cuts and no longer want to be associated with the final product; the name replaces the famous bogus Alan Smithee) about an ex-drug addict (James Spader) who helps rescue a 22nd century medical ship from being sucked into a giant blue star. Director: Thomas Lee. Stars: James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster, Lou Diamond Phillips, Peter Facinelli, Robin Tunney. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $14.218 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Superstar "Saturday Night Live" regular Molly Shannon brings her SNL character Mary Katherine Gallagher -- a hyperactive Catholic schoolgirl who lives in her own oddball world -- to the big screen. Her one goal in life (or at least in this film): to be kissed. So she's off to Hollywood to make her dream come true. Director: Bruce McCulloch. Stars: Molly Shannon, Will Ferrell, Elaine Hendix, Harland Williams, Glynis Johns. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 82 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $30.628 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Sweet and Lowdown Harking back to his 1983 "Zelig," Woody Allen here introduces the story -- set in the 1930s and told in vignettes mixing reality and fiction -- of a somewhat emotionally hobbled jazz guitar player (Sean Penn) who lives in the shadow of the great Django Reinhardt. Director: Woody Allen. Stars: Sean Penn, Samantha Morton, Uma Thurman, James Urbaniak, Anthony LaPaglia, Gretchen Mol. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 95 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.014 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Swing An ex-con tries to put together a swing band with an eclectic group of misfits, going up against his ex-girlfriend's husband, his family and his parole officer. Stars: Hugo Speer, Lisa Stansfield. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Romantic comedy, Buena Vista.
- Switching Goals Child stars Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen star as soccer-playing sisters with a different take on the sport: one is a tomboy/star athlete, the other prefers the sport of fashion. When a soccer tournament puts them on opposing teams, they switch places, wreaking all sorts of havoc. Director: David Steinberg. Stars: Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. 2000, CC, Family, Warner, $19.96 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Talented Mr. Ripley, The Remake of sorts of the fabulous 1960 French thriller "Purple Noon," based on a novel by Patricia Highsmith, about Tom Ripley, a young American sent to Europe by a wealthy man to keep tabs on his wastrel son. But Ripley goes one step further: he kills the son and takes over his life. Director: Anthony Minghella. Stars: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law, Cate Blanchett, Philip Seymour Hoffman, James Rebhorn. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 139 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $81.178 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Tarzan Animated adventures of Edgar Rice Burroughs' jungle hero -- here in a more pulp-fiction vein than most Disney animated features -- with lively songs by Phil Collins. Director: Kevin Lima, Chris Buck. Voices of Tony Goldwyn, Minnie Driver, Glenn Close, Alex D. Linz, Rosie O'Donnell, Lance Henriksen, Nigel Hawthorne, Wayne Knight. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 82 min., Animated, Box office gross: $170.535 million, Disney. $26.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy the "Tarzan" DVD at up to 20% discount
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- Terrorist, The The last days of a 19-year-old woman who volunteers to sacrifice herself in the suicide assassination of Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Ghandi. In Tamil with English subtitles. Director: Santosh Sivan. Stars: Ayesha Dharkar. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 95 min., Drama, Winstar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Thick as Thieves Winning black-comedy thriller about a very, very professional thief (Alec Baldwin as a vinyl-jazz loving hipster with a deep affection for his terrier) hired by the Chicago Italian mob to mastermind a robbery for their black counterparts in Detroit. When the thief is double- crossed by the black gangsters and the white cops, he barely escapes with life -- returning to the motor city to exact revenge. Things begin to escalate out of control as tit-for-tat leaves more and more blood on the city streets -- until the mafia steps in. Rebecca De Mornay plays a deliciously enigmatic laid back cop. A tongue-in-cheek surprise. Director: Scott Sanders. Stars: Alec Baldwin, Andre Braugher, Rebecca De Mornay, Michael Jai White. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Comedy Thriller, USA Home Entertainment. DVD: Day & Date.
- Third Miracle, The Ed Harris plays a church appointed spiritual detective sent to examine a statue crying tears of blood. While investigating the death of the woman said to be responsible for the miracle, his task gets complicated when he begins to develop feelings for a non-believer. Director: Agnieszka Holland. Stars: Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 118 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.655 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Thomas and the Magic Railroad Combination live-action and animation big screen production based on the delightful children's TV series and books. The story line -- which, like the TV series jumps between the human world of the Shining Time Station and the animation of the island of Sodor, where Thomas and his friends chug in a happy railroad land -- has a group of diesel locomotives seeking to close the route between the two worlds in their search for a missing steam engine. For preschoolers. Director: Britt Allcroft. Stars: Alec Baldwin, Peter Fonda, Russell Means, Didi Conn. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 85 min., Children, Box office gross: $15.120 million, Columbia TriStar, $22.96 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Thomas Crown Affair, The Remake of the 1968 bank heist thriller starring Steve McQueen and Faye Dunaway, here with Pierce Brosnan as an art thief and Rene Russo as an insurance investigator who tries to get a priceless Monet back from him -- by any means possible. Director: John McTiernan. Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Rene Russo, Denis Leary, Faye Dunaway, Ben Gazzara, Frankie Faison. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 114 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $67.993 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Three Kings Loopy action-adventure black comedy that takes jabs at race, politics, war, the media, greed and heroes. Film takes place just after the Gulf War as four disgruntled GIs take off on their own in search of stolen Kuwaiti gold, getting more than they bargained for. Director: David O. Russell ("Spanking the Monkey," "Flirting With Disaster"). Stars: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze, Nora Dunn, Jamie Kennedy, Mykelti Williamson. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 110 min., Action Comedy, Box office gross: $60.652 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Three Strikes Very crude urban comedy about Rob Douglas (Brian Hooks), a young man just released from L.A. County Jail after serving time for his second infraction and well aware that, in Calif., three convictions buys you 25 to life. But no sooner does he walk out the door and into friend JJ's stolen car than they're stopped by the police, JJ opens fire and Rob takes off. Now there's a manhunt on for Rob, his friends think he deserted his bro, and his girlfriend thinks he stood her up. How can he clear name? Who cares? Director: D.J. Pooh. Stars: Brian Hooks, N'Bushe Wright, Faizon Love, David Alan Grier, E40, George Wallace. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 82 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $9.821 million, MGM. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Three to Tango Off-key comedy about a pair of architects bidding for a big design job in Chicago who offer to spy on their client's girlfriend, with the assumption being they're gay (one is, the other isn't). Naturally the straight partner falls for the girl, causing all kinds of problems. Director: Damon Santostefano. Stars: Matthew Perry, Neve Campbell, Dylan McDermott, Oliver Platt, Bob Balaban. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 90 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $10.544 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Tigger Movie, The This first major big screen Winnie the Pooh feature is just tiggerific. Old-fashioned animation comes to the fore in this adventure that finds Tigger in search of his family tree. Naturally, it takes a while for him to find out that he's the only tigger around, and that his true family are the friends in the Hundred Acre Wood that love him. A wonderful tale for kids and parents alike. Director: Cheryl Abood. Voices of Jim Cummings, Nikita Hopkins, Ken Sansom, John Fiedler, Peter Cullen, Andre Stoja. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: G, 76 min., Animated, Box office gross: $44.744 million, Disney, $24.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date announced. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Time Code Director Mike Figgis' experimental film -- shot on high definition video and projected on a quadruple split-screen -- is more interesting for its concept than its execution. Using 28 actors and four cameramen shooting in real time, the film tells four overlapping stories of life in Hollywood -- featuring drugged-out directors, philandering executives, over-inflated-ego assistants, slutty actresses, demanding divas and even a lesbian killer -- all unfolding on the screen at the same time. Director: Mike Figgis. Stars: Stellan Skarsgard, Salma Hayek, Saffron Burrows, Jeanne Tripplehorn, Holly Hunter, Kyle MacLachlan. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.945 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: TBD. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Time Served A female inmate at the State Dept. of Corrections -- who took the rap for her son after he killed his abusive father -- is forced into an underground strip club where she dances and prostitutes herself for other inmates and guards while struggling to be set free. Based on a true story. Director: Glen Pire. Stars: Catherine Oxenberg, Louise Fletcher, Jeff Fahey, Bo Hopkins. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, Trimark.
- Titan A.E. With the Earth destroyed by the vicious alien race The Drej, surviving humans have scattered throughout space as roaming second-class refugees. One young human, Cale, the son of the scientist who created the Titan, a giant spaceship that holds the secret to the salvation of humankind, toils on a grungy salvage station until he learns that his father left him a genetically encoded ring containing a map to Titan's location. With a renegade crew, and one step ahead of The Drej, Cale embarks on a mission to find a New World. Director: Don Bluth and Gary Goldman. Voices of Matt Damon, Drew Barrymore, Bill Pullman, Nathan Lane, Tone Loc, Janeane Garofalo, John Leguizamo. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 94 min., Animated, Box office gross: $22.644 million, Fox, $19.98. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Titus "Lion King" Broadway director Julie Taymor makes her big screen debut with this adaptation of Shakespeare's bloody "Titus Andronicus" that features human sacrifice, beheadings, mutilations, cannibalism and all sorts of bizarre blood-spilling that surrounded the Roman conquest of the Goths (spearheaded by the titular general played by Anthony Hopkins). Titus returns to Rome with his booty: the Queen of the Goths (Jessica Lange) and her sons, and the betrayals and backstabbings begin. The film, at almost three hours, takes quite an effort to get through. Director: Julie Taymor. Stars: Anthony Hopkins, Jessica Lange, Alan Cumming, James Frain, Laura Fraser, Jonathan Rhys Meyers. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 162 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.921 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Tom Sawyer Direct-to-video animated version of Mark Twain's classic, with cuddly creatures -- including cats and foxes -- as the characters of Tom, Huck and friends. Voiced by top country stars. Voices of Waylon Jennings, Hank Williams Jr., Lee Ann Womack, Rhett Akins, Mark Wills, Betty White, Don Knotts. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 107 min., Animated, MGM, $14.95 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Topsy-Turvy This brilliant evocation of the late-19th century English musical theater world follows a pivotal time in the careers of Gilbert and Sullivan, when their collaboration was threatened by financial and personal failings just prior to the rousing success of "The Mikado." Director: Mike Leigh. Stars: Jim Broadbent, Allan Corduner, Ron Cook, Martin Savage, Timothy Spall, Alsion Steadman. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 159 min., Drama, Box office gross: $5.916 million, USA. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Toy Story 2 The "Toy Story" gang is back in this exceptional sequel in which an obsessive toy collector kidnaps Woody, and Buzz Lightyear, Mr. Potato Head, SlinkyDog, Rex and Hamm set off to rescue him before he's sold to foreign collectors. This time around there's more love interest for Woody: Jessie the cowgirl. Available in VHS sell-through and as DVD 2-disc and 3-disc sets with "Toy Story." Director: John Lasseter. Voices of Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Joan Cusack, Kelsey Grammer, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn, John Ratzenberger, Annie Potts, Wayne Knight. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 93 min., Animated, Box office gross: $245.373 million, Disney, $26.99 SRP. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Train of Life Fable set against the backdrop of the Holocaust, about the townspeople of a remote Jewish village who decide to build a train, recreate uniforms and impersonate Nazis in an effort to fake their deportation and head off the Germans approaching their town. Winner of 12 international film festival awards including the 1999 Audience Award at Sundance and the Critics Prize at the 1999 Venice Film Festival. In French with English subtitles. Stars: Lionel Abelanski. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 103 min., Comedy Drama, Box office gross: $0.154 million, Paramount.
- Trick Comedy about two gay men in Greenwich Village surmounting all sorts of chaotic obstacles that get in their way preventing them from finding a place to consummate a one-night stand. Director: Jim Fall. Stars: Christian Campbell, John Paul Pitoc, Tori Spelling, Lorri Bagley. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 90 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $2.049 million, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Trixie Trixie (Emily Watson) is one of a kind, a blue collar private detective who butchers the English language. When she's sent to work at a small town resort casino, she becomes entangled in a lethal scandal involving a powerful senator, a corrupt land developer and raffish ladies, all on the way to solving her first murder case. Director: Alan Rudolph. Stars: Emily Watson, Nick Nolte, Nathan Lane, Dermot Mulroney, Brittany Murphy, Lesley Ann Warren. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 115 min., Detective Comedy, Box office gross: $.285 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Trois Successful attorney coerces his wife into a menage a trois to put the kick back into their marriage, setting off a chain of events that leads to duplicity, deceit and downright trouble. Director: Rob Hardy. Stars: Kenya Moore, Gary Dourdan, Gretchen Palmer. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 93 min., Erotic thriller, Box office gross: $1.160 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Tumbleweeds Wonderful adaptation of Angela Shelton's childhood memoirs about a working class mother (Janet McTeer in an award-winning performance) who travels throughout the South and Southwest seeking love and excitement, with her irrepressible adolescent daughter in tow. Director: Gavin O'Connor. Stars: Janet McTeer, Kimberly J. Brown, Jay O'Sanders, Lois Smith, Michael J. Pollard. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 100 min., Drama, Box office gross: $1.277 million, New Line. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Tweety's High Flying Adventure Direct-to-video animated feature featuring Tweety bird's high flying adventures as the beloved canary teams up with a roster of legendary Warner Bros. cartoon characters (50 of them, including Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Tasmanian Devil, Pepe Le Pew, Sylvester) on a trip around the world, from Egypt to Venice to Paris. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, Animated, Warner, $19.96 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Twin Falls Idaho Feature debut of the Polish brothers (Michael directed, Mark and Michael wrote, both star), about cojoined twins who travel to an unnamed city in search of their mother. Once there, they hire a prostitute, who, repulsed, leaves, then returns, and eventually gets involved in their lives, falling for one of the brothers. An off-beat look at loyalty and love. Director: Michael Polish. Stars: Michael Polish, Mark Polish, Michele Hicks, Lesley Ann Warren. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 110 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.975 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Twin Warriors Martial arts actioner about two boyhood friends who go their separate ways -- one to join a group of political rebels (Jet Li), the other to the military. Eventually the two must face off against each other. Stars: Jet Li, Michelle Yeoh, Chin Sui Hou. 1993, CC, MPAA rating: NR, Martial Arts, Dimension. DVD: Day & Date.
- Tycus Another dry end-of-the-world thriller. An investigative journalist uncovers a massive underground city built by a scientific visionary in preparation for the worst disaster imaginable -- the comet Tycus is heading on a collision course with the Earth. And once the world finds out, it becomes a race against time for the journalist to collect his wife and get inside the mountain retreat before the devastation. Director: John Putch. Stars: Dennis Hopper, Peter Onorati, Finola Hughes. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 94 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $ million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- U-571 Exciting WWII submarine adventure about the crew of a vintage WWI sub pressed into action to beat a German sub to capture the damaged U-571, another German U-boat that contains the Enigma device, a secret German coding machine the Allies need to decipher German naval movements. The action gets hot and heavy as the Americans take over the German sub but find themselves stranded in hostile waters when their sub is torpedoed. Traditional -- and wonderfully tension-mounting -- undersea action. Director: Jonathan Mostow. Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Bill Paxton, Harvey Keitel, Jon Bon Jovi, David Keith, Thomas Kretschmann. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 116 min., War action, Box office gross: $76.400 million, Universal.
- Uninvited Guest Thriller that adds credence to the old saw: Never talk to strangers, and never, ever let them into your house. On the night of their wedding anniversary, a married couple lets a stranger in to use their phone. Big mistake. Director: Timothy Wayne Folsome. Stars: Mekhi Phifer, Kim Fields, Mari Morrow, Melinda Williams, Mel Jackson, Wanya Morris. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.100 million, Trimark. DVD: Day & Date.
- Unmade Beds Voyeuristic look at the dating lives of four New York singles -- culled from personal ads -- shot in such a way that you don't know whether these are real people or actors. The four -- a 54-year-old unsuccessful screenwriter with low self-esteem, an Italian beauty, a bitter homophobe, and an overweight woman -- all are losers in their own, particular way. Director: Nicholas Barker. Stars: Brenda Monte, Micael De Stefano, Aimee Copp, Mikey Russo. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 93 min., Drama, New Yorker, $29.95 SRP. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Up at the Villa Life and times of a group of expatriates living in Fascist Italy during the 1930s. Kristin Scott Thomas plays a widow living off friends in Florence in 1938. When she receives the attention of four suitors -- a lifelong friend but older Brit (James Fox), a married American (Sean Penn), an Hungarian refugee (Jeremy Davis) and a Fascist officer -- her idyllic life is thrown topsy-turvy. When the refugee is killed in an attempted rape, the woman and her beaus are thrown into world of blackmail, deceit and intrigue. This art- house drama is based on a Somerset Maugham novella. Director: Philip Haas. Stars: Kristin Scott Thomas, Sean Penn, Anne Bancroft, James Fox, Derek Jacobi, Jeremy Davis. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 115 min., Drama, Box office gross: $2.627 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Velocity Trap In the year 2150 an outer space police officer must navigate a banking ship through the Velocity Run -- the Bermuda Triangle of space -- while being threatened by a 600 million ton asteroid and a well-armed team of thieves. Stars: Olivier Gruner, Alica Coppola, Ken Olandt, Bruce Weitz. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 89 min., Science Fiction, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Virgin Suicides, The Off-beat film written and directed by Sofia Coppola, about the five beautiful Lisbon sisters who, 25 years ago, committed suicide rather than continue living life in the repressive home afforded them by hysterical mom (Kathleen Turner) and weirded-out math teacher dad (James Woods). The film is narrated by an adult who looks back and speaks for all the boys who lusted after the perfect sisters and who, unwittingly, set off the disastrous chain of events leading to the girls' death. Based on the novel of the same name. Director: Sofia Coppola. Stars: Kirsten Dunst, Josh Hartnett, James Woods, Kathleen Turner, Hanna R. Hall, Chelse Swain, Danny DeVito. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 97 min., Drama, Box office gross: $4.859 million, Paramount. DVD: Day and Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Virginian, The TNT version of Owen Wister's classic novel. Made twice before -- in 1929 by Victor Fleming with Gary Cooper, and in 1946 with Joel McCrea -- and then a successful TV series. Director: Bill Pullman. Stars: Bill Pullman, Diane Lane, Dennis Weaver, John Savage. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 95 min., Western, Warner Bros.. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Virtual Sexuality Lame sci-fi comedy about a 17-year-old high schooler, desperate to find Mr. Right, who goes to a new technology fair and creates a virtual boyfriend. When a freak accident makes him real, she must decide if this perfect man is perfect for her. Director: Nick Hurran. Stars: Rupert Penny-Jones, Luke De Lacey, Laura Fraser, Natasha Bell. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Sci-Fi Comedy, Box office gross: $0.043 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Voices From a Locked Room True story, set in London in 1930, about the romance between Lily Buxton, an American singer, and acerbic music critic Philip Heseltine, who attacks the music of composer Peter Warlock. In the end, it turns out that Heseltine is in reality Warlock. Director: Malcolm Clarke. Stars: Jeremy Northam, Tushka Bergen. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 92 min., Drama, Columbia TriStar. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Waiting Game, The Ensemble comedy-cum-love story about a group of aspiring performers (a tortured artist, a femme fatale, an egomaniac, a gay dancer, a wannabe supermodel and an impotent bus boy) waiting on tables at a New York eatery while waiting for their big break. Director: Ken Liotti. Stars: Will Arnet, Terumi Matthews, Dwight Ewell, Eddie Malavarca. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 81 min., Comedy, Vanguard Cinema. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Waking the Dead Stirring romantic drama about an up-and-coming politico (Billy Crudup) in 1982 haunted by the death of his leftist live-in lover (Jennifer Connelly) in 1974 in a car bombing. But Crudup begins to see his dead lover on the street, and the film bounces back and forth between the decades to explore the pair's past -- and present -- relationship. A much overlooked film has fine performances by Crudup and (surprise) Connelly. Director: Keith Gordon. Stars: Billy Crudup, Jennifer Connelly, Molly Parker, Janet McTier. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 105 min., Thriller, Box office gross: $0.300 million, USA. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- War Zone, The Harrowing study of incest -- a father continually violates his teenage daughter during and after his wife's pregnancy -- and the horrific toll it takes on the family, including the family's teenage boy, who stumbles on the aberration. Set in the rural countryside outside London; first directorial outing for actor Tim Roth. Director: Tim Roth. Stars: Ray Winstone, Kate Ashfield, Lara Belmont, Freddie Cunliffe, Tilda Swinton. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 99 min., Drama, New Yorker. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- What Planet Are You From? Comic battle of the sexes that founders with weak script that dregs out all the same old cliches on the differences between men & women. Garry Shandling is an alien from an advanced civilization sent to Earth to impregnate a woman (he chooses Annette Bening) to save his race. A bit corny, and kind of a setback for the more-often-than not brilliant director Mike Nichols. Director: Mike Nichols. Stars: Garry Shandling, Annette Bening, Greg Kinnear, Ben Kingsley, Linda Fiorentino, John Goodman. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 100 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $6.291 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Whatever It Takes Teen romantic comedy updating of "Cyrano de Bergerac," with outcast high school boy tutoring macho schoolmate on how to cultivate fake sentiment to win the heart of high school dream girl. In turn, the macho boy teaches the outcast how to win the love of his heartthrob. Director: David Raynr. Stars: Shane West, Marla Sokoloff, Jodi Lyn O'Keefe, James Franco, Colin Hanks. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 92 min., Romantic comedy, Box office gross: $8.688 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Where the Heart Is Natalie Portman plays a pregnant woman who runs away from California with her aspiring country singer boyfriend. When he abandons her in an Oklahoma Wal-Mart, she has no choice but to stay behind, living in the store until the baby comes. The resulting birth makes her a celebrity, but she chooses to live in the small town, eventually falling in love with the local librarian. A warm tale about finding yourself in the world under the most unlikely of circumstances. Director: Matt Williams. Stars: Natalie Portman, Ashley Judd, Stockard Channing, Joan Cusack, Sally Field, Keith David, Dylan Bruno. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 120 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $33.713 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Where the Money Is Paul Newman is in rare form here as an infamous bank robber who feigns a stroke to "break out" of prison, landing at a nursing home and falling under the charm of Linda Fiorentino. Fiorentino plays an ex-prom queen working at the home, and she instinctively knows that Newman is faking it. She soon hatches a robbery plot of her own, and Newman is all too happy to oblige. Add in Dermot Mulroney as Fiorentino's loser-of-a-husband who joins in the caper as an odd-man-out and this film really takes off for a delightful romp through criminal mischievousness. Director: Marek Kanievska. Stars: Paul Newman, Linda Fiorentino, Dermot Mulroney, Susan Barnes, Anne Pitonaik, Bruce MacVittie. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 89 min., Caper comedy, Box office gross: $5.658 million, USA. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Where's Marlowe? Offbeat comedy mystery about a pair of documentary filmmakers who set out to make a film about an L.A. private detective and instead get embroiled in a murder mystery. Now they have to help solve the crime in order to save their film. Stars: Mos Def, John Livingston, Miguel Ferrer. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 99 min., Comedy, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date.
- Whiteboyz Off-beat comedy about two white boys living in the heartland of America -- the cornfields of Iowa -- who strive to become black gangsta rappers. Weak. Director: Marc Levin. Stars: Danny Hoch, Dash Mihok, Mark Webber, Piper Perabo. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 88 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $0.036 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Who's Minding the Store? New to video. Jerry Lewis plays his typical bumbling idiot, here attempting to get a job at a swank department store, where he wrecks havoc. Stars: Jerry Lewis. 1963, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 90 min., Comedy, Paramount, $9.95 SRP.
- Whole Nine Yards, The Wonderful crime comedy about a loser of a suburban-dwelling dentist (Matthew Perry) with a shrewish wife (Rosanna Arquette) who discovers that his new neighbor (Bruce Willis) is a hitman on the run and decides to turn him in for a finder's fee to the Chicago Hungarian mafia. This one is full of double-crossers: the dentist's wife, who wants to hire someone to kill her husband; the hitman's wife, who conspires with the dentist; and the Chicago crime lord who conspires with everyone. They all want the same thing: "The whole nine yards": a stash of millions. Director: Jonathan Lynn. Stars: Bruce Willis, Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan, Natasha Henstridge, Amanda Peet, Kevin Pollak. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Crime Comedy, Box office gross: $57.020 million, Warner. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Wildflowers A mysterious hippy-dippy wanderer (Daryl Hannah) becomes involved with a 17-year-old girl (Clea Duvall) and changes her life forever. Direct-to-video. Director: Melissa Painter. Stars: Daryl Hannah, Clea Duvall, Eric Roberts. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 98 min., Drama, Monarch. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Winslow Boy, The Based on the true story of a 13-year-old British cadet in 1910 who was accused of stealing a five-shilling note. The case became a cause celebre in the British courts and newspapers. Director: David Mamet ("The Spanish Prisoner"). Stars: Nigel Hawthorne, Jeremy Northam, Rebecca Pidgeon, Gemma Jones. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: G, 104 min., Drama, Box office gross: $3.956 million, Columbia TriStar. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Winter Sleepers Prior to his successful "Run Lola Run," Tom Tykwer directed this fascinating study in happenstance and coincidence. The lives of five people become entwined in a small skiing village in the German mountains as events (a love affair, a stolen car, a dead horse) conspire to haphazardly alter reality. Director: Tom Tykwer. Stars: Ulrich Matthes, Heino Ferch, Josef Bierbichler, Floriane Daniel, Marie-Lou Sellem. 1997, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 124 min., Drama, Box office gross: $0.316 million, Winstar. DVD: Day & Date.
- Wirey Spindell Offbeat comedy about a young man, about to get married in nine days, who begins pre-wedding soul-searching (examining his life and previous loves in a journey down memory lane) and develops second thoughts about his commitment. Director: Eric Schaeffer. Stars: Eric Schaeffer, Callie Thorne, Eric Mabius, Samantha Buck. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 101 min., Comedy, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date.
- With Friends Like These Delightful comedy stab at Hollywood, with four struggling actor friends always landing the role of "the other guy" in mobster movies. But one of the friends is called to audition for the part of Al Capone in an upcoming Martin Scorsese film, and the other three become green with envy, trying everything in their power to audition against their friend for the role. Cameos by Scorsese, Bill Murray, Garry Marshall, Michael McKean. Winner of six major film fest awards, including Aspen and Santa Barbara. Director: Philip Frank Messina. Stars: Adam Arkin, Robert Costanzo, David Strathairn, Jon Tenny, Beverly D'Angelo, Laura San Giacomo. 1998, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 105 min., Comedy, New Line. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Women Five successful women ruminate -- through flashbacks, conversations, narrative, silent reflection and interactions -- on the ups and downs of approaching the big 40. In French with English subtitles. Stars: Carmen Maura, Miou-Miou, Marthe Keller, Marisa Berenson, Guesch Patti. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: NR, 94 min., Drama, Fox Lorber. DVD: Day & Date.
- World Is Not Enough, The This non-stop James Bond thriller starts out with a typical 007 bang of an opening and keeps its momentum until the very last second. Bond must stop a megalomaniacal mastermind out to steal a nuclear warhead in a wild scheme to destroy oil pipelines and control the world's oil supply. Director: Michael Apted. Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Denise Richards, Sophie Marceau, Judi Dench, Robert Carlyle, John Cleese. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 128 min., Action, Box office gross: $126.000 million, MGM, $19.98 SRP, Pan-and-scan and widescreen. DVD: Day & Date.
- X-Men Splashy, special effects laden and exciting, this big-screen adaptation of Stan Lee's comic book series has the X-Men -- a group of mutants with a variety of odd powers and abilities -- facing off against an evil brotherhood, headed up by Magneto, bent on ruling the world. Fine cast -- Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Famke Jannsen, Halle Berry -- headed up by director Bryan ("The Usual Suspects") Singer. Expect a sequel. Director: Bryan Singer. Stars: Patrick Stewart, Ian McKellen, Halle Berry, Famke Jannsen, Hugh Jackman, Anna Paquin, Tyler Mane. 2000, CC, MPAA rating: PG-13, 104 min., Science Fiction, Box office gross: $153.000 million, Fox. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- You'll Like My Mother A pregnant widow comes to visit her mother-in-law, whom she has never met, and walks into a nightmare of life-threatening lies and deceit. Director: Lamont Johnson. Stars: Patty Duke, Sian Barbara Allen. 1972, CC, MPAA rating: PG, 93 min., Thriller, Universal, $14.98 SRP.
- Young Girls of Rochefort, The A sequel of sorts to Jacques Demy's acclaimed "The Umbrellas of Cherbourg," this homage to Hollywood musicals (with music by Michel Legrand) follows the adventures of two provincial girls -- one a ballet dancer/teacher, the other a singer-composer -- who follow their dreams of finding romantic love and stardom during one glorious summer in the town of Rochefort on the coast of France. Restored; new-to-video. Director: Jacques Demy. Stars: Catherine Deneuve, Francoise Dorleac, Gene Kelly. 1967, CC, MPAA rating: G, 124 min., Musical, Miramax. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- 13th Warrior, The Costume drama actioner set in the 10th century about Norse warriors who enlist an Arab poet (Antonio Banderas) as the mystical 13th warrior to fight a marauding tribe of cannibals who dress up as bears and threaten to wipe out a northern seaside village. Director: John McTiernan. Stars: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Dennis Storhoi, Vladimir Kulich, Omar Sharif. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 103 min., Action, Box office gross: $31.972 million, Buena Vista. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
- Wood, The Trio of childhood best friends reminisce about their teen years when two of them track down the third, a groom with prenuptial jitters who flees to the home of his old high school sweetheart just hours before his wedding. Delightful first outing for director Rick Famuyiwa. Director: Rick Famuyiwa. Stars: Omar Epps, Taye Diggs, Richard T. Jones, Sean Nelson, Tamala Jones. 1999, CC, MPAA rating: R, 106 min., Comedy, Box office gross: $25.047 million, Paramount. DVD: Day & Date. Buy this title at up to 20% discount
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