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DVD: dinner

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92 reviews
Pamela Brumley

Kelly's Filmworks, 2006

Thought provoking film.
I was flipping through my Sky Angel the other day and saw this was one of their movies on their videos on demand. Being a Christian and seeing this movie was really challenging. It's almost everyday i wonder what it would be like if Jesus were alive today. This movie made me realize that i should take every person I meet as if they were Jesus, because you never know what might happen. If ...

American Dad, Vol. 3

15 reviews

20th Century Fox, 2008

Oh, Yes....
I watched this DVD while in bed. That night, I didn't wet the bed. Coincidence? You be the judge.

The Truman Show (Special Collector's Edition)

460 reviews
Jim Carrey, Laura Linney

Paramount, 2005

A triumph!
In the near future, Truman Burbank (Jim Carrey) has lived a great life with a wife (Laura Linney), great job, friends and parents. But what he doesn't know is that his hometown is actually fake and that he is the star of a popular long running reality program that has monitored him since his birth in the world's largest TV studio ran by Christof (Ed Harris). His life has been witnessed by ...

The Mask of Zorro (Deluxe Edition)

406 reviews
Antonio Banderas, Catherine Zeta-Jones

Sony Pictures, 2005

Well done!
Great movie. My husband had his doubts when he saw the movie cover, but we both really enjoyed the great acting and action scenes.

Grey's Anatomy - The Complete Second Season

334 reviews
Ellen Pompeo, Sandra Oh

Buena Vista Home Entertainment, 2006

My Favorite Season!
The second season of Grey's is my favorite, by far! If you haven't caught this show, you really need to get the seasons and start watching! Season two was just perfectly filled with medical and love-life drama. Emmy winning/worthy storylines and performances from the cast. I haven't watched a show in a long time that has managed to pull me in like this and tie my emotions. I have actually ...

The Sons of Katie Elder

31 reviews
John Wayne, Dean Martin

Paramount, 2001

Not a great Waynestern, but a good one with very enjoyable twists
This is a different sort of Western for John Wayne. While he has a big reputation as a gunfighter, he spends the film avoiding fighting as much as he can. Wayne also has fewer action sequences in the film. This may simply be due to the plot of the movie, or it may have been his recover from lung cancer surgery and treatment that he had in 1964 and had delayed the shooting of the film until ...

Live Free or Die Hard (Unrated Edition)

367 reviews
Bruce Willis

20th Century Fox, 2007

ACTION-PACKED, FANTASTIC!
I have been a DIE HARD fan since the movies were first released and I was thrilled to see yet another DIE HARD flick, this one being, in my opinion, the best yet. I saw the blu-ray version and was very impressed with the hi-def video images, which were clear and crisp. Sound was equally impressive and the movie was action-packed from start to finish.If you are a Bruce Willis and/or a Die Hard ...

The Dinner Game

73 reviews
Thierry Lhermitte, Jacques Villeret

Lions Gate, 2003

Hilarious
We rented it, but it is so brilliantly funny, we are buying it. Excellent script, acting and directing.

Home for the Holidays

105 reviews
Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr.

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

Great underrated film
This great story about a more "normal" family than most will ever admit starts funny and ends nicely (and you will need to pay attention to get it). In between we are taken on a roller coaster ride of insanity, dark humor, insight, observation and discomfort - as in "OMG-that's my sister (brother, dad, etc.). I laughed, cried, puzzled, identified and it seemed to all sum up in Dad's ...

Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition)

135 reviews
Spencer Tracy, Sidney Poitier

Sony Pictures, 2008

A Dated Film But Still Worth Watching
In this 1967 film directed by Stanley Kramer at one point Spencer Tracy (Matthew Drayton) asks Sidney Poitier (John Prentice, M.D.) what will become of their children if he marries their daughter Katharine Drayton (Joanna). He responds that Joanna believes they will become president but he would settle for secretary of state. Her prophecy has already come true in part since the United States has ...

Diner

43 reviews
Steve Guttenberg, Daniel Stern

Warner Home Video, 1999

New Kids On the Block
This is a remarkable tribute to adolescence in the age of diners, the edge of the 60's. All the stars-to-be,Mickey Rourke, Steve Guttenburg, Daniel Stern, Kevin Bacon and Ellen Barkin play small-time characters with brilliant conviction. At the diner, the gang collects to dream, boast,gamble and connive their way into the human race. All the pranks, risks, deceptions kids can conceive of, they ...

Classic Comedies Collection (Bringing Up Baby / The Philadelphia Story Two-Disc Special Edition / Dinner at ...

21 reviews
Katharine Hepburn, Cary Grant

Warner Home Video, 2005

LAUGH OUT LOUD! FUNNY!!!!
Six of the all time great movies. Its a must for classic movie fans. You really get to see how good Jean Harlow was at comedy in "Dinner at Eight". Lets not forget Carole Lombard what a great comedian and actress she was in "To Be or Not To Be" her last film before she was killed in plane crash. Sometimes we forget how good they really were. They just don't make good movies like these anymore. I ...

Soul Food

45 reviews
Vanessa Williams (VII), Vivica A. Fox

20th Century Fox, 2001

Insperational
This is a very heart warming story of family, and strenghth. I can not watch this without tearing up, and laughing. I think it portrays every family.

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Two-Disc Special Edition)

139 reviews
Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton

Warner Home Video, 2006

Watching the film again...
I'm not sure how many people would agree with me, but after watching this movie again I was struck by something that I'd never noticed before. (Spoiler alert.) First, I've seen this movie about a dozen times over the years, and like most people, what always stuck with me was the level of psychological damage that these two characters inflict upon each other. Edward Albee seems particularly ...

Made For Each Other

21 reviews
Carole Lombard, James Stewart

MGM (Video & DVD), 2004

Legends of film
I consider both James Stewart and Carole Lombard to be honest actors, always believing the words and events to try and make the audience feel what they are going through. I once wrote to Jimmy Stewart about this film and his thoughts on Carole Lombard, so just for that, this movie for me is special. It can get sticky at times, but I still feel the actors give it their all as honestly as they ...

Heaven Help Us

49 reviews
Donald Sutherland, John Heard

HBO Home Video, 2005

Forgotten Gem...
Great coming of age movie set in a Catholic school in Brooklyn during the 60s. Know as `Catholic Boys' in the UK, I first watched this film on TV after initially never heard of it before. Even though the film is set in a Catholic school during the sixties, most people will relate to some of the characters in the film. It definitely reminded me of my time in school in England. You have Rooney ...

Rope

129 reviews
James Stewart

Warner Bros. Pictures, 2006

Great print of a great movie
This is one of Hitchock's best films - they are all great, but this one and "Rear Window" are my favourites. The technical transfer of this film to DVD is solid; the storyline is incredible, given the time in which this film was produced. There's quite a bit more "story" to the story, in the relationship between the two main characters - a relationship that possibly doomed this film to very ...

You Can't Take It With You

71 reviews
Jean Arthur, Lionel Barrymore

Sony Pictures, 2003

We like this one
Corny? Yes. Hammy? Yes. Delightful? Yes.

Dinner Rush

47 reviews
Danny Aiello, John Rothman

New Line Home Video, 2003

A suprising gem
This is a great movie about one night in a New York bistro.Having read Anthony Bourdains KITCHEN CONFIDENTIAL I imagine the action about the kitchen and dining room were true to life. Add some gangters to the mix and you get some great action, drama and dialogue. I got this as a gift having rented it some time ago. Some movies never get the public acclaim they should. This movie does not ...

Phantom of Liberty - Criterion Collection

16 reviews
Adriana Asti, Jenny Astruc

Criterion, 2005

Genius, surreal absurdity that somehow makes perfect sense
Ok, how can you adequately review this film? Here's one scene-- A mysterious stranger is eyeballing a couple of little kids at the park. As a present for being such lovely little girls, he secretly gives them some "beautiful photographs" and instructs them not to show any grownups. Creepy. Back at the house, their parents find the pictures and are outraged. The maid is subsequently fired ...