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100 reviews
Sam Waterston, Haing S. Ngor

Warner Home Video, 1992

This movie is Awesome!!
This is probably one of the best Vietnam movies I've ever seen. To go through the pain and determination of Dith-Prang is so amazing. I felt the movie protrayed the gravity of the situation turned toward Cambodia in a very tasteful way, but also being powerful enough to reflect the actuality of cruelty and depravation instilled on its people. Sam Waterston was excellent as Shaumburg and brought ...

Clara's Heart [VHS]

11 reviews
Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean

Warner Home Video, 1993

Didn't Want It To End!
"Clara's Heart" is a film that once again showcases the great talent of Whoopi Goldberg. She can make us laugh, she can make us cry. In this film, we fall in love with her "Clara" in the short span of little more then 100 minutes and hate to have to leave her when it's time. We want to spend just a few more minutes with this wonderful person. A family is overcome by the grief at the loss of ...

Kate & Leopold [VHS]

317 reviews
Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman

Buena Vista Home Ent, 2002

Brand New Condition
This DVD came to me in EXCELLENT condition. Don't be afraid to purchase used DVD's from them. It's great! This is one of my favorite movies anyway. The rooftop scene makes me yearn for a romance like that.

Straight Talk [VHS]

38 reviews
Dolly Parton, James Woods

Walt Disney Video, 1996

A Feel-Good Movie to Watch Again and Again
I won't give the synopsis, but we enjoy watching this movie every year or so. It is sweet and down-right funny. I only wish Dolly had more lines and quips. I wish they had additional scenes on the DVD of her answering phone calls because she is really giving great advice with her special country charm! This movie isn't easy to predict either. As soon as you think something is going to happen, ...

King of the Hill [VHS]

18 reviews
Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé

Universal Studios, 1995

Not to be missed
"King of the Hill" was Steven Soderbergh's third film, following "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and the inscrutable "Kafka." Compared to these films, "King of the Hill" is a small and straight-forward tale of the Depression. Jesse Bradford ("Swimfan") stars as Aaron Kurlander, a bright youngster in 1933 St. Louis. His family is impoverished, although his salesman father (Jeroen Krabbe) manages ...

Paper [VHS]

38 reviews
Michael Keaton, Glenn Close

Universal Studios, 1995

One of Michael Keaton's Best
After a slow start this gripping comedy will grab you hard. Keaton is Keaton; either you're a fan or not. But even those lukewarm to his magic will love this movie. You'll love hating the newsroom crazies led by wicked Glenn Close. Outstanding supporting work by Marisa Tomei, Robert Duvall and Randy Quaid insures a truly watchable film. A Ron Howard bedlam has everyone going 90 miles per and ...

Beyond Rangoon [VHS]

46 reviews
Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko

Turner Home Ent, 1998

Beyond Rangoon.
based on true happenings in Burma/Myanmar and relevant for today as this is still going on. Well shot film and well worth viewing.

Stars & Bars [VHS]

6 reviews
Daniel Day-Lewis, Harry Dean Stanton

Sony Pictures, 1998

Funny and cool
I saw this movie in the early '90's when independent and foreign films were still independent in the real sense. At this point, I had only seen Daniel Day-Lewis in Room With A View, so this movie was a significant departure from that. It is a fish-out-of-water comedic film. A Britsh art-dealer living in New York (and dating the boss's daughter) is sent to the South to collect a valuable painting ...

Swimming to Cambodia [VHS]

19 reviews
Spalding Gray, Sam Waterston

Evergreen Ent, 1996

Diving into Spalding Gray
Swimming to Cambodia is fundamentally an autobiographical monologue, and one only peripherally connected to the (excellent) film that inspired it, The Killing Fields. Those unfamiliar with Spalding Gray's works may be perplexed to read his self-centered, occasionally manic or depressive, and deeply personal ramblings. This book is, in a way, misleading; even more so than Shakespeare's plays, ...

Hard Choices [VHS]

1 review
Margaret Klenck, Gary McCleery

Warner Home Video, 1998

An interesting sleeper, particularly for the acting.
This very small, low-budget crime drama, made on a shoestring in 1984 and (barely) released two years later, came out before the upsurge of independent cinema in the U.S. It's far from perfect: the low budget shows in some of the roughness in the editing and photography; the plot tends to meander, particularly in the middle section; some of the events and dialogue have a slight nonsequitur ...

Image (1990) [VHS]

3 reviews
Albert Finney, John Mahoney

Hbo Home Video, 2000

Loved it...Very Powerful!
I was blown away by this movie, and its really top cast. The script was GREAT and the some of the lines are hoot. Look for a nice little early perfomance by Brad Pitt as the TV Cameraman. Finney is masterful.

Beyond Rangoon

3 reviews
Patricia Arquette, U Aung Ko

Columbia Tristar

Action and adventure with a purpose
Although the extent to which this movie is based on actual events is unclear, the overall theme clearly is. Myanmar (Burma) is a military dictatorship where the leaders maintain their rule through fear and terror. Opponents are jailed and executed and the military exists to keep their leaders in power, not to protect the country from external enemies. Laura Bowman is a young American doctor on ...

Clara's Heart [VHS]

11 reviews
Whoopi Goldberg, Michael Ontkean

Warner Home Video, 1994

Didn't Want It To End!
"Clara's Heart" is a film that once again showcases the great talent of Whoopi Goldberg. She can make us laugh, she can make us cry. In this film, we fall in love with her "Clara" in the short span of little more then 100 minutes and hate to have to leave her when it's time. We want to spend just a few more minutes with this wonderful person. A family is overcome by the grief at the loss of ...

Diabolique (1996) [VHS]

24 reviews
Sharon Stone, Isabelle Adjani

Warner Home Video, 2000

Review of Diabolique with Sharon Stone and Isabelle Adjani
I've seen the film before, and the copy I received has exactly what I was looking for. It was delivered in a timely manner, too.

Bad Company [VHS]

9 reviews
Ellen Barkin, Laurence Fishburne

Walt Disney Video, 1996

Bad company
I love Ellen Barkin and her crooked smile, Lawrence Fishburne and his impeccable rendition and elocution, Frank Langella and his stature... This is a movie I plan to see over many times more..

King of the Hill [VHS]

18 reviews
Jesse Bradford, Jeroen Krabbé

Not to be missed
"King of the Hill" was Steven Soderbergh's third film, following "Sex, Lies, and Videotape" and the inscrutable "Kafka." Compared to these films, "King of the Hill" is a small and straight-forward tale of the Depression. Jesse Bradford ("Swimfan") stars as Aaron Kurlander, a bright youngster in 1933 St. Louis. His family is impoverished, although his salesman father (Jeroen Krabbe) manages ...

Seven Minutes in Heaven (1985) [VHS]

14 reviews
Jennifer Connelly, Byron Thames

Warner Home Video, 1998

Best 'Teen Drama' Ever?
Proving that dramatic fare centering on teenage characters needn't be any less powerful than any other drama, the biggest strregth of "Seven Minutes In Heaven" (apart from the mere prescence of star Jennifer Connelly) is the realization that the loves, ambitions, anxieties, dreams, feelings and disappointments of teenagers are no less real and no less important than those of a person a few years ...

Gray's Anatomy [VHS]

13 reviews
Spalding Gray, Mike McLaughlin

Fox Lorber, 1998

A Feast for the Middle Aged Male
Spalding Gray's death has left us poorer than when we started. How evident this is after viewing this edgy, moving, often riotous monologue directed by Stephen Soderbergh. A macular "pucker" leaves Gray virtually blind in one eye. Born into Christian Science, Gray leaves the church when his CS practitioner demands he renounce allopathic medicine to receive help. Gray's breathless journeys ...

1989 Thornton Wilder's Our Town [VHS]

5 reviews
Spalding Gray, James Rebhorn

WNET/Thirteen, 1995

Dark Reinterpretation of an American Classic
Over the decades Thornton Wilder's play "Our Town", while justly recognized as an American classic, has gotten a reputation for a kind of sappy sentimentality. That was not Wilder's intention, and this production restores the play's multiple dimensions. It takes places "under the eyes of eternity", as the philosophers used to say, and this fearfully objective viewpoint can be terrifying as well ...

Spalding Gray: Terrors of Pleasure [VHS]

2 reviews
Spalding Gray

Warner Home Video, 1988

Highly recommended for prospective homeowners
I loved this piece despite the fact that I don't own, but have, in my rentals, encountered plenty of broken down structures. I suppose I didn't come into watching this expecting it to be of the same calibre as 'Monster' or "Swimming to Cambodia", (this being a mere HBO production), so a comparison to those didn't even occur to me. In reply to the above review though, I thoroughly enjoyed the ...