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John Hughes and Eighties Cinema
John Hughes is the acclaimed director of Ferris Bueller's Day Off, The Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink and many other classic movies of the 1980s. This book is the first full-length analysis of all of John Hughes's films throughout the 1980s; not only the features that he directed, but also those for which he provided the screenplay. By analysing these motion pictures and discussing their social and cultural significance in the wider context of the decade, Hughes's importance as a film-maker will be considered...
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Description John Hughes's third directorial effort, Weird Science, follows in the tradition of his previous teen-centered films, Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Anthony Michael Hall and Ilan Mitchell-Smith play the wannabe hipster Gary and his nebbish weak-willed best friend, Wyatt, a pair of high-school geeks who are hapless with members of the opposite sex. Using Wyatt's computer, they create what they believe is the ideal woman. A lightning storm brings that woman to life, and she takes...
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All the magic of Disney's Academy Award (winning film "Pocahontas" (Best Original Song, 1995) continues in a fun-filled adventure that finds Pocahontas setting sail for an exciting new world, England. With her comical companions Flit, Meeko, and Percy, along for the ride, this spectacular film promises plenty of thrills and laughter for everyone. As an ambassador of peace, Pocahontas is swept away by London's "curious" customs. Attempting to fit in, she makes friends with the dashing English...
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Fate takes the lead in KATE & LEOPOLD and SERENDIPITY, two romantic comedies about couples destined to be together. See individual titles for synopsis information.
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Together with The Steel Helmet and Baron of Arizona , Rocketship X M is one of the best films ever turned out by the usually unimpressive Lippert Studios. Set sometime in the future, the film details the first manned space flight to the moon. John Emery plays the head of the expedition, with Lloyd Bridges , Osa Massen , Hugh O'Brian and Noah Beery Jr. in the crew. Blown off its course by a meteor shower, Rocketship X-M misses the moon and lands on Mars instead (the Mars scenes were originally tinted...
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The Preaching the Word series is noted for its unqualified commitment to biblical authority and clear exposition of Scripture. In this new volume, Pastor Kent Hughes explores the apostle John's unique and powerful presentation of Jesus as the Creator-God of the universe. John's massive vision not only witnesses to the unbeliever about who Christ is and the way of redemption, but is also a continuous source for expanding the believer's understanding of the Savior's greatness. Hughes' insightful and...
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Find it in: DVD - MOVIES & ENTERTAINMENT - Action/ Adventure & Science Fiction
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YOU'VE RUINED ME EDDIE - Further tales of unwanted pregnancy abound as Eddie is informed he has impregnated a teenage girl. Eddie wants to get married and have he kid, but his rampant teen girl wants an abortion, and also winds up killing Eddie in the process! B-movie mayhem at its finest.
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Description John Hughes wrote and directed this quintessential 1980s high school drama featuring the hottest young stars of the decade. Trapped in a day-long Saturday detention in a prison-like school library are Claire, the princess (Molly Ringwald); Andrew, the jock (Emilio Estevez); John, the criminal (Judd Nelson); Brian, the brain (Anthony Michael Hall); and Allison, the basket case (Ally Sheedy). These five strangers begin the day with nothing in common, each bound to his/her place in the high...
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Taking sight gags to a whole new level, Sellers stars as a screwball Indian actor who mistakenly gets invited to the hottest party in Hollywood. Featuring models, starlets, and even a baby elephant - this hilarious masterpiece "evokes near-continuous howling laughter" ( Motion Picture Herald ).
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Features: DVD Features: Region 1 NTSC Keep Case Single Side - Dual Layer Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.85 Letterbox - 1.85 Audio: Dolby Stereo 2.0 - English Additional Release Material: Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
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A.K.A.: Casino Royale, The Party, The Pink Panther, What's New, Pussycat?
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Avi leaves the Big Apple and heads West to Tinseltown, shacking up with an old comic buddy from the East Coast. Soon Avi meets Sarah Green, also a stand up comic, and the romance begins. What seems the perfect set up soon falls flat, and the savvy New Yorker suddenly finds the stage a very lonely place. When a brokenhearted Sarah flees to New York, Avi must choose between the glitter of Hollywood and the gold of love.
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Product Description Band of Brothers (2001) DVD Movie Starring: Damien Lewis, Ron Livingston Director: David Frankel, Tom Hanks Rating: NR (Not Rated) Format: DVD Product Details; * Actors: Damien Lewis, Ron Livingston, Donnie Wahlberg, Frank John Hughes, Neal McDonough * Directors: David Frankel, Tom Hanks * Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Widescreen * Language: French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English...
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Description On the eve of her sister's wedding, suburban teenager Samantha (Molly Ringwald) suffers silently as her family forgets her birthday. Even worse, some total dork (Anthony Michael Hall) keeps propositioning her with sophomoric innuendo when she really craves romantic attention from high-school hunk Jake (Michael Schoeffling). Moving from Samantha's family home as it's invaded by outre relatives to a high-school dance where nothing seems to go her way, this bittersweet teen comedy traces...
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This is a collection of 5 feature-length episodes of the Poirot mysteries: The ABC Murders; Death in the Clouds; The Mysterious Affair at Styles; One, Two, Buckle My Shoe, and Peril at End House. "The ABC Murders" - This is the episode that star David Suchet calls his favorite. Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot is challenged by an alphabet-obsessed murderer who announces his next victims through a series of letters addressed to Poirot himself. "Death in the Clouds" - A ruthless blackmailer is killed on board an...
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This James Whale/Howard Hughes WWI drama is renowned for its stunning air combat scenes, which required 137 pilots to shoot, and for being the most expensive film of its time, costing a staggering $3.8 million. Oxford students and brothers Roy and Monte Rutledge (Ben Lyon, James Hall) sign up to fight with the Royal Flying Corps. Trouble arises when Roy's girlfriend, Helen (Jean Harlow), takes a liking to Monte. Monte, cracking under the pressure of fighting, considers another kind of betrayal. The...
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Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John Travolta stars as Gabriel Shear, a charismatic spy who plots to steal a multi-billion-dollar fortune in illegal government funds. In order to make his scheme work, however, Gabriel needs some help from a computer hacker, which is where Stanley Jobson ( Hugh Jackman ) comes in. Stanley has been paroled from prison after serving a lengthy sentence for penetrating the FBI's cyber-surveillance...
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When compulsive gambler Sir Giles Staverley has lost his estate and all his money playing dice, he only has one thing left of value: his daughter Serena. In a final game, he stakes his daughter's hand in marriage, convinced that this time he will not lose. Unfortunately, however, he does lose; to the evil Lord Wrotham. Unable to return home and tell his daughter that he has lost her in a game of dice, Sir Giles kills himself there and then. Lord Vulcan, who has witnessed the events, takes pity on...
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The Frankenstein legend takes an uproarious twist in this outrageous special effects-laden comedy from the writer-director of Sixteen Candles and The Breakfast Club. Critically acclaimed filmmaker John Hughes is at it again, giving nerdy computer whiz Ilan Mitchell-Smith and his best friend, Anthony Michael Hall, power to create the perfect woman (Kelly LeBrock). Like a computer-generated fairy godmother, the duo s out-of-this-world creation guides the pair through the pleasures and pitfalls...
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Artist hand painted oil painting on canvas reproduction of original masterpiece - John-Singer-Sargent-Mrs-Hugh-Hammersley
Artist hand painted oil painting on canvas reproduction of original masterpiece - John-Singer-Sargent-Mrs-Hugh-H ammersley-
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Stars: John Gordon Sinclair, Dougray Scott, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Kevin Anderson, Martin Schwab, Fional Bell, Carly McKinnon, Hugh McCue
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"The Breakfast Club" begins with an old dramatic standby. You isolate a group of people in a room, you have them talk, and eventually they exchange truths about themselves and come to new understandings...Nothing that happens in "The Breakfast Club" is all that surprising. The truths that are exchanged are more or less predictable, and the kids have fairly standard hang-ups. It comes as no surprise, for example, to learn that the jock's father is a perfectionist, or that the prom queen's parents...
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