Be Kind Rewind (DVD)

In a gender-reversed version of his previous hit Pretty in Pink , John Hughes retreads all-too- familiar ground in Some Kind of Wonderful , the story of a sensitive, young would-be artist, Keith ( Eric Stoltz ), who vies for the affection of his high school's popularity queen, Amanda ( Lea Thompson ), seemingly out of some deep-rooted insecurity regarding his social ineptitude. He enlists the help of his butch best friend and fellow misfit, Watts ( Mary Stuart Masterson ), unaware that she secretly...

John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John attempt to rekindle the box office sparks of Grease with this screwball fantasy comedy. The tale begins during a golf match in heaven among four angels --Charlie ( Charles Durning ), Earl ( Scatman Crothers ), Gonzales ( Castulo Guerra ), and Ruth ( Beatrice Straight )-- who have been in charge of heaven for the last twenty-five years. But their game is interrupted by God (voice of Gene Hackman ), who has now returned to the office and doesn't like what he sees...

Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets . Louis Mazzini ( Dennis Price ) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, eliminating rivals (all played by Guinness ). Along the way he romances Sibella ( Joan Greenwood ), a childhood...