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Casino
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Our review: :Director Martin Scorsese reunites with members of his GoodFellas gang (writer Nicholas Pileggi; actors Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Frank Vincent) for a three-hour epic about the rise and fall of mobster Sam 'Ace' Rothstein (De Niro), a character based on real-life gangster Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal. (It's modeled after on Wiseguy and GoodFellas and Pileggi's true crime book Casino: Love and Honor in Las Vegas.) Through Rothstein, the picture tells the story of how the Mafia seized, and finally lost control of, Las Vegas gambling. The first hour plays like a fascinating documentary, intricately detailing the inner workings of Vegas casinos. Sharon ...
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We're No Angels
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»rank: 132405
Our review: :Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 08/05/2008 Run time: 96 minutes Rating: Pg13 :It's hard to imagine what any of the extremely talented people involved in this drastic misfire were thinking. Certainly the film was not short of talent: it had director Neil Jordan (The Crying Game), writer David Mamet (The Untouchables), and movie stars Robert De Niro, Sean Penn, and Demi Moore. Instead of remaking the charming 1955 comedy, which starred Humphrey Bogart and Peter Ustinov, Mamet concocted a virtually laugh-free script in which Penn and De Niro play escaped convicts disguised as priests who are supposedly visiting a shrine in ...
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Star Power 9 Movie Pack
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»rank: 126067
Our review: :Disc 1 contains:concrete cowboys(tom selleck) maybe ill come home(sally field)to all my friends on shore(bill cosby)disc 2 contains: born to win(robert deniro) choices(demi moore) death sentence(nick nolte)disc 3 contains:mesmerized(jodie foster) dream to believe(keanu reeves) katherine(sissy spaceck). Studio: St Clair Ent Grp Inc Release Date: 06/06/2006
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Raging Bull
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»rank: 116723
Our review:Description:Robert De Niro teams with director Martin Scorsese in this 'extraordinarily compelling' (Leonard Maltin) film that introduced unflinching realism to stunned audiences in 1980. An 'exceedingly violentas well as poetic' fight picture that maps 'the landscape of the soul' (The New York Times),Raging Bull garnered eight Oscar® nominations* and won two, including Best Actor for De Niro. De Niro gives the performance of his career as Jake La Motta, a boxer whose psychological and sexual complexities erupt into violence both in and out of the ring. Joe Pesci and Cathy Moriarty are unforgettable as the brother who falls prey to Jake's mounting paranoia ...
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Sleepers [Region 2]
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»rank: 139331
Our review: :The first thing you need to know about Sleepers is that it's based on a novel by Lorenzo Carcaterra that was allegedly based on a true story. The movie repeats this bogus claim, which was attacked and determined by a wide majority to be misleading. Knowing this, Sleepers can be a problematic movie because it's too neat, too clean, too manipulative in terms of legal justice and dramatic impact to be truly convincing. And yet, with its stellar cast directed by Barry Levinson, the movie succeeds as gripping entertainment, and its tale of complex morality--despite a dubious emphasis on homophobic revenge--is sufficiently provocative. ...
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Sports Giftset (Bull Durham / Hoosiers / Raging Bull / Rocky )
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»rank: 118817
Our review: :No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 16-OCT-2007Media Type: DVD
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Cape Fear
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»rank: 124919
Our review: :No Description Available.Genre: Feature Film-DramaRating: NRRelease Date: 16-OCT-2007Media Type: DVD
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A Bronx Tale [Region 2]
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»rank: 60616
Our review: :Chazz Palminteri wrote the script for this excellent story of an Italian American boy (Lillo Brancato) who grows up in the 1960s caught between the strong influences of his blue-collar, straight- arrow father (Robert De Niro) and a Mafia chieftain (Palminteri) who is his all-purpose mentor. De Niro makes his directorial debut with this production and, except for a little stiffness, does very well by the characters and their world. The story does not go precisely where one might expect it to go: Palminteri knows better than to force the central figure to choose between the two most important men in his life, ...
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Shark Tale
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»rank: 139314
Our review:Description:A comic catch from the studio that brought you Shrek, Shark Tale is a hilarious hit and 'a wonderful under-the-sea adventure for movie lovers of all ages!' (Clay Smith, Access Hollywood) Oscar (Will Smith), a lowly tongue-scrubber at the local Whale Wash, becomes an improbable hero when he tells a great white lie. To keep his secret, Oscar teams up with an outcast vegetarian shark, Lenny (Jack Black), and the two become the most unlikely of friends. When his lie begins to unravel, it’s up to Oscar’s loyal friend Angie (Renée Zellweger) and Lenny to help him stand up to the most feared ...
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Marvin's Room [Region 2]
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Our review: essential video:Scott McPherson's off-Broadway hit made a strong transition to the screen in this 1996 film by director Jerry Zaks. Diane Keaton stars as a woman who, while taking care of her vegetating father in Florida, discovers that she has leukemia. Only her long-estranged sister (Meryl Streep) or the sister's children can provide a possible match for a bone-marrow transplant. But the reunion is a rocky one, marked both by Streep's guilt at having abandoned her sister to take care of their father, and by the explosive dynamic between Streep and her rebellious, pyromaniac oldest son (Leonardo DiCaprio). As grim as this ...
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