 | Uncle Tom's Cabin [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Lost in America [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: It seems to lack something on first viewing--where's the third act, anyway?--but Albert Brooks's Lost in America is one of those movies that people keep quoting to each other long after they've seen it. And no one has come up with a more incisive look at the phenomenon of the '80... |
 | Song Without End [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Fifteen years after directing the florid and commercially successful Chopin bio-pic, the 1945 A Song to Remember, director Charles Vidor headed up this lush, Technicolor production about Franz Liszt--only to die a few weeks into shooting and be replaced by George Cukor. (Cukor in... |
 | Broadcast News [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: In James L. Brooks' quirky, romantic comedy, three ambitious workaholics are set loose in a network TV newsroom where their professional and personal lives become hopelessly cross-wired. Tom (William Hurt) is the modern anchorman, smooth, handsome and a bit dumb. Jane (Holly Hu... |
 | Defending Your Life [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Albert Brooks proves there's laughs after death with this almost heavenly comedy--almost heaven as in Judgment City, where recently perished Daniel Miller (Brooks) learns whether he is worthy of advancing to a higher plane of existence or will be sent back to earth for another i... |
 | Twilight Zone [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | I'll Do Anything [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Originally conceived and shot as a musical, James L. Brooks's (Broadcast News) comedy of life in Hollywood remains a perceptive and very funny film. A loose Nick Nolte stars as Matt Hobbs, a struggling actor who must find work to support his spoiled 6-year-old daughter (cutie ... |
 | Taxi Driver [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film,"... |
 | Twilight Zone [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: How's this for a Twilight Zone kind of irony? The movie version of Rod Serling's landmark sci-fi TV series turns out to be less memorable than the episodes upon which it was based. Despite the presence of four of-that-moment directors, the film--based on three TV episodes and one... |
 | Lost in America [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: It seems to lack something on first viewing--where's the third act, anyway?--but Albert Brooks's Lost in America is one of those movies that people keep quoting to each other long after they've seen it. And no one has come up with a more incisive look at the phenomenon of the '80... |
 | Coldfire [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Man in the Iron Mask [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Shanghai Gesture [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Taxi Driver (Special Edition) [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Taxi Driver is the definitive cinematic portrait of loneliness and alienation manifested as violence. It is as if director Martin Scorsese and screenwriter Paul Schrader had tapped into precisely the same source of psychological inspiration ("I just knew I had to make this film,"... |
 | Mother [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: When Albert Brooks cast Debbie Reynolds to play his mother in this acclaimed 1996 comedy, the veteran singer-dancer-actress hadn't had a leading film role in nearly 30 years. Brooks had to pour on the charm to persuade her to make a comeback. The results were triumphant for write... |
 | That's Black Entertainment [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Private Benjamin [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: A pampered socialite (Goldie Hawn) is so distraught after the wedding-night death of her husband (Albert Brooks) that she up and joins the Army. She whines, she pouts, she brings the corps down, until, of course, she gets with it. Eileen Brennan received a Best Supporting Actress... |
 | Unfaithfully Yours [VHS] [Read More ...]
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 | Defending Your Life [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Albert Brooks proves there's laughs after death with this almost heavenly comedy--almost heaven as in Judgment City, where recently perished Daniel Miller (Brooks) learns whether he is worthy of advancing to a higher plane of existence or will be sent back to earth for another i... |
 | The In-Laws [VHS] [Read More ...]
Description: Family matters. Laughing matters. They're all a matter of laugh or death as Michael Douglas and Albert Brooks play opposites thrust together by their children's wedding and by CIA agent Douglas' involvement in an arms-smuggling sting operation, plunging mild-mannered podiatrist ... |
