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![Adventures of Huck Finn [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517K0JG7KDL._SL160_.jpg "Adventures of Huck Finn [VHS]")
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Elijah Wood
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Courtney B. Vance
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Robbie Coltrane
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Jason Robards
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Ron Perlman
Director:
Stephen Sommers
Huckleberry Finn's age has been scaled down in this 1993 Disney film in order to accommodate star Elijah Wood's young years at the time. But that's not the only concession Mark Twain's great American novel must make to Disney revisionism. Wood's Huck, as adapted for the screen by writer-director Stephen Sommers, is all rascal and only nominally a philosopher, which takes a lot of the soul out of Twain's extraordinary story about Huck's enlightenment while traveling with the slave Jim (Courtney B. Vance) along the Mississippi river. Big chunks of the journey are also minimized in significance, and not just for the sake of storytelling economy. Jason Robards Jr. and Robbie Coltrane brighten things up, but overall this is an unnecessarily simplified version of an important story. --Tom Keogh
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![O Pioneers [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/21TTY50KPBL._SL160_.jpg "O Pioneers [VHS]")
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Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Jessica Lange
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David Strathairn
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Tom Aldredge
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Reed Diamond
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Anne Heche
Director:
Glenn Jordan
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![Juror [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51VQRH8YZXL._SL160_.jpg "Juror [VHS]")
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Demi Moore
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Alec Baldwin
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Anne Heche
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James Gandolfini
Director:
Brian Gibson
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![Milk Money [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51QGCQ3AWSL._SL160_.jpg "Milk Money [VHS]")
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Melanie Griffith
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Ed Harris
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Michael Patrick Carter
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Malcolm McDowell
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Anne Heche
Director:
Richard Benjamin
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![Donnie Brasco [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51XM5M9KR6L._SL160_.jpg "Donnie Brasco [VHS]")
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Al Pacino
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Johnny Depp
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Michael Madsen
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Bruno Kirby
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James Russo
Director:
Mike Newell
Based on a memoir by former undercover cop Joe Pistone (whose daring and unprecedented infiltration of the New York Mob scene earned him a place in the federal witness protection program), Donnie Brasco is like a de-romanticized, de-mythologized version of The Godfather. It offers an uncommonly detailed, privileged glimpse inside the world of organized crime from the perspective of the little guys at the bottom of Mafia hierarchy rather than from the kingpins at the top. Donnie Brasco is not only one of the great modern-day gangster movies to put in the company of The Godfather films and GoodFellas, but it is also one of the great undercover police movies--arguably surpassing Serpico and Prince of the City in richness of character, detail, and moral complexity. Donnie (Johnny Depp, a splendid actor) is practically adopted by Lefty Ruggiero (Al Pacino), a gregarious, low-level "made" man who grows to love his young protégé like a son. (Pacino really sinks into this guy's skin and polyester slacks, and creates his freshest, most fully realized character since his 1970s heyday.) As Donnie acclimates himself to Lefty's world, he distan...
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![Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51Y6DA569DL._SL160_.jpg "Kingfish: A Story of Huey P. Long [VHS]")
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Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring:
John Goodman
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Matt Craven
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Anne Heche
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Ann Dowd
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Bob Gunton
Director:
Thomas Schlamme
Biopic of the boorish, Depression-era Southern demagogue Huey Long.
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![Wag the Dog [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51NW2KEYR6L._SL160_.jpg "Wag the Dog [VHS]")
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Dustin Hoffman
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Robert De Niro
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Anne Heche
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Denis Leary
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Willie Nelson
Director:
Barry Levinson
Not only was Barry Levinson's comedy shot in a relatively fast period of 29 days, the satire of politics and show business feels as if it were made yesterday. There's a fresh spin quite evident here, a nervy satire of a presidential crisis and the people who whitewash the facts. The main players are a mysterious Mr. Fix-It (Robert De Niro), veteran Hollywood producer (Dustin Hoffman), and a White House aide (Anne Heche). Can the president's molesting of a young girl be buried in the two weeks before an election? A war in Albania just might do the trick. In the good old days, the president would just invade. With modern technology, it's even cleaner. The hungry press looks for any lead, convenient misinformation is created by the latest Hollywood fakery ("all developed by the new James Cameron film") creating images and merchandise all instantly packaged. And it must be real, because it's on TV. David Mamet's script never questions the morals or the absolute secrecy needed to pull this thing off. He and director Barry Levinson have enough truth in the story to make you wonder what is real news and what is just promotion the next time you see CNN. Many of the supporting players impac...
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![Six Days Seven Nights [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GH2CNGPVL._SL160_.jpg "Six Days Seven Nights [VHS]")
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Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring:
Harrison Ford
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Anne Heche
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David Schwimmer
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Jacqueline Obradors
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Temuera Morrison
Director:
Ivan Reitman
The African Queen meets Swept Away in this sometimes labored romantic comedy by director Ivan Reitman. Fortunately, he cast an old pro in Harrison Ford, as Quinn Harris, a South Seas charter pilot who must ferry New York fashion editor Robin Monroe (Anne Heche) from one island to another--a hop that falls flat when they fly into a mammoth storm that causes them to crash on a deserted island. The pair resent and resist each other, until they are forced to team up to escape from the island--and some modern pirates who want their heads. If that part of the story is unconvincing, you can always focus on the smoldering comic chemistry between Heche, who displays strong comic instincts, and the ever-reliable Ford. The script is just an excuse for these two flinty characters to strike increasingly romantic sparks off each other, which is always enjoyable to watch. --Marshall Fine
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Staring:
Anne Heche
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![I Know What You Did Last Summer [VHS]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/7107W97AXAL._SL160_.gif "I Know What You Did Last Summer [VHS]")
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Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring:
Jennifer Love Hewitt
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Sarah Michelle Gellar
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Anne Heche
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Ryan Phillippe
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Freddie Prinze Jr.
Director:
Jim Gillespie
Just what the world needs, another riff on that post-Psycho horror cliché: the slasher movie. In this version, which considerably dumbs down the Lois Duncan book, the bad guy chases naughty teenagers with a hook, all the while dressed as a dark version of the Gorton's fisherman. They seem to have killed someone in a car accident while out partying, and a price must be paid. Nothing new is added to the genre, though it would be unfair not to note that this does have some scary moments. That is about all it has, because as much as this wanted to be another Scream, it hasn't the heart or the script. It does, however, have the requisite cast of small-screen stars (including Party of Five's Jennifer Love Hewitt and Buffy herself, Sarah Michelle Gellar) to have snagged box-office success, spawning a sequel. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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