Wen's Style.

Home > Frances McDormand in

Something's Gotta Give [VHS]

Something's Gotta Give [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Jack Nicholson , Diane Keaton , Keanu Reeves , Amanda Peet , Frances McDormand
Director: Nancy Meyers
As upscale sitcoms go, Something's Gotta Give has more to offer than most romantic comedies. Obviously working through some semi-autobiographical issues regarding "women of a certain age," writer-director Nancy Meyers brings adequate credibility and above-average intelligence to what is essentially (but not exclusively) a fantasy premise, in which an aging lothario who's always dated younger women (Jack Nicholson, more or less playing himself) falls for a successful middle-aged playwright (Diane Keaton) who's convinced she's past the age of romance, much less sexual re-awakening. As long as old pals Nicholson and Keaton are on screen discussing their dilemma or discovering their mutual desire, Something's Gotta Give is terrific, proving (in case anyone had forgotten) that Hollywood can and should aim for an older demographic. Myers falls short with the sitcom device of a younger lover (Keanu Reeves) who wants Keaton as much as Nicholson does; it's believable but shallow and too easily dismissed. Myers also skimps on supporting roles for Frances McDormand, Amanda Peet, and Jon Favreau, but thankfully this is one romantic comedy that doesn't pander to youth. Mature view...
List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $7.55
Mississippi Burning [VHS]

Mississippi Burning [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Gene Hackman , Willem Dafoe , Frances McDormand , Brad Dourif , R. Lee Ermey
Director: Alan Parker
Under the slick, professional direction of Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning is the kind of film that will either draw you into its emotionally volatile sphere of influence or outrage you with its repugnant, manipulative revision of American civil rights history. The fact-based story brings two highly different FBI agents (Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe) to Mississippi to investigate the murders of three young black men who had been promoting black voter registration. The key to solving the murders is the testimony of a local deputy's wife (Frances McDormand) who is struggling to break free of her husband's racist influence. As critic Pauline Kael argued, "...the movie hinges on the ploy that the FBI men can't stop the Ku Klux Klan from its terrorism against blacks until they swing over to vigilante tactics. And we're put in the position of applauding the FBI's dirtiest forms of intimidation. This cheap gimmick undercuts the whole civil rights subject; it validates the terrorist methods of the Klan." Or you can take the view of Roger Ebert, who named Mississippi Burning "the best film of 1988"; it would earn seven Oscar nominations, including Best Picture, Actor (Hackman),...
List Price: $9.98 Our Price: $8.50
Almost Famous (2000) [VHS]

Almost Famous (2000) [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: Billy Crudup , Frances McDormand , Kate Hudson , Jason Lee , Patrick Fugit
Almost Famous is the movie Cameron Crowe has been waiting a lifetime to tell. The fictionalization of Crowe's days as a teenage reporter for Creem and Rolling Stone has all the well-written characters and wonderful "movie moments" that we expect from Crowe (Jerry Maguire), but the film has an intangible something extra--an insider's touch that will turn the film into the ode to '70s rock & roll for years to come. We are introduced to Crowe's alter ego, William Miller (Patrick Fugit), at home, where his progressive mom (Frances McDormand, just superb) has outlawed rock music and sister Anita (Zooey Deschanel) has slipped him LPs that will "set his mind free." Following the wisdom of Creem's disheveled editor, Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman in an instant-classic performance), Miller gets on the inside with the up-and-coming band Stillwater (a fictionalized mixture of the Allman Brothers, Led Zeppelin, and others). A simple visit with the band turns into a three-week, life-altering odyssey into the heyday of American rock. Of the characters he meets on the road, the two most important are groupie extraordinaire Penny Lane (Kate Hudson in...
List Price: $6.98 Our Price: $1.99
Wonder Boys [VHS]

Wonder Boys [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Michael Douglas , Tobey Maguire , Frances McDormand , Robert Downey Jr. , Katie Holmes
Director: Curtis Hanson
Wonder Boys is one of those movies in which more twists and turns disrupt the life of the hero in one weekend than would bother most of us our whole lives. Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is an aging one-novel wunderkind at a small Pittsburgh college who's laboring on his seven-years-in-the-making, 2000-plus page second opus with no end in sight. The morning of the college's literary lollapalooza, WordFest, Grady's wife leaves him; that evening, his mistress (Frances McDormand) announces she's pregnant (she's also the chancellor of the school, as well as the wife of Grady's boss). Grady's voracious editor (Robert Downey Jr.) is also in town, transvestite date in tow, determined to read the highly anticipated new book; there's also the nubile student (Katie Holmes), who seems more than willing to ease Grady's pain. And then there's James Leer (Tobey Maguire), the mordant and brilliant writing student who's the catalyst for Grady's lost weekend, which involves a soon-to-be-dead blind dog, a stolen car, and the jacket that Marilyn Monroe wore when she wed Joe DiMaggio.

Had enough flights of fancy? It's only the beginning, and in the hands of director Curtis Hanson (...
List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $0.01

Primal Fear [VHS]

Primal Fear [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Richard Gere , Laura Linney , Edward Norton , John Mahoney , Alfre Woodard
Director: Gregory Hoblit
Guaranteed to work or your money back - PLEASE NOTE ALL MONIES FROM THIS SALE GO TO A 501 (C)3 NO KILL ANIMAL SHELTER
List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $3.02
Hidden in America [VHS]

Hidden in America [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Beau Bridges , Bruce Davison , Shelton Dane , Jena Malone , Alice Krige
Director: Martin Bell

List Price: $14.99 Our Price: $3.57
Fargo [VHS]

Fargo [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: William H. Macy , Frances McDormand , Steve Buscemi , Peter Stormare , Kristin Rudrüd
Director: Ethan Coen , Joel Coen
Leave it to the wildly inventive Coen brothers (Joel directs, Ethan produces, they both write) to concoct a fiendishly clever kidnap caper that's simultaneously a comedy of errors, a Midwestern satire, a taut suspense thriller, and a violent tale of criminal misfortune. It all begins when a hapless car salesman (played to perfection by William H. Macy) ineptly orchestrates the kidnapping of his own wife. The plan goes horribly awry in the hands of bumbling bad guys Steve Buscemi and Peter Stormare (one of them being described by a local girl as "kinda funny lookin'" and "not circumcised"), and the pregnant sheriff of Brainerd, Minnesota, (played exquisitely by Frances McDormand in an Oscar-winning role) is suddenly faced with a case of multiple murders. Her investigation is laced with offbeat observations about life in the rural hinterland of Minnesota and North Dakota, and Fargo embraces its local yokels with affectionate humor. At times shocking and hilarious, Fargo is utterly unique and distinctly American, bearing the unmistakable stamp of its inspired creators. --Jeff Shannon
List Price: $14.95 Our Price: $1.00
Crazy in Love [VHS]

Crazy in Love [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Holly Hunter , Gena Rowlands , Bill Pullman , Julian Sands , Herta Ware
Director: Martha Coolidge
Three generations of women have lived on the same small island off the coast of Washington State. When the youngest of the three, Georgie, starts to expand her horizons - with an affair and a trip to the mainland - she learns more about herself and her family than she ever thought possible.
List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $6.98
The Good Old Boys [VHS]

The Good Old Boys [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Tommy Lee Jones , Sissy Spacek , Matt Damon , Jeff Gore , James N. Harrell

List Price: $14.98 Our Price: $59.49
Madeline [VHS]

Madeline [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Frances McDormand , Nigel Hawthorne , Hatty Jones , Ben Daniels , Arturo Venegas
Director: Daisy von Scherler Mayer
The schoolgirl adventures of Madeline, a flame-haired orphan, are lovingly adapted from Ludwig Bemelmans's classic children's books. His sly and witty writing is transferred to this first-rate film, one that should not be thought of merely as childhood entertainment. Spunky Madeline is most adept at finding trouble. She is also a quick-witted and likable child who can solve almost any problem. Her latest scheme is to keep her school, which is also her home, from being sold by its owner, the recently widowed Lord Covington (Nigel Hawthorne). Unlike most youthful movie fare, this adventure boasts high production values that wisely include colorful Parisian locations. Hatty Jones is all spunky self-sufficiency and sweet innocence in the title role, and Frances McDormand is quite humorous as the stern school-mistress, Miss Clavel. --Rochelle O'Gorman
List Price: $9.95 Our Price: $1.87