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Distant Thunder [VHS]

Distant Thunder [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: John Lithgow , Ralph Macchio , Kerrie Keane , Reb Brown , Janet Margolin
Director: Rick Rosenthal

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Take the Money and Run [VHS]

Take the Money and Run [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Woody Allen , Janet Margolin , Marcel Hillaire , Jacquelyn Hyde , Lonny Chapman
Director: Woody Allen
Woody Allen's feature-film debut, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary that combines sight gags, sketchlike scenes, and standup jokes at rat-a-tat speed, looks positively primitive compared to his mature work. Primitive, but awfully funny. Allen plays Virgil Starkwell, a music-loving nebbish who turns to a life of crime at an early age and, undaunted by his utter and complete failure to pull off a single successful robbery, continues his unbroken spree of bungled heists and prison breaks even after he marries and raises a family. Narrator Jackson Beck, whose stentorian voice of authority makes a perfect foil for Starkwell's absurd exploits, lobs one droll quip after another with deadpan seriousness. Though spotty, Allen tosses so many jokes into the mix that it hardly matters and when they hit they are often hilarious: the chain gang posing as cousins to their old-woman hostage ("We're very close," Virgil explains to a dim cop), arguing with a dotty movie director who is supposed to be their cover for a bank robbery, Virgil's escape attempt with a bar of soap. Allen spoofs decades of crime films, everything from I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Bonnie and Cly...
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Take the Money and Run [VHS]

Take the Money and Run [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Woody Allen , Janet Margolin , Marcel Hillaire , Jacquelyn Hyde , Lonny Chapman
Director: Woody Allen
Woody Allen's feature-film debut, Take the Money and Run, a mockumentary that combines sight gags, sketchlike scenes, and standup jokes at rat-a-tat speed, looks positively primitive compared to his mature work. Primitive, but awfully funny. Allen plays Virgil Starkwell, a music-loving nebbish who turns to a life of crime at an early age and, undaunted by his utter and complete failure to pull off a single successful robbery, continues his unbroken spree of bungled heists and prison breaks even after he marries and raises a family. Narrator Jackson Beck, whose stentorian voice of authority makes a perfect foil for Starkwell's absurd exploits, lobs one droll quip after another with deadpan seriousness. Though spotty, Allen tosses so many jokes into the mix that it hardly matters and when they hit they are often hilarious: the chain gang posing as cousins to their old-woman hostage ("We're very close," Virgil explains to a dim cop), arguing with a dotty movie director who is supposed to be their cover for a bank robbery, Virgil's escape attempt with a bar of soap. Allen spoofs decades of crime films, everything from I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang to Bonnie and Cly...
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Annie Hall [VHS]

Annie Hall [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Hy Anzell , Colleen Dewhurst , Shelley Duvall , Russell Horton , Carol Kane
Annie Hall is one of the truest, most bittersweet romances on film. In it, Allen plays a thinly disguised version of himself: Alvy Singer, a successful--if neurotic--television comedian living in Manhattan. Annie (the wholesomely luminous Dianne Keaton) is a Midwestern transplant who dabbles in photography and sings in small clubs. When the two meet, the sparks are immediate--if repressed. Alone in her apartment for the first time, Alvy and Annie navigate a minefield of self-conscious "is-this-person-someone-I'd-want-to-get-involved-with?" conversation. As they speak, subtitles flash their unspoken thoughts: the likes of "I'm not smart enough for him" and "I sound like a jerk." Despite all their caution, they connect, and we're swept up in the flush of their new romance. Allen's antic sensibility shines here in a series of flashbacks to Alvy's childhood, growing up, quite literally, under a rumbling roller coaster. His boisterous Jewish family's dinner table shares a split screen with the WASP-y Hall's tight-lipped holiday table, one Alvy has joined for the first time. His position as outsider is uncontestable he looks down the table and sizes up Annie's "Grammy Hall" as "a ...
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Last Embrace [VHS]

Last Embrace [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Roy Scheider , Janet Margolin , John Glover , Sam Levene , Charles Napier
Director: Jonathan Demme

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Bus Riley's Back in Town [VHS]

Bus Riley's Back in Town [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Ann-Margret , Michael Parks , Janet Margolin , Brad Dexter , Jocelyn Brando
Director: Harvey Hart
Bus Riley's Back in Town was supposed to make a star of intense, handsome young Michael Parks. Adapted by William Inge from his play, the story of a rebel struggling to find respect in his small Midwest town, it echoes with themes of his earlier success Picnic. Parks is less a William Holden drifting through life than a grown-up James Dean come back home. Desperate to earn "respect," Bus turns his back on his blue-collar origins, his "bad boy" reputation, and his now-married high school sweetheart Ann-Margret but winds up little more than a reluctant gigolo, selling vacuum cleaners and affection to lonely housewives by day and serving as stud to snarling sex kitten Ann-Margret by night. Parks delivers an endearingly vulnerable performance, mumbling and fidgeting like James Dean reborn as his dreams flounder, and Janet Margolin is tender and sad as Bus's kindred soul, a grown-up teenager tending her alcoholic mother. Harvey Hart has a good feel for actors and an understanding of family dynamics and small-town politics, but the script feels derivative and flat and the supporting cast never comes to life. Studio tampering prompted Inge to take his name off the screenplay...
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Ghostbusters 2 [VHS]

Ghostbusters 2 [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Bill Murray , Dan Aykroyd , Sigourney Weaver , Harold Ramis , Rick Moranis
Director: Ivan Reitman

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Nevada Smith [VHS]

Nevada Smith [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Steve McQueen , Karl Malden , Brian Keith , Arthur Kennedy , Suzanne Pleshette
Director: Henry Hathaway
The Max Sand backstory in Harold Robbins's trashy The Carpetbaggers (an enjoyable wallow onscreen in 1964) made for a solid Western vehicle for Steve McQueen at his peak. Nevada Smith is a revenge movie, but closer in spirit to The Bravados than a Death Wish-style exercise in nihilism. Young Max, offspring of a white father and Indian mother, sets out to avenge their slaughter by three villains. His odyssey includes spiritual re-parenting at several stages, most notably by canny gun dealer Jonas Cord (a swell character part for Brian Keith). The supporting cast will have you saying, "He's in it, too!" at regular intervals (from costars Karl Malden and Arthur Kennedy down to such incidental interlopers as L.Q. Jones and Strother Martin). Since director Henry Hathaway and cameraman Lucien Ballard couldn't frame a bad shot if their lives depended on it, it's criminal that this movie is unavailable in a widescreen format. --Richard T. Jameson
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David & Lisa (1962) [VHS]

David & Lisa (1962) [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Matthew Arden , Howard Da Silva , Keir Dullea , Karen Lynn Gorney , Coni Hudak
A poignant and moving story about two emotionally disturbed teenagers who fall in love in an institution.
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Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell [VHS]

Buona Sera, Mrs. Campbell [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Gina Lollobrigida , Shelley Winters , Phil Silvers , Peter Lawford , Telly Savalas
Director: Melvin Frank

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