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The Great Gatsby [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Robert Redford , Mia Farrow , Bruce Dern , Karen Black , Scott Wilson
Director: Jack Clayton
This adaptation of the F. Scott Fitzgerald novel, scripted by Francis Ford Coppola, puts costume design and art direction above the intricacies of character. It's certainly a handsome try, and perhaps no movie could capture The Great Gatsby in its entirety. Robert Redford is an interesting casting choice as Gatsby, the millionaire isolated in his mansion, still dreaming of the woman he lost. And Sam Waterston is perfect as the narrator, Nick, who brings the dream girl Daisy Buchanan back to Gatsby. No, the problem seems to be that director Jack Clayton fell in love with the flapper dresses and the party scenes and the Jazz Age tunes, ending up with a Classics Illustrated version of a great book rather than a fresh, organic take on the text. While Redford grows more quietly intriguing in the film, Mia Farrow's pallid performance as Daisy leaves you wondering why Gatsby, or anyone else, should care so much about his grand passion. The effective supporting cast includes Bruce Dern as Daisy's husband, and Scott Wilson and Karen Black as the low-rent couple whose destinies cross the sun-drenched protagonists. (That's future star Patsy Kensit as Daisy's little daughter.) The film ...

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Ultimate Desires [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Tracy Scoggins , Marc Singer , Brion James , Marc Baur , Suzy Joachim
Director: Lloyd A. Simandl

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A Season for Miracles - Hallmark Hall Of Fame [VHS]

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Staring: Carla Gugino , Kathy Baker , David Conrad , Laura Dern , Patty Duke
Director: Michael Pressman

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Pure Luck [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Martin Short , Danny Glover , Sheila Kelley , Sam Wanamaker , Scott Wilson
Director: Nadia Tass
This weak, 1991 remake of the French comedy La Chèvre stars Danny Glover as a detective who is sent to Mexico to find a businessman's daughter (Sheila Kelley) and who gets stuck with a hapless assistant (Martin Short). The film wears out its welcome very quickly, despite some passable physical comedy from Short. Both actors have made much better movies; don't be surprised if you can't make it through to the end of this one. --Tom Keogh

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Days of Heaven [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Richard Gere , Brooke Adams , Sam Shepard , Linda Manz , Robert J. Wilke
Director: Terrence Malick
Richard Gere works in a Chicago steel mill at the turn of the century, but must flee the city after accidentally killing a man. Heading for the wheat fields of Texas, he packs up his girlfriend (Brooke Adams) and his younger sister (Linda Manz). Instead of a better life, they head straight into tragedy when a wealthy farmer (Sam Shepard) falls for Adams. Believing him to be dying and expecting to inherit a fortune, she agrees to marry him. Their plans change when Shepard fails to die and Gere takes matters into his own hands. Aesthetically flawless, this film about a romantic love triangle is diminished by the small scope of video. Originally shown in 70mm, it is an eye-catching period piece that won its cinematographer, Néstor Almendros, a 1978 Oscar. Texture and color are the unbilled characters in this tragic tale, and are just as important as the players. The story, sadly, fades somewhat when compared to the glory of the visuals. --Rochelle O'Gorman

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Kids in the Hall - Brain Candy [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Dave Foley , Bruce McCulloch , Kevin McDonald , Mark McKinney , Scott Thompson
Director: Kelly Makin
Moviegoers never caught on to its brilliance, but Brain Candy is a smart, outrageously inventive vehicle for Canada's most irreverent comedy troupe. The subtly subversive plot is about society's ongoing search for the perfect "happy drug," and the Kids inhabit a multitude of costumes and characters as they celebrate--and lament--the invention of "Gleemonex," the ultimate antidepressant, which locks users into their happiest memories... and subsequently renders them comatose. No worries for the Roritor Chemical Company; they don't care much about side effects! With rampant riffs on heavy-metal doomsayers, closeted gay husbands (resulting in Scott Thompson's hilarious coming-out musical), blissed-out grandmothers, and all varieties of corporate greed-mongers, Brain Candy is almost too hip for its own good, combining Pythonesque ingenuity with cutting social satire. As a comedic experiment it's hit-and-miss, but with the cross-dressing Kids running the show, it's likely to leave you laughing out loud. --Jeff Shannon

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Tyson [VHS]

Rated: Unrated
Staring: George C. Scott , Paul Winfield , Michael Jai White , James Sikking , Malcolm-Jamal Warner
Director: Uli Edel
A hard-hitting drama based on the life of one of America's greatest Heavyweight Boxing Champions, Mike Tyson. This is the powerfully told rise and fall of a knockout star, from his life of crime as a young man, through his discovery and training by Cus D'Amato to the championship and beyond.

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Westworld [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Yul Brynner , Richard Benjamin , James Brolin , Norman Bartold , Alan Oppenheimer
Director: Michael Crichton
Welcome to Delos, the high-tech Disneyland for adults that Michael Crichton created for Westworld, a nifty science fiction thriller from 1973 that also marked the popular novelist's feature-film directorial debut. The movie is so named because the vacationing buddies who travel to Delos (James Brolin, Richard Benjamin) choose Westworld as their destination (the other choices being Roman World and Medieval World), where they are free to indulge their movie-inspired fantasies of the Wild West. From brothel beauties to black-hatted gunslingers (like the villain played by Yul Brynner), the place is populated by perfectly humanlike robots programmed and monitored to cater to every guest's fancy. But fun turns into abject horror when the robots--particularly Brynner's badman--begin to malfunction and Delos turns into an amusement park that's anything but amusing. Westworld has moments of camp and the look of a low-budget backlot production, but two decades before Crichton revamped his idea to create Jurassic Park, this movie made the most of its interesting and exciting premise. --Jeff Shannon

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Malone [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Cliff Robertson , Kenneth MCMillan , Cynthia Gibb , Scott Wilson , Lauren Hutton

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Mrs Doubtfire [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Robin Williams , Sally Field , Pierce Brosnan , Harvey Fierstein , Polly Holliday
Director: Chris Columbus
This huge 1993 hit for Robin Williams and director Chris Columbus (Home Alone), based on a novel called Alias Madame Doubtfire by Anne Fine, stars Williams as a loving but flaky father estranged from his frustrated wife (Sally Field). Devastated by a court order limiting his time with the children, Williams's character disguises himself as a warm, old British nanny who becomes the kids' best friend. As with Dustin Hoffman's performance in Tootsie, Williams's drag act--buried under layers of latex and padding--is the show, and everything and everyone else on screen serves his sometimes frantic role. Since that's the case, it's fortunate that Williams is Williams, and his performance is terribly funny at times and exceptionally believable in those scenes where his character misses his children. Playing Williams's brother, a professional makeup artist, Harvey Fierstein has a good support role in a bright sequence where he tries a number of feminine looks on Williams before settling on Mrs. Doubtfire's visage. --Tom Keogh

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