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Satisfaction [VHS]

Satisfaction [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Justine Bateman , Liam Neeson , Trini Alvarado , Scott Coffey , Britta Phillips
Director: Joan Freeman
It's hard to believe there was ever a time when Justine Bateman was a bigger star than Julia Roberts, but Satisfaction is the evidence of that brief moment. It's also a movie unjustly maligned, perhaps because it's a little more frank about the sexuality of young women than older male movie critics find comfortable. Jennie Lee (Bateman, Family Ties) and her band (Roberts, soon to become one of the biggest movies stars in the world; Trini Alvarado, Little Women; Britta Phillips, later to be the bassist for the rock band Luna; and Scott Coffey, the only actor to appear in both Ferris Bueller's Day Off and David Lynch's Mulholland Drive) go to a beach town where they get a gig playing in a club run by a former songwriter (Liam Neeson, Schindler's List). Over the course of a summer, they fall in love, have sex, and play rock and roll--but the tone and texture of the movie is more American Graffiti than Girls Just Want to Have Fun. Perhaps because Satisfaction was directed by a woman, the girls are startlingly well drawn and distinct, despite the movie's episodic nature. Surprisingly, the music has some grit to it, perhaps ...
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Frighteners [VHS]

Frighteners [VHS]

Rated: R (Restricted)
Staring: Michael J. Fox , Trini Alvarado , Peter Dobson , John Astin , Jeffrey Combs
Director: Peter Jackson
One movie lover's nightmare is another's raucous joyride, and this special effects-laden horror comedy is bound to split both camps right down the middle. (Or, as Leonard Maltin's Movie & Video Guide puts it, "definitely not for all tastes but a wild time for those who get into it.") Michael J. Fox plays a psychic investigator who can actually see ghosts, and lives with a trio of undead spirits who scare people to promote Fox's ghost-busting business. In a town infamous for serial killings, a new series of deaths prompts Fox to induce his own out-of-body experience so he can battle death in a spirit-plagued netherworld where evil reigns supreme--or something like that. So much happens in this chaotic film that you might feel like you're watching several movies at once--a slasher pic, a supernatural thriller, and a black comedy all rolled into a nonstop showcase for grisly makeup and a dozen varieties of special effects. It's an odd but wildly inventive film from New Zealand director Peter Jackson, who earned critical acclaim for his previous film Heavenly Creatures and would later create the ingenious pseudo-documentary Forgotten Silver. --Jeff Shannon
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Little Women (Slip) [VHS]

Little Women (Slip) [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Susan Sarandon , Winona Ryder , Kirsten Dunst , Claire Danes , Gabriel Byrne
Director: Gillian Armstrong
The flaws are easily forgiven in this beautiful version of Louisa May Alcott's novel. A stirring look at life in New England during the Civil War, Little Women is a triumph for all involved. We follow one family as they split into the world, ending up with the most independent, the outspoken Jo (Winona Ryder). This time around, the dramatics and conclusions fall into place a little too well, instead of finding life's little accidents along the way. Everyone now looks a bit too cute and oh, so nice. As the matron, Marmee, Susan Sarandon kicks the film into a modern tone, creating a movie alive with a great feminine sprit. Kirsten Dunst (Interview with the Vampire) has another showy role. The young ensemble cast cannot be faulted, with Ryder beginning the movie in a role akin to light comedy and crescendoing to a triumphant end worthy of an Oscar. --Doug Thomas
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Stella [VHS]

Stella [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Bette Midler , John Goodman , Trini Alvarado , Stephen Collins , Marsha Mason
Director: John Erman

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Babe [VHS]

Babe [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: John Goodman , Kelly McGillis , Trini Alvarado , Bruce Boxleitner , Peter Donat
Director: Arthur Hiller

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Paulie [VHS]

Paulie [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Gena Rowlands , Tony Shalhoub , Cheech Marin , Bruce Davison , Trini Alvarado
Director: John Roberts
The human beings are almost as interesting as the title character in this surprisingly subtle and engaging film about the cross-country adventures of a smart-mouthed parrot. As director John Roberts deploys the footage, the bird becomes a vivid personality; every quizzical twist of his head is oddly expressive. The people who interact with Paulie are a quirky and interesting bunch as well, and the casting is topnotch: Tony Shalhoub (The Siege) as a Russian immigrant janitor, Cheech Marin as an open-hearted mariachi musician, and Gena Rowlands as a widowed painter in a footloose Winnebago--all are vividly eccentric individuals, memorable in their own right. There are some tired swipes at the cold-blooded meanies of Big Science (beady-eyed researcher Bruce Davison has Paulie clapped in irons), but for the most part the film respects the complexity of everyone's motivations, and that's virtually unheard of in today's Hollywood, even in films supposedly designed for grownups. --David Chute
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Paulie [VHS]

Paulie [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Gena Rowlands , Tony Shalhoub , Cheech Marin , Bruce Davison , Trini Alvarado
Director: John Roberts
The human beings are almost as interesting as the title character in this surprisingly subtle and engaging film about the cross-country adventures of a smart-mouthed parrot. As director John Roberts deploys the footage, the bird becomes a vivid personality; every quizzical twist of his head is oddly expressive. The people who interact with Paulie are a quirky and interesting bunch as well, and the casting is topnotch: Tony Shalhoub (The Siege) as a Russian immigrant janitor, Cheech Marin as an open-hearted mariachi musician, and Gena Rowlands as a widowed painter in a footloose Winnebago--all are vividly eccentric individuals, memorable in their own right. There are some tired swipes at the cold-blooded meanies of Big Science (beady-eyed researcher Bruce Davison has Paulie clapped in irons), but for the most part the film respects the complexity of everyone's motivations, and that's virtually unheard of in today's Hollywood, even in films supposedly designed for grownups. --David Chute
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Sweet Lorraine [VHS]

Sweet Lorraine [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Maureen Stapleton , Trini Alvarado , Lee Richardson , John Bedford Lloyd , Freddie Roman
Director: Steve Gomer

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Rich Kids [VHS]

Rich Kids [VHS]

Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Trini Alvarado , Jeremy Levy , Kathryn Walker , John Lithgow , Terry Kiser

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Mrs Soffel [VHS]

Mrs Soffel [VHS]

Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Staring: Diane Keaton , Mel Gibson , Matthew Modine , Edward Herrmann , Trini Alvarado
Director: Gillian Armstrong
An air of gothic romanticism pervades every aspect of this remarkable film, based on a true story from the turn of the 20th century. In its torrid plot, one can hear the icy restraints of the Victorian era cracking. Diane Keaton is uncannily perfect as Kate Soffel, wife of a priggish prison warden (Edward Herrmann). She's funny and touching playing what used to be called a "neurasthenic"--a nervous, depressed woman with mysterious physical ailments. When the film opens, Kate is just recovering from a three-month-long spell, and back at work preaching to the inmates in her husband's prison. Whom should she encounter but dangerous death row inmate Ed Biddle, in the irresistible person of Mel Gibson. The forbidden affair that blossoms between them is feverishly exciting, but the film operates on myriad other levels. Director Gillian Armstrong (My Brilliant Career) and screenwriter Ron Nyswaner (Philadelphia) have much to say about capital punishment, and about the miserable fate of women in this repressive society who dare to act on their passions. There's nothing morally clear-cut in this movie, which is what makes it consistently fascinating. Kate and Ed's romance is a...
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