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Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in this wild and crazy comedy about four mental patients who get separated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game.
Billy (Keaton), a pathological liar with a violent streak, finds himself on the loose in New York City with his fellow group therapy patients: Henry (Christopher Lloyd), a neat freak; Jack (Peter Boyle), a former advertising executive who thinks he s Christ; and Albert (Stephen Furst), a near catatonic couch potato. Faced with the task of rescuing their missing doctor from a pair of crooked cops, the group finds themselves sharing a series of hilarious misadventures in this farce The Washington Post calls an irresistibly nutty buddy movie.
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The Dream Team
Starring: Michael Keaton , Christopher Lloyd , Peter Boyle , Stephen Furst , and Dennis Boutsikaris Director: Howard Zieff Manufacturer: Universal Studios ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009AOAZ Release Date: 2003-07-01 |
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Michael Keaton heads an all-star cast in this wild and crazy comedy about four mental patients who get separated from their therapist on the way to a baseball game.Customer Reviews:
Outrageously funny.......2007-03-13
The Dream Team review.......2007-02-15
A Very Funny Movie.......2007-01-06
Univeral Studios DVD's do not have closed captions.......2006-12-08
Insanely funny movie, a true classic.......2006-08-14
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Hoop Dreams - Criterion Collection
Manufacturer: Criterion ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
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ASIN: B0007WFYBG Release Date: 2005-05-10 |
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Two ordinary inner-city kids dare to dream the impossible - professional basketball glory - in this epic chronicle of hope and faith. Filmed over a five-year period, Hoop Dreams follows young Arthur Agee and William Gates as they navigate the complex, competitive world of scholastic athletics while striving to overcome the intense pressures of family life and the realities of their Chicago streets. The Criterion Collection is proud to present this landmark documentary chronicling two remarkable families who challenge the American dream.Amazon.com essential video
This completely absorbing three-hour documentary follows the lives of two inner-city African American teenage basketball prodigies as they move through high school with long-shot dreams of the NBA, superstardom, and an escape from the ghetto. Taking cues from such works as Michael Apted's 35 Up, director Steve James and associates shot more than 250 hours of footage, spanning more than six years, and their completed work actually moves like an edge-of-the-seat drama, so brimming with tension, plot twists, successes, and tragedies that its length--170 minutes--is never an issue. Yet, what makes the film more impressive is how James moves his scope beyond a competitive sports drama (although the movie has plenty of terrific, nail-biting basketball footage) and addresses complex social issues, creating a scathing social commentary about class privilege and racial division. The film opens by introducing William Gates and Arthur Agee, two Chicago hopefuls, as they are being courted and recruited by various high schools to play ball, and continues until the pair are college freshmen. James allows the audience the experience of not only watching their journeys and daily routines (it's a sobering portrait of inner-city life), but also witnessing their maturation. Each takes a separate path along the way, stumbling over several obstacles (William suffers injuries, Arthur fails to meet his coach's high expectations); but James takes particular care to stress the importance and strong commitment of each character's family along the way, giving the film a essential center. The parents and siblings emerge with as much depth and complexity as the two main "characters," and turn Hoop Dreams into an unforgettable film experience. --Dave McCoyCustomer Reviews:
Safe and timely delivery.......2007-05-17
one of the best documentaries I have seen..............2007-02-25
Where are they now?.......2007-01-11
REAL DREAMS OF BASKETBALL HOPEFULS.......2006-09-10
Criterion Collection - Missing Something!!!.......2006-06-19
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Hakeem Olajuwon - Hakeem the Dream (NBA Hardwood Classics)
Starring: Hakeem Olajuwon Manufacturer: Warner Home Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
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ASIN: B0007WFXZ8 Release Date: 2005-05-17 |
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New to DVD! Update your NBA collection with this classic title with a new branded line look featuring one of the greatest NBA players of all-time. Learn about his unique journey to the NBA, from his first exposure to basketball in Nigeria, all the way to America. This video offers fans the opportunity to get an intimate look at the life of one of the NBA's most fascinating superstars and his unusual rise to stardom. Reference ID:TC01-DVD-0986Customer Reviews:
Great.. but could have been better.......2007-01-19
Dream Bio DVD (but no 2nd Rockets championship coverage).......2006-05-22
Hakeem the Dream.......2005-07-24
Hakeem.......2005-07-08
Hakeem The Dream.......2004-02-24
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Live the Dream - The Texas Longhorns' Magical March to the 2005 National Championship (Official University of Texas Football Season Highlight DVD)
Starring: Live the Dream: the Texas Longhorns Magical March Manufacturer: Hart Sharp Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
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ASIN: B000E6EHEA Release Date: 2006-02-21 |
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"Live the Dream" traces the Longhorns perfect season, beginning with spring practice and summer workouts in the Texas heat and extending through the BCS Championship game week, and the aftermath. It goes behind the scenes with Texas Head Coach Mack Brown and his staff as they devise game plans to win key national match-ups against Ohio State, Red River Rivalry foe Oklahoma, and Big 12 Championship game opponent Colorado. This product also showcases quarterback Vince Young s amazing season, including retrospective commentary from the consensus All-American, Maxwell Award winner, and Davey O Brien Award winner on one of the greatest individual performances in athletics history.Customer Reviews:
Live the Dream.......2006-02-22
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Carmen Electra's NWWL, Vol. 2: Tag Team Dream
Starring: Carmen Electra Manufacturer: Sketchy Ent ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0009OL8DA Release Date: 2005-07-26 |
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Ambassador and sex symbol Carmen Electra hosts this hilarious and sexy new action entertainment series that features full frontal nude women wrestling. This DVD features the NWWL international TAG Team Championship match between the Sisters on No Mercy and the After School Girls. During the match, four fully naked women do battle, to establish a new NWWL champion! This DVD also features the fan favorite and epic battle between the Princess of Pain and Spitney Beers (the Princess of Pop). The two girls have a long-standing war of words to back up and the wrestling is hard-core to say the least. Watch these two girls battle it out in the buff!Customer Reviews:
False advertising.......2005-11-15
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Dive In
Starring: Members of the Dream Team; Deanna Kent; Mike "Michigan" Sanberg; Norman Kent; Guy Manos; others from the Skydiving Community Director: Norman Kent Manufacturer: Norman Kent Productions ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000LC3RXE Release Date: 2001-11-01 |
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Experience the thrill, excitement and beauty of skydiving. Dive In! is a collection of 4 breathtaking videos by world famous cinematographer Norman Kent. First is his award winning film, From Wings Came Flight which revolutionized the sport of skydiving. Shot over many exotic locations including La Paz, Mexico, the Florida Keys, and Brazil this film stars an international selection of world champion skydivers called the Dream Team performing complex and visually stunning formation flying. Also included are competition skydiving, extreme parachute formations, and the artistic discipline of freestyle also called Sky Dancing. This film will make you want to become a skydiver. (45 minutes) Flight of the Dream Team is an action packed documentary that features all types of skydiving including BASE jumping and tandem skydiving. You ll see historic footage tracing the roots of skydiving to its present form today, accompanied by interviews with the athletes. (25 minutes) Freak Brothers Convention portrays the atmosphere of a skydiving event and is all about how much fun you can have in the air. (15 minutes) Ride a Cloud takes you back to Norman s roots as a skydiving cinematographer. This film shows you the early days of sport skydiving, in contrast to the modern skydiving seen in From Wings Came Flight . (15 minutes) Bonus features on this DVD include a director s commentary, behind-the-scenes interviews, a stunning photo gallery and much more.
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Variety Lights - Criterion collection
Starring: Silvio Bagolini , Giulio Calì , Mario De Angelis , Peppino De Filippo , and Carla Del Poggio Director: Federico Fellini Manufacturer: Criterion ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: 0780023331 Release Date: 2000-08-22 |
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Federico Fellini codirected this film from his own story about a romance between an ambitious young dancer and the aging manager of a variety theater in Rome. It's a sharply realized first effort, showing that Fellini could work his magic even in 1950. The dancer--played with luscious, complicated innocence by Carla del Poggio--talks her way into Signor Checco's troupe by showing him her legs. The others, including his girlfriend (Giulietta Masina), protest, but Checco takes her into the poverty-stricken group anyway. Soon enough, he is justified: Their sparsely attended shows are suddenly packed with men stomping their feet and whistling for "the Redhead." Checco not-so-secretly wants her himself, and she lets him think he might get her (even while looking for someone else with money.) The film's many lively performances include Giulietta Masina, whose eyes register pluck, resignation, and weariness in a moment as she watches her guy fall in love. Poggio is good, too: When she gets what she wants, her face slides into a quiver of doubt about its value. Self-delusion, arguably the main arrow in Fellini's quiver of themes, gets a subtly layered treatment here, and Fellini, so extravagant later in his career, shows an early talent for, of all things, restraint. --Lyall BushDescription
A beautiful ingenue joins a tawdry music hall troupe and quickly becomes its feature attraction in Fellini's stunning debut film (directed in collaboration with neorealist filmmaker Alberto Lattuada). Featuring Giulietta Masina, Fellini's wife and frequent leading lady, Variety Lights introduces the director's affection for the carnivalesque characters that frequent the cinematic landscape of such classics as Nights of Cabiria, La Strada, and La Dolce Vita. Criterion is proud to present Variety Lights in a beautiful digital transfer.Customer Reviews:
My favorite neo-realist Fellini film.......2005-01-08
Fellini's directorial debut.......2004-05-31
This movie, co-directed by Fellini, is his first film. The story follows a young woman who joins a vaudeville act and brings great popularity to it.
The film has good acting and the English title is a very close translation of the original title, "Luci del varietà" or "Lights of Variety"
The DVD has no special features which is a disappointment since this is a Criterion release.
Green Fellini-- but still worth a look.......2002-04-05
Fellini's fascinating debut........2001-11-09
Against this lively backdrop is a tragicomic romance, part-'A Star is Born', part-'The Blue Angel', between a middle-aged performer and a budding starlet. The former deludes himself about his greatness and influence in order to hide the cruel realities of failure and aging, but when the latter takes him at his word, he throws up the very real security his shambling peripatetic life offers, to promote his ambitious charge, with tragedy lurking around the corner.
This tale has a nasty, misogynistic undertow, with Carla de Poggio's Lily portrayed as cold and almost homicidally calculating, and Peppino de Filippo's besotted loser Checco sentimentalised (although his is the one emotionally truthful performance in the film), but luckily it isn't the film's main interest. Although it's only half his work, many of Fellini's motifs, themes and stylistic trademarks are present - the uneasy co-existence of dusty, small-town Italy with the American-fuelled dreams of theatre and showbiz; the nocturnal, dream-like scenes on empty streets, where the lead meets strangers and has a kind of group epiphany in which reality is enchanted or suspended; the indulgent (though clear-eyed) portrait of flawed, family-like artist life against the soulless commericalism of the nouveau riche; the cinematic momentum in which plot is less important than set-pieces in which accumulated incidents and protracted character interaction achieve a kind of carnivalesque truth.
Fellini would refine these elements later - scenes that should be magical fall a little flat; the characters aren't interesting or comic enough; the blaring music definitely lacks the Nino Rota touch - but the film is fascinating to see Fellini struggling with the limitations of his neo-realist apprenticeship.
Masina Steals The Show.......2001-04-30
Fellini, a true visionary, is known for filling the screen with vivid images born of his own imagination, especially in his later films. But beyond the sometimes bizarre appearances, there is always an engaging story to be found at the heart of his films, and this one (his first) is no exception. And, though devoid of the surrealism he would use later on, in Checco's company there is something of the carnival motif present that Fellini would return to time and again during the course of his career, and of course, there's the story, presented with that unique Fellini touch and laced with his insight into the human condition, which at it's core is the real strength of the film.
No matter what the subject matter, Fellini always had his finger on the emotional pulse of the material and had the innate ability to transfer what he felt to the screen. Very simply, he knew what worked and how to use it; within the images he presents, there can always be found a reflection of reality-- even amid the surreal-- and it's in his characters. Physically and emotionally, these are real people who run the entire gamut of human existence. Beyond his astounding visuals, it's his ability to cultivate that depth of his characters that makes Fellini special; the way they interact with, and relate to one another or the situations in which they find themselves. And by drawing out his actors, he always gives his audience someone with whom to identify on one level or another.
As Checco, Filippo successfully taps into the humanity of the character, this aging performer with hopes and aspirations beyond his means or capabilities. He's a character with whom you can sympathize, but only to a point-- for you soon recognize his flaws and transgressions. But even then, you are still able to at least understand him. Most importantly, his performance is believable, and his Checco comes across as a very real person.
Del Poggio gives a notable performance as well, as this young woman who makes the most of the opportunity with which she is presented. And as the story unfolds she develops her character extremely well; by the end of the film you know exactly who "Lily" is and what motivates her.
In a memorable supporting role, it's the young Giulietta Masina, however, who steals the show as Melina Amour, Checco's girlfriend. She creates the one character in the film with whom you can truly empathize, and she does it with style. Masina has such a radiant, charismatic screen presence, that whenever she appears the eye is instinctively drawn to her. A gifted actress, she is exceptionally adept at expressing her emotions-- often by merely shifting her eyes-- and communicating with the audience. Few actors can say more or convey as much with their eyes or with a simple expression as Masina. And, sparse as it is, her performance here is alone worth the price of admission.
The supporting cast includes Folco Lulli (Adelmo), John Kitzmiller (Johnny), Dante Maggio (Remo), Carlo Romano (Enzo) and Gina Mascetti (Valeria del Sole). Well crafted and delivered, "Variety Lights" is an engaging story, told in the same straightforward manner Fellini would later use in "La Strada" and "Nights of Cabiria." The basic elements of the story may be familiar, but it's an entertaining film, and worth seeing, as it prophesies the triumphs of an artist who would soon be recognized as one of the world's master filmmakers: Fellini.
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Sid Caesar Collection - Fan Favorites - The Dream Team of Comedy
Starring: Sid Fan Favorites Caesar Manufacturer: Creative Light ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005NC5F Release Date: 2001-09-25 |
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"We did everything," Sid Caesar notes during this priceless collection of seven vintage Your Show of Shows and Caesar's Hour sketches from the golden age of live television. And here's the proof: the set includes a domestic sketch ("Life Begins at 7:45"), a game show parody ("Break Your Brains"), a Japanese movie spoof ("U-Bet-U"), and even "Pantomime of a Seal." In delightful interview segments, the "great amalgamation of talents" (including Nanette Fabray, Carl Reiner, Larry Gelbart, Neil Simon, and Mel Brooks) affectionately recall working with each other. The DVD includes a bonus sketch and Caesar's commentary on "Break Your Brains." --Donald Liebenson
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Chuck Daly: Dream Team Coach - Coach
Starring: Chuck Daly , and Pat O'Brien Director: Jeff Richardson Manufacturer: Delta ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD ASIN: B00008G934 Release Date: 2003-02-18 |
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Chuck Daly led the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA Championship titles and coached the original U.S. Olympic "Dream Team" to a gold medal in 1992. Chuck, as a teacher and psychotherapist, demonstrates offensive plays and team defenses, discusses strategies for winning, his coaching techniques and shares his inside story of how he achieved success.Running Time: 60 min.
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Charlie Rose with John McCain & Russell Feingold; Harrison Ford; Chuck Daly (March 25, 1997)
Manufacturer: Charlie Rose ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD ASIN: B000IU35OK Release Date: 2006-09-28 |
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Senators John McCain and Russell Feingold discuss the obstacles to campaign finance reform. Next, Charlie talks to actor Harrison Ford about the re-release of the Star Wars Trilogy and his current film that co-stars Brad Pitt called, A Devil's Own. Ford plays a New York City police officer. Finally, basketball analyst Chuck Daly talks to Charlie about coaching the dream team at the 1992 Olympics and his current job with Turner Sports.DVD:
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