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In the comedic vain of Kingdom Come and Soul Food, Gas is a whole new grade of high octane comedy! Returning to LA for his father's funeral, Damon (Flex Alexander) discovers he inherited his family-owned gas station and market. The hilarious catch - so did his brother Mookie (Khalil Kain), a former dealer who cost him his college scholarship. The terms of the will stipulate that the sibling rivals must co-run the station together for a year, or forfeit the business. Tune up sales the fall with this heartwarming laugh-out-loud comedy!
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Starring: José Bartel , Michel Benoist , Georges Blaness , Dorothée Blank , and Pierre Caden Manufacturer: KOCH LORBER FILMS ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0001BMLUA Release Date: 2004-04-06 |
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Jacques Demy's haunting romantic musical is an enchanting, one-of-a-kind musical experience. It's basically a movie operetta, in which the characters sing all the dialogue (or, rather, lyrics--by director Demy) to Michel Legrand's lovely score. The story spans five years (1957-1962) in the life of Geneviéve (the ethereally beautiful Catherine Deneuve in the role that launched her to international stardom), the teenage daughter of a woman who owns a Cherbourg umbrella shop. After Geneviéve's boyfriend Guy (Nino Castelnuovo) is drafted and sent off to Algeria, she discovers she's pregnant ... and complications ensue. With its dazzling candy-colored palette, Umbrellas of Cherbourg looks sweet and dreamy. Restored and rereleased in 1995 to rapturous acclaim and the renewed delight of all who got the chance to see it. The video release is taken from the restored version. --Jim Emerson
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The Grey Zone
Starring: David Arquette , Velizar Binev , David Chandler (IV) , Michael Stuhlbarg , and George Zlatarev Director: Tim Blake Nelson Manufacturer: Lions Gate ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000087EYX Release Date: 2003-03-18 |
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The title of Tim Blake Nelson's harrowing drama of Jewish death camp prisoners who rise up against their captors to "destroy the machinery" refers as much to the compromise and cloudy morality of collaboration as to the gray world coated in the smoke and ash of the crematoriums. Inspired by real-life events at the Auschwitz death camp, The Grey Zone stars David Arquette as a soul-deadened laborer whose being fiercely jolts to life when he finds a young girl alive among the gassed corpses. He's the heart and soul of an outstanding cast that includes Steve Buscemi and Daniel Benzali as revolt leaders, Allan Corduner as the shunned camp doctor, and Harvey Keitel as the commandant. Nelson's rapid pacing, intimate shooting, and terse, jagged dialogue give the moral debate a discomforting immediacy as it races a deadline. When doom hangs in the air, sure death creates unique priorities. --Sean Axmaker
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Little Giants
Starring: Rick Moranis , Ed O'Neill , Shawna Waldron , Devon Sawa , and Todd Bosley Director: Duwayne Dunham Manufacturer: Warner Home Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00009AVA4 Release Date: 2003-07-08 |
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Two brothers, one a former football hero and the other a warm-hearted klutz, find themselves at odds when they coach opposing peewee football teams.
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Rolling Kansas
Starring: Kelly Bright , Ryan Thomas Brockington , Greg Dorchak , Charlie Finn , and Ed Geldhart Manufacturer: Monarch Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002CR09U Release Date: 2004-08-17 |
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Wild in the Streets/Gas-s-s-s
Starring: Barry Shear , Shelley Winters , and Christopher Jones Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0007R4T3A Release Date: 2005-02-15 |
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WILD IN THE STREETS: Original Theatrical Trailer Widescreen (1.85) English (Mono) Subtitles: English, French, Spanish GAS-S-S-S: English (Mono), Spanish (Mono)
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The Vanishing
Starring: Jeff Bridges , Kiefer Sutherland , Nancy Travis , Sandra Bullock , and Park Overall Director: George Sluizer Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0002IQLHQ Release Date: 2004-09-07 |
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It's not unusual for Hollywood to remake European hits. What is unusual is the director of the original getting the chance to helm the new version with an American cast, which is what happened with this film based on an intensely creepy Dutch film of the same name (both directed by George Sluizer). Kiefer Sutherland and Sandra Bullock are on vacation when, while stopped at a crowded rest area, she disappears. He devotes the next several years to discovering what happened to her, ruining his life in the process. When he does get a clue, it leads him to Jeff Bridges, who plays a bizarre and highly organized individual whose motives are almost as strange as he is. Bridges is spooky, but Sluizer ultimately is undone by Hollywood's demand for a happy ending, which makes this film affecting but far less unsettling than the original. --Marshall FineDescription
In this riveting, tension-filled psychological thriller, a young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating psychopath (Jeff Bridges) who kidnapped his girlfriend stalks Jeff, ultimately taking him through the exact same steps that led to the crime. In order to find out what happened, Jeff must put his own life in the hands of this devious stranger.
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Son of Flubber
Starring: Fred MacMurray , Nancy Olson , Keenan Wynn , Tommy Kirk , and Ed Wynn Director: Robert Stevenson Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000DZTL8 Release Date: 2004-04-06 |
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Proving that sequels rarely measure up, Son of Flubber reunites cast, director (Robert Stevenson), studio (Disney), and concept (an eccentric inventor, played by Fred MacMurray, makes odd products with hilarious side effects), and still isn't as good as its predecessor, The Absent Minded Professor. MacMurray and company turn their attention to some new inventions, including flubber gas and dry rain, and while there's plenty of comedy to be had, the film is finally spotty and wears out its welcome. On the plus side, Paul Lynde is a funny addition to this follow-up. --Tom KeoghDescription
Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor -- Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) -- bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity substance, "flubber." Windows shatter, football players fly, and thunderstorms materialize indoors as Professor Brainard fights to keep Medfield College from falling into the hands of ruthless land developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn).
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Hells Angels on Wheels
Starring: Adam Roarke , Jack Nicholson , Sabrina Scharf , Jana Taylor , and Richard Anders Director: Richard Rush Manufacturer: Image Entertainment ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000E69GN Release Date: 2003-12-30 |
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This pair of Joe Solomon-produced biker dramas are two of the better examples of the '60s subgenre. Jack Nicholson stars in Hell's Angels on Wheels as a moody cycle-riding gas station attendant adopted by Adam Roarke's gang when he jumps into a friendly bar fight. It's a fairly blatant rip-off of Roger Corman's The Wild Angels, but director Richard Rush (who next teamed up with Nicholson for the counterculture classic Psych-Out) offers up a lifestyle that's less nihilistic than simply meaningless and winds the unlikely friendship between restless Nicholson and rootless Roarke into an inevitable clash over basic philosophical differences (namely, Jack wants Adam's girl, and Adam wants Jack to kowtow to his leadership). William Smith is an unusual hero in Run Angel Run: he's a sellout on the run from vengeful biker clubs up and down the coast. Director Jack Starrett, a former actor in biker movies himself (Hell's Angels on Wheels, among others), creates a taut little picture highlighted by impressive stunts (Smith jumps onto the flat car of a moving train). Smith's brooding, taciturn performance mellows when he takes a job on a rural sheep farm and connects with a career farmer who used to be a barnstorming biker in the 1950s. "I gotta be free man, I gotta fly," confesses Angel, but at what price? Both pictures were cheaply made for quick playoff, but there's an interesting attempt to explore the tension between the thrill of the road and the hollow activity passing for freedom. The set comes in a cool-looking 8 by 12 tin storage container, but the tapes do not have separate video sleeves. --Sean AxmakerDescription
When he loses his job, gas station attendant Poet (Academy Award-winner Jack Nicholson) falls in with a rough band of Hells Angels who terrorize Northern California in a hellraising frenzy of parties and gang fights. Choppers, drugs, sex, murder and mayhem ensue as Poet and gang leader Buddy (Adam Roarke) head down a dark road to danger. From acclaimed cult director Richard Rush (The Stunt Man) with cinematography by the legendary László Kovács (Easy Rider, Paper Moon) and music by Stu Phillips (Battlestar Gallactica, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls).
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Premium
Starring: Dorian Missick , Zoe Saldana , Hill Harper , Eva Pigford , and Frankie Faison Director: Pete Chatmon Manufacturer: Code Black Entertainment ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000M7XRGA Release Date: 2007-03-27 |
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Cool is a struggling actor fed up with stereotypical African-American roles. While pumping gas to make ends meet, he collides with his ex-fiancé after 3 years of silence. She is getting married in 36 hours. As the clock ticks on his life, love, and career, Cool finds he must take on the biggest "role" of his life to win her back.
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Convoy
Starring: Franklyn Ajaye , Ernest Borgnine , John Bryson , Seymour Cassel , and Brian Davies Director: Sam Peckinpah Manufacturer: Cheezy Flicks Ent ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AYELI8 Release Date: 2005-10-25 |
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Citizen Band radio takes to the freeways for fast-lane thrills and fly-over spills. Trucker "Rubber Duck" (Kris Kristofferson) signals the big 10-4 when he and his unsuspecting ridealong (Ali MacGraw) are chased through three states by a corrupt traffic cop named "Dirty Lyle" (Ernest Borgnine).DVD:
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