Beautiful Joe

Starring:Sharon Stone, Billy Connolly, Gil Bellows, Jurnee Smollett, Dillon Moen, Jaimz Woolvett, Alan C. Peterson, Dann Florek, Ian Holm, Sheila Paterson, Frank C. Turner, Gina Chiarelli, Ben Johnson (IV), Connor Widdows, Norman Armour, Barbara Tyson, Ben Derrick, Ken Pogue, Jonathan McMurtry, Dean Paul Gibson
Director: Stephen Metcalfe
Studio: Sony Pictures
Product Type: DVD

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Nicole Sheridan steams up the wild west........2005-11-02

Another good, sexy, fun softcore romp from Retromedia. Nicole Sheridan and Beverly Lynne end up inheriting an old, western ghost town. But there's an evil landowner nearby who wants to scare her into selling it so that he can get his hands on its legendary lost silver mine. But the ghost of Calamity Kate helps fend him off.

Throughout this little adventure, we get six sex scenes. Four are boy/girl, one is girl/girl, and one is girl/girl/girl. The first four were excellent, the final two were okay, but could have been better. The lesbian three way should have been the highlight of the video, but it was one of the weaker scenes. Nicole was in four of the scenes, so this is a really good video for fans of her. Beverly is in two scenes. There were two other girls who were in the girl/girl scene, and they did a great job. Belinda Gavin (aka, Kylie Wyote) is also present, and is in one scene.

The other movie on the DVD, Bikini Academy, is barely worth mentioning. I sped through it on fast forward, and it looked really bad, with very little nudity and one very weak sex scene.

However, if you've enjoyed past Retromedia releases, or want something that gives you a lot of Nicole Sheridan, this is an easy recommendation.

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the charm of the mafia

The Most Beautiful Wife
Starring: Ornella Muti , Alessio Orano , Tano Cimarosa , Pierluigi Aprà , and Joe Sentieri
Director: Damiano Damiani
Manufacturer: Noshame
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ASIN: B000HT3QBY
Release Date: 2006-10-31

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What's your idea of justice... have you ever thought about it?

Spurning the advances of a Mafia don's cruel nephew, a beautiful peasant girl is punished for upholding her family's honor by being abducted and robbed of her virginity. Rebuked by her own parents and incurring the wrath of her village, the girl reports her rape to the local police, shattering centuries-old traditions in her unyielding quest for justice.

Damiano Damiani's THE MOST BEAUTIFUL WIFE marked the film debut of gorgeous Italian actress Ornella Muti (THE NUNS OF ST. ARCHANGEL, FLASH GORDON) and also features a strong performance by Alessio Orano (LISA AND THE DEVIL, THE KILLER MUST KILL AGAIN). Filmed on location in Sicily, this adult drama anticipates both THE GODFATHER and PRIZZI'S HONOR, and is based on a true police case that changed the course of Italian law during the 1960s. Shot by giallo specialist Franco Di Giacomo (FOUR FLIES ON GREY VELVET, WHO SAW HER DIE?), this gritty and hard-hitting film also benefits from one of the great, unheralded Euro-Cult scores of Ennio Morricone.

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the charm of the mafia.......2007-05-08

The first plane of the Ornella's eyes is beautiful. The argument it is rude but well basted. In the end: the doubt: caprice or justice. Good movie.

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BEAUTIFUL JOE
Stone and Connolly a Winning Team
Help!
One of the worst movies of all time
Disappointing Romantic Comedy Lacks Power to Make Us Care

Beautiful Joe
Starring: Sharon Stone , Billy Connolly , Gil Bellows , Jurnee Smollett , and Dillon Moen
Director: Stephen Metcalfe
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B00005B1W9
Release Date: 2001-05-22

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Amiable Irishman Joe (Scottish comedian Billy Connolly), after an all-time mother of a bad day, decides to leave his adopted New York home and seek adventure. Unfortunately, he runs into Hush (Sharon Stone) and gets far more adventure than he bargained for. Beautiful Joe is a well-intentioned film, and that is nearly all that can be said for it. It tries to be both comedy and drama, but is comfortable as neither. Stone's character is the standard beautiful-but-messed-up-woman-who-needs-rescuing who is for some mystifying reason supposed to be appealing. And yes, of course she has a mute son who just might speak if only he had the right reason. Stone, who stretches herself here, is clearly eager to play a character: she mugs, she drawls, she wiggles, and she cries. Not a scrap of scenery escapes her gullet; at times her attempts at comedy actually become sort of upsetting. Ally McBeal's Gil Bellows turns in a similarly inept and cartoonish "comic" performance. Beautiful Joe's one saving grace is Connolly, who manages to rise above his fellow cast members and the bizarre editing to turn in a charming, dignified performance. --Ali Davis

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BEAUTIFUL JOE.......2007-02-14

It was so easy and I got the video within a week. I am very happy with my purchase and plan on purchasing other movies.

Stone and Connolly a Winning Team.......2005-01-31

This 2000 black comedy from the United Kingdom began as if it were going to be a tearjerker, but with the right touch came off as an inspirational film where two people find each other at difficult moments and eventually happiness. Billy Connolly, the world famous comic from Glasgow, and sexy Sharon Stone comprise the initial odd couple that in the end fulfill each other's needs.

Connolly's plight is far more tragic than Stone's in that he is handed a potential death sentence by his New York City doctor. At the very time that he needs sympathy and understanding he comes home and finds his wife sharing his bed with another man. She tells him bluntly about her intention to seek a divorce because she finds him totally boring. He does not tell her what he has just heard from his doctor.

The scene then shifts to Churchill Downs in Kentucky, where Connolly has gone to gain a needed change of scenery. He is betting on the races and doing it foolishly, without any semblance of strategy. Horseplayer Sharon Stone sees him there. After latching on to him as a potential means of helping her financially, she gives him up when he hands all his track winnings to two nuns, causing her to conclude that he is a loser as she walks him away and leaves him standing in the distance watching her.

Connolly meets Stone again at the strip club where she formerly danced and now supervises. He catches her at a bad time, when an old live in love that now works for the mob is seeking to obtain money she owes. Eventually Connolly takes Stone home. Just as she is again about to end their association she realizes what an effective housekeeper he is when she is at the club and that her two young children like him.

Just as Connolly, Stone, and the two children are making very much like a family a problem ensues and the mob is in hot pursuit. For one thing, the local Kentucky mob boss played by Ian Holm has mistaken Connolly for a famous New York syndicate head, has let him off the hook on the debt, and has angered his superiors. Gil Bellows does a superb job of playing the highly incompetent former love of Stone who invests the role of enforcer with Inspector Clousseau comedic clumsiness. Holm is plenty clumsy himself and the film is one that focuses on comic deficiencies of the mob figures rather than ruthless and violent efficiency.

The Kentucky mob ultimately pursues Connolly and Stone to Las Vegas after she has told her girlfriend where she is going, never dreaming that she will report back to her enemies. Eventually the pair will find happiness after some unique surprise twists involving the mob figures.

Stephen Metcalfe wrote a fine script and directed as well. He deftly spun two character arcs in the film, that of Connolly abandoning his former cautiously boring demeanor as he becomes associated with Stone. At the same time, Stone, while bringing Connolly out, admires his stable qualities and tones down her erratic conduct and savage temper.

Help!.......2004-03-20

Help! Can anyone help me find the soundtrack to this movie! A movie with such great music should'nt go unheard!

One of the worst movies of all time.......2003-10-08

The somewhat charming presence of Billy Connolly notwithstanding, "Beautiful Joe" is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I took the DVD out from the public library; I should have known.

The story cannot be dumber: Joe, a florist originally from Dublin and recently living in the Bronx (my hometown!), finds his wife banging the plumber, after he finds out he's got a brain tumor, so he heads off to find some adventures. He meets Alice (Sharon), who's basically this trashy woman with two kids (one mulatto and the other silent), at the race tracks, and immediately falls in love with her. How believable! How adventurous. Anyway, Joe goes off to talk some sense into local hooligan and loan shark George the Geek, who mistakes Joe for a famous Manhattanian-Irish hitman Beautiful Joe (who turns out to be Joe's drinking buddy Happy). When George finds out the truth, he's set on killing both Joe and Alice. So JOe and Alice take the kids and flee.

The rest of the film gets even more boring and predictable. The movie pretends to be a romance story, but there's very little chemistry between the two main actors. Sharon puts up incredibly bad acting here. Alice says, "oh I'm growing fat and old," and that's exactly how the formerly-lovely Sharon looks in the film. That's not even one-tenth of the problem if not for her poor performance. It's evident that this is not a role she wanted. She's in either for the money, or to fulfill some studio contract. The two kids are annoying, to say the least. When the boy Lee talks toward the end, after Joe rescues Alice from the gansters in Vegas and realizes that Happy (Beautiful Joe) is just a mob associate of his ex-father-in-law, the head of the Irish crime family (Joe wasn't aware of it), Lee philosophizes about life by quoting from a bunch of TV talk shows and the stupidity of this scene just totally stunned me. I never thought Hollywood could come out with something so utterly brainless. In the end, Joe gets a successful surgery and, guess what, lives happily ever after with ex-trashy woman and her two abnormal kids.

This is just absolutely one of the worst movies ever made.

Disappointing Romantic Comedy Lacks Power to Make Us Care.......2003-04-21

Before her 2 year hietus due to illness, Sharon Stone stared in this romantic comedy with Billy Connolly, as a single mother called "Hush," whose life is full of messy relations with men and gambling. The film is directed by Stephern Metcalfe, and is the first job as director, who has been working as scriptwriter in Hollywood. But you will be impressed with somebody else.

The film is, in fact, about an amiable Irishaman living in America named Joe, who is effectively played by Billy Connolly, best known for the film "Mrs. Brown" opposite Judi Dench. Joe, seeing that his life as a good-natured flowerist is too boring, decides to travel, and meets Hush. After several misadventures including horse-racing, mud-wrestling, and an encounter with local mobsters (Gil Bellows, TV's "Ally McBeal" and Ian Holm as his boss), Hush comes to like him, so does Joe, among the kids whose life has been so far neglected by Hush.

The best thing you can find about "Beautiful Joe" is Billy Connolly's amicable portrayal of Joe, who fares among the clithed moments better than you expect. We can understand that people around him all like him, as the film depicts. Even Ian Holm's Hannibal-like caricature of gangster looks funny before Connolly's incredibly innocent talk, and there are some good moments in the film, especially when those veteran actors are allowed to do some tricks before us.

But too bad that no one among the crew seems to have pointed out that this kind of film fails to interest us when it looks as if going automatically. I do not see why Joe should fall for Hush, who treats him very bad at first, and keeps on chasing her. The gangster plot is too familiar after our seeing films such as "Life Less Ordinary" or "Get Shorty" and many, many others, and the inclusion of kids is also too clithed. Or, if I may sound too harsh, let me say that at least they should have give them (kids) more decent dialogues.

Sharon Stone seems miscast at first, but actually her acting is not so bad as you may think. It is rather her constant change of hair-styles and costumes that annoys us, making us wonder why these changes are needed. Actually, she was much better in the similar role in "The Mighty" (and duely nominated for Golden Globe), but here her heavy make-ups look as if to show the lack of confidence. They should not have done that.

Product Description

Joe Satriani is a 13 time Grammy Nominee and awarded "Outstanding Guitarist" at the California Music Awards. He had the first instrumental guitar album to crack the Top 40 charts and he's listed as #8 in Guitar Player Magazine's "Top 50 Greatest Guitarist Poll". In episode #1 of Take Note, Joe Satriani discusses record labels, management, publishing rights, "Chrome Boy" and more. Also see a live performance of "Summer Song". There's even a visit from former student, Steve Vai sharing his thoughts on Joe as a teacher. Take Note strives to educate, encourae and entertain.

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I love hearing about the music business instead of gossip.......2006-07-09

This is a great interview with Joe. It's not the usual gossip and media hype. It's about music and music business straight from Joe without some annoying host. I particularly liked the performance. You can actually see him play guitar instead of the usual MTV, moving camera and crazy edits. If you're a Joe fan, you'll want to see this.

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Viewtiful Joe, Vol. 3
Starring: Tomokazu Seki , Makoto Tsumura , Natsuko Kuwatani , Banjô Ginga , and Mayumi Asano
Director: Takaaki Ishiyama
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
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ASIN: B000E3LGJ2
Release Date: 2006-06-06

Description

You can't get something for nothing. When children get free Slugoon toys with a mind control device inside, it spells trouble for our would-be heroes. To make matters worse, Junior takes the bait and starts attacking Joe! The fun has just begun when Joe and Junior run into Fire Leo. Joe has to figure out what Leo's weak point is before he gets burned like a bad burger! To make matters worse, Joe gets locked up for talking with a girl who turns out to be a princess on the run. With Joe behind bars, Junior has to rise to the occasion and protect the princess from party pooping police!

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Great anime, too bad they didn't get someone else to localize it

Viewtiful Joe, Vol. 1
Starring: Tomokazu Seki , Makoto Tsumura , Natsuko Kuwatani , Banjô Ginga , and Mayumi Asano
Director: Takaaki Ishiyama
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
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ASIN: B000BSO70K
Release Date: 2006-02-07

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The broadcast series Viewtiful Joe (2004) follows the popular videogame from Capcom (2003). Joe is a slacker-dude, totally hooked on the anime hero Captain Blue. He drags his long-suffering girlfriend Sylvia to a "Captain Blue" feature, but they find the ending has changed. A new gang of villains, the Jadow, cleans the Captain's clock and grabs Sylvia into the film. When Joe follows, Captain Blue gives him a V-watch that enables him to transform into a super-hero version of himself. He's off to rescue Sylvia! Filmmakers have been dumping heroes into onscreen worlds since Buster Keaton's brilliant Sherlock, Jr. (1924); Viewtiful Joe may not add much to the premise, but it's a lot of fun. With his spiky hair, backwards baseball cap, cargo shorts, large head, and small body, Joe looks like a cross between an anime hero and a character from American underground comix. Viewtiful Joe pokes fun at the clichés of superhero series, although at times it sounds like a Gekigangar III story read by Bill and Ted. (Unrated, suitable for ages 10 and older: cartoon violence) --Charles Solomon

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Great anime, too bad they didn't get someone else to localize it.......2006-04-17

Picked up the first Viewtiful Joe DVD recently, so here's my review.

The show: I've only seen the episodes that are on the DVD, so I'm not sure how this shapes up later, but... As you may or may not know, there's a VJ anime which has been dubbed for the US market. It follows the plot of the game more or less, with some changes that you may or may not like due to the fact that Capcom for some reason let 4Kids and Geneon do the localization. First of all, the voices have all changed, and Joe's at least not for the better IMHO. He sounds like a permeanently congested surfer dude. Most of the rest of the characters sound at least reasonably like their game counterparts, save Gran Bruce who now has the stereotypical Aussie accent instead of sounding like a pirate. Some of the names have been changed around, such as the Six Machine becoming Machine Six, and Six Maijin becoming Robo-Six. Sprocket also gained a tie to cover her, her... uhh... chest, and the scenes where she pulls at the zipper on her shirt were all cut, along with VJ's middle finger being edited out in the transformation scenes. Now, if he were flipping the bird I could understand, but the pose has him with his thumb, middle, and pinkie finger raised. Not the same thing, IMHO. I think that the anime itself is rather good, so I give that an A-, but the localization gets a D. Capcom should have had someone else do it, and had them keep the voice actors from the game.

The DVD: Man they're not giving it away. The first DVD only has three episodes on it, and set me back $17.99 + tax. That means to buy all the discs for the first season alone (24 episodes) would set you back $144. Ouch. The on disc extras are limited to the FOX Kids commercial for the cartoon, and a still picture character guide that mostly tells you the same stuff that the game does. It's rather lame IMHO. It does come with a mini poster with an ad for the next volume on the back, a lenticular card (the ones that shift back and forth between two different images depending on the angle), and some stickers that are probably not outdoor safe.

In closing, I love VJ, and the original anime is great, but I can't really recommend this DVD. The localization isn't that great, and it's too expensive for what you get. It should either be cheaper or have more episodes on it. Neat pack ins don't make up for it.

Wild and Beautiful on Ibiza (German Version)

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Wild and Beautiful on Ibiza (German Version)
Director: Siggi Gotz
ProductGroup: DVD
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Nudity & Sexual Situations
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Uncut Version
All Region Disc

ASIN: B000HYMSWW

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Ibiza - island where the rich and beautiful meet in a fascinating, southern landscape. Mike and Susi, two young tourists with rather modest resources, join the happy crowd around Bosso and Gilda for a sun and sex-filled vacation ... Stars Regis Porte, Tanja Spiess, Michael Gspandl, Beate Granitz, Margit Geissler & Gesa Thoma.

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Viewtiful Joe, Vol. 2
Starring: Tomokazu Seki , Makoto Tsumura , Natsuko Kuwatani , Banjô Ginga , and Mayumi Asano
Director: Takaaki Ishiyama
Manufacturer: Geneon [Pioneer]
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Viewtiful Joe, Vol. 6

ASIN: B000CBCWN0
Release Date: 2006-04-04

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Joe is a dude just like you and me. He has two great loves: his girlfriend Silvia and Captain Blue, the action-movie superhero. Now that Joe has totally awesome superpowers, he's ready to battle his way through Movieland to rescue Silvia. But first, he enters hamburger heaven to fight his own hunger. It's too bad Jadow wants to hit Joe where it hurts... will the hungry hero overcome? And every hero has to have a trusty sidekick. Enter Captain Blue Jr.!!!

6 Set Dvd's ~ Starting, Designing and Maintaining a Beautiful Garden ~ Shipped Same Day~

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6 Set Dvd's ~ Starting, Designing and Maintaining a Beautiful Garden ~ Shipped Same Day~

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This informative two-part DVD is jam packed with easy to follow tips & expert advice for gardeners of every level. Host Joe Maiden will show you how to create & maintain a beautiful flower garden for year round color. Joe also includes useful advice on mixed borders, flower patios, heathers, rock gardens & much more! Contains nine Chapters!

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BEAUTIFUL JOE
Stone and Connolly a Winning Team
Help!
One of the worst movies of all time
Disappointing Romantic Comedy Lacks Power to Make Us Care

Beautiful Joe [Region 2]
Starring: Sharon Stone , Billy Connolly , Gil Bellows , Jurnee Smollett , and Dillon Moen
Director: Stephen Metcalfe
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Customer Reviews:

BEAUTIFUL JOE.......2007-02-14

It was so easy and I got the video within a week. I am very happy with my purchase and plan on purchasing other movies.

Stone and Connolly a Winning Team.......2005-01-31

Help!.......2004-03-20

Help! Can anyone help me find the soundtrack to this movie! A movie with such great music should'nt go unheard!

One of the worst movies of all time.......2003-10-08

The somewhat charming presence of Billy Connolly notwithstanding, "Beautiful Joe" is one of the worst movies I've ever seen. I took the DVD out from the public library; I should have known.

This is just absolutely one of the worst movies ever made.

Disappointing Romantic Comedy Lacks Power to Make Us Care.......2003-04-21

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