Alimony

Starring:Martha Vickers, John Beal, Hillary Brooke, Laurie Lind, Douglass Dumbrille, James Guilfoyle, Marie Blake, Leonid Kinskey, Ralph Graves, William Ruhl, Harry Lauter, Ralph Montgomery, Stanley Blystone, Eddie Borden, Don C. Harvey, Ralph Brooks, Phil Arnold, Charles Sherlock, Stuart Holmes, Jack Chefe
Director: Alfred Zeisler
Studio: Alpha Video
Product Type: DVD

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A Shadow
Nope
Flawed but worth seeing once
Combat as real as it gets
Beach Red, Low Budget WWII

Beach Red
Starring: Linda Albertano , George Bayot , Gene Blakely , Mazamo Chizuki , and Burr DeBenning
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
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ASIN: B00079ZABS
Release Date: 2005-04-19

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Young marines on a WWII tour of duty learn that "war is hell" in this "graphic, unflinching and honest drama of men in combat" (The New York Times). Starring OscarÂ(r) nominee* Cornel Wilde and Rip Torn, Beach Red marked "a real breakthrough in American war picture production"(New York Post), because it "takes pains to show the terror on both sides" (Cue). After a gory battle to take the beach on a Japanese-held island in the Pacific, Captain MacDonald (Wilde) asks Sergeant Honeywell (Torn) to lead a squad on a perilous journey deep into the jungle to find the enemy's stronghold. The scouts soon learn that the Japanese are preparing to strike back hard and fast. In the hours to come, whose blood will soak the sand red? *1945: Actor,A Song to Remember

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A Shadow.......2007-03-25

Just a shadow of an attempt. It was a nice attempt but only shadows the achievement made in A Thin Red Line or the most recent Eastwood combo of Flags of Our Brothers and Letters from Iwo Jima. It's obvious they tried to keep the overhead cost low by using old footage. Nice try.

Nope.......2007-02-15

I would pass on this one, a real dud of you ask me, just was not able to stay with it at all.... I would pass.

Flawed but worth seeing once.......2007-01-11

The cornpone dialogue doesn't always ring true and the editing is terrible, but "Beach Red" is one of the first movies to capture the realism of modern combat, and the range of emotions of the soldiers involved. I can't recall an earlier movie that showed cameramen traveling with the troops, though they obviously did in real life, or that showed Japanese soldiers, not as mindless fanatics, but as ordinary men thrust into combat, just palling around like ordinary dudes before the battle. The overall tone reminds me of "All Quiet on the Western Front," not as well-done overall but with effective moments. What this film really needed and lacked was a good editor to smooth out the rough spots, of which there are many. But despite its flaws there's a sense of tension, realism and horror here that was lacking in most war movies up to that time, and which foreshadowed war movies to come. So in that respect "Beach Red" was ahead of its time.

Combat as real as it gets.......2007-01-01

I saw this movie when it first came out--which was shortly after I returned from infantry duty as a Marine in Vietnam. It was the most potent and powerful depiction of combat I'd ever seen on film, despite any other failings it may have had. My kid brother was still in high school at the time, and wanted to follow my footsteps into the Marines and war. After seeing Beach Red by myself, I took my brother to see it in an attempt to disuade him from enlisting.

Don't get me wrong, I'm not one of those vets who came back and protested the war. I've always been proud of having been a Marine and, as much as I may wish I'd never gone to war, I'm glad I have the experience.

Saving Private Ryan was an exemplary movie, and Fuller's Big Red One is also an important war movie. Beach Red ranks with them for the nitty gritty of being under fire.

Beach Red, Low Budget WWII.......2006-11-14

A low budget, poorly-made film. The acting, except for Rip Torn, is laughable. The battle scenes have some vigor to them, but don't make much sense. In all, the picture owes more to the Vietnam War era than WWII. Perhaps film buffs point to this film because it was one of the first WWII films to show the war in some graphic detial (bloody bullet wounds, shot-off arms and legs, etc) and it follows the travails of the foot-soldier, rather than the generals. It's like bad Sam Fuller, which means, really, really low budget. The voice-overs and flashbacks are indeed very reminiscent to Mallick's technique in THIN RED LINE, although in BEACH RED, the effect is mostly silly. In sum, the effect is mostly bogus, somehow exploitive, and impossible to watch without a fast-forward button.

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THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF INTELLIGENT COMEDY
PLAYTIME American Style
Gorgeous mid-20th century design spoiled by full frame release
Divorce American Style
Another modern classic chopped up in stupid standard screen!

Divorce American Style
Starring: Dick Van Dyke , Debbie Reynolds , Jason Robards , Jean Simmons , and Van Johnson
Director: Bud Yorkin
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
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ASIN: B0000VAFOU
Release Date: 2004-01-06

Description

After 17 years, married life has become predictable and stale for Richard and Barbara Harmon. After splitting up, they discover divorced life is even worse! Stars Emmy ® winner Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds!

Customer Reviews:

THE GOOD OLD DAYS OF INTELLIGENT COMEDY.......2007-02-22

I also agree that they should have the wide screen. Dick is excellent, and Debbie is OK. Being a comedy writer, I appreciate the outstanding script by Norman Lear. Very clever indeed! I like the part with all the divorced kids at one of the houses, with the poor little girl, with the SECURITY BLANKET, being left behind. Also very interesting, is the couple preparing for bed: how well they work together, even after a nasty fight. And don't forget the orchestra leader standing on top of the hill, waving his baton at all the fighting couples behow. A great movie!

PLAYTIME American Style.......2006-05-17

Back in the day, as Dick van Dyke stumbled over a hassock in the Petrie living room week after week, somehow managing to rescue himself from ignominy and tumble right side up again, in triumph, the kids who watched him thought of him as their generation's version of Chaplin. He seemed to take these comparisons to heart, however, and how painful it was to see Van Dyke tackle serious roles, the kinds of parts they gave Jackie Gleason when he got the serious bug as well. It was horrible and, though we loved him deeply, that love only lasted for about a minute, replaced by a frantic indifference that sought to minimize even his obvious gifts. He had an easy way about him, and he seemed to break into song as easily as falling off a log: not such a simple gift, for many stars never got the hang of it, even Gene Kelly, Fred Astaire, you watch them inhale uncertainly right before the music starts up on the soundtrack. They're panicking, and Van Dyke was always Mr. Cool, even when he wasn't cool. His attempts at "characterization" were always, like Olivier, built on some physical trick, like playing Caracactus Potts the inventor in CHITTY CHITTY BANG BANG with that unsightly squint, as though he were going blind instead of driving through the clouds. And yet the sincerity he brought to Potts, and to Bert in MARY POPPINS and to Albert in BYE BYE BIRDIE, though bland and unexceptional, guaranteed the success of those pictures. But in DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE the unexpected thing happens and Dick Van Dyke gets sexy on us. And in addition he displays some of the gift for comedy not of Chaplin perhaps, but of the revered French genius Jacques Tati.

In fact PLAYTIME, which must have premiered around the same time as DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE, hasn't a patch on the latter when it comes to that strange, misty cinematography--its mise en scene, nothing less than everything in modern life including romance. The great setpieces of DIVORCE are so reminiscent of those in PLAYTIME that one would be hard pressed to decide which came first. The celebrated sequence in which Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds, furious spouses who aren't speaking to each other and in loud closeups, prepare for bed by getting in and out of each other's way, is just like the PLAYTIME sequence in which the hero enters the glass-walled apartment in Paris and encounters all the modern appliances. How about when Debbie Reynolds and her girlfriend try to close down a savings account at the bank while Van Dyke and his buddy empty the safety deposit box, the camera cross cutting between the two groups of action like invisible arrows of distress and Eros.

And when Dick Van Dyke, stung by Reynolds' intention to divorce him, winds up on the darkened lawn of Jean Simmons, gazing up at her window, trying to make up his mind, stretching and lean in a pair of slacks and a windbreaker, he's like John Cusack with the radio over his head in SAY ANYTHING, except, yes, he's sexy. I'm looking at him in profile and marveling, like a perve, my God, he's got some butt on him! And then to top it all off there is the insane hypnotist sequence at the end where all the main characters assemble at a club while Ms. Pat Collins, an adult hypnotist of the era, goes through highlights of her notorious act. She's from Fellini--they seem, eerily, and possibly in contrast to her, like real people in a real world of grief, pain and hope.

And how about Tim Matheson as the older of Van Dyke and Reynolds' two kids. Has there ever been a more natural teenager in the movies--I don't think so.

Gorgeous mid-20th century design spoiled by full frame release.......2006-04-06

This movie, besides being extremely well acted by all its stars (including the magnificent Jean Simmons in her mature prime) is also a beautifully designed and shot time capsule. What a shame that it was disrespected by a worthless "full frame" release.

Divorce American Style.......2006-02-01

This is one of the funniest movies ever. It's a shame most people have not seen it. It's hilarious, and Jason Robards is a total crack up. I would recommend this movie to anyone. I bought it and watch it every couple of months. It's a classic 60s comedy.

Another modern classic chopped up in stupid standard screen!.......2004-12-25

Thank goodness Dick Van Dyke's brilliant Never A Dull Moment recently got the classy widescreen treatment it so richly deserved, but Divorce American Style? Nope! They threw it into the crummy standard screen bin, like it was a piece of trash!

I mean it only starred Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds, was directed by Bud Yorkin, with Conrad Hall as the Director of Photography. So I guess the studio (Columbia/Tristar) just didn't think these people were GOOD enough to deserve a widescreen release!

I will gladly buy this DVD, because the theatrical version was GREAT, but only IF it ever comes out in its original widescreen aspect ratio. Continue to boycott all standard screen butcher jobs, everyone!

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Great Movie but the DVD playback is of poor quality

Guilty Conscience
Starring: Blythe Danner , Wiley Harker , Swoosie Kurtz , Ruth Manning , and Anthony Hopkins
Director: David Greene
Manufacturer: Westlake Ent. Group
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ASIN: B00023XHXM
Release Date: 1985-01-01

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Great Movie but the DVD playback is of poor quality.......2007-01-22

I really enjoy this movie, but have been unable to find a DVD with quality graphics. I have purchased 4 different versions of this movie and all look like they were recorded from a VCR tape. Would be nice if anyone out there knows where I can get this movie that views like a DVD instead of a bootleg copy.

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Vietnam Kids in Hell & the Darker Side of their Parents

The Savage Eye
Starring: Barbara Baxley , Gary Merrill , Herschel Bernardi , Jean Hidey , and Elizabeth Zemach
Director: Sidney Meyers , Joseph Strick , and Ben Maddow
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
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ASIN: B00004Y2Q5
Release Date: 2000-10-10

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The Savage Eye is somewhere between documentary and poetry. The story is of one Judith (Barbara Baxley), recently divorced, who's trying for a fresh start and dealing with her own sense of desolation. Her inner state, and that of the society we see in the documentary-style footage, is revealed completely in voice-over dialogue with an incisive and sometimes cruel-sounding interviewer the credits identify as "The Poet" (Gary Merrill), though he seems more like a guardian angel. The tone of this piece is achieved through the dialogue, which is always fashionably bitter and disdainful. Here's an example:

The Poet: On the morning of the sixth day, the stars declined, and the sun rose, and out of a handful of fire and dust, garbage and alcohol, God created man.

Judith: He made a big mistake.

It always stays just this side of overbearing, so you keep waiting for it to stumble, but it never does. A fascinating look at '50s-era emptiness. Also included is the Oscar-winning documentary short Interviews with My Lai Veterans, directed in 1970 by Joseph Strick, one of the directors of The Savage Eye. You couldn't ask for a more privileged look into what happened at the My Lai massacre than these interviews with five veterans who were there, though it's unlikely you would ask. The atrocities as recounted are very hard to listen to. One veteran rationalizes the killing this way: "The Vietnamese are funny people.... They seem to have no understanding of life. They don't care whether they live or die." An indispensable 20 minutes of history. --Jim Gay

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THE DARK SIDE OF THE '50s!
This multiple award-winning drama takes the form of a documentary to tell the story of Judith, a newly divorced woman who moves to Los Angeles to get a fresh start. In this journey through the dark side of 1950s urban life, the camera acts as a character that follows Judith through the streets as she encounters the strange denizens of the city, ranging from trendsetters to religious fanatics. All the tawdry and desperate faces of this world become a mirror for Judith's personal failures and struggles to claim her new life. As an added bonus, Interviews With My Lai Veterans is included on this video. This Academy Award-winning documentary makes an unflinching exploration of the 1968 massacre of the Vietnamese village of My Lai by U.S. armed forces.

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Vietnam Kids in Hell & the Darker Side of their Parents.......2001-07-16

Here are two documentaries that are more strongly related than might initially appear, especially with regards to the ever-elusive field of 'official' and 'actual' American History. The truly depressing spectacle of 1950s neurotic overload, and the horrifying psychotic nightmare of Vietnam, back to back! One indirectly resulted in the other ten years later! The soldiers in the second film are part and parcel of what goes on in the first film, they grew up in it. Similar, from the same place, and yet how utterly different these My Lai veterans are than some of the totally bizarre square people you see in the 1950s film (and I'm not just talking about the hair-lengths and side-burns). From someplace deep inside, they seem to be from different planets, while only 8 years separates them. Their experience of warring the war-war-war-warackazoo has dropped them at the forefront of cultural changes while they may have been at the back end when they went in.

The award-winning My Lai massacre interview film directed by Joseph Strick needs no introduction. It's simple and captures what needs to be captured from soldiers determined to reveal, for once, at least part of the truth, either to clear their consciences or satisfy an investigation. One of the guys even admits that since the orders came from above & he had no choice, he saw it as an opportunity for target practice. It achieves more genuine outrage and absurdist despair in 22 minutes than all 3 of Oliver Stone's supposed 'insider-expose' films about that war combined.

The longer film, "Savage Eye," (62 minutes)is the real pre-cursor of "Medium Cool," Haskell Wexler's classic 1969 semi-doc which put Robert Forster at the '68 Chicago Democratic National convention, capturing the riots that happened as a natural part of the background of the fictional film (Wexler is one of the 3 cinematographers credited on "Savage Eye" who worked under the directorial team of Maddow, Meyers, and Strick). "Savage Eye" is semi-narrated by the main character, a young depressed divorcee, in conversations she has inside her head with her 'guardian angel' who dourly and facetiously comments on her thoughts and attitudes in deeply 'existentialist' tones (very fashionable at the time among intellectuals). The voice of the guardian angel isn't credited to anyone (or is it Gary Merril, I'm not sure?) but it sounds exactly like William Holden's "Sunset Boulevard" voice (he even seems to appear, or if it's not him then some dead-ringer lookalike, in part, very quickly in one street shot, cigarette dangling from his mouth). The whole 'conversation in the head' approach is a bold narrative method with a myriad of possibilities that isn't duplicated enough by all the imitators of recent years who've certainly had no scruples exhausting almost everything else used by innovators of the past. So, in addition to this interesting double-perspective narration, you follow the disillusioned divorced woman in the pre-feminist era, as she goes around trying to pick up the pieces of her life: that's the fictional drama played out entirely 'on location,' to a background of documentary footage that doesn't include riots like "Medium Cool," but is similarly oblivious to the fictional film being shot around it.

Unfortunately the music almost ruins the film. I hated the music on Savage Eye! It was groovy for about 2 minutes at the beginning and went downhill from there: very little variation, just more of the same pretentious Faux-Prokofiev-meets-Faux-Varese dreck over and over again (truly the worst pseudo-modernist, noisy yet utterly sentimental stuff I've ever had my ears tortured by, and I'm a guy who loves REAL modern music by Stravinsky, Boulez, Henze, Varese etc.). When will DVDs offer an option of turning off the music while keeping the dialogue and narration going? That way we can provide our own music to otherwise fine films or have none. In spite of this atrocious music by Leonard Rosenman, made even more annoying by the heavy-handedly manipulative way the directors use it to cue cheap emotions through conditioned reflex (seemingly intent on draining any ambiguity from the quite fascinating situations shown), thereby totally crippling the film's potential to succeed on the high artistic level it may have been capable of, "Savage Eye" is still too fascinating & original to ignore.

What's all this documentary footage? A lot of frightening & darkly-poetic real folks, the kind Bukowski specialized in talking about. Plain looking women surrounding our relatively cute divorcee at the hair-dresser. Real bars with real people in them (the kind you might see in a good film-noir like Siodmak's "Criss-Cross"). Little old ladies and fat old ladies at wrestling matches between crew-cutted versions of today's greasy long-haired buffoons; Little old ladies and fat old ladies at Roller-Derbies (they had these back then?!); religious faith-healers; flat-out crazy old people; poor people you'll never see in any hollywood film; drunk people lying on the streets; a transvestite gathering; strippers never shown in any Hollywood film of the period wearing nothing but a bikini bottom and tinsel, etc. Inner City Blacks rarely shown in any film of the period, etc. All this, and a charmingly sympathetic main character manage to transcend some of the weaker elements I talked about. The DVD transfer is sub-mediocre at best, but at least IMAGE is even bothering to release this previously unavailable curiosities & rarities. Rent it on DVD. Force your local rental store to carry it or take your business elsewhere. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED

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Alimony
Starring: Martha Vickers , John Beal , Hillary Brooke , Laurie Lind , and Douglass Dumbrille
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Great Movie, Lousy DVD
Dreadful....hard to believe Hopkins and Danner could be this bad
DON'T BUY IT UNTIL YOU READ THIS!!!
Great movie - Lousy copy
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Starring: Anthony Hopkins , Blythe Danner , Swoosie Kurtz , Donegan Smith , and Wiley Harker
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ASIN: B00005LDD2
Release Date: 2000-12-26

Customer Reviews:

Great Movie, Lousy DVD.......2007-01-25

Arthur Jamison (Anthony Hopkins) is a brilliant and successful criminal defense attorney. There's just one problem. His wife (Blythe Danner) has decided to file for divorce and is planning to milk him for all he is worth. Since Arthur doesn't want that, he needs to figure out a way to kill his wife. But, being the attorney he is, he knows that he'd be the first suspect. While he plots various ways to bring about her demise, his mistress (Swoosie Kurtz) shows up unexpectedly. Now what will Arthur do?

This is an interesting little made for TV movie from the mid-80's, made long before any of the stars were a success. It has a bit of a low budget feel, but all three stars do a great job acting. It almost feels like a play since almost all of it takes place in Arthur and Louise's house and these three characters are the only real characters.

The plot is hard to discuss without giving anything away. We get several sequences of Arthur's plots to kill his wife and then the cross examination he images he'll have when the case goes to trial. I was getting a little bored with the movie, but half way through there's a great twist that grabbed my interest for the remainder of the film.

While the movie itself is 5 stars, I had to take a couple off for the DVD transfer. It's absolutely horrid. The picture looks like it is a third of fourth generation VHS recording. The transitions at the original commercial breaks are jarring.

While this is great movie, the DVD is a disappointment. If you must have this movie, go ahead. But be forewarned this is not the quality we normally get these days.

Dreadful....hard to believe Hopkins and Danner could be this bad.......2006-02-24

Not only was the DVD quality dreadful, the entire movie was equally awful. I bought this thinking that the acting would make up for the video quality. Much to my surprise, I found that even terrific actors (Anthony Hopkins and Blythe Danner) can make dreadful films. The acting was awful, the plot boring.

I had trouble even sitting still for the 90 minutes of the film. Avoid this stinker at all costs.

DON'T BUY IT UNTIL YOU READ THIS!!!.......2005-07-15

Nearly all the other reviews are right...the transfer copy of this was obviously done off the TV by somebody with a subpar VHS recorder, a low-quality tape and bad editing skills. But beware...at least half a dozen cheap video companies have made their prints from the same inferior master. So don't think buying a different copy with different graphics will make a difference, it won't, it's still the same lousy print. Until a real reputable company (Criterion, Image, etc.) buys it and announces they will be putting this out, any future copies will be as bad as these. That being said, if the quality of your print matters little, then buy it and enjoy the film, it's a great one!

Great movie - Lousy copy.......2005-07-09

This is a very good movie and very cleverly written, and I highly recommend it, HOWEVER, the quality of the copy I received from this Canada-based company was the worst copy of a movie I have ever seen. If you made a copy of a copy of a copy and did that at least 20 times, you would end up with a better copy than I got. And as unbelievable as it may seem, it actually says on the box and on the cassette label that it was recorded in EP instead of SP, which of course was never mentioned in the description. I will never buy from this company again, and in closing take note that Amazon has a no return policy on video purchases, so beware. Thanks a lot for the rip off, guys.

A complete difference in opinion.......2005-05-22

I bought this dvd for 1.00 in walmart. Contrary to the previous reviews that I just read, I felt that it was important to express my views on this film because all of the reviews strictly concentrated on the quality of the DVD or VHS, and rarely if at all spoke about the movie itself. I had no problem with the quality of the film, it reminded me of a 1984 quality even though it was released in 1999, which doesn't bother me at all. The film itself was very interesting. I felt that the writer had a unique idea in the fact that one of the main characters, Anthony Hopkins, a smart criminal attorney, talks to himself out loud, while actually seeing himself. He prosecutes himself in order to make sense of the case at hand. While he is working on an alibi and a plot to kill his wife. Meanwhile, there are so many different scenarios that he mull's over and that are played out for the audience to imagine and visualize. As the movie develops, we discover that his wife gets involved with his mistress, and together, they plot HIS murder. The only difference between Anthony and his wife, is that because of his professional background, he is busy thinking and planning logically about how it would play out after her death. The ironic part is that the mistress and the wife wined up carrying out HIS original plan, which by the way he already ruled out because it would incriminate him. I guess it's like if you snooze you lose or more so, he seemed to think too much about the consequences and in the end, his wife actually provaled because she didn't hesitate, although, we don't see into the after effects of the murder because it ended not abruptly, but shortly after this took place, which by the way, was my only disappointment because the movie could have gone on for another 25 minutes and I still wouldn't mind at all.

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Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis
Starring: Daniel Abineri , Danny Aiello , Jane Horrocks , Rik Mayall , and Ronald Pickup
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ASIN: B0000E6XIV
Release Date: 2003-11-11

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Great Movie, Lousy DVD.......2007-01-25

Dreadful....hard to believe Hopkins and Danner could be this bad.......2006-02-24

DON'T BUY IT UNTIL YOU READ THIS!!!.......2005-07-15

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A complete difference in opinion.......2005-05-22

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Guilty Conscience
Starring: Blythe Danner , Wiley Harker , Swoosie Kurtz , Ruth Manning , and Anthony Hopkins
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Release Date: 2001-04-24

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Beyond Borders [P&S] (REGION 1) (NTSC)

DVD: CREMAINS

M.O.P. - Straight From the Projects