Mimi & Sam: Melodies of Nature

Studio: Baby Ventures, LLC.
Product Type: DVD

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Winner of the prestigious NAPPA Parenthood Honor Award and Dove Seal of Approval for 2005, Mimi & Sam: Melodies of Nature is an exciting new DVD full of visual delights for little learners! Using colorful animations, playful puppets and lovable characters, babies and toddlers are encouraged to learn about shapes, colors, art, animals, music, fruits and nature!

Mimi & Sam: Melodies of Nature invites you on an exciting adventure to some of the most attractive places around the world. Your child will be sure to giggle as they witness a friendly sea lion shaking his wet coat after jumping out of cold waters. Experience a virtual vacation to beautiful Caribbean seascapes that shimmer a clear emerald delight! Discover fascinating time-lapse photography of the Grand Canyon, exotic beaches, blooming flowers, beautiful waterfalls, and dynamic skies. It is no secret that infants and toddlers love to see the friendly faces of other children. In Mimi & Sam: Melodies of Nature, you will find smiling babies swinging in the sun, and happy toddlers playing peek-a-boo with featured puppets.

Featuring original pieces and a unique classical music selection by Bach, Mozart, Clementi, and Burgmüller, re-orchestrated using playful instruments including the harp, marimba, vibraphone, mandolin, music box, accordion, harmonica, pan flute, sweet trumpet and more. Mimi & Sam: Melodies of Nature incorporates a wonderful combination of soothing music to calm fussy babies and fun beats that will have infants and toddlers swaying and bouncing to the playful rhythm. Parents will love the music as much as their child and enjoy it time and time again!

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Tom Selleck is Jesse Stone, a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise, Massachusetts. Stone's old habits die hard as he continues to indulge in his two favorite things - scotch and women. When a series of murders take place, and a high school girl is raped, he's forced to face his own demons in order to solve the crimes.

Customer Reviews:

Stone Cold.......2007-06-27

My wife really loves Tom Selleck, so we really liked the movie. We ordered the other two in the series and are waiting for the forth one to come out on DVD. When it does, you can be sure that we will order it.

Stone Cold w/ Tom Selleck.......2007-06-27

This movie is well done and has a good story. IF you like the Spenser series and others by this author, you will enjoy the mystery plot. Tom Selleck has enhanced a good story, and plays the part of Sheriff Stone as one would imagine in reading the story.

Great little made for TV thriller starring Tom Selleck and Mimi Rogers!!!.......2007-05-24

This is a great little made for TV thriller starring Tom Selleck(Magnum P.I.)and Mimi Rogers(Austin Powers)!!! A modern day film noir thriller!!! Even though this is a made for TV movie,it has solid production values!!! A great little gem from beginning to end!!! Recommended for fans of thriilers and Tom Selleck!!! Five stars!!! A+

Very Pleased, Except.......2007-05-17

This is avery good and typical job of all Tom Selick's movies. He is one of the best. Could have done without the sex scenes. Would have made it an even better movie.

TOM SELLECK - EXCELLENT FILM.......2007-02-09

I agree whole heartedly with all the favourable comments. I really do hope they make more of these books and from viewing the special features on this dvd Mr. Selleck says that they have the go ahead to do more. Very good story - excellent acting throughout so please don't make us wait too long before film 2.

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Good Message, Bad Language
Perfect
Great movie!
The dream is to make a difference... to change the world to a better place
amazing

Pay It Forward
Starring: Kevin Spacey , Helen Hunt , Haley Joel Osment , Jay Mohr , and James Caviezel
Director: Mimi Leder
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
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ASIN: B00005B4BI
Release Date: 2001-05-15

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Pay It Forward is a multi-level marketing scheme of the heart. Beginning as a seventh-grade class assignment to put into action an idea that could change the world, young Trevor McKinney (Haley Joel Osment) comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people who then by way of payment each must do good turns for three other people. These nine people also must pay it forward and so on, ad infinitum. If successful, the resulting network of do-gooders ought to comprise the entire world. Trevor's attempts to get the ball rolling include befriending a junkie (James Caviezel) and trying to set up his recovering-alcoholic mother (Helen Hunt) with his burn-victim teacher (Kevin Spacey), who posed the assignment.

While this could have turned into unmitigated schmaltz, the acting elevates this film to mitigated schmaltz. By turns powerful and measured, the performances of Spacey, Hunt, and Osment can't make up for the many missteps in a screenplay that sanitizes the look of the lower-middle class and expects us to believe that homeless alcoholics and junkies speak in the elevated manner of grad students. (Can that really be Angie Dickinson as Hunt's dispossessed mother? Yes, it is!) The germ of the story is a good one, though, and one may wonder how it would have been handled by the likes of Frank Capra, who could balance sentiment with humor. But clearly Capra would never have let the ending of his version to take the nosedive into cliché and pathos that director Mimi Leder has allowed in this film. More than a few viewers will also recognize that Leder has blatantly borrowed her final image from Field of Dreams, where its intended effect was more keenly and honestly felt. --Jim Gay

Customer Reviews:

Good Message, Bad Language.......2007-07-08

I had heard that this was a good movie, but was very disappointed by the foul language spattered all through it. There was a very good message hidden under all the vulgarity, though, I hope someone re-makes this movie in a g-rated format so that others can learn the message of sacrificially helping others in their time of need.

Perfect.......2007-05-28

It was shipped in a timely manner & was in excellent shape.

Thanks

Great movie!.......2007-05-21

Wouldn't it be great if we could all think this way? Excellent movie, with a positive message. I would highly recommend this for anyone, especially high school/college students.

The dream is to make a difference... to change the world to a better place.......2007-05-21

The movie starts with a seventh grade teacher played by Kevin Spacey challenging a group of social studies students to come up with a plan that helps change the world to a much better place. The words are challenging, inspiring... the students are surprised,

One student is not only inspired to try but he believes that it is possible, and comes up with a plan to do good deeds for three people, who, rather than return the favor, must pay it forward by helping another three individuals.

The seventh grade student Trevor McKinney, played by Haley Joel Osment is up to something. As the number of people helping each other multiplies... one helps three, these three, each help another three... now nine help three each... and so on... one day the Earth would be populated with people in search of solutions.

Trevor comes from a broken home, alcoholic parents, a homeless grandmother, and a mother who holds two jobs to survive. So, he is left alone for long periods of time to consider and delve into his project.

To start the project, he chooses a homeless junkie, played by James Caviezel, and takes him home to feed and put a roof over his head. Imagine the shock of his mother, brilliantly played by Helen Hunt, when she finds this homeless person living in her home.

So... she goes to school to confront the teacher who planted such a crazy idea in her child's mind and meets the teacher, who is a burn-victim. The encounter between these two is simply... magnificent.

She is a recovering alcoholic who attends AA meetings. He is a burn victim, bottled up inside a disfigured body, who refuses to take the necessary risks to plunge into living his own life... at an emotional level.

For his good deed project, Trevor decides that his next two selections will be... none other than his mother and his professor, and he sets them up to initiate a relationship.

The actors are so powerful that they turn this story into a magnificent agent of change classic, for we are left pondering if we too... should become a part of this movie and attempt to help those in need in search for a better world.

amazing.......2007-05-19

This is great and witty movie. It really make's you change the way you view and percive the world. The whole idea of "paying it forward" make you help tree people and then those tree people help other tree people which makes it total of nine and so on. Deffinetly recomended.

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One of a kind movie
Movies
very funny movie
I could not wait anymore...
Best Potion for youthfulness

Death Becomes Her
Starring: Meryl Streep , Bruce Willis , Goldie Hawn , Isabella Rossellini , and Ian Ogilvy
Director: Robert Zemeckis
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ASIN: 0783225482
Release Date: 1998-01-20

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This 1992 black comedy by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the Back to the Future trilogy) features some of the most eye-popping special effects of the '90s in its story of a narcissistic star (Meryl Streep) who steals the husband (Bruce Willis) of another woman (Goldie Hawn) and continues her rivalry with her even after death. A magic potion keeps both women going despite the punishment of murderous bullets and fatal plunges, and the joke is that even as they rot they remain vain about appearances. Though he's fashioned a one-note movie, Zemeckis gets a lot of mileage out of such impressive sights as Hawn walking around with a hole in her chest the size of a basketball, and Streep--her head and arms twisted 180 degrees--moving like a broken crab. It's weird, it's sick, it's hilarious, and the stars push the whole project to a classy entertainment. Isabella Rossellini is great as a scantily clad witch who sells the immortality brew. The DVD release has a full-screen presentation, optional French and Spanish soundtracks, optional Spanish subtitles, and Dolby sound. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

One of a kind movie.......2007-07-02

I loved this movie. I had no idea what this movie was about and had never seen any trailer of it. I was thinking "another Meryl Streep's melodrama"; but this crazy movie tickled my brain and belly through out the play time. This is one of a kind movie with great star cast and they all are very very funny. Buy yourself a copy because you will never get tired of this movie.

Movies.......2007-06-27

I loved this movie! I hadn't seen it in years but what a funny movie to look back on. Great investment into a movie collection.

very funny movie.......2007-05-07

this movie is so funny. goldie and merryl streep are hilarious. i wish there was more movies like this. the way madeline's head turns all the other way around is so cool and always wondered how they did that. what a funny movie this was and still is.

I could not wait anymore..........2007-04-21

It is one of the best comedies I`ve ever seen...

Best Potion for youthfulness.......2007-04-13

This is one of the most original films I have ever seen. Meryl, Goldie, and Bruce work well off of each other, which is why the film was a success. Helen and Madeline each woman want Earnest. and they each seek eternal life when they find out about it. Helen and Madeline are both viscious women.

This movie is a dark comedy. very funny. I reccomend this to everyone.

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The best romantic comedies
It Happened One Night
Classic Capra - with Clark Gable in a down-to-earth role
The Orignial Runaway Bride
great

It Happened One Night
Starring: Clark Gable , Claudette Colbert , Walter Connolly , Roscoe Karns , and Jameson Thomas
Director: Frank Capra
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Director Frank Capra (Mr. Smith Goes to Washington) took home every Oscar in the book (well, okay, all the major ones) for this seminal 1934 comedy starring Clark Gable as a hard-bitten reporter who stays close to a runaway heiress (Claudette Colbert) rather than lose a good story. Funny and sexy, the film is full of memorable scenes often referred to in other films, such as the "walls of Jericho" (a mere bedcover hung on a line down the middle of a room so opposite-sex roommates can get undressed), and Colbert's famous flash of thigh to stop a speeding car in its tracks. Capra's brisk, urbane brand of wit was a perfect complement to his populist faith in the common man (in this case, Gable's character), and that inspired combination makes this film both a spirited entertainment and an uplifting experience. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

The best romantic comedies.......2007-07-06

This Frank Capra film is timeless! This first romantic comedy (they called them screwball comedies then) won 5 Academy Awards in 1934--Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best Screenplay. It is still funny and cute even though it is 70+ years old. The Walls of Jerico scene demonstrated how classy the older filmmakers were--love scene without showing any sex. A nice addition for any classic movie buff, but also buy Bringing Up Baby...

It Happened One Night.......2007-06-20

Frank Capra's sublime romantic comedy swept the 1934 Oscars, and it's still easy to understand why. Few seventy year old movies hold up like this one. Colbert makes a charming, deft comedienne (check out that hitch-hiking scene!), and Gable was never more appealing, winning his only Oscar for this role. The scene where Peter takes off his shirt and exposes his bare chest was a first, and reportedly, sounded a death knell for the undershirt industry. Hail to the walls of Jericho!

Classic Capra - with Clark Gable in a down-to-earth role.......2007-06-08

This is another great Frank Capra film about a well-to-do socialite heiress deciding to elope almost just to spite her parents. Gable's character is the newspaper reporter sent to track her down and get the scoop on the whole mess. While you can predict what happens, it's still enjoyable for the dialog and the acting/directing. If you're not a Capra fan, it's doubtful that this film will change that. However, if you are - you should definitely check this one out. We saw it originally as a Netflix rental, but my wife liked it enough it became a birthday present for her.

The Orignial Runaway Bride .......2007-06-01

This Frank Capra classic is all about the chemistry between Colbert and Gable--wow does it work! The uptown girl runaway bride (how current!) and the downtown and down on his luck reporter go from the fox and hound to...well the foxy and the hound.

The banter and the moments, from the hitchhiking lesson Colbert gives Gable to the flimsy wall of Jericho Gable gives Colbert are gems.

The film has one of the best wedding-scene endings in movie history (the others being "The Graduate" "Four Weddings and a Funeral" and "The Philadelphia Story"), complete with what has to be one of the oldest helicopters ever put on film.

Pardon me while I get my tin trumpet, folks...

great.......2007-05-28

was shipped right away I didn't have to wait at all it was here within 3 days

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An Excellent Romantic Comedy
ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL GRANT MOVIE
A Fair Romantic Comedy
Houseboat - Cary Grant
Loren and Grant

Houseboat (Ws Sub)
Starring: Cary Grant , Sophia Loren , Martha Hyer , Harry Guardino , and Eduardo Ciannelli
Director: Melville Shavelson
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Cary Grant and Sophia Loren look just swell together in Houseboat, and why shouldn't they? Grant was still at his best, Loren was bewitching Hollywood as an exotic new ingénue, and offscreen they had had a torrid affair a couple of years earlier, during the shooting of The Pride and the Passion. The two tanned stars are the main attraction in this romantic comedy, which installs single dad Cary and his three children on a dilapidated houseboat on the Potomac River. Sophia is the maid, except she's not really a maid but the cultured daughter of a famous musician. Yes, this is one of those situation comedies in which every problem could be cleared up if only one character told the truth about the situation. If that sort of thing drives you crazy, best skip this one. It's no classic, but those two icons are awfully appealing. --Robert Horton

Customer Reviews:

An Excellent Romantic Comedy.......2007-06-19

Director Melville Shavelson is known for directing some successful romantic comedies involving families; two divorced adults and their offspring's. He takes credit for not only Houseboat, but also for "Yours, Mine and Ours," casting some successful stars of the day. This family drama casts Cary Grant as Tom Winters, a widower trying to raise three children alone away from his work at Washington D.C. to country side closer to relatives of his former wife. His young children love the younger sister of their mother but Tom is not too thrilled about dating her. Instead he meets a young Italian named Cinzia (Sophia Loren) who is a socialite trying to get away from her overprotective father. Initially there is no romance between the two, and in addition, his kids are less than thrilled when she is hired to work as nanny. Things get rocky but soon all ends well when they feel that they need each other. Parts of this movie were filmed on the Potomac River and Piscataway Creek at Fort Washington marina. This is an excellent family movie, which I recommend very highly.

ABSOLUTELY WONDERFUL GRANT MOVIE.......2007-06-02

My father and I watched this movie at least a thousand times since I was a little girl.As I got older and started loving the romance of the movie I couldn't believe how I had missed one of the sexiest seens in any movie I have ever watched.Cary and Sophia are dancing to this beautiful melody when Cary finally realizes that he is lovestruck.It is a powerful seen in the movie and the melody made the seen as well as Cary and Sophia.Wonderful movie to watch with your whole family!

A Fair Romantic Comedy.......2007-05-20

This is an old one that is still quite enjoyable.

Cary Grant is a divorced man whose wife has been raising their children. He loves the kids but doesn't have a clue or a manual. When the ex wife dies, he is left in a position to take care of them. He does the best he can which is none too well.

Grant realizes that he will need to take some time away from his job in DC. He plans to move to the country closer to his ex inlaws. This is done with the idea that they will help with the kids and also because there is a suspicion that he will eventually marry the younger sister of his former wife. (Apparently there is a history.) The aunt gets along well with the kids who are not thrilled with their father.

Meanwhile, Sofia Loren is the daughter of a famous Italian musician on tour. She is chaffing under her father's stern rule and just wants to have some fun. She makes an escape and meets up with one of the kids who helps her to escape from her father's minions. She returns the boy home and is coaxed into serving as a nanny for the kids.

Grant's plans for moving do not work out as expected and the whole family temporarily ends up living on a houseboat. The comedy takes off from there as Loren and Grant find that they have feelings for each other and the kids stir things up.

For me, this one was on the cusp between 3 and 4 stars but I am in a good mood. I did enjoy it and it is worth seeing.

Houseboat - Cary Grant.......2007-05-14

Cary Grant is one of my all time favorite actors, I found this movie to be light and fun to watch it is one of my favorite movies. Sophia Loren was not only beautiful but was delightful as was the whole cast encluding the children.

Loren and Grant.......2007-02-20

This is a very cute movie!

Sophia Loren is just fantastic!!
Cary Grant is great in a subtle way. He progresses throughout the movie in a nuanced manner.
They both have great chemistry!

Mimi Gibson, Paul Petersen (of Mouseketeer and Donna Reed fame) and
Charles Herbert all put in great performances as the children.

There is even a minor supporting roles by Murray Hamilton as Grant's cheeky friend and Loren's father's manager, played by the very comic Werner Klemperer (Col. Klink). And, Harry Guardino who plays the ethnic Italian almost suiter, Angelo Donatello, was nominated for Golden Globe. The picture was nominated for two Academy's - Best Original Song ("Almost in Your Arms") and Best Writing, Story and Screenplay. The movie and Grant did win two Golden Laurel Awards for Top Comedy and Top Male Comedy Performance.

Mel Shavelson, who did a lot of romantic pictures like "April in Paris" and "Yours, Mine and Ours", did a great job pooling the acting team together in an innocent comedy that works the way they should - and that is not easy.

Loren get's Americanized while she teaches Grant to grow up. It has what is missing in contemporary chick flicks.

See this - you won't be disappointed!

Flash Gordon: Box Set (Space Soldiers/Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars/Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe) (3DVD)

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Classic movie Serial
A Blast from my past.
Flashing on Memory
Youth Revisited
love the sparklers on the rockets

Flash Gordon: Box Set (Space Soldiers/Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars/Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe) (3DVD)
Starring: Buster Crabbe , Carol Hughes , Charles Middleton , Anne Gwynne , and Frank Shannon
Director: Ford Beebe , and Ray Taylor
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All three Flash Gordon serials in one box! "Space Soldiers" (1936, 245 min., 13 episodes) - Internationally renowned polo player and Yale graduate Flash Gordon and the lovely Dale Arden are enlisted by Dr. Hans Zarkov on his quest to save Earth from being destroyed by the runaway planet Mongo. "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars (1938, 299 min., 15 episodes) - A mysterious beam of light emanating from Mars is sucking the nitrogen from the Earth's atmosphere, and only Flash Gordon can stop it, battling Queen Azura, the Clay People of Mars, and his mortal enemy Ming the Merciless! "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" (1940, 234 min., 12 episodes) - A rocket is dropping purple dust into the Earth's atmosphere, causing instant death! Can Flash Gordon stop the madman from Mongo while retrieving the antidote to the death dust from the frozen planet of Frigia?

Space Soldiers - Flash is enlisted to save Earth from a runaway planet. "Flash Gordon's Trip to Mars" - A light beam from Mars is sucking away Earth's atmosphere! "Flash Gordon Conquers the Universe" - A rocket is dropping deadly purple dust onto the Earth! 3-disc box set.

Robert F. Hill, Ford Beebe, Ray Taylor, Frederick Stephani

Buster Crabbe, Charles Middleton, Jean Rogers, Frank Shannon, Richard Alexander, Carol Hughes

Customer Reviews:

Classic movie Serial.......2007-07-08

Flash Gordon: Box Set (Space Soldiers/Flash Gordon's Trip To Mars/Flash Gordon Conquers The Universe) (3DVD)This classic serial
together with Buck Rogers, The Phantom Empire, and The Adventures of Captain
Marvel were my favorites among the Saturday afternoon cliffhangers.

A Blast from my past........2007-06-05

I first saw these serials in the movie theatres in the 1940's. They were part of the magical joy of a child's early life, which brought us back to that same theatre every Saturday matinee until we had seen all the episodes. In those days one could see a triple feature, the Flash Gordon serial, and cartoons for 9 cents at the Old Loma Theatre in Burbank, California.
Later, in the early 1950's they appeared on television for the first time. Even the adults were part of the audience. Crude as those early special effects were, they just delighted my whole generation.
Now, all three of the serials are available for a huge savings on DVD, about the same price for one individual movie. Step back into time and relive another era, sadly gone forever.

Flashing on Memory.......2007-05-19

Those of us who grew up in the 1950s, first saw most of these episodes on TV. Originally designed as weekly serials in the 1930s to be shown in theatres before the main feature, they were among our earliest entrees into the genre of science fiction and fantasy films. Still showing on TV into the 1970s, they suddenly vanished from view thereafter and are only now available in their entirety on DVD. Seeing them again is a revelation on more than one level. It never occurred to us as kids just how overacted was Buster Crabbe's portrayal of Flash Gordon, and it's a hoot to witness now. There's more unintentional humor than anything else in these volumes, but you'll also see images your brain has forgotten and you'll howl at the "flash" backs. The impossibly goofy spaceships, the gila monster lizard dragons, The Emperor Ming, Professor Zarkov, Prince Baron, the great sexless Dale, and all the gang are here. If you've got kids, they'll laugh along with you and wonder how a generation could be so entranced by such phony yet entertaining technology, back before there was any real technology to speak of. By the time you get to the 3rd DVD, the similar plotlines (what plotlines there are) begin to grow tired. But you can always pull this stuff out again for a good laugh and a warm stroll down memory lane. Note: Obviously, Steven Spielberg was well acquainted with these serials and you'll enjoy seeing his inspiration for the initial Star Wars movie on DVD 2 here.

Youth Revisited.......2007-05-12

As a youth I used to go to movies on Saturday to see the Flash Gordon episodes. Those were the days (1930s) when they gave away free dishes to attract the more mature crowd. The quality of these DVDs is very good and I have enjoyed seeing Flash and Ming and the rest of the crowd again.
John in Palm Springs

love the sparklers on the rockets.......2007-03-19

exactly as I remembered from my youth - a local channel used to play these serialised shows on friday nights

decent transfer and sound quality.

I am happy with it.

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Simply Amazing (no matter your sexual orientation)
strange...
girls in school
Saved by the cast
Intriguing

Lost and Delirious
Starring: Piper Perabo , Jessica Paré , Mischa Barton , Jackie Burroughs , and Mimi Kuzyk
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Simply Amazing (no matter your sexual orientation).......2007-06-17

As a straight married man I found this movie to be so moving as to be heart-rendingly painful. I fully understand Paulie's frustration and rejection. I experienced something similar when I was twenty. My best friend(a girl)and I started to become a lot closer so I told her how I truly felt. Big mistake! The entire relationship unravelled instantly and I made an absolute fool of myself for the next six months trying to "win" her love. I was a neurotic wreck for two years afterwards not letting another woman get that close to me until I eventually met the woman that became my wife (and I thank God for her everyday!).

As a father of two daughters I realize that I can't control who they love,that's up to them. This movie has shown me not to be too judgmental about sexual issues. Like Paulie said - love just is.

I highly recommend this movie as an average straight joe because anyone with a heart that has ever been broken into a million pieces will fully understand this movie and have flashbacks during every heart-tugging scene between Paulie and Tori. Yes,I'm man enough to admit I cried at the end! It hit me that hard and profoundly.

This is not a purely lesbian love story/film by any means. This is a story about love and being loved. It's very powerful to say the least. There have been very few films to ever leave a mark on me, this is definitely one of them.

What an amazing piece of film!

strange..........2007-06-12

Sometimes there's a movie that gives you a feeling that no other movie has ever made you feel. This movie did that for me. I don't know if it was having felt a similar situation, but I felt more empathy towards these characters than I ever have for any in a film.
This movie was beautiful and painful to watch, not because it was bad, but because it made me feel so much for the girls.
I got this feeling that I can't quite name, but this movie struck me as unique and moving, a beautiful piece that I completely recommend.

girls in school.......2007-06-03

I wish Misha Barton had a more active part in the affair. Piper is yummy

Saved by the cast.......2007-04-25

This film about various forms of rejection is strange even by Canadian standards. It begins to fall apart about the time the boarding-school lesbian relationship falls apart. By then the writer(s) has resorted to melodramatic use of Shakespeare to demonstrate the crazed intensity of lost love -- a sign that the writer had exhausted her own resources.

There is a nude scene with the pretty and very-well-endowed Jessica Paré to recommend it to guys, and the school has a bucolic setting. However, the best thing about the film for me are the sightings of some amazing American and Candian actresses early in their careers. Besides Piper Perabo (American) and Jessica Paré (Canadian), the story's central character is played by a very young Mischa Barton -- already a willowy beauty. Also in the cast in a few scenes each are Canadian actresses Emily Van Camp and Caroline Dhavernas (she is especially pretty here, and is already speaking English without an accent).

Intriguing.......2007-03-13

The story is a bit far-fetched at best, but Piper Perabo delivers a solid performance following up Coyote Ugly. She is believable as the lovesick heroine in this film, and I found myself really feeling sorry for her as I watched her unravel emotionally and physically.

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DVD was defective...
This video is AMAZING
Absolutely the Best
Great low back pain relief
Not so good for the neck though

Back in Shape

Manufacturer: Healing Backs
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ASIN: B0001BRMUE
Release Date: 2003-09-01

Customer Reviews:

DVD was defective..........2007-07-03

so I have no idea whether it was good or bad. Sorry. I didn't return it in time.

This video is AMAZING.......2007-04-30

I have COUNTLESS back care and yoga videos and a bunch of back care books, and this is the one video I find myself consistently returning to to ease and help my back pain. Very gentle, very simple, but surprisingly effective. 2 15 minutes segments that nicely and gently stretch you out and conditions and strengthens my back and abdominal muscles. highly recommended when you are in the acute stage or are too weak to perform strenuous vinyasa/iyengar poses. provides gentle and simple but great relief! get it!

Absolutely the Best.......2007-03-18

This is without a doubt the best back exercise I have ever done. I was in physical therapy for 4 months and did not get the results that I now get from this video. I have since quit physical therapy and rely on this video to help my back. I use to be in constant pain from my back and now after just a month I occasionally have some minor pain. I actually experienced results within days of staring this exercise. I strongly recommend this video and have already referred it so several of my friends. Thank you for this wonderful product.

Great low back pain relief.......2007-02-19

Ordered this after my daughter, a yoga instructor, told me for years that yoga could help my back. After three years of doctors and chiropractors I figured it might help - nothing else was. I was very pleasantly surprised to find that it helped my back more than anything else has. Much of the pain is gone and I can bend over and straighten up again without pain. Definitely recommend this for anyone with low back pain and/or neck & shoulder stress.

Not so good for the neck though.......2007-02-18

I ordered this hoping to alleviate neck and back pain. Within minutes, the instructor began doing exercises requiring me to lift my neck and pull up into a sit up position which I can not do without considerable pain. Disappointed, I returned it.

Nero Wolfe - The Complete Classic Whodunit Series

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Nero Wolfe - The Complete Series
Nero Wolfe ROCKS!
Wow!
Nero Wollfe complete classics
Almost unbearable

Nero Wolfe - The Complete Classic Whodunit Series
Starring: Maury Chaykin , Timothy Hutton , Bill Smitrovich , Mimi Kuzyk , and Colin Fox
Director: Bill Duke
Manufacturer: A&E Home Video
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ASIN: B000CRR3CE
Release Date: 2006-04-25

Product Description

Twenty episodes from the A&E series NERO WOLFE are collected on this release. Nero Wolfe (Maury Chaykin) and Archie Goodwin (Timothy Hutton) are a crime-fighting team whose methods differ wildly. But when they are together Wolfe and Goodwin always get results, with the dynamic duo bringing a variety of miscreants to justice.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Customer Reviews:

Nero Wolfe - The Complete Series.......2007-05-13

If you're a Nero Wolfe fan you'll love these DVD's. The actors portraying their characters (Wolfe, Archie, Inspector Cramer) are just as I pictured them. The story lines and dialogue are true to the original novels and short stories.

Nero Wolfe ROCKS!.......2007-05-07

Snappy music...great acting...wonderfully period sets...and faithfulness to Rex Stouts writings and vision. What more could you ask? Timothy Hutton is the jazzy, wise-cracking knight errant Archie Goodwin to Maury Chaykins marvelously blustering, bellowing and insufferable seventh of a ton genius, Nero Wolfe. The series, when it was showing on the Biography Channel, was so good that I ran right out and began buying the books as fast as I could find them. The books, by the way, are a real hoot.

The ensemble cast is a joy. Colin Fox IS Fritz Brenner, chef extraordinaire and Bill Smitrovich is a treat to see as the cigar-chomping and always bigger than life Inspecter Cramer. I would heartily recommend the series to every lover of mysteries and dark, gallows humor. I continue to watch them, over and over, because they are THAT good.

Wow!.......2007-04-30

'Am watching this set of movies over and over for the 4th time.
What a wonderful series.
The sets and period costumes are just perfect. Well, ya had to live in those years to bring back memories. Archie's ties are the coolest.
At first I didn't like the same actors in every movie.
Later on I got use to it.
However, if they do more of these.... should really find new actors and not 're-use' them in different roles.

The box-set is well done with quality art, production.
Well worth the money.

Nero Wollfe complete classics.......2007-03-12

The last episode was a later episode. All the other episodes were great, but the last one Golden Spiders (I think) was not as good as the others. I will watch the episodes many times.

Almost unbearable.......2007-02-26

As an avid reader of the original novels, I looked forward with relish to watching these episodes, having read a number of enthusiastic reviews and assurances that the televised series was quite faithful to the original. Alas, it was all flummery... I found these to be painfully un-enjoyable. The self-conscious cutsiness of the staging, acting, and above all, the music - ugh, the music! - poisoned the entire thing for me. Hutton's Archie is probably the worst part. Chaykin's Wolfe isn't bad, actually (he's probably the best part) but it's true he's not quite heavy enough as one other reviewer noted.
I actually wish I'd never seen these - it's taking a while to get the bad "taste" out of my imagination which is temporarily intruding on my continued enjoyment of the original novels.

Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery (New Line Platinum Series)

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One of my favorite comedies
Classic Comedy -- But Don't Waste Your Time with the Sequels
Austin Powers, Man of Mystery Indeed!
Give your undercarriage a little bit of a "How's your father?"
FACETIOUS IRREVERENT LIGHT- HEARTED SATIRE & VERY FUNNY TOO!

Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery (New Line Platinum Series)
Starring: Mike Myers , Elizabeth Hurley , Michael York , Mimi Rogers , and Robert Wagner
Director: Jay Roach
Manufacturer: New Line Home Entertainment
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Austin Powers: Original Soundtrack

ASIN: 6304696221
Release Date: 2004-06-01

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If you don't think Austin Powers is one of the funniest movies of the 1990s, maybe you should be packed into a cryogenic time-chamber and sent back to the decade whence you came. Perhaps it was the 1960s--the shag-a-delic decade when London hipster Austin Powers scored with gorgeous chicks as a fashion photographer by day, crime-fighting international man of mystery by night. Yeah, baby, yeah! But when Powers's arch nemesis, Dr. Evil, puts himself into a deep-freeze and travels via time-machine to the late 1990s, Powers must follow him and foil Evil's nefarious scheme of global domination. Mike Myers plays dual roles as Powers and Dr. Evil, with Elizabeth Hurley as his present-day sidekick and karate- kicking paramour. A hilarious spoof of '60s spy movies, this colorful comedy actually gets funnier with successive viewings, making it a perfect home video for gloomy days and randy nights. Oh, behave! --Jeff Shannon

Description

It's a smashing shagadelic party as Mike Myers (Wayne's World 1 & 2, So I Married an Axe Murderer) and Elizabeth Hurley (Dangerous Ground) star in a non-stop, hilarious comedy adventure. Frozen in the 60's, secret agent Austin Powers (Myers) is thawed back into action to once again battle his archenemy Dr. Evil. With his sexy sidekick Ms. Kensington (Hurley), Austin must stop Dr. Evil's outrageous plot to control the world. But first, this time-warped swinger must get hip quick and discover that there's no free love in the 90's! An all-star supporting cast including Michael York, Robert Wagner, Mimi Rogers and Carrie Fisher make Austin Powers a wacky, far-out trip you won't forget.

DVD Features:
Audio Commentary:Commentary by actor Mike Myers and director M. Jay Roach.
Deleted Scenes
Other:An original animated sequence "Music to Shag to". Spy genre retrospective. Star highlights with scenes (all Letterbox 1.85, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround) from Dangerous Ground (1997), Monkey Trouble (1994), Rapture, The (1991) (qv), and Wide Sargasso Sea (1993).
Production Notes
Theatrical Trailer

Customer Reviews:

One of my favorite comedies.......2007-04-07

I Love owning this film because its one of those silly comedies that just gets funnier to me with each watching. just the anticipation of some of the jokes about to happen can make me laugh. Its like an old friend that you share so many private jokes with.you begin to giggle before its even said,even the really stupidest and corny of the lines. Dr. Evil is just so classic and probably my favorite of all of Myers characters.

Anyway, I think its worth letting it grow on you and watching again every few weeks.

whenever I might need a lift I know I can pop this movie in and its got me smiling again .

Classic Comedy -- But Don't Waste Your Time with the Sequels.......2007-04-02

I actually saw "The Spy Who Shagged Me" first, and was mostly bored throughout. There were maybe two funny scenes. I thought to myself, why do people seem to love "Austin Powers" so much? This was pretty lame.

Several months later I caught bits and pieces of the original ("International Man of Mystery") on TV, and found myself laughing at almost every scene! This is why people loved "Austin Powers"! Eventually I'd seen enough to know I needed to own the movie. I bought it on VHS about 5 years ago, and just got the DVD today. It is an absolute classic. I have to rate it among the best comedies of all time. If you haven't seen it yet, you just don't know what you're missing. It is extremely well-written, clever, witty, and with great delivery and timing.

Now, a warning. It is my opinion that the two sequels to this movie amount to a pile of crap. They are cliché, unoriginal, lame movies. If you like the first one, there is absolutely no guarantee you will like the second or third installments. I would recommend you not waste your time with them, period. I personally just try to pretend they don't even exist. That allows me to continue to love "Austin Powers."

Austin Powers, Man of Mystery Indeed!.......2006-11-10

What a film, brilliantly executed, the gags all reach without dragging on. Mike Meyers has done a good job with the script and characterizations as I really haven't laughed this hard in a while--probably since 'Mars Attacks'.

He manages to spoof 'Bond' films tastefully with a comics' aplomb. I fear however, that the mainstream Tom Cruise/Julia Roberts type of fan will miss the point on this one though.

Give your undercarriage a little bit of a "How's your father?".......2006-11-06

The first Austin Powers flick is still funny today, despite several catchphrases ("Do I make you horny, baby?", "Oh, behave!", etc.) having long since worn out their welcome and a duo of redundant, unimaginative sequels. There are two primary reasons why this movie is comic gold:

1. It's the best James Bond spoof you'll ever see. (You can take my word for it: I'm a HUGE 007 fan.)

2. The dialogue crackles with wit and is delivered flawlessly by the cast.

For reference, check out the scene where Dr. Evil struggles to come up with a contemporary scheme that *hasn't* already happened: "Oh, hell. Let's just do what we always do: hijack some nuclear weapons and hold the world hostage."

Or how about when Austin tries to live dangerously by staying at five while playing Blackjack with Number Two. "I SUGGEST you hit, sir!"

Yes, the movie plays to the adolescent crowd sometimes by throwing in a bunch of sex-related jokes, but at least they're clever and often howlingly funny (especially the Swiss-made penis enlarger bit). To the film's credit, there are no gags that go on for too long and the script is very economical.

Very few comedies have a killer-to-filler ratio as high as the first Austin Powers. Buy this DVD.

FACETIOUS IRREVERENT LIGHT- HEARTED SATIRE & VERY FUNNY TOO!.......2006-05-08

IN A NUTSHELL: A BIT TOO MUCH - BUT SO WHAT IF IT WORKS!

A bit too facetious, a bit too vulgar, a bit too irreverent, and a bit too overdone. Nevertheless, this comedy does work and it pays homage to the original James Bond series, as well as the anglo and american cultures of the 1960s. In the end, "Austin Powers - International Man of Mystery" is simply quite effective in its role as a satirical comedy.

* THE MAJOR PLAYERS *

Mike Myers - Austin Powers / Dr. Evil
Elizabeth Hurley - Vanessa Kensington
Mimi Rogers - Mrs. Kensington
Robert Wagner - Number Two
Michael York - Basil Exposition
Mindy Sterling - Frau Farbissina
Seth Green - Scott Evil
Will Ferrell - Mustafa
Fabiana Udenio - Alotta Fagina
Carrie Fisher - Therapist
Charles Napier - Cmdr. Gilmour
Paul Dillon - Patty O'Brien
Clint Howard - Johnson Ritter

* PRODUCTION CREDITS *

Jay Roach - Director
Todd Mike - Producer
Demi Moore - Producer
Mike Myers - Producer / Screenwriter
Jennifer Todd - Producer
Suzanne Todd - Producer
Peter Deming - Cinematographer
George S. Clinton - Composer (Music Score)
Debra Neil-Fisher - Editor

BOTTOM LINE: EXCELLENT IN MANY WAYS ESPECIALLY MIKE MEYERS DIFFERENT ROLES

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