Ã€ la Plage DVD

Studio: Educational Video Network, Inc
Product Type: DVD

Amazon.com

The Replacements manages to be both completely formulaic and yet immensely enjoyable. When a professional football players' strike happens, the owner of a fictitious team, the Washington Sentinels, commissions maverick coach Jimmy McGinty (Gene Hackman) to pull together a team. McGinty selects a collection of talented oddballs--a Welsh soccer player, a sumo wrestler, a couple of professional bodyguards--with athletic pasts, figuring that if it doesn't work out as a game, it might as well be a circus. To lead the team, he finds Shane Falco (Keanu Reeves), a once-promising player who had a disastrous championship game. Naturally, despite squabbling and bickering, a roguish camaraderie develops through a mixture of racial infighting, harassment from the striking professionals, and a big bar brawl--after which they're all thrown in jail and perform the most improbable impromptu dance number ever committed to film. The mixture of cheerfully cliché plot mechanics, an engaging collection of supporting actors (including Orlando Jones, Rhys Ifans from Notting Hill, and Jon Favreau from Swingers), and sheer ridiculousness somehow combines to make The Replacements completely entertaining. Reeves is somehow turning into a pleasant leading man; he even emotes convincingly in this movie. And let's face it, Gene Hackman is quite possibly the greatest actor alive, able to speak the trashiest dialogue with fierce conviction. Plus, just to prove that the tight pants and close huddles of football are heterosexual, there are many, many shots of cheerleaders going through stripper-inspired routines. --Bret Fetzer

Customer Reviews:

I Love This Movie.......2007-03-17

What more can you ask for? Football, comedy, romance, a real "feel good" movie. The music wasn't bad either.

Great "Feel Good" Film starring Gene Hackman.......2007-03-12

Second chances, Romances, and vindication all wind up in the film "The Replacements" which happens to be loosely based on the NFL Strike of 1987 and the drama that surrounded the eventual Superbowl Champion Washington Redskins. Like the Redskins, the "Replacements" in this film are former or undrafted players who are asked to fill in to play because the roster is emptied due to a strike. Gene Hackman is the coach and has to go try and get a washed up Quarterback named Shane Falco to join the squad. Falco is played by Keanu Reeves and he fits the jock role pretty well. With determination and grit, this group of misfits, which includes a chain smoking place-kicker, soon come together to show that there is no I in Team, but there is in Win. Sports and movie fans alike will not be surprised to see Hackman again in the coach's seat (Hoosiers) or the fact that Reeve's again plays a "former" Ohio State Buckeye Quarterback (Johnny Utah from Point Break) in this film. Great cast and in between those funny parts are some serious ones. The film is not dull and does a good attempt at meshing both the comedy parts as well as the serious ones, which really heat up during the end of the regular season. Great for friends or the whole family, I highly recommend it for any Saturday evening!

A movie to watch ove and over!.......2007-01-16

My family loves this movie. We have watched it many times. It's everything a movie should be. It's intriguing, funny, heart-warming, emotional, romantic, and inspiring. It has that "hero" factor we all love. Gene Hackman is outstanding as usual.

The Replacements.......2007-01-14

A really fun and silly movie, Football fans will get a "kick" out of.

The Replacements.......2007-01-10

Great movie, have wanted this one for some time and was thrilled to find it on Amazon.

Average customer rating:

Replacements (Mini DVD)
Starring: James Black , Brett Cullen , Keith David , Jon Favreau , and Greg Goossen
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Comedy | Genres | DVD | Video

DVDs Under $9.99 | Today's Deals in DVD | Special Features | DVD | Video

( R ) | Titles | Features | DVD | Video

General | Mini-DVD | Formats | DVD | Video

Comedy | Mini-DVD | Formats | DVD | Video

Special Interests | Mini-DVD | Formats | DVD | Video

Sports | Mini-DVD | Formats | DVD | Video
Similar Items:

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (Mini DVD) (Harry Potter 2)
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (Mini DVD) (Harry Potter 1)
Kangaroo Jack (Mini-DVD)
Black Beauty [Mini-DVD]
Starsky & Hutch (Mini DVD)

ASIN: B0009298TS
Release Date: 2005-04-26

La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher (Original French Version with English Subtitles)

Average customer rating:

5 stars for leading actors

La Pianiste / The Piano Teacher (Original French Version with English Subtitles)

ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

General | Art House & International | Genres | DVD | Video

General | Foreign & International | Stores | DVD | Video
ASIN: B000BGPKJ4

Product Description

How far is a man willing to go to be with the woman he wants? Erika is a veteran piano instructor at a famous music conservatory in Vienna. Erika is highly respected for her remarkable talent and strong discipline, but she's also known to be a harsh taskmistress and does not suffer fools gladly; among her students, Erika's class is considered a highly rewarding challenge, but difficult to weather. Erika seems to get her stern and unforgiving nature from her mother, with whom she still lives, and without a husband or a lover, Erika satisfies her strong but frequently perverse sexual appetites through extreme porn videos, voyeurism, and masturbatory practices that sometimes involve pain and self-mutilation. Erika discovers she has attracted the attentions of one of her students, Walter, a gifted and good-looking young man who does not seem at all put off by her icy personality. She refuses to acknowledge Walter's romantic overtures, but when he rises to the defense of a fellow student after a recital, Erika is enraged, and Walter pursues her, finally following her as she storms off to the women's room. Erika abruptly approaches Walter in a rough sexual fashion, but refuses to fully satisfy him until he is willing to allow her to control the relationship. When Walter becomes aware of just how much pain and humiliation is involved in Erika's erotic bill of fare, he refuses to participate, but in time his attraction to her causes him to weaken, and he begins to accede to her sexual demands.

Customer Reviews:

5 stars for leading actors.......2005-10-07

The thema of the movie is that how far the man who is in love with a woman can be involved in her world, and also is that how far actors can be involved in their role.

I admire two leading actors, Isabell Huppert and Benoit Magimel, for thier courage to act these characters. They each got the best actoress and actor in Cannes 2002, they deserve it and should be given.

Erika, a main character and Huppert acted, had been a lack of sexial relationship with men then in a way she lost control of her desire outside school and home. However the movie reprensents it so directly then I can not get involved with. That is something I need to understand but I don't want to see.

Benoir Magimel, I became a fan of his by the movie, he is beautiful and attractive in the movie and that charm is even strange in his character. It is so strange a young attractive man fell in love with a woman like Erika and it takes so long time to realize and leave her.

The story tells us that it is fantasy love makes people strong and beautiful. Many of French movies represent this idea any way.

I don't recommend you to watch this movie, however if you want to challenge how far you can be involved as an audience with realistic, do it, maybe that worth it.

DVD:

DVD

DVD

DVD

The Rose Tattoo

The Simpsons: Gone Wild : DVD

The Deer Hunter [1979]

DVD: The Teacher from the Black Lagoon... and More Slightly

In The Wild - Orang-Utans With Julia Roberts