Admiral Was A Lady
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DVD8
With WWII over, ex-pilot Jerry (Edmond O'Brien) and his flyboy pals are enjoying a soft life, scrounging freebies and collecting unemployment cheques to avoid the humdrum horrors of a regular job. But their soft life gets turned hilariously upside down when they meet a spunky ex-WAVE with a mind of her own. 1950
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Ambassador's Daughter
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DVD12
When a senator and an ambassador decide to test the character of a typical American serviceman in post-war Paris, they discover all's fair in love and war. A sophisticated romantic comedy with John Forsythe, Olivia De Havilland, Myrna Loy and Adolphe Menjou. 1956
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Andy Griffith Show (Volume I)
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DVD150
Four episodes of the famed TV series with Andy Griffith as the Sheriff of Mayberry. 'Dogs, Dogs, Dogs': Andy feeds a stray dog the lunch made for Deputy Barney (Don Knotts). The stray dog returns with 10 of his friends and the fun begins. Also, 'Barney's First Car': Deputy Barney buys his first car from a sweet little old lady. Turns out she's the head of a car theft ring! One of the classic episodes. 1963
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At War With The Army
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DVD168
Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis share their first star billing in this song- and gag-filled farce. At the Stateside military base where Dean's a staff sergeant and Jerry's a mess cook, the two pals find themselves constantly in trouble with a loudmouth drill inspector, a conniving supply sergeant and a hen-pecked captain. 1950
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Beat The Devil
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DVD14
A motley crew of con men jeopardize their get-rich scheme by trying to defraud and double-cross each other. A classic, hilariously offbeat comedy directed by John Huston, with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Lorre, Gina Lollabrigida and Jennifer Jones. 1954
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Bells of St. Mary
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DVD2
Bing Crosby as Father O'Malley, a crooning and modern-minded priest, and Ingrid Bergman, a wholesome but roguish Sister Benedict, try each other's patience, poise and personal values in this classic comedy from director Leo McCarey. 1945
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Bollywood/Hollywood
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DVD131
Get ready for a laugh-out-loud culture clash spiced with surprises and marvellous music. Under heavy family pressure to marry a nice Indian girl, Rahul, a dashing young Toronto millionaire, persuades a local beauty named Sue to pose as his Indian fiance. A witty wicked wonderful fairytale from director Deepa Mehta, a Canadian-based film maker best known for her taboo-breaking dramas Fire and Earth and Water. 2002
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Butterfly Affair
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DVD271
When gorgeous dancer Popsy Pop (Claudia Cardinale) rips off her lover Marcoux for a bag of diamonds, Marcoux recruits Police Inspector Sylvian to hunt her down. They find Popsy in a voodoo camp and their madcap adventure gets even stranger. 1971.
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Dinner At The Ritz
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DVD22
When her father is found dead after his bank fails, a naive young Parisian socialite (Annabella) refuses to believe it was suicide. A handsome young count (David Niven) helps her search for the men who swindled her father and arranged his death. An early David Niven displays unique qualities in this blend of comedy and light drama. 1937
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Entertainer
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DVD261
It's the late 1950s and the times are changing for Archie Rice, comic. Music halls are losing their audience to television. His patter draws fewer laughs, and applause for his song-and-dance routine echos faintly in the large, mostly empty theater. Stars Laurence Olivier, Albert Finney, Alan Bates, Joan Plowright. 1960.
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Fat Spy
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DVD267
A boatload of teenagers is headed to a private island off the coast of Florida for a scavenger hunt. The island's wealthy owner is unhappy about that, and dispatches his daughter (Jayne Mansfield) to the island to get rid of them. She's happy to go because her sweetie, Irving (Jack E. Leonard), is the island's only resident. 1966.
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Father's Little Dividend
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DVD24
A young a radiant Elizabeth Taylor is expecting, to the anxious concern and delight of her father, Spencer Tracy, in this excellent sequel to Father of the Bride. Directed by Vincente Minnelli. A flustered Spencer Tracy is an entertaining Spencer Tracy. 1951
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Flying Deuces
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DVD7
Unlucky in love, Ollie (Hardy) and Stan (Laurel) join the Foreign Legion and stumble from KP duty toward a firing squad as they infuriate their way up the chain of command. With the whole garrison gunning for them, they try to escape in an airplane. Except neither can fly. You'll find the expected laugh-filled moments that Laurel and Hardy always deliver. 1939
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Front Page
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DVD26
Can an ace reporter give up the scoop of a lifetime for the sake of love and marriage? Not if his manipulative editor has anything to do with it. This riotous look at the newspaper world was nominated for three Academy Awards. Stars Adolphe Menjou and Pat O'Brien. A classic and charming movie with performances so good they don't seem dated to today's audience. 1931
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Great Rupert
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DVD36
Things look bleak for Jimmy Durante, an out-of-work vaudeville performer with a wife and daughter to support. Then a squirrel makes a nest in their attic and begins to shower them with money retrieved from the hiding place the miser who lives next door. This light-hearted musical comedy will please the whole family. 1950
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Green Grow The Rushes
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DVD37
When a storm strands a fishing boat that's loaded to the gunwales with smuggled cognac, the eccentric captain (Roger Livesey), a young smuggler (Richard Burton) and a reporter (Honor Blackman) enlist the all-too-willing local townsfolk in a hilarious scheme to imbibe the evidence before it can be seized. 1951
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Gun Crazy
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DVD39
A Texas gambler (Richard Widmark) marries into a wealthy Mexican family and finds himself caught between a notorious desperado (Topol) and a tribe of Indians, both of whom are after a cache of guns hidden in the family vault. Mucho machinations make for a rowdy rollicking rambunctious Western romp. 1969
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Happy Go Lovely
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DVD47
When flamboyant impresario John Frost (Cesar Romero) throws a tantrum at rehearsal, chorus girl Janet Jones (Vera-Ellen) quits. But a misunderstanding with Scotland's richest businessman (David Niven) leads Frosty to coax Janet back as the lead in his new show. A charming romantic comedy with wonderful music. 1951
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His Girl Friday
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DVD27
Cary Grant, the managing editor of a big-city newspaper, and Rosalind Russell, his star reporter, strike sparks in this machine-gun-paced romantic remake of The Front Page. By Director Howard Hawks. 1940
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Honeymoon in Bali
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DVD28
The course of true love definitely does not run smooth when a highly motivated, all-work-and-no-play New York business woman (Madeleine Carroll) finds himself falling for an easygoing, fun-loving, South Sea island plantation manager (Fred MacMurray). A deft romantic comedy. 1939
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Inspector General
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DVD40
Danny Kaye shines as a kindhearted fool who is mistaken for the title character in this engaging musical comedy based on Gogol's classic play. Wonderful songs, Kaye's special antics, and superb support from Walter Slezak, Gene Lockhart, Alan Hale and Elsa Lanchester make for the most delightful entertainment. 1949
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Juiced
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DVD165
Welcome to Ted’s Diner and another hilariously worse-than-ever working day in the life of Syd, a career waitress and still-aspiring actress. The only people more annoying than her customers are her co-workers. A weird, wicked and outrageously comic tribute to the unsung underdogs of the hospitality biz. 1999
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Little Shop of Horrors
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DVD265
Life takes a strange turn for Seymour, a bumbling clerk in a flower shop, when he grows a new plant. When a drop of blood accidentally falls into its blossom-like mouth, the plant grows, and grows bigger, hungrier, and ever more demanding. 1960.
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Love Laughs at Andy Hardy
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DVD68
Out of the Army, Andy Hardy (Mickey Rooney) has two plans: get a college education and marry the girl of his dreams. Andy soon discovers that the course of true love never runs smooth. Lots of light-hearted fun in this vintage installment in the popular series. 1937
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Lucy Show (Volume I)
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DVD151
The irrepressible Lucille Ball stars, with Vivian Vance and Gale Gordon, in these four, never to be forgotten episodes of The Lucy Show. "The Starmaker" features Frankie Avalon as a budding singer working in his uncle's bank. In "Lucy meets Robert Goulet," she promotes a truck driver as the singer's look-alike. "Lucy's Barbershop Quartet" features Hans Conried as a voice coach with the clallenge of turning Lucy into a passable member of the group; while Dick Martin guest stars as a neighbor in the hilarious "Lucy and Vivian Shower." 1962
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Madigan's Million
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DVD70
An inept but utterly dedicated Treasury agent (Dustin Hoffman) is sent to Rome to locate the loot stashed by an American gangster. He gets help from the gangster's gorgeous daughter (Elsa Martinelli). In his first starring role, Hoffman shows a flair for knockabout farce. 1967
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Million Pound Note
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DVD74
Life changes dramatically for a young American (Gregory Peck) who's been stranded in turn-of-the-century London when he's presented with a 1,000,000-pound bank note. A delightful comedy of manners, money and morals based on a story by Mark Twain. 1953
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My Dear Secretary
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DVD77
A best-selling author (Kirk Douglas) hires an aspiring writer (Laraine Day) as his new secretary. She soon discovers he's more interested in womanizing than working. When she tries to change his playboy ways, the battle of the sexes escalates into full-scale war in this fast-paced romantic comedy. Keenan Wynn is delightful. 1948
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My Favorite Brunette
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DVD78
Mistaken by a sultry, dark-eyed beauty (Dorothy Lamour) for the private eye in the next office, a bumbling photographer (Bob Hope) agrees to help her find her missing uncle. He soon wise-cracks his way into big trouble and bigger laughs. 1947
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My Man Godfrey
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DVD79
William Powell and Carole Lombard are delightful in this nutty comedy about a family of rich eccentrics whose lives are changed when they hire a new butler - who is more than he seems. 1936
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Never Wave At A WAC
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DVD83
Tricked into joining the WACs by her senator father, a spoiled socialite (Rosalind Russell) soon discovers, with hilarious results, that basic training is quite different from her pampered rich-and-famous lifestyle. Paul Douglas, Marie Wilson and Leif Erickson co-star in this fast-paced military comedy. 1952
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Nothing Sacred
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DVD85
In this fast-paced comedy, Carole Lombard's ploy to get to New York City by pretending to be a victim of radiation poisoning backfires when a journalist publicizes her "plight". Co-stars Fredric March. Lombard provides an irresistible performance supported by a script that shines. 1937
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Out of Sync
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DVD89
When down-and-out record producer Roger Deacon (Peter Outerbridge) is handed a plum project, he's delighted -- until he discovers his sexy star is tone deaf. Then he meets a housewife (Gail O'Grady) with a great voice. Subbing her voice for the star's starts out as a great idea in this smart sassy comedy. 2000
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Over-The-Hill Gang
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DVD87
Long retired and restless, former Texas Ranger Captain Oren Hayes (Pat O'Brien) visits a town where his son-in-law (Rick Nelson) faces an unfair and dangerous fight for the Mayor's office with the villainous incumbent. The Captain calls for the help of his three best men (Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan and Andy Devine), but they've all seen better days. Using their wits as well as their guns in this rollicking western, these old-timers just might beat the corrupt town leaders and outlaws. 1969
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Over-The-Hill Gang Rides Again
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DVD189
Three retired Texas Rangers reunite and set out for Waco to rescue their former comrade, the Baltimore Kid. There's plenty of fun and Old West action. Stars Walter Brennan, Edgar Buchanan, Chill Wills, Fred Astaire, and Andy Devine. 1970.
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Penny Serenade
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DVD92
A couple about to separate after a shared tragedy remember their life together in this moving drama about the heartaches and hard-won joys of love and marriage. Starring Cary Grant and Irene Dunne. Classic, nostalgic, disarming - may bring you to tears as it tugs the heart-strings. 1941
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Pot O' Gold
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DVD94
Obliged to give up his carefree life running a small-town music store to help his uncle in the city, Jimmy Haskel (James Stewart) stumbles into a musical boarding house, gets involved in a family feud, falls in love (with Paulette Goddard), and hosts The Haskel Happiness Hour radio show. And that's just the first week! 1941
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Purlie Victorious
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DVD187
Rev. Purlie Victorious returns to the old South to claim an inheritance from his former boss. A very funny look at injustice in the South. Stars Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, and Alan Alda. 1963.
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Road to Bali
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DVD184
Two American vaudeville performers have escaped Australia rather than be forced into shotgun weddings. AFter arriving on a South Sea island they vie for the favor of gorgeous Princess Lala. Bing Crosby, Bob Hope, and Dorothy Lamour in a classic Roud picture. 1952.
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Royal Wedding
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DVD101
Fred Astaire and Jane Powell star in this lavishly produced musical as a dynamic brother-and-sister act. They each find a romance of their own when their show is booked into Londom during a royal wedding. With Peter Lawford, Keenan Wynn. 1951
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Second Chorus
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DVD107
Two brash young trumpet players (Fred Astaire and Burgess Meredith) both fall for a lovely brunette (Paulette Goddard) and pursue her to New York where they vie, with hilarious results, for her affections and a place in Artie Shaw's big band. A witty, musical comedy. 1940
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Shirley Temple Classics
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DVD183
Includes: Dora's dunking doughnuts; Glad rags to riches; Kid in Africa; Kid in Hollywood; Merrily yours; Polly Tix in Washington; and War babies. 1932.
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Stage Door Canteen
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DVD110
During WWII, three young soldiers find romance at New York City's fabled recreation centre where Broadway stars entertain servicemen. Featuring Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Katharine Hepburn, Harpo Marx, Helen Hayes, Edgar Bergen, Peggy Lee, Ray Bolger, George Jessel and Gypsy Rose Lee. Great fun. 1943
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Swing High, Swing Low
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DVD115
In Panama City Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard are a romantic and music sensation, but when he accepts an invitation to New York, high times and fast friends threaten their relationship. 1937
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That Uncertain Feeling
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DVD117
To their friends and the society press, Jill and Larry Baker (Merle Oberon and Melvyn Douglas) are known as the Happy Bakers. But their marriage is threatened by a recurring case of hiccups and an eccentric pianist (Burgess Meredith) in this sophisticated screwball comedy from director Ernst Lubitsch. 1941
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Tom Stoppard's Arcadia
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DVD217
Did Lord Byron kill an obscure English poet in a duel? Was Fermat's Theorem first solved by a 13-year-old in 1809? Part detective story, part love story, and part comedy of manners, Arcadia is also a crash course in mathematics, landscape gardening, literature and chaos theory, leapfrogging across 200 years in the life of an eccentric aristocratic family. 2009.
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Topper Returns
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DVD176
Cosmo Topper is a banker who sees ghosts. When a beautiful young woman is murdered by mistake, her spirit convinces Topper to help her solve the crime and prevent the killer from striking again. Stars Billie Burke, Roland Young, and Joan Blondell. 1941.
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Treasure of The Yankee Zephyr
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DVD126
In the middle of WWII, a U.S.A.F. bomber loaded with gold bullion and good whiskey goes down in a remote area of New Zealand. Forty-odd years later, an eccentric old codger (Donald Pleasence) out hunting deer stumbles on the plane and its cargo. 1981
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Trinity Is Still My Name
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DVD127
Two brothers do their best to honor their father's dying wish: that they become successful outlaws! Bambino (Bud Spence) and younger brother Trinity (Terrence Hill) join forces against corrupt monks, a Texas land baron and a bandit chieftain. Even funner than the first Trinity film, this spaghetti Western keeps its tongue firmly in cheek while delivering action, laughs and smarts. 1971
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Two of Hearts
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DVD129
Veterinarian Molly Saunders (Gail O'Grady) meets sentimental sportscaster Jake Michaelson (Rob Stewart) at the wedding of their former spouses. When the two fall in love, their families meet and mix like oil and water. Despite their strong mutual attraction, can they stay together? 1999
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Two Thousand and None
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DVD130
After Palaeontologist Benjamin Kasparian (John Turturro) gets over the shock of learning he has an incurable brain disease that will soon kill him, he decides to live the rest of his life with a sense of humour -- an attitude that makes for many touchingly hilarious moments in this offbeat comedy-drama. 1950
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Utopia
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DVD134
From a distant uncle, Stan inherits an old sailboat and an island somewhere in the South Seas. Ollie immediately assumes command of the expedition. Against all odds the stumblebum sailors survive a harrowing voyage and wash up as castaways on their private UTOPIA. After appointing himself President, Ollie drafts a constitution banning taxes, laws, and passports. But their idyllic existance is short-lived: uranium is discovered on the island, bringing way more trouble than the local government can handle. Another fine mess indeed. 1950
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