Purple Rain (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Manufacturer: ACORN MEDIA Brand: Acorn Manufacturing Model: 26355945

He’s surly, self-centered, rude, and uptight—but he’s the only doctor in town. Martin Clunes (Men Behaving Badly) stars as Doc Martin, a hotshot London surgeon forced to change careers when he develops a fear of blood. Relocating to a sleepy, scenic Cornish fishing village, he offends everyone in town and falls in love with a beautiful teacher.

Manufacturer: Olive Films Brand: OLIVE FILMS Model: 26193280

An American boxer returns to Ireland to live in peace, but his bride's burly brother picks a fight. Oscar for director John Ford.

Manufacturer: Paramount Brand: Paramount

Top Gun takes a look at the danger and excitement that awaits every pilot at the Navy's prestigious fighter weapons school. Tom Cruise is superb as Pete "Maverick" Mitchell, a daring young flyer who's out to become the best of the best. And Kelly McGillis sizzles as the civilian instructor who teaches Maverick a few things you can't learn in a classroom.

Manufacturer: Touchstone Home Entertainment Brand: BUENA VISTA HOME VIDEO Model: 8919662 Color: color

From the mega-hitmakers who produced and directed THE ROCK and PEARL HARBOR comes ARMAGEDDON. And now, this mind-blowing action-adventure explodes on Blu-ray(TM) for the first time ever! Bruce Willis (SURROGATES, SIN CITY) and Academy Award(R) winners Ben Affleck (1997, Best Original Screenplay, GOOD WILL HUNTING) and Billy Bob Thornton (1996, Best Adapted Screenplay, SLING BLADE) head an all-star cast that includes Liv Tyler (THE LORD OF THE RINGS trilogy), Steve Buscemi (CON AIR) and Will Patton (GONE IN 60 SECONDS). When NASA's director (Thornton) realizes the Earth has 18 days before it's destroyed by a meteor the size of Texas, he has only one option: land a ragtag team of roughneck oil drillers on the asteroid and drop a nuke into its core. With spectacular special effects, laugh-out-loud humor, a riveting story and a rockin' soundtrack featuring Aerosmith and Bon Jovi, this adrenaline-pumping thrill ride now boasts the staggeringly intense picture and incomparable theater-quality sound of Blu-ray High Definition. The latest testosterone-saturated blow-'em-up from producer Jerry Bruckheimer and director Michael Bay (The Rock, Bad Boys) continues Hollywood's millennium-fueled fascination with the destruction of our planet. There's no arguing that the successful duo understands what mainstream American audiences want in their blockbuster movies--loads of loud, eye-popping special effects, rapid- fire pacing, and patriotic flag waving. Bay's protagonists--the eight crude, ...

Manufacturer: BBC Video Brand: Warner Manufacturing

North and South (Dbl DVD) (BBC)As the daughter of a middle-class parson, Margaret Hale has enjoyed a privileged upbringing in rural southern England. When her father uproots the family to take work in the northern mill town of Milton, Margaret is shocked by the dirt, the noise and the gruffness of the people, but she reserves her highest contempt for the charismatic mill-owner John Thornton.]]> North & South is a splendid, four-hour adaptation of Elizabeth Gaskell's 19th century novel about an unlikely, and somewhat star-crossed, love between a middle-class young woman from England's cultivated south and an intemperate if misunderstood industrialist in a hardscrabble, northern city. Daniela Denby-Ashe plays Margaret Hale, forthright and strong-willed daughter of a former vicar (Tim Pigott-Smith) who relocates his family from a pastoral village outside London to unforgiving, largely illiterate Milton, a factory town where John Thornton (Richard Armitage) and his mother (Sinead Cusack), survivors of poverty, rule their cotton mill with an iron hand. Thornton befriends Margaret's father but incurs her wrath for his severity with his workers. What she doesn't notice is Thornton's core sense of responsibility for his employees' welfare. On the other hand, he misinterprets some of Margaret's own actions and intentions. Equally stubborn, the two drag out their obvious attraction over many painful months and events. North & South's two leads are both very good, though Armitage's ...