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4.6 of 5.0 with 1,939 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $6.97 23% OFF
Manufacturer: WarnerBrothers
Brand: Warner Manufacturing
Model: 4970171
Manufacturer: WarnerBrothers
Brand: Warner Manufacturing
Model: 4970171
Purple Rain (DVD)Rock star Prince makes a spectacular feature film debut in this highly autobiographical blockbuster that won both an Oscar and a Grammy award.Headstrong, vulnerable young musician The Kid (Prince) struggles with his own inner demons and with his alcoholic father who beats his mother. But the madness infects his music, fueling a sound that transforms the struggling, young rocker into a star.]]> When Prince's dazzling and dynamic Purple Rain (movie and soundtrack album) and the hypnotic hit single "When Doves Cry" exploded onto the pop-culture scene in 1984, it seemed there was nothing the purple one couldn't do. The film is basically a feature-length music video, but no musician has ever had a better big-screen showcase for his many talents. The plot is really just a theme (about the son of an abusive father struggling not to continue the pattern) upon which to hang some of Prince's most dazzling songs (including "Let's Go Crazy" and the title tune), and some sizzling live-concert numbers. Apollonia Kotero is ravishing as the romantic interest, and Morris Day and the Time provide some terrific musical competition. Purple Rain is an essential artifact of the mid-'80s pop Zeitgeist. Prince took home an Oscar for the song score. --Jim Emerson
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4.6 of 5.0 with 1,791 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $6.83 32% OFF
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Brand: VAN DYKE,DICK
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Brand: VAN DYKE,DICK
An inventor takes his kids and a candy tycoon's daughter for a musical ride in a flying car that floats. This remastered, pan-and-scan 30th-anniversary edition of that kiddie-car caper is flawed but solid family fare. It retains a quaint charm while some of the songs--including the title tune--are quite hummable. A huge plus is Dick Van Dyke, who is extremely appealing as an eccentric inventor around the turn of the century. With nimble fingers and a unique way of looking at the world, he invents for his children a magic car that floats and flies. Or does he? The special effects are tame by today's standards, and the film is about 20 minutes too long--but its enthusiasm charms. The script was cowritten by Roald Dahl and based on the novel by Ian Fleming, best known for his James Bond adventures. --Rochelle O'Gorman
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4.6 of 5.0 with 678 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $2.87 52% OFF
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Brand: STRAIT,GEORGE
Model: 4970143
Color: Color
Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Brand: STRAIT,GEORGE
Model: 4970143
Color: Color
Pure Country (DVD)Country music superstar George Strait plays Dusty Chandler, a singerwho, after struggling for years singing in small honky-tonks, suddenlydiscovers that with success he has lost something important in hislife.After cutting his hair and shaving his beard, Dusty takes a job ona ranch where no one recognizes him, reconnects with people who muststruggle each day to survive--and finds love. Now, can he balance thelife he lost--and found again--with the lifelong dream he has attainedof being a country music star?]]>
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4.4 of 5.0 with 152 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $6.65 74% OFF
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Brand: PETERS,BERNADETTE
Model: 2214760
Manufacturer: Image Entertainment
Brand: PETERS,BERNADETTE
Model: 2214760
THE BROADWAY MUSICAL INSPIRED BY THE PAINTING, A SUNDAY AFTERNOON ON THE ISLAND OF GRAND JATTE, AND LOOSELY BASED ON THE LIFE OF ITS CREATOR, GEORGES SEURAT. HIS CLASSIC PAINTING COMES TO LIFE IN THIS AWARD-WINNING MUSICAL. Stephen Sondheim's landmark 1984 musical Sunday in the Park with George is a fictional representation of maverick French Impressionist painter Georges Seurat's efforts to create his masterpiece, Sunday Afternoon on the Isle of La Grande Jatte. Seurat, played by Mandy Patinkin, is obsessed with his work, to the frustration of his mistress, Dot (Bernadette Peters). Along the way, we meet many other characters--whoever happens to be in the park that Sunday--who eventually become part of the canvas. Act 2 fast-forwards 100 years. Patinkin now plays Seurat's great-grandson, George, himself a frustrated artist. (Peters plays his grandmother--Seurat and Dot's daughter.) In the score's best-known song, "Putting It Together," George (and Sondheim himself) explains the hazards of trying to create art while also confronting the reality of having to pay for it. In a search for inspiration, George travels to the original island where Seurat created the painting. As with Sondheim and cocreator James Lapine's next collaboration, Into the Woods, Sunday is often criticized for redirecting its focus in the second act instead of letting the first act stand by itself as a complete work. The second act, however, is the emotional core of the show, as George confronts all the feelings his great-grandfather had repressed so many years ago. Stephen Sondheim's brilliant score is remarkable for its combination of vivid colors (listen to his dots of sound that represent Seurat's pointillistic style of painting), character pieces, and sheer beauty. The cast is terrific, and the show, aced out of most of the 1984 Tony Awards by La Cage aux Folles, won the Pulitzer Prize for drama. Recorded before a live audience, Sunday is especially entertaining on video, as the staging elements bring out the full humor and inventiveness ...
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3.8 of 5.0 with 318 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $7.83 48% OFF
Manufacturer: Polygram Video
Brand: Universal
Manufacturer: Polygram Video
Brand: Universal
Filmed at the Point Theatre in Dublin, 'Lord of the Dance' takes Irish dancing to spectacular new heights. Orchestrated and conducted by Anne Dudley, inspiring original music by Ronan Hardiman and exhilarating dance starring the sensational Michael Flatley with supporting characters Bernadette Flynn, Daire Nolan, Gillian Norris, Helen Egan and Anne Buckley - 'Lord of the Dance' is a rare and magical experience. Michael Flatley takes to the stage on a stunning Celtic dance spectacular which retells Irish folk legend in a dazzling and updated style. Join us when time stood still and Erin was goddess of all....The stories had all been written and everyone knew their parts. But the ancient clans, sitting in their stone circles, heard mumblings and the spirits dream was troubled. A new dark power had emerged to challenge the Lord of the Dance.
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4.7 of 5.0 with 2,431 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $5.00 67% OFF
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: Sony
Model: 2227731
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: Sony
Model: 2227731
Relive the magic. This newly restored, 2-disc anniversary edition of Jim Henson's Labyrinth contains an all-new commentary and bonus features that are guaranteed to captivate as never before. David Bowie and Jennifer Connelly invite you into a magical universe where nothing is what it seems. Babysitting infant stepbrother Toby on a weekend night isn't young Sarah's (Connelly) idea of fun. Frustrated by his crying, she secretly imagines the Goblins from her favorite book, Labyrinth, carrying Toby away. When her fantasy comes true, a distraught Sarah must enter a maze of illusion to bring Toby back from a kingdom inhabited by mystical creatures and governed by the wicked Goblin King (Bowie).
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4.4 of 5.0 with 464 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $8.07 2% OFF
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: OLDMAN,GARY
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: OLDMAN,GARY
Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbe, Isabella Rossellini and Valeria Golino star in IMMORTAL BELOVED, a mesmerizing mystery based on the tumultuous real life of Ludwig van Beethoven. Oldman gives a tour de force performance as the passionate, volatile genius who inspired love and hatred in equal measure. Whether seducing regal followers or criticizing the ruling class, Beethoven made many enemies. But he also had one true love, the unnamed "Immortal Beloved" mentioned in an enigmatic letter discovered upon his death. The thrilling search for the identity of this mystery woman leads us into Beethoven'sdark past, his hidden passions, and, ultimately, into the unparalleled genius of his music.
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4.2 of 5.0 with 245 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $9.77 35% OFF
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: BUSEY,GARY
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: BUSEY,GARY
Gary Busey gives an electrifying, Oscar(r) nominated performance (Best Actor-1978) as Buddy Holly, the musical genius from Lubbock, Texas, who changed the tune of rock n' roll history. With a groundbreaking combination of country music and rhythm & blues, Buddy Holly and the Crickets (Don Stroud, Charles Martin Smith) catapulted to national stardom in just three short years with such hits as "That'll Be the Day," "It's So Easy," and "Peggy Sue." By the age of 22, Holly had it all: chart-topping singles, a beautiful wife, and international acclaim until tragedy ended a brilliant career but not his music. In an Academy Award(r) - winning score adaptation, Busey sings Holly's greatest hits in thisdynamic tribute to one of the most influential rock n' rollers of all time and the legacy he left behind.
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4.5 of 5.0 with 739 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $2.99 71% OFF
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: Sony
Model: 4986432
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Brand: Sony
Model: 4986432
Screen legends Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford make movie magic as the captivating star-crossed lovers, Hubbell Gardiner and Katie Morosky. Theirs is a classic love story sparked by the attraction of opposites, played out against the backdrop of American life during times of foreign war, domestic prosperity and McCarthy-era paranoia in Hollywood. Winner of two 1974 Academy Awards(r) (Best Song "The Way We Were" and Best Score), this special 25th Anniversary Edition of the The Way We Were has been digitally remastered so you can enjoy this romantic epic the way it was meant to be seen and heard.
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4.4 of 5.0 with 215 Reviews
SALE PRICE: $5.99 40% OFF
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Brand: Twentieth Century Fox
Part tragic, part comic, this outrageous look at life in the fast lane in the Academy Award-winning musical about Bob Fosse's excessive life in show business. Played by Roy Scheider, Fosse's alter-ego drives himself over the edge and soon finds he is caught between a recurring fantasy about his death and the reality of a near-death experience. Dazzlingly presented, this electrifying story about the perils of pushing yourself too hard is filled with Fosse's legendary song-and-dance choreography.
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