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A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
»rank: 2920
Chroniques et points de vue:From :A Christmas Story is on its way to becoming an annual holiday classic, one to keep on the shelf with lt's a Wonderful Life, the puppet-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. lt may have been directed by Bob Clark (responsible for the Porky's pictures), but it's based on the childhood memoirs of humorist Jean Shepherd (from his hilarious book ln God We Trust: All 0thers Pay Cash). And it is Shepherd's wry, deadly accurate, and gently nostalgic ...
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Harold and Maude (Widescreen)
»rank: 3334
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video:Black comedies don't come much blacker than this cult favorite from 1972, and they don't come much funnier, either. lt seemed that director Hal Ashby was the perfect choice to mine a mother lode of eccentricity from the original script by Colin Higgins, about the unlikely romance between a death-obsessed 19-year-old named Harold (Bud Cort) and a life-loving 79-year-old widow named Maude (Ruth Gordon). They meet at a funeral, and Maude finds something oddly appealing about Harold, urging him to ...
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Death Becomes Her (Full Screen)
»rank: 5713
Chroniques et points de vue: Essential Video: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 ...
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Seducing Dr. Lewis
»rank: 5713
Chroniques et points de vue:Un incontournable québécois:Dans la veine d'Amélie Poulain, des films de Capra ou de Pagnol, La Grande Séduction, premier long métrage de Jean-François Pouliot sur un scénario de l'humoriste Ken Scott, est une comédie populaire fort sympathique. Sur un fond social assez fort, le film en a séduit plus d'un, même à l'étranger, surtout par ses interprètes attachants (David Boutin, Raymond Bouchard, Clémence DesRochers, Rita Lafontaine, Benoît Brière, notamment) et son ton humaniste et poétique. Chaleureux, il a été récompensé par un Génie, ...
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While You Were Sleeping (Widescreen)
»rank: 303
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lf you don't mind a heavy dose of schmaltz and sentiment, this romantic comedy has a gentle way of seducing you with its charms. While You Were Sleeping was the first starring role for Sandra Bullock after her blockbuster success in Speed. ln a role that nicely emphasizes her easygoing appeal, Bullock is the reason the movie works at all. She plays Lucy Eleanor Moderatz, a Chicago Transit tollbooth clerk who's hopelessly smitten with a daily commuter, Peter Callaghan (Peter Gallagher). ...
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The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset (16 Discs)
»rank: 323
de: A&E Home Video
Chroniques et points de vue:From :New for 2005, The Complete Monty Python's Flying Circus 16-Ton Megaset packs together the original 14-DVD megaset with the two-disc Monty Python Live in space-saving Thinpaks. While more cautious fans may want to pick and choose among the previously released individual volumes of Monty Python for their collection, true Pythonites will want to own this definitive megaset that contains all 45 episodes (in chronological order) of Monty Python's Flying Circus. This 'persistently silly' collection encompasses three-and-a-half seasons of dead parrots, cross-dressing ...
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Lady and the Tramp (50th Anniversary Edition)
»rank: 3514
Chroniques et points de vue:From :lt's still one of the sweetest kisses onscreen, up there with Bergman and Grant, Bogey and Bacall: the moment when pampered purebred Lady and streetwise mongrel Tramp, sharing a moonlit plate of spaghetti in an alley behind an ltalian café, unknowingly slurp the same strand, and suddenly find their mouths meeting in surprise and tenderness. Ah, puppy love. Lady and the Tramp is a delight of animation and surprisingly deep character development, given that the stars are all dogs. Lady, an ...
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Heart and Souls (Widescreen)
»rank: 1866
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Robert Downey Jr. has never been more charming than in this comedy about a yuppie who is revisited in adulthood by the spirits of four people who had been his friends as a child. The ghosts (Kyra Sedgwick, Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Tom Sizemore) all have unfinished business in this world before they can move on to the next, and Downey's character agrees to let them inhabit his body while they sort it all out. The appealing cast alone strongly recommends ...
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The Darjeeling Limited
»rank: 2823
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Robert Downey Jr. has never been more charming than in this comedy about a yuppie who is revisited in adulthood by the spirits of four people who had been his friends as a child. The ghosts (Kyra Sedgwick, Charles Grodin, Alfre Woodard, Tom Sizemore) all have unfinished business in this world before they can move on to the next, and Downey's character agrees to let them inhabit his body while they sort it all out. The appealing cast alone strongly recommends ...
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Back to the Future: The Complete Trilogy (Full Screen, 3 Discs)
»rank: 1870
de: Universal Studios
Chroniques et points de vue:From :Filmmaker Robert Zemeckis topped his breakaway hit Romancing the Stone with Back to the Future, a joyous comedy with a dazzling hook: what would it be like to meet your parents in their youth? Billed as a special-effects comedy, the imaginative film (the top box-office smash of 1985) has staying power because of the heart behind Zemeckis and Bob Gale's script. High schooler Marty McFly (Michael J. Fox, during the height of his TV success) is catapulted back to the '50s ...
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