Spike Lee directs this World War Two epic from a screenplay adapted by James Mc Bride from his own novel. Told in flashbacks over a 40-year period, the film chronicles events in World War Two Italy that eventually culminate in a seemingly random killing in 1983 New York City. In 1944, four black American soldiers & a shell-shocked Italian boy become stranded in the Tuscan village of Colognora after an offensive on German positions across the Serchio River goes disastrously wrong. But as the men become enmeshed in village life, it soon becomes clear that the loyalties & allegiances of the people they meet are not always as they seem. ...

Spike Lee directs this World War Two epic from a screenplay adapted by James Mc Bride from his own novel. Told in flashbacks over a 40-year period, the film chronicles events in World War Two Italy that eventually culminate in a seemingly random killing in 1983 New York City. In 1944, four black American soldiers & a shell-shocked Italian boy become stranded in the Tuscan village of Colognora after an offensive on German positions across the Serchio River goes disastrously wrong. But as the men become enmeshed in village life, it soon becomes clear that the loyalties & allegiances of the people they meet are not always as they seem. ...

Vitorrio De Sica's follow-up to ' Bicycle Thieves' won the Best Film Award at Cannes in 1951. Its fairy tale-like story concerns the plight of the poor in post-WWII Italy. A group of down-&-outs who when threatened with eviction by developers escape manage to angelic intervention, thanks to a magic dove given to Toto, a young orphan, by a fairy. The dove allows Toto to grant the beggars their wishes. ...

John Gregson & Belinda Lee star in this 1950s romantic drama written & produced by Emeric Pressburger. Womanising road worker Michael Morgan (Gregson) is sent to a job on St. Anthony's Lane in Soho, London. While there he meets & gets involved with local girl Julia Gozzi (Lee). She falls in love with Michael but will he finally be able to commit to a relationship? ...

George Seaton writes & directs this classic drama starring Edmund Gwenn & Maureen O' Hara. Doris Walker (O' Hara), an executive at Macy's department store, believes in taking a common-sense approach to life & is consequently raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) not to believe in Santa Claus. This year however, the convictions of both mother & child are challenged when a kindly old man (Gwenn) is hired as the store Santa & insists that he is in fact the real thing. No one believes him, some even think he's insane, but he is willing to go to court to prove his case. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Gwenn) & Best Screenplay (Seaton). ...

A remake of the 1947 'feel good' classic, telling the heart-warming story of a young girl's desire for a fully-functional family, complete with a father & a baby brother. The girl, Susan, confides in Kris Kringle (Sir Richard Attenborough), the kindly old man who is acting as the grotto Santa in the department store managed by her mother. Kris Kringle, however, believes he is the genuine Santa Claus & this devotion to the cause makes him very popular indeed, leading to record profits for the store. This annoys rival retailers so much that they try to discredit the so-called Santa, leading eventually to a court case in which Kringle & his lawyer try to prove that he is the real thing. ...

George Seaton writes & directs this classic drama starring Edmund Gwenn & Maureen O' Hara. Doris Walker (O' Hara), an executive at Macy's department store, believes in taking a common-sense approach to life & is consequently raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) not to believe in Santa Claus. This year however, the convictions of both mother & child are challenged when a kindly old man (Gwenn) is hired as the store Santa & insists that he is in fact the real thing. No one believes him, some even think he's insane, but he is willing to go to court to prove his case. The film won two Academy Awards for Best Supporting Actor (Gwenn) & Best Screenplay (Seaton). ...

A remake of the 1947 'feel good' classic, telling the heart-warming story of a young girl's desire for a fully-functional family, complete with a father & a baby brother. The girl, Susan, confides in Kris Kringle (Sir Richard Attenborough), the kindly old man who is acting as the grotto Santa in the department store managed by her mother. Kris Kringle, however, believes he is the genuine Santa Claus & this devotion to the cause makes him very popular indeed, leading to record profits for the store. This annoys rival retailers so much that they try to discredit the so-called Santa, leading eventually to a court case in which Kringle & his lawyer try to prove that he is the real thing. ...

Double bill featuring the original ' Miracle On 34th Street' & the 1994 remake. In ' Miracle On 34th Street' (1947), Doris Walker (Maureen O' Hara), an executive at Macy's department store, believes in taking a common-sense approach to life & is consequently raising her daughter Susan (Natalie Wood) not to believe in Santa Claus. This year, however, the convictions of both mother & child are challenged when the kindly old man (Edmund Gwenn) hired as the store Santa insists that he is in fact the real thing. No one believes him, some even think he's insane, but he is willing to go to court to prove his case. In ' Miracle On 34th Street' (1994), a girl, Susan (Mara Wilson), confides in Kris Kringle (Richard Attenborough), the kindly old man who is acting as the grotto Santa in the department store managed by her mother. Kris Kringle believes he is the genuine Santa Claus & this devotion to the cause makes him very popular indeed, leading to record profits for the store. This annoys rival retailers so much that they try to discredit the so-called Santa, leading eventually to a court case in which Kringle & his lawyer try to prove that he is the real thing. ...

Patricia Riggen directs this drama based on the memoir of Christy Beam. Jennifer Garner stars as Christy, a woman whose young daughter Anna (Kylie Rogers) has been diagnosed with a rare digestive disease for which there is no cure. After an accident which would normally have proved fatal, Anna survives with barely a scratch. When she is rushed to the hospital the stunned doctors find she has been cured of her incurable disease. The cast also

Includes:: Queen Latifah, Martin Henderson & John Carroll Lynch.

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