Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Growing up has nothing to do with age Will (Grant) is a 38-year old Londoner living a bachelor lifestyle on the back of royalties earned from a Christmas song penned by his father some years previously A serial womaniser Will comes up with the idea of attending a single parents group as a new way to pick up women Inventing a two-year old son for himself he meets lonely bullied schoolboy Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) & his depressed music therapist mother (Toni Collette) The intelligent Marcus soon learns Will&s secret & so blackmails him into letting him hang out at his place & watch afternoon telly However what starts out as an uneasy quiz show watching alliance turns into an unlikely friendship Feature Commentary with Directors Chris & Paul Weitz& Making Of& Featurette Deleted Scenes with Directors& Commentary Badly Drawn Boy Music Videos Interview with Badly Drawn Boy DVD-Rom features Actors Hugh Grant Toni Collette Rachel Weisz Sharon Small Madison Cook Jordan Cook Nicholas Hoult Nat Gastiain Tena Victoria Smurfit Nicholas Hutchison Ryan Speechley Joseph Speechley Natalia Tena Laura Kennington & Tanika Swaby Director Chris Weitz & Paul Weitz Certificate 12 years & over Year 2002 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English ; English For The Hearing Impaired Closed Captions Yes Duration 1 hour & 37 minutes (approx) Region Region 2
- Will only play on European Region 2 or multi-region DVD players

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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Hugh Grant takes the lead role as aimless commitment-shy thirtysomething Will in this adaptation of Nick Hornby&s bestseller Living on the royalties of a hit song his father wrote 40 years ago Will drifts through life moving from one relationship to the next with little lasting effect But when he hits upon the new idea of dating single-mothers he soon finds himself entangled with the suicidal Fiona (Toni Colette) & her 12-year-old-son Marcus (Nicholas Hoult) As he & Marcus gradually develop a friendship Will begins to reassess the selfish life he has been living ...

Nick Hornby&s second bestselling novel is about sex manliness & fatherhood Will is thirty-six comfortable & child-free & he&s discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women
- through single-parent groups Marcus is twelve & a little bitnerdish he&s got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit & both can start to act their age
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At a dinner party given by his parents-in-law Commissario Brunetti meets Franca Marinello the wife of a prosperous Venetian businessman He's charmed
- perhaps too charmed suggests his wife Paola
- by her love of Virgil & Cicero but shocked by her appearance A few days later Brunetti is visited by Carabinieri Maggior Filippo Guarino from the nearby city of Marghera As part of a wider investigation into Mafia takeovers of businesses in the region Guarino wants information about the owner of a trucking company who was found murdered in his office He believes the man's death is connected to the illegal transportation of refuse
- & more sinister material
- in his company's trucks No stranger to mutual suspicion & competition between rival Italian police departments Brunetti is nevertheless puzzled by the younger man's behaviour Eventually Guarino agrees to email a photo of his suspect but by the time the photograph arrives he himself is dead Was he killed because he got too close? & how is it that Franca Marinello is involved?



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Beautifully written & compelling About Grace is the brilliant debut novel from Anthony Doerr Growing up in Alaska young David Winkler is crippled by his dreams At nine he dreams a man is decapitated by a passing truck on the path outside his family's home The next day unable to prevent it he witnesses an exact replay of his dream in real life The premonitions keep coming unstoppably He sleepwalks during them bringing catastrophe into his reach Then as unstoppable as a vision he falls in love at the supermarket (exactly as he already dreamed) with Sandy They flee south landing in Ohio where their daughter Grace is born & then the visions of Grace's death begin for Winkler as their waterside home is inundated Plagued by the same horrific images of Grace drowning when the floods come he cannot face his destiny & flees He beaches on a remote Caribbean island where he works as a handyman chipping away at his doubts & hopes never knowing whether Grace survived the flood or met the doom he foretold After two decades he musters the strength to find out ...

The immensely funny & heartwarming number one bestseller tells the story of a woman who gets a second chance in life
- but will
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Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Kevin Hart Michael Ealy Regina Hall & Joy Bryant star in this hilarious romantic comedy about what men & women really want Bernie (Hart) & Joan (Hall) are two fiery flirters who are passionate about everything from hookups to breakups When he sets up his best friend Danny (Ealy) with her roommate Debbie (Bryant) the sparks soon fly as they try to navigate the relationship minefields from the bar to the bedroom Actors Michael Ealy Joy Bryant Joe Lo Truglio Christopher Mc Donald Adam Rodriguez Directors Steve Pink Language English Run Time 96 minutes ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play A man & woman meet & try to have a romantic affair despite their personal problems & the interference of their disapproving friends ...

As a novelist essayist & cultural historian John Berger is a writer of dazzling eloquence & arresting insight whose work amounts to a subtle powerful critique of the canons of our civilization In About Looking he explores our role as observers to reveal new layers of meaning in what we see How do the animals we look at in zoos remind us of a relationship between man & beast all but lost in the twentieth century? What is it about looking at war photographs that doubles their already potent violence? How do the nudes of Rodin betray the threats to his authority & potency posed by clay & flesh? & how does solitude inform the art of Giacometti? In asking these & other questions Berger alters the vision of anyone who reads his work ...

Wedding co-ordinator Asaka could never forget his very first clients When he meets up once more with that very same client the man who spends his life arranging weddings for others unexpectedly learns a few things about love himself Heartwarmingly bittersweet this is the eagerly awaited English-language debut of mangaka Tomo Ootake! ...