Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play When a couple of street urchins come across a lonely rich kid the three become friends when his dubious uncle mistakes them all for his nephews A change of pace from the high-octane "bullet ballet" kinetics that characterise his Hong Kong work Run Tiger Run is ample demonstration of John Woo&s comic talents creating a frothy funny culture-clash comedy for all the family! ...

Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Richard Sarafian directs this family drama starring John Mills & Mark Lester Ten-year-old Philip Ransome (Lester) has been mute since the age of three spending his days walking the moors of the English countryside When he comes across an albino pony that looks equally lost in the world Philip befriends it & in time learns to be more confident The cast also

Includes:: Sylvia Syms & Fiona Fullerton

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A slightly different slant on the &slacker& comedy genre directed by & Friends& star David Schwimmer Five years ago Dennis (Simon Pegg) was at the altar about to marry Libby (Thandie Newton) his pregnant fiancee He got cold feet & headed for the hills & he&s been going in circles ever since When Dennis discovers Libby&s now hooked up with high-flying go-getter Whit (Hank Azaria) he realises it&s now or never Assisted by his friend Gordon (Dylan Moran) he decides to enter a marathon to show he&s not a quitter but then finds out just how much sweat strain & pain it takes to run for 26 miles No one rates his chances but Dennis knows this is the only way to stop being a running joke ...

From the author of Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller Damaged the gripping story of a woman caught in a horrific cycle of abuse
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Ivy turned on her I told you I'd get you didn't I? Well' her next words sent shivers through Katie Tonight's the night' Katie is being bullied at school
- & cannot get anyone to believe her She feels frightened & alone until one day when she is cornered by Ivy & her fellow bullies on the town dump Katie is terrified there is nowhere left to run But suddenly as if by magic a girl called Zan rises from the rubbish in the dump & leaps to Katie's defence But Zan is not willing to talk to Katie
- all she wishes to do is keep her identity a secret Slowly Katie learns the truth about Zan & when she does she realises Zan has much more to lose than the safety of her cardboard box A gripping story that really brings the issue of bullying to a head

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Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature The matchless Munro makes art out of everyday lives in this exquisite collection Here are men & women of wildly different times & circumstances their lives made vividly palpable by the nuance & empathy of Munro's writing Runaway is about the power & betrayals of love about lost children lost chances There is pain & desolation beneath the surface like a needle in the heart which makes these stories more powerful & compelling than anything she has written before Winner of the Man Booker International Prize 2009 ...

FIVE DREAMS OF FAMEGlasgow 1965 Jack Mackay dares not imagine a life of predictability & routine The headstrong seventeen-year-old has one thing on his mind
- London
- & successfully convinces his four friends & fellow band mates to join him in abandoning their homes to pursue a goal of musical stardom FIVE DECADES OF FEARGlasgow 2015 Jack Mackay dares not look back on a life of failure & mediocrity The heavy-hearted sixty-seven-year old is still haunted by the cruel fate that befell him & his friends some fifty years before & how he did & did not act when it mattered most
- a memory he has run from all his adult life London 2015 A man lies dead in a bedsit His killer looks on remorseless What started with five teenagers five decades before will now be finished


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Ike Graham is a newspaper columnist who causes an uproar by writing a false story about Maggie Carpenter a woman who has left a few men literally stranded at the altar He sets about proving his story while Maggie plans to even the score
- but neither can anticipate the sparks that will fly when they do eventually meet up
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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 Compelling six-part drama THE RUNAWAY is based on the gritty crime novel by best-selling author Martina Cole Set in both London&s Soho & in New York City the serial spans the 1960s & 1970s following the interweaving stories of Cathy Connor (Joanna Vanderham) & Eamonn Docherty (Jack O& Connell); childhood sweethearts ripped apart by the twisting hands of fate Forced to run away from her care home Cathy ends up on the seedy streets of Soho where she is taken under the wing of flamboyant transvestite Desrae (Alan Cumming) Eamonn meanwhile becomes entangled in a life of crime & is faced with no option but to flee to New York Fate eventually brings the damaged pair back together but running away from their past is never going to be easy ...

Fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives on Casey's doorstep with no possessions no English & no explanation It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting the shocking answers to her questions Brought to Casey as a short-term emergency placement fourteen-year-old Adrianna arrives with nothing but her gratitude Having turned herself in' to a social services office some hundred miles away she has no possessions no English & apparently no history
- not that she's willing to share anyway She is a beautiful young Polish girl with the bearing of a ballerina but is terrified malnourished & unwell & having slept rough for some time (the little they do know about her) she spends much of her first days with Watsons asleep in bed Growing concerned about Adrianna's wellbeing & her persistent high temperature Casey decides to call in the GP But to her surprise Adrianna becomes almost hysterical about being examined & given her refusal to talk
- even via the interpreter they've brought in for her
- Casey's fostering antennae begin twitching Where has she come from? & why is she so terrified to be touched? What has happened to make her so ill & scared? It will be a few weeks before Casey starts getting answers to these questions Shocking answers; ones that throw up a whole host of new questions & the beginnings of a journey to find justice for Adrianna & more importantly a future & a home


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