Please note this is a region 2 DVD & will require a region 2 (Europe) or region Free DVD Player in order to play Recently dumped by his girlfriend & his band perpetual underachiever Alex (Ryan O& Nan) toils away at a comically depressing real estate office picking up solo gigs wherever he can After an altercation with a colleague (Wilmer Valderrama) he also finds himself jobless & without purpose After hearing one of Alex&s sets an eccentric spectator named Jim (Michael Weston) comes up with a plan for the two of them to tour the country as a musical duo Realizing the state of his existential quandary Alex reluctantly joins Jim on the road Despite gracelessly fumbling their way between bizarre shows & touring pitfalls Alex & Jim manage to play off one another & create a strangely alluring sound When Cassidy (Arielle Kebbel) an inexperienced tour manager abruptly leaves them in a tight spot Alex abandons the tour & shows up at his older brother&s (Andrew Mc Carthy) house looking for a place to stay What follows is a crash course in self-actualization as Alex comes to terms with who he is in relation to what others expect of him Actors Ryan O& Nan Michael Weston Arielle Kebbel Andrew Mc Carthy Jason Ritter Wilmer Valderrama Christopher Mc Donald Melissa Leo Jake Miller Charles Chu Philip Ettinger Steven Boyer & Charlie Hewson Director Ryan O& Nan Certificate 15 years & over Year 2011 Languages English ...

'I was looking for a quiet place to die Someone recommended Brooklyn & so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain ' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel The Brooklyn Follies Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000 it tells the story of Nathan & Tom an uncle & nephew double-act One in remission from lung cancer divorced & estranged from his only daughter the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career & indeed from life in general Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood they discover a community teeming with life & passion When Lucy a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption Infused with character mystery & humour these lives intertwine & become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America
- a crucible of broken dreams & of human folly ' Auster at the top of his game This superb novel about human folly turns out to be tremendously wise' New Statesman
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'I was looking for a quiet place to die Someone recommended Brooklyn & so the next morning I travelled down there from Westchester to scope out the terrain ' So begins Paul Auster's remarkable new novel The Brooklyn Follies Set against the backdrop of the contested US election of 2000 it tells the story of Nathan & Tom an uncle & nephew double-act One in remission from lung cancer divorced & estranged from his only daughter the other hiding away from his once-promising academic career & indeed from life in general Having accidentally ended up in the same Brooklyn neighbourhood they discover a community teeming with life & passion When Lucy a little girl who refuses to speak comes into their lives there is suddenly a bridge from their pasts that offers them the possibility of redemption Infused with character mystery & humour these lives intertwine & become bound together as Auster brilliantly explores the wider terrain of contemporary America
- a crucible of broken dreams & of human folly ' Auster at the top of his game This superb novel about human folly turns out to be tremendously wise' New Statesman
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The Broons fair enjoy a good laugh So the family have all pitched in to compile their favourite funnies Each joke has a Scottish flavour
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One January morning in 1734 cloth merchant Peter Collinson hurried down to the docks at London's Custom House to collect cargo just arrived from John Bartram in the American colonies But it was not bales of cotton that awaited him but plants & seeds Over the next forty years Bartram would send hundreds of American species to England where Collinson was one of a handful of men who would foster a national obsession & change the gardens of Britain forever Philip Miller author of the bestselling Gardeners Dictionary; the Swede Carl Linnaeus whose standardised botanical nomenclature popularised botany; the botanist-adventurer Joseph Banks & his colleague Daniel Solander who both explored the strange flora of Tahiti & Australia on Captain Cook's Endeavour This is the story of these men
- friends rivals enemies united by a passion for plants Set against the backdrop of the emerging empire & the uncharted world beyond The Brother Gardeners tells the story how Britain became a nation of gardeners
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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 The Brothers
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When the younger of two notorious sibling con artists announces a plan to go legit his brother implores him to carry out one last swindle in the eagerly anticipated sophomore feature from BRICK writerdirector Rian Johnson Tired of a life on the run a confidence man who has dedicated his life to the art of the grift decides to call it quits Despite his plans to leave his criminal past behind however the reluctant scammer finds that his brother has masterminded one last scheme to claim the wealth of an eccentric millionaire (Rachel Weisz) With the opportunity to make enough money so that he would be able to live comfortably even if his legitimate endeavours fail the heretofore unrepentant con man finds it increasingly difficult to refuse his sibling's potentially profitable endeavour ...

Matt Damon (The Bourne Supremacy Ocean&s 12) & Heath Ledger (The Patriot A Knight&s Tale) team with acclaimed director Terry Gilliam for this fantastic tale based on the legendary storytellers Famous collectors of folklore Will & Jake Grimm (Damon & Ledger) are also travelling con men who promise to rid towns of imaginary monsters & nonexistent demons in exchange for quick money But they&ll soon see things beyond even their wild imaginations when the twosome face a real enchanted forest ...

A magnificent new translation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece which when first published in 1991 was described by the TIMES as 'a miracle' & by THE INDEPENDENT as a near 'ideal translation' The BROTHERS KARAMAZOV
- Dostoevsky's most widely read novel
- is at once a murder mystery a mordant comedy of family intrigue a pioneering work of psychological realism & an unblinking look into the abyss of human suffering

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The Brothers Karamazov is a murder mystery a courtroom drama & an exploration of erotic rivalry in a series of triangular love affairs involving Karamazov & his three sons
- the impulsive & sensual Dmitri; the coldly rational Ivan; & the healthy young novice Alyosha Through the gripping events of their story Dostoevsky portrays the social & spiritual strivings in what was both a golden age & a tragic turning point in Russian culture
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