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Mr Deeds Goes To Town DVD

Frank Capra classic,
which earned the director
an Oscar. When Vermont
poet Longfellow Deeds
(Gary Cooper) inherits a
fortune from his uncle,
he sets off for New York
to take over his new
business empire.
Newspaper editor MacWade
(George Bancroft),
believing the naive and
trusting Deeds to be too
good to be true, assigns
reporter Babe Bennett
(Jean Arthur) to dig up
the dirt on him. Babe
inveigles her way into
Deeds' confidence by
staging a fainting fit in
front of his mansion,
but despite her best
efforts finds him to be
nothing other than a
gentleman. Others,
however, are determined
to prove that Deeds is
not fit for his new
fortune, and a court
case ensues.

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Buddy DVD

Eccentric socialite
Gertrude 'Trudy' Lintz
(Rene Russo) has four
youngsters. She has their
clothes tailor-made,
teaches them table
manners, to play croquet
and to say their prayers
before bedtime. But these
are no ordinary
youngsters - they are
chimpanzees! Buddy is the
true story of Trudy, who
with her husband Bill
(Robbie Coltrane) and her
loyal assistant Dick,
are the most generous
animal keepers since
Noah! But, Trudy's
favourite 'child' is
Buddy - the gorilla she
raised from a sickly baby
to a mischievous adult
who gets into all kind of
hilarious monkey
business.

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Abbott And Costello: Meet
Frankenstein/Meet The Mummy
DVD

Double bill of classic
comedy horror featuring
Lou Abbott and Bud
Costello. 'Abbott and
Costello Meet
Frankenstein' (1948) is a
comic spoof of
Universal's classic
horror films. Baggage
clerks Bud (Abbott) and
Lou (Costello) find
themselves in hot water
when they lose a
mysterious shipment en
route to the House of
Horrors. It transpires
that the missing crates
contained the remains of
Count Dracula (Bela
Lugosi) and
Frankenstein's monster
(Glenn Strange). The
crates have now been
diverted to the island
hideaway of a crazed
scientist who wishes to
revive the ghouls. The
inept duo head off to the
island to avert disaster,
the arrival of the
Wolfman (Lon Chaney Jr)
complicates matters
further. 'Abbott and
Costello Meet The Mummy'
(1955) is yet another
comic horror spoof.
Friends Pete (Abbott) and
Freddie (Costello) are in
Egypt when they offer to
help archaeologist Dr
Gustav Zoomer transport
his newly-discovered
mummy back to America.
However, upon arrival at
Zoomer's house the duo
discover that the doctor
has been murdered and the
mummy vanished. Their
problems increase when
the men inherit a
medallion which carries
an ancient curse and they
soon find themselves
doing battle with
villainous treasure
seekers while struggling
to keep the mummy's
existence under wraps!

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John Bishop Live - The
Collection - DVD

Details: This double John
Bishop DVD collection
includes 'Elvis Has Left
The Building' and 'The
Sunshine Tour'. Elvis Has
Left The Building - John
brings his unique talent
for observational humour
to DVD for the first time
with this critically
acclaimed show. Filmed in
front of a packed house
at the Liverpool Empire
Theatre, it shows a man
at the top of his game.
The Sunshine Tour -
Filmed live at
Liverpool's Echo Arena,
this DVD was the fastest
selling debut stand up
DVD ever. In this show
John shares anecdotes
about the ways in which
his life has changed
because of fame, he
confesses to what his
kids really think of him
and he explains why this
is his time in the
sunshine. Ideal for: A
hilarious DVD set that
anyone over the age of 15
will love! Perfect for
nights in with plenty of
laughs. Running time
approximately: 2 hours 30
minutes.

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Evolution DVD

Based on the evidence in
Evolution, one thing is
perfectly clear: special
effects have evolved,
but director Ivan Reitman
has reverted to primitive
pandering. Equally
obvious is the fact that
Evolution is a defacto
rip-off of Reitman's 1984
classic Ghostbusters,
but this time there's no
Bill Murray to deliver
the best punch lines (we
have to settle for fellow
ghostbuster Dan Aykroyd
in a broad supporting
role) and the comedy has
devolved into a
gross-fest including
deep-rectal extraction of
alien insects, fire-hose
enemas into a giant alien
sphincter, and a
full-moon display of
David Duchovny's naked
posterior. Whereas
Ghostbusters was a
shrewd, irreverent
mainstream comedy that
combined gooey spectral
ectoplasm with something
resembling genuine wit,
Evolution is a crude,
juvenile romp in which
all things slimy are
elevated to comedic
supremacy. Granted,
that's not always a bad
thing. As latter-day
Ghostbusters equivalents,
Duchovny, Orlando Jones
and Sean William Scott
make a fine comedic trio,
and Julianne Moore is
equally amusing as a
clumsy scientist and
Duchovny's obligatory
love interest. Despite
the meddling of clueless
military buffoons, they
join forces to eradicate
a wild variety of rapidly
evolving alien creatures
that arrived on Earth via
meteor impact, and the
extraterrestrial beasties
(courtesy of effects
wizard Phil Tippet and
crew) are outrageously
designed and marvellously
convincing. For anyone
who prefers lowbrow
humour, Evolution will
prove as entertaining as
Ghostbusters (or at least
Galaxy Quest), while
others may lament
Reitman's shameless
embrace of crudeness. One
thing's for certain:
after seeing this film,
you'll gain a whole new
appreciation for Head &
Shoulders shampoo.

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The Freshman DVD

Upon arrival in New York,
Vermont freshman Clark
Kellogg (Matthew
Broderick) is robbed by
conman Victor Ray (Bruno
Kirby). When Clark tracks
Ray down, he offers to
find him a 'legitimate'
job with his
'importer/exporter'
uncle: Mafia Don Carmine
Sabatini (Marlon Brando,
parodying his famous
'Godfather' role).
Inducted into Sabatini's
world, Clark begins to
realise that he is aiding
and abetting an illegal
gourmet society which
smuggles in endangered
species for its members'
dining pleasure.

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Monty Python - Almost The
Truth - The Lawyers Cut - DVD

Official Monty Python
40th Anniversary DVD.At
last, for the first time
ever (well, at least
since the 30th
anniversary), the
complete history of Monty
Python. This is the
in-depth and true story,
as told straight from the
mouths of John Cleese,
Michael Palin, Terry
Jones, Eric Idle, Terry
Gilliam, and thanks to
incredible research and
completely analogue,
undigitized archives,
Graham Chapman. Even if
you werent expecting the
Spanish Inquisition
(because no one does,
after all) youve got one.
And its not just the
pythons opinions. A cast
of thousands (well,
hundreds. Perhaps
something more in the
double digits) has been
assembled. They didnt all
make the cut, but rest
assured they were all
interviewed. Ladies and
Gentlemen, we proudly
present the most
complete, finely tuned
and well assembled final
word on Python. Until the
next time, at least.
Includes: Classic
sketches from the TV
series, scenes from the
movies plus additional
footage, and over 7
hours of material
including interviews with
the Pythons.

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The Deep DVD

Marine adventure adapted
from the novel by 'Jaws'
author Peter Benchley.
Gail Berke (Jacqueline
Bisset) and David Sanders
(Nick Nolte) are
holidaying in Bermuda
when they stumble across
some hidden treasure in
the high seas.
Unfortunately, the
'treasure' they locate is
a consignment of
morphine, and this leads
them into a deadly
conflict with a gang of
ruthless drug smugglers.

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Norman Wisdom Collection - DVD
5 Disc Collection

Norman Wisdom's immense
popularity stems from his
hilarious portrayal of
the little guy who always
seems to win out in the
end. The cloth-capped
bumbler is one of the
great creations of
British comedy. This
special 5 DVD collection
features some of the best
of Norman Wisdom's film
hits. Including: One Good
Turn, Press for Time,
Man of the Moment,
Follow a Star and Trouble
in Store.

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The Three Stooges Collection -
DVD 3 Disc Box Set

Over 5 hours of classic
comedy from one of
history's greatest
comedic ensembles. With
their bad haircuts,
kooky expressions and
gloriously goofy dialogue
(not to mention their
trademark pie-fights,
pratfalls and eye pokes),
The Three Stooges turned
the comic slapstick
they'd mastered in
vaudeville into a wildly
popular art-form. They
were also one of the most
enduring acts in showbiz,
performing on stage and
screen in various
line-ups for nearly half
a century. This 3 Disc
Box Set includes: Classic
Shorts: The Brideless
Groom, Disorder In The
Court, Malice In The
Palace and Sing A Song Of
Six Pants. Feature-length
film: Africa Screams.
Incredible live action
and hilarious Three
Stooges cartoons. DVD
extras featuring rare
sketches and television
performances.

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40 Days And 40 Nights DVD

Some movies are so stupid
that they are depressing
to watch 40 Days and 40
Nights is one of them.
Almost nothing here even
remotely resembles
genuine human behaviour.
Matt (Josh Hartnett) is
brutally dumped by his
knockout ex-girlfriend,
and as a result is so
torn up inside that he
vows to give up sexual
activity including
masturbation for Lent.
His friends and coworkers
start betting on how soon
he'll crack. Their
scepticism is fuelled
when Matt meets Erica
(Shannyn Sossamon) at a
laundrette. They're
immediately smitten with
each other, but Matt
struggles to stay true to
his vow, even though it
threatens to founder his
potential relationship
with Erica. Based on this
description, you might
think that 40 Days and 40
Nights is a religious
educational video,
however, the barrage of
sex gags and frequent
nudity will quickly
dispel this notion.

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America's Sweethearts DVD

Hollywood publicist Lee
Philips (Billy Crystal)
has a tough task on his
hands. He must get the
now-separated superstar
couple Gwen Harrison
(Catherine Zeta Jones)
and Eddie Thomas (John
Cusack) to appear
together in public one
last time in order to
promote their upcoming
film. Lee knows that
Eddie and Gwen now hate
each other, so he
quickly resorts to
underhand tactics, and
asks Gwen's sister Kiki
(Julia Roberts) to give
him a hand. However,
just when things seem to
be working out, Kiki and
Eddie begin taking an
interest in each other,
which brings a whole new
round of problems.

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MacGruber DVD

No comic explosion, but
not quite a dud, no
Wayne's World, but not
The Ladies Man either,
MacGruber does manage to
pull off the seemingly
impossible mission of
expanding a 90-second
one-joke Saturday Night
Live sketch into a
feature film. What's
next: "Toonces the Cat
Who Could Drive a Car"?
In those MacGruber
sketches, Will Forte's
mullet-manned hero "makes
life-saving inventions
out of household
materials" but always
gets sidetracked as the
bomb he's defusing ticks
down to its last 20
seconds. Blown up for the
big screen, MacGruber
finds a bigger payoff
whenever the film
sidetracks from the
standard-issue '80s
action movie plot, as
witness MacGruber's
deranged revenge
fantasies toward a driver
who hurled a drive-by
insult at his car.
MacGruber's secret weapon
is Val Kilmer as a
megalomaniacal villain
(his name, not
appropriate for a family
website, is a profanely
puerile running joke)
with a stolen Russian
nuclear warhead and a
grudge against MacGruber.
MacGruber's somewhat less
than A-team includes
Vicki St. Elmo (SNL MVP
Kristin Wiig), more into
her music than into
saving the world, and
straight arrow Lieutenant
Piper (Ryan Phillippe),
who begins to question
MacGruber's unorthodox
tactics (one involving a
diversionary stalk of
celery is just one of the
film's more jaw-dropping
gross-out gags).
MacGruber may not set the
world on fire, but the
insanely committed Forte,
like MacGruber, will do
anything, no matter how
obscene, to complete his
mission. Mission pretty
much accomplished,
particularly in a sex
scene that is the most
outrageous of its kind
since Team America: World
Police (albeit,
thankfully, not as
graphic).

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The Babe DVD

John Goodman plays
legendary baseball player
Babe Ruth in this
sentimental biopic. 'The
Babe' was a larger than
life character who never
trained and spent all his
off-field time drinking,
eating and womanising.
The film follows his rise
to stardom and his fall
from glory as he loses
form and pride.

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Worzel Gummidge 1 - 4 DVD Box
Set

This collection features
12 classic Worzel
Gummidge episodes on four
DVDs. Starring Jon
Pertwee as Worzel
Gummidge and Una Stubbs
as Aunt Sally this family
favourite DVD set
includes: 'Moving On',
'Dolly Clothes Peg', 'A
Fair Old Pullover',
'Worzel the Brave',
'Worzel's Wager', 'The
Return of Dafthead',
'Captain Worzel', 'Choir
Practice', 'Muvver's
Day', 'The Golden Hind',
'Will the Real Aunt
Sally...' and 'The Jumbly
Sale'.

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Pillow Talk DVD

Jan Morrow (Doris Day)
and Brad Allen (Rock
Hudson) have never met,
but they're sworn enemies
because of one small
appliance in their lives:
the telephone. The two
share a party line, and
Jan is outraged over the
amount of time Bill
spends wooing women over
the phone. A convenient
triangle emerges when a
client (Tony Randall) of
Jan's she's an interior
decorator falls in love
with her and happens to
be Brad's old college
chum. When Brad makes the
connection, he decides
to try to court Jan
himself, to make her
more sympathetic to his
phone woes. Of course,
she'd never go for such a
heel, so he passes
himself off as Rex
Stetson, a Texas rancher
visiting New York. The
ensuing tale, albeit
predictable, is lots of
fun, with some
quick-witted dialogue and
some clever use of
split-screens for the
phone calls. Thelma
Ritter is hilarious as
Jan's always-hung-over
maid, Alma; and the
pairing of Rock and Doris
works beautifully, as
always.

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The Sweetest Thing DVD

San Francisco flat mates
Christina (Cameron Diaz),
Courtney (Christina
Applegate) and Jane
(Selma Blair) go out for
a night's clubbing to
help the latter forget
about her recent break-up
with her long-term
boyfriend. That night,
commitment-shy Christina
meets Peter (Thomas
Jane), who she thinks
she might like, yet when
she tries to track him
down the next day, she
finds that he is in the
process of getting
married. For his part,
Peter sees her fleeing
the ceremony and begins
to wonder if he's doing
the right thing after
all.

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Abbott And Costello: Meet The
Invisible Man/Go To Mars DVD

Double bill of classic
comedy featuring Lou
Abbott and Bud Costello.
In 'Abbott and Costello
Meet The Invisible Man'
(1951) retired detectives
Bud (Abbott) and Lou
(Costello) find
themselves helping
accused killer Tommy
Nelson (Arthur Franz)
when he convinces them of
his innocence. When the
police attempt to arrest
Tommy he eludes them by
injecting himself with an
invisibility serum
created by the uncle
(Gavin Muir) of his
fianc?e, Helen (Nancy
Guild). Tommy now
persuades Lou to find the
real killer by going
undercover as a boxer,
and is forced to help the
little fellow out when he
has to show his mettle in
the ring. In 'Abbott and
Costello Go to Mars'
(1953) Lester (Abbot) and
Orville (Costello) are
loading supplies onto a
rocket ship when it
accidentally takes off.
Their first port of call
is the New Orleans Mardi
Gras - which the duo
mistakenly believe to be
Mars - where they are
accosted by bank robber
Mugsy (Horace McMahon)
and forced to pilot their
ship to the planet Venus.
Once there, Lester and
Orville find themselves
the flavour of the month
with the all-female
population (men having
been banned four
centuries earlier), but
just how long can this
bizarre state of affairs
be expected to last?

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Peggy Sue Got Married DVD

Francis Ford Coppola's
passable 1986 comedy
stars Kathleen Turner as
an unhappy, middle-aged
woman who goes back in
time to her high school
years and meets her
future husband (Nicolas
Cage) all over again. A
lightweight entry from
Coppola, the film has
some clever,
backward-looking jokes;
and the lead actress does
bring intelligence and
searching emotions to her
role. Cage who
specialised in these
dumb-guy roles back then
is in sharp, raw form.
Worth a visit, but don't
expect to be bowled over
this time by the
legendary director

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The 6th Day DVD

In a future world where
cloned plants, pets and
human organs are freely
available, the cloning
of entire humans remains
illegal. However, this
is not enough to prevent
an elite corporation from
performing sinister
cloning experiments along
those lines, one of
which involves decorated
fighter pilot Adam Gibson
(Arnold Schwarzenegger).
When Gibson returns home
one day to find his
family infiltrated by a
perfect replica of
himself, he struggles to
get his life back. But
with a team of deadly
assassins on his trail,
desperate to erase all
evidence of the illegal
operation, how can
Gibson hope to succeed?

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K-9: P.I. DVD

This third instalment in
the long running
cop-and-dog saga sees
Detective Dooley (James
Belushi) and his police
hound Jerry Lee handing
in their badges and
continuing their fight
against crime as private
detectives. When they
interrupt a computer
company robbery on their
final night as official
police officers, it
leads to all kinds of
trouble. It seems that
Jerry Lee has managed to
swallow a microchip
discarded by the thieves,
and this provides the
crime busting duo with
the vital first clue in
their attempts to unravel
the mystery.

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Baby Mama DVD

Comedy starring Tina Fey
as Kate Holbrook, a
successful single
businesswoman who
realises in her late 30s
that, owing to an
unforeseen gynaecological
problem, she has left it
too late to have a baby.
Undaunted, Kate
approaches a surrogacy
agency run by the
formidable Chaffee
Bicknell (Sigourney
Weaver), and engages
working class girl Angie
Ostrowiski (Amy Poehler)
to be a surrogate mother.
Once she finds out that
Angie has become
pregnant, Kate throws
herself into reading
childcare manuals,
researching good schools
and installing baby
equipment in her
apartment in between her
business engagements but
the course of motherhood
never did run smooth and
Kate soon finds herself
in circumstances way
beyond her control.

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Sixty Six DVD

Coming-of-age comedy
starring Greg Sulkin and
Helena Bonham Carter. It
is the summer of 1966,
and England is about to
be consumed by World Cup
Fever. For 12-year-old
Bernie (Sulkin), the
biggest day of his life
is looming - his Bar
Mitzvah, and the day he
becomes a man. However,
Bernie's family are
increasingly distracted
by the threat of losing
their business and their
wayward older son, and
the scale of Bernie's Bar
Mitzvah diminishes daily.
Worst of all the World
Cup Final is scheduled to
take place on the same
day and when England
makes it through to the
final, Bernie's
longed-for Bar Mitzvah
looks set to be a
complete disaster.

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Zoom DVD

Comedy adventure starring
Tim Allen and Courteney
Cox. When Earth is faced
with certain destruction,
an over-the-hill
superhero, Zoom (Allen),
is charged with the task
of training four
super-powered kids to
harness their powers and
save the planet. The
motley quartet includes a
herculean little girl
(Ryan Newman), an
invisible slacker
(Michael Cassidy), a
telekinetic hot chick
(Kate Mara), and a
chunky lad whose body
inflates to enormous size
(Spencer Breslin). But
Zoom has lost his
super-speed and gained a
cynical chip on his
shoulder. Will he regain
his faith in heroes in
time to battle an
impending menace?

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Balls Of Fury DVD

Comedy starring
Christopher Walken and
George Lopez. When former
professional table tennis
phenomenon Randy Daytona
(Dan Fogler) is recruited
by FBI Agent Rodriguez
(Lopez) for a mission in
the unsanctioned,
underground and utterly
unhinged world of extreme
table tennis, he's
determined to bounce back
to his former glory and
smoke out his father's
killer, the arch-fiend
Feng (Walken). But with
danger coming at him from
every angle, will Randy
be able to keep his eye
on the balls?

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Envy DVD

Without question, the
most outlandish home in
Los Angeles belongs to
Nick Vanderpunk (Jack
Black) the zillionaire
inventor of Vapoorize,
the miricle dog poo
remover. An enormous
estate complete with
bowling alleys,
vineyards and
merry-go-rounds, is
driving his
next-door-neighbour Tim
Dingman (Ben Stiller)
nuts! Especially when Tim
could have been rolling
in dough too, if only he
had invested when he had
the chance. So after he
loses his job and his
wife walks out on him,
Tim turns to the one
person who can help him,
the J-Man (Christopher
Walken) a wacko hippie
barfly with a harebrained
scheme for every
occasion, in this
outrageous comedy about a
good man spoiled by
success - his neighbours.

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Robin Hood - Men In Tights DVD

The Legend that had it
coming, Robin Hood: Men
in Tights wipes away the
mystery and the dignity
of England's most
infamous stocking-filler
as Robin of Loxley and
his merry men bring a
dose of sheer mayhem to
Sherwood Forest. Throwing
away their titles and
their trousers, Robin
and his nylon clad crew
battle to bring down the
evil Prince John and his
hideous sidekick the
Sherriff of Rottingham to
procure the key to Maid
Marian's heart.

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