| | Smile DVD
| Category | Comedies DVDs, Music (General) Movies, Essential Cinema Videos, Country Music, Self-Discovery, Satire, 1970s, America, California | | Starring | Bruce Dern, Geoffrey Lewis, Melanie Griffith, Barbara Feldon, Colleen Camp, Annette O'Toole, Nicholas Pryor, Michael Kidd | | Director | Michael Ritchie | | Composer | Charlie Chaplin, Leroy Holmes, Daniel Osborn | | Director of Photography | Conrad L. Hall | | Editor | Richard A. Harris | | Producer | Michael Ritchie | | Screenwriter | Jerry Belson |
Closed Captioned; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles Competitive mayhem and mounting chaos take over a California beauty pageant in director Michael Ritchie's biting satire.
Michael Ritchie's SMILE is a satirical, behind-the-scenes look at a California teenage beauty pageant, which also exposes American middle-class mores. The competitors (who seem to favor political maneuvering and backstabbing over talent and poise) provide only part of the story, since the members of the pageant staff are just as interesting--and dysfunctional. These include jury president Big Bob Freelander (Bruce Dern), a straight-laced car salesman; Brenda DiCarlo (Barbara Feldon), the pageant's main organizer; her alcoholic husband Andy (Nicholas Pryor); and even Big Bob's son, Little Bob, who is secretly taking photos of the nubile teenagers with the hopes of selling them to horny classmates. As the week leading up to the unveiling of the new Miss California sparks even more arguments, accidents, and confusion among Santa Rosa's residents, they begin to reveal even greater signs of lunacy. While all of this is going on, the contestants are trying miserably not to buckle under the pressure--or drop their twirling batons. Ritchie's film, a lighthearted critique of American suburbia, pokes fun at the majority of its components, including sexual conservatism, domestic dysfunction, and male bonding (in a hilarious "initiation" scene). SMILE also features a standout performance from Dern in the film's central role. Filmed on location in Santa Rosa, California.
SMILE features one of Melanie Griffith's first screen roles. Smile Reviews: "...SMILE is one of those seemingly casual, loosely knit films in which, finally, every touch counts and nothing is inessential..."
-- John Russell Taylor, Sight and Sound "[This] cult movie rarely stoops to cheap shots."-- Mike Clark, USA Today Smile | List Price | $14.98 (You save $5.69) | | Studio | 20th Century Fox | | Orig Year | 1975 | | DVD Encoding | Region 1 | | All Time Sales Rank |  23411  | | CD Universe Part number | 6737700 | | Catalog number | 1006867 | | Discs | 1 | | Release Date | Aug 24, 2004 | | Rating | PG (MPAA) | | Running Time | 113 Minutes | | Additional Info | Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled | | Movie Details | Color; Widescreen; Dubbed; Subtitled |
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Purchase Smile Movie To buy, Click on price to add to cart | Aguirre, The Wrath Of God DVD (1973)
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Based on the journals of Brother Gaspar de Carvajal, AGUIRRE, THE WRATH OF GOD is director Werner Herzog's hallucinatory tale of Spanish colonialists searching for El Dorado, the legendary city of gold, in 16th-century Peru. When the travellers reach an impasse, a scouting party is assembled to search for any traces of the mythical empire. As they attempt to forge their way through the dense jungle, more and more of the party falls ill while their ruthless leader, Don Lope de Aguirre (Klaus Kinski), grows increasingly insane.
Widely considered to be Herzog's finest film, AGUIRRE, which shares much in common with Francis Ford Coppola's APOCALYPSE NOW, highlights the director's visionary approach to filmmaking. Like Coppola's film, accounts of AGUIRRE's shooting are laced with legendary incidents, such as the time Herzog reportedly held a gun to Kinski's head to get him to finish a scene. Whatever transpired between Herzog and Kinski, it made for astonishing cinema, as evidenced by the actor's haunting performance and the entire film's powerfully hypnotic mood.
Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Director's Comments; Behind The Scenes
| | Swimming With Sharks DVD (1995) Widescreen
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A motion picture executive's assistant puts up with his abusive boss up to a point and then completely snaps in this ultra-dark comedy from first-time director (and former Hollywood assistant) George Huang.
| | Hard Eight DVD (1997) Widescreen
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Sydney (Philip Baker Hall), a mysterious professional gambler, befriends John (John C. Reilly), a young man in trouble, and teaches him the ways of making a living in the casinos of Reno. John gets involved with Clementine (Gwyneth Paltrow), a pretty waitress who doubles as a prostitute, and Jimmy (Samuel L. Jackson), a two-faced criminal. When trouble erupts, suddenly Sydney has to rescue his young friend, but a secret from his past threatens to destroy everything he has tried to build up.
Director Paul Thomas Anderson's highly acclaimed debut feature (based on the films of Jonathan Demme and John Cassavetes) is a tight, intricate film noir character study with a more disciplined plot than his later, more expansive films. The film also features excellent work from his four actors, particularly Hall as the experienced, world-weary Sydney, and fascinating details about the lowlife world the characters inhabit. HARD EIGHT originated as a short film, CIGARETTES AND COFFEE, that Anderson developed at the Sundance Film Institute.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Additional Footage; Soundtrack English; English Subtitles; Behind The Scenes
| | Multiplicity DVD (1996) Full Frame; Keep Case
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In this highly original comedy, an overworked family man (Michael Keaton) who doesn't have time to do everything he'd like finds a creative solution--he clones himself. Not just once, however--he winds up with four slightly different versions, counting the original. Of course, all is not as easy as it seems, and the clones quickly become a handful for the already stressed-out original.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; English Subtitles
| | Skin Deep DVD (1989) Widescreen
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Blake Edwards's return to the male-in-meltdown territory he explored in 10 and THAT'S LIFE stars John Ritter as unemployed writer Zach, who is not only suffering from writer's block, but his drinking is out of control, as is his obsessive womanizing, and, not surprisingly, his wife wants to end their marriage. To add to his problems, his house has just burned down, and his agent is knocking at death's door. But since this is a Blake Edwards comedy, Zach has enough charm and relative affluence to continue his pursuits, which the director regards with a bemused deatchment. One of his girlfriends sets his piano on fire, and another gets him to wear a glow-in-the-dark condom, allowing him to engage in a condom duel with her jealous, similarly clad rock-star boyfriend. Eventually, Zach turns to fatherly bartender Barney (Vince Gardenia), who should have long ago cut off his bar tab, and psychiatrist Dr. Westford (choreographer Michael Kidd), and both tell him to stop destroying himself through drink. Ritter rings some surprisingly complex changes in the wildly farcical film, and, in the condom battle, participates in one of the funniest moments ever committed to celluloid while suggesting an interesting new subtext.
John Ritter, Michael Kidd, Vincent Gardenia - Director: Blake Edwards
| | Vanishing Point DVD (1971) Widescreen
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An ex-racecar driver gets high on Benzedrine and leads the police on a hectic chase.
Soundtrack English; Soundtrack French; Soundtrack Spanish; Director's Comments
| | Girls Will Be Girls DVD (2003) Widescreen; Subtitled
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In GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS, the three leading ladies are all played by male actors. It is the story of Evie (Jack Plotnick), Coco (Clinton Leupp), and Varla (Jeffery Roberson), who are all Hollywood actresses at different stages in their careers. Hilariously outrageous, GIRLS WILL BE GIRLS was written and directed by Richard Day.
The hysterical triumphs and pitfalls of three women on different rungs of the Hollywood ladder as they try to claw their way into the spotlight, even if it means clawing at each other!
| | Hotel Room DVD (1998)
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Spanish director Cesc Gay, who found arthouse success with NICO & DANI, made his debut with HOTEL ROOM. Set in a New York City hotel room, the venue itself almost becomes a character, acting as the connective thread between a series of five vignettes. Each story features characters in emotional distress, and their experiences in the room will either lead them to salvation or doom them forever. As bizarre as FOUR ROOMS and with a similar premise, HOTEL ROOM was in competition at over 60 film festivals around the world.
Closed Captioned; Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Partner(s) DVD (2005) Widescreen; Spanish Subtitles
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When ambitious young attorney Dave (Jay Harrington, COUPLING, SUMMERLAND) sets his sights on being made partner in his firm, he's not going to let anything get in the way. He finds himself in contention for the position with his equally ambitious co-worker Katherine (Julie Bowen, BOSTON LEGAL), also a former lover of his. Realizing that both are qualified for the position, Dave decides that Katherine has a leg up on him since she's a woman, and takes advantage of the office rumors about his homosexuality. Thus he assumes a double life, and with his friend Ed (Ian Michael Black, ED) posing as his partner, everyone in Dave's professional life believes that he's gay--except of course Katherine. Meanwhile, gorgeous Lucy (Brooke Langton, SWINGERS) moves in down the hall, and Dave attempts to act on his attraction to her, until, inevitably, his worlds collide.
Dave is an enterprising attorney who hopes to make partner. When the opportunity to lead a major case for the firm's largest client comes up, he jumps at the chance. It doesn't take long for Dave to realize that he's been given this opportunity because the client is gay. But why ruin a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity with the truth? And so begins the game of juggling his professional life as a homosexual and social life as a very healthy heterosexual. Jay Harrington, Julie Bowen, Brooke Langton, Michael Ian Black, and Saul Rubinek star. Extras include trailers and more.
| | America's Funniest Home Videos - Salute To Romance DVD (2006)
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D.L. Hughley hosts this special AMERICA'S FUNNIEST HOME VIDEO three-episode program featuring some of the most romantic and disastrous video clips in the history of the series. From stumbling walks down the aisle to nightmare meetings between in-laws, the episode "Stupid Cupid" has got it all. Also included is a $100,000 bonus episode, and a season finale featuring hosts Daisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang.
Featured episode "Stupid Cupid," hosted by D.L. Hughley, offers an unbridled look at those tender moments when daddy's little girl meets a father's worst nightmare and when a walk to the altar can have you rolling in the aisles. Also included is a $100,000 bonus episode and season finale with hosts Daisy Fuentes and John Fugelsang.
| | From Clare To Here DVD (2008)
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From Clare To Here profiles international fiddle-player Martin Hayes, and looks beyond the homogenized faade of Irish culture to reveal the true roots of Irish music, His collaborations with Chicago-based guitarist, Denis Cahill, employ the lyrical traditions of Hayes' native East Clare in Ireland, and Cahill's blues and jazz. The film features performance footage as well as interviews with Paddy Moloney of The Chieftains, Mairead N Mhaoinaigh of Altan and Jean Butler of Riverdance fame.
| | Ultimate Flexibility DVD (2006)
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Standard Screen; Soundtrack English
| | Westinghouse DVD (2008) Widescreen
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American engineer George Westinghouse revolutionized the American electricity system in the late 1880s with his endorsement of AC power distribution. This historical documentary chronicles Westinghouse's legendary rivalry with Thomas Edison and the birth of his many inventions, including the railroad air brake.
George Westinghouse is considered America's greatest industrialist and the only man who would go up against Thomas Edison, and win.
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