Agatha Christie: Poirot and Marple - Fan Favorites Collection DVD

Like the Coen brothers' FARGO, Sam Raimi's A SIMPLE PLAN is an ice-cold neo-noir as chilling and bleak as its snow-covered Minnesota locale. When two brothers, straightlaced family man Hank (Bill Paxton) and simple-minded loser Jacob (Billy Bob Thornton)--along with Jacob's unabashed town-drunk friend Lou (Brent Briscoe)--find 4.4 million dollars inside a crashed plane, they believe they've found the financial answer to all their problems. All they have to do is keep it a secret until the plane is discovered and any investigations are completed. This proves to be easier said than done, however, when the three men (as well as Hank's surprisingly calculating wife, Sarah, played by Bridget Fonda), each with their different reasons, begin to lose trust in the others. When an FBI agent (Gary Cole) comes to town, the tension becomes explosive, peeling away layers of familial resentment and resulting in betrayal, deceit, and, ultimately, murder. Thornton's brilliantly understated and profoundly moving performance was recognized by the Academy with a nomination for ...

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Agatha Christie: Poirot and Marple - Fan Favorites Collection video True to best selling novelist Mary Higgins Clark's style, A CRIME OF PASSION (based on the novel QUEEN OF SUSPENSE) tells the story of a shrewd heroine caught up in a murderous guessing game. Frederica Dumay (Cynthia Gibb)--a wealthy heiress and part owner ...

Agatha Christie: Poirot and Marple - Fan Favorites Collection movie An epic trilogy gets underway in this sweeping medieval adventure that finds lone-wolf fortune hunter Guts recruited into a mercenary group dubbed "The Band of the Hawk," but questioning the impetus of the team's leader Griffith following a decisive victory on the battlefield. ...