| Private Matter DVD (1992) Widescreen
$7.45 A mother of four discovers that her fifth baby will be born with severe deformities caused by the drug thalidomide. She wants to warn other women about the drug, but anti-abortion protestors and negative publicity cause the courts to intervene, forcing her to take the issue out of the country.
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| Loverboy DVD (1989) Widescreen
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$9.79 One day he encounters Ms. Patrick Dempsey stars in this light farce as Randy Bodek, a college student who's alienated his father (Robert Ginty) by doing poorly in school; consequently, tuition payments have been cut off, leading Randy to take a job as a pizza delivery boy for the summer. Later she sets him up in business, passing his card around to other bored, wealthy Beverly Hills women--and the enterprising youth realizes he'll be able to pay for his entire education by simply living up to his name. Alex Barnett (Barbara Carrera), who asks for more than pizza when he shows up to make a delivery.
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| Crossing Delancey DVD (1988)
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$14.49 Amy Irving stars as Isabella Grossman in this enjoyable, slightly off-kilter romantic comedy from Joan Micklin Silver. A beautiful woman in her early thirties, Isabella works as the manager of New York City bookstore, putting her in contact with a
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| Big Girls Don't Cry...They Get Even DVD (1992)
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$15.45 In BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY THEY GET EVEN, director Joan Micklin Silver addresses the fallout from the high post-1960s divorce rate and the problems of children who must learn to cope with their family's fragmentation. Hillary Wolf (HOME ALONE) stars as
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| Hester Street DVD (1975) Widescreen
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$22.65 The desire to shed or suppress all traces of one's original culture has been a primal experience of nearly all immigrants; Joan Micklin Silver's adaptation of Abraham Cahan's story makes clear that it's a process edged with pathos. Carol Kane
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| Charms For The Easy Life DVD (2002)
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$9.65 Charlie Kate Birch (the always-amazing Gena Rowlands) is an unusually independent woman for 1930s North Carolina--she's a caregiver, midwife, and herbalist who preaches self-reliance and feminism to her daughter Sophia (Mimi Rogers) and granddaughter Margaret (Susan May Pratt). Together, the
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| Bernice Bobs Her Hair DVD (1976)
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$17.89 Based on the short story by F. A sweet-but-dull young lady is transformed into a smooth-talking vamp by her fickle society-girl cousin.
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