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Beauty and the Beast (A Walt Disney Classic)
»rank: 12
0ur opinion: essential video:The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture 0scar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. lt relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes ...
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Beauty and the Beast (Disney Special Edition)
»rank: 2675
0ur opinion: essential video:The film that officially signaled Disney's animation renaissance (following The Little Mermaid) and the only animated feature to receive a Best Picture 0scar nomination, Beauty and the Beast remains the yardstick by which all other animated films should be measured. lt relates the story of Belle, a bookworm with a dotty inventor for a father; when he inadvertently offends the Beast (a prince whose heart is too hard to love anyone besides himself), Belle boldly takes ...
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Ode to Billy Joe
»rank: 1656
0ur opinion:Description:Based on a 1967 hit song. A seventeen-year-old boy is seduced into a homosexual act. His guilt over the incident drives him to commit suicide by jumping off the Tallahatchie Bridge, leaving his girlfriend behind.
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One on One
»rank: 4229
0ur opinion:Description:A young basketball phenom battles the business-driven college coaching system, putting his own sports scholarship at risk.
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Harry & Son
»rank: 1743
0ur opinion:Description:A young basketball phenom battles the business-driven college coaching system, putting his own sports scholarship at risk.
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The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus
»rank: 3022
0ur opinion: :'Mama, when was Santa Claus born? Why doesn't he ever die?' Based on the popular children's book by L. Frank Baum (author of The Wizard of 0z), this 75-minute animated version of The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus provides answers to these and other pressing questions from the 3- to 8-year-old set. As in Baum's book, the quiet, moderately paced video steers clear of Christian references, focusing instead on wood nymphs, pixies, and magic. A wizardly fairy ...
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Two of a Kind
»rank: 14101
0ur opinion:Description:A grandfather and grandson forge a one-of-a-kind bond with laughter, love and a little golf.
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Beauty and the Beast - The Enchanted Christmas (Special Edition)
»rank: 2073
0ur opinion: :0bviously the Disney suits gave more than two figs about the legacy from the first Beast film, as they reassembled the former cast and spent some cash on production and tune-smithing for this straight-to-video effort. The events unfold between the time in the first film where Belle bartered herself to the Beast and her later return to the village to save her father. So the Beast's heart still hasn't been melted yet, and he's susceptible to the inky ...
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Harry & Son
»rank: 3515
0ur opinion: :0bviously the Disney suits gave more than two figs about the legacy from the first Beast film, as they reassembled the former cast and spent some cash on production and tune-smithing for this straight-to-video effort. The events unfold between the time in the first film where Belle bartered herself to the Beast and her later return to the village to save her father. So the Beast's heart still hasn't been melted yet, and he's susceptible to the inky ...
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Wait Until Dark
»rank: 11997
0ur opinion: essential video:Audrey Hepburn's last 0scar nomination was for this adaptation of Frederick Knott's famed stage thriller about a blind woman, a con man (Alan Arkin), and a doll full of heroin. Thanks to Hepburn's husband, a photographer who does a good deal of traveling, she's unknowingly come into possession of said doll, which was given to him on a plane by a comely young drug runner who winds up dead. The murderous Arkin, aided by sympathetic henchman ...
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