Lone Wolf's Reviews with Amazon.com: VHS New Releases, Sept. 2001
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LONE WOLF'S REVIEWS WITH AMAZON.COM DELIVERS
VHS New Releases

Amazon.com Editor, Doug Thomas

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Word for Word
Almost Famous
Lester Bangs: "What, are you like the star of your school?"
William Miller: "They hate me."
Lester Bangs: "You'll meet them all again on their long journey to the middle."

--Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour Hoffman) gives young writer William Miller (Patrick Fugit) one of his life lessons in Almost Famous. Cameron Crowe's Oscar®-winning film is now priced to own on VHS.


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Hot New Releases in Video and DVD
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Now Available on Video
Space Cowboys
This slice of cornball Americana is so much fun you'll be tempted to stand up and salute. Director and costar Clint Eastwood manages to turn what might have been ludicrous into a jubilant tribute to age and experience, and Space Cowboys succeeds as two movies in one--a comedy…

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Rodgers & Hammerstein's South Pacific
TV has taken up the slack in keeping the musical (dead on the big screen) in front of audiences. This 2001 adaptation of the smash 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein Broadway show, drawn from James Michener's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Tales of the South Pacific, is an admirable case in point. The production was a labor of love for Glenn Close.…

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Billy Elliot
Foursquare in the gritty-but-heartwarming tradition of Brassed Off and The Full Monty comes Billy Elliot, the first film from noted British theatrical director Stephen Daldry. The setting is County Durham in 1984, and things "up north" are even grimmer than usual: the miners' strike is in full rancorous…

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61*
When asked to comment during Barry Bonds's 2001 pursuit of the single-season home run record that he himself shattered in 1998, Mark McGwire said, "I was lucky enough to reach 70, and now they're all talking about it like it's a piece of cake." It isn't for Bonds, it wasn't for McGwire, and it certainly wasn't for Roger Maris, who in 1961 competed with his much more popular teammate Mickey Mantle to break Babe Ruth's benchmark of 60 home runs. Originally broadcast…

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Paradise Lost 2 - Revelations
Directors Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky return to the scene of the crime with this urgent follow-up to their harrowing 1996 documentary, Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills. That profoundly disturbing film chronicles the tragic and twisted case of three young men.…

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Shanghai Noon (Bonus Edition)
Story? What story? All a movie like Shanghai Noon needs is the amazing stunt set pieces featuring kung fu superstar Jackie Chan and the drolly caffeinated ramblings of Owen Wilson (and to be sure, that's all it gets). It's a buddy comedy about Roy O'Bannon (Wilson), a minor, borderline incompetent desperado, and Chon Wang (Chan)--Roy thinks he hears…

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Blood - The Last Vampire
Saya, the last true vampire, battles the bloodthirsty demons attacking an American base in Japan during the Vietnam War. Much of the story takes place during the late afternoon and evening, and the artists use shadows, reflections, and light with exceptional skill.…

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Anne Frank - The Whole Story
Anne Frank: The Whole Story delivers exactly what it promises--the incredibly moving complete story of Anne Frank, going beyond what the Jewish teenage girl wrote in her widely read diary. Anne, along with her family and friends of her family, hid in a secret annex behind her father's office.…

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Into The Arms Of Strangers - Stories Of The Kindertransport
This Academy Award®-winning documentary (produced with the cooperation of the United States Holocaust Museum) chronicles one of the lesser-known stories of the Holocaust: that of the Kindertransport, which saved the lives of 10,000 Jewish children. In the late 1930s, England agreed to accept these children seeking refuge from Nazi oppression. They were placed in foster homes.…

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Editor's Pick
The Contender
What does a film critic want to see at the movies? Better films. Former critic Rod Lurie tackled the problem head on by writing and directing this political thriller. Joan Allen is perfectly cast as Ohio senator Laine Hanson, tapped by President Jackson Evans (Jeff Bridges) to fill the vice presidential vacancy. Gary Oldman plays the scheming congressman who looks to unseat Senator Hanson at any cost, in a troubling but all-too-believable performance of greed. Bridges and Allen received Oscar calls for their work; Oldman should have received a nomination.

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More Hot New Releases
Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory (30th Anniversary Edition)

Finding Forrester

Men of Honor

Kathy Smith - Pilates for Abs

Girlfight

The 6th Day

Bounce

42 Up

Dancer in the Dark

The Legend of Bagger Vance

All the Pretty Horses

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Featured Bargain of the Month
North Dallas Forty
Why are there so many essential baseball movies and none for the gridiron? North Dallas Forty is one of the best of the few football films made. Based on Peter Gent's acidic novel, the movie is a comic gem about two veterans (Nick Nolte and Mac Davis) going through a typical week of football madness. The movie is a great dissertation on the balance between the violent game and cut-throat business side of professional sports. Twenty-two years old, the movie still speaks to today's sports world and is a steal at under $10. Are you ready for some football?

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Used & Collectible Videos
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