"Worn to perfection" is the tag line promoting this crafted character study. It describes Paul Newman, the resourceful 70-year-old lead actor, but not his character, Sully, a North Bath, New York, loner who totally emulates the negative definition of the title. Newman gives a brilliant performance (Oscar-nominated and winner of two critics circle awards) relying on his well-honed subtleties. The ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis, Melanie Griffith, Dylan Walsh
Directed By: Robert Benton

Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Paul Newman, Robert Redford, Robert Shaw, Charles Durning, Ray Walston
Directed By: George Roy Hill

This weak, 1991 remake of the French comedy La Chèvre stars Danny Glover as a detective who is sent to Mexico to find a businessman's daughter (Sheila Kelley) and who gets stuck with a hapless assistant (Martin Short). The film wears out its welcome very quickly, despite some passable physical comedy from Short. Both actors have made much better movies; don't be surprised if you can't make ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker, Scott Wilson
Directed By: Nadia Tass

John Lasseter and his gang of high-tech creators at Pixar create another entertainment for the ages. Like the few great movie sequels, Toy Story 2 comments on why the first one was so wonderful while finding a fresh angle worthy of a new film. The craze of toy collecting becomes the focus here, as we find out Woody (voiced by Tom Hanks) is not only a beloved toy to Andy but also a rare doll ...

Manufacturer: Disney/Pixar
Starring: Tim Allen, Jodi Benson, Joan Cusack, R. Lee Ermey, Kelsey Grammer
Directed By: John Lasseter, Ash Brannon

This lovely, 1991 adaptation of Elizabeth Von Arnim's novel has a superb cast and a tone so mellow you can feel your pulse get slower. Josie Lawrence and Miranda Richardson play a pair of unhappily married women who rent an Italian villa for a month, sharing the rent with a crusty Englishwoman (Joan Plowright) and a lonely aristocrat (Polly Walker). Sun, rest, sinking into the green grass for long ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Josie Lawrence, Miranda Richardson, Alfred Molina, Neville Phillips, Jim Broadbent
Directed By: Mike Newell

There is greatness in film that can be discussed, dissected, and talked about late into the night. Then there is genius that is right in front of our faces--we smile at the spell it puts us into and are refreshed, and nary a word needs to be spoken. This kind of entertainment is what they used to call "movie magic," and there is loads of it in this irresistible computer animation feature. Just a ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Home Video
Starring: Tom Hanks, Tim Allen, Don Rickles, Jim Varney, Wallace Shawn
Directed By: John Lasseter

If you concentrate on the fact that Howard the Duck was a notorious box office dud (still brought up today) and considered one of the worst films of the '80s, it's entirely possible to enjoy this special effects piffle. Howard, played by a special effect puppet, lives on a planet where ducks evolved instead of apes, but one day he's sucked into a vortex and deposited on Earth. There he ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures
Starring: Lea Thompson, Jeffrey Jones, Tim Robbins, Ed Gale, Chip Zien
Directed By: Willard Huyck

Monsters generate their city's power by scaring children, but they are terribly afraid themselves of being contaminated by children, so when one enters Monstropolis, top scarer Sulley find his world disrupted.
Plot Synopsis: James P. Sullivan (AKA "Sulley") and Mike Wazowski pick up their paychecks at Monsters Inc., the utility company that generates energy from the goose bumps of children. ...

• Format: Animated, Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
• Rating G
• VHS Release Date: September 17, 2002
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Language: English

Manufacturer: Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Starring: Jack Angel, Bob Bergen, Samuel Lord Black, Rodger Bumpass, Steve Buscemi
Directed By: Peter Docter, David Silverman, Lee Unkrich

A delightful undersea world unfolds in Pixar's animated adventure Finding Nemo. When his son Nemo is captured by a scuba-diver, a nervous-nellie clownfish named Marlin (voiced by Albert Brooks) sets off into the vast--and astonishingly detailed--ocean to find him. Along the way he hooks up with a scatterbrained blue tang fish named Dory (Ellen DeGeneres), who's both helpful and a hindrance, ...

Manufacturer: Walt Disney Video
Starring: Eric Bana, Nicholas Bird (II), Albert Brooks, Willem Dafoe, Ellen DeGeneres
Directed By: Andrew Stanton

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Paul Newman, Sylva Koscina, Andrew Duggan, Tom Bosley, John Williams (II)
Directed By: Jack Smight