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Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Ossie Davis, Courtney B. Vance
Directed By: William Friedkin

Manufacturer: Orion Home Video
Starring: Jack Lemmon, George C. Scott, Hume Cronyn, Ossie Davis, Courtney B. Vance
Directed By: William Friedkin

The definitive American television series of the '90s comes to the big screen with an anticlimactic whimper. And how could it be otherwise? Why should material so perfectly realized in one medium necessarily translate well into another? The series is crisply and thoughtfully executed in just about every detail, but the heart of its appeal lies in the elegant handling of complicated and evolving ...

Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox
Starring: David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, John Neville, William B. Davis, Martin Landau
Directed By: Rob Bowman

The sophomore effort by Steven Soderbergh (sex, lies, and videotape) is an audacious and stylistically impressive experiment in a completely different direction from his debut. Working from a script by Lem Dobbs, Soderbergh follows the miserable day-to-day existence of Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons), an insurance clerk in a large, impersonal company. Hiding out in his garret at night, he ...

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Theresa Russell, Joel Grey, Ian Holm, Jeroen Krabbé
Directed By: Steven Soderbergh

Writer-director Barry Levinson is at his best when exploring his native Baltimore during his formative years: the 1950s and 1960s. This film, drawing upon family stories, tells a compelling, amusing tale about an extended group that came to America one by one, each earning enough to bring the next sibling. The new, American-born generation--represented by Aidan Quinn and Kevin Pollak--see a future ...

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures
Starring: Aidan Quinn, Elizabeth Perkins, Leo Fuchs, Eve Gordon, Lou Jacobi
Directed By: Barry Levinson

Manufacturer: Hallmark
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Maureen Stapleton, Lionel Stander, Olivia d'Abo, Adrian Pasdar
Directed By: Bob Balaban

The House of the Spirits is a generational tale of life among the ruling class in a South American country, as adapted from the Isabel Allende novel, but the political realities coexist very uneasily with the magical realism in this Bille August film. The star power alone (Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas, Vanessa Redgrave, and Armin Mueller-Stahl) ...

Manufacturer: Live / Artisan
Starring: Jeremy Irons, Meryl Streep, Glenn Close, Winona Ryder, Antonio Banderas
Directed By: Bille August

Manufacturer: First Run Features
Starring: Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brenda Fricker, Peter Riegert, Paul Scofield, Gaye Brown
Directed By: George Sluizer

Manufacturer: Pacific Arts Video/Audio
Starring: Klaus Maria Brandauer, Hans Christian Blech, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Gudrun Landgrebe, Jan Niklas
Directed By: István Szabó

It's not quite as clever as it tries to be, but The Game does a tremendous job of presenting the story of a rigid control freak trapped in circumstances that are increasingly beyond his control. Michael Douglas plays a rich, divorced, and dreadful investment banker whose 48th birthday reminds him of his father's suicide at the same age. He's locked in the cage of his own misery until his ...

Manufacturer: Polygram USA Video
Starring: Michael Douglas, Deborah Kara Unger, Sean Penn, James Rebhorn, Peter Donat
Directed By: David Fincher