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"Holocaust" (1978) (mini)
"Holocaust" follows each member of the Jewish Family Weiss throughout Hitler's reign in Germany. One by one, the family members suffer the horrible fate of extermination under Anti-Semetic Nazi Law until only one son remains at the end of World War II. A sub-plot follows the story of Eric Dorf, a young German lawyer with a good heart who is changed into ...

Manufacturer: Goodtimes Home Video
Starring: Meryl Streep, Michael Moriarty, James Woods
Directed By: Marvin J. Chomsky

Manufacturer: Vestron Video
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Meryl Streep, Carroll Baker, Michael O'Keefe, Diane Venora
Directed By: Hector Babenco

Manufacturer: Paramount
Starring: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, Harvey Keitel, Jane Kaczmarek, George Martin
Directed By: Ulu Grosbard

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

Sydney Pollack's 1985 multiple-Oscar winner is a sumptuous and emotionally satisfying film about the life of Danish writer Karen Blixen (Meryl Streep), better known as Isak Dinesen, who travels to Kenya to be with her German husband (Klaus Maria Brandauer) but falls for an English adventurer (Robert Redford). The film is slow in developing the relationship, but it is rich in beautiful images of ...

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Meryl Streep, Robert Redford, Klaus Maria Brandauer, Michael Kitchen, Malick Bowens
Directed By: Sydney Pollack

Meryl Streep reads Margery Williams's gentle story of a stuffed bunny who becomes real through the love of a child in this 25-minute video version of the classic 1922 tale. A Christmas gift that is ignored, then beloved, and then abandoned, the rabbit with the pink sateen ears comes to love the boy who takes him everywhere and through that love finds literal rebirth. Academy Award-winning actress ...

Manufacturer: Random House Video
Starring: Dennis Hopper, Meryl Streep

Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein's first play. At a reunion seven years after their graduation from Mount Holyoke College, five former classmates assess whether they have achieved their youthful goals. In a flashback, the women, all part of a group dubbed "uncommon"--because they were expected to be "amazing" before they reached 30--relive their senior year and ...

Manufacturer: Kultur Video
Starring: Jill Eikenberry, Ann McDonough, Alma Cuervo, Ellen Parker, Swoosie Kurtz
Directed By: Merrily Mossman, Steven Robman

Albert Brooks proves there's laughs after death with this almost heavenly comedy--almost heaven as in Judgment City, where recently perished Daniel Miller (Brooks) learns whether he is worthy of advancing to a higher plane of existence or will be sent back to earth for another incarnation. His fate will be determined in a very special trial, during which scenes from his life are replayed on ...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Albert Brooks, Meryl Streep
Directed By: Albert Brooks

Writer Harold Pinter (Betrayal) and director Karel Reisz (Isadora) take an experimental spin with John Fowles's magnificent novel set in Victorian England, and come up with something puzzling. Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep play the forbidden lovers in Fowles's story, but in a parallel story line they also play contemporary actors performing those characters in a movie production and ...

Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Starring: Meryl Streep, Jeremy Irons, Hilton McRae, Emily Morgan, Charlotte Mitchell
Directed By: Karel Reisz

In LEMONY SNICKET’S A SERIES OF UNFORTUNATE EVENTS, after Violet, Klaus, and Sunny Baudelaire's parents perish in a terrible fire, they are placed in the care of their uncle, Count Olaf (Jim Carrey), an evil fiend who is plotting to kill them and seize their fortune. The orphans travel from guardian to guardian, including herpetologist Montgomery Montgomery (Billy Connolly) and grammar-wise Aunt ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Video
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jude Law, Meryl Streep, Liam Aiken, Emily Browning
Directed By: Brad Silberling