Steven Spielberg's 1993 mega-hit rivals Jaws as the most intense and frightening film he'd ever made prior to Schindler's List, but it was also among his weakest stories. Based on Michael Crichton's novel about an island amusement park populated by cloned dinosaurs, the film works best as a thrill ride with none of the interesting human dynamics of Spielberg's Jaws. That lapse proves unfortunate, but there's no shortage of raw terror as a rampaging T-rex and nasty raptors try to make fast food out of the cast. The effects are still astonishing (despite the fact that the computer-generated technology has since been improved upon) and at times primeval, such as the sight of a herd of whatever-they-are scampering through a valley. --Tom KeoghLearn More
List Price: $14.98 Your Price: $11.24YOU SAVE $3.74!
Buy it
In 1992, a siege took place on Ruby Ridge--a remote corner of Idaho--about 40 miles from the Canadian border. The FBI surrounded the crude mountain home of the Weaver family, and the siege lasted for a total of 11 days. The Weaver family consisted of: Weaver, his wife Vicki, four children, and a young man named Kevin Harris. When the siege concluded, questions began to emerge about the event--was the situation unavoidable? Did the use of extreme force exacerbate the situation? Were there ever any alternatives?
The film "Siege at Ruby Ridge" traces the fortunes of the Weaver family beginning with the wedding of former Green Beret, Randy Weaver (Randy Quaid) to Vicki (Laura Dern) in Iowa in the 1970s. The first part of the story sets the stage for the rest of the film and... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Laura Dern DVD Release Date: Released the 04 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $14.94 Your Price: $13.45YOU SAVE $1.49!
Buy it
Few movies offer as intimate a portrait of a fragmenting marriage as We Don't Live Here Anymore. Jack (Mark Ruffalo, You Can Count on Me) and Terry (Laura Dern, Citizen Ruth) are best friends with Edith (Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive) and Hank (Peter Krause, HBO's Six Feet Under)--but Edith and Jack, frustrated with their own marriages, have fallen into an affair that gradually erodes all of their lives. Most movies pretend their sex scenes are really about the characters' emotions; in this case, it's true. The movie's greatest strength, however, is that it's as much about parents and children as husbands and wives; the children of both marriage are as caught up in the events as the adults, and are often more clear-eyed about it all. The whole cast turns... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Mark Ruffalo - Laura Dern - Peter Krause - Naomi Watts Director(s): John Curran (II) DVD Release Date: Released the 14 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $19.98 Your Price: $13.47YOU SAVE $6.51!
Buy it
Leave it to the movie industry to completely sanitize an artfully crafted and disturbing story about a conflicted teen's coming of age and sexual awakening. When I discovered that there was a film adaptation of this Oates' story and that it had been casted with the seductive and cagey Laura Dern, I expected, at the very least, that the basic storyline would have been preserved. That Chopra changed the ending of this classic short story is truly disappointing--Ms. Oates, how could you allow it? The sappy love-hate relationship between Connie and her mother is phony, the actress who played Connie's weird sister could use more than a few more drama lessons, and the character of Arnold Friend has been reduced to a dorky and only slightly creepy Rick Springfield look-a-like. This film... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Treat Williams - Laura Dern Director(s): Joyce Chopra DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $14.95 Your Price: $13.46YOU SAVE $1.49!
Buy it
David Lynch's 1990 Wild at Heart is an utterly random and ugly experience with pockets of startling imagery and inspired set pieces. Based on a Barry Gifford novel, the film stars Nicolas Cage and Laura Dern as lovers on the lam whose relationship is tested and who meet some truly dangerous wackos (including an almost-simian Willem Dafoe). Lynch's thoughts seem to be everywhere, and he expects the audience to keep up with a story that seems more a collection of avant-garde whims than a coherent vision with the intuitive brilliance of his Blue Velvet. Cage gives one of his more chaotic performances, but then he was just reading Lynch's signposts. --Tom KeoghMore Info About This DVD Actor(s): Nicolas Cage - Laura Dern Director(s): David Lynch DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $19.98 Your Price: $14.99YOU SAVE $4.99!
Buy it
Billy Bob Thornton's white-trash comedy has loads of appeal, beginning with a delightful cast playing the most dysfunctional Southern family outside a Faulkner novel. Thornton and Laura Dern play married couple Claude and Ruby Montgomery, whose true love is stymied by petty jealousies over her old boyfriends and his long-ago romance with Ruby's sister, Rose (Kelly Preston). When Claude's Uncle Hazel (Jim Varney) is arrested, the duo join their extended clan in Little Rock to provide support for him and his defense team (a stormy couple sharply played by Jamie Lee Curtis and Ben Affleck). But cooperation is an alien concept to this family; in no time they're bickering, drinking, and deflating dreams. Typical of Thornton, this is serious yet funny stuff, and the actors--including Andy... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Billy Bob Thornton - Laura Dern Director(s): Billy Bob Thornton DVD Release Date: Released the 13 January 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
List Price: $14.99 Your Price: $13.49YOU SAVE $1.5!
Buy it
I believe Citizen Ruth, which satirizes both sides of the abortion debate, is one of the best films of the 90s. Laura Dern is perfect as the angry, drug-addicted and pregnant Ruth, who becomes a pawn in the political war between professional pro-life and pro-choice activists. Declared an unfit mother by a court, Ruth is encouraged to have an abortion. She is "rescued" by a swarmy, too-nice couple who, of course, turn out to be fanatical pro-lifers. They embark upon a full-fledged campaign to change Ruth's mind, which includes making her watch a film of a fetus being destroyed. As her case gains publicity, she is soon appropriated by the other side. The pro-choicers turn out to be equally fanatical and ideology-driven. Soon Ruth is being offered money by both sides, to either have or abort... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Laura Dern - Swoosie Kurtz - Kurtwood Smith - Mary Kay Place Director(s): Alexander Payne DVD Release Date: Released the 08 April 2003 Usually ships within 2 to 3 weeks
List Price: $19.99 Your Price: $17.99YOU SAVE $2!
Buy it
