The dominant themes of director Sidney Lumet's distinguished career are in full force in this moral melodrama involving a young district attorney (Andy Garcia) who takes on a career-making case only to uncover his father's possible involvement in pervasive police corruption. Balancing personal ethics and political compromise in a high-wire act of power and its abuse, Lumet relies on dialogue and superb performances (including those by Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss, and Lena Olin) to achieve a devastating impact. The script (based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley) is too smart and Lumet's direction too sure-footed to fall back on the black-and-white exploits of conventional criminals and their crimes. The movie's moral framework (like that of Lumet's earlier film... Learn More
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If you like horror movies with lots of blood and a boogeyman that you can put a face on, then Darkness is not for you. The crux of the movie is based in Demonology, nameless evil and the inevitability of the past. That is the differance is what puts so many people off, I for one am a big fan of the pychological horror genre. This is definately a movie that should be watched in the dark and with very little else going on in the house. It is hampered at parts by over dramatic acting and some convuluted ideas, but most of it points towards the abstraction of what evil is and how it manifests itself (ie the fathers madness. The cinematography is excellent and the use of light and darkness puts this head and shoulders above the current crop of high priced horror stories, and just puts movies... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Anna Paquin - Lena Olin - Iain Glen Director(s): Jaume Balagueró DVD Release Date: Released the 26 April 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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I love this movie, mainly because the city that it is set in, Hamtramck, is where my mother and grandparents were born. Being 3rd generation Polish-American in Detroit, I can really relate to this movie, Polish mothers tend to be the final word in the family, much like Lena Olin's character in the movie. Over all it's a very good movie, touching and funny, especially when Lena Olin and her four sons go after the boy who impregnated Hala (Claire Danes) with hockey sticks. It was very touching to see the church featured in the movie, St. Florian's, because it has long been an integral part of my family. A fantastic movie, I would recommend it to anyone who wants a good movie that is NOT a "chick-flick" but one of those movies that makes you feel better about life in the long run. More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Claire Danes - Lena Olin - Gabriel Byrne Director(s): Theresa Connelly DVD Release Date: Released the 15 April 2003 Usually ships within 24 hours
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Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer wrote often about despair and redemption, the subjects of his novel on which this Paul Mazursky film is based. Ron Silver plays a Holocaust survivor who has moved to America and married the Polish gentile who hid him from the Nazis. An intellectual, he is not satisfied with this simple peasant woman and so he has an affair with a sultry émigré (Lena Olin). His life is then made more complicated by the reappearance of his wife from the old country (Anjelica Huston), who he thought had died in the Nazi death camps. Mazursky and his terrific cast find the pain, irony, and sad humor in this material, capturing Singer's tone and bringing it to life. --Marshall FineMore Info About This DVD Actor(s): Ron Silver - Anjelica Huston - Lena Olin Director(s): Paul Mazursky DVD Release Date: Released the 03 September 2002 Usually ships within 2 to 3 days
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Romeo Is Bleeding is the flawed black comedy from director Peter Medak (The Krays) about a bad cop who slowly gets his due. Gary Oldman plays yet another quirky character, this time a New York detective on the take. His life goes haywire as he squares off with a Russian hit woman. Despite an intriguing cast and great dialogue, the movie becomes a bit too eccentric for its own good as several actors have nothing to do. The high point is Lena Olin, who finally has a role she can sink her teeth into: her zesty, monstrous assassin, Mona Demarkov, is one of the great movie villains. --Doug ThomasMore Info About This DVD Actor(s): Gary Oldman - Lena Olin Director(s): Peter Medak DVD Release Date: Released the 19 March 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Richard Gere is pretty convincing as a severe manic-depressive whose episodes of euphoria sometimes find him dancing on a two-by-four far above the street or climbing onstage during a symphony performance to "conduct" the orchestra. When the pendulum swings the other way, he is practically catatonic. As a character study, this film by Mike Figgis (Leaving Las Vegas) has its truly compelling moments, but Mr. Jones isn't just a character study. Inexplicably, Figgis ushers in a preposterous romance between this poor fellow and his psychiatrist (Lena Olin), a relationship that is supposed to raise interesting ethical and dramatic issues. All it does is make one wonder what the devil the doctor is thinking of, and why Figgis felt it necessary to go down this lose-lose path. With... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Richard Gere - Lena Olin Director(s): Mike Figgis DVD Release Date: Released the 25 January 2000 Usually ships in 24 hours
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The dominant themes of director Sidney Lumet's distinguished career are in full force in this moral melodrama involving a young district attorney (Andy Garcia) who takes on a career-making case only to uncover his father's possible involvement in pervasive police corruption. Balancing personal ethics and political compromise in a high-wire act of power and its abuse, Lumet relies on dialogue and superb performances (including those by Ron Leibman, Richard Dreyfuss, and Lena Olin) to achieve a devastating impact. The script (based on the novel Tainted Evidence by Robert Daley) is too smart and Lumet's direction too sure-footed to fall back on the black-and-white exploits of conventional criminals and their crimes. The movie's moral framework (like that of Lumet's earlier film... More Info About This DVD Actor(s): Andy Garcia - Lena Olin - Richard Dreyfuss Director(s): Sidney Lumet DVD Release Date: Released the 17 November 1998 Usually ships within 24 hours
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