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Alfred Hitchcock - The Masterpiece Collection
 
  • Director: Alfred Hitchcock
    • Format: Color, Box set
    • Rated: PG
    • Studio: Universal Studios Home Entertainment
    • DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
    • DVD Features:
      • Title listing: Saboteur (1942), Shadow of a Doubt (1943), Rope (1948), Rear Window (1954), The Trouble With Harry (1955), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Vertigo (1958), Psycho (1960), The Birds (1963), Marnie (1964), Torn Curtain (1966), Topaz (1969), Frenzy (1972), Family Plot (1976)
      • All 14 films are digitally re-mastered.
      • Amazing star power spanning over three decades in Hollywood including James Stewart, Paul Newman, Sean Connery, Anthony Perkins, Doris Day, Grace Kelly and many, many more.
      • All-new bonus disc showcases Hitchcock's films, career and legacy.
      • Ultra-premium velvet packaging
      • 36-page collectible book
      • 14 documentaries and 9 featurettes, including: The Story of Frenzy; Plotting Family Plot; The Trouble With Harry Isn't Over; The Makig of The Man Who Knew Too Much; Obsessed with Vertigo; Newsreel Footage: The Release of Psycho; Saboteur: A Closer Look; Beyond Doubt: The Making of Hitchcock's Favorite Film; Rope Unleashed; Rear Window Ethics: An Original Documentary; The Birds Is Coming; The Trouble with Marnie; Torn Curtain Rising; Topaz: An Appreciation by Leonard Maltin;
      • Storyboards
      • Production photographs
      • Theatrical trailers
      • Bonus Disc: AFI Salute to Alfred Hitchcock; Masters of Cinema: Alfred Hitchcock; All About The Birds; The Making of Psycho
      • Number of discs: 16


     


  • The Amityville Horror
  • Starring:   Ryan Reynolds, Jimmy Bennett, Melissa George, Philip Baker Hall, Jesse James, Chloe Moretz, Rachel Nichols
  • Director: Andrew Douglas
  • Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby
  • Rated: R Not for sale to persons under age 18.
  • Studio: Columbia Tristar Hom
  • DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
  • Run Time: 89m
  • Synopsis: On November 13, 1973, police received a frantic phone call that led them to a nightmarish crime scene at the Defeo residence in Amityville, Long Island - an entire family had been murdered in their beds while they slept. In the days that followed, Ronald Defeo eventually confessed to methodically killing his parents and four siblings with a rifle, saying "voices" in the house drove him to the massacre. One year later, George and Kathy Lutz and their children moved into the house thinking it would be their dream home. But soon the voices began again. Sleepless nights. Numbing cold. Visions of a murdered little girl. Then George began to do what the voices told him... 28 days after moving in, the Lutzes abandoned the residence - lucky to escape with their lives. 30 years after the shocking real-life events that inspired one of the most popular horror stories of all time, revisit the house that started it all: The Amityville Horror.

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  • Animal 
  • Starring: Ving Rhames, Terrence Howard, Jim Brown and Taraji Henson
  • Format: Color, Closed-captioned
  • Rated: R Not for sale to persons under age 18.
  • Studio: First Look Pictures
  • DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
  • Run Time: 93m
  • Synopsis: (Rhames), a violent gang member sentenced to prison, leaving his young son (Howard) to grow up alone on the streets.  While incarcerated, Animal meets an aging revolutionary (Brown) who changes the way the inmate sees himself and his place in the world.  When Animal returns home many years later, he discovers his son has assumed his former life of crime.  The reformed gangster resolves to end his family's legacy of violence.

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    The Interpreter

    • Starring: Nicole Kidman, Sean Penn, Catherine Keener
    • Director: Sydney Pollack
    • Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
    • Rated: PG-13 \
    • Studio: Universal Studios
    • DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
    • Run Time: 129m
    • Synopsis:
      Directed by Oscar® winner Sydney Pollack, whose classic thrillers Three Days of the Condor, Absence of Malice and The Firm have set the standard for the genre, The Interpreter stars Academy Award® winners Nicole Kidman and Sean Penn in a suspenseful thriller of international intrigue set inside the political corridors of the United Nations and on the streets of New York. Kidman stars as African-born U.N. interpreter Silvia Broome, who inadvertently overhears a death threat against an African head of state scheduled to address the United Nation's General Assembly. Realizing she's become a target of the assassins as well, Silvia's desperate to thwart the plot...if only she can survive long enough to get someone to believe her. Sean Penn is Tobin Keller, the federal agent charged with protecting the interpreter, who nonetheless suspects she may not be telling the whole truth. Silvia and Tobin, by nature, see life from different points of view: one, a U.N. interpreter, believes in the power and sanctity of words; the other, a Secret Service agent, believes in reading people based on their behavior, no matter what is said. In the right hallway, at the right time, all it takes is a whisper to tip the balance of power.


    • DVD Features:
      • Audio Commentary - Director Sydney Pollack
      • Alternate Ending
      • Deleted Scenes
      • Sydney Pollack at Work: From Concept to Cutting Room
      • Interpreting Pan & Scan vs. Widescreen
      • A Day in the Life of Real Interpreters
      • The Ultimate Movie Set: The United Nations


     


    • The Warriors - The Ultimate Director's Cut
       
    • Starring: Michael Beck, and James Remar
    • Director: Walter Hill
    • Format: Color
    • Rated: R Not for sale to persons under age 18.
    • Studio: Paramount Home Video
    • DVD Release Date: October 4, 2005
    • Run Time: 93m
    • Synopsis: Cyrus, the messianic leader of the largest gang in New York, declares a truce and calls a summit with all the major gangs in attendance. During the meeting, he expresses his wish to unify all the gangs into one large super-gang. During the summit, Cyrus is assasinated and the murder is pinned on a member of a gang known as the Warriors. Now, all the other gangs are hunting the Warriors down before they can prove their innocence
    • DVD Features:
      • Available subtitles: English, Spanish
      • Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
      • Introduction by Walter Hill
      • 4 Production Featurettes
      • Deleted Scene
      • Original Theatrical Trailer


     


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