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| Vol 1 (Hard Labour, Grown Ups and Abigail's Party) |
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| Vol 2 (Nuts in May, Bleak Moments and Who' Who) |
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| Vol 3 (4 Days in July, Home Sweet Home and Kiss of Death) |
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4 Days in July
Two couples, one Catholic the other Protestant, exist on two sides of the chasm that is everyday life in Northern Ireland. Filled with wonderful banter, shaggy dog stories and offbeat humor, this could be Mike Leigh's best work to date.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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Abigails Party
A tour de force performance by Alison Steadman as the boozy hostess of a wildly unsuccessful middle class dinner party where the husband has the poor taste to have a heart attack on the new carpet. The hostess must decide which is more important, her dinner party, or her dying husband.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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Bleak Moments
Brimming with the edgy realism that Leigh has become known for, Bleak Moments follows Sylvia, a bored secretary, as she seeks release from the daily grind, first with a schoolteacher and then with a guitar-playing hippie. Like eavesdropping on the most intimate moments of a strangers life, Bleak Moments is an authentic, poignant and often hilarious portrait of the moments which define our lives.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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Grown Ups
A newly married couple move into their first home and have to tolerate the wifes ditzy sister and their next door neighbor who is their former school teacher. The film comes to a head when both couples are found wrestling in the hall while trying to oust the poor sister from the neighbors bathroom.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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Hard Labour
Emotionally horrific yet oddly amusing, the story is a scathing indictment of classism and sexism. The film focuses on the grinding, daily abuse a poor, elderly woman suffers at the hands of her husband, her children and her employer. Oscar winner Ben Kingsley makes a strong appearance as a friendly cabbie.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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To Rent:
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Home Sweet Home
The life and times of three postmen centering on Stan, a sullen ladies man who has been deserted by his wife. Stan makes up for his losses by having affairs with his co-workers wives. This is an England of bitter individuals isolated by class and unconsoled in marriage.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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To Rent:
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Kiss of Death
Mike Leighs whimsical, puckish sense of humor comes to full flower in this story of Trevor, the dead quiet undertakers assistant, and his attempts at romance. Socially awkward, Trevors courtships have to be among the most humorous in all of cinema history.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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Nuts In May
A pair of terrifically self satisfied, middle class vegetarians who are still high on the love philosophy of the 1960s, have hilarious and appalling things happen to them on a camping trip.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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Whos Who
Mike Leighs zany story about the antics at a London brokerage firm and the struggles of class and society. Whos Who proves that the higher up on the British social scale one goes, the more likely one is to be stupid, petty and greedy.
(UK)
DVD $29.95
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