Items Matching Tag 'Howard Feuer'

Miami Blues (UK) (DVD Details)
Fred Frenger (Alec Baldwin) starts over in Miami by attacking an old cop for his badge and gun and turning himself into a seemingly acceptable member of society before embarking on a series of violent robberies and hooking up with a young prostitute – played by Jenniger Jason Leigh. The cop he attacked, Sgt Hoke Moseley (Fred Ward), is on the warpath and out to put this renegade behind bars once...

Groundhog Day (Collector`s Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
Bill Murray is at his wry wisecracking best in this riotous comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life! Teamed with a relentlessly cheery producer and a smart aleck cameraman, TV weatherman Phil Connors is sent to Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. On his way out of town, Phil is caught in a giant blizzard, which he...

Reversal Of Fortune (UK) (DVD Details)
Did European aristocrat Claus von Bulow (Jeremy Irons) try to murder his wife Sunny (Glenn Close) at their luxurious Newport mansion in 1980? Tabloids of the day had their opinions. "You have one thing in your favour," defence attorney Alan Dershowitz (Ron Silver) told von Bulow. "Everybody hates you." Based on Dershowitz`s book, written for the screen by Nicholas Kazan, and directed by Barbet...

Speechless (UK) (DVD Details)
Michael Keaton and Geena Davis are a winning duo in this romantic comedy that proves that opposites can attract. Smart, sexy and side-splittingly funny, Speechless provides great entertainment. It was a match made in heaven... almost. Two witty, intelligent insomniacs, Kevin (Keaton) and Julia (Davis) meet over the last box of sleeping pills at an all-night convenience store and are immediately...

Murder By Numbers (UK) (DVD Details)
Fascinating elements of police procedure meld with escalating tension in the taut `Murder By Numbers`. Sandra Bullock "redefines the female detective genre" as Cassie Mayweather, a homicide investigator who puts her career in jeopardy as she closes in on the elusive perpetrators of a cleverly planned "perfect murder." But there`s something too perfect about the way the forensic evidence adds...

Married To The Mob (UK) (DVD Details)
Michelle Pfeiffer, Matthew Modine, Dean Stockwell, Alec Baldwin and Mercedes Ruehl redefine family values in this bona fide Mafia hit from Jonathan Demme (Something Wild, The Silence Of The Lambs) that`s so hilarious, it`s an offer you can`t refuse. Angela De Marco (Pfeiffer) has had enough! Her cheating husband Frank (Baldwin) is a gangster and she`s sick of living on laundered money. So when...

Philadelphia (UK) (DVD Details)
A gay lawyer stricken with AIDS seeks assistance from a homophobic personal injury attorney when a prestigious Philadelphia law firm fires him for incompetence. Not the standard `issue` movie or even the standard courtroom drama but a sensitive and heartfelt look at the affect of AIDS on family, friends and the people who interact with an AIDS victim.

Cat`s Eye (UK) (DVD Details)
What does a stray cat have in common with a radical technique to quit smoking, the window ledge of a sky scraper, and an evil goblin? Three of Stephen King`s most imaginative tales brought to life in this chilling collection of short stories.

Made (UK) (DVD Details)
Bobby is a would-be boxer who just wants to settle down with his stripper girlfriend. His lifelong pal Ricky is a smalltime hustler who dreams of being a mafia hotshot. So when mob boss Max offers the two buddies temporary work as out-of-town mafia "muscle", the two friends head for New York - where Ricky`s delusions of gangster grandeur plung them both into the Big Apple`s seductive underworld of...

That Thing You Do! (UK) (DVD Details)
Tom Hanks` debut as a writer and director tracks the meteoric rise and fall of the fictional 1960s pop band `The Wonders`. The film`s protagonist, Guy Patterson (Tom Everett Scott), works in his father`s appliance store by day, but plays the drums and listens to jazz albums by night. When a local group, fronted by guitarist Jimmy (Johnathon Schaech) lose their drummer, Guy steps in and soon adds a...

All That Jazz (UK) (DVD Details)
Former choreographer Bob Fosse directs this 1979 musical drama, a semi-autobiographical tale focusing on the self-destructive Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider). A creative genius, Joe is simultaneously working on a new film and a new stage show. Meanwhile, his personal life is on course for disaster as he parties hard and veers wildly from one lover to the next. Jessica Lange plays Angelique, one of...

Basic Instinct (10th Anniversary Special Edition) (UK) (DVD Details)
San Francisco detective Nick Curran is investigating the murder of a once-celebrated rock star and he`s made a few unsettling discoveries: a bloody ice pick, a white silk scarf tied to a bedpost and evidence of an otherwise romantic evening. As Nick digs into the case, he becomes entangled in a deadly affair involving three intriguing women, each with an unexpected motive for the crime. Catherine...

Silence of The Lambs, The: Special Edition (2 Discs) (UK) (DVD Details)
Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster deliver knockout Oscar Winning performances in this shocking, powerful thriller. This terrifying masterpiece of suspense garnered five Adademy Awards including Best Director and the coveted Best Picture. A psychopath known only as Buffalo Bill is kidnapping and murdering young women across the midwest. Believing it takes one to know one, the FBI send in Agent...

Mississippi Burning (UK) (DVD Details)
Mississippi in 1964 is ready to burn. Three young Civil Rights workers, James Chaney, Andre Goodman and Mickey Schwerner, are murdered on their way back home after trying to help blacks register to vote. The bodies disappear. The smoldering embers of racial hatred now explode into violent flames. Two FBI agents are called in to investigate the murders. Rupert Anderson (Gene Hackman) and Alan Ward...

Basic Instinct: Special Limited Edition (Unrated) (US) (DVD Details)
Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone costars as Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she had described in her latest novel. But would she be so obvious as to write about a crime she was going to commit?...

What Women Want (UK) (DVD Details)
Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt light up the screen in this winning romantic comedy about a man who thinks he`s God`s gift to women - until he hears what they`re really thinking. Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a swinging bachelor scaling the corporate ladder of one of Chicago`s hottest ad agencies. But Nick`s fast-track success is derailed when the agency overlooks him and hires beautiful Darcy McGuire (...

Basic Instinct (US) (DVD Details)
Michael Douglas stars as Nick Curran, a tough but vulnerable detective. Sharon Stone costars as Catherine Tramell, a cold, calculating, and beautiful novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite. Catherine becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered - a crime she had described in her latest novel. But would she be so obvious as to write about a crime she was going to commit?...

Ninth Gate, The (UK) (DVD Details)
Johnny Depp unlocks the gates to hell in Roman Polanski’s newest thriller. Depp stars as Dean Corso, an unscrupulous rare book dealer who is hired to locate the last remaining copies of The Nine Gates, a demonic manuscript that can summon the Devil. Corso becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder, theft and satanic ritual, and ultimately finds himself confronting the devil...

Annie (UK) (DVD Details)
Annie is the story of a plucky, red-haired girl, who dreams of life outside her orphanage and its gin-soaked tyrant, Miss Hannigan (played to perfection by Carol Burnett). One day Annie meets the famous billionaire. `Daddy` Warbucks (Albert Finney), and the pair share spectacular times in the New York City of the 1930s. But Miss Hannigan and her zany, villianous colleagues are determined to...

What Women Want (US) (DVD Details)
Mel Gibson and Helen Hunt light up the screen in this winning romantic comedy about a man who thinks he`s God`s gift to women - until he hears what they`re really thinking. Gibson plays Nick Marshall, a swinging bachelor scaling the corporate ladder of one of Chicago`s hottest ad agencies. But Nick`s fast-track success is derailed when the agency overlooks him and hires beautiful Darcy McGuire (...

Hollow Man (UK) (DVD Details)
After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant and egotistical scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to Phase III: human experimentation. Using himself as the...

Abyss, The: Special Edition (UK) (DVD Details)
In this thrilling, underwater action adventure from writer-director James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Aliens), a civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25,000 feet below the ocean`s surface, where he confronts a mysterious force...

Hollow Man (US) (DVD Details)
After years of experimentation, Dr. Sebastian Caine, a brilliant but arrogant and egotistical scientist working for the Defense Department, has successfully transformed mammals to an invisible state and brought them back to their original physical form. Determined to achieve the ultimate breakthrough, Caine instructs his team to move on to Phase III: human experimentation. Using himself as the...

Abyss, The: Special Edition (Australia) (DVD Details)
In this thrilling, underwater action adventure from writer-director James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Aliens), a civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25,000 feet below the ocean`s surface, where he confronts a mysterious force...

Hotel New Hampshire, The (UK) (DVD Details)
From the novel by John Irving (The Cider House Rules, The World According to Garp), comes this darkly comic tale of an eccentric New England family. As the father moves them from one place to the next, setting up a new hotel each time, the assortmant of oddball characters seem to become involved in ever more bizarre situations. Frannie becomes obsessed with the boy who attacks her, John...

Desperate Measures (UK) (DVD Details)
San Francisco Police Officer, Frank Connor, (Andy Garcia) is forced to go to desperate lengths to find a compatible bone marrow donor for his critically ill son. Peter McCabe (Michael Keaton) is the boy`s perfect DNA match. He is also a homicidal sociopath, serving a life sentence in a maximum security prison. Connor convinces his superiors to transport McCabe to the hospital. McCabe makes an...

Ninth Gate, The (US) (DVD Details)
Johnny Depp unlocks the gates to hell in Roman Polanski`s newest thriller. Depp stars as Dean Corso, an unscrupulous rare book dealer who is hired to locate the last remaining copies of "The Nine Gates of the Shadow Kingdom", a demonic manuscript that can summon the Devil. Corso becomes embroiled in a conspiracy involving murder, theft and satanic ritual, and ultimately finds himself...

Truman Show, The (US) (DVD Details)
He`s the star of the show - but he doesn`t know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir about a man whose life is a nonstop TV show. Truman doesn`t realize that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris), that folks living and working there are Hollywood...

Truman Show, The (UK) (DVD Details)
He`s the star of the show - but he doesn`t know. Jim Carrey wowed critics and audiences alike as unwitting Truman Burbank in this marvel of a movie from director Peter Weir about a man whose life is a non-stop TV show. Truman doesn`t realise that his quaint hometown is a giant studio set run by a visionary producer/director/creator (Ed Harris), that folks living and working there are Hollywood...

Abyss, The: Special Edition (US) (DVD Details)
In this thrilling, underwater action adventure from writer-director James Cameron (Titanic, Terminator 2: Judgement Day, Aliens), a civilian oil rig crew is recruited to conduct a search-and-rescue effort when a nuclear submarine mysteriously sinks. One diver (Ed Harris) soon finds himself on a spectacular odyssey over 25,000 feet below the ocean`s surface, where he confronts a mysterious force...