 | Hamlet
Buy new: $4.49 / Used from: $3.25 Masterful! Mel Gibson & Glenn Close in Shakespeare's classic.
If only Mel had done more Shakespeare! This is a gem.
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 | Braveheart
Buy new: $5.84 / Used from: $1.96 5 Academy Awards, Best Picture, Best Director, 1995.
"Every man dies. Not every man really lives." In 1099 Scotland is under British control. The a hero, William Wallace, arises and forms a rebel army that shakes England to its core and wins Scotland her freedom. He dies a martyr.
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 | Pride and Prejudice (Full Screen) (2005)
Buy new: $7.77 / Used from: $3.24 Deliciously Divine! Jane Austen's classic could not be better. This takes us back to a time (1813) when a woman had to marry or be homeless. Mrs. Bennett has five daughters and her mission in life is to secure "an advantageous marriage." The piano score is exquisite.
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 | Ben-Hur
Buy new: $18.88 / Used from: $7.18 Winner of 11 Academy Awards 1959. 100,000 costumes, 8,000 extras, 300 sets, a staggering budget, the largest movie in history.
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 | Rain Man
Buy used from: $2.42 Tender and complex. Winner of 4 Academy awards and Best Picture 1988.
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 | Far and Away
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.27 Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman are on their real life honeymoon (1992) during the making of this movie, and it shows. Cruise is a poor Irish tenant farmer who rebels and ends up running away to America with aristocrat Kidman. In the rough New World, he becomes her protector.
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 | Fried Green Tomatoes (Extended Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $5.49 / Used from: $2.08 Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Mary Stuart Masterson, and Mary Louise Parker make up this all-star cast that intertwines lives across 3 generations (or is it 4?) Priceless.
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 | The Holiday
Buy new: $6.99 / Used from: $2.25 Two women, frustrated in love, exchange homes from L.A. to England and...guess what? They find love again!
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 | Don Knotts 4 Movie Reluctant Hero Pack (The Ghost And Mr. Chicken / The Reluctant Astronaut / The Shakiest Gun In The West / The Love God?)
Buy used from: $13.28 A 4 pack of films starring Don Knotts in his hayday!
A classic.
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 | First Blood
Buy new: $6.73 / Used from: $0.75 A Viet Nam vet is arrested in Oregon for "vagrancy." He experiences post traumatic stress in jail, breaks loose, and gives the small town police chief one hell of a time.
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 | Finding Nemo (Two-Disc Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $8.57 Delightful animation takes you on a fun-filled adventure in Australia's Great Barrier Reef.
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 | Superman Returns (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $5.68 / Used from: $0.01 Brandon Routh is the best Superman ever. Brian Singer does a fantastic job at directing this personal favorite hero.
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 | My Fair Lady (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.63 / Used from: $6.85 Audrey Hepburn at her finest. What more can one say?
8 Academy Awards, Best Picture 1964.
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 | Primal Fear
Buy used from: $2.69 "Sooner or later the man who wears two faces forgets which one is real." A young Edward Norton (1996) gives a masterful performance and a super-surprise ending.
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 | Billy Elliot
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $3.15 This young boy has a passion for dance as he directs his frustrations during the family's hardships: the coal miner's strike, his mother's death, his grandmother's aging, his father's resentment of this "waste of time." He goes on to study at the Royal Academy of Ballet and brings tears to his father's eyes in the end.
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 | Tootsie
Buy new: $24.88 / Used from: $2.45 Hoffman can do anything! He can't get work as an actor in NYC so he tries out for a woman's role. 1982.
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 | Tommy Boy by Farley
Buy used from: $1.44 David Spade & Chris Farley, "If at first you don't succeed, lower your standards." This is a riot.
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 | Only the Lonely
Buy new: $11.48 / Used from: $6.10 Maureen O'Hara plays a rigid Irish mother/widow to John Candy as her loving son. When he falls in love, she becomes jealous, and boy does she do the "guilt trip" well.
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