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The DVD extras follow the adage that if one has lemons, make lemonade. This "special" edition has no commentary track, and no new input from stars Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Andy Garcia or writer David Mamet. Yet DVD director Laurent Bouzereau has an ace up his sleeve that makes the four new featurettes (about 50 minutes of content) worth listening to: candid talk. The usual, stiff ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia, Robert De Niro
Directed By: Brian De Palma

Winner of seven Academy Awards including Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay, this critical and box-office hit from 1973 provided a perfect reunion for director George Roy Hill and stars Paul Newman and Robert Redford, who previously delighted audiences with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Set in 1936, the movie's about a pair of Chicago con artists (Newman and Redford) who find ...

Manufacturer: Universal Pictures UK
Starring: Paul Newman, John Quade, James Sloyan, Brad Sullivan, Ray Walston
Directed By: George Roy Hill

Manufacturer: MGM Entertainment
Starring: John Candy, Alan Alda, Rhea Perlman, Kevin Pollak, Rip Torn
Directed By: Michael Moore

As noted critic Pauline Kael wrote, the 1987 box-office hit The Untouchables is "like an attempt to visualise the public's collective dream of Chicago gangsters". In other words, this lavish reworking of the vintage TV series is a rousing pot-boiler from a bygone era, so beautifully designed and photographed--and so craftily directed by Brian De Palma--that the historical reality of ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia
Directed By: Brian De Palma

This is a by-the-numbers tale of political chicanery and fallen idealism, but it works because of several strong performances. James Spader and John Cusack play law-school pals whose college idealism quickly falls away once they reach the real world. Playing against type, Spader is the straight arrow who goes on to work for the Justice Department. Cusack is the slippery conniver who parlays a job ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: John Cusack, James Spader, Imogen Stubbs, Mandy Patinkin, Richard Widmark
Directed By: Herbert Ross

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video
Starring: Don Johnson, Penelope Ann Miller, William Forsythe, Bob Balaban, Frank Military
Directed By: John Frankenheimer

The DVD extras follow the adage that if one has lemons, make lemonade. This "special" edition has no commentary track, and no new input from stars Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, and Andy Garcia or writer David Mamet. Yet DVD director Laurent Bouzereau has an ace up his sleeve that makes the four new featurettes (about 50 minutes of content) worth listening to: candid talk. The usual, stiff ...

Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment
Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia
Directed By: Brian De Palma

Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Starring: Michael Keaton, Christopher Lloyd, Peter Boyle, Stephen Furst, Dennis Boutsikaris
Directed By: Howard Zieff

Manufacturer: HBO Home Video
Starring: Ray Romano, Patricia Heaton, Doris Roberts, Brad Garrett, Peter Boyle
Directed By: Alan Kirschenbaum, Howard Storm, Jeffrey M. Meyer, Michael Lembeck, Paul Lazarus

Manufacturer: Lionsgate
Starring: Peter Kent, Robert Mammone, Angie Milliken, Grant Piro, Sullivan Stapleton
Directed By: Scott Wiper