First and foremost a star vehicle for Tom Cruise, this paper-thin Horatio Alger story of a young bartender with dreams of get-rich-quick success is notable only for Cruise's immense likeability in contrast to a creaky plot and thinly drawn characters. Cruise plays Brian Flanagan, a young entrepreneur and ladies' man who with his mentor (Bryan Brown) takes the New York bar scene by storm. Through ...
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Tom Cruise, Bryan Brown, Elisabeth Shue, Lisa Banes, Laurence LuckinbillDirected By: Roger Donaldson
Opposites are forced to attract in Along Came Polly. Ben Stiller is a newlywed insurance risk-assessment analyst whose wife (Debra Messing, in a throwaway role) betrays him on their honeymoon. His uptight, play-it-safe lifestyle (which includes acute aversion to germs and irritable bowel syndrome) makes him seemingly incompatible with the spontaneous, free-spirited Polly (Jennifer Aniston), ...
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Ben Stiller, Jennifer Aniston, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Debra Messing, Alec BaldwinDirected By: John Hamburg
Sigourney Weaver more than earned her Oscar nomination for Best Actress in Gorillas in the Mist, dominating every frame of Michael Apted's biopic about primatologist Dian Fossey. Tenderly mothering an orphaned gorilla infant or terrorising an African poacher with a staged lynching, the statuesque star is never less than fiercely focused, a glamorous warrior for animal rights. As the amateur ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Sigourney Weaver, Bryan Brown, Julie Harris, John Omirah Miluwi, Iain CuthbertsonDirected By: Michael Apted
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Diane Venora, Cliff De Young, Mason AdamsDirected By: Robert Mandel
Manufacturer: PlaybackStarring: Gemma Jones, Victoria Plucknett, John Welsh, John Cater, Richard Vernon
From the golden age of Masterpiece Theatre comes this beloved 1976 British miniseries by the creators of Upstairs, Downstairs. Gemma Jones gives a performance for the ages in this rags-to-riches saga that charts the ascendancy of the indomitable Louisa Trotter, who rose from scullery maid to become "the finest cook in London" and Edwardian society's premier hostess. Inspired by the true ...
Manufacturer: Prism LeisureStarring: Treat Williams, Jeremy London, Bryan BrownDirected By: George Miller
For devotees left hungry for more at the conclusion of The Duchess of Duke Street, Gemma Jones re-creates her signature role as the indomitable Louisa Trotter, the former scullery maid who left her mark on turn-of-the-century England as "the finest cook in London" and the reigning mistress of Hotel Bentinck, in the second set of this series. As her own mother remarks, Louisa "has done very ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy, Rachel Ticotin, Joanna Gleason, Philip BoscoDirected By: Richard Franklin
Manufacturer: Prism LeisureStarring: Armand Assante, Rachel Ward, Bryan Brown, Steve BastoniDirected By: Russell Mulcahy
