Elf is genuinely good. Not just Saturday Night Live-movie good, when the movie has some funny bits but is basically an insult to humanity; Elf is a smartly written, skillfully directed, and deftly acted story of a human being adopted by Christmas elves who returns to the human world to find his father. And because the writing, directing, and acting are all genuinely good, ...
Manufacturer: Entertainment in VideoStarring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Edward Asner, Mary SteenburgenDirected By: Jon Favreau
Manufacturer: Genius EntertainmentStarring: Edward Asner, John Newton, Alice Evans, Lois Nettleton, Ben WeberDirected By: Stephen Bridgewater
Manufacturer: Walt Disney Studios Home EntertainmStarring: Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler, Susan Tyrrell, Karen LandryDirected By: Alan Shapiro
Manufacturer: PlaybackStarring: Peter Strauss, Nick Nolte, Susan Blakely, Steve Allen, Edward AsnerDirected By: Bill Bixby, Boris Sagal, David Greene
Elvis tried something different in his final narrative movie… but the results are oddly similar to his usual '60s formula. Here the King plays a doctor working in an inner-city free clinic, playing host to three Catholic nurses (who are really nuns incognito). Elvis gets hung up on one of the nuns, played by Mary Tyler Moore; she seems a lot closer to The Dick Van Dyke Show than the ...
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Elvis Presley, Mary Tyler Moore, Barbara McNair, Jane Elliot, Leora DanaDirected By: William A. Graham
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Drew Barrymore, Dan Castellaneta, Joe Pantoliano, Edward Asner, Peter MacNicolDirected By: Steve Moore
El Dorado doesn't quite have the scope or ambition of Howard Hawks' greatest Westerns, Red River and Rio Bravo. But this relaxed picture, made near the end of Hawks' marvellous career, still shows the steady, sure hand of a master. Hawks reunites with John Wayne, playing a hired gun mixed up in a range war; Robert Mitchum is Wayne's old pal, now a sheriff in the midst of a ...
Manufacturer: Paramount Home EntertainmentStarring: John Wayne, Robert Mitchum, James Caan, Charlene Holt, Paul FixDirected By: Howard Hawks
Manufacturer: Entertainment In VideoStarring: Bette Midler, Peter Riegert, Cynthia Gibb, Edward Asner, Christine EbersoleDirected By: Emile Ardolino
Based on Alex Haley's bestseller, the 1977 TV mini-series Roots told the harrowing story of one man's ancestors, commencing with African warrior Kunta Kinte, captured, transported to America, stripped of his dignity, his rights, and even his name. He tries but fails to escape before accepting he can never return to Africa. He marries and bears a daughter, Kizzy, who is callously sold, then ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: LeVar Burton, Olivia Cole, Ben Vereen, Vic Morrow, Ji-Tu CumbukaDirected By: David Greene, Gilbert Moses, John Erman, Marvin J. Chomsky
