Shout! Factory (Firm)
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"It's Christmas Eve at Mossy Bottom Farm and Shaun's seasonal excitement turns to dismay when a farmhouse raid to get bigger stockings inadvertently leads to Timmy getting lost in the local Christmas market. Shaun's rescue mission to town goes wrong when a gift box containing Timmy disappears off in a 4x4 driven by Farmer Ben, a local celebrity and influencer. Can Shaun save the day and get Timmy home in time for Christmas? Or has Shaun finally met...
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Contains five family stories! First, Abby's family has dinner at Elmo's house and she learns that different families can all have fun working together to make a meal. Then, Cookie Monster realizes he's forgotten to get a gift for his mommy for Mother's Day. For Father's Day, Rosita wants to make a video for her dad, but she will need some help from her friends. Next we meet Rudy, Abby's new step-brother! And finally, Hooper's Store is throwing a special...
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When a bored teenager is looking for thrills, sometimes the only thing they can turn to is rock n' roll. Having no skill, money, or even a full set of drums, a feared trio of high school delinquents nevertheless decide they are destined for musical glory in a quest to impress their only friend, avoid a rival gang, and, most importantly, jam out. Animated almost entirely by director Kenji Iwaisawa, and featuring a lead performance by Japanese alt-rock...
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Nora Helmer (Jane Fonda) lives a quiet life with her husband, Torvald (David Warner), in a small Norwegian town. While he works diligently at a bank, she looks after their children. But Torvald doesn't know that several years ago, when he was very ill and she was desperate for money, Nora forged a loan document and has been secretly working to pay the money back ever since. The arrival of her friend Kristine (Delphine Seyrig) prompts Nora to re-evaluate...
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In post-war Casablanca, Ronald Kornblow is hired to run a hotel whose previous managers have all wound up being murdered. French soldier Pierre suspects the involvement of ex-Nazis, specifically Count Pfefferman, in reality the notorious Heinrich Stubel. Pierre is accused of collaborating with the enemy, and attempts to clear to clear his name with the help of his girlfriend Annette and cagey buddy Corbaccio.. They enlist the aid of Pfefferman's beleaguered...
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In this dark comedy, a middle-aged advertising executive loses his long-awaited promotion to a younger man. In frustration, he accidentally pushes a panhandler in front of a subway train... and gets away with the death.. Realizing that committing murder might be a little easier than he previously had thought, he begins plotting the death of several of his corporate enemies..
10) Alan and Naomi
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Alan is a typically streetwise Brooklyn teenager of the 1940s. Naomi is a French-Jewish refugee of Nazi oppression, recently moved into the apartment above Alan's. Ever since witnessing the murder of her father, Naomi has remained in a catatonic state. Alan's well-meaning efforts to help the girl at first seem to do more harm than good.. But eventually the boy's sincerity and hitherto untapped compassion win out, and the two young people form a strong,...
11) Black Magic
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Alexandre Dumas, Sr. (Berry Kroeger) tells his son Alexander Dumas, Jr. (Raymond Burr) the story of Joseph Balsamo (Orson Welles). Through flashbacks we learn that Balsamo was a French gypsy boy who endured much hardship. He was tortured under the command of Viscount de Montagne (Stephen Bekassy) and his parents were ordered to hang. Some years later, he learns the secrets of hypnosis from Dr. Mesmer (Charles Goldner).. Ignoring the doctor's advice...
12) David & Lisa
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Two adolescents make a connection with each other in a home for disturbed youngsters. David Clemens was placed in the home by his mother because of his constant fear of being touched; while Lisa is a 15-year-old schizophrenic who speaks only in rhyme, when she speaks at all. David rejects the help of psychiatrist Alan Swinford but makes an emotional connection with Lisa.. Because of his contact with Lisa, David eventually opens up to Swinford and...
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During the post-war boom period of the late '40s, Willy Loman is an aging, traveling salesman, who despairs that his life his been lived in vain. Facing dispensability and insignificance in a heated, youthful economy, Willy is not ready to part with his cherished fantasies of an America that admires him for personable triumphs in the marketplace.. But the reality is far more difficult than that, and the measure of Willy's self-delusion and contradictions...
14) Dreamscape
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The US President is about to be assassinated in a dream where there is no morning after. Only one man can save him -- a man who must plunge himself into the President's horrendous nightmare. Alex Gardner is a psychically gifted young man recruited to help Dr Paul Novotny and the beautiful Dr Jane DeVries in an experiment to help patients disturbed by menacing nocturnal illusions.. But corrupt high ranking government official Bob Blair has darker plans...
15) Fanny
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Almost nineteen, Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a five-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her.. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she...
16) Heartland
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A woman arrives at the property of a reclusive Scottish famer to work as his housekeeper. Paid near-starvation wages, she continues working day and night, hoping to use her savings to ensure a bright future for her 10-year-old daughter.. Touched by her diligence, the farmer slowly falls in love with the woman, and after seeing her and her child through the torturous Wyoming winter, he marries her - but their union gets off to a shaky start and threatens...
17) Jeffery
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This romantic comedy centers on the chaotic love life of Jeffrey, a gay man who swears off sex only to fall in love with his ideal man. Jeffrey's vow of chastity is inspired by a fear of AIDS, a prospect which has started to terrify him so much that he decides he'd be better off never making love again. He is happy and relieved for a time, until he meets Steve, a handsome, charming dreamboat who also happens to be HIV-positive. Jeffrey wants nothing...
18) Kit Carson
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The legendary frontiersman Kit Carson and his two pals are attacked by Indians. They manage to escape unscatched and make their way to Fort Bridger, where Captain John "Frontier" Fremont hires Carson to guide a wagon train westward. The plot thickens when both Carson and Fremont fall in love with pretty Dolores Murphy, but all misunderstandings and rivalries are forgotten as the two heroes fight shoulder to shoulder against another Indian attack.....
19) Miss Firecracker
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Carnelle Scott is best-known in her hometown of Yazoo City, MS, for her unrepentant promiscuity. An orphan taken in by her genteel relatives, she idolizes her older cousin, Elain Rutledge, a former Fourth of July "Miss Firecracker" contest winner who is taking time out from her life as a pampered wife in Atlanta to give a speech on "My Life as a Beauty" at this year's pageant.. Determined to follow in Elain's footsteps, Carnelle puts a damper on her...
20) Outrageous!
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Two misfits find love and support in each other's company. One of them, Robin Turner, is a hairdresser and a gifted female impersonator, who tries out his act in local gay nightclubs. His roommate is Liza Connors, an old high-school friend who is now a mumbling pregnant woman, recently released from a mental hospital where she was treated for schizophrenia.. She is determined never to return to the hospital again, and he wants to be a show-business...