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Garage Days
(2002) [MA]

Alex Proyas, director of The Crow and Dark City, switches gears for the lightweight romantic comedy Garage Days. Set in the Sydney suburb of Newtown, Freddy (Kick Gurry) really wants his band to make it big. The band consists of his girlfriend Tanya (Pia Miranda) on bass, the drugged-out Lucy...  More

Adaptation
(2002) [MA]

Director Spike Jonze delivers a stunningly original comedy that seamlessly blends fictional characters and situations with the lives of real people: obsessive orchid hunter John Laroche (Oscar winner Chris Cooper), New Yorker journalist Susan Orlean (Meryl Streep), neurotic Hollywood screenwriter...  More

Dinner Rush
(2000) [MA]

The exciting, chaotic, behind-the-scenes dramas of a TriBeCa Italian restaurant is lovingly brought to life in Dinner Rush. Director Bob Giraldi creates a rapid-fire tale of gangsters, gourmet food, high-flying chefs, bookies and obnoxious patrons - brought to life with snappy dialogue and an...  More

Before You Go
(2002) [M]

Directed by veteran British film-maker Lewis Gilbert (Shirley Valentine, Educating Rita), Before You Go is based on Shelagh Stephenson's play 'The Memory of Water'. Three sisters (Julie Walters, Joanne Whalley and Victoria Hamilton) return to their family home in Northumberland following the...  More

City By The Sea
(2002) [MA]

In its heyday, the New York borough of Long Beach was a tourist haven labeled 'the city by the sea'. But now it's a derelict zone riddled with drug addicts and criminals. Raised in Long Beach, detective Vincent La Marca (De Niro) long fled his crumbling hometown for Manhattan. But he left behind...  More

The Pianist (2 Disc Set)
(2002) [MA]

Roman Polanski's remarkable, Oscar and Palme D'Or winning film The Pianist tells the true story of Wladyslaw Szpilman (Adrien Brody). Managing to survive in the Krakow ghetto while the vast majority of the Jewish population have been transported to concentration camps, Szpilman leads a lonely,...  More

The Piano Teacher (La Pianiste)
(2001) [R]

The Piano Teacher is a powerful and controversial new drama from the award winning filmmaker Michael Haneke. Isabelle Huppert gives a performance of astounding emotional intensity as Erika Kohut, a repressed woman of around forty who teaches piano at the Vienna Conservatory and lives with her...  More

Frida
(2002) [MA]

Nominated for six 2002 Academy Awards (including Salma Hayek for Best Actress), Frida is the triumphant motion picture about an exceptional woman who lived an unforgettable life. A product of humble beginnings, Frida Kahlo (Hayek) earns fame as a talented artist with a unique vision. And from her...  More

Swing
(2002) [PG]

Max (Oscar Copp) is first seen timidly venturing into the gypsy neighbourhood of a small Alsace town, intent on buying a guitar. He’s staying with his grandmother for the summer, and has fallen for the exuberant jazz played by French gypsies since the 30s, when it was made famous by the...  More

Tape
(2002) [MA]

After 10 years apart, three people come together at a motel to play out the unresolved drama of their final days in high school. Anxious, edgy and fuelled up on drugs and drink, Vince (Ethan Hawke), a volunteer firefighter and dealer from the West Coast paces around his motel room awaiting the...  More