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Angela's Ashes
(1999) [M]

Angela's Ashes tells a powerful, autobiographical story of one boys' upbringing in the 1930s. Born in Brooklyn to recent Irish immigrants, Frank grew up in Limerick after his parents (Robert Carlyle and Emily Watson) returned to Ireland disillusioned with future prospects in America. Based on...  More

Bangkok Hilton (2 Disc Set)
(1989) [M]

Gripping drama about Kat Stanton, a young Australian woman who, whilst searching for her father, ends up in Thailand where she falls in love with Arkie Regan, a photographer. Arkie asks Kat to carry some luggage through Thai customs for him. She finds herself arrested for drug smuggling. She is...  More

Music Of The Heart
(1999) [PG]

Two-time Academy Award winner Meryl Streep (One True Thing) stars with Angela Bassett (How Stella Got Her Groove Back) in a heartwarming, acclaimed true story of how one woman's musical gift affected those who least expected it! A single mother with little more than talent and the determination...  More

Topsy Turvy
(1999) [M]

Winner of the New York Film Critics Best Picture and Best Director awards, and Oscar winner for costume design and make-up, TOPSY TURVY combines all the elements of wonderful entertainment: Egos, Music, Women and Scandal. For nearly a decade, Gilbert & Sullivan's collaborations have delighted and...  More

I Dreamed Of Africa
(2000) [M]

Academy Award winner KIM BASINGER stars in this epic tale of a woman's quest for adventure and a new life in the majestic, untamed lands of rural Africa. Based on the true story of Kuki Gallmann, this breathtaking film chronicles her life as she leaves her pampered existence in Italy for the...  More

The Perfect Storm
(2000) [M]

In October 1991, the fishing community of Gloucester, Massachusetts, experienced the full wrath of Mother Nature when a freak meteorological event produced the fiercest storm in modern history. Director Wolfgang Petersen has fashioned this heroic true story (as chronicled in Sebastian Junger's...  More

Erin Brockovich
(2000) [M]

Erin Brockovich (Julia Roberts in her Oscar winning role) was never trained, or indeed meant to work in a lawyers office. Circumstances take this down-on-her-luck, twice-divorced mother of three into a legal practice. Here she discovers some legal files that don't add up. On investigation she...  More

Sex: The Annabel Chong Story
(1999) [R]

Canadian Gough Lewis' documentary takes an unflinching look at two years in the life of Singaporean-born porn star/artist Annabel Chong (nee Grace Quek), during which she has sex with 251 men in 10 hours for a porn shoot in order to break the record held by an Amsterdam sex worker. To offset...  More

Remember The Titans
(2000) [PG]

Academy Award winner Denzel Washington gives a victorious performance in this stirring and uplifting film. Based on a real-life drama, Remember the Titans is a rousing celebration of how a town torn apart by resentment, friction and mistrust comes together in triumphant harmony. After leading his...  More

Almost Famous
(2000) [M]

From the writer/director of Jerry Maguire, Cameron Crowe brings us Almost Famous, nominated for four Academy Awards and winner of Best Original Screenplay. Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming-of-age of 15-year-old music fanatic William (Patrick Fugit). Having managed to...  More