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The Golden Bowl
(2000) [M]

Adam Verver, a US billionaire in London, dotes on daughter Maggie, an innocent abroad. An impecunious Italian, Prince Amerigo, marries her even though her best friend, Charlotte Stant, an alabaster beauty with brains, no money, and a practical and romantic nature, is his lover. She and Amerigo...  More

Hearts In Atlantis
(2001) [M]

When middle-aged photographer Bobby Garfield (David Morse) returns to his hometown for the funeral of a childhood friend, the unforgettable memories of 1960, his eleventh summer, come flooding back. It all began with the arrival of a mysterious stranger, Ted Brautigen (Anthony Hopkins), who...  More

Iris
(2001) [M]

Here is the powerful true story based on John Bayley's novels that earned Jim Broadbent an Academy Award for Best supporting Actor and Academy Award Nominations for Best Actress Judi Dench and Best Supporting Actress Kate Winslet. Judi Dench (Shakespeare In Love) and Kate Winslet (Titanic) bring...  More

The Shipping News
(2001) [M]

Kevin Spacey and Judi Dench join talents with Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett in this deeply moving motion picture from director Lasse Hallstrom. After tragedy strikes, Quoyle (Spacey) moves with his daughter from upstate New York to his ancestral home in a small Newfoundland fishing village....  More

The Sum Of All Fears
(2002) [M]

Ben Affleck is ready for action, commanding the role of CIA agent Jack Ryan in this thrilling adventure based on the Tom Clancy bestseller. America's Cold War fears are rekindled after the President of Russia dies and is succeeded by a man with a cryptic past. But East-West tensions erupt when...  More

The Importance Of Being Earnest
(2002) [G]

Starring Reese Witherspoon, Colin Firth and Rupert Everett, here is the hilarious adventure of two dashing young bachelors and the outrageous deceptions they find themselves in over love! Whenever Worthing (Firth) wants to leave his dull country life behind, he makes visits to the city posing as...  More

The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers (2 disc set)
(2002) [M]

Sauron's forces increase. His allies grow. The Ringwraiths return in an even more frightening form. Saruman's army of Uruk Hai is ready to launch an assault against Aragorn and the people of Rohan. Yet, the Fellowship is broken and Boromir is dead. For the little hope that is left, Frodo and Sam...  More

Jack Kerouac: On The Road With The King Of The Beats
(2001) [PG]

This is the award - winning biography of the King of the Beat Generation. Jack Kerouac's writings, including his extraordinary novel "On The Road," took American literature to new levels of creativity and in the process inspired unprecedented social and cultural change. Kerouac's life is examined...  More

The Four Feathers
(2002) [MA]

Set in 1898 Sudan, this fifth film to be adapted from the A.E.W. Mason novel follows a British officer who resigns his post right before his regiment ships out to battle the rebels. Perceiving his resignation as cowardice, his friends and fiancee give him four white feathers, the symbol of...  More

Nowhere in Africa
(2001) [MA]

A beautifully realised World War II-set love story spanning two continents, Nowhere In Africa (the 2003 Oscar winner of Best Foreign Language Film) is the extraordinary true tale of a Jewish family who flee the Nazi regime at the very last moment for a remote farm in Kenya. Torn from her...  More