What's The T? is a documentary that explores the challenges, successes and lives of five transgender women. The fabulous ladies represent normality and abnormality, seamlessly in their daily efforts to achieve a balance of feminine and masculine. A positive 'you go girl' take on a timely social issue.
What's Up, Doc? joyously recaptures the bubbly style of 1930s screwball comedies -- and firmly establishes Barbra Streisand and Ryan O'Neal as a romantic duo uniquely endearing in screen history. Included are a daffy luggage mix-up plot, dippy dialogue exchanges, a marvelous example of the art of hotel-room demolition and one of the funniest chase sequences ever, all over San Francisco. Dexterously written with a surefooted sense of the ridiculous by Buck Henry, David Newman and Robert Benton;...
WHAT? is a black and white, silent (and signing) comedy about a struggling deaf actor, sick of agreeing to increasingly humiliating tasks just to get a role, who decides to take matters into his own - hands.
In 1981, in the middle of the "Just Say No" era, Anna (Liza Weil, TV's "Gilmore Girls") uses her time in high school as an opportunity to experiment with boys, drugs and alcohol. Still a virgin, Anna finds herself hanging out with the party crowd, which affects her grades and may hurt her opportunity to go to an art school her instructor (Frederic Forrest, Apocalypse Now) champions. A story about rebelliousness and lost innocence, WHATEVER is an assured, compelling drama. Newly remastered.
A high class escort trying to make it in Los Angeles gets more than she bargained for when one of her repeat clients becomes obsessed with her.
Depending on who you ask, they are the bane of the highways or a physical manifestation of the American dream, icons of freedom and mobility that let travelers take the comforts of home on the road or "silver Twinkies." WHEEL ESTATE explores the weird and wonderful world of travel trailers and recreational vehicles, meeting the men and women who live on the road, the engineers who keep their dreams moving and tracing the evolution of these distinctive vehicles. The earliest examples were...
In this riotous and rollicking six-film collection, the comedy team supreme, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, serves up laughs galore, with extra sides of ribald, whimsy and romance. And occasional dance. Furthermore, this collection offers up the pair's twin solo outings, 1931's Too Many Cooks, in which Bert and regular gal pal Dorothy Lee play a couple whose town-and-country dreams are undone by an excess of in-law assistance and Everything's Rosie, which sees Robert play a single-dad carny...
Their dialogue zings with Pre-Code sauciness, their barbed glee skewers social norms and their creativity includes daffy flights of song and dance. Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey, from their feature debut in 1929 until 1937, tickled fans with a steady skein of comedy madness. Peach-O-Reno has the duo as Reno divorce lawyers eager to spring paying customers from the holy bonds. At night, the law office becomes a casino, a gamble of a storyline that makes sense in the nonsensical W&W world. The...
The comic duo of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey star as Peewee and Gaylord, two would-be southern gentlemen of leisure, out to make the most of their sister Dixiana's pending marriage to wealthy plantation heir Carl Van Hone. Peewee and Gaylord's madcap behavior eventually leads to tensions between Dixiana and Carl's mother, Birdie. The course of true love is threatened as the frenzy of the Mardi Gras festival heightens everyone's passions. When roguish upstart Royal Montague challenges Carl...
The popular stage-to-screen comedy duo of Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey are a pair of wayward, womanizing soldiers who cause havoc during World War I. Curly-haired Tommy (Wheeler) and the bespectacled Gilbert (Woolsey) go AWOL in Paris, heedless of the fuming MPs on their trail. Gilbert falls for Mademoiselle Olga (Leni Stengel) while Tommy meets up with the flighty Annette (Dorothy Lee, a Wheeler and Woolsey favorite) and proceeds to woo her, unaware that she is the youngest daughter of...
The comedy gets delivered -- in spades! -- in this collection of no less than nine rollicking pictures starring RKO's comedy kings, Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey. And there are lovely guest stars galore -- such as Lupe Velez, Betty Grable, Thelma Todd and Dorothy Lee. This 4-Disc, 9-Film Collection is sure to quench your comedy thirst! Includes: Half Shot At Sunrise (1930), Hook, Line and Sinker (1930), Cracked Nuts (1931), Caught Plastered (1931), Hold 'Em Jail (1932), Hips, Hips, Hooray...
Henry Tyroon likes what wealth can bring, but that isn't why he spends so much time pursuing it. "You do it for fun," he explains. "Money's just the way you keep score." James Garner scores big as Henry, a flimflammer who lands in New York City after his Texas oil well comes up a duster. He needs a million or so in pocket money to pay his debts. Soon, he also hopes to land a blue-eyed blue chip: a stock analyst (Lee Remick) pressured by her firm to unload a worthless stock. Can Henry come up...
Henry Tyroon likes what wealth can bring, but that isn't why he spends so much time pursuing it. "You do it for fun," he explains. "Money's just the way you keep score." James Garner scores big as Henry, a flimflammer who lands in New York City after his Texas oil well comes a duster, needing a million or so in pocket money to pay his debts. Soon, he also hopes to land a blue-eyed blue chip: a stock analyst (Lee Remick) pressured by her firm to unload a worthless stock. Can Henry come up with...
Zoom into gear with Wheelie, the world's greatest stunt racing car, and his girlfriend Rota Ree as they outmaneuver the sneaky motorcycle gang Chopper, Revs, Riser and Scrambles in this 3-Disc, 13-Episode Complete Series Collection! Not the smartest bike in the bunch, Chopper's schemes range from scaring Wheelie with ghost cars at the car cemetery, tricking a trail bike into spying on Wheelie and cheating at a tractor-roping competition, plus many more shenanigans that never end well for the...
In a world where vehicles are citizens, one underdog cabbie attempts to become king of the road in his hometown, Gasket City. But Wheely, as he is known, soon discovers that staying true to oneself is a greater pursuit than personal glory. When threatened by elitist attitudes and mobster trucks, can one unglamorous black and yellow "local zero" rise to the challenge and become a "global hero"?
Eddie Randall (Jackie Cooper) is a spunky, sweet-natured kid, but since he has a lame left leg and must wear a brace, he's a constant worry to his loving but overprotective parents, who keep him from playing with the neighborhood kids (they call him "Limpy"), as well as the target of mean-spirited treatment by his newly arrived, pugilistic cousin Froggie (Andy Shuford). But Eddie has a pal in his corner: feisty, tall-tale-spinning Uncle Jonas (Charles "Chic" Sale), a rascally codger determined...
When a Man Falls in the Forest When a lonely housewife (Emmy-winner Sharon Stone, "Basic Instinct") faces the reality of her dying marriage to Gary (Timothy Hutton, "Leverage"), she finds comfort in highly forbidden and criminal activities. While Gary takes to drinking away his troubles, he doesn't realize that things are being torn down around him until it's too late. "When a Man Falls" is a gripping psychological thriller which is definitely going to keep you guessing until the end!
John Barrymore ("Romeo and Juliet," "Dinner at Eight") stars as an 18th-century swashbuckling hero who escapes from a French prison ship and risks everything for the love of a worthless woman. Co-starring Barrymore's real-life love, Dolores Costello ("The Magnificent Ambersons"), and Warner Oland ("Charlie Chan" films). Based upon the classic novel,"Manon Lescaut", by Abbe Prevost.
A lone gunman preys on stagecoaches carrying gold shipments from Arizona's prosperous Cottonwood Mine. The owner, Montana Slade, assumed control of the mine under suspicious circumstances - one of them being the fatal shooting of his partner. Since the gold robberies began shortly after the arrival in town of the Llano Kid, Slade comes to suspect the newcomer, a two-fisted gent who plays his cards close to the vest.One of the best Tom Tyler westerns of the early 1930s, When a Man Rides Alone...
George O'Brien, Dorothy Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry Woods, Jimmy Butler, Richard Carlyle. This is one helluva B western. A spoiled rich dude--down to his last $200 after wasting his inheritance--takes a train to California and gets off at a little cowboy town where he completely turns his life around. He intercedes on behalf of a local farmer who's had his water supply cut off by another rancher. O'Brien was one the top Western stars of the 30's, and it's easy to see why. We highly recommend...
Tis the season for new beginnings and good old-fashioned miracles! Audience favorite Peter Falk (A Town Without Christmas, Finding John Christmas) reprises his role as Max, a most unusual angel, in this heartwarming holiday drama that also stars Tammy Blanchard and Katey Sagal. When Max seemingly contacts the wrong family in need, his heavenly supervisor Jo (Sagal) hurries to earth to repair the "damage." But Max has more than a few surprises up his sleeve, and Jo will soon discover that Max's...
Academy Award-winner Holly Hunter (Best Actress, THE PIANO, 1993) stars as tennis legend Billie Jean King in this highly entertaining flashback to 1973's historic "Battle of the Sexes." When aging, chauvinistic tennis pro Bobby Riggs (RON SILVER, ALI, REVERSAL OF FORTUNE) begins to challenge the world's top ladies players, King confidently rises to the test - not for herself, but to defend the honor of women everywhere. Months of hype then culminate in an epic match at Houston's Astrodome that...
Claude Motley thought he'd beaten the odds: a business owner who moved his family from the violence of Milwaukee to the suburbs of Charlotte. Yet there he is on a trip home for a high school reunion: black male victim, 43, shot in the face during a carjacking. Two nights later, Claude's assailant tries to rob nurse Victoria Davison, but she has a gun and shoots him during the struggle. A rush of guilt overcomes her as she overhears the paramedics - the boy she shot, Nathan King, is only 15...