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Death at a Funeral (DVD)
Keith David, Loretta Devine, Peter Dinklage, Ron Glass, Danny Glover, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Ships in 10 - 20 working days
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Neil LaBute directs this Hollywood remake of the 2007 British
ensemble comedy farce. Comedian Chris Rock stars as Aaron, who is
trying to get through his father's funeral in one piece despite the
best efforts of his melodramatic mother (Loretta Devine), his
baby-obsessed wife (Regina Hall) and his playboy brother (Martin
Lawrence). Meanwhile, his father's secret gay lover (Peter
Dinklage) turns up demanding money, and his beautiful cousin (Zoe
Saldana) spends the day dodging her infatuated ex (Luke Wilson)
while trying to look after her fiance (James Marsden) - who
accidentally imbibed a hallucinogen while searching for a
tranquiliser to calm his nerves.
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Vacancy (DVD)
Kate Beckinsale, Luke Wilson, Frank Whaley, Ethan Embry, Scott G Anderson, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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'Psycho' meets 'Hotel California' horror in which a young couple
are trapped, awaiting their fate. For young couple Amy and David
Fox (Kate Beckinsale and Luke Wilson), a long day bickering in
their car suddenly gets much worse when they break down in the
middle of nowhere. Luckily for them they find a motel and settle
down to watch some TV. Concern rises when they realise the 'snuff'
movies the motel thoughtfully supply for their guests seem vaguely
familiar. Discovering hidden cameras, they realise that they are
about to star in the performance of their lives, or rather the end
of it, unless they can somehow escape.
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Ride (DVD)
Helen Hunt, Julie Dretzin, Brenton Thwaites, David Zayas, Jordan Lane Price, …
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R35
Discovery Miles 350
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Comedy drama written and directed by Helen Hunt. Jackie (Hunt)'s
whole life revolves around her son Angelo (Brenton Thwaites), so
when she discovers he has dropped out of college and moved in with
his father in order to pursue his dream of surfing, she travels
from New York to California to try to convince him to rethink his
choices. After a heated exchange between mother and son, Jackie
decides that the only way to understand Angelo's reasons for
picking surfing over college is to take up the sport herself.
Stubborn by nature, Jackie is determined to master the craft by
herself, blankly refusing help offered from passers-by, until, that
is, she is rescued by handsome surfer Ian (Luke Wilson) who takes
it upon himself to give her a few lessons, in life as well as
surfing.
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Middle Men (DVD)
Luke Wilson, Giovanni Ribisi, Gabriel Macht, James Caan, Jacinda Barrett, …
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R24
Discovery Miles 240
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Comedy-drama starring Luke Wilson as a successful businessman who
gets caught up in the profit and pitfalls of early 1990s internet
commerce. Jack Harris (Wilson) enjoys a comfortable life in the
suburbs with his wife (Jacinda Barrett) and two children. He has a
reputation as an outstanding and trustworthy financial operator,
which encourages ruthless lawyer Jerry Haggerty (James Caan) to
direct two of his clients his way. Wayne Beering (Giovanni Ribisi)
and Buck Dolby (Gabriel Macht) are non-business savvy drifters who
have come up with an innovative idea: using the newly hooked up
World Wide Web to set up a pornographic website and charge for
access. The millions start rolling in, but it isn't long before
Jack's status as a middle man puts him in touch with the other side
of the industry - Russian gangsters, FBI investigations and
entanglements with 24-year-old porn stars...
Early modern Britain witnessed a transformation in legal reasoning
about human volition and intentional action, which contributed to
new conventions and techniques for the theatrical representation of
premeditated conduct. "Theaters of Intention" examines the relation
between law and theater in this period, reading plays by
Shakespeare, Jonson, Marlowe, and others to demonstrate how legal
understanding of willful human action pervades sixteenth- and
seventeenth-century English drama.
Drawing on case law, legal treatises, parliamentary journals, and
theatrical account books, the author considers the interplay
between theatrical deliberation and legal dramatization of human
intention. He analyzes such canonical plays as "Hamlet," "Timon of
Athens," "Dr. Faustus," "Bartholomew Fair," and "Othello" alongside
less familiar texts, including Barnes's "The Devil's Charter,"
Jonson's "Entertainment at Althorp," and the anonymous "Nobody and
Somebody."
Notable instances of the new theatrical representation of
premeditated conduct include the appearance in "Hamlet" of wording
from the sensational case of "Hales versus Petit" and
dramatizations of contract law in enactments of demonic pacts in
the plays of Marlowe and Barnes. The final chapter examines the
iconography of Nobody, an early modern equivalent of John Doe, and
features some dozen illustrations of contemporary woodcuts,
drawings, and engravings.
Tied closely to the convergence of authorial and dramatic
forethought, theatrical representation of premeditated action
demonstrates the close relationships among purposeful human
behavior, fictionality, economic exchange, and the experience of
time.
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