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The complete third season of the award-winning comedy starring
Laura Linney as a schoolteacher who rings the changes after she's
diagnosed with cancer. Reserved suburban wife and mother Cathy
Jamison (Linney) undergoes a transformation following her
diagnosis, recognising that life is short and that she must go
after the things she wants to achieve. In this season, Cathy
receives some positive news about her cancer treatment while her
husband Paul (Oliver Platt) recovers from a health scare of his
own. The episodes are: 'Thin Ice', 'What's Your Story?', 'Bundle of
Joy', 'Family Matters', 'Face Off', 'Life Rights', 'How Bazaar',
'Killjoy', 'Vaya Con Dios' and 'Fly Away'.
With backbreaking work in a ramshackle lab in Paris, Marie Curie
and her husband Pierre achieve a revolutionary understanding of
radiation and share a Nobel Prize. When her beloved Pierre dies in
an accident, Marie is plunged into depression. Paul Langevin,
fleeing an unhappy marriage, gives her the strength to return to
her work. But the scandal over their affair threatens to end her
career - just when she might become the first person ever to
receive a second Nobel Prize.
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Diminished Capacity (DVD)
Matthew Broderick, Alan Alda, Virginia Madsen, Dylan Baker, Bobby Cannavale, …
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R1,014
R696
Discovery Miles 6 960
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Comedy starring Matthew Broderick as Cooper, a Chicago-based
journalist suffering from post-concussion memory loss who takes
leaves from his job and returns to his rural Missouri hometown.
There he runs into his recently-divorced high school sweetheart,
Charlotte (Virginia Madsen), and, at his mother's request, attempts
to persuade his Alzheimer's-impaired Uncle Rollie (Alan Alda) to
move into a nursing home.
He's one of America's most recognisable and acclaimed actors-a star
on Broadway, an Oscar nominee for The Aviator, and the only person
to ever win Emmys for acting, writing, and directing during his
eleven years on M*A*S*H. Now Alan Alda has written a memoir as
elegant, funny, and affecting as his greatest performances. 'My
mother didn't try to stab my father until I was six,' begins Alan
Alda's irresistible story. The son of a popular actor and a loving,
but mentally ill mother, he spent his early childhood backstage in
the erotic and comic world of burlesque and went on after early
struggles to achieve extraordinary success in his profession. Yet
Never Have Your Dog Stuffed is not a memoir of show business ups
and downs. It is a moving and funny story of a boy growing into a
man who then realizes he has only begun to grow. It is the story of
turning points in his life, events that would make him what he is -
if only he could survive them. From the moment as a boy when his
dead dog is returned from the taxidermist's shop with a hideous
expression on his face, and he learns that death can't be undone,
to the decades-long effort to find compassion for the mother he
lived with but never knew, to his acceptance of his father in him,
personally and professionally, he learns the hard way that change,
uncertainty and transformation are what life is made of, and the
good life is made of welcoming them. Never Have Your Dog Stuffed,
filled with curiosity about Nature, good humour and honesty, is the
crowning achievement of an actor, author, and director, but
surprisingly, it is the story of a life more filled with turbulence
and laughter than any he's ever played on the stage or screen.
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Bridge of Spies (DVD)
Tom Hanks, Alan Alda, Mark Rylance, Domenick Lombardozzi, Victor Verhaeghe, …
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R248
Discovery Miles 2 480
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Tom Hanks stars in this historical drama, set during the Cold War,
directed by Steven Spielberg. When Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance) sits
down on a park bench in Brooklyn, New York, a secret message left
for him causes the FBI to arrest him under suspicion of being a
Soviet spy. When insurance lawyer James B. Donovan (Hanks) is
assigned to Abel's defence, he finds his new challenge increasingly
difficult as the defendent refuses to co-operate. The cast also
includes Amy Ryan, Alan Alda and Domenick Lombardozzi.
Picking up where his bestselling memoir "Never Have Your Dog
Stuffed" left off-having been saved by emergency surgery after
nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile-beloved actor and acclaimed
author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some
impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I
value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even
mean?) Here, Alda listens in on things he's heard himself saying at
critical points in his life-from the turbulence of the sixties, to
his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache
of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his
life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the
truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing-art, activism,
family, money, fame-that could lead to a "life of meaning." In a
book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it is incisive,
Alda amuses and moves us with his uniquely hilarious meditations on
questions great and small.
Praise for "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself"
"Engagingly thoughtful and thought-provoking . . . Alan Alda]
candidly shares many stories of his life, so easily and wittily you
can hear him speak as you read."
-"Sydney Sun Herald"
"Alda is chatty, easygoing and humble, rather like a Mr. Rogers for
grownups. His words of inspiration would be a perfect gift for a
college grad or for anyone facing major life changes."
-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"Smart, engaged, funny and observant."
-"San Antonio Express-News"
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What Women Want (DVD)
Mel Gibson, Helen Hunt, Marisa Tomei, Alan Alda, Ashley Johnson, …
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R307
R184
Discovery Miles 1 840
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Hot shot advertising executive Nick Marshall (Mel Gibson) thinks
he's God's gift to women and can get anyone he wants. After an
accident he discovers that he can hear what women are really
thinking about and is upset that his showing off techniques are not
popular with his female colleagues. To make matters worse his dream
of being promoted to a higher position has been thwarted by
man-eating, new team member Darcy (Helen Hunt). He does not like
this and uses his new found powers to ruin her by reading her mind
and selling her ideas as his own. But soon his plan backfires as
she starts to fall in love with him and there seems to be no way
out.
Picking up where his bestselling memoir "Never Have Your Dog
Stuffed" left off-having been saved by emergency surgery after
nearly dying on a mountaintop in Chile-beloved actor and acclaimed
author Alan Alda offers an insightful and funny look at some
impossible questions he's asked himself over the years: What do I
value? What, exactly, is the good life? (And what does that even
mean?) Here, Alda listens in on things he's heard himself saying at
critical points in his life-from the turbulence of the sixties, to
his first Broadway show, to the birth of his children, to the ache
of September 11, and beyond. Reflecting on the transitions in his
life and in all our lives, he notices that "doorways are where the
truth is told," and wonders if there's one thing-art, activism,
family, money, fame-that could lead to a "life of meaning." In a
book that is candid, wise, and as questioning as it is incisive,
Alda amuses and moves us with his uniquely hilarious meditations on
questions great and small.
Praise for "Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself"
"Engagingly thoughtful and thought-provoking . . . [Alan Alda]
candidly shares many stories of his life, so easily and wittily you
can hear him speak as you read."
-"Sydney Sun Herald"
"Alda is chatty, easygoing and humble, rather like a Mr. Rogers for
grownups. His words of inspiration would be a perfect gift for a
college grad or for anyone facing major life changes."
-"Publishers Weekly "(starred review)
"Smart, engaged, funny and observant."
-"San Antonio Express-News"
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The Longest Ride (DVD)
Scott Eastwood, Alan Alda, Amber Chaney, Britt Robertson, Melissa Benoist, …
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R436
R248
Discovery Miles 2 480
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George Tillman Jr. directs this feature adaptation of the 2013
Nicholas Sparks novel of the same name. When elderly widower Ira
Levinson (Alan Alda) gets trapped in a snowstorm after crashing his
car, his brain refuses to let him die, replaying thoughts and
memories of him and his wife over and over. In the same town,
student Sophia (Britt Robertson) meets cowboy Luke (Scott
Eastwood), a man like no other she has ever met. As the lives of
the two couples begin to intertwine Sophia struggles with the
danger of Luke's chosen career and Ira comes to terms with his
current predicament. Can they save each other while trying to save
themselves?
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