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Description
The year is 1805 and Europe has fallen to Napoleon. The Royal Navy is the only thing standing in his way to total victory. Off the coast of South America, a new conflict is brewing. Captain Jack 'Lucky Jack' Aubrey and his Man-of-War HMS Surprise is under orders to sink or capture the French privateer Acheron, which has been deployed to the region. After seven weeks of uneventful sailing, the Acheron strikes first, all but crippling the Surprise in...
3) Gallipoli
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Two young men (Mel Gibson and Mark Lee) are brought together in the Australian army in 1915. They cross continents and great oceans, climb pyramids and walk through the ancient sands of Egypt to join their regiment at the fateful battle of GALLIPOLI. Nominated for Best Foreign Film at the **Golden Globes**. Official Selection at the **Venice Film Festival**. "*Weir's work has a delicacy, gentleness, even wispiness that would seem not well suited to...
4) Dr. Dolittle
Description
A doctor finds out he can understand what animals are saying. When the animals find out, his world is turned upside down.
5) Liar liar
Description
Fletcher Reed is a fast-talking attorney and habitual liar. When his son Max blows out the candles on his fifth birthday cake, he has just one wish-- that his dad will stop lying for 24 hours. When Max's wish comes true, Fletcher discovers that his biggest asset-- his mouth-- has become his biggest liability.
6) Dr. Dolittle
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2002
Description
The re-awakening of Dr. Doolittle's ability to communicate with animals unleashes an outrageous and hilarious chain of events.
7) Gallipoli
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Two friends are involved with the battle between Australia and the German-occupied Turks in this commentary on the wastes of war.
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2001
Description
At the end of the Civil War, Frank and Jesse James ride home to Missouri to be on their ranch with their mother. As a railroad moves through buying up as much land as possible, burning folks out if need be, the James-Younger gang of outlaws become determined to use any means to protect their land and the land of their townsfolk and friends.
9) Star struck
Publisher
Blue Underground
Pub. Date
[2005]
Description
Jackie Mullins rises from obscurity to win a rock contest at the Sydney Opera House. Her success unites the world of ambition and New Wave rock and the world of working class life in the Sydney Rocks where she works as a barmaid. This is an original blend of 'backstage' musical and working class comedy inflected by a popular feminism which displaces masculinity from the centre of Australianess as expressed in the rocker comedy.
Series
Criterion collection volume 29
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
Set at the turn of the twentieth century, the film concerns a small group of students from an all-female college and a chaperone, who vanish while on a St. Valentine's Day outing. Less a mystery than a journey into the mystic, as well as an inquiry into issues of class and sexual repression in Australian society.
