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Wild, wacky and operating at warp speed, meet Mork from the planet Ork - the maniacal alien of Mork and Mindy, the riotous television sitcom presented in this "Season One" DVD collection.

Actor-comedian Robin Williams zoomed to stardom with co-star Pam Dawber in this laugh-filled comedy series spawned from a 1978 episode of Happy Days. Dispatched from Ork in his egg-shaped spacecraft, the lovable Orkan hurtles to Earth near the town of Boulder, Colorado, where he is befriended by pretty college student Mindy McConnell (Dawber). Mork's mission is to observe the bizarre customs of the earthlings and then report back to his great Orkan leader, Orson. He tries his best to adapt to his new environment - not an easy task when you innocently wear your clothes backwards, sit in a chair upside down, or blurt out"Shazbot!" when things go awry. It's an out-of this-world series of laughs and escapades when human being meets humanoid hurricane in Mork and Mindy.

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Stephen Poliakoff is one of Britain's pre-eminent auteurs producing prodigious and unrivalled work including Gideon's Daughter, Friends and Crocodiles, The Lost Prince, Perfect Strangersand Shooting the Past.

Capturing Mary, the companion film to Joe's Palace, is set in the same exquisite empty house and is linked by the doorkeeper Joe through whose eyes we see the world. When Joe opens the door to an elderly lady, she takes him back to a time when the house thronged with the glamorous and powerful - and to a time when she was young, beautiful and talented with the world at her feet. As Joe takes her through the house Mary begins to relive her relationship with Greville White, a supremely charming man who seems to hold the rich and famous in the palm of his hand. Who was this enigmatic figure? Was he feigning friendship with Mary, but offering something much more sinister and frightening? In a dark and terrifying exploration of her youth, Mary relates a chilling story of a life captured and transformed. Maggie Smith gives a magnificent performance as Mary and is brilliantly supported by Ruth Wilson as Young Mary and David Walliams as Greville. Also included an exclusive prequel A Real Summer in which we see Young Mary strike up an unexpected friendship with a young aristocrat Geraldine. In this funny and touching story Ruth Wilson gives a remarkable performance playing both Mary and Geraldine.

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Crusading newspaper publisher Malt Drayton's (Spencer Tracy) liberal principles are put to the test when his daughter, Joey (Katharine Houghton), announces her engagement to John Prentice (Sidney Poitier), an internationally renowned African- American physician.

While Matt's wife Christina (Katharine Hepburn) readily accepts Joey's decision, Matt intends to withhold his consent, forgetting that when it comes to matters of the heart, true love is colorblind.

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Stephen Poliakoff is one of Britain's pre-eminent auteurs who has produced a prodigious body of work including Gideon's Daughter, The Lost Prince and Shooting the Past.

In this exhilarating new film he has created a story that is by turns funny, sensual and deeply moving and in which Michael Gambon gives one of his greatest ever performances. Joe's Palace takes place in the exquisite but empty house of reclusive billionaire Elliot Graham (Michael Gambon) - who lives a lonely life across the road. When Joe (Danny Lee Wynter), the naive son of the cleaner takes the job as the vacant house's doorkeeper, he and Elliot strike up a fledgling friendship. Soon Joe is given the run of the house, exploring its many rooms and secrets, and providing a convenient refuge for a cabinet minister (Rupert Penry Jones) and his beautiful mistress (Kelly Reilly) to conduct a clandestine and passionate love affair. Elliot however is increasingly paralysed by his suspicions of the origin of his inherited wealth and when the secret is finally revealed, it is Joe who accompanies the billionaire on his disturbing and devastating journey.

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Life is looking up for 14-year-old Walter.

Never mind that he's been abandoned to the care of his two ornery great-uncles at their dusty Texas farm - not when he can while away the time tending critters (including a scraggly mail-order lion) and listening to fantastic tales of his uncles' youthful adventures saving princesses and defying evil sheiks.

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Robin Williams shakes up 1965 Saigon as irreverent, non-conformist deejay Adrian Cronauer. Imported by the army for an early a.m. radio show, Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humour and the hippest tunes from back home.

The GI's love him - but the top brass is outraged! Riddled with side-splitting comic bombshells and studded with hot '60's hits, the film depicts Cronauer's raucous Saigon adventures and a world gone mad.

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Homer Wells (Tobey Maguire) has lived nearly his entire life within the walls of St. Cloud's Orphanage in rural Maine. Though groomed by its proprietor, Dr. Larch (Michael Caine), to be his successor, Homer nonetheless feels the need to strike out on his own and experience the world outside.

Then, while working at an apple orchard, Homer falls for the beautiful Candy (Charlize Theron) and learns some powerfully indelible lessons about life, love and home!

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Academy Award winning writer Bill Condon creates a funny and moving portrait of Alfred Kinsey, a visionary driven to uncover the most private sexual secrets of a nation.

Featuring Academy Award Nominees Laura Linney and Liam Neeson, Kinsey follows the journey of a man who irrevocably changed American culture and created a media sensation with his book "Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male". His work sparked one of the most intense cultural debates of the past century - a debate that rages on today.

Meet Patch Adams (Robin Williams), a doctor who doesn't look, act or think like any doctor you've met before. For Patch, humour is the best medicine, and he's willing to do just about anything to make his patients laugh, even if it means risking his own career.

Based on the best-selling novel, Lily James plays free-spirited writer Juliet Ashton, who forms a life-changing bond with the eccentric Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society when she decides to write about the book club they formed during the occupation of Guernsey during WWII.

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Meet Gilbert Grape (Johnny Depp), a young man who lives in Endora, Iowa, population 1,091. Gilbert lives with his mother, whose 36 stone frame is slowly destroying the fragile Grape homestead, his brother Arnie, (Leonardo DiCaprio) who was never expected to survive childhood, and his two sisters.

Gilbert's only excitement is his affair with Mrs. Betty Carver (Mary Steenburgen). Besides that, Gilbert's life is weird. And he doesn't seem to enjoy it. But one day a mysterious, beautiful girl named Becky (Juliette Lewis) moves into town with her grandmother, and Gilbert's world begins to change...

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As Hitler's forces storm across the European landscape and close in on the United Kingdom, Winston Churchill (Gary Oldman) is elected the new Prime Minister.

With his party questioning his every move, and King George VI (Ben Mendelsohn) sceptical of his new political leader, it is up to Churchill to lead his nation and protect them from the most dangerous threat ever seen.

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Adapted from Gerald Durrell's best-selling autobiography, this much-loved classic tells the story of the naturalist's childhood years spent on the island of Corfu.

A new world of freedom and adventure opens up to young Gerald when his somewhat eccentric family decide to leave the grey skies of England behind and start a new life. He soon discovers the wonder of nature in this sun-drenched environment and into the lives of the family come a succession of colourful characters, including large-than-life taxi-driver Spiro who helps them move from one villa to the next.

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Set at the dawn of time, when prehistoric creatures and woolly mammoths roamed the earth, 'Early Man' tells the story of how plucky caveman Dug (Eddie Redmayne), along with sidekick Hognob, unites his tribe against the mighty Lord Nooth (Tom Hiddleston) and his Bronze Age city in a battle to beat

them at their own game. 'Early Man' unleashes an unforgettable cast of hilarious new characters voiced by top British talent.

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From the day Pauline (Clemence Poésy) lends him a helping hand on the bus, the stubborn and weary Matthew Morgan (Sir Michael Caine) stumbles back to happiness.

Swept off his old feet by the young woman's disarming vitality and unwavering optimism, the quiet teacher becomes an unlikely student of living. In their everyday adventures of walks through Paris, lunches in the park, and trips to the country, the odd couple explore the treasures of friendship, the comfort of companionship, the taste of romance - and the meaning of family. Through their mutual restoration of faith in people who care, Pauline embraces the idea of a new kind of family while Matthew finally reconnects with his estranged son Miles, who in turn finds himself deeply affected by the changes in his father.