steveh's - Steve's rental picks List

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For 15-year-old Trife, life is a day-to-day struggle.

Trapped between the worlds of his school friends, the girl he loves, and the draw of his powerful and dangerous uncle, Trife must choose between the path he knows is right and a life of guns, drugs and violence that he has come to know only too well. When a classmate's suicide leaves Trife and his crew, Moony and Jay, with the day off school, the tragedy seems overshadowed by the opportunity to shop, get high, get laid and party - but in a world where sex is currency, drugs are easy, and violence is a way of life, trouble can never be too far around the corner. On these streets kids grow up fast... and 48 hours... can be a lifetime.

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Widely regarded as one of the greatest stand-ups of the eighties, former preacher Sam Kinison brought fire and brimstone to the stages of U.S. comedy clubs.

With his trademark primal-scream punctuating his act, Kinison's comedy vented his searing rage and frustration at the world, and earned him the title of America's first "shock-comic". Kinison's unique act and wild-man image soon gained him the respect of some of the biggest rock acts of the time such as Ozzy Osbourne, Guns 'n' Roses, and Motley Crue, and soon Kinison too was selling out arenas in the manner of his rock heroes. With his popularity at these incredible heights he recorded several HBO specials and made many guest appearances on 'Saturday Night Live'. Ironically, after finally giving up the drink and drugs that accompanied his party-animal lifestyle, Sam was killed in a head-on collision with a drunk driver in 1992. Both a friend and enormous influence on Bill Hicks, Sam Kinison is a key figure in the pantheon of American stand-up comedy. This 90 minute special includes some of Sam's best routines and includes contributions from, amongst others, Jay Leno and Richard Pryor.

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Rubika Shah's energising film charts a vital national protest movement - Rock Against Racism (RAR), formed in 1976. 'White Riot' blends fresh interviews with queasy archive footage to recreate a hostile environment of anti-immigrant hysteria and National Front marches.

As neo-Nazis recruited the nation's youth, RAR's multicultural punk and reggae gigs provided rallying points for resistance. The campaign grew from Hoxton fanzine roots to 1978's huge antifascist carnival in Victoria Park, featuring X-Ray Spex, Steel Pulse, Tom Robinson and of course The Clash, whose rock star charisma and gale-force conviction took RAR's message to the masses.

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By any standard, director Sam Peckinpah's film The Wild Bunch, a powerful tale of hangdog desperadoes bound by a code of honour, rates as one of the all-time greatest Westerns, perhaps one of the greatest of all films.

This original Director's Cut restores it to a complete, pristine condition unseen since its July 1969 theatrical debut. The image is letterboxed, the color renewed, the stereo soundtrack remixed and reintegrated - all to blood-and-thunder effect. Watch William Holden, Ernest Borgnine, Robert Ryan and more great stars saddle up for the roles of a lifetime.
This video also features the home video debut of The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage, the Academy Award nominated 1996 documentary by Paul Seydor and Nick Redman. It includes long-unseen footage of the on-set shooting, and reminiscences by principals connected with the film.

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There's nothing straight about this movie. But here's the dope anyway: Cheech and Chong make their film debut in this riotous rock 'n' roll comedy, bringing with them the same madness, lifestyles and sketches that sold over 10 million records in the early '70s.

Cheech and Chong's marijuana-laced humor keeps their spirits high and leads them to an outrageous finale at L.A.'s Roxy Theater, where Cheech performs in a pink tutu and Chong dresses as a large red quaalude. It will make you feel very funny.

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Full of flash, style and grit, this raw tale of corruption and revenge features one of the most harrowing car chases ever caught on film and a shockingly explosive ending. Federal Agent Richard Chance (William Petersen) has a score to settle, and he's through playing by the rules.

Whether that means blackmailing a beautiful parolee, disobeying direct orders or hurtling the wrong way down a crowded freeway, he vows to take down a murderous counterfeiter (Willem Dafoe) by any means necessary. But as the stakes grow higher, will chance's obsession with vengeance ultimately destroy him?

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The Carry On team take a package holiday that starts disastrously and rapidly goes downhill. The paradise island of Elsbels is not all it's cracked up to be.

The hotel isn't finished, the staff are a bit thin on the ground - in fact Pepe (Peter Butterworth) is the staff and the locals are far from friendly! A catalogue of disasters beset the gang that will keep you in fits of laughter.

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In 1996, BBC viewers were introduced to the Portuguese romantic singing sensation, Tony Ferrino (winner of Denmark's coveted Golden Throat award on a record two occasions). They would rarely look back.

Often described as "the classiest man since Peter Stringfellow", the former Eurovision star Tony Ferrino presents a music and dance spectacular in which he banters with a bevy of beauties and duets with some of the biggest names in show business. At the time. Among the fabulous numbers are Short-Term Affair (with Kim Wilde), Fishing For Girls (with Gary Wilmot) and Help Yourself (with Mick Hucknall) as well as Silence Of The Lambs (from the never-to-be-performed musical) and the classic, Bigamy At Christmas.

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Based on a true story, this is the story of one of Japan's most notorious scandals. An ex-prostitute enters service in a household and promptly begins an obsessive and sexually perverse affair with the master. What starts as a casual diversion escalates into a passion that holds no bounds.

The intensity of the affair and the couple's mutual appetite for exploring the physical and sexual limits of their love-making completely overwhelms them and the strain of the relationship takes its toll on all concerned.

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John Merrick (John Hurt) is the elephant man, forced into circus sideshows and spurned by society because of the disfiguring disabilities he was born with.

Rescued by a well meaning surgeon (Anthony Hopkins), he tries to escape a life of prejudice and cruelty as he tries to fit into the world ruled by Victorian sensibilities.

As ace "Repo Men", the duo are out to beat ruthless government agents, UFO cultists, hired thugs, a lobotomised nuclear scientist and the infamous Rodriguez Brothers to an incredibly valuable '64 Chevy containing a secret that can change the course of civilisation overnight!

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Lee Guem-ja (Lee Yeong-ae) has been released from jail having served 13 years for the kidnapping and murder of a child. A seemingly unassuming prisoner, Guem-ja has in fact been plotting her revenge on the man who was responsible for her incarceration.

With the help of some of her fellow inmates her plan will soon be complete. But, just as her trap is ready, Guem-ja finds herself re-united with her long lost daughter. Will her daughter be able to bring her the peace she so desires and will her long committed quest for revenge lead to salvation or damnation?

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'Malena' is an utterly unforgettable story of a boy's journey into manhood amid the chaos and intolerance of World War II.

In a sleepy Italian village, the most beautiful woman in town, Malena (Monica Bellucci) becomes the subject of increasingly malicious gossip among the lustful townsmen and their jealous wives. But only her most ardent admirer, young Renato Amoroso (Giuseppe Sulfaro), will learn the untold true story of the mysterious and elusive Malena. In a captivating motion picture nominated for two Academy Awards, the eventual struggles and hardships that Malena must bravely endure serve to inspire Renato to new heights of compassion, courage and independence.

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Jeff Gerber (Godfrey Cambridge) seems to have it all: a successful career, a nice suburban home, a progressive-thinking wife (Estelle Parsons) and two cute children. But he's also a loud-mouthed racist who wakes up one morning to discover he's turned into a black man.

The doctor's have no explanation and no cure for his sudden change. Suddenly, Gerber is a white bigot in black skin who has to deal with a shocked family, intolerant neighbors, cold shoulders at the office and a back seat on the bus!

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Shanghai, 1910. Chen (Bruce Lee) returns from study abroad to find that his beloved martial arts teacher has died under mysterious circumstances. Chen immediately suspects members of a rival Japanese dojo, who bully his fellow students and denigrate the Chinese at every turn.

Revenge on his mind, Chen starts a one-man war on the Japanese, making him public enemy number one - and he won't go down without a fight!