Your Guide To The Best Biographies On DVD Starting With The Highest Reviews

Gypsy

Starring: Natalie Wood
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2000-05-02
Running Time: 143 minutes

Widely considered, top to bottom, one of the finest musicals in Broadway history, Gypsy got lucky in its film version. Granted, Rosalind Russell doesn't have the bell-ringing voice one craves for in "Everything's Coming Up Roses," but as a domineering stage mom, she's truly fearsome. Trouping through vaudeville with her is her daughter, the future celebrity stripper Gypsy Rose Lee, pla... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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My Name Is Bill W

Starring: JoBeth Williams
Rated: Unrated
Studio: Warner Home Video
Release Date: 2006-06-06
Running Time: 99 minutes

Here's another example of TV giving James Woods the chance to stretch out from the intense-psycho roles he seems restricted to in too many of his movies. In My Name Is Bill W. he plays Bill Wilson, the overreaching businessman from the Roaring '20s who went on to found Alcoholics Anonymous. Woods gets plenty of chances to stretch out here in Bill's headlong slide to the bottom, through the ... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Glenn Miller Story

Starring: June Allyson
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Universal Studios
Release Date: 2003-03-04
Running Time: 113 minutes

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Evita

Starring: Gary Brooker
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Created By: Madonna
Studio: Miramax
Release Date: 1998-03-25
Running Time: 135 minutes

After more than a decade of false starts and several potential directors, the popular Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice musical finally made it to the big screen with Alan Parker (The Commitments) at the helm and Madonna in the coveted title role of Argentina's first lady, Eva Perón. A triumph of production design, costuming, cinematography, and epic-scale pageantry, the film follows the rise o... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Doors [Blu-ray]

Starring: Jacqui Bell
Rated: R (Restricted)
Created By: Robby Krieger
Studio: Lions Gate
Release Date: 2008-08-12
Running Time: 138 minutes

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Nadia (True Stories Collection TV Movie)

Starring: Pat Starr
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Mpi Home Video
Release Date: 2007-04-24
Running Time: 90 minutes

The first gymnast to ever score a perfect 10 at the Olympics was Nadia Comaneci. From a small town in Romania, Nadia (Leslie Weiner, in her only feature film role) rose to international stardom. Under the coaching guidance of Bela Karoli, she pushed herself with the will of a champion. This movie does a wonderful job of showing how hard gymnasts must work as well as showing how much they must give... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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Ric Flair & The Four Horsemen (2 Discs)

Starring: Chris Benoit
Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: World Wrestling
Release Date: 2007-04-10
Running Time: 200 minutes

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Persepolis

Starring: Catherine Deneuve
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Directed By: Marjane Satrapi
Studio: Sony Pictures
Release Date: 2008-06-24
Running Time: 95 minutes

A fascinating and wholly unexpected take on Iran’s Islamic revolution beginning in the 1970s, Persepolis is an enthralling, animated feature about a spirited young woman who spends her life trying to deal with the consequences of her nation’s history. Based on an autobiographical comic book by Marjane Satrapi, the story concerns Marji (voiced as a teenager and woman by Chiara Mastroiann... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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The Rape of Europa

Rated: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Menemsha Films
Release Date: 2008-09-16
Running Time: 117 minutes

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Becoming Jane

Starring: James McAvoy
Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: MIRAMAX
Release Date: 2008-02-12
Running Time: 120 minutes

Like Molière, which was released in theaters around the same time, Becoming Jane isn't a conventional biopic. Instead, Julian Jarrold (White Teeth) expands on events from Jane Austen's life that may have shaped her fiction. To his credit, he doesn't stray too far from the facts. In 1795, 20-year-old Jane (Anne Hathaway with believable British accent) is an aspiring aut... read more   /   Compare Prices   /   Download Movies!   /   Download TV Shows   /   Online Movie Rental   /   Audio books Online
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