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21 reviews
Adam Beach, Mandy Patinkin

Walt Disney Video, 1997

not factually perfect, but a great teaching tool
If you are looking for a historically precise biography of Squanto's life, this movie is not the place. If you would like to show kids 8 years and up how life was for the early New England settlers and Native Americans and teach them a valuable lesson of acceptance, this is a five star movie. I've used this movie for several years with my fourth grade class. After the movie, I have them ...

French Postcards [VHS]

19 reviews
Miles Chapin, Blanche Baker

Paramount, 1998

GIVE US THE ORIGINAL SOUNDTRACK!
I loved this movie when they played it on HBO back in the 80's. One of the best things was all the pop songs done in the French language like "Do You Believe In Magic?" and "Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow?". I hadn't seen it in over 20 yeras and was overjoyed when I saw it was coming out on DVD. Imagine my horror to hear they replaced most of the soundtrack with elevator muzak! All the great ...

Yentl [VHS]

109 reviews
Robbie Barnett, Lynda Baron

MGM (Video & DVD), 1992

DVD Release Date In Canada !!!
Amazon.ca is currently listing a DVD release date of February 3,2009. So maybe the U.S. will release it around the same time. If not you can order it from Canada and it will play in all American DVD players. Or if you have a PAL DVD player you could get it right now on Amazon.uk since they are the only ones who seem to be selling it at this time.

Broken Glass [VHS]

9 reviews
Mandy Patinkin, Henry Goodman

Starz / Anchor Bay, 1997

Global tragedies, local repercussion
Arthur Miller is a play writer who used to analyze big tragedies in its particular repercussion in the lives of his characters. In his work the historical factor is very important, but for how it transforms particular lives. In his last play "Broken Glass" this is not different. The main character Sylvia Gellburg has her legs paralyzed because of the news she reads in newspapers on the Jews being ...

Squanto: Warrior's Tale [VHS]

21 reviews
Adam Beach, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild

Walt Disney Video, 1995

not factually perfect, but a great teaching tool
If you are looking for a historically precise biography of Squanto's life, this movie is not the place. If you would like to show kids 8 years and up how life was for the early New England settlers and Native Americans and teach them a valuable lesson of acceptance, this is a five star movie. I've used this movie for several years with my fourth grade class. After the movie, I have them ...

Doctor [VHS]

58 reviews
William Hurt, Christine Lahti

Buena Vista Home Video, 1992

A Hard-To-Find Movie for your Collection
This DVD is not sold in many venues. All potential health professionals should have to view this movie prior to graduation. Not only is it entertaining, but it teaches the core values of compassion and empathy. It proves that patients are more than insurance forms and diseases.

Daniel (1983) [VHS]

7 reviews
Timothy Hutton, Mandy Patinkin

Paramount, 1998

Searing Drama About Childrens' Non Stop Payments for Parents' Sins
I don't know if the Rosenbergs really were spies and traitors against America. After all this time, I really don't care. However, I do care about child neglect. This is the story of what would likely happen if you were the children of martyrs for the cause like the Rosenbergs (here called the Isaacsons) who were found guilty of these charges and executed in 1953. This fictionalized story is ...

Adventures of Elmo in Grouchland (Clam) [VHS]

118 reviews
Kevin Clash, Mandy Patinkin

Columbia Pictures, 2002

Elmo was a hit!!
I ordered this for my 1 year old for Christmas. I received on Christmas Eve. Thanks so much for the quick delivery. This is my son's favorite movie.

Music of Chance [VHS]

16 reviews
James Spader, Mandy Patinkin

Sony Pictures, 1995

no title
I simply can't imagine why this terrific film is not available on DVD. If you like James Spader, and watch "Boston Legal", here is a chance to see him early on. This was one very, very, VERY strange film, with Spader and Mandy Patinkin, among others. "Darkly funny" many critics said; and it was indeed dark, and perhaps, wryly humorous. A wonderful, stark fable about freedom . . . ? Do not ...

The Princess Bride [VHS]

940 reviews
Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin

MGM (Video & DVD), 1998

Great movie with cool swordfights
My mother took me and my brothers to see "The Princess Bride" when it came out. Because the title contained the words "princess" and "bride", I thought it would be movie for girls and was reluctant to go see it. This ended up not being the case. It's a movie people of both genders would equally enjoy. In the movie, a kid (played by Fred Savage) who is staying home from school because he's sick ...

Follies in Concert [VHS]

23 reviews
Andre Gregory, Arthur Rubin

Fries Home Video, 1990

the best of the best
A valuable piece of theatrical history. I was there in that audience and watching the film gives me the same thrill! The only criticism is that the concert was presented and recorded in order to preserve a much fuller recording of the show than the original cast album which was heavily edited. Unfortunately, this film is also heavily edited and, therefore, is as guilty as the original cast ...

Alien Nation [VHS]

26 reviews
James Caan, Mandy Patinkin

20th Century Fox, 1996

Awesome Movie
Alien Nation was the first in a trilogy of great alien and human interaction movies. The other two are "Enemy Mine" and "District 9"

Ragtime (1981) [VHS]

58 reviews
James Cagney, Brad Dourif

Paramount, 1998

4 1/2 Stars for the FULL VERSION of a Forgotten Class Act
"Ragtime" is a great, vastly underrated materpiece of the early 1980s, before slasher flicks and Indiana Jones / Star Wars sequels turned American cinema into an arrested-adolescent male fantasyland. This is a complex, audacious reconsideration of 20th century America as seen through the lens of class, race and infamy (just right for the America of the 21st century). Milos Forman's adroit and ...

Maxie [VHS]

1 review
Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin

Thorn EMI / HBO, 1991

The Cat's Pajamas! The Bee's Knees!
Jan and Nick live quiet, low key, uncomplicated lives. He's a librarian, she is secretary to an Archbishop. They are not exactly the wild and crazy type. Their idea of a big night is peeling away the layers of wallpaper, decade by decade, in their new apartment. What they uncover when they are down to the 1920's, is about to change their lives entirely. Flapper Maxie Malone, left her mark ...

Maxie [VHS]

17 reviews
Glenn Close, Mandy Patinkin

Orion Home Video, 1994

Makes You Smile
A wonderful movie for everyone to watch. It makes you smile and laugh. This movie was based upon a wonderfully written book too. I highly recommend this movie. Well made movie.

The House on Carroll Street [VHS]

9 reviews
Kelly McGillis, Jeff Daniels

MGM (Video & DVD), 2001

A tense and well made thriller!
"The house on Carol Street" is a bold look about these tense times of furious McCarthyism (1951) in which a young assistant refuses to answer certain information that's why she must be fired. Once the decision ahs been made, she has to earn her life, and decides to take as job as reader of a crusty employer (the unforgettable Jessica Tandy), by just $15 by week. But trying to get the ...

The Princess Bride (1987)
Cary Elwes, Mandy Patinkin

Twentieth Century Fox Film Corp., 1987

Return to a time when men were men and swamps were swamps. Fire Swamps, that is. Full of quicksand and Rodents of Unusual Size. Lagoons were inhabited by shrieking eels. And the most beautiful woman in the world was named...Buttercup?

Men With Guns [VHS]

24 reviews
Federico Luppi, Damián Delgado

Sony Pictures, 1998

Stunningly beautiful, sad, insightful.
As the Peruvian's review indicates, there are certainly Latin Americans who don't want to face part of their political reality, just as there are US citizens who like to deny or rationalize the violence of the United States of North America. The "Indian Wars" of the US empire continue as this film on the oppression of Guatemalan Mayan Indians reveals. While President Clinton did offer a ...

True Colors [VHS]

9 reviews
John Cusack, James Spader

Paramount, 1998

Great. I Love it.
Right on. Politics and Power. I love this movie. I watch it a lot all the time. John Cusack is really great. Loved it.

Ellis Island (3pc) [VHS]

4 reviews
Narrated By Mandy Patinkin

A&E Home Video, 1997

Watch it and weep...
"My father hugged my mother and told her, 'you don't need to be afraid ever again. We're in America now.'" That was one of the MANY personal narratives included in this FANTASTIC documentary that brought tears to my eyes. The stories of how immigrants reacted when they first came to this country and saw "Lady Liberty" is very well told and will leave you with a new appreciation of the great ...

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