Movies She'll Love - Collection - 10-DVD Box Set ( What's Eating Gilbert Grape / A River Runs Through It / A Room with a View / Mask / Green Card / The Last Emperor / Flowers in the Attic / The Sheltering Sky / Tess / Local Hero )

Movies She'll Love - Collection - 10-DVD Box Set (DVD) (*)

~~$78.99~~ $72.97

Original Title: What's Eating Gilbert Grape / A River Runs Through It / A Room with a View / Mask / Green Card / The Last Emperor / Flowers in the Attic / The Sheltering Sky / Tess / Local Hero
Screened, competed or awarded at:
BAFTA Awards
Cannes Film Festival
Ceasar Awards
David Donatello Awards
European Film Awards
Golden Globes
Oscar Academy Awards
Venice Film Festival
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 )

Product Origin/Format:
Australia ( PAL/Region 4 )

Running Time:
1217 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Box Set
Cast/Crew Interview(s)
Commentary
Interactive Menu
Making Of
Multi-DVD Set
Photo Gallery
Scene Access
Trailer(s)
Booklet

Movie filmed in 1979 - 1993 and produced in:
Australia ( Australia, New Zealand )
China ( India, Eastern Asia )
France ( France, Benelux )
Italy ( Italy, Greece )
United Kingdom ( Great Britain, Ireland )
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Lasse Hallstrom
Robert Redford
James Ivory
Peter Bogdanovich
Peter Weir
Bernardo Bertolucci
Jeffrey Bloom
Roman Polanski
Bill Forsyth

Written By:
Peter Hedges
Norman Maclean
Richard Friedenberg
E.M. Forster
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Anna Hamilton Phelan
Peter Weir
Mark Peploe
Bernardo Bertolucci
Virginia C. Andrews
Jeffrey Bloom
Paul Bowles
Gérard Brach
Roman Polanski
Bill Forsyth

Actors:
Johnny Depp ..... Gilbert Grape
Leonardo DiCaprio ..... Arnie Grape
Juliette Lewis ..... Becky
Mary Steenburgen ..... Betty Carver
Darlene Cates ..... Bonnie Grape
Laura Harrington ..... Amy Grape
Mary Kate Schellhardt ..... Ellen Grape
Kevin Tighe ..... Ken Carver
John C. Reilly ..... Tucker Van Dyke
Crispin Glover ..... Bobby McBurney
Penelope Branning ..... Becky's Grandma
Tim Green ..... Mr. Lamson
Susan Loughran ..... Mrs. Lamson
Robert B. Hedges ..... Minister
Mark Jordan ..... Todd Carver
Craig Sheffer ..... Norman Maclean
Brad Pitt ..... Paul Maclean
Tom Skerritt ..... Rev. Maclean
Brenda Blethyn ..... Mrs. Maclean
Emily Lloyd ..... Jessie Burns
Edie McClurg ..... Mrs. Burns
Stephen Shellen ..... Neal Burns
Vann Gravage ..... Young Paul
Nicole Burdette ..... Mabel
Susan Traylor ..... Rawhide
Michael Cudlitz ..... Chub
Rob Cox ..... Conroy
Buck Simmonds ..... Humph
Fred Oakland ..... Mr. Burns
David Creamer ..... Ken Burns
Maggie Smith ..... Charlotte Bartlett, a chaperon
Helena Bonham Carter ..... Lucy Honeychurch, Miss Bartlett's cousin and charge
Denholm Elliott ..... Mr. Emerson, an English tourist
Julian Sands ..... George Emerson
Simon Callow ..... The Reverend Mr. Arthur Beebe
Patrick Godfrey ..... The Reverend Mr. Eager, Chaplain of the Anglican Church in Florence
Judi Dench ..... Eleanor Lavish, a novelist
Fabia Drake ..... Miss Catharine Alan
Joan Henley ..... Miss Teresa Alan
Amanda Walker ..... The Cockney Signora
Daniel Day-Lewis ..... Cecil Vyse
Maria Britneva ..... Mrs. Vyse, Cecil's mother
Rosemary Leach ..... Mrs. Marian Honeychurch
Rupert Graves ..... Freddy Honeychurch
Peter Cellier ..... Sir Harry Otway, a landlord
Cher ..... Florence 'Rusty' Dennis
Sam Elliott ..... Gar
Eric Stoltz ..... Roy L.'Rocky' Dennis
Estelle Getty ..... Evelyn
Richard Dysart ..... Abe
Laura Dern ..... Diana Adams
Micole Mercurio ..... Babe
Harry Carey Jr. ..... Red
Dennis Burkley ..... Dozer
Lawrence Monoson ..... Ben
Ben Piazza ..... Mr. Simms
L. Craig King ..... Eric
Alexandra Powers ..... Lisa
Kelly Jo Minter ..... Lorrie
Joe Unger ..... 1st Boyfriend
Gerard Depardieu ..... Georges
Andie MacDowell ..... Brontë
Bebe Neuwirth ..... Lauren
Gregg Edelman ..... Phil
Robert Prosky ..... Brontë's Lawyer
Jessie Keosian ..... Mrs. Bird
Ethan Phillips ..... Gorsky
Mary Louise Wilson ..... Mrs. Sheehan
Lois Smith ..... Brontë's Parent (Mother)
Conrad McLaren ..... Brontë's Parent (Father)
Ronald Guttman ..... Anton
Danny Dennis ..... Oscar
Stephen Pearlman ..... Mr. Adler
Victoria Boothby ..... Mrs. Adler
Ann Wedgeworth ..... Party Guest
John Lone ..... Pu Yi - Adult
Joan Chen ..... Wan Jung
Peter O'Toole ..... Reginald 'R. J.' Johnston
Ruocheng Ying ..... The Governor
Victor Wong ..... Chen Pao Shen
Dennis Dun ..... Big Li
Ryûichi Sakamoto ..... Amakasu
Maggie Han ..... Eastern Jewel
Ric Young ..... Interrogator
Vivian Wu ..... Wen Hsiu
Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa ..... Chang
Jade Go ..... Ar Mo
Fumihiko Ikeda ..... Yoshioka
Richard Vuu ..... Pu Yi - 3 Years
Tsou Tijger ..... Pu Yi - 8 Years
Louise Fletcher ..... Grandmother
Victoria Tennant ..... Mother
Kristy Swanson ..... Cathy
Jeb Stuart Adams ..... Chris
Ben Ryan Ganger ..... Cory
Lindsay Parker ..... Carrie
Marshall Colt ..... Father
Nathan Davis ..... Grandfather
Brooke Fries ..... Flower Girl
Alex Koba ..... John Hall
Leonard Mann ..... Bart Winslow
Bruce Neckels ..... Minister
Gus Peters ..... Caretaker
Clare Peck ..... Narrator
Debra Winger ..... Kit Moresby
John Malkovich ..... Port Moresby
Campbell Scott ..... George Tunner
Jill Bennett ..... Mrs. Lyle
Timothy Spall ..... Eric Lyle
Eric Vu-An ..... Belqassim
Amina Annabi ..... Mahrnia
Philippe Morier-Genoud ..... Captain Broussard
Sotigui Kouyaté ..... Abdelkader
Tom Novembre ..... French Immigration Officer
Ben Smaïl ..... Smail
Kamel Cherif ..... Ticket Seller
Mohammed Afifi ..... Mohamed
Brahim Oubana ..... Young Arab
Carolyn De Fonseca ..... Miss Ferry
John Collin ..... John Durbeyfield
Tony Church ..... Parson Tringham
Nastassja Kinski ..... Tess
Brigid Erin Bates ..... Girl in meadow
Jeanne Biras ..... Girl in meadow
Peter Firth ..... Angel Clare
John Bett ..... Felix Clare
Tom Chadbon ..... Cuthbert Clare
Rosemary Martin ..... Mrs. Durbeyfield
Geraldine Arzul ..... Child
Stephanie Treille ..... Child
Elodie Warnod ..... Child
Ben Reeks ..... Child
Leigh Lawson ..... Alec d'Urberville
Lesley Dunlop ..... Girl in henhouse
Burt Lancaster ..... Felix Happer
Peter Riegert ..... Mac
Fulton Mackay ..... Ben
Denis Lawson ..... Urquhart
Norman Chancer ..... Moritz
Peter Capaldi ..... Oldsen
Rikki Fulton ..... Geddes
Alex Norton ..... Watt
Jenny Seagrove ..... Marina
Jennifer Black ..... Stella
Christopher Rozycki ..... Victor
Gyearbuor Asante ..... Rev Macpherson
John M. Jackson ..... Cal
Dan Ammerman ..... Donaldson
Tam Dean Burn ..... Roddy

Synopsis:

From Daniel Day Lewis to Brad Pitts fly fishing action, with a young Leonardo Di Caprio and Johnny Depp arguing in between theres something for every discerning woman in this DVD collection.Featuring works from high profile film directors such as Bernardo Bertolucci, Roman Polanski, Robert Redford, Peter Weir, Lasse Hallstrom and collectively winning 17 Oscars these are quality titles with critical recognition and regard. Ten great films to fall in love with. Forget about what women want, get the gals together because here's something they will love. There's something for every discerning woman in this cracking DVD collection - drama, suspense, action, and most of all plenty of romance.
Includes the films:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
A River Runs Through It (1992)
A Room with a View (1985)
Mask (1985)
Green Card (1990)
The Last Emperor (1987)
Flowers in the Attic (1987)
The Sheltering Sky (1990)
Tess (1979)
Local Hero (1983)

What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993)
Gilbert Grape lives in Endora, a place where nothing much happens. The only times the police got something to do is when Gilbert's autistic brother Arnie tries to climb up on the watertower nearby. Taking care of Arnie is mostly Gilbert's task which can be pretty demanding, at least while you are working at the local grocery store. Then one day Becky and her grandmother passes through Endora getting trouble with the car. Gilbert falls in love with Becky, but gets problems when he tries to find time for his own private life."

A River Runs Through It (1992)
Robert Redford's lyrical direction sets the tone for this evocative adaptation of author Norman MacLean's memoir of his idyllic Montana youth. The MacLean family is presided over by the strict but encouraging Rev. MacLean (Tom Skerritt) and his loving wife (Brenda Blethyn). Craig Sheffer stars as the young Norman, the older son in his family, who takes his school work and writing a bit too seriously for Paul (Brad Pitt), the impetuous younger son, to take much stock in. Paul would rather have a good time, drink and play cards than get involved with academic study. Where Norman wants to be a college literature professor, Paul would prefer to stay in Montana all his life and wrangle some kind of job writing for a local newspaper. But, ironically, Paul is the better fly fisherman and in this way attains a sense of perfection. The film also details the MacLean boys' involvement with a colorful group of town's people - including a young Indian woman Paul decides to date and the defiant Jessie (Emily Lloyd), whom Norman later marries.

A Room with a View (1985)
Lucy Honeychurch and her chaperon, Charlotte Bartlette, arrive in Florence, they are troubled by the fact that they don't have rooms with a view. Later that night at supper, fellow guests Mr. Emerson and his son George offer to exchange their rooms for that of Lucy and Charlotte's. This exchange is the first of many events where Lucy and Charlotte are involved in the plans of Mr. Emerson, George and other guests from the hotel they are staying at. But, when Lucy and George realize their passionate feelings for one another when George kisses Lucy, it is not a simple matter of boy likes girl, but boy likes girl and girl is engaged to another. Now Lucy begins to doubt her feelings for her husband to be and get herself caught up in a web of lies to convince herself, George and everyone else that she isn't in love with George. How will it all turn out in the end?

Mask (1985)
This is the true story of Rocky Dennis (Eric Stoltz), a personable young man suffering from ""lionitis,"" a fatal disease which causes hideous facial disfigurement. The son of freewheeling biker Rusty Dennis (Cher), Rocky is accepted without question by his mom's boyfriends and cycle buddies, but treated with pity, condescension, and disgust by much of the outside world. The local high school principal tries to get Rocky classified as brain-damaged so he won't have to enroll the boy in his school, but Rusty fights for her son's rights with the ferocity of a mother lioness. Rocky makes friends easily both at school and at summer camp. He also falls in love with Diana (Laura Dern), a blind girl who cannot see his deformed countenance and is entranced by the boy's kindness and compassion. Now that he's got his own life in order, Rocky sets about to wean his chronically depressed mother from her drug habit. Mask is the sort of story that might have ending up wallowing in its own pathos had the acting, direction and scriptwriting (by Anna Hamilton Phelan) been anything less than very good. The film proved a much-needed financial success for director Peter Bogdanovich, though unfortunately it didn't come soon enough to stave off his declaring personal bankruptcy.

Green Card (1990)
Green Card fuses the template of a light romantic comedy with a classic fish-out-of-water scenario. In order to retain her beautiful rent-controlled Manhattan apartment, a beautiful, socially-conscious American woman (ANDIE MACDOWELL) has to be married, so she decides to marry a burly French composer (Gerard Depardieu), who is eager to earn a green card so he can stay and work in America. After the marriage, the couple doesn't live together, but when the government's Immigration agents begin to investigate the pair, they are forced to put up a charade to convince the authorities that they are truly in love. Of course, the charade eventually becomes reality.

The Last Emperor (1987)
A biography of Aisin-Gioro 'Henry' Pu Yi, who at the age of three was named the Emperor of China, and dies as a gardener at the Botanical Gardens of Peking. Told in an interesting flashback/flashforward style, we learn of Pu Yi's childhood, the time he spent imprisoned in the Forbidden City, his term as the emperor of Japans Manchuguo, and his eventual release back to public life in 1959.

Flowers in the Attic (1987)
Based on the popular novel by V. C. Andrews, Flowers in the Attic centers on such chancy topics as incest and misguided religiosity. When their father is killed, teenagers Cathy (Kristy Swanson) and Chris (Jeb Stuart Adams), together with their preteen siblings Cory (Ben Ganger) and Carrie (Lindsay Parker), are put in the care of their religious-zealot grandmother (Louise Fletcher). Grandma has never approved of the wanton lifestyle of the kids' mother Corinne (Victoria Tennant), and she has no intention of extending her love to the children. Even worse, Corinne is anxious to win back the love of her estranged father, who, knowing that Corinne and her late husband were cousins and thus incestuously linked, would never approve of any children from this union. Thus, the four children are locked in their grandmother's attic, far from the view of their unforgiving grandfather. How the kids cope with their imprisonment is the heart of the film.

The Sheltering Sky (1990)
From director Bernardo Bertolucci, The Sheltering Sky is a filmed adaptation of the novel of the same name by Paul Bowles. Debra Winger and John Malkovich star as Kit and Port Moresby, a married American couple who globetrot to North Africa in the late '40s with the hopes of re-sparking their love and adding some zest to their lackluster lives. Along for the ride is the pair's friend George Tunner (Campbell Scott), who soon begins having an affair with Kit. As they struggle through the numbing heat of Africa amidst the sudden love triangle, each of the trio sees his and her beliefs and lives challenged. The Sheltering Sky earned a Best Director nomination for Bertolucci at the 1991 Golden Globe Awards.

Tess (1979)
A rural clergyman in 19th century England tells Durbeyfield, a simple farmer, that he is descended from the illustrious d'Urberville family - now extinct. Or maybe not. Durbeyfield sends his daughter Tess to check on a family named d'Uberville living in a manor house less than a day's carriage ride away. Alec d'Urberville is delighted to meet his beautiful 'cousin' and seduces her with strawberries and roses. Actually Alec has gotten his illustrious name and coat of arms by purchasing them. Tess too takes up the game of illusion when she finds, loses and finds again her true love Angel.

Local Hero (1983)
Oil billionaire Happer sends Mac to a remote Scotish village to secure the property rights for an oil refinery they want to build. Mac teams up with Danny and starts the negotiations, the locals are keen to get their hands on the 'Silver Dollar' and can't believe their luck. However a local hermit and beach scavenger, Ben Knox, lives in a shack on the crucial beach which he also owns. Happer is more interested in the Northern Lights and Danny in a surreal girl with webbed feet, Marina. Mac is used to a Houston office with fax machines but is forced to negotiate on Bens terms.

From the romantic to the rebellious, this ten-movie collection, carefully selected to satisfy every woman, features a range of superstars from Johnny Depp to Brad Pitt, Daniel Day Lewis to Leonardo Di Caprio. From classics to modern favourites, these stories of love, life and laughter offer many hours of quality entertainment that she can enjoy time and time again.

Titles include:
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
A River Runs Through It
A Room With A View
Mask
Green Card
The Last Emperor
Flowers In The Attic
The Sheltering Sky
Tess
Local Hero

This product was added to our catalog on Friday 03 February, 2012.