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VHS movie reviews for "Tony-Scott" sorted by average review score:
Treacherous Crossing
Released in VHS Tape by Paramount Home Video (17 February, 1993)
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: Tony Wharmby
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Lindsay Wagner Triumphs!
Lindsay Wagner is superb as a confused and frightened woman who's husband has vanished.Her problems escalate when the ships security will not help her because they do not believe her.Angie Dickinson is excellent as a new friend who appears to be sympathetic,or is she? Danger and many plot twists ensue as our victim/heroine searches desperately for the truth,leading to a violent yet satisfying conclusion.Wagner's emotional(and often riveting)performance has you hooked and rooting for her from the very beginning.A must for Lindsay Wagner fans and fans of the Mystery/Suspense genre.

This movie changed my life!
I am a huge fan of Lindsay Wagner and this movie really gives old Jamie Sommers a chance to strut her bionic stuff. I loved every nail-biting moment of it!

Blast
Released in VHS Tape by Thinkfilm Llc (16 September, 2003)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Martin Schenk
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Finally!
Finally, Martin Schenk's debut film Blast is being released on DVD in Region 1. I've been wanting to see this film for quite some time now. Unfortunately, it never got a wide theatrical release.

The film has been available on Region 2 DVD for at least a few months now, in Greece, Finland, and probably a few other countries (I'm only sure about Greece and Finland though).

The scary thing is, the disc released in Finland is pan and scan. That is completely unacceptable. All I can say is, the Region 1 disc better be widescreen, preferably 16x9 enhanced. There is NO excuse nowadays for not releasing a film (especially a new film!) in its original aspect ratio.

Here's hoping for a 16x9 enhanced DVD that deserves 5 stars!

Capital Punishment
Released in VHS Tape by Tapeworm (07 March, 1997)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: David Huey
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This video is only $19.95
FOr close over 2 years not this video has been priced at $19.95. Action Star Gary Daniels stars with Kung FU's David Carridine. This film is NOT available in Canada. If you have questions please call the films producer and distributor at 1-800-906-4749.

Laurel Avenue
Released in VHS Tape by Hbo Studios (10 July, 2001)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Carl Franklin, Ulysses Zachary, and John Beasley
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Tremendous: All TV dramas should be this good
This is a realistic depiction of a Minneapolis black family's struggles -- WITHOUT corny melodrama and bad overacting. Great acting by, among others, Carl Franklin -- the director of the great independent film "One False Move" -- and fine background music from Minneapolis-grown Mint Condition. To tell you more about the plot would spoil things -- BUY IT! Also, collaborators Paul Aaron and Michael Henry Brown worked on the new Omar Epps-LL Cool J film In Too Deep, a police-action film that's not getting great reviews. But Laurel Avenue makes up for any shoddy work.

Laurel Avenue
Released in VHS Tape by Hbo Studios (10 July, 2001)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: Carl Franklin
Starring: Carl Franklin, Ulysses Zachary, and John Beasley
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Tremendous: All TV dramas should be this good
This is a realistic depiction of a Minneapolis black family's struggles -- WITHOUT corny melodrama and bad overacting. Great acting by, among others, Carl Franklin -- the director of the great independent film "One False Move" -- and fine background music from Minneapolis-grown Mint Condition. To tell you more about the plot would spoil things -- BUY IT! Also, collaborators Paul Aaron and Michael Henry Brown worked on the new Omar Epps-LL Cool J film In Too Deep, a police-action film that's not getting great reviews. But Laurel Avenue makes up for any shoddy work.

Not with My Wife, You Don't!
Released in VHS Tape by Warner Home Video (23 January, 1996)
MPAA Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Director: Norman Panama
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Little Known Gem!!Nicely Done 60's Romantic Comedy!!
A wartime Italian Nurse fall in love with 2 men(George C. Scott and Tony Curtis)and marries man after the other man is assumed dead later but reappears years later.It's a nicely done 1960's romantic comedy!!

Operation Bikini (Amazon.com Exclusive)
Released in VHS Tape by MGM/UA Video (20 February, 2001)
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Director: Anthony Carras
Two-piece bathing suits don't show up until the closing credits, so anyone expecting Operation Bikini to be a precursor to the Sports Illustrated swimsuit issue is going to be disappointed at the sight of Jim Backus in swabbie gear. Still, you could do a lot worse than kill 83 minutes with this standard-issue World War II actioner set in the South Pacific theater, aimed at the teen audience favored by American International Pictures, and released just as the British Invasion was hitting the American pop-music charts. Frankie Avalon does his latter-day Sinatra thing as a lovesick submarine crewman (complete with full-color dream sequences as he sings about "The Girl Back Home"--the movie's only blatant promotional gimmick), and Tab Hunter does hunk duty as a demolitions expert assigned to blast a sunken U.S. sub on the Bikini atoll (site of later atomic bomb testing) before Japanese salvagers can steal its prototype radar equipment. That's pretty much it for plot, but it's aided immeasurably by lively dialogue and a cast of familiar '60s faces, from the aforementioned Backus (a year away from Gilligan's Island infamy), Gary Crosby, Scott Brady, and Michael Dante. Director Anthony Carras was moving up after editing several of AIP's biggest hits (he only made two other films), and while this routine programmer is hardly distinguished, it's a perfectly acceptable example of Kennedy-era entertainment, when WWII heroics still lingered in the memory of an increasingly youth-oriented nation. --Jeff Shannon
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Nicely Done War 60's War Movie!!
This is a nicely done 60's war movie with a great cast that includes Frankie Avalon,Tab Hunter and Jim Backus.Check it out!!

Swept From The Sea
Released in VHS Tape by Columbia/Tristar Studios (10 August, 1999)
MPAA Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: Beeban Kidron
Starring: Vincent Perez and Rachel Weisz
Based on the Joseph Conrad story "Amy Foster," this swirlingly romantic melodrama tells the story of a Polish sailor (Vincent Perez) shipwrecked and washed ashore on the English coast in the 19th century. Found by a servant girl, Amy (Rachel Weisz), who is a village outcast, he is considered retarded because no one can understand what he says. But slowly, through Amy's love and the doctor's tutelage, the sailor learns enough English to decide he wants to make an honest woman out of Amy. Which doesn't sit well with the disapproving villagers, who don't like Amy. Even the doctor, who has a fondness for the sailor, has a blind spot when it comes to the servant girl. Strong performances and gritty period settings lift this film above bodice-ripper status to something richer. --Marshall Fine
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Beautiful and at the same time sad...
This is one of my favorite films ever. Swept From The Sea is a beautiful but sad story about two tragic lovers. The love they have for one another goes deeper than the sea. A Russian man called Yanko, the only living survivor of a ship that had been swallowed by the sea while on route to America to start a new life, washes to the shores of Cornwall England. The ignorance of the people who find him and how they treat him is sad, however, he is treated kindly by Amy Foster. She is a quiet and kind girl who helps Yanko who was locked away in a shed by her employer. One of the best scenes in the movie is when she sneaks out and brings the scared Yanko a blaket, food, water and a towel. She begins to wash his hands, feet and face. The look of such gratitude... I can't describe the beauty of that scene... Yanko is so touched by this woman's kindness it brings him to tears. That scene was so real and so moving. Amy Foster is an outcast because she is quiet and shy and Yanko is an outcast because he's from another part of the world. The time that the film is set in has alot to do with the ignorance of the people. Very few accepted Amy and Yanko. This movie is so wonderful and a MUST SEE for everyone. I don't want to say more to give it away. Make sure you have a box of KLEENEX!
CHEERS!

A Treasure Trove Love
This movie more than expounds on the Conrad story, "Amy Fisher," it makes it far more tragic, poignant, and bittersweet.

While I didn't catch on to the religious overtones, I certainly felt there was something divine about this film. Rachel Weisz plays an estranged girl whose collection of flotsam and jetsam from the sea leads to her encounter with a russian man. Unable to speak English, he fumbles to learn the ways of his new world, while falling hopelessly in love with the quiet, tender young woman.

The cave scene is not only seductive it is overtly symbollic. Everything Amy has ever truly loved has found its way to her from the sea. Even this man. In that moment, it's all with her there in the cave, safely collected, hidden, and more importantly not of her "land" world.

If you love this one, try 'Firelight' with Sophie Marceau. It conjures the same kind of gothic romance theme: love waiting to be consumed and requited.

Comfort in the Storms of Life
No pessimist ever discovered the secret of the stars, or sailed to an uncharted land, or opened a new doorway for the human spirit. ~Helen Keller

Amy's life is lonely and she lives in almost complete silence, obeying the wishes of the family she works for in a coastal village. She is captivated by the sea and collects treasures that float up on the beach near her secret hideout/cave. For the first part of the movie, she seems to be living in a dream world. While some think she is a simpleton, others think she is a witch who can conjure storms. She has a gentle, patient, malleable nature.

Often Amy (Rachel Weisz) is found dancing in the rain or standing in a window letting the wind and rain drench her clothes. She is a child of the water and loves the rain, rivers and the ocean. She seems to drift from reality into fantasy as she twirls in the rain. In fact, it seems she dreams her true love into life. She seems to be calling to him from the cliffs of Cornwall.

Yanko (Vincent Perez) arrives in Amy's village and changes her life. He is the only survivor of a shipwreck. He finds himself in a foreign land with no way to communicate with the residents. They fear strangers and almost kill him a few times before they allow him to live a normal life.

Amy seems to be a naturally kind and compassionate Pices. She also seems to be in love with Yanko from the moment they gaze at one another through the kitchen window. Like two trapped animals set free, they run to each other whenever possible and share a secret world only they understand.

"I'm your home and you're mine." ~Yanko

While both Yanko and Amy seems to live at a higher level of existence, you might be shocked by the downright cruelty of many of the villagers. There is a sharp contrast between those who are accepting of Yanko and those who are willing to shun even those who talk to Yanko. Amy not only faces distain because of her quiet manner, she is also hated because she welcomes Yanko into her life. She accepts him like a gift from the sea.

James Kennedy (Ian McKellen) realizes he is one of the Russian emigrants from a recent shipwreck while the rest of the village views him more cautiously. James doesn't seem to know the full story and the wounds are only healed by retelling the story to Yanko's former employer.

At times this movie borders on cinematic extravagance. The widescreen edition is stunning in places. Scenes of Amy dancing in the rain in a blue haze, horses pulling carriages across vast expanses of land, trains, seascapes, ships and an abundance of lush scenery at the edge of the ocean.

Being a lover of the ocean myself, I rather liked this movie. Not only is the scenery gorgeous, the score is dramatic, romantic, filled with longing and almost torturous in places.

Swept from the Sea is a story of two people who have a connection to the ocean and who understand one another on the deepest levels of the soul. Most of what goes on in this movie seems to go on in your own mind. Yanko and Amy seem to almost speak to one another telepathically. At times it is pure magic!

~TheRebeccaReview.com

The Lesser Evil
Released in VHS Tape by Mgm/Ua Studios (21 August, 2001)
MPAA Rating: R (Restricted)
Director: David Mackay
A prank gone horribly wrong resurfaces decades later to haunt the participants in this compelling little indie suspense flick, told with an unusual double-flashback technique. In the first flashback, Ivan, Frank, George, and Derek reunite for the first time in 22 years. In the second, we witness the deadly chain of events that drove the friends apart. Back in the first flashback, we learn that the police have at last turned up evidence that points to Derek. The dual structure of the movie makes for an engaging parallel rise in suspense: just as events spin out of control for the teenagers, their later selves descend into a chaos of mistrust and divided loyalties. Not once, but twice the four friends must learn that gunplay and threatened manhood don't mix. --Ali Davis
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An intelligent thriller
I was fortunate enough to see "The Lesser Evil" at a Chicago film festival featuring great independent films. It is an intelligent dramatic thriller in which four high school friends are faced with the consequences of their actions. They are all involved in a couple of killings and the film slowly reveals who is really to blame and who should pay for their mistakes. Its also about how people change as they grow up and live with a dark secret. Arliss Howard, the guy who played Cowboy in "Full Metal Jacket" is a priest troubled by guilt. Paymer, who's in just about everything these days, is a bitter lawyer. Goldwyn, who is now making a name for himself as a director, is a cop with a criminal past. And Feore is a trouble maker without a spine. The film has some good twists and while it ties up well, it doesn't do so cleanly for the characters which makes it feel more real. Ultimately its the kind of film that you talk about long after its over.

Great Movie!
A prank gone horribly wrong returns to haunt four boys in their adult life.

This movie was really a pleasant surprise. Good story, great acting. If you like stuff like "A Simple Plan", then you'll like this. A real little-known gem.

Left me thinking
An intricate plot. A narrative that weaves back and forth between past and present in order to unmask the characters. A moral decision was made twenty five years ago that haunts the ensemble cast. Now they find themselves faced with a similar moral crises as adults. Each characer is both protagonist and antagonist. Ultimately good and evil is defined as matters of degree. An excellent film that left me thinking.

Buck and the Preacher
Released in VHS Tape by Columbia/Tristar Studios (06 January, 1998)
MPAA Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Director: Sidney Poitier
Starring: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, and Ruby Dee
Sidney Poitier made his directing debut with this 1972 action comedy with an edge to it. Made at the height of the Black Power movement in America, the film has an unmistakable militancy in its story of a wagon-train guide and a con man who team up to throw a posse of white nightriders off the trail of escaped slaves. Poitier has never been a distinctive filmmaker, and Buck and the Preacher certainly doesn't indicate any early signs of raw talent that later went undeveloped. But the film's energy and sense of fun, hand in hand with the suggestively political zing, make it watchable. --Tom Keogh
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Brought The Black West to Life Before Posse
While I liked Posse, This was the film that brought the Black West to a wider audience. Sidney Poitier as Buck is exciting and Harry Belafonte and Cicely Tyson give him a big helping hand.

Yahoo! Great shoot-em up fun!
Looking for fast, shoot-em up fun with a little morality tale attached..this is it! Sidney Poitier is terrific as Buck, the former slave now gun slinger who helps newly freed slaves to homestead out west and guards them night riders trying to bring them back to a dying, post civil war south. Belefonte is charming as the Preacher who gives the good word as well as sling a colt .45. Don't miss Belefonte's terrific "fornication" speech scene. It's topped off with a stellar supporting cast including Ruby Dee as Buck's wife. This movie would be great fun to watch back to back with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid just to compare the relationships between the four characters. So sorry this movie is hard to find. It's great fun, especially for western fans. Happy watching!

Reconstruction.... Western style!
Although I originally viewed this film as a child and viewed it then just as a comedic western I have in more later years come to know and understand this story as just one of the many injustices done to black americans after slavery had ended. The events portrayed dramatically and I must assume all too accurately reflect the open hostility and lawlessness that was too often visited upon a people simply in search of a better life.

Historic, dramatic, and comedic... Buck and the Preacher illuminates, educates, and entertains all at the same time.

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