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53 short films totalling over 15 hours of screen time are included on this comprehensive collection of silent comedy classics from the Golden Age of Slapstick. The remarkable comedic talents of Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy, Fatty Arbuckle, Will Rogers, Buster Keaton, Harold Lloyd and others are celebrated in a collection sure to have viewers grabbing their guts and falling off their couches in laughter.In five parts: IN THE BEGINNING: Film Comedy Pioneers, KEYSTONE TONIGHT!: Mack Sennet Comedies, SENNETT IN THE TWENTIES, FUNNY GIRLS: Genders And Their Benders, KEATON, ARBUCKLE AND ST. JOHN, HAL ROACH'S ALL-STAR COMEDIANS, HAL ROACH: The Lot Of Fun, CHAPLIN AND THE MUSIC HALL TRADITION, THE RACE IS ON, and TONS OF FUN: The Anarchic Fringe.DVD Features:Region 1Keep Case5-Disc Boxed SetFull Frame - 1.33Single Side - Dual LayerAudio: Dolby Digital Stereo - EnglishInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Access
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Between 1924 and 1947, Chinese women were banned from immigrating to the United States. Men who had come hoping to send for their families later were stranded. Chinatowns across the country were dying. When the ban was lifted, prosperous men sent their adult sons, who had been allowed as boys to come from China, back to enter into arranged marriages. But when Wah Gay (Victor Wong) sends his son Ben Loy (Russell Wong) back to their native village to marry Mei Oi (Cora Miao), the daughter of his best friend, it's a case of love at first sight. Oddly reminiscent of Michael Corrleone going to Sicily in THE GODFATHER, it's very nicely staged by director Wayne Wang. As he demonstrated in DIM SUM, Wang has a deft feel for the small emotional touches that make characters come alive. When the couple returns to New York's Chinatown, Ben takes a job as the manager of a busy restaurant. The combined pressure of work and his father's insistence that he produce grandchildren causes Ben to become impotent. Soon the neglected Mei Oi finds companionship with Ah Song (Eric Tsang), a slick gambler. When rumors spread within the small, enclosed community where face (i.e., honor) is very important, it precipitates a crisis for everyone, especially the two grandfathers.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 1.85Audio: Dolby Digital Mono - EnglishAdditional Release Material: TrailersInteractive Features: Interactive Menus Scene Selection
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The Latinos Locos tour showcases some of the best up-and-coming stand up comedy, and has been garnering rave reviews across the nation since its inception in 2001. The show includes Carlos Oscar (Apollo Comedy Hour, The Tonight Show), and Luke Torres (In Living Color), and is hosted by Mad TV's Emmy-nominated Jill-Michelle Melean; all offer a cutting-edge, raucous view of the Latino experience in the United States. This unedited live performance at a packed in Southern California offers some of their most boisterous, progressive material to date, showing off some of the most innovative comic styling today!DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseFull Frame - 1.33
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Based on the Elmore Leonard novel that inspired both the 1969 film and this remake, THE BIG BOUNCE is a comic film noir about an everyman who finds trouble in the form of a beautiful blonde. Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson) is a small-time scam artist who is determined to leave that life behind after yet another run-in with the law. But when he meets the mistress of his former boss, Ray Ritchie (Gary Sinese), all bets are off. Nancy (newcomer Sara Foster) is hot, mischievous, and up to no good, but Jack is too smitten to use his better judgment. It isn't long before he's agreed to help her steal $200,000 from Ray. Along the way, he must contend with a series of potentially shady characters, who might not be what they seem (Morgan Freeman, Charlie Sheen, and Bebe Neuwirth).Directed with an easygoing approach that fits perfectly with the laid back Hawaiian locales, THE BIG BOUNCE gets an enormous boost from Owen Wilson, who appears to be having the time of his life. This might have something to do with his costar Foster, a former model whose mere presence is enough to make the screen sizzle. The movie also features hilarious supporting turns from Freeman, Neuwirth, and especially Sheen.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseWidescreen - 2.40Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 - EnglishAdditional Release Material: Featurettes - 1.THE BIG BOUNCE: A Con in the Making Outtakes - 1.Wicked Waves: Stunt Surfer Outtakes Filmographies - 1.Surfing the Pipeline: Surfing in the Aloha State
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A charming ghetto guy on the run from loan sharks poses as a long-lost friend of a suburban lawyer in this wacky comic romp.
After scamming his way into the house, he turns the WASP family upside down, and teaches them how to have fun again.DVD Features:Region 1Keep CaseInteractive Features: Scene Access Interactive Menus
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