Happy Campers

• From the creator of the teen cultic, Heathers, comes a comedy about a diverse group of teen-aged counselors who take charge and spice up the everyday routine of a summer camp. It's Meatballs meets American Pie.Running Time: 94 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY Rating: R Age: 794043552021 UPC: 794043552021 Manufacturer No: N5520

TART - DVD MovieA breath of fresh air in a stale genre, Zoe Clarke-Williams's canny look at the catty world of college cliques is the smartest dissection of the complex world of class envy, social acceptance, and the seduction of privilege since Heathers. But this drama plays it for tragedy. Local working-class girl Mia Kirshner is transformed from social outcast to campus Cinderella and adopted into the hedonistic party world of a trio of rich fun-loving sorority princesses (Meredith Monroe, Dominique Swain, and Rachel True), and comes out the other end! in a drug-induced coma. Confidently directed and elegantly constructed in puzzle-piece flashbacks, this sensitive, sympathetic, smartly made drama is refreshingly free of glib moralizing, the rare young-adult film that twists the usual clichés and leaves its audience with more questions than answers. The DVD also features an audio commentary track by director Zoe Clarke-Williams. --Sean AxmakerThree teams of small-time criminals decide to rip off an irascible pawnshop owner’s legendary riches. Hilariously, each group’s plan is more ridiculous than the next, and everybody is planning the Big Job for the same night! A stellar cast including Danny Masterson (That ’70s Show), Leon (Get Rich or Die Tryin’) and Dominique Swain (Lolita) brings to life this stylish spoof of the beloved heist comedy genre.

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Item number 133306, Grading is cover/record: VG/VG+ using Goldmine standards. 1981,prst Please see seller profile for abbreviation descriptions.Dominique Swain, best known as Lolita in the 1998 Adrian Lyne remake and the knife-wielding daughter in Face-Off, shows off her gift for romantic comedy in this lightweight little confection. Interning at glossy fashion magazine "Skirt," her inexperienced but plucky and charming Jocelyn jumps at the often outlandish commands of her editors and nurses a crush on the magazi! ne's assistant art director (Ben Pullen) while waiting for her big break, specifically a paying position. The high-strung editorial staff includes Joan Rivers (who barks up a storm with new ideas on wheelchair chic), Peggy Lipton, Kathy Griffin, Anna Thompson, and Paulina Porizkova as a former model who can't shake her starvation diet. "She had an apple two days ago," someone comments after she faints. "That can't be it," nods another.

The ostensible plot involves industrial espionage and the campaign to flush out "the Yuri," a spy sending all their upcoming ideas to arch-rival Vogue that Jocelyn vows to uncover, but that's just another complication in the wacky world of haute couture. Crammed with insider jokes, industry potshots, and an army of cameos only fashion devotees will recognize, from Diane von Fürstenberg to Tommy Hilfiger (for the rest of us there's Gwyneth Paltrow for a few brief seconds), it's an old fashioned romantic comedy with a new! wardrobe. It's Swain's engaging performance and Michael Lang! e's geni al direction that mellow the caustic barbs and invest it with a sense of heart. --Sean AxmakerInez Macbeth (Dominique Swain) is married to Edgar (Henry Thomas), a violent petty thief with big ambitions. When her loveless marriage leads to an affair with a gentle young lawyer, Edgar retaliates by brutally holding her captive with the help of his best friend Flowers (Arie Verveen). With time running out, Inez concocts a desperate escape, but does she have the guts to do what it takes? Sometimes love hurts, sometimes it kills.Disillusioned, disenfranchised and just completely dissed, three girlfriends take revenge on all those guys who did them wrong in this outrageously wry and award-winning* tale. Featuring the hot new talents of Dominique Swain (Lolita), Busy Philipps ( Dawson's Creek ) and Keri Lynn Pratt (America's Sweethearts), The Smokers pushes every boundary and breaks every rule with an unflinching look at the gender war as played out behind the ivy-covere! d walls of an American privateschool. Tired of being used and abused by the opposite sex, Jefferson (Swain), Karen (Philipps) and Lisa (Pratt) decide to turn the tables on the guys who cross them by teaching them a sex-ed lessonthey'll never forget! But their little scheme backfires when their secret gets outmaking them the attraction of every guy on campus! And when one of the school's jocks goes too far, he sets into motion a chain of events that could change all their lives forever! *Audience Award2000 New York International Independent Film & Video Festivaln the wake of a sudden loss, Eddy skips town leaving his friends to mourn for him. A vagabond musician, Eddy runs until there is nowhere left to run to but home. The Pacific and Eddy captures the uncertainty of a time when identities begin to reveal themselves. Some self-destruct, others surge in this story that follows four characters as they each find their own way to deal with the loss of a close friend. Eddy, b! rash, yet exceedingly self-aware, has not changed since the in! cident. It becomes apparent that his remaining friends are in much different places than when he left them. Barron, a guitar maker, harbors bitterness toward Eddy and has become dissatisfied with his seemingly ideal life. Growing weary of her relationship with Barron, Farah, striking and tempestuous, is unable to dance like she once could. And Chelsea a gifted painter, seeks to move on with her life and is set to leave town to pursue a career. Eddy, seeking comfort and support from his friends, finds them lacking the sympathy and fondness they once had for him. Finding refuge in the swells of the Pacific, Eddy must look inward to deal with the loss he never truly mourned.A comedy about a group of teen-aged counselors who take charge and spice up the everyday routine of the camp. Studio: New Line Home Video Release Date: 02/03/2004 Starring: Dominique Swain James King Run time: 94 minutes Rating: RHappy Campers vacillates from being a ridiculous parody of summer-camp li! fe to being a genuine examination of adolescence. Camp counselors Brad Renfro (Apt Pupil, The Client) and Dominique Swain (Face/Off, Lolita) have very different approaches (she's super-perky, he's a moody rebel), but find themselves irresistibly attracted to each other as the camp falls into chaos over the course of the summer. What keeps this basic plot from being completely cheesy is a basic honesty about youth--Happy Campers doesn't shy away from the cruelty, sexual frustration, and general awkwardness of being a teen. Despite its inconsistencies of tone, the movie is a more compelling portrait of adolescence than any John Hughes movie, and the attractive, likable cast--also featuring James King (Pearl Harbor) and Emily Bergl (The Rage: Carrie 2)--will keep you engaged. --Bret Fetzer

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Femme Fatale

• Femme Fatale is a contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) suddenly exposed to the world -- and her enemies -- by a voyeuristic photographer (Antonio Banderas) who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge.Running Time: 115 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ACTION/ADVENTURE Rating: R Age: 085392446124 UPC: 085392446124 Manufac

Femme Fatale is a contemporary film noir about an alluring seductress (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) suddenly exposed to the world -- and her enemies -- by a voyeuristic photographer (Antonio Banderas) who becomes ensnared in her surreal quest for revenge. The sheer pleasure of watching movies is celebrated in Brian De Palma's dazzling Femme Fatale. Working from his own intricate screenplay, De Palma indulges all of his trademark obsessions, upping the ante on Hitchcock (again) with a Vertigo-like plot that begins with a! n audacious heist at the Cannes film festival (another sexy, violent tour de force for De Palma). From there, the stunning thief Laure (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) assumes a new identity, marries a U.S. senator (Peter Coyote), and returns to Paris where a tenacious paparazzo (Antonio Banderas) becomes a patsy in her multilayered scheme. De Palma's weaving a web of nonsense, but his plotting is so exuberantly absurd--and his frame so full of visual clues and relevant detail--that Femme Fatale becomes a joyous thrill ride at first encounter, and a crazily logical (and grandly rewarding) movie on subsequent viewings. In her best role to date, Romijn-Stamos is everything you'd want a femme fatale to be, in a thriller that constantly challenges you to question what you're seeing. --Jeff Shannon

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That Extra Half an Inch: Hair, Heels and Everything in Between

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'I've always been a girls' girl. And I know from experience that making the very best of yourself is something any woman can do. I was never the six-foot-tall pin-up. I've always been the girl-next-door who got lucky. I've come a long way in the last ten years, but this book isn't my attempt to tell you what or what not to do. It's just to share some of what I've learned.'

In That Extra Half an Inch, a tongue-in-cheek reference to her love of high heels, Beckham shares her tips for finding your own style including:

• Learning how to dress for special occasions
• Shopping for everyday wear and where to look for it
• Accessories: defining the looks that w! ork best for you
• Helpful hints for the holidays
• Making the most of your wardrobe
• How to feel confident and look great every time you leave the house

That Extra Half an Inch is a beautiful, nothing-but-the truth, easy-to-use book on fashion, beauty and style. Victoria shares her personal style secrets so whether you're getting ready for work, a night out on the town or even doing the school run, you too can feel confident and look great every time you step out of the front door.

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