Drug Addiction: Postcards From the Edge – Widescreen Subtitle
Postcards From the Edge – Widescreen Subtitle
Mike Nichols lends some comic structure to Carrie Fisher’s best-selling confessional novel concerning a woman’s struggles with drug addiction and mother-daughter rivalry (subjects Fisher admits to understanding all too well). Meryl Streep, in her most full-blown comic performance up to that point, plays Suzanne Vale, a popular movie actress well on her way to a Hollywood crack-up. Suzanne suffers from blackouts and memory lapses, and awakens in the… Continue reading
Eureka Seven, Vol. 5 [Special Edition] – Subtitle Special
Eureka Seven, Vol. 5 [Special Edition] – Subtitle Special
Includes:Eureka Seven: Episode 19: Acperience-2 (2005) Eureka Seven: Episode 20: Substance Abuse (2005) Eureka Seven: Episode 22: Crack Pot (2005) Eureka Seven: Episode 21: Runaway (2005) Eureka Seven: Episode 19: Acperience-2 No synopsis available. Eureka Seven: Episode 20: Substance Abuse No synopsis available. Eureka Seven: Episode 22: Crack Pot No synopsis available. Eureka Seven: Episode 21: Runaway No synopsis available.
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Finding Amanda – Subtitle Dolby
Finding Amanda – Subtitle Dolby
Rescue Me co-creator Peter Tolan makes his feature directorial debut with this comedy starring Matthew Broderick as a moderately successful television writer whose addiction to alcohol, gambling, and drugs make dealing with the latest family crisis especially difficult. Taylor Peters (Broderick) is the writer and producer of a low-rated television sitcom that gets repeatedly bashed by critics and fares only slightly better with the viewing public. His career thrown off… Continue reading
The Jackhammer Massacre – Fullscreen Subtitle Dolby
The Jackhammer Massacre – Fullscreen Subtitle Dolby
Forget the old anti-drug television commercial with the egg and the frying pan, the drug-addicted psychopath in Joe Castro’s Jackhammer Massacre is all the ammunition that Nancy Reagan will ever need to convince youngsters to “Just Say No.” A formerly successful businessman whose dangerous drug addiction leaves him jobless and indebted to a ruthless drug dealer, Jack Magnus is injected with a lethal dosage and left for dead… Continue reading
Santouri: The Music Man – Fullscreen Subtitle
Santouri: The Music Man – Fullscreen Subtitle
A heroin-addicted musician finds his growing dependence on drugs taking a sizable toll on both his career and his marriage in Iranian director Dariush Mehrjui incisive addiction drama. Ali (Bahram Radan) plays a traditional stringed instrument called the santoor. A liberal young musician married to the beautiful Hanieh (Golshifteh Farahani), Ali suffers from a crippling dependency on heroin. Could it be that his country’s current cultural repression is… Continue reading
Ed Wood – Widescreen B&W Subtitle AC3 Dolby
Ed Wood – Widescreen B&W Subtitle AC3 Dolby
Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself with a motley crew of Hollywood misfits, outcasts, has-beens, and never-weres. The real story, however, is his friendship with aging, morphine-addicted Bela Lugosi… Continue reading