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Publisher: Warner Home Video
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Publisher: Columbia/Tri-Star
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With their brains in a hammerlock and their hope high slacker-doofus wrestling fanatics david arquette and scott caan set out to help their favorite monday nitro hero regain the championship. Studio: Warner Home Video Release Date: 05/06/2008 Starring: David Arquette Scott Caan Run time: 106 minutes Rating: Pg13 Director: Brian Robbins
Gordy (David Arquette of the Scream movies) and Sean (Scott Caan of Varsity Blues) are rabid fans of professional wrestling--in particular, white trash champion Jimmy King (Oliver Platt, Funny Bones, Flatliners). But the show's producer Titus Sinclair (Joe Pantoliano, The Matrix) decides it's time for King to lose his crown and allows Diamond Dallas Page (playing himself) and assorted cronies to tromp all over the fallen King. Crestfallen, Gordy and Sean track King down to convince him to take another shot at the big time. Although in the process they discover that King may not be the man they thought he was, their faith never falters. With the training assistance of an old-school wrestler (Martin Landau), they get King back into the ring to face the triple steel cage. Ready to Rumble is clearly aimed at wrestling fans, who will doubtless enjoy numerous professional wrestlers playing themselves, including Goldberg and Sting, as well as the scantily clad Nitro Girls. The movie isn't exactly Shakespeare, but it has a raffish, affable charm. The jokes stick to the basics, such as people being kicked in the groin and nuns singing Van Halen's "Running with the Devil" with their crystalline soprano voices. And what's wrong with that? As a comedy team, Arquette and Caan aren't Abbott and Costello--they're not even Bill and Ted--but they give it their all and you may find them surprisingly engaging. --Bret Fetzer
Publisher: Warner Home Video
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Author: People Magazine
Publisher: People Weekly
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Publisher: AutographsForSale
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This is a beautiful stretched canvas. Total size is approximately 18x18 inches. This stretched box canvas print will look fabulous in any room of your house. Ready to hang, right out of the box!
Publisher: StarFramers
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Publisher: Rhythmhound
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Round up the family for an hour of rootin'-tootin' fun, Shelly Duvall style. Executive producer of the American Tall Tales and Legends Series, Duvall expertly combines talented actors with witty retellings of famous stories, and as Duvall herself says at this tale's outset, "Some of them are true and some of them are truer." Here, Jamie Lee Curtis dons petticoats and a curly wig to portray the legendary (and truly true) American sharpshooter, Annie Oakley. This thoughtful retelling follows Annie from cradle (where she foreshadows her talents by squirting big sis in the eye with her baby bottle) to porch (where, as an old woman, Annie and husband Frank Butler reminisce over the amazing life they've lived). Sure as shootin', plenty of realistic, exciting stunts happen in between. Curtis displays just the right amount of tomboy, looking every bit as comfy on a horse, slinging her rifle in "Buffalo Bill" Cody's Wild West Show, as she does sporting fancy Victorian garb. The story was filmed like a stage play, with detailed indoor and outdoor sets providing authentic flavor without going overboard. Hats off to Brian Dennehy in the gruff sweetie-pie role of "Buffalo Bill" Cody. --Liane Thomas
Publisher: Lyons / Hit Ent.
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(Thriller) Ashley and Taylor are manipulative career drifters always on the make for lonely housewives. But their easy lifestyle hits a roadblock when Taylor romances April, the daughter of one of the wives. After he announces that she is joining them on the road, things quickly take a turn for the worse.
Midnight Cowboy meets Drugstore Cowboy in this frowzy cruise through the underclass. Childhood buddies David Arquette and Balthazar Getty are scam artists roaming from place to place; they land in a ritzy Connecticut town where the housewives appear ripe for plucking. Getty makes the mistake of genuinely liking one target (Julianna Margulies) and then falling for her smart, rebellious daughter (Thora Birch)--all of which not only messes up their con-artist plans but also brings Arquette's homoerotic jealousies to the forefront. The laidback storytelling style appears to be a deliberate decision on the part of director Jay Alaimo, who somewhat miscalculates the appeal of such a strategy; he also overestimates the charisma of Getty and Arquette. They are easily topped by the offbeat collection of actresses in the film, including Margulies (who does tasty Mrs. Robinson-style work until the film eases her out), Joely Fisher (as Margulies' bored friend), and American Beauty's Birch, who brings a steady, sharp skepticism to her role. None of this can end well, but Slingshot can't find an original way to make its downward spiral compelling, and by that time the momentum implied by its title has fizzled away. --Robert Horton
Publisher: Weinstein Company
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