Video Store Classics
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There was nothing like browsing the aisles of the local video store looking for a movie we'd take home for the weekend. Seeing the familiar cover poster of a film we'd previously seen on the big screen and the emotional response it triggered as we remembered the scene that made us laugh out loud, the memorable quote we never get tired of repeating, or the moment the leading actor or actress broke our heart.
Maybe it was the eye-catching VHS or DVD box art for a film we'd never heard of that caught our eye in such a way that it compelled us to pick up the box, flip it over, peruse the tiny photos, review the cast list, and read the synopsis on the back. Or, perhaps we'd been waiting to see the New Release we missed seeing at the theater that everyone had been raving about...and today was the day!
Well, we've chosen some of our favorite Video Store Classics from the vault so you (and we) can see them on the Big Screen again.
A dowdy romantic-adventure writer is hurled into a real-life adventure in the Colombian jungle in order to save her sister, who will be killed if a treasure map is not delivered to her captors. She is helped out by a brash mercenary, and together they search for the priceless gem located in the map. Starring: Michael Douglas, Kathleen Turner, Danny DeVito
In space no on can hear you scream. The one that started the franchise...After investigating a mysterious transmission of unknown origin, the crew of a commercial spacecraft encounters a deadly lifeform. Starring Sigourney Weaver, Tom Skerritt, John Hurt, Veronica Cartwright, Harry Dean Stanton, Ian Holm and Yaphet Kotto.
New York City roommates Peter (Tom Selleck), Michael (Steve Guttenberg) and Jack (Ted Danson) are all successful and happily unmarried. They get the surprise of a lifetime when a young woman abandons an infant in front of their loft. They are then forced to care for the sweet little girl -- and though they make hopeless babysitters, they soon become quite attached. Directed by Leonard Nimoy.
Office satire about three female secretaries (Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin, Dolly Parton) who decide to get revenge on their tyrannical, sexist boss by abducting him and running the business themselves. The trio, one of whom has been passed over for promotion because she is a woman, spend a night together having drug-induced fantasies of killing the slave-driving chauvinist. One of them panics the following day when she suspects she really has poisoned the tyrant.
HOW TO MARRY A MILLIONAIRE (1953)
Schatze Page, Loco Dempsey and Pola Debevoise (Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, Marilyn Monroe) are three women on a mission: They all want to marry a millionaire. To accomplish this task, they move into a fancy New York City apartment and begin courting the city's elite. They have no problem meeting rich men, but unfortunately most of them turn out to be creeps or cons. Eventually they must decide: Is a life of luxury more important to them than finding true love?
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