"AMY, a powerful film from Australian director Nadia Tass, is about a little girl whose father, a popular rock musician, is killed by accidental electrocution while he is on stage performing. After his death, Amy goes mute and deaf from psychological trauma. While social workers swarm around her, trying desperately to get her to speak and go to school, it is Amy herself who eventually makes the choice to communicate again when she realiz ..."
"Australian filmmaker John Duigan (The Year My Voice Broke, Wide Sargasso Sea) has a taste for sensual art direction that occasionally flares up in a big, big way. With Sirens, he manages to turn oceans of female nudity into a slightly tongue-in-cheek decorousness that is neither unpersuasively arty nor purely soft porn. Starring Hugh Grant (and released the same year as two other Grant vehicles, Four Weddings and a Funeral and Bitter M ..."
"Niederlande Edition, Blu-Ray/Region B DVD: TON: Englisch ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Holländisch ( Untertitel ), WIDESCREEN (2.35:1), BONUSMATERIAL: Szene Zugang, Wechselwirkendes Menü, SYNOPSIS: Lil (Naomi Watts) und Roz (Robin Wright) leben an der paradiesischen Ostküste Australiens. Die beiden kennen sich seit ihrer Kindheit und wohnen heute nebeneinander in zwei Häusern am Strand. Die Freundinnen gehen gemeinsam durch dick und dünn, beer ..."
"The Efficiency Expert (released in theaters as Spotswood), a warm-hearted, wacky comedy with a social conscience, takes place in Australia in the "Swinging '60s," and its character, substance, music, and design are so authentic one nearly forgets that it was made in 1991. Sir Anthony Hopkins is wonderful as Errol Wallace, the efficiency expert of the title, who devises painful belt-tightening measures for struggling companies. Wallac ..."
"The Efficiency Expert (released in theaters as Spotswood), a warm-hearted, wacky comedy with a social conscience, takes place in Australia in the "Swinging '60s," and its character, substance, music, and design are so authentic one nearly forgets that it was made in 1991. Sir Anthony Hopkins is wonderful as Errol Wallace, the efficiency expert of the title, who devises painful belt-tightening measures for struggling companies. Wallac ..."
"Netherlands released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: LANGUAGES: English ( Dolby Digital 5.1 ), Dutch ( Subtitles ), SPECIAL FEATURES: Interactive Menu, Scene Access, SYNOPSIS: Lil (Naomi Watts) and Roz ('Robin Wright' ) are two lifelong friends, having grown up together as neighbors in an idyllic beach town. As adults, their sons have developed a friendship as strong as that which binds their mothers. One summer, all four are confronted by simmering ..."