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	List Price: $39.98 Our Price: $7.60 Your Save: $ 32.38 ( 81% ) Availability: Manufacturer: Republic Pictures Starring: Ruby Dee, Gary Sinise, Rob Lowe, Molly Ringwald, Ossie Davis
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Audience Rating: Unrated Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9786303153469 Format: Box set ISBN: 6303153461 Label: Republic Pictures Manufacturer: Republic Pictures Number Of Items: 4 Publisher: Republic Pictures Release Date: 1995-04-18 Running Time: 366 Studio: Republic Pictures Theatrical Release Date: 1994-05-08
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Spotlight customer reviews: Customer Rating: Summary: "mexican-soap-opera mood" Comment: I felt like watching a very long and boring brazilian or mexican soap opera, covered with intense moments of love and compassion, bad acting and no plot whatsoever. It's a genuine genre-salad. The good reviews are not telling the true. This piece of garbage tries to reach any audience at all times and just doesn't get anywere. Consider yourself warned. Customer Rating: Summary: Stephen King at his greatest Comment: This is a superb mini series. I enjoyed watching it very much and am happy to add it to my cult classic collection. If you like a good suspense-filled thriller about the end of days that starts with a plauge and riddled with the conflict of evil vs. good--then this is the movie for you. It features the husband/wife team Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis along with Rob Lowe, Gary Sinise, Molly Ringwold, and many others. Customer Rating: Summary: The Stand Comment: As I have stated before I never received the item I purchased. It was ordered on 11/3/08 my credit cards was billed 11/5/08 it was supposed to be delivered by 11/26/08 at the latest and it is 12/06/08 and I still have not received it. I am very very unhappy. Sherry Huddleston Customer Rating: Summary: the stand dvd Comment: The dvd was quite good.Only one point of disapproval was the continuity between disc one and disc two. Customer Rating: Summary: Pop Culture Wars Comment: There are forces at work in the universe that defy rational understanding or explanation. Thats why Steven King novels are so popular. You probably already know the plot but here it goes: Superbad superflu is accidentally released (while BOC's "Don't Fear the Reaper" plays) and randomly kills all but a few hundred survivors who are immune to the superflu. The survivors come in two varieties: the good and pure souls played by likable folksy folk like a no-nonsense Gary Sinese, a deaf and dumb Rob Lowe, a flirty (but relatively innocent) daddy's girl Molly Ringwald, a wise old white guy Ray Walston, a wise old black guy Ossie Davis, and these pure souls all collectively dream of a front porch sittin' and guitar pluckin' witchy woman played by Ruby Dee who telepathically leads them to the promised land in Boulder, Colorado; and then there are the bad souls played by no-name actors who are led to Vegas by an old scratch who looks like a really bad and really coked-up eighties rock star (complete with tight jeans and mullet). The two tribes then go to war. The good are those communitarians who care about other people; the bad are the selfish who only care about themselves. Simple as that. But the really interesting thing here is that King doesn't have nature or some supernatural force sort things out for the survivors; rather the survivors have to sort things out for themselves and some of the survivors are not certain which master they serve and which town they belong in (a very sexy Laura San Giacomo plays one of these undecideds). Ruby Dee might have special powers but these powers come and go and though they have the ability to gather people together and inspire them they cannot be relied upon to make every decision. The people must empower themselves. This is a very nice touch on Kings part. King provides us with a great Andromeda Strain-style drama AND a clever piece of American social satire AND an interesting meditation on character, religious prophecy/determinism, and free will all in one. If you don't like Steven King because he is not highbrow enough for you well its your loss because King is a crowd pleaser extraordinaire and these characters and this plot please at an exceptionally high level. I love the examination of various geographies and psychologies and psychogeographies. King is a master at portraying regional types without resorting to stereotypes; I guess you could say that he invents his own pantheon of American archetypes for each project and this pantheon of archetypes is one of his all-time best. Plus his diagnosis of American ills c. 1980's is right on. Eighties excess never looked so deserving of ...exactly what it gets. This film is six hours of extremely satisfying characterizations and plotting. And it provides the perfect antithesis to the "greed is good" eighties. Only one flaw: The last hour is perhaps the weakest of the six but thats maybe because King isn't satisfied with the big comeuppance scene and tries to deliver a lesson about faith and sacrificing the one for the many that feels forced when everything else feels so natural and right. After five hours of excellent and inspired rock-fueled (I already mentioned BOC's "Don't Fear the Reaper" but Crowded House's "Don't Dream Its Over" is another song that is used to great effect) mini-series I think most people want a complication-free resolution. But thats a minor flaw in an otherwise excellent adaptation. Highly recommended.
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