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Fargo: Nominated for seven Oscars including Best Picture this darkly amusing thriller combines a first-rate cast, a dazzling mix of mirth and malice and an unusual kidnapping plot that unravels the Midwest. Jerry (Macy), a small-town car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt.. but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs (Buscemi and Stormare) to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. Enter Police Chief Marge (Frances McDormand), a coffee-drinking...

Aeon is the rebels' best hope of overthrowing the oppressively sterile, "perfect" society. But while on assignment to gun down the government's leader, Aeon uncovers a web of startling secrets that could completely change the world's future in this gripping sci-fi action thriller based on the ground-breaking MTV animated series.

Set in 1973, it chronicles the funny and often poignant coming-of-age of 15-year-old music fanatic William (Patrick Fugit). Having managed to land an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview the up-and-coming band Stillwater, fronted by lead guitarist Russell Hammond (Billy Crudup), and with the help of gorgeous "band aid" Penny Lane (Kate Hudson), William finds himself drawn into the band's inner circle, despite the objections of his over-protective mother (Frances McDormand). As...

The Break-Up/Friends With Money/Along Came Polly DVD

Liam Neeson and Frances McDormand star in this explosive, action-packed thriller from director Sam Raimi ( Spider-Man ). Dr. Peyton Westlake (Neeson) is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love (McDormand...

Description: Dark yet funny, this highly original and critically acclaimed thriller follows the plight of Jerry Lundegaard, a hapless car salesman so deep in debt, he hires two thugs to kidnap his wife. But he doesn't bargain for Police Chief Marge Gunderson, heavily pregnant and determined to solve the crime. You betcha, yah.

On the DVD: The Man Who Wasn't There comes to DVD in a sharp, clean 1.85:1 anamorphic transfer that captures all the depth and subtlety of Deakins' superb photography, impeccably matched by the crystal-clear Dolby 5.1 Surround Sound. A lavish helping of extras includes a trailer and two TV spots, stills photo gallery, filmographies, a 16-minute "making of" featurette, an overlong (47 minutes) interview with Deakins, a batch of deleted scenes, and best of all, the voice-over commentary. This gives...

An all-star cast, including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, Tilda Swinton and John Malkovich, come together in this outrageous spy comedy about murder, blackmail, sex addiction and physical fitness! When a disc filled with some of the CIA’s most irrelevant secrets gets in the hands of two determined, but dim-witted, gym employees, the duo are intent on exploiting their find. But since blackmail is a trade better left for the experts, events soon spiral out of everyone’s and anyone’s...

Starring oscar Winning Actor Gene Hackman and Academy Award nominee Willem Dafoe, Mississippi Buring ranks as one of the most potent and insightful views of racial turmoil yet produced. Nominated for 6 Oscars (Best Picture, Best Director, (Alan Parker), Best Actor, (Hackman) Best Supporting Actress, (Frances McDormand) Best Editing, Best Sound) and winner of an Academy Award for Best Cinematography, this emotionally charged film vividly captures a crucial chapter in American history. As three civil...

Elaine Miller (Frances McDormand) is a bright, loving, but strict single parent whose distrust of rock music and fears about drug use have helped to drive a wedge between herself and her two children, Anita (Zooey Deschanel) and William (Patrick Fugit). Anita rebels by dropping out of school and becoming a stewardess, but William makes something of his love of rock & roll by writing album reviews for a local underground newspaper. William's work attracts the attention of Lester Bangs (Philip Seymour...

Frances McDormand stars as Jane, a successful dress designer who has taken to wild public outbursts, stops washing her hair, and is married to a kind man who might be gay (Simon McBurney). Joan Cusack is Franny, a multimillionaire who appears to have the perfect life with her husband (Greg Germann) and kids. Catherine Keener plays Christine, who is building her dream house and writing a screenplay with her husband (Jason Isaacs) as their life together is crumbling. And the youngest of the foursome...

Matt Damon stars in Promised Land, the compelling contemporary drama based on an original screenplay by John Krasinski and Damon and directed by Gus Van Sant (Milk, Good Will Hunting). Corporate salesman Steve Butler (Damon) has been dispatched to the rural town of McKinley with his sales partner (Frances McDormand) to offer much-needed relief to the economically hard-hit residents in exchange for drilling rights to their properties. What seems like an easy job for the duo quickly becomes...

Comedy about the shifting relationships between four women who have been friends all of their adult lives. The three friends with money, Franny (Joan Cusack), Jane (Frances McDormand), and Christine (Catherine Keener), share a concern for Olivia (Jennifer Aniston) who seems unable to make a living or sustain a relationship ­ at least by their standards. Their group examination of her lack of options magnifies each of their own doubts and concerns about the marriages and careers to which they have...

Using the short stories of Raymond Carver as a springboard American maverick director Robert Altman weaves a tapestry of interlocking tales set against the seedy backdrop of contemporary middle-class Los Angeles. Tracking the various stages of denial rage and despair in the lives of several couples--a philandering cop and his masochistic spouse (Tim Robbins and Madeline Stowe) a helicopter pilot who gets revenge on his ex by trashing her house (Peter Gallagher and Frances McDormand) a man and...

When attorney Julie Hastings (Frances McDormand) uncovers corrupt city real estate dealings, evil thugs attack her scientist boyfriend, Peyton Westlake (Liam Neeson). Left for dead after his lab is detonated, he miraculously survives when the ensuing blast hurls him into the nearby harbour. Treated as a John Doe at a city hospital, he is unknowingly submitted to radical therapy that numbs his nerves to feeling--but which heightens his strength and his emotions. Once conscious, Peyton escapes from...

Wonder Boys is one of those films in which more twists and turns disrupt the life of the hero in one weekend than would bother most of us our whole lives. Professor Grady Tripp (Michael Douglas) is an aging one-novel wunderkind at a small Pittsburgh college who's labouring on his seven-years-in-the-making, 2000-plus-page second opus with no end in sight. The morning of the college's literary Glastonbury, Word Fest, Grady's wife leaves him; that evening, his mistress (Frances McDormand) announces...