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Angela Anaconda [1999]
Starring: Sue Rose , Ron Rubin , Sarah Ruddle , Richard Binsley , and Edward Glen Director: John Halfpenny , Kyle Menzies , and Doug Masters Manufacturer: Cinema Club ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005COW8 Release Date: 2002-07-22 ![]() |
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Joanna Ferrone and Susan Rose's Angela Anaconda is one of the most inventive and acute animated shows on children's television. Its gawky heroine Angela has a bad attitude to authority and a vivid fantasy-life that makes up for the humiliations of the everyday--her rivalry with the endlessly pretentious Nanette Manoir and the more-or-less intense dislike of her form teacher Mrs Brinks. We have a profound sense that what we are getting is Angela's side of all this but the transformations and endless sufferings through which she puts the targets of her scorn are entertaining enough to make us entirely complicit. The animation technique, combining poster paint backgrounds with almost hyper-real monochrome faces, provides an almost seamless segue from the mundane to the imagined; these six episodes take us to the Moon, the Amazon and the French Revolution while plausibly reminding us at every turn that these are children, in a classroom. --Roz Kaveney
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Angela Anaconda - Series 1 - Episodes 7 To 13 - Puppy Love And Other Stories [1999]
Starring: Sue Rose , Ron Rubin , Sarah Ruddle , Richard Binsley , and Edward Glen Director: John Halfpenny , Kyle Menzies , and Doug Masters Manufacturer: Cinema Club ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items: ASIN: B00007JGN7 Release Date: 2003-02-03 ![]() |
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Angela Anaconda - Series 1 - Episodes 14 To 20 [1999]
Starring: Sue Rose , Ron Rubin , Sarah Ruddle , Richard Binsley , and Edward Glen Director: John Halfpenny , Kyle Menzies , and Doug Masters Manufacturer: Cinema Club ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00007JGN8 Release Date: 2003-02-03 ![]() |
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Omagh [2004] (REGION 1) (NTSC)
Starring: Gerard McSorley , Michele Forbes , Brenda Fricker , Stuart Graham , and Peter Ballance Director: Pete Travis Manufacturer: Sundance ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000AQKV1C Release Date: 2005-10-18 ![]() |
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Guess Who's Coming To Dinner (40th Anniversary Edition) [1967]
Starring: Sidney Poitier , Katherine Hepburn , and Spencer Tracy Director: Stanley Kramer Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment ProductGroup: DVD Binding: DVD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000ZK9SUI Release Date: 2008-02-04 ![]() |
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Spencer Tracy's last performance was in this well-meaning, handsome film by Stanley Kramer about a pair of white parents (Tracy and Katharine Hepburn) trying to make sense of their daughter's impending marriage to an African American doctor (Sidney Poitier). The film has been knocked over the years for padding conflict and stoking easy liberalism by making Poitier's character in every socio-economic sense a good catch: But what if Kramer had made this stranger a factory worker? Would the audience still find it as easy to accept a mixed-race relationship? But there's no denying the drawing power of this movie, which gets most of its integrity from the stirring performances of Tracy and Hepburn. When the former (who had been so ill that the production could not get completion insurance) gives a speech toward the end about race, love, and much else, it's impossible not to be affected by the last great moment in a great actor's life and career. --Tom Keogh
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