The staff of a Korean War field hospital use humor and hijinks to keep their sanity in the face of the horror of war.
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DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined. Fernando Rey, Stéphane Audran, Delphine Seyrig, and Jean-Pierre Cassel head the extraordinary cast of this 1972 Oscar winner for Best Foreign Film. Criterion is proud to present The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie in an exclusive double-disc special edition.
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS -PG13
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The plot focuses on Avon lady Peg Boggs, who encounters a shy and quirky looking man named Edward in a decaying, isolated and highly ornate mansion located on a large hill, overlooking a brightly coloured American suburbia. The man, who has hands made of scissors?is adopted by Peg into her own view on the ‘typical American’ family. There he falls in love with Peg’s teenage daughter Kim Boggs, however their innocent relationship could potentially threaten Kim’s romance with Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) however Edward’s presence eventually brings love to everyone in his newly adopted neighbourhood.
GOODBYE, LENIN -R
In 1990, to protect his fragile mother from a fatal shock after a long coma; a young man must keep her from learning that her beloved nation of East Germany as she knew it has disappeared.
HANNAH AND HER SISTERS – PG13
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah’s husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
THE PLAYER – R
A studio script screener gets on the bad side of a writer by not accepting his script. The writer is sending him threatening postcards. The screener tries to identify the writer in order to pay him off so he’ll be left alone, and then in a case of mistaken identity gone awry, he accidentally gives the writer solid ammunition for blackmail. This plot is written on a backdrop of sleazy Hollywood deals and several subplots involving the politics of the industry.