Disturbia (Widescreen Edition)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
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  • Disturbia
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  • When will 2007 recover?
  • Disturbing
 Disturbia (Widescreen Edition)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf , Sarah Roemer , Carrie-Anne Moss , David Morse , and Aaron Yoo
Director: D.J. Caruso
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ASIN: B000RO6K9E
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Alfred Hitchcock fans may experience déjà vu upon exposure to this voyeuristic thriller. That's because director DJ Caruso (The Salton Sea) and co-writer Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye) use Rear Window as a jumping-off point before cherry-picking from more recent scare fare, like The Blair Witch Project. In the prologue, 17-year-old Kale (Shia LaBeouf, Holes) loses his beloved father to a car crash. A year passes, and he's still on edge. When a teacher makes a careless remark about his dad, Kale punches him out, and is sentenced to house arrest. After his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento) takes away his Xbox and iTunes privileges, the suburban slacker spies on his neighbors to pass the time. In the process, he develops a crush on Ashley (Sarah Roemer, The Grudge 2), the hot girl next door, and becomes convinced that another, the soft-spoken Mr. Turner (David Morse, The Green Mile), is a serial killer. With the help of the flirtatious Ashley, practical joke-playing pal Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and an array of high-tech gadgets, like cell-phone cameras and digital camcorders, Kale sets out to solve a major case without leaving his yard (a feat that would prove more challenging for a less affluent sleuth). In the end, it's pretty familiar stuff, but there are plenty of scares once Turner realizes he's being watched, and rising star LaBeouf, who next appears in Michael Bay's Transformers, makes for an engaging leading man--despite his character's propensity for slugging Spanish instructors. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Beyond Disturbia

Why We Love Shia LaBeouf
The Soundtrack
Rear Window

Stills from Disturbia (click for larger image)










Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Suprisingly good.......2007-09-12

The first half of "Disturbia" is rather bland....Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is placed under house arrest for popping his teacher and he begins a three-month "incarceration" by watching videos and looking pretty bored. But after he picks up his binoculars and begins scouting the neighbors, things accelerate. Loosely based on Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window", "Disturbia" is an update with gizmos. One cannot imagine this film working on any level unless everyone had a cellphone. "Disturbia" is aimed at a younger crowd but an appealing performance by LaBeouf helps it to a satisfying conclusion.

5 out of 5 stars Disturbia.......2007-09-09

This movie is one of those you just can't look away from when watching. It keeps you right there as if you are there. It's a great movie, must see. I highly recommend this one.

5 out of 5 stars BETTER than Hitchcock !!.......2007-09-08

What a great movie - definately recommended if you want superb acting , perfectly selected cast and nail biting edge of seat tension throughout the 2nd half of the film once the plot and characters were established . I cannot think of anything wrong with this film if you like your thrillers to be exactly that - to "THRILL" .Buy it - you'll love it !!

3 out of 5 stars When will 2007 recover?.......2007-09-06

It is funny the attitude we movie goers have taken to in 2007. Something as apologetically cautious as Disturbia is getting recognition. And do you want to know why? It doesn't really do much to make you dislike it. It doesnt do anything jolting either. It just plays it safe and goes on without trying too hard. And in my rather humored conscience, that is probably the only reason it was as successful as it managed to be.

Learn from Alpha Dog, do watch this film but check out how much Alpha Dog had to offer and compare. Not a bad film, just underwhelming.

5 out of 5 stars Disturbing.......2007-09-06

SPOILERS:
The first few minutes of the movie lived up to the first part of the title. It disturbed me how quickly a day of fishing turned into road rage and then into a brutal death. From there, it was pure adrenaline. Voyeurs are the most interesting types of people to make a movie about because of what they think they see and what they actually see. This movie captures that. All in all, it caught me off guard and I'm for sure, after renting it twice, going to buy it.
Disturbia (Full Screen Edition)
Average customer rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars
  • Suprisingly good
  • Disturbia
  • BETTER than Hitchcock !!
  • When will 2007 recover?
  • Disturbing
 Disturbia (Full Screen Edition)
Starring: Shia LaBeouf , Sarah Roemer , Carrie-Anne Moss , David Morse , and Aaron Yoo
Director: D.J. Caruso
Manufacturer: Dreamworks Video
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ASIN: B000RO6K8K
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Alfred Hitchcock fans may experience déjà vu upon exposure to this voyeuristic thriller. That's because director DJ Caruso (The Salton Sea) and co-writer Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye) use Rear Window as a jumping-off point before cherry-picking from more recent scare fare, like The Blair Witch Project. In the prologue, 17-year-old Kale (Shia LaBeouf, Holes) loses his beloved father to a car crash. A year passes, and he's still on edge. When a teacher makes a careless remark about his dad, Kale punches him out, and is sentenced to house arrest. After his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento) takes away his Xbox and iTunes privileges, the suburban slacker spies on his neighbors to pass the time. In the process, he develops a crush on Ashley (Sarah Roemer, The Grudge 2), the hot girl next door, and becomes convinced that another, the soft-spoken Mr. Turner (David Morse, The Green Mile), is a serial killer. With the help of the flirtatious Ashley, practical joke-playing pal Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and an array of high-tech gadgets, like cell-phone cameras and digital camcorders, Kale sets out to solve a major case without leaving his yard (a feat that would prove more challenging for a less affluent sleuth). In the end, it's pretty familiar stuff, but there are plenty of scares once Turner realizes he's being watched, and rising star LaBeouf, who next appears in Michael Bay's Transformers, makes for an engaging leading man--despite his character's propensity for slugging Spanish instructors. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Beyond Disturbia

Why We Love Shia LaBeouf
The Soundtrack
Rear Window

Stills from Disturbia (click for larger image)










Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Suprisingly good.......2007-09-12

The first half of "Disturbia" is rather bland....Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is placed under house arrest for popping his teacher and he begins a three-month "incarceration" by watching videos and looking pretty bored. But after he picks up his binoculars and begins scouting the neighbors, things accelerate. Loosely based on Alfred Hitchcock's "Rear Window", "Disturbia" is an update with gizmos. One cannot imagine this film working on any level unless everyone had a cellphone. "Disturbia" is aimed at a younger crowd but an appealing performance by LaBeouf helps it to a satisfying conclusion.

5 out of 5 stars Disturbia.......2007-09-09

This movie is one of those you just can't look away from when watching. It keeps you right there as if you are there. It's a great movie, must see. I highly recommend this one.

5 out of 5 stars BETTER than Hitchcock !!.......2007-09-08

What a great movie - definately recommended if you want superb acting , perfectly selected cast and nail biting edge of seat tension throughout the 2nd half of the film once the plot and characters were established . I cannot think of anything wrong with this film if you like your thrillers to be exactly that - to "THRILL" .Buy it - you'll love it !!

3 out of 5 stars When will 2007 recover?.......2007-09-06

It is funny the attitude we movie goers have taken to in 2007. Something as apologetically cautious as Disturbia is getting recognition. And do you want to know why? It doesn't really do much to make you dislike it. It doesnt do anything jolting either. It just plays it safe and goes on without trying too hard. And in my rather humored conscience, that is probably the only reason it was as successful as it managed to be.

Learn from Alpha Dog, do watch this film but check out how much Alpha Dog had to offer and compare. Not a bad film, just underwhelming.

5 out of 5 stars Disturbing.......2007-09-06

SPOILERS:
The first few minutes of the movie lived up to the first part of the title. It disturbed me how quickly a day of fishing turned into road rage and then into a brutal death. From there, it was pure adrenaline. Voyeurs are the most interesting types of people to make a movie about because of what they think they see and what they actually see. This movie captures that. All in all, it caught me off guard and I'm for sure, after renting it twice, going to buy it.
The Breakfast Club (High School Reunion Collection)
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • No better than begging at the table, doggie
  • "Don't you forget about me..."
  • Why bother?
  • THE BEST OF THE BEST TEEN FLICKS
  • More 80's Movie Era
 The Breakfast Club (High School Reunion Collection)
Starring: Mary Christian , Perry Crawford , Ron Dean , Emilio Estevez , and Tim Gamble
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ASIN: B0000A98ZP
Release Date: 2003-09-02

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John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (Sixteen Candles), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. The DVD release includes production notes, cast and crew bios, widescreen presentation, Dolby sound, closed captioning, optional French and Spanish soundtracks, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars No better than begging at the table, doggie.......2007-09-02

When did dysfunction become something you celebrate with evening family screenings on the courthouse lawn with funny hats, foam-filled chairs, sacs of nutritionless substances and an out-of-place Husker Du reference? Or is it? I like to split up into three sections and go zooming across the screen, feet up like hooks, tail grinding in the gravy. How does a director even convince human beings to act in such a manner? Hi, have you heard, I'm the nerd. Then they show it at the retro soc hop iGasm. And you take your disillusioned significant other, palms pasty, hands clasped awkwardly and tight, reaching toward one last empty grasp at what is now long past, becoming a biased memory. You know what a breakfast club is? It's where you compare the size of your sausages and -- ladies in da hizzo -- your eggs.

5 out of 5 stars "Don't you forget about me...".......2007-08-31

The Breakfast Club is still one of the finest teen flicks of all-time. Talented and an energetic cast which includes: Emilo Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, and Judd Nelson. This is a film I can watch over and over again, it's that good! If you want a great comedy/drama then The Breakfast Club is for you. Ally Sheedy steals every scene with her strange and lovable behavior. I highly recommend checking this winner out!

2 out of 5 stars Why bother?.......2007-08-20

Let me say from the get-go that I truly believe The Breakfast Club to be one of the best movies of all time. So I was excited to hear about a new edition. Sad to say, it is simply not worth it--at all! So what of the music was remastered? Yippy Shermer Skippy. If the film stock had been restored and remastered, it might be different. But the music/soundtrack? Yawn.

Then there's the fact that there are no extras, no deleted scenes, nothing.

And lastly, I was majorly annoyed to be forced to watch four movie ads prior to getting to the menu. You CANNOT hit Stop, you CANNOT hit Menu, you CANNOT hit Pause...once this DVD is in, you will always, always have to sit through four movie ads before you get to the menu! "Action forbidden by disc" is what you'll see. Lame!

Keep your old DVD copy. The picture is the same, and that's what counts. Call me when the real extras edition shows up with interviews, extra scenes, etc.

5 out of 5 stars THE BEST OF THE BEST TEEN FLICKS.......2007-08-09

If you have teens in you house, make sure they see this flick. Ok, so there is some strong language but don't kid yourself, they know it already. What this film has to say about the teenage condition, school, teachers and parents should not be missed. It should be required viewing for all in-coming high school freshman. Brilliant performances by all, a great cast, and a sterling view of what it is like (what it has always been like) to be a teen and face the pressures of growing up, expressing your individuality, coping with who you are, and learning to live, love and accept others for what they may be.

Ironically, everyone will walk away understanding how misunderstanding they have been of high school kids.

5 out of 5 stars More 80's Movie Era.......2007-07-23

What do you get when you put 5 teenagers from different social sectors of the high school heirachy in detention on a cold saturday? Lots of laughs and revelations that's what. Having these 5 characters spending a saturday in detention with a demented school principal, things are bound to go wrong. Running the corridors for some food, or sitting upstairs in the library and talking about not wanting to become their parents is tough stuff for this lot. They all realize by the end that they are not all that different. A great John Hughes film about teenage angst set in a high school is great viewing. For those like myself who love the 80's movie, this one is sure to be in any movie buff collection.
Disturbia [Blu-ray]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Great Thriller
  • If it wasn't for the girl in the bikini, I would have given it 1 star!
  • Great Movie Overall
  • And I'd Have Gotten Away With it Too if Not for You Meddling Kids!
 Disturbia [Blu-ray]
Starring: David Morse , Carrie-Anne Moss , Viola Davis , Shia LaBeouf , and Jose Pablo Cantillo
Director: D.J. Caruso
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
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ASIN: B000RO6K80
Release Date: 2007-08-07

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Alfred Hitchcock fans may experience déjà vu upon exposure to this voyeuristic thriller. That's because director DJ Caruso (The Salton Sea) and co-writer Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye) use Rear Window as a jumping-off point before cherry-picking from more recent scare fare, like The Blair Witch Project. In the prologue, 17-year-old Kale (Shia LaBeouf, Holes) loses his beloved father to a car crash. A year passes, and he's still on edge. When a teacher makes a careless remark about his dad, Kale punches him out, and is sentenced to house arrest. After his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento) takes away his Xbox and iTunes privileges, the suburban slacker spies on his neighbors to pass the time. In the process, he develops a crush on Ashley (Sarah Roemer, The Grudge 2), the hot girl next door, and becomes convinced that another, the soft-spoken Mr. Turner (David Morse, The Green Mile), is a serial killer. With the help of the flirtatious Ashley, practical joke-playing pal Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and an array of high-tech gadgets, like cell-phone cameras and digital camcorders, Kale sets out to solve a major case without leaving his yard (a feat that would prove more challenging for a less affluent sleuth). In the end, it's pretty familiar stuff, but there are plenty of scares once Turner realizes he's being watched, and rising star LaBeouf, who next appears in Michael Bay's Transformers, makes for an engaging leading man--despite his character's propensity for slugging Spanish instructors. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Beyond Disturbia

Why We Love Shia LaBeouf
The Soundtrack
Rear Window

Stills from Disturbia (click for larger image)










Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars Great Thriller .......2007-09-09

Loved the movie it has just the right ingredients to make a good thriller without being too violent or made for kids. Looks fantastic on Blu Ray

2 out of 5 stars If it wasn't for the girl in the bikini, I would have given it 1 star!.......2007-09-01

If it wasn't for the girl in the bikini, I would have given it 1 star!
I'm not sure how this movie got rated so high (7.2/10 on IMDB, bikini votes), it was a less than average movie, nothing special.
The story was pretty weak, many cheesy lines and instances, and the acting not so great.
It starts cheesy and ends predictable, a typical Hollywood revisited idea made worse.
Don't waste your money, rent it first.

5 out of 5 stars Great Movie Overall.......2007-08-31

I remember seeing this movie on a special sneak preview occasion and I must say that I was impressed with it then and I am totally even more impresssed with it now in HD on Blu-ray. Although I usa a PS3 as my primary and only Blu-ray, it does the job very well!!! I purchased this title mainly because of its great storyline, cinematography, and the fact that its one of the last titles made on Blu-ray before Paramount's switch to HD-DVD which I think was a huge mistake! Anyhow, the movie does not feel low-budget, but offers a great sense of action, thrill, and suspense. Go watch it.

3 out of 5 stars And I'd Have Gotten Away With it Too if Not for You Meddling Kids!.......2007-08-27

Three months before Shia LaBeouf's leading role in the Summer of 2007's blockbuster Transformers, he appeared in Disturbia. And he seems to have gotten into the same character for his roles in both films: a kind of missing link from Scooby Doo's gang Scooby Doo, Where Are You! - The Complete First and Second Seasons .

"Every killer lives next door to someone" is the tagline on the movie poster, and the movie's trailer expands on the spoiler-tagline by coming right out with the detail of how a high school senior (LaBeouf) living under house-arrest discovers his neighbor is a serial killer. So all that's left untold for viewers in Disturbia is what LaBeeouf's character and friends do about it.

Disturbia makes frequent attempts at humor, but most of the intended funny moments border on corny. The target audience of this movie clearly comes off as 13 - 24 year olds...the Scream crowd Scream Trilogy - Boxed Set . But Disturbia is far from how well done the Scream films were done. Kids and young adults will find some of the humor in Disturbia amusing, but serious thriller fans will tire quickly of some of the campyness.

There are some good, thrilling moments in Disturbia, but the suspense is lost in how predictable the movie is...especially after how much of the plot is deliberately given in advance to viewers that saw the trailer.

Overall the movie was good, and the I-just-have-to-see-what-happens-next factor kept me interested enough to be entertained. But this weekend I also watched 2002's Scooby Doo - The Movie Scooby Doo - The Movie [Blu-ray] , and I found it much more entertaining than Disturbia, and Scooby Doo was even less predictable. Zoinks!


Disturbia [HD DVD]
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • not your typical kids movie
  • Good HD DVD Title
  • A THRILLER TO THE VERY END!
 Disturbia [HD DVD]
Starring: Shia LaBeouf , Sarah Roemer , Carrie-Anne Moss , David Morse , and Aaron Yoo
Director: D.J. Caruso
Manufacturer: Dreamworks
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ASIN: B000RO6K9O
Release Date: 2007-08-07

Product Description

Dreamworks Disturbia (HD-DVD)
After his father's accidental death, Kale (Shia LaBeouf) remains withdrawn and troubled. When he lashes out at a well-intentioned but insensitive teacher, he finds himself undera court-ordered house arrest. His mother continues to cope, working extra shifts to support herselfand her son, as she tries in vain to understand the changes in his personality. The walls of his house begin to close in on Kale as he takes chances to extend the boundaries both physical and emotional - of his confinement. His interests turn outside the windows of his suburban home toward those ofhis neighbors, including a mutual attraction to the new girl next door (Sarah Roemer). Together, they begin to suspect that another neighbor is a serial killer. Are their suspicions merely the product of Kale's cabin fever and vivid imagination? Or have they unwittingly stumbled across a crime thatcould cost them their lives?

Amazon.com

Alfred Hitchcock fans may experience déjà vu upon exposure to this voyeuristic thriller. That's because director DJ Caruso (The Salton Sea) and co-writer Carl Ellsworth (Red Eye) use Rear Window as a jumping-off point before cherry-picking from more recent scare fare, like The Blair Witch Project. In the prologue, 17-year-old Kale (Shia LaBeouf, Holes) loses his beloved father to a car crash. A year passes, and he's still on edge. When a teacher makes a careless remark about his dad, Kale punches him out, and is sentenced to house arrest. After his mom (Carrie-Anne Moss, Memento) takes away his Xbox and iTunes privileges, the suburban slacker spies on his neighbors to pass the time. In the process, he develops a crush on Ashley (Sarah Roemer, The Grudge 2), the hot girl next door, and becomes convinced that another, the soft-spoken Mr. Turner (David Morse, The Green Mile), is a serial killer. With the help of the flirtatious Ashley, practical joke-playing pal Ronnie (Aaron Yoo), and an array of high-tech gadgets, like cell-phone cameras and digital camcorders, Kale sets out to solve a major case without leaving his yard (a feat that would prove more challenging for a less affluent sleuth). In the end, it's pretty familiar stuff, but there are plenty of scares once Turner realizes he's being watched, and rising star LaBeouf, who next appears in Michael Bay's Transformers, makes for an engaging leading man--despite his character's propensity for slugging Spanish instructors. --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Beyond Disturbia

Why We Love Shia LaBeouf
The Soundtrack
Rear Window

Stills from Disturbia (click for larger image)










Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars not your typical kids movie.......2007-09-10

This movie is Shia laboeuf at his best. It has a generous mix of intrigue and action suspense. Overall, i thoroughly enjoyed this movie. It is meant for adults that are young at heart.

4 out of 5 stars Good HD DVD Title.......2007-08-20

I am still searching for the best movie to show off my HD DVD other than Planet Earth. Is the the movie... Well picture is great and crisp, thes sound is great, the story is pretty good, no major plot holes, the acting is very good especially from Shia LaBeouf, who is very funny. Yet even though I liked this movie it was not impressive enough for me to buy to feel the urge to buy. My advice rent before you buy.

5 out of 5 stars A THRILLER TO THE VERY END!.......2007-08-12

I have been purchasing various HD DVD titles for my new Toshiba HD A2 DVD player. I was anxious to see this movie, so decided to purchase it on HD DVD. The movie itself was a nail biter from start to finish and did not cease to keep my attention for one minute. The acting was great, the musical score added to the intensity of the film, and the story itself was intriguing. As for the HD quality, it was equally impressive, with crisp, clear images and equally clear, crisp audio. I would highly recommend this DVD to anyone who loves a great thriller and for the HD quality as well.
Rosenstrasse
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • A Holocaust movie with a difference
  • Love and Honour
  • Wonderfully structured movie
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  • A MAGNIFICENT FILM...
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Starring: Katja Riemann , Maria Schrader , Martin Feifel , Jürgen Vogel , and Jutta Lampe
Director: Margarethe von Trotta
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ASIN: B0006IIKRQ
Release Date: 2005-01-18

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4 out of 5 stars A Holocaust movie with a difference.......2007-03-17

For me, this movie is very different than other Holocaust movies, in that it explores the issue of what happened to Jewish spouses of Aryan women...the story itself is based on a true occurrence, and the movie begins with a wake...the widow is tormented by visions of her past in wartime Berlin & shows disapproval at her daughter's choice of a non-Jewish fiance...the daughter then discovers there is more to her mother's past than she was ever told, and travels to Germany to discover her mother's past...the story is told in flashbacks through reminiscences, and basically focusses on the plight of Aryan women in Berlin whose Jewish husbands have been confined in a place called Rosenstrasse...I won't give too much away, but I must say that for a slow-paced movie, it is quite gripping as we are kept guessing as to the final fate of the Jewish spouses...as for the acting, the characters from the past did an excellent job, their performances were very realistic, and heart-wrenching, especially the actress who plays the main role of Mrs Fabian Fischer, the Aryan wife. In the present day, the actress who plays the daughter who seeks to unearth her mother's past wasn't very convincing, but all in all the story itself makes up for other lacks in the movie, and it is definitely watchable for the unique plot.

5 out of 5 stars Love and Honour.......2006-05-03

Having read about the Rosenstrasse miracle in various books I rejoiced when somebody chose to make a movie about it. I eventually managed to get a copy.

It is an incident unique in the story of the Holocaust. Fanatical nazis in Berlin of all places were forced to return Jews they wished to deport to the Death Camps. It happened when they seized mixed marriage Jews as part of the Berlin Round up. And much to their astonishment, their German spouses showed up outside the place they were kept demanding their release.

Much to everybody's astonishment, they got it shortly aferwards.

This is their story.

I must confess I thought the New York scenes where the main character starts by meeting a relative her mother doesn't tell her about were rather flat and two dimensional. The modern German scenes weren't that bad but the scenes set during WWII Berlin were superb. Great costuming. Great scene organization and set design. Nice drama. Good character portrayal. A happy ending, something unique for Holocost films.

Overall, this is a great film.

5 out of 5 stars Wonderfully structured movie.......2005-10-07

The structure of the movie reminded me of "Eleni", a weaving of the past and present as a child goes back to investigate the horrors that were the parent's past. Starts slowly but settles into a pace that can be truly savored. This is a movie that I will find myself revisiting again and again.

5 out of 5 stars rosenstrasse.......2005-09-25

i am being a bit naughty here. the review is not about the film. the review is about amazing amazon. every time i buy something - maybe for about 10 years now, my order is perfectly tracked, timeously delivered and i am one happy customer, every time.

the one and only time i complained about non-delivery, amazon offered an apology and replaced all the goods.

one week later, i found the original package in my home - my son had received it and had forgotten to tell me. i contacted amazon who merely suggested i keep the original delivery - and when i offered that they debit my card a second time, amazon graciously declined.

what a company!!!
michael cohn
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5 out of 5 stars A MAGNIFICENT FILM..........2005-09-07

This film is based upon the true story of the German women who, during Word War II, protested the internment of their Jewish husbands in a building located on Rosenstrasse, a street in Berlin. These were women who defied the Nazi status quo by remaining married to the husbands whom they loved so dearly, although it came with a price.

The film tells the story through the juxtaposition of the present and the past. The story is told in flashback. In the present, the viewer is introduced to Ruth Weinstein (Jutta Lampe), a secular Jewish woman, living in present day New York, She has just lost her husband, and appears to have lost her senses, as well. She insists that her family sit Shiva, speaking only German while observing Orthodox traditions. She refuses to acknowledge her first cousin, who has come to pay her respects. Ruth also refuses to acknowledge Luis Marquez (Fedja van Huet), her only daughter's Nicaraguan, non-Jewish fiance. Luis had been a protoge of the deceased, who had had no issue with the idea of Luis marrying his daughter. Ruth now forbids her daughter to marry Luis or she will disown her. Hannah (Maria Schrader), the daughter, is at a loss to account for her mother's seemingly irrational behavior and is totally appalled by it.

When Hannah speaks to her mother's first cousin, whom she had never before met, she discovers that her mother had lived with her first cousin and her family when she first came to the United States from Germany. Hannah comes away thinking that the answer to her mother's apparent derangement lies in Berlin, with an Aryan woman Hannah does not even know is still alive. This woman had, apparently, saved Ruth's life during the Nazi's reign of terror. This was news to Hannah, as she knew virtually nothing of her mother's past, as Ruth had never spoken to her about it. When her mother insists on remaining uncommunicative on the issue, Hannah decides that for all their sakes, she needs to get some answers. So, she goes off to Germany to seek in the past the answers that she cannot get in the present.

Fortunately for her, she discovers that the woman for which she is looking is, indeed, alive, although quite elderly. She contacts the woman, ninety year old Lena Fischer (Doris Schade), telling her that she is doing research on the issue of Aryans and their Jewish spouses during World War II. Ms. Fischer agrees to see her, and during their session the story of her mother unfolds in flashback, In Berlin of 1943, many Jews married to Aryans were swept up by the Nazis and taken to a building on Rosenstrasse to await a determination of their fate. Virtual prisoners, their spouses and children were unable to communicate with them. Ruth's mother, Miriam Sussman (Lena Stolze), was one of these Jews. Her daughter, eight year old Ruth Sussman (Svea Lohde), had escaped her mother's fate, as she had obeyed her mother's instructions when the Nazis paid the Sussman home a visit. Unfortunately for Ruth's mother, the Nazis discovered that her Aryan husband had divorced her two years prior, thereby sealing her fate, and she, unknown to Ruth, is transported East. One can well imagine what happened to her.

At the same time, Fabian Israel Fischer (Martin Feifel) is also swept up from the factory where he works and taken to the building on Rosenstrasse. Fortunately for him, his wife, thirty-three year old Lena Fischer (Katja Riemann), is an Aryan devoted to her husband. Both are musicians. She is a concert pianist, and he is a violinist. They met before the war, bonding through their music. Although he is Jewish, and she is a member of a noble Aryan family, the von Eschenbachs, they married. Her father, however, disowned her for marrying Fischer. Her mother was sympathetic but under her father's thumb. Her brother, Arthur (Jurgen Vogel), however, remained loyal to his sister and friendly with his brother-in-law. With the rise of the Nazis, life for the Fischers changed. They were forced to live in reduced circumstances, giving up the music that they loved. Instead, Fabian was made to work in a factory from which he was taken peremptorily to the building on Rosenstrasse.

Lena sought the help of her brother, Arthur, now a soldier in the German army. He is sympathetic and tries to get Fabian released to no avail. Lena herself tried, but was looked down upon as little more than a whore for having married a Jew whom she now refuses to divorce. Instead, she stood vigil for her husband, Fabian, with the other Aryan women on Rosenstrasse, and it was there that she met Ruth Sussman. Ruth attached herself to Lena, and Lena assumed responsibility for the child. Without Lena, Ruth would never have survived. Lena takes care of Ruth for three years, forming a mother-daughter bond. After the war, Ruth's aunt, her mother's sister, claimed Ruth, and Lena was forced to send Ruth to join her aunt in America. Ruth never knew what happened to her mother, Miriam, and never understood why Lena, her surrogate mother, gave her up to go and live with total strangers. It is Ruth's ignorance of the situation that lies at the heart of her dysfunction.

What happens to them all during the war and the impact that the Nazis were to have on all their lives makes for a well told tale. The film offers a very balanced view of ordinary Germans in war time, telling a story not generally known. Under the deft direction of Margarethe von Trotta, the performances in this film are phenomenal, and the film has won many awards. Katja Riemann won the Best Actress Award at the 2003 Venice Film Festival. It won the David Di Donatello Award in 2004 for Best European Film. At the Bavarian Film Awards in 2004, it won for Best Cinematography. This is a powerful and compelling film that is totally riveting. Bravo!
House of D
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • If you love Robin Williams
  • David Duchovny is wonderful!
  • I LOVE IT!
  • Magnificant Movie David D.
  • wonderful film of a boy's coming of age
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Starring: Magali Amadei , Erykah Badu , Harold Cartier , Alice Drummond , and Gideon Jacobs
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Release Date: 2005-10-04

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House of D is a bittersweet, moving story of an American expatriate's painful decision to come to terms with the childhood he fled in early 1970s New York City. David Duchovny wrote and directed this comedy-drama; he also stars as the adult version of the film's hero, Tom Warshaw, an illustrator who has spent most of his life in Paris and decides—on the occasion of his son's birthday—to finally reveal long-withheld facts about his past.

The bulk of the story, told in flashback, portrays 13-year-old Tom (Anton Yelchin) as a quick-witted prince of his neighborhood, a delivery boy who knows every eccentric on his bicycle route and a Catholic school kid fond of playing pranks on his clueless French teacher and soulful principal (Frank Langella). His best friend is the school's mildly retarded, 41-year-old janitor, Pappas (Robin Williams), and his advisor on matters of the heart is Lady (Erykah Badu), a prison inmate whom the fatherless Tom (or Tommy, as he's called in 1973) can neither see nor touch. Tommy's vivacity is an asset at home, where his mother (Tea Leoni), a grieving widow with a mounting addiction to pills, is slipping away from her son's ability to help. Duchovny's screenplay sometimes borders on the precious: A number of scenes are enamored with their own boldness and originality, as if Duchovny has been squirreling away lots of colorfully expressive storytelling details for years, and unloaded them here. But that flaw all but disappears in the glow of House of D's emotional resonance and honesty, not to mention several exceptional performances. Among these is Zelda Williams's work as Tommy's sage-beyond-her-years girlfriend, Melissa, whose name offers a suitable excuse to work a rather lovely Allman Brothers song into the soundtrack. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars If you love Robin Williams.......2007-08-24

For Robin Williams fans this film is a must have-I think it's one of his best roles. Also kudos to David Duchovney on his directing debut.

5 out of 5 stars David Duchovny is wonderful!.......2007-05-23

This is David Duchovny's first movie that he wrote and directed, and I really hope that he writes more! He has done some directing on a few later season episodes of X-files, but in this movie, you can really see his talent extends far beyond acting.
This is a touching story of a boy growing up in New York, and how his friends are a janitor (Robin Williams) and Lady (Erykah Badu), an inmate in the women's house of detention (hence the name house of D). I won't spoil the story for anyone who has not seen the movie. I thought this movie really portrayed what it is like for a 13 year old boy.
David Duchovny puts in some very witty lines, that really make the film. You can see how intelligent he is, much more so than most actors (he's got a Masters in Literature, and was working on his PhD, when he got into acting).
Everyone should buy this film, especially at such a great price from Amazon.

5 out of 5 stars I LOVE IT!.......2007-05-14

I picked it up on a shopping spree through the used movies at Blockbuster, and purchased it based on actors and plot synopsis. I suspect I find it especially heartwarming because like the main character (and Duchovney) I was 13 in 1973. Everyone I've shared with with has loved it and I'm here today buying a copy for my sister. And since none of the other reviewers mention it, let me give a nod to Frank Langela as The Reverend Duncan. I thought the film was beautifully done.

5 out of 5 stars Magnificant Movie David D........2007-05-14

I was not sure what to expect from someone like David Duchovny as the director and writer. I was pleasantly surprised by the story and the characters in this movie. Scenes of New York are great and love that the character Tommy has so much "life" to him. Many of us growing up have experienced life as a child and as a young person growing up-the experiences Tommy goes through with his delivery job, friends like Pappas (played by Robin Williams), first love and kiss, becoming responsible to a parent that cannot care for themselves emotionally, and over all experiencing "life". Erika Badu also playes an important role of a female that was at "The house of D" D-stands for dentention center. Young Tommy would visit this woman for advice and guidance. I loved this movie and would love to see David Duchovny write and direct more movies like this. It helped me to remember being a 13 year old and all the fun I had even if I was a girl living in the 1970's California. Great work to all, and for the person who only gave you one star for this movie. Get a life.

5 out of 5 stars wonderful film of a boy's coming of age.......2007-02-20

I got *House of D* thinking that I just might not like it. However, I was actually surprised how much I loved it, along with a few tears.

The movie is a flashback of Tom Warshaw (David Duchovny) , an American artist living in Paris. As Tom's son is soon turning 13, Tom goes back to a time when he was nearing 13.

Tommy takes care of his chain-smoking mother (Tea Leoni), who has a difficult time coping with the recent death of her husband. Although she is suppose to console Tommy, it is Tommy who actually has to look after his mother. Tommy also takes care or rather, defends his best friend. His best friend is a 41-year-old slightly retarded janitor and deliveryman, Pappass (Robin Williams). Meanwhile, Tommy is getting advice from female inmate, Lady (Erykah Badu) at the local women's house of detention about intimate issues (dancing, girls, etc.). Tommy cannot see her except her hands. They carry a conversation by shouting across as Lady is jailed on the second (or third?) floor.

With the exception of his clingy mother and his father's death, life seems to be good for Tommy. However, things take a turn for the worse when the mother overdoses on pills and becomes brain-dead and Pappass steals a bike. Ultimately, Tommy blames Lady for everything. Lady, realizing the severity of situations, riles him into further anger to make him run. Although Tommy didn't see her point, Lady was actually setting him free...to be a man.

The whole point was about a boy's journey/transition becoming a man. Despite the death of Tommy's father, Tommy had it pretty good as a boy. But, there came a point where Tommy had to lose a few things or rather, people before he could became a man. He loses his mother as well as the girl he likes. He loses trust of a "friend" whose advice he once sought. The hardest of all, he deserts his best friend. The irony here was that while Pappass was an older man, he would never actually be (or was) a man. However, in this moment, Pappass realizes that Tommny needed to go and find himself and gives his blessing.

Overall, *House of D* was a wonderful movie. David Duchovny did a superb job as a director. I'd definitely check out future movies directed by him. Go check it out, along with a few laughs and tears.
The Breakfast Club
Average customer rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
  • No better than begging at the table, doggie
  • "Don't you forget about me..."
  • Why bother?
  • THE BEST OF THE BEST TEEN FLICKS
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 The Breakfast Club
Starring: Mary Christian , Perry Crawford , Ron Dean , Emilio Estevez , and Tim Gamble
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: DVD

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ASIN: 078322687X
Release Date: 1998-04-29

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John Hughes's popular 1985 teen drama finds a diverse group of high school students--a jock (Emilio Estevez), a metalhead (Judd Nelson), a weirdo (Ally Sheedy), a princess (Molly Ringwald), and a nerd (Anthony Michael Hall)--sharing a Saturday in detention at their high school for one minor infraction or another. Over the course of a day, they talk through the social barriers that ordinarily keep them apart, and new alliances are born, though not without a lot of pain first. Hughes (Sixteen Candles), who wrote and directed, is heavy on dialogue but he also thoughtfully refreshes the look of the film every few minutes with different settings and original viewpoints on action. The movie deals with such fundamentals as the human tendency toward bias and hurting the weak, and because the characters are caught somewhere between childhood and adulthood, it's easy to get emotionally involved in hope for their redemption. Preteen and teenage kids love this film, incidentally. The DVD release includes production notes, cast and crew bios, widescreen presentation, Dolby sound, closed captioning, optional French and Spanish soundtracks, and optional Spanish subtitles. --Tom Keogh

Customer Reviews:

1 out of 5 stars No better than begging at the table, doggie.......2007-09-02

When did dysfunction become something you celebrate with evening family screenings on the courthouse lawn with funny hats, foam-filled chairs, sacs of nutritionless substances and an out-of-place Husker Du reference? Or is it? I like to split up into three sections and go zooming across the screen, feet up like hooks, tail grinding in the gravy. How does a director even convince human beings to act in such a manner? Hi, have you heard, I'm the nerd. Then they show it at the retro soc hop iGasm. And you take your disillusioned significant other, palms pasty, hands clasped awkwardly and tight, reaching toward one last empty grasp at what is now long past, becoming a biased memory. You know what a breakfast club is? It's where you compare the size of your sausages and -- ladies in da hizzo -- your eggs.

5 out of 5 stars "Don't you forget about me...".......2007-08-31

The Breakfast Club is still one of the finest teen flicks of all-time. Talented and an energetic cast which includes: Emilo Estevez, Molly Ringwald, Anthony Michael Hall, Ally Sheedy, and Judd Nelson. This is a film I can watch over and over again, it's that good! If you want a great comedy/drama then The Breakfast Club is for you. Ally Sheedy steals every scene with her strange and lovable behavior. I highly recommend checking this winner out!

2 out of 5 stars Why bother?.......2007-08-20

Let me say from the get-go that I truly believe The Breakfast Club to be one of the best movies of all time. So I was excited to hear about a new edition. Sad to say, it is simply not worth it--at all! So what of the music was remastered? Yippy Shermer Skippy. If the film stock had been restored and remastered, it might be different. But the music/soundtrack? Yawn.

Then there's the fact that there are no extras, no deleted scenes, nothing.

And lastly, I was majorly annoyed to be forced to watch four movie ads prior to getting to the menu. You CANNOT hit Stop, you CANNOT hit Menu, you CANNOT hit Pause...once this DVD is in, you will always, always have to sit through four movie ads before you get to the menu! "Action forbidden by disc" is what you'll see. Lame!

Keep your old DVD copy. The picture is the same, and that's what counts. Call me when the real extras edition shows up with interviews, extra scenes, etc.

5 out of 5 stars THE BEST OF THE BEST TEEN FLICKS.......2007-08-09

If you have teens in you house, make sure they see this flick. Ok, so there is some strong language but don't kid yourself, they know it already. What this film has to say about the teenage condition, school, teachers and parents should not be missed. It should be required viewing for all in-coming high school freshman. Brilliant performances by all, a great cast, and a sterling view of what it is like (what it has always been like) to be a teen and face the pressures of growing up, expressing your individuality, coping with who you are, and learning to live, love and accept others for what they may be.

Ironically, everyone will walk away understanding how misunderstanding they have been of high school kids.

5 out of 5 stars More 80's Movie Era.......2007-07-23

What do you get when you put 5 teenagers from different social sectors of the high school heirachy in detention on a cold saturday? Lots of laughs and revelations that's what. Having these 5 characters spending a saturday in detention with a demented school principal, things are bound to go wrong. Running the corridors for some food, or sitting upstairs in the library and talking about not wanting to become their parents is tough stuff for this lot. They all realize by the end that they are not all that different. A great John Hughes film about teenage angst set in a high school is great viewing. For those like myself who love the 80's movie, this one is sure to be in any movie buff collection.
The Breakfast Club [HD DVD]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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  • Awww. Come on!
  • The Best teen movie of the 80s.
  • Great Picture & Sound
  • Great Picture, Horrible Sound
 The Breakfast Club [HD DVD]
Starring: Mary Christian , Perry Crawford , Ron Dean , Tim Gamble , and Fran Gargano
Director: John Hughes
Manufacturer: Universal Studios
ProductGroup: DVD
Binding: HD DVD

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ASIN: B000K7VHUU
Release Date: 2006-12-26

Description

They were five students with nothing in common, faced with spending a Saturday detention together in their high school library. At 7 a.m., they had nothing to say, but by 4 p.m. they had bared their souls to each other and become good friends. John Hughes, creator of the critically acclaimed Sixteen Candles, wrote, directed and produced this hilarious and often touching comedy starring Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy. To the outside world they were simply the Jock, the Brain, the Criminal, the Princess and the Kook, but to each other, they would always be The Breakfast Club.

Customer Reviews:

5 out of 5 stars What? .......2007-06-18

Under product reviews not one of the actor's listed have I ever heard of, but those listed "ARE THE STARS" of this movie--WHAT?, how funny!. other that I love this movie.

4 out of 5 stars Awww. Come on!.......2007-06-01

I LOVE LOVE LOVE The Breakfast Club.... and i was super pleased to see it released on HD DVD.. but wtf, where's the deleted scenes and extras???? I read the original was over 2 hours long before the studio told John Hughes to cut it down... and i KNOW i've seen additional scenes on TNT... why wasnt it put on the dvd extras????
I dont need to tell a Breakfast Club fan what a great buy this is... but i am a little disappointed that it lacked extras.

5 out of 5 stars The Best teen movie of the 80s........2007-02-12

If you have seen this you know. It is a very good story on how every class and background of child in high school has there own "what they believe" hell that there life is. A great story for your teen.

5 out of 5 stars Great Picture & Sound.......2007-01-06

I watched this on my Xbox 360 HD DVD drive, and the picture, sound is incredible. I heard items out of the left and right speakers that I had never heard before, and I've seen this picture at least 100 times on regular DVD. As far as the sound track - it has never sounded better. If you enjoy the regular DVD - this one will blow you away.

2 out of 5 stars Great Picture, Horrible Sound.......2007-01-05

Unfortunately for Universal, they chose the wrong people to transfer this title. The sudio has had absolutely no remixing, and even though there is a Dolby Digital 5.1 audio track, all of the audio is mixed onto the center channel. There isn't even Stereo, the audio is all center channel mono! On top of that, the audio is muffled, the music sounds like it's being sent through a circa 1965 radio.

That having been said, the picture quality is fairly good. I would classify it as somewhere between DVD upconversion, and a true HD film transfer.

Overall, this may be the first HD DVD that I have seen that should not actually be classified as HD. With such a poor mono audio track, I would suggest skipping this HD DVD.
The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
Average customer rating: 4 out of 5 stars
  • Missing scenes from the Blu-Ray edition
  • Good movie, excellent picture and sound.
  • Great Video / Story Drags in spots
 The Great Raid (Director's Cut) [Blu-ray]
Starring: Benjamin Bratt , Robert Mammone , Connie Nielsen , Marton Csokas , and Max Martini
Director: John Dahl
Manufacturer: Miramax
ProductGroup: DVD
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ASIN: B000H7J9P8
Release Date: 2006-09-19

Customer Reviews:

4 out of 5 stars Missing scenes from the Blu-Ray edition.......2007-05-20

This is a fantastic movie - however, the Blu-Ray edition is missing at least two scenes that are included as part of the movie in the widescreen DVD release. The first scene that is missing is where Connie Nielsen is making a deal for medicine in a warehouse. The deal goes bad, and a gun battle ensues. The second is when Connie Nielsen is attemping to pay money to get Fillipino refugees transported out of a soon-to-be-warzone. Why these scenes are not included in the Blu-Ray release of TGR is unexplained. They were good scenes and helped to move the story and develop Nielsen's character. Otherwise, a top-notch Blu-Ray release.

4 out of 5 stars Good movie, excellent picture and sound........2007-02-17

This is a very good movie, and a true story. The Blu Ray disc is the best format for this movie, and provides top quality sound and picture.

4 out of 5 stars Great Video / Story Drags in spots.......2007-01-04

The Great Raid has some awesome video shots in 1080p. The audio is excellent and clear.

The movie is generally enjoyable but the plot drags in a few places.

I have 3 Sony Blu-ray units displaying on a Sony 1080p LCD, a Pioneer 1080p Plasma & a Sony 1080p projection unit. The video is awesome on all three.

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