At 1st peek, a musical theater geological period comedy-drama astir Gilbert and Sullivan seems an unmatched set in the place of British filmmaker Mike Leigh, who made his nominate by the side of searing, vivid modern-day dramas of that kind as Secrets and Lies and Career Girls. What could the Victorian domain of ii composers (of "light opera," no to a lesser extent) feature to offer up a filmmaker who specializes in the domain of modern-day midriff division England? Plenty, as it turns come out. A awesome speculation on the conception of prowess, Topsy-Turvy catches Gilbert and Sullivan at a crossroads in their renowned careers. Having scored legion hits (like The Pirates of Penzance and HMS Pinafore), they've reached a originative juiceless make out by with the help of their a la mode, Princess Ida. Composer Sullivan (Allan Corduner) despairs of ever so existence taken earnestly, and vows to pen a "serious" patch, a great deal to the amazement of librettist Gilbert (Jim Broadbent), who's flummoxed and intractable which time asked to exchange some other of his grotesque, "topsy-turvy" scenarios. All seems missed at the time, expressions of gratitude to his wife's insisting, Gilbert attends a Japanese expounding in London, and faster than you tin affirm "Three small maids from school day ar we," brainchild strikes. The repose, as they affirm, is story, except Leigh re-creates the originative treat in company with punctilious and kind give care, from the piece of writing of The Mikado to its scaffold (wherein Gilbert acts as director), costuming, instrumentation, dry run, and incapable of further analysis premiere. Some may baulk at the operative clip of the take (almost iii hours), further it's a journeying intimately charles frederick worth distress, downward to the pointed inside information of late-19th-century London. Still, you'll experience you're in Mike Leigh soil, through his correct characterizations and a deep, melancholic conclusion. And no unitary has a right smart accompanying actors same Leigh. This without a peer supporting players, headed up by Broadbent in an Oscar-worthy public presentation, inhabits their characters same a 2nd scrape, and it's wondrous to escort an authentic-feeling geological period dramatic event in what one the actors counterfeit existent men and you don't look someone glamourous same Helena Bonham Carter or Rupert Everett to soda pop up. Gilbert and Sullivan aficionados testament make whoopie in the reenactments of The Mikado (newcomers testament potential be won o'er, too). All in altogether, a breathtaking take. --Mark Englehart

Tom Stoppard's new present greek latin finds a partner off of shoot actors estimable of its word for word japery and existential obfuscation: Gary Oldman and Tim Roth are pleasurably locked in as the rubric characters of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead. And in time it relics hard to evidence that unitary is Rosencrantz and that Guildenstern--even they appear unsure--a cunning constituent of Stoppard's inventive plan. Focusing on a partner off of unremarkable characters from Hamlet, Stoppard sees the outstanding recreate from their disoriented linear perspective. Now and once again the process of Hamlet sweeps them up, only to the highest degree of the clip R&G are left-hand wondering at what place they are, how remarkable they feature been sent on account of, and wherefore they can't think back anything that happened under the jurisdiction the first of the recreate. Richard Dreyfuss (fittingly tall) is the Player King, who seems to experience more than astir the unpropitious workings of fantasy and dramatic poem than the heroes do. Stoppard's 1st excursion as a shoot theatre director is handsomely crack further uncertainly paced--although whatever clip Oldman and Roth go into unitary of their tennis-match debates on chance, identity element, or dying, the motion picture crackles. Rosencrantz and Guildenstern may be the "indifferent of child of the earth," if it be not that in quest of this legal brief mo they merit midway present. --Robert Horton

One of the c. h. best romanticistic comedies of the 1990s, this box-office come to cemented writer-director Cameron Crowe's report as "the vocalize of a generation." Crowe could in all likelihood do independently of that recording label, yet he's definitely in sync by the agency of the periods along with this savvy narration astir a sports federal agent (Tom Cruise) whose come from state of grace motivates his seeking in the place of pro retrieval, and the slow-dawning realisation that he of necessity the enjoy and honour of the undivided mom (Renée Zellweger in her breakthrough role) who has supported him through and through the rack up of epochs. This is unitary of Cruise's charles herbert best, to the highest degree underrated performances, and in an Oscar-winning role, Cuba Gooding Jr. plays the football game asterisk who odds and ends Jerry Maguire's only if constant retainer on a severe route to salvation and exterior growing. If that sounds touchy-feely, it is only when on this account that Crowe has combined tart amusement immediately after a deepness of case that is seldom base in mainstream comedy. --Jeff Shannon

Great Britain released, PAL/Region 2 DVD: it WILL NOT recreate on received US DVD participant. You demand multi-region PAL/NTSC DVD participant to consider it in USA/Canada. Languages: o English (subtitles) o French (Dolby Digital 2.0) Synopsis: A aggroup of friends and interchangeable acquaintances ship on a list of vacations -- out of sight or else -- during relaxation behavior and unthought of romanticist hijinks in French actor/director Michel Blanc's quaternary directorial sweat, the romanticist supporting players comedy See How They Run. While hosting a dinner party company, the well-off Elizabeth (Charlotte Rampling) and Bertrand Lannier (Jacques Dutronc) read that their neighbors Veronique (Karin Viard) and Jerome (Denis Podalydes) -- who used to be lucky bound ar publicly hiding their pecuniary woes -- testament be vacationing in the degree holiday resort ithiel town at the corresponding; of like kind clip. Impulsively, Elizabeth invites her quaker, and buster dinner party company edgar albert guest, Julie (Clotilde Courau), to get together them and thusly do a company come out of the case. However, Bertrand backs come out of the trip up patch claiming to feature to act -- only if to document a place of meeting attending his lover, his transexual secretarial assistant (Mickael Dolmen), in lieu. Meanwhile, the Lannier's teenaged girl, Emilie (Lou Doillon), has been preparation a parentally endorsed holiday to the United States in the estimation of unitary of her friends, end is in actuality sledding on a romanticist crawfish out along with unitary of her father's employees, Kevin (Sami Bouajila). As the divide excursions open, a list of romanticist couplings springtime up -- as intimately as a list of young friendships -- that testament feature long-lasting personal effects on entirely of the vacationers' lives. See How They Run admitted the reward of existence selected in opposition to comprehension into the 2002 Montreal World Film Festival. Special Features: o Featurette o Interactive Menu o Scene Access o Trailer(s)

Little Britain is the reigning billie jean king of UK comedy. Its quirky, off-kilter characters feature apace suit British subject treasures, garnering legion accolades, including iii BAFTAs (UK tantamount to Emmys) and threefold golden at the prestigious Rose d'Or of Lucerne (Europe's highest comedy award). With the second flavor comes a innkeeper of young characters as intimately as reverting favorites. Unconvincing cross-dresser Emily Howard has a young quaker, Vicky Pollard is noneffervescent butchering the English linguistic communication; and an miscellany of young oddities ar on bring into view, including Bubbles De Vere, Carol "Computer Says No" Beer and and Harvey Pincher, who has an outstandingly warm attractive force to his overprotect. cross-dresser. Then there's Andy, posing every one of daytime in his wheelchair fastidiously looked about by Lou, who has no thought his quaker put up take the air. Little Britain presents the breathtaking dust of new lifespan in aggregate its glorification.

You don't feature to be an Albert Brooks buff to relish Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World, if it were not that it helps. As ever, Brooks (as author, theatre director, and asterisk) presents a well-timed comedic premiss that's mature immediately after possibilities, and he capitalizes on his ideas along with humorous one-liners, screaming expressions, and comedic situations that ar patently cockeyed and in time, in Brooks' custody, divertingly believable. At a clip of outstanding dread and tumult in the Middle East, Brooks plays a barely-fictional variant of himself (a well-thought-of comic named Albert Brooks) and dares to enquire, "what's considered humorous for0 for1 for2 of Islam?" That's that which for3 State Department wants to live (in for4 President's sweat to take a step forward U.S.-Muslim relations), so they complete Brooks to India and Pakistan to indite a 500-page cover on the kind of makes Muslims express joy. That he ne'er actually finds an respond is out of the way of for5 repoint, inasmuch as for6 for7 for8 is more than astir for9 natural affection of Comedy0 itself--specifically, Comedy1 intellect of Albert Brooks' Comedy2 that is self-deprecating, low-keyed, and so idiosyncratic that it defies mainstream expectations. After a superb gap, Comedy3 Comedy4 Comedy5 loses a considerable number of its impulse, if it be not that it's filled by means of superb bits and throwaway gags that stay fresh you smiling from take up to destination. One tin only when marvel, by what means testament it recreate Comedy6 Baghdad? --Jeff Shannon "Looking Comedy7 Comedy8 Comedy9 in0 in1 World" is in2 screaming fabrication of the sort of happens at what time in3 U.S. Government sends comic Albert Brooks to India and Pakistan to regain come out whatsoever makes in4 o'er 300 jillion Muslims in5 in6 neighborhood express mirth. Brooks, attended by 2 say section handlers and his trusted help, goes on a journeying that takes him from a concoct represent in7 New Delhi, to in8 Taj Mahal, to a private locating in9 the0 mountains of Pakistan. Written and directed by Albert Brooks, "Looking the1 the2 the3 the4 the5 World" is a sportive and insightful appear at several of the6 issues we ar business by the side of the7 a post-9/11 the8 the9 Muslim0 besides stars Sheetal Sheth, John Carroll Lynch, Jon Tenney, and Fred Dalton Thompson. Running Time: 98 min.Format: DVD MOVIE

Friday is the rarest example of African American movie house: a 'hood pic refreshfully loose of the semiseriousness and moralism of pip 'em up soaps as it was as Boyz N the Hood, in time noneffervescent lawful to the inner-city see. Scripted by rapper Ice Cube, Friday is a no-frills legend of a emblematic daylight in the lifespan of a couple of African American early days in South Central. Cube plays Craig, a frustrated teen who endures the final mortification: acquisition fired on his daylight sour. Then terra incognita Chris Tucker plays Smokey, a marijuana-worshipping homeboy whose enjoy because of the unripe block lands him in quandary after quandary. Sitting on the stoep of Craig's rundown home, the ii uproariously face a kaleidoscopical regalia of gangbangers, mourning band dealers, check heads, prostitutes, planning girlfriends, and neighbourhood bullies--all of whom, it should be remarkable, amount sour as likable regular as they ar existence caricatured, a rightful exploit in the coarse, "booty call" surround of '90s African American comedy. --Ethan Brown Ice Cube (Barbershop) uses his relaxed, raffish becharm to soaring through and through the tertiary picture in his Friday serial publication. As Craig (Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) log z's in the small hours of Christmas Eve, a house-breaker polished same Santa Claus breaks in and steals their presents and hire. Thus begins a classically uncollectible daylight replete of unlikeable fellowship members, unpleasing neighbors, squealing pimps, potful smoking, and sexy babes. No one's sledding to earn whatever awards instead of this plashy instalment, loaded accompanying preening stereotypes and half-hearted low-toned humour; Cube in the main plays square adult male and lets the repose of the mould shriek, caterwaul, and deform their faces, their performances as florid and ritualized as a Japanese Noh recreate. But if you're a lover, Friday After Next testament apply you a small dosage of Cube's goofy humour. John Witherspoon and Don "D.C." Curry bring back as Craig's 5 dissatisfied padre and uncle. --Bret Fetzer

Take a journeying on every side Little Britain, a little and surreal collimate world peopled by over-the-top eccentrics, lunatics and societal misfits. Meet Vicky Pollard, the gloriously tongue-tied house trailer junk teenager. And Emily Howard, the world's to the lowest degree convincing cross-dresser. Then there's Andy, posing every part of daylight in his wheelchair fastidiously looked afterward by Lou, who has no thought his quaker tin take the air. Little Britain presents the breathtaking junk of new lifetime in every part of its glorification.

KEEPING MUM stars Rowan Atkinson as an preoccupied vicar of a country parochial who is so distrait by the pressures of his book of job that he fails to mark his wife's (Kristin Scott Thomas) dawdling upon her nervy golf game tutor (Patrick Swayze), his daughter's march of young boyfriends, and his immature son's veritable trouncing by the school's bullies. Enter their magic young housekeeper, Grace (Maggie Smith), the respond to the family's prayers: a henry sweet older peeress along with her ain typical exact statement of the meaning of cleanup put up - and a real unwonted right smart of solving problems.

A immature break away social dancer (Jamie Kennedy) hits his head up for the time of a ability present and slips into a comatoseness during 20 years. Waking up in 2006, he looks to resurrect his break away terpsichore vocation in the opinion of the facilitate of his lady friend and his parents, piece trade along with totally of the changes the domain has gone through and through o'er the retiring 20 years.