Duke, Robin

Groundhog Day - 15th Anniversary Edition

Bill Murray does warmth in his most consistently effective post-Stripes comedy, a romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right. Snowed in during a road-trip expedition to watch the famous groundhog encounter his shadow, Murray falls into a time warp that is never explained but pays off so richly that it doesn't need to be. The elaborate loop-the-loop plot structure cooked up by screenwriter Danny Rubin is crystal-clear every step of the way, but it's Murray's world-class reactive timing that makes the jokes explode, and we end up looking forward to each new variation. He squeezes all the available juice out of every scene. Without forcing the issue, he makes us understand why this fly-away personality responds so intensely to the radiant sanity of the TV producer played by Andie MacDowell. The blissfully clueless Chris Elliott (Cabin Boy) is Murray's nudnik cameraman. --David Chute

Bill Murray is at his wry wisecracking best in this riotous romantic comedy about a weatherman caught in a personal time warp on the worst day of his life. Teamed with a relentlessly cheerful producer (Andie MacDowell) and a smart-aleck cameraman (Chris Elliott) TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to Punxsutawney Pennsylvania to cover the annual Groundhog Day festivities. But on his way out of town Phil is caught in a giant blizzard which he failed to predict and finds himself stuck in small-town hell. Just when things couldn't get any worse they do. Phil wakes the next morning to find it's Groundhog Day all over again... and again... and again.System Requirements:Run Time: 101 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY/COMEDY OF ERRORS Rating: PG UPC: 043396226456 Manufacturer No: 22645

Saturday Night Live - The Best of Eddie Murphy (Bonus Edition)

Perhaps one of the greatest lights ever to shine on late-night television, Eddie Murphy has gone on to well-deserved international superstardom. Check out his earliest television work on Saturday Night Live: The Best of Eddie Murphy, a collection of his greatest roles, from Gumby to Stevie Wonder to Buckwheat. Of course, some would argue that his best role was as himself, and there is plenty of evidence for that--many of the skits feature Murphy au naturel and the opening sequence is taken from his monologue when he returned to the show triumphantly after leaving for Hollywood. Exploring the world around him and finding laughs everywhere, Murphy can take a simple idea (such as the "James Brown Hot Tub Party") and run wild with it, leaving the audience hysterically begging for more. You don't have to be a fan to enjoy this collection, but odds are you'll be one by the time you're finished. --Rob Lightner

In the early 80s, Saturday Night Live came back alive and the reason was Eddie Murphy. It's all here-Gumby, Buckwheat, Little Richard Simmons, a dip in James Brown's Hot Tub. Pay a visit to Mr. Robinson's neighborhood and see the best of Velvet Jones, Stevie Wonder and more!

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Multiplicity

An inevitable idea: a working man (Michael Keaton) who can't meet all his professional and family responsibilities has himself cloned. It works so well having one copy of himself to take charge of matters at the office that he makes another copy who takes care of the home front. Pretty soon, different aspects of Keaton's personality are emphasized in the different clones: the laborer becomes a macho creep and the domestic god becomes rather feminine. A third clone, struck from the duplicates instead of the original, becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy: inferior. This timely comedy should be better than it is, but special-effects requirements are so labor-intensive that most scenes feel stiff and leaden. Keaton is good in all four parts, and in certain gee-whiz effects scenes, where he even high-fives himself, he pulls off a minor miracle or two. (Of course, a kid did the same thing in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.) The DVD release includes optional widescreen and standard formats and optional French and Spanish soundtracks. --Tom Keogh

An overworked contractor has himself cloned to have more time for his work, wife, and family, with hilarious results that almost cost him his wife.
Genre: Feature Film-Comedy
Rating: PG13
Release Date: 28-AUG-2001
Media Type: DVD

Club Paradise

Robin Williams went through a period in the mid '80s when he looked like he'd turned into the next Richard Pryor: yet another brilliant standup comic neutered by the script mills of the Hollywood studios. Indeed, Williams seems almost like a spectator in this film, reacting to a supporting cast extremely deep in talent doing what they can with the mediocre script by Brian Doyle-Murray and director Harold Ramis. Williams plays a heroic Chicago fireman, who is injured and retires after saving several lives in a fire. He takes his insurance settlement and buys a resort on a poor Caribbean island (the film was shot in Jamaica). He spends the rest of the time playing straight man to a gaggle of guests that includes such SCTV alumni as Rick Moranis, Andrea Gross, Eugene Levy, and Robin Duke, as well as Jimmy Cliff and Peter O'Toole. Occasionally rising to the level of mild amusement, Club Paradise is, disappointingly, little more than a series of hit-and-miss sketches strung together by the feeblest of plots. --Marshall Fine

Pack your bags for Club Paradise the Caribbean resort where the good times and laughter come at you in waves. Academy Award (R) Winner Robin Williams steers their crazed course of this tropical romp as an ex-Chicago fireman who uses a sizable disability settlement to transform a remote island watering hole into a lucrative tourist waterland. Peter O'Toole Twiggy Rick Moranis Andrea Martin Eugene Levy and other comic cohorts cheerfully cavort (and Jimmy Cliff musically riffs) under the breezy direction of Harold Ramis (National Lampoon's Vacation Caddyshack) for a lark that The New Yorker's Pauline Kael judged "as pleasant as can be."Running Time: 95 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: COMEDY UPC: 012569734029 Manufacturer No: 73402

Groundhog Day

Bill Murray does warmth in his most consistently effective post-Stripes comedy, a romantic fantasy about a wacky weatherman forced to relive one strange day over and over again, until he gets it right. Snowed in during a road-trip expedition to watch the famous groundhog encounter his shadow, Murray falls into a time warp that is never explained but pays off so richly that it doesn't need to be. The elaborate loop-the-loop plot structure cooked up by screenwriter Danny Rubin is crystal-clear every step of the way, but it's Murray's world-class reactive timing that makes the jokes explode, and we end up looking forward to each new variation. He squeezes all the available juice out of every scene. Without forcing the issue, he makes us understand why this fly-away personality responds so intensely to the radiant sanity of the TV producer played by Andie MacDowell. The blissfully clueless Chris Elliott (Cabin Boy) is Murray's nudnik cameraman. --David Chute

Atomic Betty, Vol. 1 and 2

Atomic Betty: Volume 1 - Betty Set Go!To the universe at large she's "Atomic Betty Galactic Guardian and Defender of the Cosmos!" But here on Earth she's just one of the gang - and that's just how she likes it. Sure it's not easy defending the galaxy when you've got tests to take and homework to do but lucky for us when duty calls she's always the first to answer. From the blackboards of Moosejaw Heights Junior High to the bridge of her Hyper-Galactic Starcruiser follow Betty through eight totally awesome action-packed episodes as she zips across the solar system on a daring mission to rid the universe of evil!Episodes:1. Toxic Talent2. Spindly Tam Kanushu3. Atomic Roger4. Furball for the Sneeze5. Really Big Game6. But the Cat Came Back7. The Doppelganger8. The Incredible Shrinking BettyAtomic Betty: Volume 2 - Betty to the RescueBetty is a little girl with a great big secret. To classmates friends and family she's the slightly strange sweet and brainy girl next door. But when danger calls and the galaxy beckons she rockets into action as "Atomic Betty Galactic Guardian and Defender of the Cosmos!" Climb aboard and set a course for adventure with eight out-of-this-world action-packed episodes as Betty and best buddies Sparky and X-5 take on archrival and atomic enemy number one Maximus I.Q. the intergalactic evil baby Infantor and an entire extraterrestrial assortment of cunning cosmic criminals!Episodes:1. Maximus Displeasure2. Cosmic Cake3. Attack of the Evil Baby4. Crass Menagerie5. The Trouble with Triplets6. The Substitute7. Infantor Rules8. Best (Mis)Laid PlansSystem Requirements:Atomic Betty: Volume 1 - Betty Set Go! Running Time 88 Mins. Atomic Betty: Volume 2 - Betty to the Rescue Running Time 96 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY Rating: NR UPC: 012569715103

Atomic Betty, Vol. 1 - Betty, Set, Go!

To the universe at large she's "Atomic Betty Galactic Guardian and Defender of the Cosmos!" But here on Earth she's just one of the gang - and that's just how she likes it. Sure it's not easy defending the galaxy when you've got tests to take and homework to do but lucky for us when duty calls she's always the first to answer. From the blackboards of Moosejaw Heights Junior High to the bridge of her Hyper-Galactic Starcruiser follow Betty through eight totally awesome action-packed episodes as she zips across the solar system on a daring mission to rid the universe of evil! Runtime: 88 minutes.Running Time: 88 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC: 012569715080

Atomic Betty is a preteen girl who loves to hang out with her friends and wants desperately to fit in at Junior High--not an easy task for any prepubescent girl, but especially difficult for one who leads a double life as a galactic guardian who's constantly on-call. In this 96-minute collection of eight television episodes, Atomic Betty is urgently needed for missions as diverse as transporting scientists with top-secret inventions to another planet, pilling a dragon, and saving an entire planet's population of peace-loving environmentalists. Atomic Betty's arsenal includes a proficiency in martial arts, a powerful bracelet, an old-fashioned slingshot and an uncanny ability to complete her galactic missions just before she's due back on earth for some important school event. This action-packed series features a heroic preteen girl that's sure to appeal to viewers ages 5 to 9. --Tami Horiuchi

Atomic Betty, Vol. 2 - Betty to the Rescue!

Betty is a little girl with a great big secret. To classmates friends and family she's the slightly strange sweet and brainy girl next door. But when danger calls and the galaxy beckons she rockets into action as "Atomic Betty Galactic Guardian and Defender of the Cosmos!" Climb aboard and set a course for adventure with eight out-of-this-world action-packed episodes as Betty and best buddies Sparky and X-5 take on archrival and atomic enemy number one Maximus I.Q. the intergalactic evil baby Infantor and an entire extraterrestrial assortment of cunning cosmic criminals!Running Time: 88 min.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: CHILDREN/FAMILY UPC: 012569715097

Multiplicity [Region 2]

An inevitable idea: a working man (Michael Keaton) who can't meet all his professional and family responsibilities has himself cloned. It works so well having one copy of himself to take charge of matters at the office that he makes another copy who takes care of the home front. Pretty soon, different aspects of Keaton's personality are emphasized in the different clones: the laborer becomes a macho creep and the domestic god becomes rather feminine. A third clone, struck from the duplicates instead of the original, becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy: inferior. This timely comedy should be better than it is, but special-effects requirements are so labor-intensive that most scenes feel stiff and leaden. Keaton is good in all four parts, and in certain gee-whiz effects scenes, where he even high-fives himself, he pulls off a minor miracle or two. (Of course, a kid did the same thing in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.) The DVD release includes optional widescreen and standard formats and optional French and Spanish soundtracks. --Tom Keogh

Multiplicity

An inevitable idea: a working man (Michael Keaton) who can't meet all his professional and family responsibilities has himself cloned. It works so well having one copy of himself to take charge of matters at the office that he makes another copy who takes care of the home front. Pretty soon, different aspects of Keaton's personality are emphasized in the different clones: the laborer becomes a macho creep and the domestic god becomes rather feminine. A third clone, struck from the duplicates instead of the original, becomes like a photocopy of a photocopy: inferior. This timely comedy should be better than it is, but special-effects requirements are so labor-intensive that most scenes feel stiff and leaden. Keaton is good in all four parts, and in certain gee-whiz effects scenes, where he even high-fives himself, he pulls off a minor miracle or two. (Of course, a kid did the same thing in Disney's 1998 remake of The Parent Trap.) The DVD release includes optional widescreen and standard formats and optional French and Spanish soundtracks. --Tom Keogh