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<strong>Criterion</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong><br />

30 MacIntosh Blvd., Unit 7 • Vaughan, Ontario • L4K 4P1<br />

800-565-1996 Fax: 866-664-7545 • www.criterionpic.com<br />

Persuasion<br />

1995 • 103 minutes • Colour • Norstar Releasing<br />

Director: Roger Michell<br />

Cast: Amanda Root, Ciaran Hinds, Susan Fleetwood, Corin Redgrave<br />

A young woman has never recovered from her break with a dashing but impoverished soldier whom she was advised to turn away. Now,<br />

seven years later, they meet again in the midst of a tumultuous period in which her family tries to adjust to poverty.<br />

The Phantom<br />

1996 • 100 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />

Director: Simon Wincer<br />

Cast: Billy Zane, Treat Williams, Cristy Swanson, Catherine Zeta<br />

The story of “The Phantom” began four hundred years ago when a small boy saw his father savagely murdered by pirates of the Sengh<br />

Brotherhood. The boy was washed up on Jungle shores and swore an oath of vengeance — to fight piracy, greed and cruelty in all its<br />

form.<br />

Pharaoh's Army<br />

1995 • 90 minutes • Colour • Maple <strong>Pictures</strong><br />

Director: Robby Henson<br />

Cast: Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson, Sarah Anders, Kris Kristofferson, Will Lucas<br />

Union soldiers in search of food descend on the farm of a Confederate family and decide to stay until one soldier’s wounds have healed.<br />

While the war weary Union captain falls for the mother whose husband is off at war, her son plots revenge on the Yankees.<br />

Phat Girlz<br />

2006 • 99 minutes • Colour • Fox Searchlight<br />

Director: Nnegest Likké<br />

Cast: Mo'Nique, Jimmy Jean-Louis, Godfrey, Joyful Drake, Eric Roberts, Jack Noseworthy, Kendra C. Johnson<br />

Starring Mo'Nique as Jazmin Biltmore, a smart-mouthed aspiring fashion designer, PHAT GIRLZ is an edgy comedy about two frustrated<br />

plus-size women obsessed with their weight while struggling to find love and acceptance in a world full of "hot bodied" babes. The PHAT<br />

GIRLZ are thrown a major curve ball when they meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways...<br />

The Phoenix and the Magic Carpet<br />

1995 • 80 minutes • Colour • Maple <strong>Pictures</strong><br />

Director: Zoran Perisic<br />

Cast: Dee Wallace Stone, Sir Peter Ustinov, Timothy Hegeman, Nick Klein, Laura Kamrath<br />

When Mrs. Wilson and her three children visit England to settle the affairs of her late father, the children find themselves in an isolated<br />

cottage cut off from the modern world. While searching through an old chest of belongs, they discover an egg which accidentally falls into<br />

the bonfire and from it emerges the Magical Phoenix, a mythical firebird. Then they realize that the carpet in grandfather’s study is a magic<br />

carpet and only the Phoenix knows the commands to make it fly.<br />

Picture Perfect<br />

1997 • 105 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox<br />

Director: Glenn Gardon Caron<br />

Cast: Jennifer Aniston, Jay Mohr, Olympia Dukakis, Ilena Douglas, Kevin Bacon<br />

Jennifer Aniston, of the TV series "Friends," stars in this romantic comedy about a single woman who, to jump start a promising career in<br />

advertising, uses a random photo to invent a fictional boyfriend and love life for herself. She actually meets the man in the picture (Jay<br />

Mohr), falls head-over-heels in love, and finds her world turned upside-down as romantic complications follow.<br />

Pirates of Silicon Valley<br />

1999 • 96 minutes • Colour • Warner Brothers<br />

Director: Martyn Burke<br />

Cast: Noah Wyle, Anthony , Joel Slotnick, John DiMaggio, Josh HopkinsMichael Hall<br />

This film is the semi-humorous documentary about the men who made the world of technology what it is today, their struggles during<br />

college, the founding of their companies, and the ingenious actions they took to build up the global corporate empires of Apple Computer<br />

Corporation and Microsoft Inc.<br />

© 2011 All Rights Reserved Les Films <strong>Criterion</strong> <strong>Pictures</strong> 1-800-595-1996 www.criterionpic.com

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