Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
Synopsis CPL 1 - 3 - Criterion Pictures
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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 />
Beautician and the Beast<br />
1997 • 108 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Ken Kwapis<br />
Cast: Fran Dresche, Timothy Dalton, Michael Leme, Phyllis Newman<br />
Fran Drescher plays a hairdresser from Queens who is mistaken for a school teacher and winds up in a palace in a newly-formed Eastern<br />
European country. There she is assigned to teach the children of the country's "beastly" ruler (Timothy Dalton). Drescher is the only one<br />
that can't be intimidated by the the blustery Dalton and slowly a romance develops between the two.<br />
The Beautiful Country<br />
2004 • 125 minutes • Colour • Mongrel Media<br />
Director: Hans Petter Moland<br />
Cast: Damien Nguyen, Bai Ling, Thi Hoa Mai, Nick Nolte, Tim Roth, Chapman To, Temuera Morrison, Xuan Phuc Dins<br />
After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York,<br />
Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.<br />
Beavis and Butthead Do America<br />
1996 • 83 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Mike Judge, Yvette Kaplan<br />
Cast: Mike Judge, Cloris Leachman, Robert Stack, Eric Bogosian<br />
Our intrepid adolescent heroes wake up to find their beloved television stolen, and embark on an epic journey across America to recover<br />
it..<br />
Bebe's Kids<br />
1992 • 74 minutes • Colour • Paramount <strong>Pictures</strong><br />
Director: Bruce Smith<br />
Cast: Faizon Love, Vanessa Bell Calloway, Wayne Collins, Jonell Green, Marques Houston, Tone Loc<br />
Raucous animated feature based on a routine by the late comedian Robin Harris (voiced here by Faizon Love) whose date with an<br />
attractive woman turns into a nightmare when she brings along her son—and three brats she's looking after.<br />
Because of Winn-Dixie<br />
2005 • 106 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox<br />
Director: Wayne Wang<br />
Cast: Jeff Daniels, Dave Matthews, Eva Marie Saint, Cicely Tyson<br />
Based on the perennial best seller, a lonely young girl adopts an orphaned dog, Winn-Dixie (so named for the supermarket where she<br />
found him), who helps her make friends in the small Florida town. The bond between the girl and her special companion brings together<br />
the townspeople, and helps heal her own troubled relationship with her father.<br />
Becoming Jane<br />
2007 • 120 minutes • Colour • Alliance Films Inc<br />
Director: Julian Jarrold<br />
Cast: Anne Hathaway, James McAvoy, Julie Walters, James Cromwell, Maggie Smith, Anna Maxwell Martin, Lucy Cohu, Laurence Fox,<br />
Ian Richardson, Joe Anderson<br />
A biographical portrait of a pre-fame Jane Austen and her romance with a young Irishman.<br />
Bedazzled<br />
2000 • 93 minutes • Colour • 20th Century Fox<br />
Director: Harold Ramis<br />
Cast: Brendan Fraser, Elizabeth Hurley, Frances O’Connor, Miriam Shor, Orlando Jones<br />
A nerdy low-level technical advisor (Fraser) makes a deal with the Devil (who happens to be a gorgeous woman) to fulfill his wildest<br />
dreams of becoming rich, powerful and sexy. But when that doesn’t win him the love of a female coworker (O’Connor), he again turns to<br />
the Devil for the surprising solution.<br />
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