Amazon.com video review:
Jumping on to the end-of-the-century bandwagon a little early,
Paramount Pictures released 10 of their top films in one 10-pack, the
Millennium Collection, in 1998. All the films are presented in their
widescreen editions; one, Breakfast at
Tiffany's, is offered in this format for the first time. The
set includes 5 Best Picture Oscar winners and films that took home an
additional 33 Academy Awards. All the tapes are available to buy
individually. The pack, with a handsome mosaic of faces from the
movies, also features collector gift cards (a movie version of
baseball cards) and a commemorative booklet detailing the productions
of all 10 films. The collection is oddly weighted toward the last 25
years, offering only one film from the 1950s and one from the
1960s. Your taste in current cinema will define the value of the
set. Besides Tiffany's, one of Audrey Hepburn's finest films,
the collection contains: The Ten Commandments
with Charlton Heston, Grease with John
Travolta, Francis Ford Coppola's Apocalypse Now and
The Godfather,
the funny, whale-saving Star Trek IV--The Voyage
Home, Tom Cruise's hit Top Gun, the smash
hit Ghost with
Demi Moore, Mel Gibson's Celt fest Braveheart, and Forrest Gump with
Tom Hanks. --Doug Thomas
Amazon.com Essentials:
Demi Moore and Patrick Swayze are the passionate lovers whose
romance is undone when the latter is murdered during a bungled hit
arranged by a rival. The clever concept by screenwriter Bruce Joel
Rubin (director of My
Life) extends outward into comedy (Swayze's character
communicates through a sassy medium played by Whoopi Goldberg, who won
an Oscar for this role), horror (the afterlife is populated by
hell-bound demons and the like), and romantic complications (a
handsome suitor, played by Tony Goldwyn, comes on to Moore while
Swayze's spirit is still hanging around). Directed by Jerry Zucker,
previously best known for codirecting Airplane! and
similar broad comedies, Ghost is a careful balancing act of
strong commercial elements, but at heart it is a timeless Hollywood
tearjerker that easily gets under one's skin. --Tom Keogh
