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The American President is a 1995 American romantic comedy-drama film directed by Rob Reiner and written by Aaron Sorkin. The film stars Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen, Michael J. Fox and Richard Dreyfuss. Michael Douglas is President Andrew Shepherd, a widower and father who begins to get uncomfortable with the perception surrounding his being a single father. He drops in on a meeting with environmental lobbyists and meets hard-charging Sydney Wade (Annette Bening). After Sydney escorts President Shepherd to a State dinner, the two strike up a relationship, much to the chagrin of Sydney's boss, played by John Mahoney, and much to the delight of President Shepherd's political rival, the scheming Senator Bob Rumson (Richard Dreyfuss). Rumson's attacks on Sydney and the President's character send President Shepherd's approval ratings tumbling and eventually forces Shepherd to choose between one of his priority bills and the bill Sydney was hired to get passed. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00502] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Mejor… imposible (en inglés: As Good as It Gets) es una película estadounidense dirigida por James L. Brooks y protagonizada por Jack Nicholson, Helen Hunt y Greg Kinnear. Melvin Udall (Jack Nicholson) es un escritor de novelas románticas que vive en Nueva York y padece un trastorno obsesivo-compulsivo, algo que lo hace intratable para el resto de la sociedad y de lo que, además, él se enorgullece. Hay una persona que sí convive con él en su día a día: la camarera Carol Connelly (Helen Hunt), quien lo atiende pacientemente en el restaurante donde suele almorzar, al que él lleva siempre un juego de cubiertos desechables para no usar los mismos que han utilizado otras personas.     El hijo de Carol padece asma crónico, y los cuidados continuos que ella debe dedicarle son un obstáculo para que pueda tener alguna relación sentimental. Por otro lado, el vecino homosexual de Melvin, Simon Bishop (Greg Kinnear) es un prometedor artista plástico que es atacado en su propia casa, sufriendo heridas en el rostro y en una pierna. Mientras está hospitalizado, el agente de Simon (Cuba Gooding, Jr.) obliga a Melvin a cuidar el perrito de su vecino, que inmediatamente se gana el afecto del obsesivo escritor.   La película llega a su clímax cuando Melvin, Carol y Simon viajan a Baltimore, a casa de los padres de este último para pedirles dinero con el que pagar los gastos de la hospitalización. Simon, además de haberse quedado sin dinero, ha perdido la inspiración y su trabajo creativo se resiente. Durante el viaje, Melvin comienza a mostrar su ácido encanto romántico con Carol, mientras que Simon descubre en ella su musa y el regreso de la inspiración artística perdida.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00816 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)  

Cyrano de Bergerac es una película francesa dirigida por Jean-Paul Rappeneau, estrenada en 1990.   Se inspira directamente en la obra de teatro del mismo nombre de Edmond Rostand, y aunque respeta el texto, éste está recortado.   Los derechos de esta obra publicada en 1897 habían pasado al dominio público, por lo que el productor pudo invertir el dinero en los cuarenta decorados que había, tanto en Francia como en Hungría. Jean-Claude Carrière tuvo que reescribir unos cien alejandrinos al modo de Rostand.   Es una de las dos únicas películas que ha recibido el premio César de Césars, junto con El viejo fusil.   El tema está inspirado en la Commedia dell'arte. Tres hombres buscan los favores de la bella Roxana. Uno de ellos tiene poder, el conde de Guiche, otro tiene talento literario, Cyrano (Gérard Depardieu), y el último, Christian, cuenta con la belleza.Tras unas escenas de amor cortés aparecen las escenas épicas de la guerra, y por último la tristeza.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00817 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Hechizo de Luna (cuyo título original en inglés es Moonstruck) es una comedia romántica de 1987 dirigida por Norman Jewison. Se estrenó el 16 de diciembre de 1987 y obtuvo excelentes comentarios por parte de los críticos, tuvo ingresos de más de $80,640,528 millones de dólares en taquilla por lo que se convirtió en la 5.ª película más exitosa del año. Loretta Castorini (Cher) es una italo-americana que está comprometida con Johnny Cammareri (Danny Aiello), quien antes del matrimonio viaja a Palermo, Sicilia, a visitar a su madre moribunda. El padre de Loretta no aprueba el matrimonio porque cree que Loretta tiene mala suerte para el matrimonio, ya que el primer marido murió atropellado por un autobús.   Antes de marcharse, Johnny pide a su prometida que invite a la boda a su hermano Ronny (Nicholas Cage), con quien ha roto relaciones hace cinco años porque por un descuido de Johnny, Ronny perdió una mano. Loretta visita a Ronny en una noche de luna llena y entre ambos surge un fuerte flechazo que ella, al principio, se niega a reconocer. Ese día, el resto de los miembros de la familia de Loretta también se ven influenciados por la luna y sus vidas sufren un cambio repentino.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00820 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Buenos días, Vietnam es una película estadounidense de 1987, dirigida por Barry Levinson. Protagonizada por Robin Williams, Forest Whitaker, Tung Thanh Tran, Chintara Sukapatana, Bruno Kirby y J.T. Walsh en los papeles principales. Durante la Guerra de Vietnam, Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams), un disc-jockey de la Fuerza Aérea de los Estados Unidos, llega a Saigón para entretener a los soldados desplegados en Vietnam. Al principio todo es diversión, pero poco a poco los jefes se darán cuenta de que sus comentarios acerca de la guerra no son políticamente correctos. Entonces deciden expulsarlo y enviarlo de nuevo a su hogar, mientras que en la radio están compañeros que no dan la talla y no gustan tanto como él. Los soldados le piden que vuelva, sin saber que le expulsarían por sus comentarios. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00821 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Papillon is a 1973 prison film directed by Franklin J. Schaffner, based on the best-selling autobiography by the French convict Henri Charrière. 1930's France. Henri Charrière (Steve McQueen), a safecracker nicknamed Papillon because of the butterfly tattoo on his chest, is wrongly convicted of murdering a pimp, he being framed for the crime. He is sentenced to life imprisonment within the penal system in French Guiana. En route, he meets a fellow convict, Louis Dega (Dustin Hoffman), a forger and embezzler who is convinced that his wife will secure his release. Dega hires Papillon as his bodyguard, but the two eventually develop a friendship.   After defending Dega against a sadistic guard, Papillon is sentenced to solitary confinement. In gratitude, Dega smuggles extra food to Papillon. When the food smuggling is discovered, prison guards cut Papillon's food rations in half, believing that hunger will force him to reveal the name of his benefactor. Though emaciated and half-insane, and reduced to eating insects to survive, Papillon refuses to snitch on Dega. After two years he is released from solitary confinement, having spent six months in total darkness and on half rations. A grateful Dega, who would not have had any ill feeling toward Papillon if he had told the warden that it was he who arranged the extra food, wants to pay back Papillon, which Papillon states is not necessary. However, Papillon plans another escape with Dega's help. Another inmate, Clusiot (Woodrow Parfrey), who Papillon and Dega long ago befriended, begs to go along, to which Papillon ultimately agrees. Although Papillon wants Dega to go along, Dega declines, still believing that his wife will eventually get him released, which Papillon does not think will ever happen as the prison system now "owns" him.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00499] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)  

Línea mortal (título original: Flatliners) es una película de 1990 protagonizada por Kiefer Sutherland, Julia Roberts, Kevin Bacon, William Baldwin y Oliver Platt. Narra cómo un grupo de estudiantes de medicina decide llevar a cabo un experimento que consiste en llevar a uno de ellos hasta un estado clínicamente muerto para luego reanimarlo y que cuente la experiencia. Este fue el primer papel importante de Julia Roberts después de Pretty Woman. Allí conoció a Sutherland, con quien casi se casa en la vida real. Clasificación [ CM DVD 00822 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Pulp Fiction is a 1994 American black comedy crime film written and directed by Quentin Tarantino, from a story by Tarantino and Roger Avary. Late one morning in the Hawthorne Grill, a restaurant on Sunset Boulevard in Los Angeles, a couple of young Brits called Honey Bunny (Amanda Plummer) and Pumpkin (Tim Roth) discuss the pros and cons of robbing banks versus liquor stores. Then they add restaurants to the equation, realizing they can make more by taking customers' wallets than they get out of the till. They stand up in their booth and announce that they're robbing the diner.   Earlier in the day, Jules Winnfield (Samuel L. Jackson) and Vincent Vega (John Travolta) arrive at a San Fernando Valley apartment building. They are hit men in the employ of Marsellus Wallace and have come to retrieve a valuable belonging of Wallace's from a group of would-be crooks led by a young and naive guy named Brett (Frank Whaley). They take back the valuable item — kept in a briefcase, it glows warmly and transfixes whoever looks at it. Jules recites what he claims is a Bible verse, Ezekiel 25:17, before he and Vincent execute Brett.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00498] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)  

The Aviator is a 2004 American biographical drama film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by John Logan and produced by Michael Mann, Sandy Climan, Graham King, and Charles Evans, Jr.. It stars Leonardo DiCaprio as Howard Hughes, Cate Blanchett as Katharine Hepburn and Kate Beckinsale as Ava Gardner. The supporting cast features Ian Holm, John C. Reilly, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law as Errol Flynn, Gwen Stefani as Jean Harlow, Willem Dafoe, Alan Alda, and Edward Herrmann. In Houston, 1913, nine-year-old Howard Hughes is warned by his mother of the diseases that she is afraid he will succumb to. Fourteen years later, he begins to direct the movie Hell’s Angels. However, after the release of The Jazz Singer, the first partially talking film, Hughes becomes obsessed with shooting his film realistically, and decides to convert the movie to a sound film. Despite the film being a hit, Hughes remains unsatisfied with the end result and orders the film to be re-cut after its Hollywood premier. He becomes romantically involved with actress Katharine Hepburn, who helps to ease the symptoms of his worsening obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).   In 1935, Hughes test flies the H-1 Racer, pushing it to a new speed record, and three years later, breaks the world record by flying around the world in four days. He purchases majority interest in Transcontinental & Western Air, the predecessor to Trans World Airlines, aggravating company rival, Juan Trippe, chairman of the board for Pan American World Airways (Pan Am). Trippe gets his friend, Senator Owen Brewster, to introduce the Community Airline Bill, which would give Pan Am exclusivity on international air travel. As Hughes’ fame grows, he is linked to various starlets, provoking Hepburn’s jealousy, later causing them to break up following her announcement that she has fallen in love with fellow actor Spencer Tracy. Hughes quickly finds a new love interest with 15-year-old Faith Domergue, and later actress Ava Gardner.   Clasificación [ CM DVD 00823 ] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)

Pink Flamingos is a 1972 American transgressive black comedy exploitation film written, produced, scored, shot, edited, narrated, and directed by John Waters. Renegade filmmaker and noted aficionado of expressive bad taste John Waters exploded into international infamy with this darkly comic, no-budget parade of the perverse (his third feature film, and first in color), in which plus-size cross-dresser Divine stars as Babs Johnson, a flashy criminal on the lam from the FBI who is hiding out in a trailer outside of Baltimore, MD. Accompanying Babs are her mother (Edith Massey), an obese and dim-witted woman who is malignly obsessed with eggs; her degenerate son, Crackers (Danny Mills); and Cotton (Mary Vivian Pierce), Babs' duplicitous "traveling companion" and Crackers' co-conspirator in unwholesome erotic play. While Babs would prefer to be left in peace, she takes great pride in her status as "the Filthiest Person Alive" (an honor confirmed by one of America's sleazier tabloid newspapers), and when Connie and Raymond Marble (Mink Stole and David Lochary) announce their plans to take the title away from her, Babs is not about to stand idly by. The Marbles are a hateful couple who kidnap women, force their homosexual manservant, Channing (Channing Wilroy), to impregnate them, and sell the babies to lesbian couples found unfit for legal adoption; the Marbles then turn the profits back into pornography and narcotics trafficking. Impressive stuff, to be sure, but Babs is not about to take a back seat to anyone in a battle of filth, and when the Marbles throw down the gauntlet, Babs and her family retaliate in a no-holds-barred battle to determine who truly are "the Filthiest People Alive." Featuring murder, bestiality, rape, dismemberment, coprophagia, a dizzying variety of sexual perversions, and a performance of "Papa Oom Mow Mow" you will not soon forget, Pink Flamingos is nonetheless a comedy, and a surprisingly successful one; shot on a budget of only 12,000 dollars, the film has grossed close to ten million dollars around the world, and its success launched John Waters into a career as America's leading authority on poor taste. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi Clasificación [ CM DVD 00497] Disponible en DVD, 4 Piso BJB)