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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Deluxe Edition) (1958)

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Amazon.com essential video Elizabeth Taylor has never been sexier than as Tennessee Williams’s hot-blooded Maggie “The Cat” Pollitt, prowling around her boudoir in a slinky white slip. That’s how you know her alcoholic, ex-football-player husband, Brick (Paul Newman), must have more than just his leg in a cast. It’s the 65th birthday of wealthy (but dying) southern patriarch Big Daddy (Burl Ives), and his sons Gooper (Jack Carter) and Brick have come to suck up to him […]

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Dr. Seuss’ The Cat In The Hat (Full Screen Edition) (2003)

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Amazon.com The Cat in the Hat is a marketing ploy disguised as a wildly designed movie for hyperactive kids, and it could use a dose of Ritalin. It hardly matters, though, because kids will surely enjoy the rampant romp that occurs when the top-hatted feline convinces young Sally (Dakota Fanning) and Conrad (Spencer Breslin) to wreak havoc in the home their mother (Kelly Preston) has neatly prepared for an upcoming party. It’s all in the name of […]

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Cats – The Musical (Commemorative Edition) (1998)

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Cats – The Musical (Commemorative Edition) (1998)

Amazon.com essential video This pop-cultural phenomenon has been performed on stage for more than 50 million patrons in 26 countries for almost 18 years, churning more than $2 billion in ticket sales. Now that Cats has finally made it to the small screen, attention must be paid not just by fans of this critic-proof show, but also by those entertainment mavens who have somehow avoided Cats until now. The video version has been restaged but, alas, not […]

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