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Theatrical: 1989

Studio: Universal Studios

Genre: Action & Adventure

Duration: 1030

Summary: Take a trip through time with the daring Dr. Sam Beckett (Scott Bakula) and his hilarious hologram guide, Al (Dean Stockwell), in all 22 extraordinary, groundbreaking episodes of Quantum Leap: The Complete Fourth Season. It’s adventure like you’ve never seen, with each amazing episode from this eight-time Emmy-nominated season now digitally remastered for incredible picture quality. Journey back as Sam and Al survive a hurricane, trail a murderer, make a monkey out of themselves and even switch roles! With each "leap" into another identity, Sam hopes to find some insight into the jump that will finally take him home. And now, fans can spend more time with Sam and Al with an exclusive bonus episode from the Fifth Season. You won’t want to miss a minute of the adventure!

Theatrical: 1989

Studio: Universal Studios

Genre: Action & Adventure

Duration: 428

Summary: They'll be dancing (well, leaping maybe) in the streets now that the first season of "Quantum Leap", voted one of the 25 best cult series ever by "TV Guide", has come to home video, a decade after its final year (1994) on the air (the pilot episode was released on DVD in '98). And why shouldn't they? This is a show, called "an imaginative diversion" by one critic, with a good premise that's cleverly and skillfully conceived, written, acted, and produced--ample evidence of which is spread out over three discs, each containing three episodes (plus some fairly meager extras) from the first season.
Scott Bakula, in the role that made him a star, plays Sam Beckett, a scientist who's part of a time-travel experiment that "went a little... ka-ka." Unable to return to his own time, and aided only by Al (Dean Stockwell, whose rapport with Bakula is one of the series' most appealing elements), his cigar-smoking, peculiar-dressing, sex-obsessed, holographic "enabler," Sam "leaps" unpredictably from one time period and person to another, usually completely out of his element (as a pilot, a boxer, a cowboy, an English lit professor, even an elderly black man in segregated '50s Alabama) and always in a situation that needs to be "made right" before he can leap onward. Generous helpings of humor, drama, physical action, and sentimentality (this "is" TV, after all) keep things moving, as do references to many other classic films and genres ("Driving Miss Daisy" in "The Color of Truth," "Casablanca" in "Play it Again, Seymour," boxing in general in "The Right Hand of God") and what creator Donald Bellisario calls the occasional "kiss with history" (Sam crosses paths with the young Buddy Holly and Michael Jackson, among others). It doesn't all work, as "Quantum Leap" occasionally becomes too cute and facile for its own good. But that and the set's paucity of bonus material (limited to one passable featurette and brief episode intros by Bakula) are the only real shortcomings of a boxed set that will likely earn multiple spins in the DVD player. "--Sam Graham"

Theatrical: 1989

Studio: Universal Studios

Genre: Action & Adventure

Duration: 1060

Summary: Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/10/2005

Theatrical: 1989

Studio: Universal Studios

Genre: Action & Adventure

Duration: 1020

Summary: Studio: Uni Dist Corp. (mca) Release Date: 05/10/2005 Run time: 1020 minutes

Theatrical: 2008

Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)

Genre: Action & Adventure

Duration: 106

Summary: Daniel Craig hasn't lost a step since "Casino Royale"--this James Bond remains dangerous, a man who could earn that license to kill in brutal hand-to-hand combat… but still look sharp in a tailored suit. And "Quantum of Solance" itself carries on from the previous film like no other 007 movie, with Bond nursing his anger from the "Casino Royale" storyline and vowing blood revenge on those responsible. For the new plot, we have villain Mathieu Amalric ("The Diving Bell and the Butterfly"), intent on controlling the water rights in impoverished Third World nations and happy to overthrow a dictator or two to get his way. Olga Kurylenko is very much in the "Bond girl" tradition, but in the Ursula Andress way, not the Denise Richards way. And Judi Dench, Jeffrey Wright, and Giancarlo Giannini are welcome holdovers. If director Marc Forster and the longtime Bond production team seem a little too eager to embrace the continuity-shredding style of the "Bourne" pictures (especially in a nearly incomprehensible opening car chase), they nevertheless quiet down and get into a dark, concentrated groove soon enough. And the theme song, "Another Way to Die," penned by Jack White and performed by him and Alicia Keys, is actually good (at times Keys seems to be channeling Shirley Bassey--nice). Of course it all comes down to Craig. And he kills. "--Robert Horton"

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Studio: Paramount Home Video

Genre: Horror

Duration: 90

Summary: Holy cow!!!! Can you say suspenseful????? I'm pretty sure I held my breath for the entirety of the movie. The acting was top-notch! Kudos to the entire cast but especially to the always amazing Emily Blunt! I sure hope there's more to come at John Krasinski's direction! Fantastic flick!