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Betty Buckley Videos!Betty Buckley - Stars and the Moon (Live at the Donmar)Betty Buckley, Jamey Haddad, and Robin Lough (DVD - 2002)  Please Click the Cart to Purchase or Hover Over to Preview the CD 
Carrie (Decades Collection with CD) Nancy Allen, Betty Buckley, Cameron de Palma, and Stefan Gierasch (DVD - 2007) Please Click the Cart to Purchase or Hover Over to Preview the CD 
A telekinetic revenge. De Palma's first big hit remains one of his best efforts to date and a landmark film for the horror genre. Spacek, in a stunning performance, stars as Carrie, a troubled, sexually repressed high schooler who slowly realizes that she possesses incredible telekinetic powers. Plagued with problems in school (she feels homely, and nobody likes her) and at home (her mother, Laurie--whose performance is delightfully over the top--is a religious fanatic who hates men and makes her daughter pray in a closet), she struggles to maintain her dignity and sanity. She's finally driven over the edge when cruel classmates conspire to elect her prom queen in an elaborate joke designed to embarrass her. Based on the best-selling Stephen King novel and cleverly designed to target a teenage audience, CARRIE was the synthesis of De Palma's talent for intense, stylish, visual filmmaking. His techniques--elaborate compositions, daring camera moves, and slow motion--combined with a fairly literate screenplay, make for an interesting and frightening film that successfully deals with the inner rage every teenager feels. The film has a strikingly unsettling mood that enhances its power and gives it an impact that the story would otherwise lack. Much of the credit, though, must go to Spacek, who so convincingly portrays Carrie's pain and her longing for acceptance. The talented ensemble inludes Betty Buckley, Amy Irving, Nancy Allen, and John Travolta.
Broadway's Lost Treasures Patti LuPone, Betty Buckley, Jerry Orbach, and Karen Prunczik (DVD - 2003) Please Click the Cart to Purchase or Hover Over to Preview the CD 
Frantic (1988) Harrison Ford, Betty Buckley, Djiby Soumare, and Emmanuelle Seigner (DVD - 2004) Please Click the Cart to Purchase or Hover Over to Preview the CD 
One of Roman Polanski's best, and too often overlooked. FRANTIC is a dreamy, tense thriller set against a stylishly reimagined Paris and featuring the performance of Harrison Ford's career. Dr. Richard Walker (Ford), a San Francisco surgeon, arrives in Paris with his wife (Betty Buckley), intending to deliver a medical paper and hoping to revitalize their relationship (they'd honeymooned in Paris 20 years earlier). Walker speaks no French and cannot even make a phone call without his wife's help. The Walkers arrive at the posh Le Grand Hotel and begin to unpack, only to discover they have the wrong suitcase. Later, while Dr. Walker showers, Sondra disappears without a trace. Initially baffled and annoyed, Walker soon becomes deeply concerned and finally frantic as he realizes that the police won't help him in this alien environment. Acting alone, he locates the owner of the mysterious suitcase, Michelle (Emmanuelle Seigner), an alluring Parisian who draws him further into a web of intrigue. Director Polanski, a master of movie atmospherics (e.g., CHINATOWN, ROSEMARY'S BABY), here creates a hauntingly foreign, forbiddingly stylish Paris that seems to move to the oneiric disco stylings of Grace Jones. Harrison Ford, outstanding as an American innocent abroad, moves persuasively from complacency to confusion, rage, and paranoid desperation in a performance comparable to James Stewart's best work for Hitchcock.
Simply Irresistible Sarah Michelle Gellar, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Patricia Clarkson (DVD - 2002) Please Click the Cart to Purchase or Hover Over to Preview the CD 
Tender Mercies Robert Duvall, Tess Harper, Betty Buckley, and Wilford Brimley (DVD - 2002) Please Click the Cart to Purchase or Hover Over to Preview the CD 
This low-key drama set in Texas is one of the continuing stories of screenwriter Horton Foote's life in the hinterlands. Robert Duvall, who won an Oscar for his performance, is Mac Sledge, a down-and-out singer who has recently broken up with his wife, Dixie (Betty Buckley), also a country singer. Mac gets rip-roaring drunk and wakes up in a motel-gas-station owned by a religious widow, Rosa Lee (Tess Harper), with a young son (Allan Hubbard). Rosa offers Mac a job, so he stays on, and the two fall in love. Meanwhile, Dixie and her manager (Wilford Brimley) are lurking in the background, and Mac attempts to patch matters up with her and their daughter (Ellen Barkin). He also tries to make a comeback. TENDER MERCIES is an episodic gem that offers little in the way of action or melodrama but gets by on fine performances (particularly from Barkin and from Duvall, who does his own singing), atmospheric cinematography, and spare, unglamorous writing. Australian director Bruce Beresford's first American assignment, the film bears interesting comparison with Englishman Michael Apted's COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER (another outsider's vision of the world of country), and with Foote's later, probably superior, THE TRIP TO BOUNTIFUL.
Babycakes Ricki Lake, Craig Sheffer, Nada Despotovich, and Paul Benedict (DVD - 2002) Please Click the Cart to Purchase or Hover Over to Preview the CD 
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