I Could Never Be Your Woman
2006 3.1 stars 97 mins Comedy Rated: PG-13
Just as Rosie (Michelle Pfeiffer) strikes up a passionate romance with a handsome younger man (Paul Rudd), her daughter, Izzie (Saoirse Ronan), falls in love for the first time -- and Mother Nature (Tracey Ullman) can't resist the temptation to meddle in their affairs. Writer-director Amy Heckerling delivers a twisted romantic comedy that shows what happens when a mother and daughter come to blows with the forces of nature. |
The Worst Week of My Life: Series 1
2006 3.3 stars 210 mins Television Rated: NR
It's pure prenuptial chaos as Howard (Ben Miller) and Mel (Sarah Alexander) prepare to walk down the aisle in this BBC series that chronicles the disastrous week before the couple's wedding. With just seven days left before the big day, Howard loses the ring, unwittingly molests his future mother-in-law, is stalked by an obsessed female colleague, contends with a best man left comatose after the bachelor party ... and that's just the beginning! |
Coupling: Season 4
2004 3.9 stars 173 mins Television Rated: PG
Even with parenthood looming for Susan (Sarah Alexander) and Steve (Jack Davenport), the 30-something pals continue messing up their love lives with scandal, deceit and poor judgment. In the popular British comedy's fourth season, Steve panics when Susan goes into labor, and Sally (Kate Isitt) goes bonkers when she learns that Patrick (Ben Miles) slept with Jane (Gina Bellman) -- who's getting the eye from newcomer Oliver (Richard Mylan). |
Coupling: Season 4: Bonus Material
2004 3.4 stars 69 mins Television Rated: NR
This companion disc to the fourth season of the hit British sitcom starring Sarah Alexander, Jack Davenport, Kate Isitt, Ben Miles, Gina Bellman and Richard Mylan includes a making-of featurette, outtakes, deleted scenes, cast and crew interviews and biographies. |
Coupling: Ssn 4: 9 1/2 Months
2004 29 mins Television Rated: R
Oliver and Jane are on the brink of making love when they're interrupted by Steve and Susan, who take over Jane's bed so that Susan can deliver the baby. Meanwhile, Sally makes a shocking discovery among Patrick's collection of sordid sex tapes. |
Coupling: Ssn 4: The Naked Living Room
2004 28 mins Television Rated: R
After running into Oliver at the grocery store, Jane invites herself up to his flat, only to discover that he's been hiding an unhealthy obsession with printed porn. Meanwhile, Susan and Steve prepare for the birth of their child. |
Coupling: Ssn 4: Circus of the Epidurals
2004 29 mins Television Rated: R
When a childbirth-phobic Steve shows signs of cracking under pressure, Susan asks Sally to stand in as her "second" -- just in case Steve can't handle it. All three show up for class, only to discover that their teacher is someone from their past. |
Coupling: Ssn 4: Bed Time
2004 28 mins Television Rated: R
A kooky dream sequence in which Patrick is an armor-clad knight and Sally is a fair-faced maiden trying to keep him in her chamber parallels the couple's ongoing battle in the bedroom. |
Coupling: Ssn 4: Night Lines
2004 29 mins Television Rated: UR
The term "conference call" takes on a new meaning when Susan and Sally end up talking to the entire gang. Meanwhile, Steve isn't a father yet, but he's already suffering from nightmares that involve an ax-wielding fetus who's trying to kill him. |
Coupling: Ssn 4: 9 1/2 Minutes
2004 29 mins Television Rated: NR
Susan and Steve's imminent parenthood prompts Patrick and Sally to talk about a more committed relationship. Meanwhile, Jane is seeing a new guy named Oliver, but will his job prove to be problematic? |
Coupling: Season 4
2004 4.0 stars 180 mins Television
Even with parenthood looming for Susan (Sarah Alexander) and Steve (Jack Davenport), the 30-something pals continue messing up their love lives with scandal, deceit and poor judgment. In the popular British comedy's fourth season, Steve panics when Susan goes into labor, and Sally (Kate Isitt) goes bonkers when she learns that Patrick (Ben Miles) slept with Jane (Gina Bellman) -- who's getting the eye from newcomer Oliver (Richard Mylan). |
Coupling: Season 3
2002 4.1 stars Television Rated: NR
Britain's favorite sexually misguided sextet is back in the bedroom -- among other locales -- for more steamy shenanigans in Season 3 of the BBC hit comedy. This time around, Steve and Susan adjust to life without each other; the boys visit "the Temple of Woman" (otherwise known as a strip club); Jeff grapples with cheating on Julia; and Patrick "outs" Sally to his new girlfriend. |
Coupling: Season 3: Disc 1
2002 120 mins Television Rated: UR
This disc includes the following episodes: "Split," "Faithless," "Unconditional Sex" and "Remember This." |
Coupling: Season 3: Disc 2
2002 90 mins Television Rated: UR
This disc includes the following episodes: "The Freckle, the Key and the Couple Who Weren't," "The Girl With One Heart" and "Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps." Also includes bonus features such as outtakes, a set tour, a photo gallery and cast bios. |
Coupling: Ssn 3: Faithless
2002 29 mins Television Rated: NR
Jeff's confused when attractive colleague Wilma asks him out for a drink. Should he mention his girlfriend or assume Wilma just wants to be friends? Meanwhile, Jane has the hots for a new co-worker. |
Coupling: Ssn 3: Perhaps, Perhaps...
2002 29 mins Television Rated: NR
Worried she might be pregnant, Sally asks Jane and Susan to take pregnancy tests with her so she can see how a negative result looks. Her nervousness causes her to mix up the tests. Now it's clear one of the girls is expecting -- but which one? |
Coupling: Ssn 3: The Girl with One Heart
2002 29 mins Television Rated: UR
Susan's dinner party brings out numerous anxieties. Steve's worried about privacy because Susan has removed the bathroom lock. Sally and Patrick are both nervous because Patrick's new girlfriend, Jennifer, will be there. |
Coupling: Ssn 3: The Freckle, the Key...
2002 29 mins Television Rated: UR
Steve and Susan argue after Steve discovers a mole on his rear. When Susan can't remember if it's always been there, Steve's hurt by her inattention to his body. Meanwhile, Jeff and Julia's kinky evening becomes a disaster. |
Coupling: Ssn 3: Remember This
2002 29 mins Television Rated: NR
Sally and Patrick struggle to determine the true nature of their relationship when Patrick appears at her apartment in the middle of the night. After dreaming she called him to kill a spider, Patrick rushed over. |
Coupling: Ssn 3: Unconditional Sex
2002 29 mins Television Rated: NR
On an unintentional date with his striking colleague, Wilma, Jeff tries to determine how to refuse sex with her. He's rigged his cell phone so his friends can listen in and offer their advice. |
Coupling: Ssn 3: Split
2002 29 mins Television Rated: PG-13
After Steve and Susan argue about their future, Susan runs out of Steve's apartment in tears. They discuss the fight with their friends then both groups seek therapy at a beauty salon for the girls and a strip club for the boys. |
Look Around You: Series 1
2002 4.6 stars 180 mins Television
Satirizing British educational films of the 1970s and '80s, each episode of this humorous series explores a specific subject, with "scientists" performing a string of bizarre, meaningless experiments to examine each theme in detail. Narrated by Nigel Lambert, the first season of the show covers a range of topics, including calcium, mathematics, water, germs, ghosts, sulphur, music, iron and the brain. |
Coupling: Season 2: Disc 1
2001 174 mins Television Rated: UR
This disc includes the following episodes: "The Man with Two Legs," "My Dinner in Hell," "Her Best Friend's Bottom," "The Melty Man Cometh," "Jane and the Truth Snake" and "Gotcha." Extras include audio commentary, cast information and interviews. |
Coupling: Season 2: Disc 2
2001 87 mins Television Rated: UR
This disc includes the following episodes: "Dressed," "Naked" and "The End of the Line." Extras include audio commentary, cast information and interviews. |
Coupling: Season 2
2001 4.0 stars Television Rated: NR
Writer Steven Moffat mines his relationship with wife and "Coupling" executive producer, Sue Vertue, to come up with more hilarious twists and turns on the road to bliss in this BBC cult hit. The twosome at the heart of it all are the similarly named Steve (Jack Davenport) and Sue (Sarah Alexander), who, along with their exes and friends, find themselves in compromising positions -- literally and figuratively. Plus, Steve wants to win Sue back. |
Midsomer Murders: Garden of Death
2001 3.9 stars 100 mins Television Rated: PG-13
The Inkpen-Thomas family has upset the village of Midsomer Deverell with its proposal to turn their ancestral abode, which includes the village's Memorial Garden, into a tea room. The Bennett family is particularly irked by this plan, as they launched the now-doomed garden. When a member of the Inkpen family is discovered dead, it's up to detectives Tom Barnaby (John Nettles) and Gavin Troy (Daniel Casey) to find out the truth. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: Dressed
2001 29 mins Television Rated: PG-13
When a man Jane met in a bar invites her to dinner, she shows up for the engagement wearing a trench coat -- and little else. The hot date she was anticipating turns out to be an elegant supper for 12, and Jane finds herself severely underdressed. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: Gotcha
2001 29 mins Television Rated: PG-13
To celebrate the anniversary of their first date, Steve and Susan plan a fancy dinner at a posh restaurant. But with their friends speculating about whether a proposal is imminent, a private celebration threatens to become a public spectacle. |
Coupling: Ssn: 2: Jane & the Truth Snake
2001 29 mins Television Rated: PG-13
When Jane loses her job as traffic reporter, she decides to try her hand at puppetry. But when the snake hand puppet she's been rehearsing with demonstrates a remarkable candor, her friends are less than amused. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: The Melty Man Cometh
2001 28 mins Television Rated: R
When Sally finally succumbs to player Patrick's charms, his equipment fails to function, convincing Sally that's she's become repellant to the opposite sex. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: Her Best Friend's Bottom
2001 29 mins Television Rated: NR
A drop-in visit to Susan's flat results in Steve seeing Sally emerging from the shower -- embarrassing enough on its own, but when Susan's best friend then drops her towel and asks whether he finds her attractive, Steve is floored. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: My Dinner in Hell
2001 29 mins Television Rated: NR
Already made uncomfortable by watching a TV show with Susan in which the narrator claims all men masturbate, Steve is sent into a paroxysm of embarrassment when Susan's notoriously frank parents show up for dinner. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: Man with Two Legs
2001 29 mins Television Rated: NR
Steve's buddy Jeff says the wrong thing at the wrong time by blurting out that he has just one leg when the woman bus passenger he's been eyeing for weeks finally speaks to him. The problem: He actually has two and the woman's brother is an amputee. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: The End of the Line
2001 29 mins Television Rated: PG-13
The honeymoon phase of Steve and Susan's relationships seems to be over as both members of the happy couple increasingly get on each other's nerves. |
Coupling: Ssn 2: Naked
2001 29 mins Television Rated: PG-13
When Jeff becomes smitten with his new boss, Julia, buddy Steve helps his pal by revealing Jeff's feelings to his colleague. |
Coupling: Season 1
2000 3.8 stars 175 mins Television Rated: PG-13
This BBC television series -- intended to be a "Friends" across the Atlantic -- offers the same virtual scenario as the New York-based series, with one exception: a greater emphasis on sex. Six friends in various stages of relationships are caught in hilarious and often embarrassing situations that usually lead to sexual tension, if not out-and-out sexual activity. This collection comprises the entire first season -- six episodes in all. |
Coupling: Ssn 1: Flushed
2000 29 mins Television Rated: R
In the show's premiere episode, a cozy dinner date for two turns into a crowded outing when all six friends -- Jeff, Jane, Steve, Patrick, Susan and Sally -- sit down at the same table. Needless to say, there's some serious group chemistry. |
Coupling: Ssn 1: Size Matters
2000 29 mins Television Rated: R
As Susan and Steve prepare to go on their "real" first date, Susan lets it slip that Patrick is generously, er, endowed -- a fact that intimidates an insecure Steve and worries a politically conscious Sally, who vowed she'd never have sex with a Tory. |
Coupling: Ssn 1: The Cupboard of...
2000 29 mins Television Rated: PG
Jane is shocked to discover that Patrick has a video archive of the various women he's slept with, a list of conquests that includes their mutual friend Susan. Of course, it doesn't take long for the gang to gather 'round the telly, much to Susan's extreme displeasure. |
Coupling: Ssn 1: The Girl with Two...
2000 28 mins Television Rated: PG
Jeff goes gaga over a mysterious beauty hanging out in the gang's local bar, only to discover through her interpreter that she's Israeli and doesn't speak a word of English. But Jeff really blows his chances when he confuses the girl's name with the Hebrew word for "breast." |
Coupling: Ssn 1: Inferno
2000 29 mins Television Rated: PG
Convinced that Susan has discovered his favorite porn film, Lesbian Spank Inferno, Steve panics and declares that he loves her. But when Susan throws an impromptu dinner party, Jane brings a female "date," thus bringing Steve's girl-on-girl fantasy to life. |
Coupling: Ssn 1: Sex, Death and Nudity
2000 29 mins Television Rated: PG-13
When Jane's aunt dies, the whole gang ends up attending the funeral because Jane doesn't want her family to know that she and Steve have broken up. As a result, Susan comes along to watch Steve but brings Patrick; Patrick brings Sally; and Jeff comes along for the heck of it. |
Catherine Cookson Anthology: Tilly Trotter
1999 3.7 stars 200 mins Television Rated: PG-13
Tilly Trotter (Carli Norris) must defend herself against accusations of witchcraft in Victorian England in this adaptation of Catherine Cookson's romantic novel. With a superstitious mob clamoring for her death, a mine owner (Simon Shepherd) steps in to save the young lady. He later offers Tilly a job and soon falls for the beautiful woman, but faces a rival suitor for her hand, a handsome local farmer. |
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999 2.8 stars 94 mins Children & Family Rated: NR
In this live-action sequel to The Adventures of Pinocchio, Martin Landau returns as the venerable toymaker Geppetto -- but this time, he's the one who turns into a puppet! Pinocchio (Gabriel Thompson) comes home with an elixir from a traveling mystic (Udo Kier) in hopes that it will cure Geppetto's persistent cough. But little do they know that it's a puppet-making potion, which sends the old man on the adventure of his life. |
People Like Us: The Complete Series
1999 3.0 stars 346 mins Television
In this BBC mockumentary series, filmmaker Roy Mallard (a fictional character played to the letter by Chris Langham) traipses around England to interview a variety of everyday people, from pilots to doctors to vicars. The result is a hilariously deadpan meditation on the "skilled" professionals who make the world go 'round, with appearances from well-known actors such as Bill Nighy, David Tennant and Jessica Hynes. |
People Like Us: Complete Series: Disc 1
1999 173 mins Television
This disc includes the following episodes from Season 1: "The Managing Director," "The Estate Agent," "The Police Officer," "The Solicitor," "The Photographer" and "The Head Teacher." |
People Like Us: Complete Series: Disc 2
1999 173 mins Television
This disc includes the following episodes from Season 2: "The Vicar," "The Mother," "The Journalist," "The Actor," "The Bank Manager" and "The Airline Pilot." |
The New Adventures of Pinocchio
1999 2.3 stars 94 mins Children & Family Rated: NR
In this live-action sequel to The Adventures of Pinocchio, Martin Landau returns as the venerable toymaker Geppetto -- but this time, he's the one who turns into a puppet! Pinocchio (Gabriel Thompson) comes home with an elixir from a traveling mystic (Udo Kier) in hopes that it will cure Geppetto's persistent cough. But little do they know that it's a puppet-making potion, which sends the old man on the adventure of his life. |