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Omar Sharif
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Omar Sharif - what members say
review by from Henfield West Sussex
atmospheric period drama 28 June 2005
review by A customer from Orpington
A stirring gripping period epic against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution 12 April 2010
review by A customer from Cheshire England
Great Film 5 January 2007
Omar Sharif - filmography
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I Forgot to Tell You
(2009)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Émilie Dequenne, Emilie Dequenne
Director: Laurent Vinas-Raymond
Certificate: 
A young girl, Marie is freed from prison and moves to France, in the hope of starting a new life. Although this new life begins with a menial job, working as a fruit-picker, Marie's new world soon begins to take shape. A major part of it is a handsome local mechanic Baptiste, who is more than ..read more »
 
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10,000 BC - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Marco Khan, Cliff Curtis, Nathanael Baring
Director: Roland Emmerich
Certificate: 
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Epic adventure from director Roland Emmerich. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter D'Leh (Steven Strait) has met the woman of his dreams, the beautiful Evolet (Camilla Belle). But when a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and kidnap Evolet, D'Leh must lead a small group of hunters ..read more »
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10,000 BC
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Marco Khan, Cliff Curtis, Nathanael Baring
Director: Roland Emmerich
Certificate:
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This is a sweeping odyssey into a mythical age of prophesies and gods, when spirits rule the land and mighty mammoths shake the earth. In a remote mountain tribe, the young hunter, D'Leh, has found his heart's passion--the beautiful Evolet. When a band of mysterious warlords raid his village and ..read more »
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from 28,417 members
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The Ten Commandments
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Dougray Scott, Mia Maestro, Linus Roache
Director: Robert Dornhelm, Robert Dornhelm
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Dramatic retelling of the biblical story of Moses, who returns to Egypt to free the Hebrews from slavery after receiving a fiery message from God. Dougray Scott stars as Moses, leading a cast that also includes Linus Roache, Mia Maestro, Richard O'Brien, Raul Rhys and Omar Sharif.
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from 38 members
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One Night With The King
(2006)
Starring: Tiffany Dupont, Luke Goss, John Noble
Director: Michael O. Sajbel
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One Night with the King is a sweeping epic about Hadassah, the young Jewish girl who becomes the Biblical Esther, Queen of Persia. Despite her position, Hadassah's life is in danger, as the state has decreed that all Jews will be put to death. Defying warnings to remain silent, however, Hadassah ..read more »
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Princess Of Persia
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Tiffany Dupont, John Rhys-Davies, John Noble
Director: Michael Sajbel
Certificate: 
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Biblical drama retelling the Old Testament story of Queen Esther. Born into Jewish peasantry, the beautiful Esther (Tiffany Dupont) is taken in by her uncle, a royal scribe, following the death of her parents. She is later taken into the royal harem of King Xerxes (Luke Goss) amid much plotting and ..read more »
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from 236 members
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Hidalgo - Blu-ray
(2004)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif
Director: Joe Johnston
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Period adventure set in 1890 based on a true story, starring Viggo Mortensen as Frank T Hopkins, a former US Cavalry officer with a reputation for being one of the fastest and most daring riders in the West. When he meets Aziz (Adam Alexi-Malle), an associate of wealthy Bedouin Sheikh Riyadh (Omar ..read more »
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from 351 members
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Hidalgo
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Viggo Mortensen, Zuleikha Robinson, Omar Sharif
Director: Joe Johnston
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Period adventure set in 1890 based on a true story, starring Viggo Mortensen as Frank T Hopkins, a former US Cavalry officer with a reputation for being one of the fastest and most daring riders in the West. When he meets Aziz (Adam Alexi-Malle), an associate of wealthy Bedouin Sheikh Riyadh (Omar ..read more »
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from 18,715 members
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Monsieur Ibrahim
(2003)
Starring: Omar Sharif, Pierre Boulanger, Gilbert Melki
Director: Francois Dupeyron
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Vividly portraying a 1960s Paris neighborhood where lower-class status unites residents of varied religious and ethnic backgrounds, MONSIEUR IBRAHIM follows the universally appealing story of a young boy's coming of age. Moses (Pierre Boulanger), a Jewish teenager, lives in an apartment with his ..read more »
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from 20 members
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Mysteries Of Egypt
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Omar Sharif
Director: Bruce Neibaur
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Well-known Egyptian actor Omar Sharif and the young British actress Kate Maberly are featured in the IMAX film. Sharif plays the role of a grandfather who takes his visiting granddaughter (Maberly) around the country to introduce her to the wonders of ancient Egypt. Re-enactments are used to ..read more »
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The 13th Warrior
on DVD
(1999)
Starring: Antonio Banderas, Diane Venora, Omar Sharif
Director: John McTiernan
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It is 922 AD. Ahmed Ibn Fahdlan (Antonio Banderas) is an Arab ambassador travelling through Northern Europe with his mentor Melchisidek (Omar Sharif). They chance upon a band of Vikings, who are licking their wounds after an attack by mysterious creatures. A fortune teller prophecies that unless ..read more »
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from 3,740 members
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Mrs 'Arris goes to Paris
on DVD
(1992)
Starring: Angela Lansbury, Omar Sharif
Director: Anthony Shaw
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Heartwarming tale of a housemaid who spends her days cleaning the homes of the well-to-do. Mrs. Harris (Angela Lansbury) epitomises her generation of honest, working-class Brits. She knows her place, though that never stops her from speaking her mind - or dreaming of luxuries. Admiring a beautiful ..read more »
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from 239 members
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Beyond Justice
(1992)
Starring: Rutger Hauer, Kabir Bedi, Peter Sands
Director: Duccio Tessari
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Action thriller starring Rutger Hauer. Ex-CIA agent Tom Burton (Rutger Hauer) has been hired to save the life of the son of C.E.O. Christine Sanders, who has been kidnapped by his father and taken out of the country. He uses the help of the boy's grandfather (Omar Sharif), but, together with a team ..read more »
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from 5 members
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Harem - The Loss Of Innocence
(1986)
Starring: Sarah Miles, Nancy Travis, Yaphet Kotto
Director: William Hale
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Set in the crumbling Ottoman empire during 1906. On her way to Damascus, a naive American heiress is kidnapped and sold to the local Sultan's harem. As the days pass she becomes more and more torn between a Turkish rebel, the Sultan and her English diplomat fiance.
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from 147 members
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Top Secret
on DVD
(1984)
Starring: Lucy Gutteridge, Michael Gough, Val Kilmer
Director: Jerry Zucker, David Zucker, Jim Abrahams
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The second of Zucker-Abraham-Zucker's theatrical-feature spoofs (Airplane was the first, discounting the patchwork Kentucky Fried Movie), Top Secret! lampoons practically every film genre. Specifically, however, this is a hybrid of an Elvis movie and a World War II underground resistance thriller. ..read more »
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from 4,932 members
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The Far Pavilions
(2 discs)
on DVD
(1983)
Starring: Robert Hardy, Ben Cross, Rossano Brazzi
Director: Peter Duffell
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Epic adaptation of M.M. Kaye's novel. Englishman Ash (Ben Cross) was orphaned at the age of four, but was saved from the Indian Mutiny by a Hindu foster mother who brought him up as her own. Only on her deathbed did she reveal Ash's true origins to him, and he finds himself torn between the British ..read more »
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from 817 members
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Green Ice
(1981)
Starring: Domingo Ambriz, Ryan O'Neal, Anne Archer
Director: Ernest Day
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Electronics expert Wiley (Ryan O'Neal) finds romance and adventure in Mexico after fleeing New York. After meeting up with the beautiful Holbrook (Anne Archer), he encounters Argenti (Omar Sharif), who involves him in a plot to steal a fortune in emeralds.
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from 99 members
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The Baltimore Bullet
on DVD
(1980)
Starring: James Coburn, Calvin Lockhart, Bruce Boxleitner
Director: Robert Ellis Miller
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Comedy about pool hustlers starring James Coburn. The Baltimore Bullet (Coburn) and Billy Joe (Bruce Boxleitner) travel cross-country playing numerous games of pool in an attempt to make enough money to play 'The Deacon' (Omar Sharif), who will compete for nothing less than a five digit figure. '..read more »
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from 21 members
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Ashanti
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Kabir Bedi, William Holden, Peter Ustinov
Director: Richard Fleischer
Certificate:
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Dr David Linderby pursues the slave traders who have captured his wife Anansa. It transpires that Anansa's captor, Suleiman, intends to sell her to an Arab Prince, but with the authorities refusing to help in his search, David is forced to turn to men just as ruthless as the slave traders ..read more »
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from 333 members
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Bloodline
on DVD
(1979)
Starring: Romy Schneider, Ben Gazzara, Michelle Phillips
Director: Terence Young
Certificate: 
Suspense thriller based on the best-selling novel by Sidney Sheldon. When Sam Roffe, president of a multinational pharmaceutical company, is killed while mountain-climbing, his beautiful daughter Elizabeth (Audrey Hepburn) inherits the controlling interest of his empire - and almost immediately ..read more »
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from 135 members
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Funny Lady
on DVD
(1975)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Director: William Wyler, Herbert Ross
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Funny Lady Barbra Streisand is back and she's better than ever as the exuberant Fanny Brice in Funny Lady, sequel to acclaimed Academy Award winner Funny Girl. This lively, lavish musical opens a new chapter in Fanny's career and love life. Now divorced from wealthy Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), she ..read more »
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from 654 members
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The Tamarind Seed
(1974)
Starring: Julie Andrews, Omar Sharif
Director: Blake Edwards
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While holidaying in Barbados, widowed Foreign Office employee Judith (Julie Andrews) begins a romance with handsome Russian military attaché Feodor (Omar Sharif). However, Feodor is in reality the second-in-command of the KGB, and when Judith returns to England she finds herself under suspicion of ..read more »
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from 373 members
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Juggernaut
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Ian Holm, Richard Harris
Director: Richard Lester
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A sentimental excursion becomes a voyage from hell when a disgruntled explosives expert targets a luxury liner in this white-knuckler that stars Omar Sharif, Richard Harris and Anthony Hopkins.
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from 481 members
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The Last Valley
on DVD
(1970)
Starring: Arthur O'Connell, Nigel Davenport, Michael Caine
Director: James Clavell
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17th century Austria. A band of mercenaries arrive in a beautiful village, a place untouched by the Thirty Years War, and agree to provide protection against any future attacks. The leader of the mercenaries (Michael Caine) forms a bond with the local philosopher (Omar Sharif), but the petty ..read more »
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Che!
on DVD
(1969)
Starring: Barbara Luna, Cesare Danova, Jack Palance
Director: Richard Fleischer, Richard
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Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara gets a Hollywood makeover. A late '60s attempt to gloss up the life story of the iconic rebel leader, played by then heartthrob Omar Sharif. The story begins in 1956 with Che's arrival in Cuba alongside Fidel Castro (Jack Palance), as they begin their attempt to ..read more »
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from 124 members
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MacKenna's Gold
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Lee J. Cobb, Edward G. Robinson, Raymond Massey
Director: J. Lee Thompson
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Arizona sheriff Sam MacKenna (Gregory Peck) thinks his luck is in when he is given a map to a mythical 'Valley of Gold'. But the news of the map travels fast, and soon everyone wants a piece of the action, including the brutal bandit Colorado (Omar Sharif). Colorado captures MacKenna and forces him ..read more »
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from 459 members
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Funny Girl
on DVD
(1968)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Director: William Wyler
Certificate: 
One of the most popular movie musicals ever made, Funny Girl follows the early career of stage comedienne Fanny Brice - a role that earned Barbra Streisand the 1968 Oscar for Best Actress. As the film opens, only her mother believes Fanny can make it in show business. When she gets her first break ..read more »
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Funny Girl - Blu-ray
(1968)
Starring: Barbra Streisand, Omar Sharif, Kay Medford
Director: William Wyler
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Biopic of musical comedienne Fanny Brice. As the film opens, Fanny (Barbra Streisand) is an aspiring star living in New York in the early 1900s. She has the chance to realize her ambition when she meets playboy Nick Arnstein (Omar Sharif), who introduces her to Florenz Ziegfeld (Walter Pidgeon). ..read more »
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Operation Opium
(1966)
Starring: Yul Brynner, Jack Hawkins, Trevor Howard
Director: Terence Young
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Made-for-TV thriller, based on the story by Ian Fleming, about narcotics agents trying to trace heroin shipments in Europe. After a UN agent is murdered trying to trace opium routes in Iran, two of his compatriots take over the case, coming up with an ingenious plan to inject a radioactive isotope ..read more »
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from 13 members
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The Night Of The Generals
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Peter O'Toole, Cor, Christopher Plummer
Director: Anatole Litvak
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In Warsaw, 1942, a prostitute is brutally murdered and it is rumoured that a German General is the man responsible. A special investigator (Omar Sharif) is called in to clear up the controversy, and narrows the suspects down to three high-ranking Nazi officers: Tanz (Peter O'Toole), Kahlenberge (..read more »
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from 1,644 member
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Doctor Zhivago - Blu-ray
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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Following 'Lawrence of Arabia' (1962), director David Lean continued his epic phase with this adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel. During World War One, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif) studies to become a doctor in Moscow. He marries his childhood sweetheart Tonya (Geraldine Chaplin), but is attracted ..read more »
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from 304 members
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Doctor Zhivago
on DVD
(1965)
Starring: Geraldine Chaplin, Omar Sharif, Tom Courtenay
Director: David Lean
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Based on the Nobel Prize-winning novel by Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago covers the years prior to, during, and after the Russian Revolution, as seen through the eyes of poet/physician Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif). In the tradition of Russian novels, a multitude of characters and subplots intertwine ..read more »
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from 8,082 members
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Genghis Khan
(1965)
Starring: Stephen Boyd, Omar Sharif, James Mason
Director: Henry Levin
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Genghis Khan stars Omar Sharif in the role of the legendary Mongol chieftain, uniter of the nomadic hoardes, conqueror of all Asia and terror of the west! This film tells the story of his rise from captive slave boy to daring guerilla leader, to confiant and ally of the Emperor of China, to saviour ..read more »
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Lawrence Of Arabia - Blu-ray
(1962)
Starring: Jack Hawkins, Anthony Quinn, Donald Wolfit
Director: David Lean
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David Lean's lush, Oscar-winning biopic stars Peter O'Toole as T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-educated British army officer who aided the Arabs in their revolt against the Turks. Teaming up with Sherif Ali (Omar Sharif), Lawrence crosses a desert (considered uncrossable) in order to join two separate ..read more »
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from 266 members
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Hip Hop Divas
on DVD
Starring: Eve, MC Lyte, Missy Elliott
Director: Omar Sharif
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Music documentary focusing on the ladies who have made it big in the male-dominated world of American hip hop, from New York to Los Angeles. Features behind-the-scenes footage, interviews and live concert performances.
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...very realistic drama with a very strong performance from both Omar Sharif and Michael Caine.The background music is very haunting and I highly recommend it.You should also...
