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Leonardo DiCaprio
Born 11 November, 1974, in Los Angeles, California - Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio is one-part Italian, three-parts German by heritage. And widely regarded as one-part actor, three-parts pretty boy by those who’ve somehow forgotten just how good he is.
Yes, leaping aboard the big-budget behemoth of Titanic sent his star-rating super-global. Yes, it opened a wealth of opportunities. And no, he doesn’t regret it. But blockbuster-chasing dilettante DiCaprio most definitely is not.
At the tender age of only 19, he was terrific in This Boy's Life and What's Eating Gilbert Grape, the latter earning an Oscar nomination. Likewise, two years later in The Basketball Diaries. And while Baz Luhrmann’s Romeo And Juliet set hearts fluttering, Leo’s fearsomely committed nonetheless.
His track record’s not entirely unblemished since Titanic, admittedly, but consider the run since 2002: Gangs Of New York, Catch Me If You Can, The Aviator, The Departed, Blood Diamond. Leo DiCaprio: serious actor, frontline movie entertainer, Spider-Man’s best-mate…
Wise words: "You learn after you've been in the business for a while that it's not getting your face recognised that's the payoff. It's having your film remembered."
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DiCaprio embarrassed by Titanic performance -
28 March 2012
-Leonardo DiCaprio cringed in embarrassment when he recently revisited his 1997 blockbuster Titanic.-Director James Cameron and DiCaprio's co-star Kate Winslet stepped out in London on Tuesday night (27Mar12) for the premiere of a new 3D version of the film.- DiCaprio nev
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DiCaprio thrilled by Titanic 3D -
7 December 2011
-Leonardo DiCaprio was in awe after watching Titanic in 3D and was amazed by how young he looks in the movie, according to producer Jon Landau.-Director James Cameron has updated the 1997 blockbuster using new technology and will release the rebooted historical drama next
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Mulligan in awe of DiCaprio's generosity -
23 November 2011
-Carey Mulligan was "blown away" by Leonardo DiCaprio's generosity when she tried out for The Great Gatsby after he improvised lines as three different characters to improve her audition.-The actress saw off competition from the likes of Scarlett Johansson and Blake Lively
Leonardo DiCaprio - what members say
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Thumbs way up 15 September 2003
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Pure unadulterated fun 9 September 2003
review by A customer from Yorkshire
Brilliant 2 April 2005
Leonardo DiCaprio - filmography
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J. Edgar
(2012)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas
Director: Clint Eastwood
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As the face of law enforcement in America for almost fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. Under the direction of Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio stars in ..read more »
 
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from 340 members
Due for release on 10th July 2012
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The Great Gatsby
(2012)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tobey Maguire, Joel Edgerton
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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The Great Gatsby follow Fitzgerald-like, would-be writer Nick Carraway (Maguire) as he leaves the Midwest and comes to New York City in the spring of 1922, an era of loosening morals, glittering jazz and bootleg kings. Chasing his own American Dream, Nick lands next door to a mysterious, party-..read more »
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from 11 members
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J. Edgar - Blu-ray
(2011)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas
Director: Clint Eastwood
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As the face of law enforcement in America for almost fifty years, J. Edgar Hoover was feared and admired, reviled and revered. But behind closed doors, he held secrets that would have destroyed his image, his career and his life. Under the direction of Clint Eastwood, Leonardo DiCaprio stars in ..read more »
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from 49 members
Due for release on 10th July 2012
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Brave New World
(2011)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Ridley Scott
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John the Savage is a natural man who confronts a world of test-tube babies who are kept pacified with drugs and sex.
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from 32 members
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Inception
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in an original sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the intimate and infinite world of dreams.
Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a skilled thief, the absolute best in the dangerous art of extraction, stealing ..read more »
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from 72,178 members
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Shutter Island
on DVD
(2010)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Ben Kingsley
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
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from 73,827 members
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Inception - Blu-ray
(2010)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
Director: Christopher Nolan
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Visionary filmmaker Christopher Nolan (MEMENTO, THE DARK KNIGHT) writes and directs this psychological sci-fi action film about a thief who possesses the power to enter into the dreams of others. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) doesn't steal things, he steals ideas. By projecting himself deep into the ..read more »
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from 26,689 members
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Revolutionary Road
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
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Frank and April, a married couple in the 1950s, have always seen themselves as special, different, ready and willing to live their lives based on higher ideals. So, as soon as they move into their new house on Revolutionary Road, they proudly declare their independence from the suburban inertia ..read more »
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from 49,860 members
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Body of Lies - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong
Director: Ridley Scott
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
Though this thriller is the fourth collaboration between Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe - following on from GLADIATOR, A GOOD YEAR and AMERICAN GANGSTER - it marks the veteran director's first pairing with Leonardo DiCaprio. In this adaptation of a novel by David Ignatius, DiCaprio plays a CIA ..read more »
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from 12,430 members
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Revolutionary Road - Blu-ray
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Harbour, Kathy Bates
Director: Sam Mendes
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Those who were waiting for the romantic reunion of TITANIC's Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet may be surprised by what they find in REVOLUTIONARY ROAD. The movie begins with a sweet scene where Frank (DiCaprio) and April (Winslet) meet at a party, but the rest of this drama--based on Richard ..read more »
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from 5,390 members
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Body of Lies
on DVD
(2008)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Russell Crowe, Mark Strong
Director: Ridley Scott
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Watch now: Included in all packages with LOVEFiLM Instant
"Body of Lies" is based on "Washington Post" columnist David Ignatius' 2007 novel about a CIA operative, Roger Ferris, who uncovers a lead on a major terrorist leader suspected to be operating out of Jordan. When Ferris devises a plan to infiltrate his network, he must first win the backing of ..read more »
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from 49,427 members
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Blood Diamond - Blu-ray
(2006)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Edward Zwick
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Set in Sierra Leone, BLOOD DIAMOND explores the role of diamond trading in the African civil war of the late 1990s. Narrowly escaping death when his village is invaded by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) militia, fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) is enslaved at a diamond mine and has his ..read more »
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from 10,647 members
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Blood Diamond - HD
(2006)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Edward Zwick
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Set in Sierra Leone, BLOOD DIAMOND explores the role of diamond trading in the African civil war of the late 1990s. Narrowly escaping death when his village is invaded by Revolutionary United Front (RUF) militia, fisherman Solomon Vandy (Djimon Hounsou) is enslaved at a diamond mine and has his ..read more »
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from 1,587 member
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The Departed
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Jack Nicholson, Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Martin Scorsese, Martin Scors
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Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob ..read more »
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from 106,380 members
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Blood Diamond
on DVD
(2006)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jennifer Connelly, Djimon Hounsou
Director: Edward Zwick
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An ex-mercenary turned smuggler (Leonardo DiCaprio). A Mende fisherman (Djimon Hounsoue). Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son conscripted as a child ..read more »
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from 109,091 members
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The Aviator
on DVD
(2004)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Kate Beckinsale
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR is a lavish spectacle of a motion picture that harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era in telling the story of Howard Hughes, one of 20th-century America's most pioneering and influential figures. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric billionaire, Scorsese's biopic ..read more »
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from 76,909 members
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Gangs Of New York - Blu-ray
(2002)
Starring: Liam Neeson, Jim Broadbent, Daniel Day-Lewis
Director: Martin Scorsese
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Director Martin Scorsese revisits New York City's notorious past with this dazzling historical drama. A throwback to the epics of yesteryear, GANGS OF NEW YORK is set in the mid-1800s, when the streets of lower Manhattan were teeming with tension and violence. Leonardo DiCaprio is Amsterdam Vallon, ..read more »
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from 4,406 members
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Gangs Of New York
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis, Cameron Diaz
Director: Martin Scorsese
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In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon--once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits ..read more »
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from 44,370 members
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Catch Me If You Can
on DVD
(2002)
Starring: Tom Hanks, Leonardo DiCaprio, Christopher Walken
Director: Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Frank W. Abagnale's autobiography CATCH ME IF YOU CAN follows the cat-and-mouse chase of Abagnale (Leonardo DiCaprio) and FBI agent Carl Hanratty (Tom Hanks) as Abagnale travels the world passing forged checks and assuming false identities. Covering the time period ..read more »
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from 57,594 members
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Concert For New York City
(2 discs)
on DVD
(2001)
Starring: David Bowie, Billy Crystal, Bon Jovi
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Performed at New York's Madison Square Garden on October 20, 2001, this historic concert was performed to benefit the victims and heroes of the horrendous terrorist attacks of September 11th. An inspiring and uplifting tribute to a great city and its resilient inhabitants, THE CONCERT FOR NEW YORK ..read more »
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from 336 members
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The Beach - Blu-ray
(2000)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen
Director: Danny Boyle
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The desire to find something real - to connect with something or someone - is what drives Richard, a young American backpacker who arrives in Thailand with adventure on his mind. Travel, he asserts, is the search for experience, the quest for something different. At a cheap hotel in Bangkok, ..read more »
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from 35 members
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The Beach
on DVD
(2000)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Virginie Ledoyen
Director: Danny Boyle
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The desire to find something real - to connect with something or someone - is what drives Richard, a young American backpacker who arrives in Thailand with adventure on his mind. Travel, he asserts, is the search for experience, the quest for something different. At a cheap hotel in Bangkok, ..read more »
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from 11,475 members
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The Man in the Iron Mask
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, John Malkovich, Jeremy Irons
Director: Randall Wallace
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With a cry of "All for one and one for all!" the Musketeers return to correct the injustices perpetrated by spoiled monarch Louis XIV, whose misdeeds include imprisoning his twin brother on an island and encasing his visage in the titular mask. Teen idol Di Caprio assays the dual title role, while ..read more »
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from 6,635 members
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Celebrity
(1998)
Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Judy Davis, Judy Davis
Director: Woody Allen
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Woody Allen's star-studded CELEBRITY skewers America's fascination with fame and glamour. Kenneth Branagh stars as Lee Simon, a travel writer who also interviews celebrities when he's not working on his novel and screenplay-or at least talking about writing them. As he hangs out more and more with ..read more »
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from 2,605 members
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Titanic
(1997)
Starring: Kate Winslet, Leonardo DiCaprio, Billy Zane
Director: James Cameron
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TITANIC, James Cameron's blockbuster, stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet as young lovers aboard the ill-fated voyage. A mysterious nude sketch found in the wreckage of the Titanic leads to the tale of its subject, the now-elderly Rose DeWitt Bukater (Winslet). As her story begins, Rose is 17 ..read more »
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from 45,322 members
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Marvin's Room
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Meryl Streep, Diane Keaton
Director: Jerry Zaks
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Upon receiving a call from her leukemia-stricken sister after not speaking with her for two decades, a devil-may-care single mother packs up her two sons--one, a rebellious teen who has spent time in a mental institution--and heads to Florida to reunite with her ailing sibling and their bedridden ..read more »
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from 1,986 member
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Romeo And Juliet
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy
Director: Baz Luhrmann
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This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept apart by rival industrialist families. Bookended by newscastsers ..read more »
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David Blaine - Street Magic
on DVD
(1996)
Starring: David Blaine, Leonardo DiCaprio
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This programme includes the most astounding "close-up" magic ever caught on film. No smoke, no mirrors, the street is his stage. David takes his astonishing, almost mystical performances to the amazed streets of America.
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from 126 members
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The Basketball Diaries
on DVD
(1995)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Bruno Kirby, Lorraine Bracco
Director: Scott Kalvert
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A member of the top high school basketball team in New York City falls prey to the lure of the streets- more specifically heroin- in this coming-of-age drama. Pre-superstardom Leonardo DiCaprio gives a strong performance in this gritty and interesting, if rather unfaithful, adaptation of writer/..read more »
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from 4,222 members
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Total Eclipse
(1995)
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, David Thewlis, Romane Bohringer
Director: Agnieszka Holland
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Director Agnieszka Holland (OLIVIER OLIVIER, WASHINGTON SQUARE) presents this probing period piece that examines the nihilistic relationship between bad-boy French poet Arthur Rimbaud (Leonardo DiCaprio) and writer Paul Verlaine (David Thewlis). After Rimbaud sends Verlaine a series of poems, ..read more »
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from 383 members
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The Quick And The Dead
on DVD
(1994)
Starring: Sharon Stone, Gene Hackman, Russell Crowe
Director: Sam Raimi
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Herod is the corrupt mayor of the Western town of Redemption. A haven for lawbreakers of every type. To enforce his position of absolute power he hosts a shootout contest every year with a cash prize for the winner. Herod always wins...until sexy Ellen rides into town with a six-gun on her shapely ..read more »
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from 4,820 members
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What's Eating Gilbert Grape
on DVD
(1993)
Starring: Johnny Depp, Juliette Lewis, Mary Steenburgen
Director: Lasse Hallstrom
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Swedish director Lasse Hallstrom's follow-up to the underrated Once Around earned far more attention than its predecessor thanks to the judicious casting of perennial thinking woman's heartthrob Johnny Depp and a certain up-and-coming thespian by the name of Leonardo DiCaprio. A prisoner of his ..read more »
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from 17,512 members
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This Boy's Life
(1993)
Starring: Robert De Niro, Ellen Barkin, Leonardo DiCaprio
Director: Michael Caton-Jones
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A film based on Tobias Wolff's much-praised autobiography about his troubled youth. Caroline Wolff, divorced and with no job prospects, takes her son Toby on an aimless journey across 1950s America. They stop for a while in several towns, where Caroline gets involved with different men, but they ..read more »
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Romeo And Juliet - Blu-ray
Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Brian Dennehy
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Certificate:
This ambitious undertaking, adapting William Shakespeare's classic tale of star-crossed lovers and setting the story in a glossy music-video style in 1990s Florida. Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes play the famous lovers kept apart by rival industrialist families. Bookended by newscastsers ..read more »
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...r the best adaptation of a Shakespeare work I?ve ever seen. The young & yummy Leonardo DiCaprio and lovely & lithesome Claire Danes play the star-crossed lovers in this modern...
