Adventures in Babysitting

• Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue of Cousin Bette, Leaving Las Vegas) agrees to babysit after her dread date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV.and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Baby

Chris Parker (Elisabeth Shue) agrees to babysit after her "dream" date stands her up. Expecting a dull evening, Chris settles down with three kids for a night of TV ... and boredom. But when her frantic friend Brenda calls and pleads to be rescued from the bus station in downtown Chicago, the evening soon explodes into an endless whirl of hair-raising adventures! Babysitter and kids leave their safe suburban surroundings and head for the heart of the big city, never imagining how terrifyingly funny ! their expedition will become.Way before she grabbed an Oscar nomination for her searing performance as a world-weary prostitute in Leaving Las Vegas, Elisabeth Shue was known as one of the squeaky-clean actresses of the '80s. Having made a splash in The Karate Kid and the '60s-nostalgia TV series Call to Glory, Shue cemented her good-girl reputation with the charming but badly titled Adventures in Babysitting. Set in the John Hughes-style suburbs of Chicago, the titular adventures follow babysitter Chris (Shue), who agrees to watch the Anderson kids (Keith Coogan and Maia Brewton) when her boyfriend cancels their anniversary date. All is quiet on the home front until Chris is called upon to rescue her best friend (Penelope Ann Miller, also doing good-girl duty) from the seedy downtown bus station. She can't leave the kids, and she can't leave her friend alone in the big bad city, so she packs everyone in the station wagon and heads into Ch! icago. Screwball craziness begins as they encounter car thieve! s, knife -wielding gangs, gun-toting truck drivers, and, worst of all, Chris's duplicitous boyfriend. It's hardly mature entertainment, but Shue makes it work; when she wins over the audience at a blues club with her improv singing, you'll be won over, too. In his directorial debut, Chris Columbus (who later went on to helm the sap-fests Mrs. Doubtfire and Home Alone) gently skewers the suburbia white-bread mindset of the main characters, and plays up the comedy over the schmaltz with a subtlety of which he now seems incapable; the near romance between Shue and Coogan is played lightly and adorably. Look for brief appearances by art-house faves Lolita Davidovich as a college party girl and Vincent D'Onofrio as an unlikely savior. --Mark Englehart

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Chihwaseon (Painted Fire)

• CHI-WHA-SEON PAINTED FIRE (DVD MOVIE)

Hephaestus Books represents a new publishing paradigm, allowing disparate content sources to be curated into cohesive, relevant, and informative books. To date, this content has been curated from Wikipedia articles and images under Creative Commons licensing, although as Hephaestus Books continues to increase in scope and dimension, more licensed and public domain content is being added. We believe books such as this represent a new and exciting lexicon in the sharing of human knowledge. This particular book is a collaboration focused on South Korean singer-songwriters.One Fine Day: When does love begin? Starring Korean TV drama favorites Gong Yoo (Coffee Prince) and Sung Yu-ri (The Snow Queen), and co-starring Namgoong Min and Lee Yeon-hee (Emperor of the Sea). One Fine Day presents a heartrending, bittersweet love story amid the beautiful vist! as of Australia and Korea.

Orphaned as children, stepsiblings Gun (Gong Yoo) and Ha-neul (Sung Yu-ri) are adopted into very different lives. Ha-neul grows up in Korea with a wealthy, loving family, while Gun becomes a small-time thug in Australia. Reunited after 15 years, they have nothing in common but painful memories. As the two grow closer, however, Gun and Ha-neul realize their feelings run deeper than that of brother and sister.

What Planet Are You From? Korean TV drama favorites Kim Rae-Won (Rooftop Room Cat, My Love Patzzi) and Jung Ryeo-Won (My Lovely Sam-Soon) shine in this playful romantic story about finding love and hope when you least expect it.

Seung-Hee (Kim Rae-Won) was a successful young movie director, but after the tragic death of his fiancee, he fell apart. Just when he hits rock bottom, he meets the clumsy and opinionated Bok-Shil (Jung Ryeo-Won) who shows him just how wonderful life can be. But to start anew! , Seung-Hee must face his most difficult trial of all...Myster! ious dri fter Tae-suk enters other peoples' lives as easily as he breaks into their unoccupied homes. Instead of stealing their riches, he repays his hosts' unknowing hospitality by fixing broken items, cleaning up, even doing their laundry. But when he sneaks into a sprawling mansion, he discovers a beautiful, lonely wife named Sun-hwa, trapped in a loveless marriage. Without saying a word, the pair begin an erotic game of cat-and-mouse, until her abusive husband returns home, unleashing a shocking burst of violence. Tae-suk defends Sun-hwa with the aid of her husband's golf club. The lovers run away together finding domestic bliss inhabiting strangers' homes. Later, when Tae-suk is framed for a murder, even prison walls can't keep them apart for good. Words really do get in the way in 3-Iron, a strange, poignant South Korean film from director Kim Ki-Duk (Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter... and Spring) in which the central character doesn't utter a single word. It's not e! xplained why the puck never speaks, but it adds an element of mysticism to this love story that's at once humorous and disturbing. In this case, the knight in shining armor, Tae-Suk (Hee Jae) is a vagabond who supports himself by breaking into people's homes when they're on vacation. But rather than steal possessions, he cooks himself a meal, carefully washes the dishes, takes a bath, does their laundry, fixes anything broken, sleeps in their pajamas, and leaves each home spic and span. One day he trespasses on the home of a battered wife (Seung-yon Lee) who's still home. Fascinated, she leaves her husband and joins in his adventures, until one of their random break-ins gets them in trouble and the couple is forced apart.

Adding in a reliance on some stunning visuals, 3-Iron does a good job filling itself out in a non-implicit way. In this case, compliments and banter aren't needed to tell you that the pair has found a bond that no one can wrest away from them. T! he ending may tickle suspended reality (it's either becoming s! upernatu ral or someone's a lot more nimble than we thought), but it's still a poetic conclusion to this twisted fairy tale. --Ellen A. KimCHIHWASEON (PAINTED FIRE) - DVD Movie

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Love & Sex

• DVD Details: Actors: Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich, Ann Magnuson, Cheri Oteri
• Directors: Valerie Breiman
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC. Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only)
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1; Number of discs: 1; Studio: Lions Gate
• DVD Release Date: January 30, 2001; Run Time: 82 minutes

100 FEET - DVD MovieFollowing in the reptilian slime trail of Anaconda, this derivative monster movie from early 1998 plays like a cross between Titanic and Tremors, with parts of Aliens tossed in for good measure. Director Stephen Sommers couldn't recognize an original idea if it swallowed him whole--which, by the way, is exactly what happens to a lot of passengers on a luxury ship that is attacked by a giant serpent-like sea creature with a voracious appetite for human flesh. Treat Williams plays the leader of a mercenary c! rew whose members discover the ravaged ship and wage war on the creature; Famke Janssen joins him as an onboard thief and con artist who just happens to be highly skilled with automatic weapons. Of course, the action grows more intense as the body count rises and along the way the monster is gradually revealed in all of its gruesome glory. A guilty pleasure if ever there was one, Deep Rising arrived in theaters shortly after another waterlogged thriller, Hard Rain, and if nothing else it provides proof that the B-movie monsters of the 1950s are alive and well and as cheesy as ever in the age of digital special effects. --Jeff ShannonPlease note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 23. Chapters: Famke Janssen, Doutzen Kroes, Lara Stone, Karen Mulder, Marga Scheide, Sylvia Kristel, Patricia van der Vliet, Sylvie van der Vaart, Wilhelmina Cooper, Ria Thielsch, Touriya Hao! ud, Frederique van der Wal, Angela Visser, Yolanthe Cabau van ! Kasberge n, Geertje Dircx, Kim Mendoza, Lorena Ayala, Yolanthe Sneijder Cabau, Kelly van der Veer, Yfke Sturm, Ananda Marchildon, Iekeliene Stange, Viola Haqi, Querelle Jansen, Rianne ten Haken, Sanne Nijhof, Sabrina van der Donk, Kim Noorda, Jill de Jong, Rosalie van Breemen, Dewi Driegen, Lonneke Engel, Rosalinde Kikstra, Bette Franke, Daphne Deckers, Cecile Sinclair, Louise Vyent, Deniz Akkoyun, Daniella van Graas, Barbara Snellenburg, Lucie Visser, Miljuschka Witzenhausen, Kim Kötter, Corine Rottschäfer, Saadia Himi, Nimue Smit, Ymre Stiekema, Robine van der Meer, Debbie Van Der Putten, Stam van Baer. Excerpt: Famke Beumer Janssen (Dutch pronunciation: ; English pronunciation: ; born November 5, 1964) is a Dutch actress and former fashion model. Janssen is also a UNODC Goodwill Ambassador for Integrity. She is best-known for playing the villainess Bond girl Xenia Onatopp in GoldenEye and Jean Grey/Phoenix in the X-Men film series. According to MTV, Janssen "mastered the art of ! the beautiful but deadly villainess." Famke Beumer Janssen was born in Amstelveen, the Netherlands. Her first name means little girl in West Frisian, the native language of the Dutch province Friesland. Besides her native Dutch, Janssen speaks English and French. She also learned German, but has not kept up with it. She has two sisters, director Antoinette Beumer and actress Marjolein Beumer. Before going to the United States, Janssen studied economics for a year at the University of Amsterdam, which she later called "the stupidest idea I ever had." Janssen moved to the U.S. in 1984 and began her professio...LOVE & SEX - DVD Movie

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