It’s no April Fool’s joke, these Amazon Instant Videos are all currently priced at $6.98-$6.99! All movie descriptions are from IMDB.com.
Clerks (R, 4.5/5 stars)
Dante Hicks is a clerk at a local convenience store in New Jersey. On one particular Saturday morning, he gets called in on his day off. Once there, he must deal with multiple problems. The shutters outside won’t open.
His ex-girlfriend, whom he is still in love with, is getting married. His girlfriend, who bugs him about starting college, has revealed certain, uh…stuff about her past. His boss hasn’t come in to take his place. He has a hockey game at 2 o’clock. Another ex has died, and today’s the last day he can go to her wake. He must deal with customers that aren’t so intelligent.
His friend, Randal, a clerk at the video store next door, is even less dedicated to his job than Dante, and is always bothering Dante’s customers. And the biggest problem of them all: HE’S NOT EVEN SUPPOSED TO BE THERE TODAY!! Can Dante manage it all?
– Written by MTRodaba2468
Swingers (R, 4.5/5 stars)
This is a story about Mike, a guy who left his girl in New York when he came to LA to be a star.
It’s been six months since his girlfriend left him and he’s not doing so good.
So, his pal and some other friends try and get him back in the social scene and forget about his 6 year relationship.
– Written by Kevin Gillease
Clear and Present Danger (PG-13, closed captions available, 4.5/5 stars)
Jack Ryan is back and this time the bad guys are in his own government. When Admiral James Greer becomes sick with cancer, Ryan is appointed acting CIA Deputy Director of Intelligence.
Almost before he can draw a breath in his new position, one of the president’s closest friends and his family are murdered in their sleep by what appears to by drug cartels. Ryan is called in to investigate, but unknown to him the CIA has already sent a secret field operative to lead an illegal paramilitary force in Colombia against cartels.
Things get even more complicated when his team is set up and he loses and agent in the field and a friend of his wife’s, who was the murdered agent’s secretary is murdered that same day.
Ryan must then risk not only his career, but his life to expose the truth behind the mystery.
– Written by SindyMac
Gods and Monsters (R, 4.5/5 stars)
Set in 1957, James Whale, the director of Show Boat (1936), Invisible Man, The (1933) , Frankenstein (1931), and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), had long since stepped back from the glamor and glitz of Hollywood.
A stroke triggers once buried flashes of memory of his life in Dudley, his film career, and, most influentially, the trenches during the Great War. Haunted and lonely, he recounts many of his experiences to his musclebound gardener, Clay Boone.
Despite the divide that exists between them, their friendship develops.
Reliant on his sternly disapproving housemaid, Hannah, the flamboyant director whose time has passed sees himself slipping away, unable to stop the decline, and indulges his fantasies by coaxing Boone to model for him.
– Written by Dave F
Hero (PG-13, 4/5 stars, English subtitled)
In feudal China, the King of Qin is waging a bloody campaign to conquer the entire land. He has been made a target of three dangerous assassins: spear-wielding Sky, and the lovers Broken Sword and Flying Snow.
One day word comes that he has nothing left to fear; a prefect known only as Nameless has killed all three assassins.
Nameless is called to the palace and asked to recount the tale of how he accomplished this amazing feat.
After he tells his story, however, the King notices some flaws in it…
– Written by rmlohner
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (R, closed captions available, 4.75/5 stars)
When Stan invites Kyle, Kyle’s brother Ike, Cartman and Kenny to an R-rated movie starring their two favorite comedians, Terrance and Phillip, the boys teach their friends the cuss words they learned from the movie.
After getting sent to the counselor’s office, Kyle’s mother, Sheila, is outraged by the movie, she starts a group that is against Canada.
Canada now is at war with the United States, after being discriminated at for far too long. With Terrance and Phillip captured and sentenced to be executed, the boys must try to save the two Canadians in order to stop Satan and Saddam Hussein from ruling the world.
– Written by emauger1
Apollo 13 (PG, 4.75/5 stars)
It had been less than a year since man first walked on the Moon, but as far as the American public was concerned, Apollo 13 was just another “routine” space flight–until these words pierced the immense void of space: “Houston, we have a problem.”
Stranded 205,000 miles from Earth in a crippled spacecraft, astronauts Jim Lovell, Fred Haise and Jack Swigert fight a desperate battle to survive.
Meanwhile, at Mission Control, astronaut Ken Mattingly, flight director Gene Kranz and a heroic ground crew race against time–and the odds–to bring them home.
– Written by Robert Lynch
Forrest Gump (PG-13, 4.75/5 stars)
A man with a low I.Q. has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events – in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do.
Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes him.
“Forrest Gump” is the story of a man who rose above his challenges, and who proved that determination, courage, and love are more important than ability.
– Written by J. Lake
There are many, MANY more to choose from, including Sleepy Hollow, Mamma Mia!, The Godfather and Stargate.
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