You won’t believe some of the fantastic, all-time-favorite, hit movies Amazon’s currently got on sale for just $6.98-$6.99. This selection offers something for everyone: kids, horror fans, comedy fans, people who like action and drama…they can all find something to their liking included in this sale. As always, we never know how long sale prices will last so grab ’em while you can!
All movie descriptions are from IMDB.com
Scarface (R, 4.5/5 stars)
When Fidel Castro opens the harbor at Mariel, Cuba, he sends 125,000 Cuban refugees to reunite with their relatives in the United States. Among all the refugees, there is one who wants it all, his name is Tony Montana.
Tony and his friend Manny arrive in the United States and start in small time jobs. Soon, they are hired by Omar Suarez to pay money to a group of Colombians. When the deal goes wrong, Tony and Manny leave with the money and succeed in their job.
Soon Tony meets with drug kingpin Frank Lopez and falls for his boss’s girl, Elvira. Pretty soon Tony will know that those who want it all, do not last forever; that is the price of power. The world will know Montana by one name….SCARFACE.
– Written by Emphinix
Coraline (PG, 4/5 stars)
When Coraline moves to an old house, she feels bored and neglected by her parents. She finds a hidden door with a bricked up passage.
During the night, she crosses the passage and finds a parallel world where everybody has buttons instead of eyes, with caring parents and all her dreams coming true.
When the Other Mother invites Coraline to stay in her world forever, the girl refuses and finds that the alternate reality where she is trapped is only a trick to lure her.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
Evil Dead 2 (R, 4.5/5 stars)
A young man, named Ash, takes his girlfriend Linda to a secluded cabin in the woods where he plays back a professor’s tape recorded recitation of passages from the Book of the Dead.
The spell calls up an evil force from the woods which turns Linda into a monstrous Deadite, and threatens to do the same to Ash.
When the professor’s daughter and her entourage show up at the cabin, the night turns into a non-stop, grotesquely comic battle with chainsaw and shotgun on one side, demon horde and flying eyeball on the other.
– Written by David Thiel
Forrest Gump (PG-13, 4.5/5 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
Kick-Ass (R, 4/5 stars)
In New York, teenager Dave Lizewski is a loser at high-school, a fan of comic books and ignored at school. He spends most of his time with his friends Marty and Todd who are also comic book fans. Dave has a crush on Katie Deauxma but she in turn does not even notice him. One day, Dave decides to make a difference in his life by becoming a masked superhero named Kick-Ass.
In his first superhero role he attempts to prevent a car theft by two punks, but he is inadvertently stabbed by one of them and hit by a car later. Dave is taken to hospital where his bones are fixed with metal. When he recovers, Katie begins to notice him. That night, Dave helps a man being hunted down by three guys in front of a cafeteria, and teenagers record the fight with their cell phone cameras. Then they put the footage on the Internet and Kick-Ass immediately becomes famous.
Meanwhile the powerful gangster Frank D’Amico believes that Kick-Ass is responsible for actions against his gang and plots a scheme to destroy him.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
South Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut (R, 4.5/5 stars)
When four boys in South Park Stan Marsh, Kyle and his stepbrother Ike Broflovski, Eric Cartman, and Kenny McCormick see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians “Terrance & Phillip: Asses of Fire”, they are pronounced “corrupted”, and Kyle’s mom Sheila with the rest of the parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada for World War 3!
It’s all up to Stan, Kyle and Cartman to save Terrence and Phillip before Satan and his lover Saddam Hussein from Hell rules the world and it’ll be the end of the whole world.
– Written by Anthony Pereyra
Sleepy Hollow (R, 4.5/5 stars)
After the head of a Hessian horseman is stolen, the horseman returns from hell to take the heads of the people of Sleepy Hallow until its own is returned. Constable Ichabod Crane is called in to investigate three murders.
Through his investigation he learns of the legend of the Headless Horseman, but he doesn’t believe that the stories are true – until the horseman takes off the head of one of the elders right in front of his very eyes. Now he must race to find out the origins of the horseman in order to send him back to his grave for good. But the question remains…if the head was stolen once, how safe is it?
– Written by thexotherxchris
The Social Network (PG-13, 4/5 stars)
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea.
In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication.
A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history… but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
– Written by Columbia Pictures
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (R, 4.5/5 stars)
Nearly 10 years have passed since Sarah Connor was targeted for termination by a cyborg from the future.
Now her son, John, the future leader of the resistance, is the target for a newer, more deadly terminator.
Once again, the resistance has managed to send a protector back to attempt to save John and his mother Sarah.
– Written by Colin Tinto
(Yes, this is the one with the shape-shifting, liquid metal Terminator!)
The Italian Job (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars)
Led by John Bridger (‘Donald Sutherland’ ) and Charlie Croker (‘Mark Wahlberg’ ) a team is assembled for one last heist to steal $35 million in gold bars from a heavily guarded safe in Venice, Italy. After successfully pulling off the heist, a team member, Steve (Edward Norton), driven by greed and jealousy, arranges to take the gold for himself and eliminate the remaining members of the group.
Thinking the team dead, he returns to L.A. with the gold. Charlie and the survivors of this betrayal follow Steve L.A. to exact revenge against the traitor. Charlie enlists the help of John Bridger’s daughter, Stella (Charlize Theron) – a professional safe cracker, to get revenge. With Stella and the hacking skills of Lyle (Seth Green), the explosives skills of “Left Ear” (Mos Def), and the driving skills of “Handsome” Rob (Jason Statham) this new team plans and executes a daring heist that weaves through the freeways and subways of L.A.
– Written by CKnapp
Apollo 13 (PG, 4.5/5 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
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