If you check the listings today, you’ll find some terrific movies priced at $4.98 – $5.99 to own in Amazon’s Instant Video store. Titles currently available in that price range include:
Note: all descriptions are from IMDB
The Holiday (PG-13, closed captions available, 4.5/5 stars)
In London, Iris Simpkins writes a wedding column in a newspaper and nurtures an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Near Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged to marry another colleague, and her life turns upside down.
In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just split with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Through a house exchange website, Amanda impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris’ cottage in Surrey for the holidays.
While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris’ brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Iris meets her new next door neighbor the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, with whom she falls in love.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
Jesse Stone: Sea Change (not rated, closed captions available, 4.5/5 stars)
When Police Chief Jesse Stone’s relationship with his ex-wife worsens, he fears he will relapse into alcoholism.
To get his mind off his problems, Jesse begins working on the unsolved murder of a bank teller shot during a robbery.
Meanwhile, Stone’s investigation of an alleged rape draws him into conflict with the town council, which hopes to preserve Paradise’s reputation as an ideal seaside resort.
– Written by page8701
The House Bunny (PG-13, closed captions available, 4/5 stars)
Finding family.
Shelley Darlingson was raised in an orphanage, finally happy when she blossoms into a fox and moves into the Playboy Mansion. Unfortunately, she’s summarily expelled on her 27th birthday(she’s now too old). In desperation she takes a job as house mother for a sorority of misfits losing their house for lack of members.
They have but a few months to find 30 pledges, or a sorority of mean girls will take over their place.
Shelley figures that girls will pledge a house that boys find interesting, so she sets out to make the Zetas alluring, not act too smart, and host great parties. Can she succeed, and what about her own makeover? Sabotage is everywhere, plus it’s hard to be one’s self.
– Written by jhailey
The Da Vinci Code (PG-13, closed captions available, 3.5/5 stars)
When respected American religious symbology expert Dr. Robert Langdon is summoned to the Louvre by the French version of the FBI, led by Captain Bezu Fache, he soon discovered that he is the #1 suspect for the murder of a historian Langdon had been scheduled to meet with.
Assisted by a French cryptographer and government agent named Sophie, Langdon is challenged to decipher a chain of cryptic codes and puzzles, all the while trying to stay ahead of Fache’s lawmen in a chase through the Louvre, and out into the Parisian cityscape, and finally across the channel to England.
Can Langdon and Sophie decipher the nature of a secret dating back to Leonardo Da Vinci and earlier before those responsible for the historian’s murder add them to their hit list..?
– Written by Austin4577
Legion (R, closed captions available, 3/5 stars)
God loses faith in mankind and orders Angel Michael in addition to a legion of other angels to bring the Apocalypse to Earth and exterminate the human race.
However, Michael rebels against the order and decides to help the humans.
Meanwhile in a diner in the middle of nowhere, Bob Hanson, runs the place with his son Jeep, a pregnant waitress, Charlie, and his friend Percy Walker.
Their customers, the Anderson family, are stranded until Jeep can fix their BMW and lonely Kyle Williams who is lost.
– Written by Claudio Carvalho
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