COMEDY

BRUCE LEE: THE KID Genre: Foreign/Comedy Director: Fung Fung Country: Hong Kong Cast: Bruce Lee, Yee Chau-Shiu, Lee Hoi Cheun DVD Release Date: December 4

Based upon the comic strip “Kiddy Cheung”, The Kid stars a 10-year old BRUCE LEE playing an orphaned child selling comics in from a stall in the slums to survive. When the local gangs move in, it’s up to ‘Bruce’ to keep the streets clean.

“A great example of early Cantonese cinema, a showcase of a little boy who grows up to become a huge star, THE KID is a movie not to be missed.” – The Illuminated Lantern

For fans of Martial Arts Classics, this early film (1950) starring the one
and only BRUCE LEE is an absolute MUST HAVE.

“Bruce Lee, at 10, is readily identifiable; when he pretends to be a teacher to make the other kids laugh, he juts out his lower jaw in exactly the way he would do in his films 20 years later to intimidate his opponents. While obviously still a kid and prone to overacting (come to think of it, the latter might be a trait he never quite got rid of), he is an entertaining figure. His real-life father, Lee Hoi-cheun, plays the rich tightwad Hung. (Excerpt from the Illuminated Lantern Review of The Kid, available to read here.)

THE NIGHTOWLS OF COVENTRY Genre: Comedy/Drama Director: Laura Paglin Country: U.S.A. Cast: Seymour Horowitz, Donna Casey, Paddy Connor, Allan Pinske DVD Release date: February 13, 2007

Cleveland. 1973. Marv, the owner of an old neighborhood Jewish deli, must stay open 24 hours to cater to a new generation of clientele, but straight-laced neighborhood do-gooders want to close him down. Meanwhile inside, hippies, bikers and crusty old Jewish men, caught in the throes of changing times and culture clash, fight over turf and yearn for a waitress to take their orders. Into this milieu drops new waitress, Susan (Donna Casey, The Bold and the Beautiful), a, wholesome small town beauty who must struggle with testy customers, a dubious romance, and a jealous head-waitress. Her future and the fate of the regulars hang by a thread as Marv takes increasingly desperate measures to save his deli.

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