Mill Creek Entertainment Releasing 8 Miniseries on DVD 2/19
8 Miniseries from Mill Creek Entertainment includes Moby Dick, The Titanic, The Five People You Meet In Heaven, Cleopatra, Scarlett, The Odyssey, Lonsome Dove, and The 10th Kingdom.
Synopsis
Moby Dick
Herman Melville's classic tale comes to life like never before in this suspenseful and thrilling adaptation from Francis Ford Coppola (The Godfather) and Robert Halmi Sr. Welcome aboard the Pequod, a Nantucket whaling ship under the dubious command of Captain Ahab (Patrick Stewart, TV's Star Trek: The Next Generation), a man obsessed with vengeance against a menacing beast that not only stole the lives of his former crew but continues to haunt him from the sea. Co-starring Academy Award winner Gregory Peck, Henry Thomas (E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial), Ted Levine (TV's Monk), Dominic Purcell (TV's Prison Break), Moby Dick takes you on an epic journey into the deepest waters of the ocean - and the furthest reaches of sanity - in pursuit of the legendary white whale.
Rated Not Rated
Run-Time 3H 1M
Stars Patrick Stewart, Henry Thomas, Gregory Peck, Ted Levine, Bruce Spence, Hugh Keays-Byrne, Dominic Purcell
The Titanic
The Titanic sets sail on a collision course with destiny in this spellbinding epic adventure, featuring outstanding performances by Peter Gallagher, George C. Scott, Eva Marie Saint, Tim Curry and Marilu Henner. Titanic melds together the heart-wrenching stories of people whose lives, loves, and fortunes irrevocably changed the night of April 14, 1912.
The cream of high society are gathering there, including society matron Hazel Foley, financier John Jacob Astor, self-made millionaire Wynn Park, and the infamous Molly Brown.
Titanic weaves a captivating mosaic of lives that will touch your heart forever. Their tragic experience will grip your imagination. Their courage will capture your heart.
Rated Not RatedRun-Time 2H 54M
Stars Peter Gallagher (TV’s The O.C.), Catherine Zeta Jones (Chicago), George C. Scott (Patton), Eva Marie Saint (North By Northwest), Tim Curry (Rocky Horror Picture Show), Roger Rees (The Prestige), Harley Jane Kozak (Parenthood), Marilu Henner (TV’s Evening Shade)
The Five People You Meet In Heaven
“The Five People You Meet in Heaven is a thoroughly enjoyable experience that, like Dickens’ Christmas Carol, reminds us of what is really important in life.” – Howard Schumann, Talking Pictures
From the author of the phenomenal #1 New York Times best seller comes the original screen adaptation of Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet In Heaven. This New York Times best seller is brought to life by an award-winning cast including Jon Voight, Ellen Burstyn, and Jeff Daniels. The NY Times praised it for its "genuine power to stir and comfort." Mitch Albom's The Five People You Meet in Heaven explores the unexpected mysteries of the afterlife by reminding us what really matters here on Earth.
Rated Not RatedRun-Time 2H 38M
Stars Jon Voight (Showtime’s Ray Donovan), Ellen Burstyn (Interstellar), Jeff Daniels (HBO’s Newsroom), Michael Imperioli (HBO’s The Sopranos)
Cleopatra
In the rich tradition of the Cecil B. DeMille epic, Cleopatra is an epic miniseries filled with pageantry and spectacle. Set against the pyramids of Egypt and the colossal columns of Rome, Cleopatra is the classic tale of the young Queen of the Nile.
Princess Cleopatra becomes Egypt's Queen and has an out-of-wedlock son with the son-less Roman ruler Julius Caesar. Through two romances, she strives to protect Egypt from the Romans, and make her son the heir to Caesar's Roman Empire.
Rated Not RatedRun-Time 2H 57M
Stars Lenor Varela (Blade II), Billy Zane (Titanic), Timothy Dalton (Penny Dreadful)
Scarlett
Scarlett, the six-hour mini-series based on Alexandra Ripley’s best-selling sequel to Gone With the Wind, takes up precisely where that story left off, and sees Scarlett O’Hara off on a journey from Atlanta to Charleston and Savannah, to London, and to her ancestral home of Ballyhara in Ireland.
The motivating force behind the story is once again the turbulent romance between Scarlett and Rhett Butler. Separated from Scarlett and seeking a divorce, Rhett is now pursued passionately by his wife, who seeks a reconciliation. Frustrated in her effort and unwilling to win Rhett by telling him she is pregnant with their child, Scarlett leaves for Ireland, where she is caught up in the political upheaval of the day, and to England, where she must stand trial for a murder she did not commit.
Scarlett continues what is unarguably the most celebrated story of the American cinema, with all the richness of the original and with an epic sweep that today is seen only in long-form television.
Rated PG-13Run-Time 6H 4M
Stars Timothy Dalton, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Sean Bean, Stephen Collins, Annabeth Gish, Colm Meaney, Esther Rolle, Ann-Margret
The Odyssey
Embark on one of the most amazing journeys of all time in this Primetime Emmy® award-winning film based on the classic masterpiece by Homer. Join Odysseus (Armand Assante, American Gangster), the king of Ithaca, on his heroic quest to return to his kingdom and family with riches much greater than gold. The Odyssey is a heart-pounding adventure filled with exciting confrontations, dangerous monsters, angry gods and beautiful, yet deadly, Sirens.
Run-Time 3H 4M
Stars Armand Assante, Vanessa Williams, Christopher Lee, Eric Roberts, Bernadette Peters, Isabella Rossellini, Geraldine Chaplin
Lonesome Dove
Based upon the Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Larry McMurtry and set in the late nineteenth century, this sprawling epic of the Old West is the story of the last defiant frontier, a daring cattle drive, and an undying love.
Augustus McCrea (Duvall) and Woodrow F. Call (Jones), former Texas Rangers, are partners and friends who have shared hardship and danger. Gus is the romantic, a reluctant rancher who has a way with women and the sense to leave well enough alone. Call is a driven, demanding man, a natural authority figure with no patience for weakness. He is obsessed with the dream of creating a new homestead. The two men could hardly be more different, but both are tough fighters who have learned to count on each other, if nothing else.
Call’s dream not only drags Gus along in its wake, but also draws in a group of fearless wranglers, trackers, and scouts. Through sandstorms, stampedes, bandits, floods and snow, these characters live on to become legends of the great American West.
Rated Not RatedRun-Time 6H 13M
Stars Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Robert Urich, Frederic Forrest, D.B. Sweeney, Rick Schroder and Anjelica Huston
The 10th Kingdom
Join an all-star cast as they find fantasy, action, romance and adventure in the Emmy winning® The 10th Kingdom! Beyond the mortal world lies Nine Kingdoms where the fantastic land of fairy tales and magic are brought to life – and reinvented. The themes and ideas of folklore and mythology perform fully as the classic characters enter a vortex at the edge of the mortal world which leads them to The 10th Kingdom…Central Park!
Run-Time 7H 27M
Stars An all-star cast featuring a wealth of Emmy®, Oscar®, and Golden Globe®-wining and nominated talent including : John Larroquette (Boston Legal, The Practice), Kimberly Williams-Paisley (Nashville, Father of the Bride), Scott Cohen (Love and Other Drugs, Jacob’s Ladder), Ann-Margret (Bye Bye Birdie, Tommy), Rutger Hauer (Batman Begins, Sin City), Daniel Lapaine (Double Jeopardy), Camryn Manheim (The Practice), Ed O’Neil (Modern Family, Married with Children) and Dianne Wiest (Edward Scissorhands, Parenthood)
