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A major tobacco company thought it would be great PR to offer a $25 million prize to any American community that could stop smoking for 30 days... and they were sure they'd never have to make good on it. When it looks like the town of Eagle Rock, Iowa, is powering through it's cravings to the deadline, the panicked execs go all out to sabotage the effort! Norman Lear's slapstick salute to "kicking the habit" stars Dick Van Dyke, Bob Newhart, Vincent Gardenia, Barnard Hughes, Jean Stapleton, and Bob and Ray. 99 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack: English.

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Jean-Luc Godard’s first English-language narrative feature is a radical anti-adaptation of Shakespeare’s masterpiece that finds the visionary filmmaker continuing to reinvent the syntax of cinema. In a post-Chernobyl world where culture has been lost, William Shakespeare Jr. V (played by theater director Peter Sellars) attempts to reconstruct his ancestor’s play, abetted by a cast that includes Molly Ringwald, Burgess Meredith, and Godard himself as a crazed avant savant. Through a dense layering of sounds, images, and ideas about everything from language to the economics of filmmaking to the very meaning of art in a ruined world, Godard fashions a puckish and profound metacinematic riddle to be endlessly analyzed, argued over, and savored. BLU-RAY SPECIAL EDITION FEATURES New 2K digital restoration, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack Audio recording of the 1987 Cannes Film Festival press conference, featuring director Jean-Luc Godard New interviews with Richard Brody, author of Everything Is Cinema: The Working Life of Jean-Luc Godard, and actors Molly Ringwald and Peter Sellars English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing PLUS: An essay by Brody