Scorched (dvd) movie dvd - a handful of disgruntled bank employees decide to stage a robbery, but with no plans of doing it together, in this comedy. sheila (alicia silverstone) is a teller at a small town bank who reaches her breaking point when her boyfriend, rick becker (joshua leonard), who also happens to be her boss, breaks up with her after three years of stringing her along, both emotionally and professionally. in order to get revenge against rick, sheila decides to rob the bank, but come the night of the heist, she discovers she wasn't the only person with similar plans that evening. stuart (paulo costanzo) wants some adventure in his life, and plans to loot the bank vault to finance a gambling vacation in las vegas with his brother max (david krumholtz). and put-upon teller jason (woody harrelson) wants to clear out the safety deposit box of foul-tempered local tycoon charles merchant (john cleese), not knowing that shmally (rachael leigh cook), a clerk at a clothing store with a score to settle against merchant, already has her own plans for dealing with him. scorched was shot in 2001, but didn't play in american theaters until 2003, though it did enjoy a run in europe during the interim. - scorched (dvd)... link.mercent.com
Trouble Bound (dvd) comedy - general dvd - in this lively crime thriller, luckless ex-con harry talbot wins several thousand dollars and a luxury car in a poker game. he is delighted, having no idea that the others let him win because the trunk of the lincoln contains the remains of gordo. no, harry is finally feeling lucky and in his shiny convertible sets off across the country in search of more card games. while driving, he picks up a lovely hitchhiker named kit. she is out on a personal vendetta and is pursued by her grandmother, a crime boss, and her dim-bulbed cousin danny. realizing that he is a gambling addict, kit manipulates him into driving to a certain mob-operated casino where she plans to off her father's killer. things get more sticky when a gangster informs the card sharps who put gordo in the trunk, that the deceased is carrying a key to a safe-deposit box containing a vast amount of money. they immediately set out after harry as he fatefully heads for the gambling house. - trouble bound (dvd)... link.mercent.com