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The Male Maid
Good movie, there is a part where Sheen is playing the piano and singging a real cute song for kids. I wish I knew how to get a copy of thst song. The relationship between Sheen and the little girl was precious.

A light hearted Martin Sheen gem
Martin Sheen doesn't need me to introduce him, but this romantic comedy is one of his lesser known films which deserves to be better known. The plot is very light - a banker arriving in Paris for a new job is attracted by a colleague (Jacequeline Bisset) but does not reveal to her that he is a financier too, and instead takes on a job as the maid for her apartment, and nanny for her young daughter in order to get close to her. Martin Sheen is a joy to behold in this film, and has excellent lines too. The eventual attraction between hero and heroine is built up carefully, and at the end is convincing. The film is also a great tutorial for men on how to behave with their young children ! A sweet film which I can strongly recommend. Bisset appears as attractive and feminine as ever.

Martin Sheen makes this come alive!
This movie would be only a one star if not for Sheen's heartwarming performance. He even outshines the child star which is unusual in most films that I have seen. He has a way of acting that is engaging and makes the movie worth viewing. The plot is pretty much nonexistent and is something you can find on t.v. channels most anytime, the difference being they don't have a Martin Sheen starring in them. There is one particular scene where he is playing with a barbie doll with the child actor and the way he talks for the barbies, playacting, is just really funny. I think this one scene alone was what made the movie worthwhile to view. The movie is a romantic comedy where Sheen is portraying a maid but is in real life, a busy Wall Street man with a flare for sucess. He becomes a maid for Bisset's character at first because he is attracted to her, not really thinking he would actually have to become a maid. But Bisset is desparate and he works for her until he starts his new job at a bank where Bisset is the manager in Paris. She does not know that he is the new man coming from New York and he does not know she works at the firm he will be starting at as soon as he has settled in at his new surroundings. Anyways pretty one-dimensional storyline with not much to offer in the way of thoughts and provoking subject matter but funny and cute only because of Martin Sheens acting ability!

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A DVD Would be Nice
I remember watching this Annie movie on TV, I think it was on The Family Channel, and though it's not as good as the The Annie movie starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney and Carol Burnette or the Disney remake starring Alicia Morton, Victor Garber and Kathy Bates I pretty much liked it and thought it was enjoyable. In this movie Annie sneaks Molly out of the orphanage travels to London on a cruise ship with Daddy Warbucks while hiding Molly on the ship and while in London Annie and Molly get involved in intrigue and mystery and also try to find a family who will adopt Molly. Ashley Johnson who played Chrissy Seaver on the sitcom Growing Pains was I thought quite good as Annie and the adorable little girl who played Molly was also good and I think it would be nice if this movie was put out on DVD too! BTW: This movie also stars Joan Collins (Dynasty) as the head of a villainous family.

Ashley Johnson made a good Annie!
It wasn't the best Annie movie but it wasn't awful and Ashley Johnson was a pretty good Annie and quite believable, she didn't look like she was too old for the part to me and I thought she looked like she was around 12. Anyway I think it was supposed to take place a year or two after the first movie so of course making the character a bit older. So really I think Ashley Johnson and the other child actors did a fine job and the guy who played Daddy Warbucks was okay but most of the other adult actors hammed it up way too much and kind of ruined what could have been a great movie!

best film ever!
hello i am a great annie fan and i thought annie a royal adventure was better then the first one. i think ashley johnson is a brilliant actress and i would love to meet her

Annie-Good This Movie-Bad
The "Annie" Character was too old for the script. She appeared to be 14 years old while the script was directed to a cute young girl. The entire plot was dumb. Even my daughter, who is a big Annie fan, believes that this video stinks. It was a waste of time and money.

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The beginning of the TV series "JAG"
This video is the pilot episode of the TV series of the same name starring David James Elliot. The first case he must try takes place on aircraft carrier. Harm(the name of the JAG lawyer) is sent with his partner to find out if a member of the miltary (a woman moving up the ranks) was drowned, murdered or committed sucide.To make matters worse there is a problem with some European country and Harm must go fly into combat to save the people and keep the USA safe. The pilot also co-star Kevin Dunn(Stir of Echoes,Godzilla,Almost Heros,Dave) as a JAG officer in Washington D.C. The video is about 1 1/2 hours. The only thing I missed watching the video was the titles I'm used to seeing on the reruns on USA network and CBS!!Other than a must for fans of the TV series!please put more of the series on Video !although I prefer DVD over VHS any day!please who ever owns this series bring the rest of the series out on DVD/VHS!!You've have many fans thankful for awesome show about our country's miltary forces and the trials they face in and out of the courtroom!if anyone knows of any e-petions to put this show on DVD/VHS please e-mail me!!

this series begs for DVD
JAG fans unite to request this series on DVD!!! I am a new viewer of this series, having just started watching during the 2002 season. I could kick myself for what I have missed. I am catching up on previous seasons in syndication as best I can, and taping episodes. The pilot episode offered here is better than many series pilots, and holds up well to repeated viewings. I am very glad to see that Terry O'Quinn as the CAG was there from the start, as he is my favorite recurring character and guest actor. See why Bud became a series regular. Lindsey, too was there from the start - in 8 years he became more asserive while remaining so smarmy. Some of the dialog surprised me, more overt sexual references than in the regular series. I agree most whole heartedly with other reviewers that this show should be offered on DVD. CBS could at least offer the seasons that aired on their network.

What i would like to see happen since this has happenes
I would like to see this go on to be a DVD box set with the whole series on it...i work in a movie store and have been asked several times about this and would like to see it happen.

MORE JAG PLEASE!!!
I have read many of the reviews of the folks who wrote about the Series JAG. I want to add my LOUD agreement with them when they speak of JAG being the BEST show on TV! I have taped many of the shows, and am trying to put them in order, but by looking at the list of episodes, I discover I have missed many!! I SURE WOULD like to see the whole series on tape or dvd..IN SEQUENCE!!
MY KUDO's to the Cast, crew and directors, and the writers! Great Job!! A.Anderson

More, Please!!!!!!
I enjoyed this video very much. As in many of the other reviews, I am also a big JAG fan. Other series such as Friends and West Wing are out on DVD. Please bring the full set of JAG out on DVD also, ASAP. ... Read more

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Wonderful item
This is a truly wonderful show and a wonderful box set, with a authenticity numbered certificate! This show is a pleasure, I discovered it through the satellite but wanted to make sure I had all the episodes of season one, which is now the case. Paul & Elizabeth are truly great in that show, there's a lot of irony too which is rare nowadays; so this is certainly a great gift.
Thank you amazon.com for selling this set because I never managed to find it anywhere else.

cannot understand why this was never shown in the UK
Although this series was never shown in the UK, I enjoyed the Highlander series so much that I always wanted to see this.I am very gratefull that Amazon sell it /It comes up to my highest hopes and recommend it to all viewers of the orig series.I just wish it came with closed captions as the diologue is not always too bright.
PRINCE RAFAEL

Sexy and Fun
Not as dark as Highlander - I recommend it to fans of the tv show Alias who can take a bit of the fantasy genre. The chemistry between the leads lends a touch of romance and both are easy on the eyes.

KERSTEN
The series is pretty dire, but the 1st soldier is DIDIER KERSTEN, a true great of the French theatre - buy it now!!!!1

Less rambling, sometimes gentler than its predecessor
First of all, why did this series end up only lasting around half a season on network TV, even though a full season of episodes was actually filmed? After viewing the entire season, I'd say that considering their overall quality, it's really a shame they didn't reach a wider audience. But the show aired at a really odd time, at least in the Midwest (early Saturday afternoon), so you really had to break up your day to watch it. As such, it was well nigh impossible to catch the drift of where the series was heading.

And gee whiz, the 'stock' trailer at the beginning of each episode was so very, very cheesy sounding.

I should probably mention that Amanda's extremely short, bleached blonde hair made her head look too small for the rest of her body, which is silly, considering all the devoted fans from the former Highlander series were used to seeing her done up in her full glory. In well over 20 episodes of the original series, she wore her hair many different ways, using this particular coiffure one time only.

Also, why is she "the Raven" when her hair is practically white? The idea of the raven is only briefly alluded to in one episode of the entire series, certainly not enough to warrant the quasi-mythic, or should we really say pseudo-mythic significance given to it in the aforementioned cheesy trailer. The writing for that speech ("She is immortal . . .") is atrociously bad, almost nonsensical, and the man who reads it aloud in a flamboyantly pseudo-macho manner is definitely wrong for the part. Was this supposed to be some kind in in-joke? Maybe he thought Amanda was really China (the pro wrestler/personality seen on UPN) whom he was introducing. Whatever the rationale, it certainly didn't work very well.

But know that if you watch the Raven series from beginning to end, it's really quite remarkable. I think that sometimes the stories themselves tend toward more subtlety than the 6 seasons with Duncan McLeod, though the original series to its credit seemed somehow, what, more spacious and cosmopolitan? Here, though, there are less sword-fights per episode, and of course less 'quickenings'. (Amanda's quickenings have a feminine flavor to them whereas Duncan's often seemed rather wooden, maybe trying to flirt with the aforementioned pro wrestling audience.)

Possibly the biggest problem with the original series was a technical one: when scenes occurred in relatively darker surroundings, you had to jack up the brightness and tint of your monitor screen - though then everything looked too blue, and even then often you couldn't see what was going on. Thankfully, this technical oversight was corrected for the 'Raven' episodes.

Series star Elizabeth Gracen as Amanda was a frequent guest on episodes in Highlander: the Series' first 5 seasons, and a full-fledged co-star during its final season. She is a former Miss America who put her prize money to excellent use by going to acting school. Here she gets to show her own ample ability rather than merely playing the part of comedic and romantic foil to Adrian Paul's character Duncan McLeod (even there she was a very popular personage, gaining numerous loyal and devoted fans - check out her own website). In the earlier series, she often came off rather quirky, almost a mere appendage - of course not so here. During the Raven series, the gradual moral and emotional development of her own character works in tandem with the slowly developing/deepening friendship with her co-star (the former policeman, turned private detective, turned hi-grade security operative Nick Wolfe). It's really a tour de force in terms of believable acting and directing. Maybe even more so than for the original series, I was never tempted, once I got a few episodes into it, to want to turn the TV off, other than to eat, sleep, and go to work.

Though you could see where the series could have continued after the last episode (a second season, anyone?!) it also was emotionally a good place for it to end or at least go into hiatus. Although, maybe if you'd not already seen the 6 seasons of the original series, this wouldn't be the case.

Duncan's prolific and beautiful ramblings into far eastern religions and martial arts forms, as well as the little proverbs that emerge here and there from the mouths of different immortals (and mortals), both friends and foes, aren't present here as much, at least not in such a dressed-up form. Amanda's wisdom displays itself more in fits and starts (sometimes very passionate), but that makes this all the more believable, as viewers see that she's not just a clone of McLeod. The wonderfully diverse nature of the many different characters in the original series was a major factor as to why it was so stellar. To their credit, the writers, directors and producers did their best to preserve that tradition of excellence.

The only character (besides of course Amanda) who here reprises his role from the original series is the 'Watcher' Joe Dawson, though only for one episode. Valentine Pelka (the evil immortal Kronos in several episodes of the original series) and Philip Akin (who co-starred as Duncan's friend and employee Charlie throughout season #3) guest in a couple or so of the Raven episodes, portraying different characters than they played originally. ... Read more

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A DVD Would be Nice
I remember watching this Annie movie on TV, I think it was on The Family Channel, and though it's not as good as the The Annie movie starring Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney and Carol Burnette or the Disney remake starring Alicia Morton, Victor Garber and Kathy Bates I pretty much liked it and thought it was enjoyable. In this movie Annie sneaks Molly out of the orphanage travels to London on a cruise ship with Daddy Warbucks while hiding Molly on the ship and while in London Annie and Molly get involved in intrigue and mystery and also try to find a family who will adopt Molly. Ashley Johnson who played Chrissy Seaver on the sitcom Growing Pains was I thought quite good as Annie and the adorable little girl who played Molly was also good and I think it would be nice if this movie was put out on DVD too! BTW: This movie also stars Joan Collins (Dynasty) as the head of a villainous family.

Ashley Johnson made a good Annie!
It wasn't the best Annie movie but it wasn't awful and Ashley Johnson was a pretty good Annie and quite believable, she didn't look like she was too old for the part to me and I thought she looked like she was around 12. Anyway I think it was supposed to take place a year or two after the first movie so of course making the character a bit older. So really I think Ashley Johnson and the other child actors did a fine job and the guy who played Daddy Warbucks was okay but most of the other adult actors hammed it up way too much and kind of ruined what could have been a great movie!

best film ever!
hello i am a great annie fan and i thought annie a royal adventure was better then the first one. i think ashley johnson is a brilliant actress and i would love to meet her

Annie-Good This Movie-Bad
The "Annie" Character was too old for the script. She appeared to be 14 years old while the script was directed to a cute young girl. The entire plot was dumb. Even my daughter, who is a big Annie fan, believes that this video stinks. It was a waste of time and money.

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