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Box set containing the entire seventh season of the popular American sitcom. In 'The One with Monica's Thunder', Monica's announcement of her engagement to Chandler is eclipsed by the news that Ross and Rachel are back together.

'The One with Rachel's Book' sees Joey fascinated by an erotic book he discovers in Rachel's bedroom, while Monica is distraught to find that her parents have blown her wedding fund on a beach house. In 'The One with Phoebe's Cookies', Chandler's attempt to bond with his future father-in-law (Elliott Gould) does not go well, while Monica tries to duplicate Phoebe's grandmother's famous cookie recipe. 'The One with Rachel's Assistant' sees Rachel promoted at work, while Ross, Chandler and Monica exchange their darkest, most personal secrets. In 'The One with the Engagement Picture', Monica struggles to find a decent picture of herself and the unphotogenic Chandler. 'The One with Nap Partners' sees Phoebe and Rachel competing to become Monica's bridesmaid, while Ross and Joey find themselves in an embarrassing position after they fall asleep together watching television. In 'The One with Ross's Library Book', Rachel and Phoebe attempt to change Joey's mind when he decides to dump his eminently likeable new girlfriend. Whilst 'The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs' sees Chandler forced to reveal his canine allergy when Phoebe smuggles a dog into the apartment. In 'The One with All the Candy', Monica's batch of candy finds favour with the neighbours, while Rachel lays down the ground rules for her new relationship with Tag. 'The One with the Holiday Armadillo' sees Ross attempting to introduce his son Ben to the delights of Chanukah - but will Christmas prove to be more of an attraction? In 'The One with All the Cheesecakes', Phoebe's old flame David returns from Russia, while Rachel and Chandler get into hot water after swiping a neighbour's delivery of cheesecake. 'The One Where They're Up All Night' sees Ross and Joey stuck on the roof, while Rachel and Tag's first night together does not go as planned. In 'The One Where Rosita Dies', Phoebe encounters a suicidal workmate on the first day of her new job. 'The One Where They All Turn Thirty' sees the friends reminiscing about their respective thirtieth birthdays when Rachel begins agonising over hers. In 'The One with Joey's New Brain', Joey inadvertently lets the cat out of the bag to a colleague in his soap 'Days of Our Lives' that her character is being axed. 'The One with the Truth About London' sees Monica and Chandler agreeing to allow Joey to conduct their wedding ceremony. In 'The One with the Cheap Wedding Dress' Monica fights a fellow bride-to-be for a particular dress at a cheap bridal boutique. In 'The One with Joey's Award', Joey deals with failing to win a daytime soap gong by...stealing one. Meanwhile Ross wants to know what Chandler is doing sneaking out of a male strip club. In 'The One with Ross and Monica's Cousin' guest star Denise Richards (The World is Not Enough) causes a hormonal commotion among the males of the cast. In 'The One with Rachel's Big Kiss' the appearance of an old university friend (Winona Ryder) forces Rachel to confront a passionate moment from her past. In 'The One with the Vows' Monica and Chandler realise that neither partner has yet written their vows, prompting much heartache all round. In 'The One with Chandler's Dad' Monica attempts to patch things up between Chandler and his estranged father. Finally, in 'The One with Monica and Chandler's Wedding Parts 1 and 2' the two very different families congregate for the big day with one important person missing...Chandler. The friends conspire to cover for Chandler's pre-nuptial nerves.

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Brent is back! Twelve years on from the BBC mockumentary 'The Office' David Brent is now a travelling salesman with Lavichem, a cleaning and ladies' personal hygiene products company.

However, he hasn't given up on his dream of rock stardom and is about to embark on a self-financed UK tour with his band, 'Foregone Conclusion'. Assembling a group of session musicians who are just in it for the money, and talented rapper Dom (Ben Bailey Smith) in an attempt to gain street cred, Brent cashes in his pensions and takes unpaid leave in a bid to turn his dream into reality. Get ready to join David Brent on the road as he takes one last shot at fame and fortune.

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It's Easter 2000, and Jay Swan (Mark Coles Smith) and Mary Allen (Tuuli Narkle) attempt to forge a new life together on her mother's Country, in the fading timber town of Loch Iris.

It doesn't take long, though, for the majesty of the tall trees in the brooding surrounding forests and the deep lake that shimmers at the edge of town, to take on gothic dimensions. As Jay begins to investigate an unfolding case, Loch Iris closes ranks around him. And the more he pieces together the crime, the more he realises the entire town has been hiding a shadowy past. It's a past that is still rippling through to the present. And with it, a secret, that threatens to tear Jay and Mary apart.

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With Friends like these, you'll never need to go out again. Picking up from the momentous events of Series 4, this season starts out with Monica (Courteney Cox) and Chandler (Matthew Perry) in some awkward positions as they try to keep their blossoming romance a secret from the others.

By the series' end they'll be planning to get married in Las Vegas, where Joey (Matt LeBlanc) is working as a gladiator at Caesar's Palace casino, his big movie break having fallen through. The embers of Rachel (Jennifer Aniston) and Ross's relationship continue to send up sparks, especially when Emily (Helen Baxendale) causes strife early on by insisting Ross (David Schwimmer) never has contact with Rachel ever again. Phoebe finally meets her father and starts dating a cop named Gary. It all climaxes with everyone in Las Vegas, where Monica and Chandler's impromptu decision to wed is upstaged by a surprising event.

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This series develops minor characters - Gunther, Central Perk's proprietor, who is in love with Rachel (Jennifer Aniston); Phoebe's half-brother Frank (played by rising-star Giovanni Ribisi); the chick and duck - who will play key parts later on while the foundations for crucial storylines

developed in Series 4 are laid down. The most momentous story arc covers Rachel and Ross (David Schwimmer) splitting up when she suggests they take a "break" and he sleeps with the girl from the copy shop. Phoebe (Lisa Kudrow) gets to know her little brother Frank who falls in love with the much-older Alice (Debra Jo Rupp), for whom Phoebe will bear triplets in a later series. Monica (Courteney Cox) pines after Richard and then starts dating the millionaire Pete (Jon Favreau), although towards the end Chandler (Matthew Perry) is trying to persuade her he's good boyfriend material - clearly an omen of things to come.

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Arguably the best series, this season's episodes really developed the characters as the show's popularity took off. Love is in the air as Rachel and Ross, both finally realising they're attracted to each other, nearly get it together, don't, and then finally do. Joey gets that role as Dr.

Drake Ramoray in 'Days of Our Lives' and moves out of the flat he shares with Chandler, precipitating a bust-up between the two best buddies. Monica dates Richard, the hunky, older eye-doctor played by Tom Selleck, and Phoebe makes a video of that seminal song for a generation, "SmellyCat".

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In this hypnotic film from groundbreaking director Gus Van Sant, two friends, both named Gerry (Matt Damon and Casey Affleck), pull off the highway to hike on a wilderness trail.

Their casual decision to go off the main path has dire consequences as they lose their way in the harsh terrain, At first, their confidence and humour propel them forward, but as they wander through landscapes of austere beauty and hours turn into days, the seriousness of their situation takes hold. As their strength and chances of survival begin to dissipate, the depth of their friendship is put to the ultimate test.

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Children of a broken marriage, Richard (Clive Owen) and his sister Natalie (Saskia Reeves), meet up after years apart and embark on a forbidden and illicit affair.

Against the backdrop of a glorious British Summer, their relation-ship intensifies as they struggle to accept the aftermath of their actions. Richard becomes gripped with infatuation for his sister and matters come to a head when Natalie's husband Sinclair (Alan Rickman) suspects that his wife is having an affair, little knowing that the lover he is so jealous of is his wife's own brother.

This handsome box set includes all the episodes from Series One - from our favourite coffee-drinking sextet's initial meeting in the pilot right up to the series cliff-hanger "The One Where Rachel Finds Out" - that Ross is in love with her, that is...

Academy Award winner Robert Redford stars in 'All Is Lost', an open-water thriller about one man's battle for survival against the elements after his sailboat is destroyed at sea.

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Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is a respected but less-than-perfect surveillance expert who is wracked with self-doubt and carrying a heavy conscience since his work led to the death of two of his subjects.

So when he comes to believe that his latest assignment - eavesdropping on a pair of young lovers - may end in murder, Harry can no longer avoid confronting the moral consequences of his chosen profession.

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Carol (Catherine Deneuve), a young French girl living in Sixties' London, is repelled, yet fascinated by men. Her radiant beauty attracts the opposite sex, but she shrinks from their advances.

Her days are spent in an intensely feminine atmosphere: working in a beauty salon, and clinging to her sister Helen (Yvonne Furneaux) for love. Things start to unwind however when Helen goes away with her married boyfriend (Ian Hendry). As Carol incarcerates herself in her sinister, shadowy flat, men begin to invade her dreams night and day, mixing her terror with delight as bizarre hallucinations take hold of her mind. The walls start to crack, literally, before her eyes. Finally, racked and depraved through her delirium, she is left with only one instinct towards the men who invade her life - that of a killer...

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Professional photographer Thomas saw nothing. And he saw everything. Enlargements of pictures he secretly took of a romantic couple in the park reveal a murder in progress. Or do they? Blowup is an influential, stylish study of paranoid intrigue and disorientation.

It is also a time capsule of mod London, a mindscape of the era's fashions, free love, parties, music (Herbie Hancock wrote the score and The Yardbirds riff at a club) and hip langour. David Hemmings plays the jaded photog enlivened by the mystery in his photos. Vanessa Redgrave is the elusive woman pictured in them. And the enigma of what you see, what you don't see and what the camera sees is yours to solve.

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North Africa, World War II. British soldiers on the brink of collapse push beyond endurance to struggle up a brutal incline. It's not a military objective. It's The Hill, a man made instrument of torture, a tower of sand seared by a white-hot sun.

And the troops' tormentors are not the enemy, but their own comrades-in-arms. Sean Connery headlines this stark tale of war inside military prison walls. The inmates are soldiers who once defied, rebelled, talked back. The wardens are sadists who perpetrate cruelty in the name of discipline.

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Texas cowboy Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey) sees bis free-wheeling life overturned when he's diagnosed as HIV-positive and given 30 days to live.

Determined to survive, Woodroof decides to take matters in his own hands by tracking down alternative treatments from all over the world by means both legal and illegal. After finding an unlikely ally in Rayon (Jared Leto), he establishes a hugely successful "buyers' club" and unites a band of outcasts in a struggle for dignity and acceptance that inspires in ways no one could have imagined.