American Flyers / Victory (Dvd) *New* Action and similar items

Brand new factory sealed 2-disc sports action double feature that is Out Of Print. Has a cut-out through the upc code on the back from the factory indicating a closeout item that is no longer being manufactured. Both have the option of full screen or widescreen. AMERICAN FLYERS stars David Grant as an eighteen-year-old in St. Louis who trains on his bicycle every day, hoping someday to be as good a racer as his older brother. Kevin Costner is the big brother, a doctor in Madison, and Janice Rule is their mother. A painful dinner scene at the begining of the movie sets up the conflict in the family, caused because the father died painfully and the mother apparently did nothing during his last two weeks on earth to make his passing less painful. The father died of a stroke from a weakened blood vessel in the brain. Now Costner fears that Grant may have the same condition. He takes him to Madison and runs him through a series of tests, which do indeed indicate the family condition. Then he decides not to tell him, and the two brothers set out by van to compete in the Hell of the West race, in Colorado. Meanwhile, we meet Costner's girlfriend (Rae Dawn Chong), and along the way they pick-up a hitchhiker (Alexandra Paul) who pairs off with Grant. The race then becomes several showdowns. The brothers must compete against the other racers, and also against the shadow of death. Their main competition comes from a mean SOB named Muzzin (Luca Bercovici), who used to be married to Rae Dawn Chong. The race is run in three stages, and in the second stage, the older brother begins to bleed from the nose and lose his orientation. So then it's up to the kid brother to win the race. The bicycle race is brilliantly photographed, and very exciting. The performances are all interesting, especially Rae Dawn Chong's sweet patience as the girlfriend. There are some great supporting characters, including John Amos as Grant's trainer and Doi Johnson as his chubby teen-age son who hates to exercise and dreams of being the first black bowling star. VICTORY: Soccer match between WWII American prisoners of war and a German all-star team is set-up to prove Aryan superiority. However, the POWs have plans to escape through the sewer tunnels of Paris duriing the game. But, when the game starts going their way it becomes a personal issue of whether to stay and finish the match or not. By legendary director John Huston and starring Sylvester Stallone, Michael Caine, Max von Sydow, and real-life soccer greats (including Pele).