Nobody's Fool - DVD

NOBODY'S FOOL (1994) (SPEC AC3 WS) - Screen legend Paul Newman (Twilight) delivers a brilliant performance as Sully, an out-of-work, hard-headed and hard-working construction worker with bad knees and a worse attitude. When the son he walked out on, Dylan Wash (Betsy's Wedding), shows up with his grandson, Sully is forced to deal with emotions he'd prefer to forget. Sully's overbearing landlord, Jessica Tandy (Driving Miss Daisy), in one of her last performances, and his ex-boss' wife, Melanie Griffith (Paradise), are the women in his life that get to see a bit of his softer side. But it's the new relationship with his grandson that really gets to him. This touching slice-of-life story garnered Academy Award nominations for Newman and writer/director Robert Benton (Kramer vs. Kramer, Places in the Heart), and features Bruce Willis (Billy Bathgate), Pruitt Taylor Vince (China Moon), Gene Saks (A Thousand Clowns), Josef Sommer (Still of the Night), Philip Seymour Hoffman (The Master) and Philip Bosco (Angie).

Small-town Cassie has made a few errors in love...errors like an attempted stabbing. Basically, she's an oddball. But when a theatre troupe arrives, she meets the handsome -- and equally unstable -- Riley. Has Cassie finally found her perfect match?

Bright young lieutenants Jeb Stuart and George Armstrong Custer are assigned to Kansas Territory to guard the Santa Fe Trail. There, they clash with the fanatical abolitionist John Brown. On a more romantic side, they also vie for the hand of 'Kit Carson' Holliday. But the pursuit of Brown leads the army to the pivotal battle at Harpers Ferry, Virginia, which strikes the spark that hastens the Civil War.