Entertainment Gift Guide Part 3: Goodies to stuff those stockings

By Gene Triplett | Published: December 19, 2008

If the first two installments of our home entertainment gift guide didn’t quite fill your stocking needs, here’s a third and final shopping list for all you 11th-hour Santas.

The Complete "Monty Python’s Flying Circus” Collector’s Edition. Photo provided
The Complete "Monty Python’s Flying Circus” Collector’s Edition. Photo provided

Movies on DVD
An old-fashioned holiday cookie tin containing everyone’s favorite yuletide tale could be just the ticket. The 25th anniversary "A Christmas Story” Ultimate Collector’s Edition is a two-disc set complete with collectible cookie cutters (one shaped like the notorious leg lamp), a cookbook with recipes inspired by the film, photos and quotes, and a chef’s apron. Red Ryder BB gun not included.

More family fun can be found in outer space when three tween-age houseflies stow away on the Apollo 11 voyage in the animated "Fly Me to the Moon,” featuring 3-D and 2-D versions and two pairs of 3-D glasses.

For thriller fans, how about all three titles in the nonstop action "Bourne Trilogy” collected in one box, starring Matt Damon as everyone’s favorite assassin in "The Bourne Identity,” "The Bourne Supremacy and "The Bourne Ultimatum,” fully loaded with such extras as fight scene training, stunt driving school and how to blow things up.

The Ron Howard Spotlight Collection contains four of Opie’s best efforts, including "Apollo 13,” "Backdraft” and his two critically acclaimed collaborations with Russell Crowe, "Cinderella Man and the Oscar-winning "A Beautiful Mind.”

The Coen brothers’ lovable slacker "The Dude” (Jeff Bridges) is back in "The Big Lebowski” 10th Anniversary Edition, available in a regular two-disc set or a special, individually numbered version encased in a bowling bag.

And there are loads of goodies out there for the vintage film buff, including Paramount’s remastered two-disc editions of "Roman Holiday” (Audrey Hepburn’s 1953 film debut with Gregory Peck), "Sabrina” (Hepburn in the 1954 romantic comedy with Humphrey Bogart and William Holden) and Billy Wilder’s 1950 noire masterpiece exposing Hollywood’s darker side, "Sunset Boulevard,” starring Holden and the magnificent Gloria Swanson.

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