Palmtop Film & Video Guide

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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide Authoritative information about 21,000 movies |

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Runs on:
P/PC, H/PC, H/PCpro
Languages:
English

See also: Palm-size PC version,
Which devices are supported?
For over twenty years, film enthousiasts, trivia buffs, and ordinary movie-watchers alike have consulted the pages of Halliwell's Film & Video Guide for the most comprehensive information available on their favorite films - from the classics of the silver screen to the latest blockbusters, and everything in between.

Now there is an application to offer the easiest, most portable access to Halliwell's information ever! Title, alternative and foreign titles, length in minutes, release year, synopsis, assessment (often including opinions published in the press at the time the movies were released), rating (0 to 4 stars), publicity tags, family viewing rating, production company, countries of origin, color info, video release info, laser disc release info, music cd release info, DVD release info, directors, writers and actors, information about oscars and oscar nominations, information about music, songs etc. etc.

Read independent reviews about
the original Psion version:
"...sheer quality throughout. Highly recommended!"
Steve Litchfield (3Lib)
"A search engine which is like an index written by God."
"...if you like films you are not going to like TomTom’s Halliwell’s - you are going to love it."
Review by Fraser James (Psioneer Magazine)
"Splendidly programmed..."
Review by Wade Major (Entertainment Today)
"... as professional and polished as I expect from Palmtop,"
"... Searching in Halliwell’s is quite simply a joy."
"...just about the most comprehensive movie database I’ve ever seen. It rivals Microsoft’s Cinemania..."
"... by far the best product you could ever treat your machine to."
Review by Jody Armstrong (PDA Online)
"...an impressive program"
"...accurate, concise and highly recommended."
Review by Pete Sipple (Palmtop Magazine, Issue 17)
"As you would expect from TomTom the standard of programming is excellent."
"... essential to would be film buffs."
Review by Paul Law (PDA Online)
"Go get yourself a copy of Halliwells Film & Video Guide."
Review by Stefan Smith (5 Alive)

| Screen shots

Example: Information on the film 'Waterworld'
To get an explanation of what ANY symbol or piece of text means, just click on it.
For any actor, director or writer mentioned in the film text, see what other films he or she played in, directed, or wrote, simply by clicking on the name.
Example: movies by James Cameron, in this case sorted by release year.
You can add or change your own notes and remarks about films, actors, directors or writers, mark films as "seen" and then use these items for your searches and selections..
You can show or hide any piece of information displayed for the films and names, and thus restrict the application to show only the kind of information you care about.
Example: tell Movie Guide which information you are interested in.

| Powerful Find & Select options

Example: select only those movies released between 1990 and 1994, starring Jamie Lee Curtis...
... and only those relased on laserdisc.
Note that there are three more dialog pages, which allow you to search on any text in the movie topic, or select e.g. those movies that you haven't yet.

| Technical Details

Languages | Distribution | Requirements | Suitable for
The application runs in English |  | You can install either the complete version (4.8MB) or the limited version, excluding movies released between 1904 and 1959 (2.8MB). | Handheld PCs and Palm-size PCs running Windows CE 2.0 or higher. (supported devices).

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