TomTom Film & Video Guide

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Halliwell's Film & Video Guide The guide of the 20th century (around 21,397 movies)! |

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Runs on: Psion Revo, Revo Plus, Series 5,
Series 5mx, Series 7, netBook,
Ericsson MC218, Diamond Mako,
Osaris, Geofox
Languages: English

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Independent reviews,
For over twenty years, film enthusiasts, 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, the production company, countries of origin, color info, video release info, laser disc release info, music cd release info, directors, writers and actors, information about Oscars and Oscar nominations, information about the songs etc. etc.

| Independent Reviews

- "By any criteria, there's still no beating Halliwell's"
  - Empire Magazine
- "A Bible for film fans. Tells you all you ever wanted to know about movies . . . and more!"
  - Women's Realm
- "Retains its crown as the king of film guides"
  - Film Review
- "As you would expect from TomTom the standard of programming is excellent...
  essential to would be film buffs."
  - Paul Law, PDA Online
- "Indispensable"
  - Variety
- "A search engine which in this instance 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."
  - Fraser James, Psioneer Magazine
- "Splendidly programmed..."
  - Wade Major, Entertainment Today
- "...sheer quality throughout. Highly recommended!"
  - Steve Litchfield, 3Lib
- "Go get yourself a copy of Halliwells Film & Video Guide."
  - Stefan Smith, 5Alive Tucows
- "...an impressive program ...accurate, concise and highly recommended."
  - TomTom Magazine (Issue 17)
- "As professional and polished as I expect from TomTom... 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 Psion to."
  - Jody Armstrong

Read these and other independent reviews

| Screen shots

Example: Information on the film "Titanic"
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 Steven Spielberg, in this case sorted by release year.
Example: Information about Al Pacino, categorized by title.
Note that Looking for Richard and The Godfather have been marked as "seen"
Also note Al's Oscar nominations (e.g. for Serpico)
Add or change your own notes and remarks about films, actors, directors or writers.
Mark films as "seen".
Print any information displayed to a file or printer.
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.

| Powerful Find & Select options

Example: select only those movies which have a star rating of 3 or better,
released after 1990, starring Al Pacino, running between 90 and 120 minutes.
Note that there are three more dialog pages, which allow you to select e.g. movies that have been released on laser disc.
See also:

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| Technical Details

Languages | Requirements | Distribution | Suitable for

The application runs in English only

The application requires
1750k to install the smallest version and at least 650k of free memory to run.

Available
on CD-ROM

Psion Revo
Psion Revo Plus
Psion Series 5
Psion Series 5mx
Psion Series 7
Psion netBook
Ericsson MC218
Diamond Mako
Osaris
Geofox

Please Note:
The CD-ROM release of Halliwell`s allows you to install one of the following databases:
1. Complete
2. Complete, excluding movies released in 1959 or earlier
3. Without publicity tags and production credits
4. Without publicity tags, production credits and additional credits
5. Without publicity tags, production credits and additional critics
6. Without publicity tags, production credits, additional critics or credits
When you purchase this software electronically, you will only have access to options 1 and 2. The other options (which leave out information that some consider irrelevant, and thus save some memory) are not available.

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