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Here's a selection of the best new movies on DVD for June 2008.
June 3, 2008
No Recommendations
June 10, 2008
No Recommendations
June 17, 2008
Under the Same Moon
This Sundance crowd-pleaser is a largely Spanish-language drama about a cute kid trying to reunite with his mother. Little Carlitos (Adrian Alonso) stays with his grandmother in Mexico while his mother Rosario (Kate del Castillo) does menial work in L.A. and sends money back to them. But when the grandmother dies, Carlitos sets out on his own to make his way to his mother. It turns out to be a difficult, but adventure-filled journey for the boy, and meanwhile Rosario struggles with living as an illegal immigrant. America Ferrera (Ugly Betty) appears in a small role.
June 24, 2008
Definitely, Maybe
Ryan Reynolds, Isla Fisher, Elizabeth Banks and Rachel Weisz are in the attractive cast of this romantic dramedy. Advertising exec Will Hayes (Reynolds) is about to get divorced and tells a story to his young daughter (Abigail Breslin): he recounts three previous romantic relationships, and she is to try to guess which of the women he married. There's his college sweetheart (Banks) and two very different women (Fisher and Weisz) he meets in New York while working on the 1992 Bill Clinton presidential campaign. Derek Luke and Kevin Kline also appear in the movie.
The Spiderwick Chronicles
Based on a best-selling series of children's books by Tony DiTerlizzi and Holly Black, this is a family movie about kids and magical creatures. Young Jared (Freddie Highmore), his identical twin Simon (also Freddie Highmore) and their older sister Mallory (Sarah Bolger) move with their newly divorced mom (Mary-Louise Parker) to a creepy old Victorian mansion out in the country. The house was once the residence of Arthur Spiderwick (David Strathairn). But the property is inhabited by goblins, sprites, fairies, griffins and the like, and the kids have lots of adventures.