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| Week Four - New Movie Releases on Video and DVD for February 25, 2003 | ||||||||||||||||||||
Let's take a look at the new releases slated for the fourth week of February, 2003.
February 25 - Video and DVD ReleasesThis is a drama about young Brooklyn mobsters whose jobs take them to a small town in Montana. The cast includes Barry Pepper, Vin Diesel, Seth Green, Andrew Davoli, Dennis Hopper, John Malkovich, and Tom Noonan. Johnny Marbles (Green) is bringing a bag full of mob money back from Spokane, Washington, in his plane when he stops for refueling at Wibaux, Montana. There Johnny loses the bag, so Matty (Pepper), Taylor (Diesel), and Chris (Davoli) travel from Brooklyn out to Wibaux to try to get the money back. But the crooked local sheriff (Noonan) in Wibaux wants the money, too, leading to some cat-and-mouse games between him and the mobsters. There's quite a bit of violence in the movie, and Hopper and Malkovich portray senior mobsters. Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS. "Road to Perdition" (2002)
Tom Hanks and Paul Newman star in this bleak drama about Depression-era mobsters in Illinois. Hanks plays Michael Sullivan, who was taken in years ago and brought up like a son by Irish mob boss John Rooney (Newman). Also, Rooney fathered a son named Connor (Daniel Craig). Now Connor works for his father, and Sullivan also works for Rooney and thinks of him as his father. A chain of events occurs that end up with Connor killing Sullivan's wife and one of his two sons. Most of the rest of the movie is taken up by Sullivan's quest to get revenge while protecting his surviving son (Tyler Hoechlin). Although Rooney loves Sullivan like a son, he chooses to protect his biological son Connor, resulting in a hitman (Jude Law) seeking to track down and kill Sullivan. Selected DVD Special Features: Full-Screen and Widescreen Anamorphic Formats Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS. Based on the novel for young people by Natalie Babbitt, this fable-like movie is targeted at middle-school girls. The time is 1914, and Winnie Foster (Alexis Bledel) is a 15-year-old girl who lives with her parents in the small American town of Treegap. One day Winnie takes a walk in the woods and stumbles upon the Tuck family, which consists of 17-year-old Jesse (Jonathan Jackson), his older brother Miles (Scott Bairstow), and their parents (William Hurt and Sissy Spacek). It turns out the Tucks have looked and felt the same for many decades, ever since they started drinking from a magical stream. Soon Winnie and Jesse become romantically attracted to each other, and Winnie must decide whether to stay with the Tucks and become immortal or return to her parents and live a normal life. Selected DVD Special Features: Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS. "The Tuxedo" (2002)
This is a Jackie Chan action movie. Chan portrays Jimmy Tong, a taxi driver who gets a job as the chauffeur to superspy Clark Devlin (Jason Isaacs). When an attack on Devlin leaves him incapacitated, Jimmy starts posing as the superspy. Jimmy inherits from Devlin a hi-tech tuxedo that gives its wearer extraordinary martial-arts capabilities and the ability to make great leaps. Meanwhile, the evil businessman named Banning (Ritchie Coster) has come up with a diabolical scheme. He will contaminate most of the world's water supply while maintaining control over a large supply of potable water, thereby forcing people to buy their drinking water from him at exorbitant prices. Then Jimmy and his hi-tech tuxedo team up with agent Del Blaine (Jennifer Love Hewitt), and it's up to them to stop Banning. Selected DVD Special Features: Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS. More New Video/DVD Releases for February, 2003 New Video/DVD Releases - February Week One New Video/DVD Releases - February Week Two New Video/DVD Releases - February Week Three New Video/DVD Releases - February Week Four More Video and DVD Releases More Video and DVD Releases Upcoming Movies on Video and DVD Selected movies on video and DVD that will be released in the coming months. More Video and DVD Releases Recommended New Releases on Video and DVD Wondering what movies on video/DVD are worth watching? Here are a few recommendations.
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