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Let's take a look at the new releases slated for the fourth week of May, 2003. May 27, 2003 - Video and DVD Releases
Jason Lee, Julia Stiles, and Selma Blair star in this romantic comedy. Paul (Lee) is an ad salesman who is to marry his boss's daughter Karen (Blair) in a few days. But during a night of carousing at his bachelor party, he meets Becky (Stiles). Next morning Paul awakens to find Becky in his bed, but he can't remember whether or not they had sex. Paul tries to cover up the incident, but that proves to be difficult. First there's the matter of some underwear Becky left behind, and next there's Paul's discovery that he has acquired a case of the crabs. Then Paul's troubles are compounded when it emerges that Becky is Karen's cousin and Becky's psychotic ex-boyfriend starts stalking him. But as his wedding day approaches, Paul begins to wonder if he wouldn't be happier being with Becky instead of Karen. Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS. "National Security" (2003)
This action comedy stars Martin Lawrence and Steve Zahn. Earl Montgomery (Lawrence) is a security guard who one day locks himself out of his car. When Earl tries to retrieve his keys, policeman Hank Rafferty (Zahn) appears and questions him. As tempers flare, a bumblebee buzzes the two men, and Hank repeatedly swats at it with his baton. When videotape of the incident makes it look like police brutality, Hank ends up serving six months in jail. Upon his release, the disgraced Hank takes a job as a security guard and comes back into contact with Earl. Although the two men can't stand each other at first, they gradually become a mismatched pair of interracial buddies when they team up to battle a crime ring headed by Nash (Eric Roberts), who had earlier been responsible for killing Hank's partner. Selected Special DVD Features:
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Nominated for six Academy Awards including Best Picture, this Holocaust drama went on to win three Oscars, including Best Director (Roman Polanski), Best Actor (Adrien Brody), and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1939 Warsaw, Wladyslaw Szpilman (Brody) is working as a professional pianist when World War II breaks out. A member of a prosperous family of assimilated Jews, Szpilman has no intention of leaving the city he loves. Soon the Nazis occupy Poland, and eventually Szpilman's family and nearly all the Jews in Warsaw are stripped of their possessions and forced to move into a walled-in ghetto. Ultimately, all of Szpilman's family and the overwhelming majority of Warsaw Jews perish during the Holocaust, yet through a combination of determination, luck, and the help of others, the unheroic Szpilman manages to survive. Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS. "The Recruit" (2002)
Al Pacino, Colin Farrell, and Bridget Moynahan star in this thriller centering around CIA training. Pacino plays Walter Burke, a seasoned CIA veteran who recruits new operatives. He then trains the recruits at the organization's facility known as The Farm, where he is fond of reminding them that nothing is what it seems. Burke's current crop of trainees includes MIT computer whiz James Clayton (Farrell) and an attractive woman named Layla (Moynahan). While Clayton and Layla are undergoing spy training, he starts to fall for her. Then Burke tells Clayton that a mole has infiltrated the organization and assigns the young man the task of ferreting out the double agent. But Clayton approaches his assignment with mixed feelings because he fears the mole could turn out to be Layla. Selected Special DVD Features:
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Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS. "Talk to Her" (2002)
Internationally acclaimed writer-director Pedro Almodóvar won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay and was nominated for a Best Director Oscar for his efforts on this offbeat Spanish-language drama. Benigno (Javier Cámara) is a male nurse who cares for a ballet student named Alicia (Leonor Watling) who has been comatose for years. Marco (Darío Grandinetti) is a journalist who has a romantic relationship with a bullfighter named Lydia (Rosario Flores), then he cares for her when she falls into a coma as a result of being gored. While caring for the two comatose women, the two men develop a friendship. As the film unreels, we gradually learn a great deal about these four characters, and the strange interrelationships among them lead to a startling outcome. Selected Special DVD Features:
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