May 24, 2005 - Video and DVD Releases

"Are We There Yet?"

Length: 95 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for language and rude humor

Ice Cube and Nia Long star in this family comedy. Ice Cube plays Nick, a bachelor who falls for divorcée Suzanne (Long). Her two kids hope she'll get back together with their dad, and they try to run off any guy showing an interest in her. Nick hates kids, but he's so attracted to Suzanne that he starts seeing her anyway. She ends up in Vancouver while Nick and the kids drive up from Oregon to join her, and the trip is filled with comic complications.

Selected Special DVD Features:

• Director's Commentary
• Deleted Scenes

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"The Aviator"

Tagline: "Some men dream the future. He built it."

Length: 170 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual content, nudity, language and a crash sequence

Directed by Martin Scorsese, this biopic about Howard Hughes (Leonardo DiCaprio) was nominated for 11 Oscars and won five. The film covers Hughes's glory years when he made movies, dated Hollywood stars, made TWA into a major airline, and built and flew military planes. One story thread concerns his romantic relationship with Katharine Hepburn (Cate Blanchett in an Oscar-winning performance). Another involves his battle for airline routes against Pan Am's Juan Trippe (Alec Baldwin) and U.S. Senator Brewster (Alan Alda).

Selected Special DVD Features:

• Two-Disc DVD Set

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"Pooh's Heffalump Movie"
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Tagline: "Heffa nice day."

Length: 68 minutes
MPAA Rating: G

This is a children's animated movie based on A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories. Thus, it takes place in Hundred Acre Wood, and the characters include Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, Roo, Eeyore, and Rabbit. Pooh and his friends hear scary sounds coming from Heffalump Hollow and set out to investigate. It turns out little Roo is the first to meet Lumpy, a baby heffalump (actually an elephant). Lumpy is voiced by eight-year-old Brit Kyle Stanger.

Selected Special DVD Features:

• DVD-ROM Extras

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