June 14, 2005 - Video and DVD Releases

"A Dirty Shame"

Tagline: "Threatening the very limits of common decency."

Length: 89 minutes
MPAA Rating: Available in NC-17 version and in "R" rated Version for pervasive strong crude sexual content, including fetishes

Written and directed by John Waters ("Pink Flamingos"), who is notorious for his bad taste, this weird comedy stars Tracey Ullman and Johnny Knoxville (from "Jackass"). Ullman plays a sexually repressed wife who gets bonked on the head and turns into a sex addict, joining a cult of sexually liberated people led by a tow-truck driver (Knoxville). Also, Ullman's character has a daughter (Selma Blair) who is noted for her stupendous bosom.

Selected Special DVD Features:

• Commentary From Writer/Director John Waters
• Featurette

Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.

"Hitch"

Tagline: "The cure for the common man."

Length: 118 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and some strong sexual references

Will Smith and Eva Mendes are paired in this pleasant romantic comedy. Alex "Hitch" Hitchens (Smith) makes a living coaching men in the art of courtship. Hitch helps one of his clients, an accountant, to begin romancing a wealthy socialite, and that relationship catches the attention of gossip columnist Sara Melas (Mendes). But complications arise when Hitch and Sara meet and begin to fall for each other, although their interests clash.

Selected Special DVD Features:
• Featurettes
• Music Video

Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.

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