New Videos Coming Out This Week
There are some particularly interesting new releases this week, including The Claim, Dogma - Special Edition, Unbreakable, and You Can Count on Me. Let’s take a quick look at what the new releases scheduled for June 26, 2001, have to offer.
The Claim
Tagline: "Everything has a price."
Length: 120 minutesMPAA Rating: R for sexuality, and some language and violence
Loosely based on Thomas Hardy’s The Mayor Of Casterbridge, Michael Winterbottom's The Claim moves the time and place of the novel to a 19th century California gold mining town called Kingdom Come. Daniel Dillon is a prosperous man who runs the town and owns nearly everything in it. But a dark secret lurks in the shadows of his past: Once Dillon traded his wife and young child in exchange for a claim to a gold mine. When a surveyor from the Central Pacific Railroad arrives, both Dillon and the town will change forever.
Formats Available: DVD, VHS
Dogma - Special Edition
Tagline: "Get 'touched' by an angel."
Length: 130 minutesMPAA Rating: R for strong language including sex-related dialogue, violence, crude humor and some drug content
In Kevin Smith’s satire skewering organized religion, fallen angels Bartleby (Ben Affleck) and Loki (Matt Damon) discover a loophole that could let them reenter heaven. The only problem is that if they are successful in their return, God would be proven fallible and everything in heaven and on earth would be destroyed in the process. Irreverently taking on what many hold sacred, it’s not surprising that Dogma stirred up controversy. Harvey and Bob Weinstein produced Dogma for Miramax, but pressure from the Catholic League took its toll, and this film eventually was released theatrically by Lion’s Gate Films.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the Limited Edition Collector's Set DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
Dude, Where’s My Car?
Tagline: "After a night they can't remember, comes a day they'll never forget."
Length: 83 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and some sex and drug-related humor
This sophomoric comedy centers around the adventures of Jesse (Ashton Kutcher) and Chester (Seann William Scott), two dudes who overindulge in consciousness-altering substances. One morning Jesse and Chester wake up to find their car missing and a huge supply of pudding in their kitchen. As they look for the car, they encounter a pot-smoking dog and a transsexual who demands they return the suitcase full of money she gave them. They also discover they are being pursued by extraterrestrials who believe they possess a device called a continuum transfunctioner.
Formats Available: DVD, VHS
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