New Videos Coming Out This Week
The new releases scheduled for July 24, 2001, include Pollock, Sweet November, Valentine, Akira - Limited Special Edition - (1989), and Paint Your Wagon - (1969).
Pollock
MPAA Rating: R for language and brief sexuality
Ed Harris and Marcia Gay Harden give brilliant performances in this biopic about Jackson Pollock, one of the greatest painters of the 20th century. In 1940s Greenwich Village, struggling young American painters Pollock (Harris) and Lee Krasner (Harden) meet and marry. Despite a drinking problem, Pollock achieves some limited success in selling his paintings, and he and Krasner move out to eastern Long Island. There Pollock reaches his artistic peak and becomes internationally famous before his alcoholism sends him into decline and his life ends tragically.
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Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
Sweet November
Tagline: "She Just Needed A Month To Change His Life For Ever."
Length: 119 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and language
This romantic drama stars Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron. Sara (Theron) is a beautiful young woman who each month has a different man live with her, during which time she tries to help him learn how to get more out of life. Nelson (Reeves) is an unhappy, recently fired advertising executive who meets Sara by accident and accepts her invitation to move in with her for the month of November. Nelson quickly falls for Sara, but soon something happens that forces Nelson and Sara to examine their feelings for each other, and the movie becomes a tearjerker.
Formats Available: DVD, VHS
Valentine
Tagline: "Love Hurts."
Length: 96 minutesMPAA Rating: R for strong horror violence, some sexuality and language
This is a campy horror movie with a Valentine's Day theme. Paige (Denise Richards), Kate (Marley Shelton), Shelly (Katherine Heigl), Dorothy (Jessica Capshaw), and Lily (Jessica Cauffiel) are single women in their twenties who are all old friends. Shelly is murdered, and the other women begin to receive valentines with threatening messages. As a serial killer in a cupid mask wanders dark corridors, others among the women are murdered. One of the possible suspects is Kate's alcoholic boyfriend Adam, who is played by David Boreanaz.
Formats Available: DVD, VHS
Additional Releases of Interest
Akira - Limited Special Edition - (1989)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
Hatari! - (1962)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
Paint Your Wagon - (1969)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
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