| New Video and DVD Releases | |
| Part 1: This Week's New Releases on Video/DVD |
by Ivana Redwine
The new video/DVD releases for August 3, 2004, include "13 Going on 30" and "Hidalgo." We'll also take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
August 3, 2004 - Video and DVD Releases
"13
Going on 30"
Tagline:
"For some, 13 feels like it was just yesterday. For Jenna, it was."
Length:
98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexual content and brief drug
references
This body-switch comedy stars Jennifer Garner and Mark Ruffalo. In 1987 a 13-year-old girl named Jenna wishes to be grown up and is transformed into a woman. The adult Jenna (Garner) now finds herself in the year 2004 as a 30-year-old magazine editor with the brain of a teenager. As she tries to find out what happened during the intervening 17 years, Jenna gets reacquainted with childhood friend Matt, now also grown up and played by Ruffalo.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Hidalgo"
Tagline:
"Unbridled. Unbroken. Unbeaten."
Length:
136 minutes
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for adventure violence and some mild innuendo
Viggo Mortensen stars in this action-adventure movie set in the late 19th century. Frank T. Hopkins (Mortensen) is working with his mustang Hidalgo in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show when he decides to compete in a 3000-mile race across Arabia. Hopkins and Hidalgo participate in the grueling race, during which many men and horses die, and along the way the cowboy meets a sheik (Omar Sharif) and gets involved with two women.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
Formats
Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check
for availability on VHS.
