| New Video and DVD Releases | |
| Part 1: This Week's New Releases on Video/DVD |
by Ivana Redwine
There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for August 17, 2004, including "Bon Voyage," "Connie and Carla," "Godsend," "New York Minute," and "Taking Lives." In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
August 17, 2004 - Video and DVD Releases
"Bon
Voyage"
Length:
114 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence
Set in 1940, this French-language comedy stars Isabelle Adjani. When the Nazis approach Paris, many upper-crust residents flee to Bordeaux. A number of characters are caught up in this, including a pampered movie star (Adjani). She is pursued by three suitors, one of whom went to jail for her when she killed someone. Another suitor is a government official (Gérard Depardieu), while a third (played by Peter Coyote) may be a German agent.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Connie
and Carla"
Tagline:
"When you follow your dream, there's no telling what you'll become."
Length:
98 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic elements, sexual humor and
drug references
Nia Vardalos and Toni Collette star in this comedy with many musical numbers. Connie (Vardalos) and Carla (Collette) are show-tune performers who play a waiting lounge at a Midwestern airport. After witnessing a murder, they are pursued by mobsters and flee to L.A., where they pose as female impersonators. They become popular entertainers in a drag club, make new friends, and Connie falls for a guy (David Duchovny).
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Godsend"
Tagline:
"Adam Duncan. Born: December 11, 1987. Died: December 12, 1995. Born September
23, 1996."
Length:
102 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence including frightening images,
a scene of sexuality and some thematic material
This thriller stars Greg Kinnear and Rebecca Romijn-Stamos as the Duncans, a married couple whose eight-year-old son dies in an accident. A scientist (Robert De Niro) helps them have another child cloned from the DNA of the dead son. The Duncans cut all ties and move far away to raise the cloned boy, who seems normal for several years. But when the cloned boy reaches the age at which their first child died, things go terribly awry.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Region 1
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"New
York Minute"
Length:
91 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for mild sensuality and thematic elements
This comedy stars real-life twins Ashley and Mary-Kate Olsen as fictional teenage twins Jane and Roxy Ryan. The movie chronicles a day in the Ryan twins' lives where they go to Manhattan, each for her own purposes. Jane is there to give a speech that may win her a scholarship to Oxford, while Roxy goes in hopes of handing out her demo tapes at a music video shoot. The film shows the twins clashing with each other from Chinatown to Harlem.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
• Alternate
Endings
• Making-of Featurette
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Taking
Lives"
Tagline:
"He would kill to be you."
Length:
103 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong violence including disturbing
images, language and some sexuality
Angelina Jolie stars in this thriller as Illeana Scott, an American FBI profiler who travels to Montreal to work on the case of a serial killer. The pattern of the crimes is that the murderer successively assumes the identity of each victim. An art dealer (Ethan Hawke) claims to have seen the killer, and an old woman (Gena Rowlands) thinks the murderer might be her son (Kiefer Sutherland). Also appearing in the film are Olivier Martinez and Tchéky Karyo.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
• Available
in Unrated Director's Cut