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Part 3: A Sneak Peek at Next Week's Releases on Video/DVD

There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for next week, including "Jersey Girl," "The Ladykillers," "The Punisher," "Soul Plane," and "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring." Let's take a look at these movies on DVD and video, along with some additional releases of interest.

September 7, 2004 - Video and DVD Releases

"Jersey Girl"

Tagline: "Forget about who you thought you were, and just accept who you are."

Length: 102 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 on appeal for language and sexual content including frank dialogue

Written and directed by Kevin Smith, this comedy stars Ben Affleck as Ollie, a widower who gets into a romantic relationship with a video-store clerk (Liv Tyler). Ollie is raising a young daughter (Raquel Castro), and he lives with his father (George Carlin) in New Jersey. Ollie is employed by the public works department, but he longs to return to being a music publicist in Manhattan. Also in the movie are Jason Biggs and Jennifer Lopez.

• Widescreen

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"The Ladykillers"

Tagline: "The greatest criminal minds of all time have finally met their match."

Length: 104 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language including sexual references

Tom Hanks stars in this Coen brothers heist comedy, a remake of a 1955 classic starring Alec Guinness. The Coens have transplanted the old British comedy to the American South, where "Professor" Dorr (Hanks) rents a room from a little old African-American lady (Irma P. Hall). Dorr and four other crooks pretend to practice music in her cellar as a cover for their real activity, which is constructing a tunnel to a vault where casino money is kept.

• Widescreen

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"The Punisher"

Length: 124 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive brutal violence, language and brief nudity

Based on a comic book, this grim action movie with a revenge plot stars Tom Jane and John Travolta. As an F.B.I. agent, Frank Castle (Jane) causes the accidental death of the son of crime boss Howard Saint (Travolta). Saint retaliates by massacring Castle's entire family and almost killing Castle himself. But Castle recovers from his injuries, and he sets out to get revenge on Saint and everyone else who played a role in slaughtering his family.

• Region 1

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"Soul Plane"

Tagline: "The party is nonstop."

Length: 86 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for strong sexual content, language and some drug use

This highly politically incorrect, silly, raunchy spoof of airplane disaster movies stars Kevin Hart and Tom Arnold. After Nashawn (Hart) wins $100 million in a lawsuit, he starts an airline catering to African Americans. The airline's only plane is purple, the pilot (Snoop Dogg) is fresh out of prison, and the passengers have fried chicken and Colt 45. The movie chronicles the hectic inaugural flight, and Tom Arnold plays a white passenger named Hunkee.

• Available in "R" Rated and Unrated Editions

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"Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring"

Length: 103 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for some strong sexuality

A big hit with critics during its theatrical release, this is a lyrical Korean-language drama. The setting is a beautiful remote mountain lake during modern times, and the story spans decades. The main characters are two Buddhist monks, the younger of whom ages from boyhood to maturity during the course of the movie. Divided into five vignettes corresponding to the seasons in the title, this low-keyed film is poetic and philosophical.

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