| 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 September 7, 2004, including "Jersey Girl," "The Ladykillers," "The Punisher," "Soul Plane," and "Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring." In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
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.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
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"The
Ladykillers"
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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.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Widescreen
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"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.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Region 1
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"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.
Selected Special DVD Features:• Available in "R" Rated and Unrated Editions
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Spring,
Summer, Fall, Winter … and Spring"
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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.
• Widescreen
Formats
Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check
for availability on VHS.
