September 20, 2005 - Video and DVD Releases

"The Adventures of Sharkboy and Lavagirl"

Tagline: "Smaller heroes. Just as super."

Length: 93 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for mild action and some rude humor

This kids' adventure movie was shown in 3-D on the big screen. The story was developed from ideas suggested to director Robert Rodriguez by his seven-year-old son Racer. In the film, ten-year-old Max imagines a boy who is part shark and a girl who can control lava living in a place called Planet Drool. Then Max goes with Sharkboy and Lavagirl to their world, where they battle villains who look exactly like Max's teacher at school and Max's bullying classmate.

Selected Special DVD Features:

• Widescreen

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"Born Into Brothels"

Length: 85 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for some sequences of strong language

Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary, this movie tells the stories of a few of the children who live in Calcutta's red light district. Filmmakers Zana Briski and Ross Kauffman give the kids cameras and teach them how to use them, and one talented boy travels to Amsterdam for a competition. Also, Briski tries to help some of the youngsters escape their squalid world by getting them into boarding schools, but she runs into problems with both parents and government bureaucracy.

Selected Special DVD Features:

• Region 1

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"The Longest Yard"

Tagline: "It was hard to put a team together ... until they found out who they were playing."

Length: 113 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual humor, violence, language and drug references

Adam Sandler stars in this comedy, a remake of the 1974 film that starred Burt Reynolds. Sandler portrays former NFL quarterback Paul "Wrecking" Crewe, who ends up in prison and puts together a team of inmates which will play the guards in a game of football. Chris Rock takes the role of a wheeler-dealer prisoner who becomes Crewe's right-hand man, and Burt Reynolds appears in the new film as the coach of the convicts' team. Nelly portrays a running back, and James Cromwell plays the warden.

Selected Special DVD Features:

• Director's Commentary
• Music Video

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"Mindhunters"

Tagline: "For seven elite profilers, finding a serial killer is a process of elimination. Their own."

Length: 106 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for violence/strong graphic images, language and sexual content

Directed by Renny Harlin, this thriller has a cast that includes Kathryn Morris, LL Cool J, Val Kilmer, and Christian Slater. Seven F.B.I. agents and a policeman have gathered on a remote, uninhabited island for a training exercise. An instructor sets up a scenario for them where they are to profile a serial killer called the Puppeteer. But soon the trainees are being killed off, one by one, and with no way to get off the island, the survivors find themselves struggling to save their lives.

Selected Special DVD Features:

• Audio Commentary by Director Renny Harlin

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