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There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for next week, including "Insomnia," "Life or Something Like It," "Sorority Boys" and "Windtalkers." Let's take a look at these movies on DVD and video, along with some additional releases of interest.
October 15 - Video and DVD Releases
"Insomnia"
(2002)
Tagline:
"Don't close your eyes."
Length:
118 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for language, some violence and brief nudity
Starring Al Pacino, Robin Williams, and Hilary Swank, this psychological thriller was directed by Christopher Nolan ("Memento"). While Los Angeles police detective Will Dormer (Pacino) and his partner are being investigated by LAPD Internal Affairs, they travel to a remote Alaska town to help solve a murder. Working there with an enthusiastic local policewoman (Swank), Dormer comes to suspect Walter Finch (Williams), a small-time crime novelist. Then Dormer's LAPD partner is killed, and Dormer finds himself in a cat-and-mouse game with Finch. Meanwhile, Dormer has trouble sleeping, partly because the Alaskan nights are so short, but mostly because he must wrestle with difficult moral issues. Ninety-two percent of the Rotten Tomatoes critics liked "Insomnia."
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Life
or Something Like It" (2002)
Tagline:
"Destiny is what you make of it."
Length:
103 minutes
MPAA Rating:
PG-13 for sexual content, brief violence and language
Angelina Jolie and Edward Burns are paired in this lightweight comedy-drama
about a woman torn between her conflicting desires to pursue both career and
marriage. Lanie Kerrigan (Jolie) is an ambitious Seattle TV reporter who is
engaged to a major league baseball player. When Lanie works with a handsome
cameraman named Pete (Burns), the two become attracted to each other. Then
Lanie encounters a street prophet (Tony Shalhoub), who predicts she will die
in a week, causing her to rethink her life. She becomes sexually involved
with Pete and also gets a shot at a job in New York, where she impresses everyone
with an interview she conducts on the network morning show. But Pete wants
to stay in Seattle with his young son, and Lanie must make some major decisions.
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Sorority
Boys" (2002)
Tagline:
"Look closer (not that close)."
Length:
93 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for crude sexual content, nudity, strong language and some drug use
Crude humor abounds in this lowbrow comedy where three young men dress in women's clothing. Dave (Barry Watson), Adam (Michael Rosenbaum), and Doofer (Harland Williams) are three college boys who are thrown out of their fraternity house when they are falsely accused of stealing money. The three then dress in drag and pledge a sorority, among whose members are Leah (Melissa Sagemiller), Katie (Heather Matarazzo), and Patty (Kathryn Stockwood). As the three frat boys struggle to maintain their poses as women, Dave falls for Leah, who seems to be thinking of him as a possible lesbian lover. Meanwhile, the three young men try to figure out a way to obtain from their old frat house a security videotape which they hope will clear them of the theft charges.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
"Windtalkers"
(2002)
Tagline:
"Honor was their code."
Length:
134 minutes
MPAA Rating:
R for pervasive graphic war violence, and for language.
Directed by John Woo, this World War II military action movie stars Nicolas Cage. The story revolves around a communications scheme used by the U.S. military where Navajo Indians spoke to one another in a code version of their native language. Cage plays Joe Enders, a marine who is assigned to watch over Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach), one of the Navajo code talkers. Eventually, Enders and Yahzee are part of the American force tasked with taking the Pacific island of Saipan from the Japanese. Enders' job is to protect Yahzee, but Enders has orders to prevent the Navajo from falling into enemy hands, even if it means killing him. But the movie doesn't focus all that much on the Navajo code talkers—instead, it's primarily about carefully choreographed combat sequences.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
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