New Videos/DVDs Coming Out This Week
Here's what you need to know to plan your next trip to the video store. There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for Tuesday, December 11, 2001, including "Hedwig and the Angry Inch," "Jurassic Park III," "Rush Hour 2," and "The Score." Let's take a look at these films, along with a few additional releases of interest, and take a sneak peek at next week's videos and DVDs.
"Hedwig and the Angry Inch"
Tagline: "An anatomically incorrect
rock odyssey."
Length: 95 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for sexual
content and language
This low-budget screen adaptation of an Off Broadway rock musical seems to already be something of a cult favorite. The main character Hedwig (John Cameron Mitchell) is on tour with her band, playing venues like restaurants. Her tour shadows that of her former boyfriend Tommy Gnosis (Michael Pitt), who has stolen her songs and performs them before arena crowds. But we learn in flashback that Hedwig was once a gay young East German man who underwent a sex change operation so she could marry a U.S. serviceman and come to America with him. Unfortunately the operation was botched and a vestige of the male sex organ was left, leading to problems. This high-energy movie is mainly about music and comedy, yet it manages to raise serious issues that resonate with contemporary audiences.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"Jurassic Park III" - Widescreen Collector's Edition
Tagline: "This Time It's Not Just
A Walk In The Park!"
Length: 92 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13
for intense sci-fi terror and violence
This is the third in a series of action-adventure movies about a theme park where ferocious prehistoric creatures terrorize contemporary humans, and Sam Neill returns as paleontologist Alan Grant. When a boy disappears while parasailing, his divorced parents (William H. Macy and Tea Leoni) trick Dr. Grant into helping them try to find and rescue him. As Grant and the parents search the island where the boy vanished, they struggle to survive the attacks of the genetically engineered beasts, including velociraptors, pteranodons, and spinosauruses, who live there. This movie is centered around action sequences set in a strange, dinosaur-dominated world, but it’s sometimes funny, and there’s even a little romance thrown in for good measure.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"Rush Hour 2" - Inifinifilm Edition
Tagline: "Get Ready For A Second
Rush!"
Length: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for action
violence, language and some sexual material
Starring Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker, this action comedy is a sequel to the 1998 film "Rush Hour." Once again, Chan plays Lee, a Hong Kong police inspector, and Tucker plays Carter, a fast-talking L.A. police detective. This time around Carter goes on vacation to Hong Kong where he reunites with Lee, and they work together on a new case involving international counterfeiting. Their investigation eventually leads Lee and Carter back to the United States, and along the way they encounter two attractive women played by Zhang Ziyi and Roselyn Sanchez. But the plot of the movie is just a device around which to hang martial-arts sequences featuring Jackie Chan and jokes cracked by Chris Tucker.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"The Score"
Tagline: "There are no partners in
crime."
Length: 123 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language
Robert De Niro, Marlon Brando, Edward Norton, and Angela Bassett star in this well-crafted crime drama. Nick (De Niro) is a thief who is yearning for retirement when he is approached by longtime friend Max (Brando) to steal a fantastically valuable old scepter. The scepter has been impounded in the high-security Montreal Customs House, but Max has an inside contact in the person of Jackie (Norton), who works there as a janitor. When Nick’s girlfriend Diane (Bassett) says she’ll marry him if he gives up crime, he decides to steal the scepter and make it his last criminal job. The movie then follows the meticulous planning and carrying out of the heist, during which some unexpected complications arise.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
Additional Releases of Interest:
"Das Boot" - The Director's Cut (1982)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"Dodsworth" (1936)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"Fritz the Cat" (1972)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"The Mists of Avalon" (2001)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"Look Back in Anger" (1958)
Selected Special DVD Features:
"Separate Tables" (1958)
Selected Special DVD Features:
"Topkapi" (1964)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
"Witness for the Prosecution" (1957)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
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