Here's a selection of new movies on DVD for March, 2007.
March 6, 2007
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America
This hilarious, politically incorrect comedy has the full title Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan. Borat Sagdiyev (Sacha Baron Cohen) leaves his home in Kazakhstan and travels to New York to film a documentary. He views Baywatch on TV and becomes obsessed with Pamela Anderson, prompting him to set off on a road trip to California to meet her. Along the way he has wacky adventures, the zaniest of which is a nude wrestling match with his obese producer.
Fast Food Nation
Eric Schlosser's nonfiction best-selling book was the inspiration for this film directed by Richard Linklater and featuring several well-known actors. The movie, which is fictional, centers around a vast burger chain called Mickey's. One thread of the story is about a young woman who works in a Mickey's going through a crisis of conscience. Another thread involves illegal immigrants who take jobs in a meat-processing plant, and there are stomach-churning scenes showing how cattle are turned into beef patties.
Let's Go to Prison
The idea for this deadpan comedy comes from Jim Hogshire's book You Are Going to Prison. When John Lyshitski (Dax Shepard) gets out of prison, he seeks revenge on the judge who put him behind bars three separate times. He manipulates things so that the judge's adult son, Nelson Biederman IV (Will Arnett of TV's Arrested Development), is incarcerated. Next Lyshitski deliberately commits a minor crime and returns to prison, becoming Biederman's cellmate. Lyshitski then sets out to make the judge's son's life miserable.
March 13, 2007
Casino Royale
Daniel Craig stars as James Bond, the famed British secret agent who made his debut in Ian Fleming's 1953 novel. But the film moves the story forward to circa 2005 and imagines a new incarnation of Bond very early in his career, around the time he is designated Agent 007. In the movie, 007's primary task is to stop the evil Le Chiffre (Mads Mikkelsen), financier of international terrorism, leading to a high-stakes poker game in Montenegro. Also, Bond gets romantically involved with the alluring Vesper Lynd (Eva Green).
The Holiday
Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet star in this romantic comedy written and directed by Nancy Meyers (Something's Gotta Give). Supporting roles are played by Jude Law, Jack Black, Eli Wallach, Edward Burns and Rufus Sewell. The story opens with both a Southern California woman (Diaz) and an Englishwoman (Winslet) having man trouble. Each needing a getaway, they agree via the Internet to swap homes for the Christmas season. During the swap, new men come into their lives, and they must decide what to do.
Shortbus
Written and directed by John Cameron Mitchell (Hedwig and the Angry Inch), this is a drama that integrates into the story a series of scenes of people engaging in unsimulated sexual acts. Characters include a female therapist, a dominatrix and a pair of gay men who want to spice up their five-year relationship. All have personal problems, and they go to an underground club called Shortbus. Mitchell structures the movie like a musical, except instead of musical numbers, characters perform a variety of sex acts.
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