Here's a selection of new movies on DVD for September, 2006.
September 5, 2006
District B13
Set in the year 2010, this is a French-language martial arts movie. Violence in Paris suburbs has reached the point where the government has walled off some neighborhoods, and one of these is District B13, which is controlled by the crime lord Taha. When Taha and his thugs steal a nuclear bomb, the government sends in supercop Damien (Cyril Raffaelli) to locate and deactivate it. Meanwhile, the vigilante Leïto (David Belle) seeks to rescue his sister, who has been kidnapped by Taha, and Damien and Leïto team up.
Kinky Boots
This British comedy is about a footwear manufacturer and a drag queen. The family of Charlie Price (Joel Edgerton) has operated a shoe factory in Northampton for generations, and he takes over when his father dies. But Charlie soon discovers the business is verging on bankruptcy because men no longer buy many dress shoes. Then he meets the drag queen Lola (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and gets the idea for a new product: feminine-looking high-heeled boots specially designed to support the weight of a man.
United 93
This docudrama chronicles events surrounding the United Airlines flight that takes off from Newark on the morning of September 11, 2001, bound for San Francisco. On board are four Islamist terrorists who take control of the plane. Air traffic controllers are unable to contact this flight and others, and soon commercial jetliners crash into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. When passengers and crew on the hijacked United 93 find out by phone what is going on, they improvise a desperate assault on the terrorists.
September 12, 2006
Goal! The Dream Begins
Soccer is the focus of this drama, the first movie of a planned trilogy about a Mexican-born young man named Santiago Munez (Kuno Becker). After entering the U.S. illegally, Santiago ekes out a living in L.A. But he's good at soccer, and he manages to travel to England for a tryout with Newcastle United. There he meets soccer star Gavin Harris (Alessandro Nivola) and manager Erik Dornhelm (Marcel Iures). Santiago finds himself facing major obstacles, but he loves the sport and refuses to give up on his dream.
Lucky Number Slevin
Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley and Bruce Willis star in this convoluted thriller with a darkly comic tone. Slevin (Hartnett) is mistaken for someone else and informed he owes $96,000 by a crime lord known as the Boss (Freeman). But the Boss will forgive the debt if Slevin kills the son of a rival crime lord called the Rabbi (Kingsley). Mixed up in all this are a hit man (Willis), a detective (Stanley Tucci) and a good-looking coroner (Lucy Liu). As the story gets increasingly labyrinthine, the bodies pile up.
The Wild
This Disney animated comedy involves a group of talking animals. A lion cub (voice of Greg Cipes) gets out of a New York zoo and is shipped to Africa. His father (voice of Kiefer Sutherland) sets out on a rescue effort, and he is joined by a squirrel (voice of Jim Belushi), a giraffe (voice of Janeane Garofalo), a koala (voice of Eddie Izzard) and a snake (voice of Richard Kind). But the rescuers run into trouble when they come up against a strange herd of wildebeests, led by Kazar (voice of William Shatner).
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