More new movies on DVD for October, 2006.
September 19, 2006
The Proposition
Guy Pearce stars in this drama, which is rather like an American Western, except its setting is the 1880s Australian outback. Charlie Burns (Pearce) and his brothers Arthur (Danny Huston) and Mike (Richard Wilson) are wanted for the murder of a pregnant woman. Then Charlie and Mike are captured by Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone), who makes Charlie a proposition: if Charlie tracks down Arthur and kills him, Stanley will spare the lives of both Charlie and Mike. Emily Watson portrays Stanley's wife.
Stay Alive
In this horror movie, teenagers play a deadly video game called Stay Alive. It's a multi-player game where you try to move your character around on a Louisiana plantation without being killed by Elizabeth Bathory (the name taken from an infamous European historical figure who died in 1614). In the film, each time a character gets killed in the game, the corresponding player dies in the same way. The players stop playing, but the game continues on its own, and the survivors struggle to figure out how not to become victims.
Stick It
Bring It On was a popular film about cheerleading, and Stick It follows a similar approach to the world of gymnastics. Haley Graham (Missy Peregrym) is a troubled Plano, Texas, teenager who gets arrested for major property damage. To avoid jail, she enrolls in the Vickerman Gymnastics Academy in Houston. There she is molded into a competitive gymnast by the disciplinarian Burt Vickerman (Jeff Bridges). But Haley has difficulty controlling her rebelliousness, causing many complications along the way.
September 26, 2006
Curious George
H. A. and Margret Rey authored a series of books beginning around 1940 featuring an inquisitive simian named George, who was brought from Africa to the big city by the Man With the Yellow Hat. The children's animated movie Curious George is based on those books. Will Ferrell speaks the Man With the Yellow Hat's dialogue, while George just makes primate vocal noises. The film's story centers around rescuing a failing museum. Voices heard include those of Drew Barrymore, Dick Van Dyke and Eugene Levy.
The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift
Lucas Black stars in this actioner, which is the follow-up to The Fast and the Furious (2001) and 2 Fast 2 Furious (2003). This time around Sean Boswell (Black) is a 17-year-old who gets into trouble in the U.S. and avoids jail by going to live with his military father in Japan. There he meets a pretty girl (Nathalie Kelley) and gets involved in a type of automobile racing where drivers use a technique known as drifting. Sean's rival is the hoodlum D.K. (Brian Tee), whose uncle (Sonny Chiba) is a yakuza boss.
The Lake House
Based on the Korean film Il Mare (2000), this romantic drama pairs Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock. When Alex Wyler (Reeves) moves into a glass house built over a lake near Chicago, he finds a letter left in the mailbox by Kate Forster (Bullock) when she moved out of the house. But it turns out that, contrary to all logic, Alex and Kate are living on parallel time tracks-he in 2004, she in 2006. Nonetheless, they are able to communicate with each other by putting letters in the mailbox, and they build a relationship.
The Notorious Bettie Page
Gretchen Mol stars in this biopic about Bettie Page, one of the most famous pinup girls of the 1950s. A native of Tennessee, Bettie was in her twenties when she came to New York. There she met a photographer who suggested she wear her hair in what became her trademark bangs. She became a model for Irving and Paula Klaw, who specialized in bondage shots. Page also posed nude for Bunny Yeager. But ultimately Bettie got out of the business altogether and re-embraced the Christianity that had been her girlhood faith.
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