November 8, 2011 - Notable New DVD Movie Releases:
Atlas Shrugged: Part I DVD
Length: 97 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sexuality
Featuring a cast led by Taylor Schilling and Grant Bowler, this is a low-budget adaptation of the first third of Ayn Rand's popular 1957 melodramatic, didactic novel of ideas. The film moves the setting forward to 2016, when the US economy is in decline, the government increasingly exercises control over industry and the most capable business people are mysteriously disappearing. The heroine is Dagny Taggert (Schilling), a railroad tycoon. She teams up with visionary steelmaker Hank Rearden (Bowler) on a high-speed rail project. Periodically, characters raise the question: Who is John Galt?
- Road to Atlas Shrugged
- Commentary with John Aglialoro, Brian Patrick O'Toole and Harmon Kaslow
- Widescreen
The Change-Up Blu-ray Disc and DVD
Length: 112 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong crude sexual content and language, some graphic nudity and drug use
Ryan Reynolds and Jason Bateman star in this body-swap comedy that's also a raunchy, gross-out bromance. Mitch (Reynolds) and Dave (Bateman) are longtime best friends who couldn't be more different. Dave is a straitlaced corporate attorney with a wife and three kids, while Mitch is a pot-smoking unemployed actor who beds lots of women. One night Mitch and Dave go out drinking together, and while urinating in a public fountain, each says he'd like to live the life of the other. Next morning they discover they've swapped bodies. Supporting roles are played by Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde and Alan Arkin.
- Two-Disc Set
- Includes Blu-ray Disc and DVD
- Also Includes Digital Copy
- Widescreen
November 11, 2011 - Notable New DVD Movie Release:
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows: Part 2 Blu-ray Disc and DVD
Length: 130 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some sequences of intense action violence and frightening images
This is the eighth and final installment of the Harry Potter fantasy-adventure film series, which was adapted from novels by J.K. Rowling. The eight films were released over 10 years beginning in 2001 and comprise the highest-grossing franchise in movie history. At last, viewers can watch the entire 19 1/2 hours of the Harry Potter series at home. In Deathly Hollows: Part 2, Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Hermione (Emma Watson) and Ron (Rupert Grint) continue their quest for the Horcruxes. This leads to the Battle of Hogwarts, which is followed by a duel between Harry and the villain Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes).
- Three-Disc Set
- Includes Blu-ray Disc and DVD
- Also Includes Digital Copy
- "The Goblins of Gringott's"
- The Women of Harry Potter
- Additional Scenes
- Widescreen
Additional DVD and Blu-ray Disc Releases of Interest This Week - November 8, 2011
A Better Tomorrow (1986) Blu-ray Disc and DVD- Includes Blu-ray Disc and DVD
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- A DVD Only is Also Available
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- Two-Disc DVD Set
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- Animated
- Includes Digital Copy
- Two-Disc DVD Set
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Read a profile of an earlier release of Bolt on DVD: Bolt DVD Profile.
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- Documentary
- Commentary
- Includes Both the Theatrical Film and Television Versions of Fanny and Alexander
- Booklet
Read a review of an earlier release of Fanny and Alexander on DVD: Fanny and Alexander DVD Review.
- Widescreen
- Six-Disc DVD Set
- Two-Disc DVD Set
- Subtitled
- Two-Disc Set
- Includes Blu-ray Disc and DVD
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- Animated
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- Two-Disc DVD Set
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