Bride Flight, Bridesmaids and The Kennedys are the new DVD releases this week. You can also explore additional new DVD releases, including TV series on DVD and much more.
September 20, 2011 - New DVD Releases:
Bride Flight DVD
Length: 130 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for a strong sex scene and some graphic nudity
This romantic melodrama from the Netherlands is the kind of old-fashioned film Hollywood no longer makes, and it's an interesting period piece with fine New Zealand scenery. The story is inspired by a real-life 1953 KLM flight from London to Christchurch, New Zealand, on which the passengers were mostly Dutch brides-to-be flying to be reunited with their fiancés and start a new life among the Kiwis. The tale unfolds in flashbacks: when three 70-something women attend a man's funeral, they recall things that happened during that flight, as well as experiences they had in the 1950s and 1960s.
- Widescreen
Bridesmaids DVD
Length: The unrated version of Bridesmaids is 131 minutes long. The original theatrical version of this movie runs 125 minutes.
MPAA Rating: R for some strong sexuality, and language throughout
Kristen Wiig stars in this raunchy, gross, but sweet comedy where all the important characters are women. (Judd Apatow co-produced, and this movie is basically a female version of his male-oriented comedies that were box-office hits.) Annie (Wiig) is an unmarried woman in her late 30s, and her bakery business has failed. Now her best friend (Maya Rudolph) is getting married, and Annie is maid of honor. But everything goes wrong for Annie as she tries to arrange things for the bride-to-be and her four bridesmaids, leading to lots of profanity, bodily-function humor and sex-oriented gags.
- Original Theatrical Version/Unrated Version of Bridesmaids
- Includes Digital Copy of Bridesmaids - Theatrical Version (Expires February 25,2012)
- Gag Reel
- Made of Honor: Behind the Scenes of Bridesmaids
- Extended and Alternate Scenes
- Commentary With Director Paul Feig, Co-Writer Annie Mumolo, and Cast Members Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Melissa McCarthy, Wendi McLendon-Covey, and Ellie Kemper
- Two-Disc Set
- Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack
- Widescreen
- Also Available: Single-Disc DVD Edition
The Kennedys DVD
Length: 353 minutes
MPAA Rating: This is a TV miniseries and is not rated by the MPAA.
This is an eight-episode TV miniseries dramatizing the lives of the Kennedy family, particularly Jack (Greg Kinnear), Jackie (Katie Holmes), Bobby (Barry Pepper) and patriarch Joe (Tom Wilkinson). It was commissioned by the History Channel, but aired on the ReelzChannel. The total runtime is not quite six hours. The miniseries spans about 30 years from Joe's support of the 1938 Munich Agreement to Bobby's assassination in 1968. There are major public occurrences, such as the Ole Miss riot and the Cuban Missile Crisis, along with some dirt like Jack's philandering and Joe's Mafia connections.
- Featurette "The Kennedys: From Story to Film"
Additional DVD Releases of Interest:
Breakfast at Tiffany's (1961)
- Featurettes
- Widescreen
- Featurettes
- Deleted Scenes
- Bloopers
- Five-Disc DVD Set
- Two Disc Set: Includes Blu-ray and DVD
- Two Disc Set: Includes Blu-ray and DVD
- Six-Disc DVD Set
- Five-Disc DVD Set
- Unaired Scenes
- Five-Disc DVD Set
- DVD Set
- Three-Disc DVD Set
- Three-Disc DVD Set
- Widescreen
- Commentary on Series Pilot
- Unaired Series Pilot
- Gag Reel
- Deleted and Extended Scenes
- Three-Disc DVD Set
- Widescreen
- Interviews
- Commentary
- Widescreen
- Two-Disc DVD Set
- Commentary
- Deleted Scenes
- Interviews
- Image Galleries
- Blooper Reel