The new DVD releases include Good Luck Chuck, Mr. Woodcock and The Ten. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
January 15, 2008 - New Video and DVD Releases:
Good Luck Chuck DVD
Length: 96 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for sequences of strong sexual content including crude dialogue, nudity, language and some drug use
Dane Cook and Jessica Alba star in this raunchy comedy. Charlie (Cook) is a successful, unmarried dentist who had a curse put on him when he was a boy: any woman he has sex with will go on to date another guy, who she will marry. Word gets around about the curse, and marriage-minded women try to bed Charlie just so they can get hitched to someone else. His situation is enviable until he falls hard for Cam (Alba), an accident-prone penguin specialist at a marine park. This puts Charlie in a quandary: if he has sex with Cam, he will lose the only woman he's ever loved.
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Mr. Woodcock DVD
Length: 87 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content, thematic material, language and a mild drug reference
Billy Bob Thornton, Sean William Scott and Susan Sarandon star in this comedy. John Farley (Scott), author of a best-selling self-help book, returns to his hometown to visit his widowed mother (Sarandon) and learns she is dating Jasper Woodcock (Thornton). John is appalled because when he was in school, Woodcock was the gym teacher who constantly humiliated him and the other students. It turns out that Woodcock is still into tormenting people, and John sets out to do everything he can to prevent his mother from marrying the hateful bully.
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The Ten DVD
Length: 93 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for pervasive strong crude sexual content including dialogue and nudity, and for language and some drug material
This comedy consists of a series of irreverent — some would say sacrilegious —sketches based loosely on the Ten Commandments. Paul Rudd serves as narrator, and several well-known actors appear, including Jessica Alba, Bobby Cannavale, Liev Schreiber, Ron Silver, Famke Janssen and Oliver Pratt. In the vignette based on the commandment against stealing, Winona Ryder finds love with a ventriloquist's dummy. In another episode, a librarian (Gretchen Mol) vacations in Mexico, where she has a torrid affair with a carpenter named Jesus (Justin Theroux).
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Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check for availability on VHS.
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