The new DVD releases include Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist, Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, The Secret Life of Bees, and Zack and Miri Make a Porno. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009 - New DVD Release:
Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist DVD
Length: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for mature thematic material including teen drinking, sexuality, language and crude behavior
Michael Cera and Kat Dennings are paired in this low-keyed romantic comedy. Nick (Cera) and Norah (Dennings) are high school students who share a passion for music and get together over the course of one long night while clubbing in Lower Manhattan. They have a series of adventures and fall for each other as they go on an odyssey looking for a fictional band called Where's Fluffy. Along the way, there's soundtrack music by real-life contemporary indie and alternative pop and rock groups, such as Vampire Weekend, Band of Horses and We Are Scientists.
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Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
DVD Release Date: February 6, 2009 - New DVD Release:
Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa DVD
Length: 89 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for some mild crude humor
This animated comedy is the sequel to Madagascar (2005), and all the principal characters are back, voiced by the same celebrities. The main characters are still Alex the lion (voice of Ben Stiller), Marty the zebra (voice of Chris Rock), Gloria the hippo (voice of Jada Pinkett Smith) and Melman the giraffe (voice of David Schwimmer). This time around the four, joined by lemurs and penguins, leave Madagascar in a rickety airplane bound for New York, but crash-land in the African savannah. There Alex reunites with his parents, and the gang has a new round of adventures.
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Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
DVD Release Date: February 3, 2009 - New DVD Releases:
The Secret Life of Bees DVD
Length: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material and some violence
Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning and Jennifer Hudson star in this heartwarming drama adapted from the best-selling novel by Sue Monk Kidd. The tale is set in rural South Carolina in 1964. Lily (Fanning) is a 14-year-old white girl who runs away from her cruel father. Accompanying her is Rosaleen (Hudson), a black housekeeper who is beaten for trying to register to vote. Lily and Rosaleen find refuge with an African-American woman (Latifah) who runs a successful honey business with her sisters (Alicia Keys and Sophie Okonedo). Through the beekeeping, Lily learns life lessons.
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Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
Zack and Miri Make a Porno DVD
Length: 101 minutes
MPAA Rating: R on appeal for strong crude sexual content including dialogue, graphic nudity and pervasive language
Kevin Smith wrote, directed and edited this raunchy, but sweet comedy that stars Seth Rogen and Elizabeth Banks. Zack (Rogen) and Miri (Banks) are longtime platonic pals who are roommates in a shabby Pittsburgh apartment, but they're in debt and will be evicted if they don't get some money soon. That's when they come up with the idea of making a pornographic movie. But that means they'll have sex with each other, which alarms them because they're afraid it may change their relationship. Real-life porn star Katie Morgan is in the film, along with former porn star Traci Lords.
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Formats Available: The above information on special features refers to the DVD. Check with your video store/online rental service for availability in other formats, including streaming video/digital download.
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