The new DVD releases include The Counterfeiters, My Brother Is an Only Child and Nim's Island. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
August 5, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Tagline: "It takes a clever man to make money, it takes a genius to stay alive."
Length: 98 minutesMPAA Rating: R for some strong violence, brief sexuality/nudity and language
Winner of the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, this drama is in German. The story is based on the real-life Operation Bernhard, a World War II Nazi scheme to disrupt the British and American economies by issuing massive quantities of counterfeit pounds and dollars. The protagonist is Salomon Sorowitsch (Karl Markovics), a Russian Jew imprisoned at Sachsenhausen. A master forger, he is given good food and decent living conditions in return for his work on the counterfeiting project. But he has mixed feelings about what he is doing. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
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.
My Brother Is an Only Child DVD
Length: 108 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual content
This Italian-language film is a mostly lighthearted family melodrama with likable characters. It's about a politically divided working-class family in the '60s and '70s, but suffuses the story with warm humor. The family is leftist, but lives in Latina, a city built by Mussolini. The elder son Manrico becomes a communist organizer, but his younger brother Accio gets involved with local fascists. Also, there's a good-looking young woman that both brothers are attracted to. One of the humorous scenes centers on a performance of Beethoven's "Ode to Joy" with Marxist lyrics.
- Widescreen
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.
Tagline: "Be the hero of your own story."
Length: 95 minutesMPAA Rating: PG for mild adventure action and brief language
Abigail Breslin, Jodie Foster and Gerard Butler star in this family adventure based on Wendy Orr's novel. The main character is 12-year-old Nim (Breslin). She and her scientist father (Butler) are the only human inhabitants of a South Pacific island. When Nim's dad goes missing in a storm, she uses e-mail to request help from Alex Rover, the intrepid hero of adventure novels she reads. Butler also portrays the literary character Alex Rover. But Nim's e-mail is received by Alexandra Rover (Foster), the author of the books, who travels to the island to do what she can. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
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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