There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for next week, including Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert, Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day and Prom Night. Let's take a look at these movies on DVD and video, along with some additional releases of interest.
August 19, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Hannah Montana & Miley Cyrus: Best of Both Worlds Concert DVD
Length: 90 minutes
MPAA Rating: G
This is a music documentary about the concert tour of teenage singer Miley Cyrus, who plays the title character in the Disney Channel TV series Hannah Montana. The concert begins with Miley singing several songs in character as Hannah Montana, which means she wears a blonde wig. Next the Jonas brothers perform a couple of numbers, then Miley comes back, this time as herself, to sing several more songs. Between musical numbers, some behind-the-scenes footage is shown. In a brief segment, Miley plays guitar with her father, country singer Billy Ray Cyrus.
- 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.
Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day DVD
Tagline: "Every woman will have her day."
Length: 92 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for some partial nudity and innuendo
Frances McDormand and Amy Adams star in this lightweight, feel-good dramedy based on Winifred Watson's 1938 novel. The story takes place all in one day in late 1930s London. Guinevere Pettigrew (McDormand) is a homeless, unemployed middle-aged governess who manages to get a job as the social secretary of Delysia Lafosse (Adams), a young cabaret singer struggling to make her way up the showbiz ladder. As Delysia juggles three lovers, the straitlaced Miss Pettigrew gets spruced up and begins to enjoy life, meeting an interesting man (Ciaran Hinds). 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.
Tagline: "It's midnight. Everyone's ready to go home. But someone has other plans."
Length: 88 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for violence and terror, some sexual material, underage drinking, and language
Brittany Snow stars in this horror movie, a reworked and less violent version of the 1980 film with the same title that featured Jamie Lee Curtis. In the 2008 movie Donna Keppel (Snow) returns home from an outing to see an obsessed teacher murder her mom, having already killed her dad and brother. The deranged murderer is put in a maximum-security mental institution, but three years later he escapes as Donna goes to her senior prom with her boyfriend. The rest of the film is about the psychopath pursuing Donna, along the way killing various people with a big knife. 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.
Tagline: "Their city. Their rules. No prisoners."
Length: 109 minutesMPAA Rating: R for strong violence and pervasive language
Keanu Reeves stars in this crime thriller based on a story by James Ellroy. Reeves plays Tom Ludlow, a Los Angeles Police Department detective who doesn't hesitate to break laws to take down bad guys. He's part of an elite unit run by Capt. Jack Wander (Forest Whitaker). But Ludlow's former partner is killed in what looks like an assassination, and Ludlow finds himself the target of an investigation by Capt. James Biggs (Hugh Laurie) of Internal Affairs. Ludlow's quest to try to figure out what is going on leads to lots of action as he moves through the mean streets of L.A. 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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