The new DVD releases include Married Life, Then She Found Me and Transformers. In addition to taking a look at these movies on DVD and Blu-ray disc, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
September 2, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Tagline: "Do you know what really goes on in the mind of the person with whom you sleep?"
Length: 90 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for some thematic elements and a scene of sexuality
This offbeat combination of period melodrama, film noir and dark comedy features a fine cast that includes Chris Cooper, Pierce Brosnan, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams. It's 1949, and Harry and Pat Allen (Cooper and Clarkson) seem to others to enjoy a comfortable marriage. But Harry falls in love with a young widow named Kay (McAdams), and he tells his pal Richard (Brosnan) that since Pat would be devastated by divorce, he plans to murder her. Then Richard gets the hots for the bottle-blonde Kay, and soon Pat introduces some complications of her own. 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: "Life can change in a heartbeat."
Length: 100 minutesMPAA Rating: R for language and some sexual content
Helen Hunt stars in this seriocomedy, in which she also makes her directorial debut. Hunt plays April Epner, a 39-year-old New York City kindergarten teacher who must deal with major changes in her life. Her husband (Matthew Broderick) leaves her, but she is carrying his baby. Her adoptive mother passes away, but her biological mother (Bette Midler), a local talk show host, comes into her life out of nowhere. April also meets the recently divorced father (Colin Firth) of one of her students. In an unexpected bit of casting, April's obstetrician is played by author Salman Rushdie. Selected DVD Special Features:
- Widescreen
- Also Available on Blu-ray Disc
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.
Transformers
Length: 144
minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of sci-fi action violence, brief sexual humor, and language
Directed by Michael Bay, this actioner is based on Hasbro toys. The parts of each toy are movable so it can be changed back and forth between a robot and, say, a vehicle. In the movie, two groups of extraterrestrial robots — the good Autobots and the evil Decepticons — come to Earth, and humans get caught up in the war between them. One of the Autobots transforms into a car owned by an eleventh grader (Shia LaBeouf). But one of the Decepticons appears as a helicopter, then transforms into a robot that attacks a U.S. military installation.
- Two-Disc Special Edition
- Widescreen
- Now Available on Blu-ray Disc
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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