The new DVD releases include 88 Minutes, Made of Honor and Speed Racer. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
September 16, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
Tagline: "He has 88 minutes to solve a murder. His own."
Length: 108 minutesMPAA Rating: R for disturbing violent content, brief nudity and language
Al Pacino stars in this thriller. The main character is Dr. Jack Gramm (Pacino), a renowned forensic psychiatrist who teaches at a university. It was his testimony that put a man (Neal McDonough) on death row for serial murder, but some similar killings occur while that man is behind bars. Then Gramm gets a phone call telling him he will die in 88 minutes, and the clock starts ticking. As Gramm tries to figure out what is going on, he interfaces with an assistant (Amy Brenneman), a pair of good-looking students (Alicia Witt, Leelee Sobieski) and a dean (Deborah Kara Unger). 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.
The Love Guru DVD
Length: 87
minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language, some comic violence and drug references
Mike Myers (from the Austin Powers trilogy) stars in this comedy as Guru Pitka, a self-help spiritual guide along the lines of a Deepak Chopra caricature. The Toronto hockey team owner (Jessica Alba) hires Guru Pitka when her best player's wife gets into an affair with LA Kings goalie Jacques "Le Coq" Grande (Justin Timberlake). The Toronto team is led by Coach Cherkov (Verne Troyer, who played Mini-Me in Austin Powers films). The movie contains flashbacks to Pitka's youth when he trained at an Indian ashram under Guru Tugginmypudha (Ben Kingsley).
- Widescreen
- Two-Disc DVD Set
- Includes Digital Copy
- Single-Disc Edition Also Available
- 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.
Tagline: "It takes a real man to become a maid of honor."
Length: 101 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content and language
Patrick Dempsey and Michelle Monaghan are paired in this romantic comedy. Tom (Dempsey) is a wealthy playboy who has a platonic relationship with his college pal Hannah (Monaghan). Then she meets and gets engaged to a handsome Scotsman (Kevin McKidd), causing Tom to realize he loves Hannah and wants to marry her. When Hannah breaks tradition slightly by asking Tom to function as her maid of honor, he accepts so he can pursue an agenda of sabotaging the wedding and winning her for himself. The late Sydney Pollack plays Tom's often-married father. 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.
Speed Racer DVD
Length: 135 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for sequences of action, some violence and language
This is a Wachowski brothers movie based on a Japanese-made anime cartoon TV series that has aired in the US with English-speaking voices. But the movie has live actors, including Emile Hirsch, Christina Ricci, John Goodman and Susan Sarandon, moving through fanciful, garishly colored computer-generated environments, and the result is not unlike a video game. The action centers on frenetic auto races where the laws of physics have been repealed, and the hero is a driver named Speed Racer (Hirsch). The villain (Roger Allam) is a corrupt corporate mogul.
- 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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