The new DVD releases include The Happening, The Visitor and You Don't Mess With the Zohan. In addition, we'll take a sneak peek at next week's movies on video/DVD.
October 7, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
The Happening DVD
Length: 91 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for violent and disturbing images
Mark Wahlberg stars in this film written and directed by M. Night Shyamalan. The movie opens in New York's Central Park on a fine day, but then the people there begin killing themselves. Soon the phenomenon of inexplicable suicides is spreading throughout the northeastern US. In Philadelphia, high-school science teacher Elliot Moore (Wahlberg), his wife (Zooey Deschanel), his friend and his friend's young daughter join a mass exodus. They end up traveling on foot in rural Pennsylvania, trying to figure out what they're fleeing from as they have strange experiences.
- 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: "Connection is everything."
Length: 91 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for brief strong language
Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) stars in this character study written and directed by Tom McCarthy (The Station Agent). Jenkins plays Walter Vale, a 60ish university professor who lives alone in Connecticut, but he also has a Manhattan apartment he rarely uses. When he goes there after a long absence, he finds a guy from Syria and his Senegalese girlfriend living in it. A friendship gradually develops between the two men, and the Syrian teaches Vale to play African drums. Then the Syrian runs afoul of immigration authorities, and the professor tries to help him out. 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.
You Don't Mess With the Zohan DVD
Tagline: "Lather. Rinse. Save the world."
Length: 113 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for crude and sexual content throughout, language and nudity
Adam Sandler stars in this crude comedy. Zohan (Sandler) is an Israeli special ops commando who gets fed up with the life he's leading, fakes his own death and makes his way to New York. There he renames himself Scrappy Coco and becomes a hairstylist in a salon run by a Palestinian woman. He gives elderly ladies 1980s hairdos and has sex with them in a backroom. Zohan is pursued by a Palestinian cabbie (Rob Schneider) and a fast-food entrepreneur (John Turturro), but a real estate developer poses the biggest threat. Hummus plays a key role in the movie. 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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