There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for next week, including An American Carol, The Duchess, Eagle Eye, and Ghost Town. Let's take a look at these movies on DVD and video, along with some additional releases of interest.
December 27, 2008 - New DVD Releases:
The Duchess DVD
Length: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for sexual content, brief nudity and thematic material
Keira Knightley and Ralph Fiennes star in this historical drama set in late 18th-century England that is based on a true story. Georgiana Spencer (Knightley) was in her teens when her mother (Charlotte Rampling) arranged her marriage to the Duke of Devonshire (Fiennes), and thus she became the Duchess. Her marriage was loveless and her husband took a mistress, but Georgiana became popular with the aristocratic set. She worked for Whig causes and entered into an affair with up-and-coming politician Earl Grey (Dominic Cooper), who has a tea named for him.
- 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: "If you want to live you will obey."
Length: 118 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense sequences of action and violence, and for language
Shia LaBeouf and Michelle Monaghan star in this action thriller. Jerry (LaBeouf) is a copy store employee who suddenly finds his apartment filled with illegal weaponry and $750,000 in his bank account. Rachel (Monaghan) is a single mom who gets a message her son will be killed if she doesn't do certain things. Soon Jerry and Rachel are thrown together on a strange odyssey under the direction of a disembodied voice from someone or something that has fantastic powers to control electronic devices. But the movie is mostly about chases, explosions and people being slaughtered. Selected DVD Special Features:
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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: "He sees dead people... and they annoy him."
Length: 102 minutesMPAA Rating: PG-13 for some strong language, sexual humor and drug references
Ricky Gervais, Téa Leoni and Greg Kinnear star in this comedy. The main character is Manhattan dentist Bertram Pincus (Gervais), a bachelor with no friends. While having a routine colonoscopy, he has a near-death experience that leaves him with the ability to communicate with ghosts. The deceased have unfinished business, and they pester him to take care of it. One of the ghosts is Frank (Kinnear), who fears his widow, an Egyptologist named Gwen (Leoni), is about to make a bad marriage. As Pincus gets to know Gwen, he starts to fall for her. Selected DVD Special Features:
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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.
December 30, 2008 - New DVD Release:
An American Carol DVD
Length: 83 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for rude and irreverent content, and for language and brief drug material
David Zucker directed this spoof of liberals in general and Michael Moore in particular. The storyline loosely follows Dickens' A Christmas Carol . Kevin Farley (brother of the late Chris) plays Michael Maloney, an overweight documentary filmmaker whose most recent movie was Die, You American Pigs . Maloney is working to make July 4 a non-holiday, but he is visited by ghosts, including General George Patton (Kelsey Grammer) and George Washington (Jon Voight), as well as the Angel of Death (country singer Trace Adkins). One scene involves zombie ACLU attorneys.
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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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