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This Week's New Releases on DVD/Video

By Ivana Redwine, About.com

The new DVD releases include Fired Up!, Gran Torino and The International. You can also take a look at additional releases of interest and a sneak peek next week's movies on video/DVD.

June 9, 2009 - New DVD and Video Releases:

'Fired Up!' DVD

'Fired Up!' DVD Cover© Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
This is an energetic cheerleading comedy where shouting the initial letters of the two words in the title is a running joke. The story centers on two horny high school football players, Shawn (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick (Eric Christian Olsen). They go to a cheerleading camp with the goal of hooking up with lots of nubile, bouncy girls who look cute in skimpy outfits. But Shawn starts to fall for head cheerleader Carly (Sarah Roemer), and Nick becomes smitten with a coach's wife (Molly Sims). There's a mean girl (AnnaLynne McCord) and a cheerleading competition.

'Gran Torino' DVD

'Gran Torino' DVD Cover© Warner Bros. Entertainment
Clint Eastwood stars in this drama, which he also directed and produced. Eastwood plays cantankerous retired autoworker Walt Kowalski, whose pride and joy is a 1972 Gran Torino, a car he helped build when he worked at Ford. He lives alone in a house in a Detroit neighborhood that is becoming rundown and filling up with immigrants. The family next door is Hmong, a mountain people from Southeast Asia, and Walt refers to them using various racial epithets. But when their teenage boy starts getting pulled into a gang, Walt takes matters into his own hands to try to set things right.

'The International' DVD

'The International' DVD Cover© Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Clive Owen and Naomi Watts star in this thriller directed by Tom Tykwer. The title is the nickname for a nefarious bank known as IBBC, based in Luxembourg, but having tentacles all over the world, allowing the film to hopscotch to various colorful locations. Attempting to bring down the bank are Interpol agent Louis Salinger (Owen) and Manhattan assistant district attorney Eleanor Whitman (Watts). The plot is intricate, and there a number of action sequences, including a massive shootout at New York's Guggenheim Museum. The main villain is played by Armin Mueller-Stahl.

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