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DVDs Releasing: the Week of January 24, 2006 |
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Flightplan |
DVD Release Date : January 24, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Robert Schwentke. |
Starring : Jodie Foster, Peter Sarsgaard, Erika Christensen, Sean Bean, Amanda Brooks. |
Runtime : 98 minutes. Genre : Drama, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://flightplan.movies.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Academy Award-winning producer Brian Grazer ("A Beautiful Mind," "Apollo 13") teams up with two-time Academy Award-winning actress Jodie Foster ("Silence of the Lambs," "The Accused") in the taut psychological thriller, "Flightplan," directed by Robert Schwentke and written by Peter Dowling and Billy Ray. Flying at 40,000 feet in a cavernous, state-of-the-art 474 aircraft, Kyle Pratt (Foster) faces every mother's worst nightmare when her six year-old daughter, Julia, vanishes without a trace mid-flight from Berlin to New York. Already emotionally devastated by the unexpected death of her husband, Kyle desperately struggles to prove her sanity to the disbelieving flight crew and passengers while facing the very real possibility that she may be losing her mind. While neither Captain Rich (Bean), nor Air Marshal Gene Carson (Sarsgaard) want to doubt the bereaved widow, all evidence indicates that her daughter was never on board resulting in paranoia and doubt among the passengers and crew... |
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Oliver Twist |
DVD Release Date : January 24, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Roman Polanski. |
Starring : Ben Kingsley, Barney Clark, Lewis Chase, Frances Cuka, Jake Curran, Harry Eden, Frank Finlay, Jamie Foreman, Chris Overton, Leanne Rowe, Mark Strong, Jeremy Swift, Joseph Tremain. |
Runtime : 125 minutes. Genre : Adventure. |
Official Website : http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/olivertwist/ |
Plot Summary : |
Following their Academy-Award winning film, "The Pianist," director Roman Polanski and writer Ronal Harwood re-imagine Charles Dickens' classic story of a young orphan boy who gets involved with a gang of pickpockets in 19th Century London. Abandoned at an early age, Oliver Twist (Barney Clark) is forced to live in a workhouse lorded over by the awful Mr. Bumble, who cheats the boys of their meager rations. Desperate yet determined, Oliver makes his escape to the streets of London. Penniless and alone, he is lured into a world of crime by the sinister Fagin (Sir Ben Kingsley) - the mastermind of a gang of pint-sized pickpockets. Oliver's rescue by the kindly Mr. Brownlow is only the beginning of a series of adventures that lead him to the promise of a better life. |
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Thumbsucker |
DVD Release Date : January 24, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Mike Mills. |
Starring : Chase Offerle, Kelli Garner, Benjamin Bratt, Keanu Reeves, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vince Vaughn, Tilda Swinton, Lou Pucci. |
Runtime : 96 minutes. Genre : Comedy, Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.thumbsuckerthemovie.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
It's not easy growing up, no matter what age you are...
Justin Cobb (Lou Pucci) still sucks his thumb at 17. He wants to stop and knows that his thumbsucking is disrupting his family, his love life and his identity. The only thing that changes his behavior is hypnosis therapy administered by his "guru" orthodontist. But while Justin felt this would solve all his problems and he would finally be "normal," his troubles were really just beginning. Thumbsucking was only a symptom of a deep-seated fear: that he and his father aren't good enough for his mother, and that she would leave them. Thumbsucking was the only way to soothe this fear. Once that is gone Justin spirals into manic behavior, is diagnosed with ADHD and put on Ritalin, which becomes a substitute for his thumb. When the high of the prescription drugs and a newfound success at school crash, Justin turns to pot and sex to replace his thumb.
His father Mike (Vincent D'Onofrio) is himself shadowed by the sad twists of youth: a... |
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The Fog |
DVD Release Date : January 24, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Rupert Wainwright. |
Starring : Tom Welling, Maggie Grace, Selma Blair, DeRay Davis, Rade Serbedzija. |
Runtime : 96 minutes. Genre : Horror. |
Official Website : http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thefog/site/ |
Plot Summary : |
In Revolution Studios' horror-thriller "The Fog" there really is something out there in the dark. One hundred years ago, in a thick, eerie fog off the rocky coast of Northern California, a horrible shipwreck occured under mysterious circumstances. Now, shrouded in darkness, the ghosts of the long-dead sailors have returned from their watery graves to exact their bloody, merciless revenge. |
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