DVDs Releasing: the Week of February 21, 2006 |
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North Country |
DVD Release Date : February 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Niki Caro. |
Starring : Charlize Theron, Frances McDormand, Sean Bean, Richard Jenkins, Jeremy Renner, Michelle Monaghan, Woody Harrelson, Sissy Spacek. |
Runtime : 124 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.northcountrymovie.com/ |
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"North Country" stars Academy Award winners Charlize Theron ("Monster"), Frances McDormand ("Fargo") and Sissy Spacek ("In the Bedroom") in the inspiring story of a single mother who rallies her coworkers to rise above the unfair treatment they face at a local mining company.
In the wake of a failed marriage, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) returns to her hometown in Northern Minnesota hoping to build a better life for herself and her two children. Encouraged by her friend Glory (Frances McDormand), one of the few female miners in town, Josey takes a job at the mine.
She's prepared for the back-breaking and often dangerous work, but coping with the harassment she and the other female miners encounter from their male coworkers proves far more challenging.
Josey's attempts to carve out a better future for her family put her at odds with her children, her disapproving parents (Sissy Spacek and "Six Feet Under"'s Richard Jenkins) and her community.
It is through this struggle tha... |
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Domino |
DVD Release Date : February 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Tony Scott. |
Starring : Keira Knightley, Mena Suvari, Christopher Walken, Lucy Liu, Mickey Rourke, Macy Gray, Jacqueline Bisset, Edgar Ramirez. |
Runtime : 128 minutes. Genre : Action, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.dominomovie.com/ |
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Keira Knightley stars in the wild action thriller "Domino," the latest project from director Tony Scott ("Man on Fire," "Beverly Hills Cop II," "True Romance"). A trademark Scott film, "Domino" presents an entertaining mix of gritty action, biting comedy and sharp visuals. The film tells the true story of Domino Harvey, daughter of legendary actor Laurence Harvey and a former Ford model who rejected her privileged Beverly Hills life to become a bounty hunter. |
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Separate Lies |
DVD Release Date : February 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Julian Fellowes. |
Starring : Emily Watson, Tom Wilkinson, Rupert Everett, Linda Bassett, John Neville, Hermione Norris. |
Runtime : 86 minutes. Genre : Drama, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.foxsearchlight.com/separatelies/ |
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"Separate Lies," is written and directed by Academy Award winning screenwriter, Julian Fellowes and marks his directorial debut. Emily Watson ("Breaking The Waves," "Gosford Park") stars as Anne, who enjoys a seemingly perfect marriage to James, Tom Wilkinson ("The Full Monty," "In the Bedroom"), until the arrival of Bill, Rupert Everett ("My Best Friend's Wedding") and a tragic accident in their idyllic country village looks set to unravel their Lies forever.
On the surface, Anne and James enjoy a perfect marriage. They slip easily between their two homes - one in London, convenient for James's city job, the other in idyllic rural countryside. James believes their life is happy and fulfilled, but is blinkered to Anne's happiness and when Anne meets the enigmatic and carefree Bill Bule her world shatters and she realises she can never be truly happy with James again.
Anne's affair with Bill comes to light when James discovers the pair were involved in a tragic accident, which k... |
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Rent |
DVD Release Date : February 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Chris Columbus. |
Starring : Rosario Dawson, Taye Diggs, Wilson Jermaine Heredia, Jesse L. Martin, Idina Menzel, Adam Pascal, Anthony Rapp. |
Runtime : 135 minutes. Genre : Drama, Musical. |
Official Website : http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/rent/ |
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Based on Puccini's classic opera La Boheme, Jonathan Larson's revolutionary rock opera "Rent" tells the story of a group of Bohemians struggling to live and pay their rent in the gritty background of New York's East Village. "Measuring their lives in love," these starving artists strive for success and acceptance while enduring the obstacles of poverty, ilness and the AIDS epidemic.
One of the longest running shows on Broadway, "Rent" was the winner of the 1996 Pulitzer Prize for Drame, the Obie Award, the New York Drama Critics Circle Award, four Tony Awards and three Drama Desk awards. |
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First Descent |
DVD Release Date : February 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Kemp Curley, Kevin Harrison. |
Starring : Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata, Terje Haakonsen, Shaun White and Hannah Teter. |
Genre : Documentary, Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.firstdescentmovie.com/ |
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The docu-drama "First Descent" chronicles the rebellious, inspiring and sometimes controversial rise of snowboarding--as seen through the eyes of the snowboarders setting the standards and breaking the boundaries of this worldwide phenomenon.
"First Descent" spotlights a handful of snowboarding's early pioneers (including Shawn Farmer, Nick Perata and Terje Haakonsen) and some of the ultra-sponsored superstar phenoms at snowboarding's current cutting edge (Shaun White and Hannah Teter) and literally takes them to the edge--the snow blanketed mountains of Alaska--where these five icons face some of the most challenging and hard-core natural terrain on the planet. The five come for different reasons--Perata and Farmer to see if they still have what it takes, Haakonsen to add another credit to his Big Mountain resume, and White and Teter to undertake their first Big Mountain ride ever--and yet all seek to challenge themselves to accomplish the best snowboarding feat of their lives dow... |
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