DVDs Releasing: the Week of March 07, 2006 |
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Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire |
DVD Release Date : March 07, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Mike Newell. |
Starring : Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Tom Felton, Matthew Lewis, Devon Murray, Robbie Coltrane, Michael Gambon, Robert Hardy, Shirley Henderson, Jason Isaacs, Gary Oldman. |
Runtime : 155 minutes. Genre : Action, Adventure, Fantasy. |
Official Website : http://www.gobletoffire.com/ |
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"Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" welcomes back stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson for the fourth film adaptation of J.K. Rowling's popular Harry Potter novel series. Harry must contend with being mysteriously selected to compete in the prestigious Triwizard Tournament, a thrilling competition that pits him against older and more experienced students from Hogwarts and two rival wizarding schools. Meanwhile, supporters of Harry's nemesis, the evil Lord Voldemort (Ralph Fiennes), send a shockwave of fear throughout the wizard community when their Dark Mark scorches the sky at the Quidditch World Cup, signaling Voldemort's return to power. But for Harry, this is not the only harrowing news causing him anxiety -- he still has yet to find a date for Hogwarts' Yule Ball dance. |
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Just Friends |
DVD Release Date : March 07, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Roger Kumble. |
Starring : Ryan Reynolds, Anna Faris, Amy Smart, Chris Klein. |
Genre : Comedy, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.justfriendsmovie.com/ |
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The romantic comedy "Just Friends" stars Ryan Reynolds as a former high school geek turned trendy Los Angeles music executive. When he gets stranded in his New Jersey home town due to bad weather with a superstar singer he is trying to sign, he finds himself reunited with his high school crush and discovers she is his true love. |
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Howl's Moving Castle |
DVD Release Date : March 07, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Héctor Cabello Reyes. |
Starring : Christian Bale, Jean Simmons, Lauren Bacall, Blythe Danner, Emily Mortimer, Josh Hutcherson, Billy Crystal. |
Runtime : 119 minutes. Genre : Animation, Fantasy. |
Official Website : http://www.howl-movie.com/ |
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Academy Award-winning director Hayao Miyazaki ("Spirited Away") takes moviegoers on an amazing new animated adventure that celebrates the power of love to transform and the resiliency of the human spirit in the face of adversity. Brimming with a blend of imagination, humor, action, and romance, "Howl's Moving Castle" recently played to great acclaim at the 2004 Venice Film Festival, and has become one of the biggest blockbusters of all time in Japan. The film has already earned more than $200 million at the international box office.
A distinguished cast of actors, under the direction of Pixar's Pete Docter ("Monsters, Inc.") and Disney's Rick Dempsey, lend their vocal talents to this English-language version of the film. Sophie (voiced by Emily Mortimer), an average teenage girl working in a hat shop, finds her life thrown into turmoil when she is literally swept off her feet by a handsome-but-mysterious wizard named Howl (voiced by Christian Bale), and is subsequently turned into a... |
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Jarhead |
DVD Release Date : March 07, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Sam Mendes. |
Starring : Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper, Dennis Haysbert, Rini Bell. |
Runtime : 123 minutes. Genre : Drama, War. |
Official Website : http://www.jarheadmovie.com/ |
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"Jarhead" (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom.
Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
An irreverent and true account of a war that was antiseptically packaged a decade ago, "Jarhead" is laced with dark wit, honest inquisition and episodes that are at once surreal and poignant, tragic and absurd. |
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Undertaking Betty |
DVD Release Date : March 07, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Nick Hurran. |
Starring : Brenda Blethyn, Alfred Molina, Naomi Watts, Christopher Walken, Lee Evans, Robert Pugh. |
Genre : Comedy, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.plotswithaview.com/ |
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"Undertaking Betty" is an outrageous comedy set in a small Welsh town about a funeral parlor owner (Molina) whose life is about to turn upside down. The woman he's loved since she was a young girl (Blethyn) is about to become available... by staging her own untimely demise! And the business he's always loved is about to come under attack, from a flashy American competitor (Walken), who wants to "put the fun back in funerals" with theme burials, Vegas-style ceremonies and a whole lot of neon lighting. Neither our leading man nor this small town will ever be the same again. "Undertaking Betty" also stars Academy Award nominee Naomi Watts as the hilariously scheming mistress whose diabolical ways add even more fuel to the comedic fire. |
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Prime |
DVD Release Date : March 07, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Ben Younger. |
Starring : Bryan Greenberg, Meryl Streep, Uma Thurman, Jon Abrahams, Susie Kantar, Annie Parisse, Zak Orth. |
Runtime : 105 minutes. Genre : Comedy, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.primemovie.net/ |
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"Prime" is a sophisticated, character comedy set in New York City about Rafi (Thurman), a recently divorced 37-year-old career woman from Manhattan, and what happens when Dave (Greenberg), a talented 23-year-old painter from Brooklyn, falls in love with her.
Part counselor, part Jewish mother, Rafi's therapist Lisa (Meryl Streep) is gingerly helping Rafi out of her post-divorce slump and through the urgent alarm of her ticking biological clock. Although doubtful that Rafi's new fling (he is 23, after all) is an appropriate partner in the long term, Lisa encourages her patient to enjoy it and have fun (he is 23, after all!). But once Lisa accidentally discovers that Rafi's new boyfriend is, in fact, her son, Dave, she finds it increasingly difficult to act the good therapist while hearing intimate details of her son's love life. Soon, the secret is out and cultures clash, complications arise, civil arguments erupt and a storm of opinions swirl around the couple at the center of all ... |
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My Neighbor Totoro |
DVD Release Date : March 07, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Héctor Cabello Reyes. |
Starring : Noriko Hidaka, Chika Sakamoto, Shigesato Itoi, Sumi Shimamoto, Tanie Kitabayashi. |
Runtime : 86 minutes. Genre : Animation. |
Official Website : Not Available |
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Two young girls, Satsuke and her younger sister Mei, move into a house in the country with their father to be closer to their hospitalized mother. Satsuke and Mei discover that the nearby forest is inhabited by magical creatures called Totoros (pronounced toe-toe-ro). They soon befriend these Totoros, and have several magical adventures. |
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