DVDs Releasing: the Week of March 21, 2006 |
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Everything is Illuminated |
DVD Release Date : March 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Liev Schreiber. |
Starring : Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin. |
Runtime : 102 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://wip.warnerbros.com/ |
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Based on the critically-acclaimed novel by Jonathan Safran Foer, "Everything is Illuminated" tells the story of a young man's quest to find the woman who saved his grandfather in a small Ukrainian town that was wiped off the map by the Nazi invasion. What starts out as a journey to piece together one family’s story under the most absurd circumstances turns into a surprisingly meaningful journey with a powerful series of revelations -- the importance of remembrance, the perilous nature of secrets, the legacy of the Holocaust, the meaning of friendship and, most importantly, love.
The journey begins as a comic nightmare--with an eccentric trio of paid "expert" guides sorely lacking in expertise: a cranky grandfather who insists on bringing his unruly seeing-eye dog to help him drive, and his over-enthusiastic grandson, whose fractured command of English, passion for retro American pop culture, and inability to shut up threaten to make the worst of every situation.
But what starts ... |
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Chicken Little |
DVD Release Date : March 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Mark Dindal. |
Starring : Zach Braff, Joan Cusack, Steve Zahn, Amy Sedaris. |
Runtime : 77 minutes. Genre : Animation. |
Official Website : http://disney.go.com/disneypictures/chickenlittle/ |
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The story centers on Chicken Little's (Braff) wildly active imagination and tendency to overreact. He causes an uproar in his town when he pronounces that "the sky is falling down," which winds up getting him shipped off to a special camp where he meets other animals with challenges of their own. Cusack will voice the ugly duckling, Zahn is a big pig named Runt, Sedaris is Foxy Loxy, Finneran is Foxy's sidekick Goosey Lucy, Knotts is the Turkey Mayor and Marshall is the Father. |
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Derailed |
DVD Release Date : March 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Mikael Håfström. |
Starring : Clive Owen, Jennifer Aniston, Vincent Cassel, Melissa George. |
Runtime : 110 minutes. Genre : Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.weinsteinco.com/derailed/ |
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"Derailed" is a suspense thriller about ad exec and family man Charles Schine (Clive Owen) who meets business woman, Lucinda (Jennifer Aniston), on the commuter train to Chicago. Flirtation quickly escalates, but their fling turns dangerous when a violent criminal, LaRoche (Vincent Cassel), blackmails them, promising to reveal their indiscretion and threatening their families if they do not pay him. With their lives thrown terrifyingly off-course, they must figure out how to turn the tables on LaRoche and save their families. |
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Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story |
DVD Release Date : March 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : John Gatins. |
Starring : Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Kris Kristofferson, Elisabeth Shue, David Morse, Freddy Rodriguez, Luis Guzmán, Oded Fehr. |
Runtime : 98 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.dreamworks.com/Dreamer/ |
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Kurt Russell ("Miracle"), Dakota Fanning ("Man on Fire") and Kris Kristofferson ("Blade I & II") star in a drama about a father who, for the love of his daughter, sacrifices almost everything to save the life of an injured racehorse and bring the promising filly back to her former glory.
Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) was once a great horseman, whose gifts as a trainer were now being wasted on making other men's fortunes. Sonya was a great horse whose promising future on the racetrack was suddenly cut short by a career-ending broken leg. Considered as good as dead to her owner, who also happens to be Ben's boss, Sonya is given to Ben as severance pay, along with his walking papers. Now, it will take the unwavering faith and determination of Ben's young daughter, Cale (Dakota Fanning), to bring these two damaged souls together in a quest for a seemingly impossible goal: to win the Breeders' Cup Classic.
Kristofferson stars as Ben Crane's father whose strained relationship with his son i... |
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The Dying Gaul |
DVD Release Date : March 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Craig Lucas. |
Starring : Peter Sarsgaard, Campbell Scott, Patricia Clarkson, Linda Emond, Robin Bartlett, Ryan Miller, Jason-Shane Scott. |
Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.thedyinggaul.com |
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Based on the play of the same name, "The Dying Gaul" is a tale of lust, power, corruption, betrayal and revenge set in the seductive world of the Hollywood elite, as a screenwriter (Scott) gets involved in a three-way relationship with a woman and her film executive husband to chilling results. |
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Paradise Now |
DVD Release Date : March 21, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Hany Abu-Assad. |
Starring : Lubna Azabal, Hiam Abbass, Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Amer Hlehel. |
Runtime : 87 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://wip.warnerbros.com/paradisenow/ |
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"Paradise Now" is the story of what may be the last 48 hours in the lives of two Palestinian men - friends since childhood - who have been recruited as suicide bombers. When they are intercepted at the Israeli border and separated from their handlers, a young woman who discovers their plan causes them to reconsider their actions. But with pressure mounting, time running out, and passions running high...there's no way to know which way they will go.
"Paradise Now" is especially noteworthy because it gives voice to Palestinian condemnation of violence. As a testament to its humanity and its balanced portrayal of such volatile subject matter, the film has received official backing from the Israeli government. |
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