DVDs Releasing: the Week of May 16, 2006 |
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Something New |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Sanaa Hamri. |
Starring : Sanaa Lathan, Simon Baker, Mike Epps, Donald Faison, Blair Underwood, Alfre Woodard. |
Genre : Comedy, Drama, Romance. |
Official Website : http://www.somethingnewmovie.net/ |
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A romantic comedy about finding love when and where it's least expected. Kenya (Sanaa Lathan) is a beautiful career woman who has achieved great professional success but still yearns for a fulfilling personal life. Looking for that "perfect man," she even has a checklist at the ready. When she's set up on a blind date with Brian (Simon Baker), a sexy and free-spirited landscaper who's not exactly what she'd pictured for herself, Kenya is not amuzed... but she does need help fixing up the yard of her new house. An emotional and often hilarious movie about following your heart – no matter where it takes you. |
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The Ringer |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Barry W. Blaustein. |
Starring : Johnny Knoxville, Katherine Heigl, Brian Cox, Zen Gesner, John Taylor, Jed Rees. |
Runtime : 94 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.foxsearchlight.com/theringer/ |
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When Steve Barker (Johnny Knoxville) finds himself running dead last in the corporate rat race, he sinks to an all time low...he attempts to rig the Special Olympics by pretending to be intellectually challenged. But, Barker is completely out-classed by his fellow Olympians, who are not only better athletes; they're just plain better people. And they're on to him. But rather than rat-out the rat, they join forces with him to once and for all beat Jimmy, the cocky reigning champion of the annual games. With a work-out regime uniquely their own, they train Barker to go for the gold and, in the process, show him what's at the heart of a true winner. |
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The Producers |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Susan Stroman. |
Starring : Nathan Lane, Matthew Broderick, Uma Thurman, Will Ferrell, Gary Beach, Roger Bart. |
Runtime : 134 minutes. Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.theproducersmovie.com/ |
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The movie classic that became a Broadway sensation now becomes a movie musical event.
Mel Brooks is bringing "The Producers," one of the most honored musicals in the history of the American theater, to the motion picture screen as a sparkling, feature-length musical comedy. The record-breaking Tony Award-winning hit (based on Mel Brooks' seminal 1968 motion picture comedy) received 15 nominations and won a record-breaking 12 awards, including Best Musical, Best Director and Choreographer, and Best Actor.
Two-time Tony Award winners Nathan Lane and Matthew Broderick return to their celebrated roles as Max Bialystock and Leo Bloom, a scheming theatrical producer and his mousy CPA who hit upon the perfect plan to embezzle a fortune: raise far more money than you need to produce a sure-fire Broadway flop and then (since no one will expect anything back), Max and Leo can pocket the difference. To do this, they need the ultimate bad play, which they find in the musical "Springtime fo... |
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Doogal |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Dave Borthwick, Jean Duval, Frank Passingham. |
Starring : Henri Salvador, Vanessa Paradis, Dany Boon. |
Runtime : 85 minutes. Genre : Animation. |
Official Website : http://www.the-magic-roundabout.com/ |
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Legend tells of three magic diamonds that, if in the wrong hands, can be united to create a force powerful enough to freeze the sun. When the evil sorcerer Zeebad (Jon Stewart) escapes from his ancient prison, he vows to exact revenge by deep-freezing the earth forever.
Determined to save the world, a fellowship of four unlikely heroes band together to foil Zeebad's villainous plot. Led by the candy-loving mutt Doogal (Kenan Thompson), friends Dylan (Jimmy Fallon), Brian (William H. Macy) and Ermintrude (Whoopi Goldberg) all embark on an epic adventure to save the world. In order to find the diamonds before Zeebad, they must climb icy mountains, navigate fiery pits of molten lava, sail across vast oceans and pass through a booby-trapped temple guarded by an army of ninja skeleton warriors.
Along the way they learn that the most powerful weapon is their friendship – which even Zeebad's evil magic cannot destroy. |
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Duma |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Carroll Ballard. |
Starring : Alexander Michaletos, Eamonn Walker, Campbell Scott, Hope Davis. |
Runtime : 100 minutes. Genre : Adventure, Family. |
Official Website : http://www.dumamovie.com/ |
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Set in the exotic country of South Africa, this film tells the powerful adventure tale of an unbreakable bond of friendship between a cheetah named Duma and Xan (Michaletos), an intrepid young boy who faces the true test of love when he must cross the whole of Southern Africa to return his best friend to his rightful home in the wilds. On his journey, Xan learns that everything always changes, but not love. |
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The White Countess |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : James Ivory. |
Starring : Ralph Fiennes, Natasha Richardson, Vanessa Redgrave. |
Runtime : 138 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.thewhitecountess.com/ |
Plot Summary : |
Set in Shanghai in the late 1930s, this is the story of the relationship between a disillusioned former US diplomat and a refugee White Russian countess reduced to a sordid life in the city's bars.
Todd Jackson (mid-40s), once an American diplomat filled with idealism, has lost his sight several years earlier, and is now languishing in Shanghai's grand hotels and elite gentlemen's clubs, a burnt-out case, He has become bitterly disillusioned by realpolitik and the seemingly unavoidable nature of war and conflict. He is, moreover, deeply bereaved by the deaths of his wife and children - victims of violent events in the political turmoil of 1930s China that also robbed him of his sight.
As our film begins, we find him trying to retreat into a smaller, more controllable world by way of an ambition he has always secretly nurtured: to create here, in perhaps the world's most licentious, glittering and sordid port, the perfect bar. After countless hours spent critically examining dive ... |
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Winter Passing |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Adam Rapp. |
Starring : Ed Harris, Zooey Deschanel, Will Ferrell, Amelia Warner, Rachel Dratch, Amy Madigan. |
Runtime : 98 minutes. Genre : Drama. |
Official Website : http://www.winterpassing-movie.com/ |
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A dramatic comedy by award-winning playwright Adam Rapp, "Winter Passing" charts the fractious reunion of an estranged father and daughter. Struggling twenty-something actress Reese Holden (Zooey Deschanel) has been promised a small fortune for publication of love letters written by her legendary, but reclusive father, novelist Don Holden (Ed Harris), to his late wife, also an acclaimed writer and Reese's mother. In search of these letters, Reese journeys from New York City back home for the first time since her angst filled childhood, she arrives to find her father in flagrant disregard of his own health and living with two younger housemates: Shelly (Amelia Warner), a former grad student of Don's with a maternal streak and the other, Corbit (Will Ferrell) a would-be Christian rock musician. Though no angel herself, Reese does not approve of her father's ad-hoc "family" and does her best to rattle the arrangement they have set up. Little by little, Reese comes to appreciate her unlike... |
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Napoleon Dynamite |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Jared Hess. |
Starring : Jon Heder, Jon Gries, Aaron Ruell, Efren Ramirez, Tina Majorino, Haylie Duff, Sandy Martin. |
Genre : Comedy. |
Official Website : http://www.foxsearchlight.com/napoleondynamite |
Plot Summary : |
From Preston, Idaho comes Napoleon Dynamite (Heder), a new kind of hero complete with a tight red 'fro, some sweet moon boots, and skills that can’t be topped. Napoleon lives with his Grandma (Martin) and his 30-year-old, unemployed brother Kip (Ruell), who spends his days looking for love in internet chat rooms. When Grandma hits the road on her quad runner, Napoleon and Kip’s meddling Uncle Rico (Gries) comes to town to stay with them and ruin their lives. Napoleon is left to his own devices to impress the chicks at school and help his new best friend Pedro (Ramirez) win the election for Student Body President against the stuck-up Summer Wheatley (Duff); all the while making sure to feed Grandma’s pet llama Tina, and avoiding association with Uncle Rico and the herbal breast enhancers he sells door to door. Napoleon and Pedro put their skills and knowledge of piñatas, cows and drawing to good use, but it is a surprise talent that leads the two to triumph in the end. |
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When a Stranger Calls |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Simon West. |
Starring : Camilla Belle, Brian Geraghty. |
Runtime : 87 minutes. Genre : Horror, Thriller. |
Official Website : http://www.haveyoucheckedthechildren.com/ |
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The hero of "Thank You for Smoking" is Nick Naylor (Aaron Eckhart), chief spokesman for Big Tobacco, who makes his living defending the rights of smokers and cigarette makers in today's neo-puritanical culture. Confronted by health zealots out to ban tobacco and an opportunistic senator (William H. Macy) who wants to put poison labels on cigarette packs, Nick goes on a PR offensive, spinning away the dangers of cigarettes on TV talk shows and enlisting a Hollywood super-agent (Rob Lowe) to promote smoking in movies. Nick's newfound notoriety attracts the attention of both tobacco's head honcho (Robert Duvall) and an investigative reporter for an influential Washington daily (Katie Holmes). Nick says he is just doing what it takes to pay the mortgage, but he begins to think about how his work makes him look in the eyes of his young son Joey (Cameron Bright). |
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New Police Story |
DVD Release Date : May 16, 2006 |
Réalisateur : Benny Chan. |
Starring : Jackie Chan, Charlene Choi, Nicholas Tse, Daniel Wu, Charlie Young, Dave Wong. |
Runtime : 120 minutes. Genre : Action, Crime. |
Official Website : http://newpolicestory.jce.com.hk/popup_eng.htm |
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There's not enough whisky in the world to drown the sorrows of Inspector Wing. Once he was Hong Kong's finest cop. Now, he's just a sad drunken mess. How did it come to this? One year earlier. A band of young thieves takes down a large bank. When the police arrives on the scene, the robbers shoot them down in cold blood. Inspector Wing's elite unit is put on the case. Acting on a tip, they storm the thieves' hideout. They’re stepping right intro a trap. The place is a labyrinth, rigged as a giant video game. Wing must watch helplessly as, one by one, his team is brutally slaughtered by the audacious gangsters. The present. Young cop Frank convinces Wing to clean up his act and return to the force, so that he can finish the case he started. The thieves are still at large. This is about to change, as Inspector Wing and his new partner gear up for the final round of a very dangerous game. |
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