DVD & Blu-rays Released December 6, 2011 - Movie Insider (original) (raw)

Tuesday, December 6

The Hangover Part II R

Phil (Bradley Cooper), Stu (Ed Helms), Alan (Zach Galifianakis) and Doug (Justin Bartha) travel to exotic Thailand for Stu’s wedding. After the unforgettable bachelor party in Las Vegas, Stu is taking no chances and has opted for a safe, subdued pre-wedding brunch. However, things don’t always go as planned. A source familiar with the production said the character of the tattoo artist (played by Liam Neeson) is "pivotal" to the plot, in which one of the stars gets a tattoo during a night of debauchery.

Paul Giamatti, Bradley Cooper, Scot Armstrong, Todd Phillips, Chris Bender, Craig Mazin, Zach Galifianakis, Ken Jeong

Comedy Sequel

112 mins

Cowboys and Aliens PG-13

1875. New Mexico Territory. A stranger (Daniel Craig) with no memory of his past stumbles into the hard desert town of Absolution. The only hint to his history is a mysterious shackle that encircles one wrist. What he discovers is that the people of Absolution don't welcome strangers, and nobody makes a move on its streets unless ordered to do so by the iron-fisted Colonel Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford). It's a town that lives in fear.

But Absolution is about to experience fear it can scarcely comprehend as the desolate city is attacked by marauders from the sky. Screaming down with breathtaking velocity and blinding lights to abduct the helpless one by one, these monsters challenge everything the residents have ever known.

Now, the stranger they rejected is their only hope for salvation. As this gunslinger slowly starts to remember who he is and where he's been, he realizes he holds a secret that could give the town a fighting chance against the alien force. With the help of the elusive traveler Ella (Olivia Wilde), he pulls together a posse comprised of former opponents—townsfolk, Dolarhyde and his boys, outlaws and Apache warriors—all in danger of annihilation. United against a common enemy, they will prepare for an epic showdown for survival.

Steven Spielberg, Ron Howard, Olivia Wilde, Sam Rockwell, Adam Beach, Daniel Craig, Harrison Ford, Paul Dano

Drama Action Adventure

The Help PG-13

Story follows a young white woman in the early 1960s in Mississippi who becomes interested in the plight of the African-American domestic servants that every family has working for them. She writes their stories about mistreatment, abuse and heartbreak, all just before the Civil Rights revolution.

Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis, Emma Stone, Allison Janney, Chris Columbus, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Bryce Dallas Howard

Drama Adaptation

94 mins

Mr. Popper's Penguins PG

A house painter's dreams of Arctic exploration prompt him to write letters to real explorers. One of them sends him a penguin, which he keeps in the icebox. Before he knows it, the painter has a litter of 12 beaked birds. They eat voraciously, leading him to form Popper's Performing Penguins, a stage act that goes on tour and creates mayhem at every stop.

Carla Gugino, Jim Carrey, Clark Gregg, Philip Baker Hall, John Davis, John Morris, Mark Waters, Jared Stern

Adventure Family

105 mins

Archie's Final Project NR

Archie Williams (Gabriel Sunday) is a 17-year old media geek who has suddenly found himself the most talked-about kid in school. He has announced that he's going to kill himself - on camera - for a class project. His classmates, parents, Sierra - the most beautiful girl in school (Brooke Nevin), and a "Shady Bunch" of shrinks, doctors, pill-pushers, and counselors descend on Archie. Some are hoping to save him, some want to imitate him, others try to push him over the brink. Archie films every moment of his high school experience, hiding nothing from his audience: realities of life, death, violence, sex, drugs, and the intense media overload and hypocrisy that bombard all teenagers.

David Carradine, Gabriel Sunday, Mariel Hemingway, Michael Welch, David Lee Miller, Brooke Nevin, Nora Dunn

Drama Comedy

114 mins

The Debt R

Twenty years after World War II's end, three Mossad agents learn that a Nazi war criminal is still alive and set out to pursue him across Europe.

Jessica Chastain, Jane Goldman, Helen Mirren, Kris Thykier, John Madden, Matthew Vaughn, Ciaran Hinds, Tom Wilkinson

Drama Thriller Suspense

Life, Above All PG-13

A drama, based on the novel Chanda's Secrets, about AIDS orphans in South Africa.

Drama

102 mins

87 mins

The Afterlight

A young couple moves into an old schoolhouse on a desolate stretch of farm country. Hoping for a new beginning, their lives are instead drawn toward dark and unforeseen ends.

Jicky Schnee, Michael Kelly, Ana Asensio, Rip Torn, Craig Macneill, Alexei Kaleina, Morgan Taddeo

Drama

84 mins

Point Blank R

A hospital nurse forced to do the bidding of a criminal after his pregnant wife is kidnapped.

Gilles Lellouche, Gerard Lanvin, Elena Anaya, Roschdy Zem, Fred Cavaye, Mireille Perrier

Thriller Crime

Rapt

Yvan Attal stars as a millionaire who is kidnapped and held for ransom.

Lucas Belvaux, Yvan Attal

Thriller Foreign

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