DVD & Blu-rays Released June 9, 2009 - Movie Insider (original) (raw)
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Tuesday, June 9
117 mins
Gran Torino R
Clint Eastwood stars in the drama "Gran Torino," marking his first film role since his Oscar-winning "Million Dollar Baby." Eastwood also directs the film in which he plays Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices. .
Cory Hardrict, Dreama Walker, Billy Gerber, Rob Lorenz, Dave Johannson, Nick Schenk, Clint Eastwood, Brian Haley
Drama
94 mins
Fired Up PG-13
Shawn Colfax (Nicholas D'Agosto) and Nick Brady (Eric Christian Olsen), the stars of the Gerald R. Ford High School football team, are dreading the prospect of another summer at football camp. When Nick hatches a scheme for the two to join their school's cheerleaders at cheer camp instead, they find themselves awash in a sea of gorgeous young women. It all goes great until Shawn falls for Carly (Sarah Roemer), the beautiful head cheerleader who sees right through them.
Eric Christian Olsen, John Michael Higgins, Will Gluck, Philip Baker Hall, Danneel Harris, AnnaLynne McCord, Adhir Kalyan, Matthew Gross
Comedy Sports Teen
Crossing Over R
Immigrants from around the world enter Los Angeles every day, with hopeful visions of a better life, but little notion of what that life may cost. Their desperate scenarios test the humanity of immigration enforcement officers. In "Crossing Over", writer-director Wayne Kramer explores the allure of the American dream, and the reality that immigrants find – and create -- in 21st century L.A.
Alice Eve, Ray Liotta, Harrison Ford, Cliff Curtis, Sean Penn, Jim Sturgess, Gregg Taylor, Ashley Judd
Drama
118 mins
The International R
In "The International", a gripping thriller, Interpol Agent Louis Salinger (Clive Owen) and Manhattan Assistant District Attorney Eleanor Whitman (Naomi Watts) are determined to bring to justice one of the world's most powerful banks. Uncovering myriad and reprehensible illegal activities, Salinger and Whitman follow the money from Berlin to Milan to New York to Istanbul. Finding themselves in a high-stakes chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk as their targets will stop at nothing – even murder – to continue financing terror and war.
Naomi Watts, Tom Tykwer, Charles Roven, Clive Owen, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Brian F. O'Byrne, Lloyd Phillips, John Woo
Action Thriller
Powder Blue
The story follows four eclectic characters — a mortician, an ex-con, a suicidal ex-priest and a stripper — brought together on Christmas Eve by a mixture of circumstances.
Forest Whitaker, Eddie Redmayne, Ray Liotta, Patrick Swayze, Timothy Linh Bui, Jessica Biel, Stephane Gauger, Kris Kristofferson
Drama
User Rated:
3 / 5
Nobel Son R
"Nobel Son" is a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge. Barkley Michaelson (Bryan Greenberg) is struggling to finish his Ph.D. thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson (Alan Rickman), wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. But Eli's past indiscretions begin to collide with the present. When Barkley is kidnapped on the eve of his father accepting the prize, Eli refuses to pay the ransom. So starts a game of intrigue and deception that proves that payback's a bitch.
Danny DeVito, Bill Pullman, Alan Rickman, Mary Steenburgen, Bryan Greenberg, Eliza Dushku, Randall Miller, Jody Savin
Comedy Thriller
86 mins
Spinning Into Butter R
In the story, when clearly racist, but anonymous, letters start appearing on the door of one of the college's few African American students, Sarah, the liberal dean of students, is forced to question and explore modern feelings about, and approaches to, racism and political correctness.
Beau Bridges, Mykelti Williamson, Sarah Jessica Parker, Norman Twain, Mark Davis, Sven Reckovag, Mark Brokaw, Lou Pitt
Drama
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