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DVD & Blu-rays Released Tuesday, March 2, 2004
Duplex PG-13
Set in the competitive world of New York City real estate, a couple (Drew Barrymore and Ben Stiller), whose dream home is a converted duplex apartment in the perfect neighborhood, decide to kill the sweet little old lady (Eileen Essell) who's currently living there, or else they'll never get to buy it...
Danny DeVito, Ben Stiller, Justin Theroux, Maya Rudolph, Drew Barrymore, Eileen Essell, Wallace Shawn, Harvey Fierstein
Comedy
Good Boy! PG
Twelve-year-old Owen Baker has been working as a dog- walker all summer long, and his hard work has finally paid off -- he gets to adopt a dog of his own! But Owen gets more than puppy love when he discovers his new dog, Hubble, is an interplanetary scout from the "Dog Star" Sirius. Thousands of years ago, dogs from Sirius came to colonize and dominate the Earth, but rumors have spread across the galaxy that Earth dogs have strayed from their original mission. Hubble has come to investigate. Now Owen must help Hubble train a group of undisciplined neighborhood dogs to shape up for a visit from their leader, the powerful Greater Dane. The fate of all Earth dogs hangs in the balance.
Brittany Murphy, Molly Shannon, Matthew Broderick, Jo Champa, John Hoffman, Liam Aiken, Mikhael Speidel, Kevin Nealon
Adventure Comedy Family
School of Rock PG-13
Hell-raising guitarist with delusions of grandeur Dewey Finn (Jack Black) has been kicked out of his band. Desperate for work, he impersonates a substitute teacher and turns a class of fifth grade high-achievers into high-voltage rock and rollers ready to compete in a local radio station's Battle of the Bands contest.
Jack Black, Mike White, Sarah Silverman, Joan Cusack
Comedy Musical
Looney Tunes: Back in Action PG
Set in a live-action world in which Warner Bros.' beloved assortment of irreverent animated entertainers interact with human characters for maximum comic effect, the story unfolds on the Studio backlot and careens all over the map in time-honored Looney Tunes style. Our celluloid heroes embark on a hilarious adventure that takes them from Hollywood to Las Vegas, Paris and the jungles of Africa in search of Fraser's character's missing father and the mythical Blue Monkey Diamond.
Brendan Fraser, Glenn Ficarra, Joan Cusack, Joe Dante, Chris deFaria, Larry Doyle, Heather Locklear, Matthew Lillard
Action Adventure Comedy
Cold Creek Manor R
A couple (Dennis Quaid and Sharon Stone) and their son (Ryan Wilson) and daughter (Kristen Stewart) relocate from the city to the country, where they discover that their dream home, a sprawling farmhouse, is more of a nightmare, as the previous owner (Stephen Dorff) returns from prison... and wants his home back. Badly.
Dennis Quaid, Juliette Lewis, Sharon Stone, Christopher Plummer, Kristen Stewart, Stephen Dorff, Mike Figgis, Dana Eskelson
Thriller
The Other Side of the Bed R
Two young couples in Madrid (Alterio and Vega; Toledo and Verbeke) are searching for love and happiness, but ultimately they find only lies and heartache, as they switch lovers back and forth, and the erotic tension escalates. There's also a good deal of singing and dancing amidst all the bed swapping.
Paz Vega, Tomas Cimadevella, David Serrano, Ernesto Alterio, Emilio Martmnez Lazaro, José Antonio Sáinz de Vicuña, Tomás Cimadevilla, Guillermo Toledo
Comedy Romance Foreign
Carnage
After it is killed in a bullfight, a bull's body parts are transported across Europe, in Spain, France, Italy and Belgium, with this ensemble drama showing us the people who are the recipients of the remains in one way or another, like an Italian actress (Chiara Mastroianni) selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman (Angela Molina) who dines on its steaks, a little girl (Raphaelle Molinier) in northern France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist (Jacques Gamblin) whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.
Angela Molina, Marilyne Even, Delphine Gleize, Chiara Mastroianni, Lio, Lucia Sanchez, Esther Gorintin, Feodor Atkine
Drama Foreign
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DVD & Blu-rays Released Tuesday, March 9, 2004
Mona Lisa Smile PG-13
Academy Award®-winner Julia Roberts heads an all-star cast featuring Kirsten Dunst, Julia Stiles, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Marcia Gay Harden in "Mona Lisa Smile", an uplifting and poignant drama about one woman's desire to enrich the lives of her students. In 1953, a time when women's roles were rigidly defined, novice art history professor Katherine Watson (Roberts) begins teaching at the prestigious all-female Wellesley College, which despite its academic reputation is an environment where success is measured by how well the students marry. Encouraging these women to strive for a more enlightened future, Watson challenges the administration and inspires her students to look beyond the image of what is, and consider the possibilities of what could be.
Kirsten Dunst, Topher Grace, Julia Stiles, Julia Roberts, Ginnifer Goodwin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Mike Newell, Marcia Gay Harden
Drama
Prey for Rock and Roll
"Prey for Rock & Roll" is the adrenaline-filled story of a contemporary LA all-girl punk band led by singer/guitarist Jacki (Gina Gershon), bassist Tracy (Drea De Matteo), lead guitarist Faith (Lori Petty), and drummer Sally (Shelly Cole). The directing debut of esteemed music supervisor/producer Alex Steyermark, the film captures the color and energy of a veteran band struggling to make it while personal obstacles and disturbing new events threaten to tear them apart.
Drea de Matteo, Gina Gershon, Marc Blucas, Shelly Cole, Lori Petty, Ivan Martin, Ashley Drane, Eddie Driscoll
Drama Musical
DVD & Blu-rays Released Tuesday, March 16, 2004
21 Grams R
From the Mexican writing-directing team behind the Oscar-nominated "Amores Perros" comes this explosive, emotionally charged English-language drama about a woman (Naomi Watts), her cheating lover (Sean Penn), and an ex-convict (Benicio Del Toro).
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Benicio Del Toro, Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Danny Huston, Clea DuVall, Melissa Leo, Teresa Delgado
Drama Crime Gangster
Veronica Guerin R
Based on a true story, this is about the Irish journalist Veronica Guerin (Cate Blanchett), a reporter for the Dublin Sunday Independent, who exposed some of Dublin's most powerful crime barons and drug lords in 1996. But later that year she was gunned down by assasins hired by the same criminal drug lords she exposed.
Cate Blanchett, Colin Farrell, Joel Schumacher, Brenda Fricker, Ciarind Hinds, Gerard McSorley
Drama Crime
DVD & Blu-rays Released Tuesday, March 23, 2004
The Rundown PG-13
When Travis (Seann William Scott), the son of an underworld kingpin, disappears in the Amazon in search of a priceless artifact, Beck (The Rock), the kingpin's retrieval expert, is sent to get him. Despite their hostility - and their love for the same woman (Rosario Dawson) - the two must eventually join forces to fight the evil head (Christopher Walken) of a gold-mining corporation who is after the same treasure.
Dwayne Johnson, Rosario Dawson, Peter Berg, Marc Abraham, Seann William Scott, Christopher Walken, Kevin Misher, Jon Gries
Action Adventure Comedy
Honey PG-13
This is the story of Honey (Jessica Alba), a tough sexy dancer from the inner city, who becomes a successful music video choreographer, a career which is threatened when her mentor makes him either sleep with him... or get blacklisted within the industry. She ultimately decides to pursue her lifelong dream of opening her own dance studio for inner-city youths.
Jessica Alba, Bille Woodruff, Lil' Romeo, David Moscow, Zachary Williams, Mekhi Phifer, Joy Bryant, Lonette McKee
Drama Musical Teen
Gothika R
A criminal psychologist (Halle Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the very same mental institution in which she works, with no memory of the murder of her husband (Charles S. Dutton) that she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her coworkers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn... which only further convinces all involved of both her guilt and her increasingly stead descent into madness and delusion.
Robert Downey Jr., Halle Berry, Penelope Cruz, Charles S. Dutton, Bernard Hill, Mathieu Kassovitz
Thriller Horror Supernatural
Shattered Glass PG-13
Hayden Christensen stars as Stephen Glass, a staff writer for the respected current events and policy magazine The New Republic and a freelance feature writer for publications such as Rolling Stone, Harper's and George. By the mid-90s, Glass' articles had turned him into one of the most sought-after young journalists in Washington, but a bizarre chain of events - chronicled in Buzz Bissinger's September, 1998 Vanity Fair article upon which "Shattered Glass" is based - suddenly stopped his career in its tracks. "Shattered Glass" is a study of a very talented - and at the same time very flawed - character. It is also a look inside our culture's noblest profession, one that protects our most precious freedoms by revealing the truth, and what happens when our trust in that profession is called into question.
Billy Ray, Rosario Dawson, Hayden Christensen, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Steve Zahn, Chloë Sevigny, Hank Azaria, Peter Sarsgarrd
Drama Crime
The Singing Detective R
Chicago residential novelist Dan Dark (Robert Downey Jr.), crippled by a horribly severe case of psioriasis, starts rewriting his 1950s noir novel "The Singing Detective" in his mind in a desperate effort to hang on to his sanity. Becoming the title character himself, he heads off in pursuit of Nazis in the 1940's who serve in place of his own personal demons. With the help of eccentric psychologist, Dr Gibbon (Gibson), who uses the book as a road map into the Dan Dark's psyche, he slowly liberates himself from the trauma of his childhood.
Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Adrien Brody, Robin Wright, Carla Gugino, Katie Holmes, Jeremy Northam, Keith Gordon
Drama
Suspended Animation
A small cabin, hidden deep in the snow-covered hills of Northern Michigan is Hollywood animator Tom Kempton's only refuge after getting separated from his friends on a snowmobile trip. What started out as a relaxing getaway, becomes a waking nightmare when Tom finds himself at the hands of two psychotic sisters who plan to make him their next victim. A last minute rescue leaves both sisters presumably dead and Tom narrowly escaping with his life. Upon his return to Hollywood, however, Tom develops an unhealthy obsession with one of his captors that ultimately threatens the life and welfare of his family.
Fred Meyers, Daniel Riordan, J.E. Freeman, Sean Patrick Murphy, Daniel Mooney, John D. Hancock, Sage Allen, Maria Cina
Thriller
Dirty Pretty Things R
From Stephen Frears, the Oscar®-nominated director of "The Grifters" and "Dangerous Liaisons", comes a new film set in London's secret underworld, where everything is for sale. It's the story of a young man, Okwe (Chiwetel Ejiofor) and a Turkish chambermaid, Senay (Audrey Tautou), who work at the same West London hotel--a breeding ground for illegal activity. They are put to the test when Okwe makes a shocking discovery late one night.
Audrey Tautou, Benedict Wong, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Stephen Frears, Sophie Okonedo, Sergi Lopez
Drama Thriller
Beyond Borders R
This love story chronicles the romance that develops between an American disaster relief doctor (Clive Owen) and an aristocratic philanthropist socialite (Angelina Jolie) who keep meeting over several years in countries torn apart by wars and disasters.
Angelina Jolie, Teri Polo, Martin Campbell, Clive Owen, Noah Emmerich, Linus Roache
Drama Comedy
DVD & Blu-rays Released Tuesday, March 30, 2004
No Turning Back R
This is the story of an illegal Honduran immigrant living in the U.S., Pablo Fernandez (Jesus Nebot), working on a tomato farm, who gets in trouble when he accidentally hits a girl with his employer's truck. Deciding to try to escape the law, Pablo goes on the run with his young daughter, Christina (Chelsea Rendon), but as the title says there is "no turning back." As he flees, his experience is recorded in print and on video by a mysterious "guerrilla journalist" (Lindsay Price), who also helps him hide from his pursuers.
Lindsay Price, Robert Vestal, Chelsea Rendon, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Jesus Nebot, Joe Estevez, Kenya Moore, Paul Ganus
Drama Thriller Suspense
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre R
On August 20th 1973, police were dispatched to the remote farmhouse of Thomas Hewitt, a former head-skinner at a local slaughterhouse in Travis County, Texas. What they found within the confines of his cryptic residence was the butchered remains of 33 victims, a chilling discovery that shocked and horrified a nation in what many still call the most gruesome mass murder case of all time. Brandishing a chainsaw and wearing the grotesque flesh masks of his victims, the killer became forever known as "Leatherface" when sensational headlines were splashed across newspapers throughout the state of Texas: "House of Horrors Stuns Nation - Massacre in Texas." Police and FBI eventually gunned down a man wearing a leathery mask and declared they had their killer and abruptly closed the case. However, in the years that followed, many close to the grisly murder case would come forward to level accusations that police had botched the investigation and knowingly killed the wrong man. Now, for the first time, the only known survivor of the killing spree has broken the silence and come forward to tell the real story of what happened on that deserted rural Texas highway when a group of five young kids inadvertently found themselves besieged by a chainsaw wielding madman who would leave a trail of blood and terror that would forever be known as "The Texas Chainsaw Massacre".
Michael Bay, Scott Kosar, Andrew Form, Marcus Nispel, Bradley Fuller, Jessica Biel, Eric Balfour, R. Lee Ermey
Action Adventure Thriller
Something's Gotta Give PG-13
New York City music executive Harry Langer (Jack Nicholson) is a man of some age and experience who generally dates younger women. His world is turned upside-down, however, when he has a heart attack while visiting the East Hampton beach home of the divorced playwright mother, Erica (Diane Keaton), of his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin (Amanda Peet). With his girlfriend having gone back to the city, Harry is left in the care of Erica and his doctor (Keanu Reeves), but the two men soon find themselves competing with each other, as they both fall in love with the same woman... the mom.
Keanu Reeves, Jack Nicholson, Jon Favreau, Nancy Meyers, Nancy Myers, Diane Keaton
Comedy Romance
House of Sand and Fog R
Based on the acclaimed bestseller by Andre Dubus III. Massoud Amir Behrani (Ben Kingsley) is living a lie to fulfill a dream. Once a member of the Shah of Iran's elite inner circle, he has brought his family to America to build a new life. Despite a pretense of continued affluence, he is barely making ends meet until he sees his opportunity in the auction of a house being sold for back taxes. It is a terrible mistake. Through a bureaucratic snafu, the house had been improperly seized from its rightful owner, Kathy Lazaro (Jennifer Connelly). The loss of her home tears away Kathy's last hope of a stable life—a life that had been nearly destroyed by addiction—and Kathy decides to fight to recover her home…at any cost.
Ben Kingsley, Jennifer Connelly, Frances Fisher, Jonathan Ahdout, Vadim Perelman, Shohreh Aghdashloo, Kim Dickens, Carlos Gomez
Drama Historical
Brother Bear G
In a tiny village, when the Earth was young and ice still covered the land, a headstrong teenager, Kenai, has an issue with bears. And why not -- the bears compete for the same food and land, loot his village, and ruin his coming of age ceremony. When his oldest brother is lost in a perilous battle with a ferocious grizzly, Kenai ignores the village teachings of brotherhood, choosing instead to track down the bear and satisfy his thirst for vengeance. Kenai, voiced by Joaquin Phoenix, is changed into a bear by the Great Spirits, forcing him to examine the world through the eyes of his enemy. In his quest to regain his human form, Kenai enlists the help of an adorable, talkative and sometimes-pesky bear cub named Koda. Their journey propels them across the northern territory, through glacial caverns, frosty tundra, a valley of fire and treacherous gorges. Over the course of the journey with Koda, Kenai is forced to question everything he knows and learns many important lessons about the true meaning of brotherhood. Ultimately, he realizes that his physical transformation from a man to a bear is insignificant compared to the change that has occurred within him.
Joaquin Phoenix, Jeremy Suarez, D.B. Sweeney, Rick Moranis, Michael Clarke Duncan, Bob Walker, Aaron Blaise, Dave Thomas
Adventure Family Kids