DVD & Blu-rays Released November 22, 2005 - Movie Insider (original) (raw)

Tuesday, November 22

85 mins

The Honeymooners PG

New York City bus driver Ralph Kramden and his feisty wife Alice, struggle to make ends meet. Despite Ralph's many get-rich-quick schemes/motivational speaker tape series, they've managed to save some money and, along with their best friends Ed and Trixie Norton, they seem to have almost enough money for a down payment on a Brooklyn duplex. However, when Ralph decides to try to impress Alice by making up what he's lost and augmenting their savings with another of his crazy schemes, he winds up losing all their money and his marriage to boot—and it takes all his determination and love for Alice to get things on track again.

Don Rhymer, Cedric the Entertainer, Regina Hall, John Schultz, Gabrielle Union, John Leguizamo, Barry W. Blaustein, Saladin K. Patterson

Comedy

War of the Worlds

A contemporary retelling of H.G. Wells's seminal classic, the sci-fi adventure thriller reveals the extraordinary battle for the future of humankind through the eyes of one American family fighting to survive it.

Dakota Fanning, Tom Cruise, Steven Spielberg, David Koepp, Laurie MacDonald, Paula Wagner, Walter Parkes, Rick Gonzalez

Action Adventure Fantasy

100 mins

The Polar Express G

A young boy lies awake in his room one snowy Christmas Eve, excited and alert. Breathing silently. Hardly moving. Waiting. He's listening for a sound he's afraid that he might never hear—the ringing bells of Santa's sleigh. The time is five minutes to midnight. Suddenly, the boy is startled by a thunderous roar. Clearing the mist from his window he sees the most amazing sight—a gleaming black train rumbles to a stop right in front of his house, the steam from its powerful engine hissing through the night sky and the softly falling snowflakes. The boy rushes outside, clad only in his pajamas and slippers, and is met by the train's conductor who seems to be waiting just for him. Well, are you coming? the conductor inquires. Where? the boy asks. Why, to the North Pole—of course. This is the Polar Express! What unfolds is an an adventure which follows a doubting young boy, who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole; during this ride, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery which shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.

Tom Hanks, Robert Zemeckis, Steve Starkey, Gary Goetzman, William Teitler, Steve Bing, Michael Jeter, Malia Scotch Marmo

Adventure Fantasy Family

129 mins

Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance R

A deaf-mute man, Ryu, works in a smelting factory and inhabits his own silent world, oblivious to the din both at work and in his downscale apartment building. He idolizes his sister, who urgently needs a kidney transplant, and when he's laid off and then tricked out of his savings by organ traffickers, his wacko girlfriend, Yeong-mi, suggests kidnapping his former boss's daughter to pay for his sister's operation. Yeong-mi sees it as social revenge. Ryu, initially scared of the consequences, finally agrees after seeing another laid-off worker attempt hara-kiri outside the boss's home. After kidnapping the boss's daughter, their whole plan starts to quickly unravel with horrible consequences.

Jin-gyu Lim, Chan-wook Park, Mu-yeong Lee, Yong-jong Lee, Kang-ho Song, Ha-kyun Shin, Du-na Bae, Bo-bae Han

Drama

Two Men Went to War

This is the true story of two members of England's Army Dental Corps, Sgt. Peter King (Kenneth Cranham), a World War I veteran looking to keep on fighting, and Private Leslie Cuthbertson (Leo Bill), a wet-behind-the-ears trainee, whose dedication to helping the war effort during World War II inspired them to leave their posts and attempt to join the war effort in France. Sneaking into occupied territory in 1942, the two dentists found a German radar station, a part of which they successfully destroyed, but their efforts caused them to be chased by the enemy through dangerous territory. The most dangerous opposition to their patriotism manifested itself, however, when they made their way back to English territory, where they were now branded as deserters and liars...

Julian Glover, Pat Harding, John Henderson, Ira Trattner, Kenneth Cranham, Leo Bill, Derek Jacobi, Rosanna Lavelle

Drama War Historical

Beat That My Heart Skipped

In this follow-up to his critical smash "Read My Lips", French filmmaker Jacques Audiard has adapted and updated James Toback's 1978 cult classic, "Fingers", to come up with a moody, memorable study of a young man torn between a life of crime and classical music.

Niels Arestrup, Jacques Audiard, Romain Duris, Linh-Dan Pham, Aure Atika, Tonino Benacquista, Emmanuelle Devos, Jonathan Zaccai

Drama

Novo

This is a sex comedy about memory loss, as office worker Graham (Eduardo Noriega) has recently suffered a complete memory loss from a martial arts-related accident, which means that every time he has sex with Irene, one of the secretaries, he forgets about it an hour later, so every time is the first time...

Anna Mouglalis, Paz Vega, Eduardo Noriega, Agathe Dronne, Nathalie Richard, Catherine Bidaut, Bernard Bloch, Leny Bueno

Comedy Romance Foreign

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