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SommersbyGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/21/2013 Rating PG-13 Production Year: 1993 Run Time: 113 mins Released By: Warner Home Video Cast: Richard Gere, Jodie Foster, James Earl Jones, Bill Pullman A man returning home after six years in the Civil War struggles to reconstruct his life and marriage. His idyllic hopes are shattered when he is accused of not being who he claims. Based on the French film THE RETURN OF MARTIN GUERRE. … more less -
Open RoadGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/21/2013 Rating NR Production Year: 2012 Run Time: 86 mins Released By: Universal Studios Home Video Cast: Camilla Belle, Juliette Lewis, Andy Garcia, Colin Egglesfield, John Savage A wandering free-spirit begins to second guess her nomadic lifestyle after forging a connection with three people who make her feel like family in this life-affirming drama from director Marcio Garcia (BED & BREAKFAST). Angie (Camilla Belle) is an artist who was becoming trapped in a life that she didn't want. Taking flight, she found the freedom she craved on the open road, occasionally waitressing when he funds began to run low. She never knew the warmth of a true human connection until she encountered a wise drifter (Andy Garcia), a charming small-town cop (Colin Egglesfield) and his kindhearted yet slightly suspicious sister (Juliette Lewis). Now that Angie has found people who really care about her, she finally starts to understand how it feels to have a home. Could it be that she's finally found a place where she can settle down, or is this merely the first stop on her long journey to self-discovery? … more less -
Public Enemy, TheGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/21/2013 Rating NR Production Year: 1931 Run Time: 82 mins Released By: Warner Home Video Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods, Beryl Mercer, Joan Blondell In William Wellman's classic crime film THE PUBLIC ENEMY, James Cagney does a star turn as Tom Powers, a trouble-ridden individual who rises from the position of cheap thug to that of a powerful Prohibition gangster. When his best friend is murdered, Powers self-destructively seeks deadly retaliation. He picks fights. He slaps women around. He roughs up speakeasy owners and tells them whom they'll get their hooch from and how much they'll order. Fists, kisses, and guns are the only things Tom knows. He eventually gets promoted to become the muscleman of mobster Nails Nathan (Leslie Fenton). But Tom's violent acts are about to catch up with him. After Tom guns down a cop, he's on the run. Later, thugs dump him, beaten, on the doorstep of his estranged and horrified family. It's only then that Tom realizes his decision to live the gangster life has been an irrevocable and deadly choice. Known as the picture that launched Cagney into stardom, THE PUBLIC ENEMY doesn't hold back from exposing the violence and tedium underscoring this ostensibly sexy life of crime. The screenplay, based on a story entitled BEER AND BLOOD by John Bright and written by Harvey F. Thew, was nominated for an Academy Award. … more less -
This Girl Is BadassGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/21/2013 Rating R Production Year: 2012 Run Time: 99 mins Released By: Magnolia Pictures Cast: JeeJa Yanin, Petchthai Wongkamlao, Arkhom Preedakul Pretty Muay Thai powerhouse Jeeja Yanin (CHOCOLATE, RAGING PHOENIX) teams up with writer/director/star Petchtai Wongkamlao (THE BODYGUARD 1 and 2) for this playful action comedy centered on a girl (Yanin) who pits a pair of rival mobsters against one another after being recruited to smuggle contraband, and pocketing their dirty money on the sly. … more less -
Taxi DriverGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/14/2013 Rating R Production Year: 1976 Run Time: 114 mins Released By: Sony Pictures Home Cast: Robert DeNiro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster, Peter Boyle, Diahnne Abbott Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro), New York City seems like a circle of hell. Driving his cab each night through the bleak Manhattan streets, Bickle observes with fanatical loathing the sleazy lowlifes who comprise most of his fares. By day he haunts the porno theaters of 42nd Street, taking his cues from the violent vision of life portrayed in these movies. As badly as Travis wants to connect with the people around him--including Betsy (Cybill Shepherd), a lovely blonde campaign worker, and Iris (Jodie Foster), a prepubescent prostitute he tries to save--his attempts are thwarted and his pent-up rage grows, turning him into a Mohawk-wearing walking time bomb. Scorcese fills Paul Schrader's screenplay with a tragic realism, brilliantly capturing the muck and grime of New York City. De Niro, playing the fragile hero, steps so deep inside his role that the results are deeply frightening. Bernard Herrmann's haunting score--which turned out to be his last--completes the urban nightmare. … more less -
Karate Kid, TheGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/14/2013 Rating PG Production Year: 2010 Run Time: 140 mins Released By: Sony Pictures Home Cast: Jaden Smith, Jackie Chan, Taraji P. Henson, Wenwen Han, Rongguang Yu When a 12-year-old from Detroit moves to China with his mother and incurs the wrath of the class bully at his new school, he makes an unlikely ally in the form of his aging maintenance man, a kung fu master who teaches him the secrets to self-defense. Upon arriving at his new school, Dre Parker (Jaden Smith) develops a powerful crush on pretty classmate Mei Ying. The feeling is mutual, although the cultural divide between Dre and Mei Ying makes a friendship unlikely, and romance impossible. When cruel classmate and kung fu prodigy Cheng learns of Dre's feelings for Mei Ying, he harasses and humiliates the young outsider in front of the entire school. With no one to turn to for help, Dre confides his fears in kindly maintenance man Mr. Han (Jackie Chan), a kung fu master who knows that serenity and maturity -- not punches and power -- are the true keys to mastering the martial arts. As Dre prepares to face down his intimidating tormentor, he begins to realize that the real fight is just beginning. … more less -
Bletchley Circle, TheGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/14/2013 Rating NR Production Year: 2012 Run Time: 135 mins Released By: PBS Video Four female ex-code breakers in post-WWII Britain investigate a series of murders that seem to share a pattern. … more less -
Dexter: Seven Season PackGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/14/2013 Rating NR Production Year: 2013 Cast: Michael C. Hall, Jimmy Smits, Julie Benz, Jennifer Carpenter, Erik King … more less -
Dexter: The Complete Seventh SeasonGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/14/2013 Rating NR Production Year: 2013 Run Time: 671 mins Released By: Showtime Entertainment This release contains every episode from the seventh season of Showtime's serial-killer drama DEXTER, a run of shows where his sister discovers the truth about him as he continues to hunt down criminals worthy of his unique brand of justice. … more less -
StarletGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating Production Year: 2012 Run Time: 103 mins Released By: Music Box Films Cast: Dree Hemingway, Besedka Johnson, Stella Maeve, James Ransone, Karren Karagulian A free-spirited 21-year-old woman strikes up an unlikely friendship with an elderly widow in this drama from writer/director Sean Baker (TAKE OUT, PRINCE OF BROADWAY). Young Jane (Dree Hemingway) has a fondness for cannabis, and a Chihuahua named Starlet that never leaves her side. One day, she happens across a garage sale at the home of lonely octogenarian Sadie (Besedka Johnson), and clashes with the aging widow while attempting to make a purchase. Later, upon investigating the item, Jane discovers that it contains a secret cache of money. Determined to help the acerbic Sadie solve the mystery of the hidden cash, Jane reaches out to Sadie, and finds the secrets of her past slowly bubbling to the surface as a warm bond grows between them. … more less -
Oranges, TheGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 2011 Run Time: 90 mins Released By: 20th Century Fox Cast: Hugh Laurie, Leighton Meester, Catherine Keener, Oliver Platt, Allison Janney Julian Farino's THE ORANGES is a darkly comic portrait of two suburban families who live next to each other. David Walling (Hugh Laurie) and his wife Paige (Catherine Keener) are having marriage problems, which finally blow up when he falls in love with Nina (Leighton Meester), the twentysomething daughter of his neighbors Terry (Oliver Platt) and Carol (Allison Janney). As this new relationship threatens to wreck marriages and friendships, the person who takes it the hardest is David and Paige's daughter Vanessa (Alia Shawkat), who used to be best friends with Nina before the latter dropped her prior to high school. THE ORANGES played at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival. … more less -
HeavenGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 2002 Run Time: 97 mins Released By: Miramax Echo Bridge Cast: Cate Blanchett, Giovanni Ribisi, Remo Girone, Stefania Rocca, Alessandro Sperduti Written by late Polish director Krysztof Kieslowski and Krysztof Piesiewicz (the team that made the trilogy BLUE, WHITE, and RED) and directed by German master Tom Tykwer (RUN LOLA RUN), HEAVEN is the first part of a trilogy (the other parts are called HELL and PURGATORY, for which there are no production plans in place.) Cate Blanchett is Philippa, a strong-willed English woman who teaches in Turin, Italy. At school she witnesses young students torn apart by drug addictions, poverty, and family struggles. Her husband, similarly, died of a drug overdose. She takes the law into her own hands when she decides to go after a major drug czar. But when her plan goes terribly wrong, and she's taken into custody and accused of being an international terrorist, she finds herself in a hell she never imagined. Her only hope is Filippo (Giovanni Ribisi), a young cop and translator who wants to help her. Tykwer delivers a visually stunning film with HEAVEN, using aerial photography, 360-degree pans, and gorgeous wide-angle shots to deliver a dreamlike otherworldly feeling. The chemistry between Philippa and Filippo resonates through to the end of the film, while the smartly suspenseful story keeps viewers guessing about the fate of this destined duo. An understated piano score by Arvo Part completes the prolonged feeling of tension, intrigue, and ultimate escape, making HEAVEN an impressively successful merger of Kieslowski's eerily effective writing and Tykwer's stylish directing. … more less -
Mother's BoysGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 1994 Run Time: 96 mins Released By: Echo Bridge Home Entertainment Cast: Jamie Lee Curtis, Peter Gallagher, Joanne Whalley, Vanessa Redgrave Jude Madigan walked out on her husband and young children. Now, 3 years later, she wants to reclaim her family. But three years is too long for young children to go without seeing their mother. So it's no wonder that when Jude reappears at their doorstep, her husband Robert greets her with fury. Agreeing to let her see the boys, now 12, 10 and 6-years-old, Robert informs her he's filing for divorce. But Jude recognizes only one obstacle to familial reunion: Robert's new girlfriend Callie. But when Jude's plan to get rid of Callie goes awry, she'll lose more than she bargained for. A taut psychological thriller. … more less -
Full FrontalGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 2002 Run Time: 101 mins Released By: Platinum Disc, Llc Cast: Julia Roberts, Blair Underwood, Catherine Keener, David Duchovny, David Hyde Pierce Director Steven Soderbergh follows up his highly impressive string of big budget smashes (ERIN BROCKOVICH, TRAFFIC, OCEAN'S ELEVEN) with this self-proclaimed "companion piece" to 1989's hugely influential SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE. Written by New York-based playwright Coleman Hough, FULL FRONTAL concerns a day in the life of a series of confused, depressed, and neurotic Los Angeles residents. Ed (Enrico Colantoni) is a writer with a script currently in production and a play that is about to open. Ivan's writing partner Carl (David Hyde Pierce) is married to Lee (Catherine Keener), an unhappy Human Resources VP. Lee is having an affair with superstar actor Calvin (Blair Underwood), who is costarring with Francesca (Julia Roberts) in Carl and Ed's film. Lee's sister Linda (Mary McCormack) is a masseuse who is looking forward to an upcoming weekend rendezvous with a stranger she met on the Internet. That man just so happens to be Ed. Using this dizzying framework to explore the dysfunctional characters who inhabit the entertainment industry, FULL FRONTAL also works as a bold technical experiment. Incorporating muddy digital video (to capture "real life") mixed with 35mm film (to capture "the movie within the movie"), Soderbergh shows that even with an Oscar on the shelf, he's still an indie-minded director at heart. … more less -
Hoax, TheGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 2007 Run Time: 116 mins Released By: Platinum Disc, Llc Cast: Richard Gere, Michael J. Burg, Julie Delpy, Hope Davis, Eli Wallach Richard Gere gives one of the best performances of his career in Lasse Hallström's vastly entertaining THE HOAX, based on true events. Gere stars as Clifford Irving, a struggling writer desperate to be a famous bestselling author. After his novel gets rejected, he concocts a crazy plot in which he convinces McGraw-Hill that he has been contacted by Howard Hughes in order to tell the official life story of the reclusive billionaire. With the help of his friend, nervous writer Dick Suskind (Alfred Molina), and Irving's artist wife, Edith (Marcia Gay Harden), he attempts to get away with one of the greatest literary hoaxes of the 20th century. He goes to elaborate lengths to pull the wool over the eyes of his editor, Andrea Tate (Hope Davis), as well as his publisher, Shelton Fisher (Stanley Tucci), and the managing editor of Life magazine, Ralph Graves (Zeljko Ivanek), who is offering big bucks to serialize the book. As Irving gets deeper and deeper into the lies, he begins to embody Hughes, mimicking the way he looks and talks. The film features excellent performances all around, including star turns by Eli Wallach as longtime Hughes employee Noah Dietrich (a part played by John C. Reilly in Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR) and Julie Delpy as Nina Van Pallandt, a former flame of Irving's whom he can't shake loose. Director Hallström (MY LIFE AS A DOG, CHOCOLAT, THE CIDER HOUSE RULES) shows a deft hand with the complex material; William Wheeler based the script in part on Clifford Irving's own memoir. The soundtrack prominently features Richie Havens's version of "Here Comes the Sun," along with songs by Creedence Clearwater Revival. … more less -
She's So LovelyGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 1997 Run Time: 100 mins Released By: Cast: Sean Penn, Robin Wright Penn, John Travolta, Harry Dean Stanton, Debi Mazar Married mom Maureen and her doting husband, Joey, find their lives of domestic tranquillity rent asunder by the resurgence of Maureen's first husband, Eddie, an alcoholic so violent and obsessive that Maureen had him committed. But she's nonetheless torn between her present state of stability and the unequivocal passion of her former life. SHE'S SO LOVELY is a difficult, demanding romantic comedy with characters who wear their flaws proudly, directed by Nick Cassavetes from his late father John's unsold script; Sean Penn snagged the Best Actor award at Cannes. … more less -
FreshGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 1994 Run Time: 114 mins Released By: Miramax Echo Bridge Cast: Sean Nelson, Giancarlo Esposito, Samuel L. Jackson, N'Bushe Wright In this critically-acclaimed action drama a street-wise 12-year-old boy devises a dangerous plan to rid his neighborhood of its two competing drug dealers and save his sister. Using the type of thought he learned from playing chess with his father, the kid plays the thugs off one another, makes sacrifices when necessary, and wins the game. Winner of the Filmmaker's Trophy at the Sundance Film Festival. … more less -
Grifters, TheGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 1990 Run Time: 110 mins Released By: Platinum Disc, Llc Cast: Anjelica Huston, Annette Bening, John Cusack, Stephen Tobolowsky, Michael Laskin THE GRIFTERS is an intense character study of a group of people caught up in a world where nobody can be trusted. Stephen Frears presents this cool and brutal adaptation of Jim Thompson's stylish noir novel, which centers on the complex lives of three con artists. Shady Roy Dillon (John Cusack), a low-level Los Angeles con man and petty thief, and Roy's sexy, amoral girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening), a con artist who is down on her luck and willing to do whatever it takes to get back on top of her game; are the focal point of the action. Rounding out the trio is Roy's mother, Lilly (Angelica Huston), a veteran con artist who shares little with Roy other than a bizarre oedipal attraction. The seedy underbelly of LA life is played out in evocative tableaux, as Myra and Lilly compete for Roy's attention until they ultimately drive him away. … more less -
In the Name of the FatherGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating R Production Year: 1993 Cast: Daniel Day-Lewis, Emma Thompson, John Lynch, Corin Redgrave, Mark Sheppard Based on Gerry Conlon's autobiography, PROVED INNOCENT, Jim Sheridan's IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER tells the tumultuous and wrenching tale of a man wrongfully imprisoned in 1974 for the bombing of a London pub. Daniel Day-Lewis stars as Conlon, a young Irish petty thief living in London who gets picked up after he and a friend, Paul Hill (John Lynch), rob a hooker's apartment. The British police, desperate to produce results in their search for the culprits in the pub bombing, force a false confession out of Conlon after subjecting him to days of sadistic torture and threats. The Guildford Four--Conlon, Hill, Paddy Armstrong (Mark Sheppard), and Carole Richardson (Beatie Edney)--are found guilty of the bombing, and members of Conlon's family, including his sickly father, Guiseppe, are imprisoned as co-conspirators. Conlon's desire to bring the truth to light builds as his harrowing incarceration in a maximum security prison stretches on. The relationship between Conlon and his father, played with silent strength by Pete Postlethwaite, provides a stirring pulse at the core of this portrait of politically motivated injustice. Emma Thompson also turns in a fine performance as the lawyer who stubbornly battles for Conlon's exoneration. And Day-Lewis, who won the Academy Award for Best Actor in MY LEFT FOOT, an earlier collaboration with director Sheridan, adds to his impressive body of work with a mind-boggling performance erupting with rage, pride, heart, and courage. … more less -
Officer and a Gentleman, AnGenre: Dramas Release Date: 05/07/2013 Rating Production Year: 1982 Cast: Richard Gere, Debra Winger, David Keith, Louis Gossett, Robert Loggia Zack Mayo (Richard Gere) has nothing--the son of an alcoholic, indifferent military father, he's grown up in the Philippines living on top of a brothel. But after college he decides he wants more and, despite his father's mockery, enrolls in the navy's Officer Candidate School to become a jet pilot. His sergeant, brilliantly played by Louis Gossett Jr., makes his life a living hell from day one, but Zack won't quit. The candidates are warned to stay away from the local girls looking for naval husbands, but Zack and his bunkmate, Sid (David Keith), find themselves falling for two friends, Paula (Debra Winger) and Lynette (Lisa Blount), who work at the local paper mill. Zack fights his feelings for Paula, determined to let nothing sway him from his goals. But as the hellish weeks of training go by, Zack begins to see that maybe he can't do it alone--and that what's getting him through are his friends in the ranks, and the girl he's been pushing away. Widely acclaimed at the time of its release, director Taylor Hackford's inspiring film is a romance for the ages. … more less
