October 2009 DVD & Blu-rays

Amy Renner Amy Renner

Jun. 22, 2011

Best DVD & Blu-rays Released October 2009

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In Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies’ family comedy, Eddie Murphy stars as a successful financial executive who has more time for his blackberry than his seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi). When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter’s imaginary world.

Eddie Murphy, Ed Solomon, Nicole Ari Parker, DeRay Davis, Karey Kirkpatrick, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Chris Matheson, Thomas Haden Church

PG Comedy Family

84%

  • 3.4
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The noir thriller follows a couple who find their honeymoon to be a hellish adventure.

Ron Perlman, Thomas Jane, Tab Murphy, Lauren German

NR Drama Thriller Suspense

92%

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When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers (Jack Black and Michael Cera) are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.

Jack Black, David Cross, Vinnie Jones, Owen Wilson, Olivia Wilde, Christopher Mintz-Plasse, Oliver Platt, Hank Azaria

PG-13 Comedy

87%

  • 3.5
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After making a promise to keep rocking forever at age 14, the members of Anvil!, now in their 50s, begin work on their 13th album.

Sacha Gervasi

NR Documentary

50%

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Greg McLean's first acclaimed tour de force, "Wolf Creek," took audiences on a frightening, fact based road trip through the darkest parts of Australian Outback and the depraved human mind. Journeying home again, this time to the crocodile infested waters of Australia's remote wetlands, the director's wildlife boat tour is more down-under Jaws than Crocodile Dundee. Joining a beautiful local tour guide (Radha Mitchell) and an American writer on assignment (Michael Vartan), the rest of this thriller's food chain is composed of tourists and adventure seekers alike. Waiting in vain to be rescued on an ever-disappearing parcel of dry land, you will never guess their next move...as terror lies just beneath the surface.

Radha Mitchell, Michael Vartan, Sam Worthington, Heather Mitchell, Greg McLean, Geoff Morrell, Rob Taylor, Damien Richardson

R Drama Action Adventure Thriller

69%

  • 4.4
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The comedy will star Emma Roberts as a spoiled Malibu princess whose penchant for wildness drives her father to send her to a strict, all-girls English boarding school.

Daisy Donovan, Tim Bevan, Jessica Ritchie, Debra Hayward, Nick Moore, Eric Fellner, Diana Phillips, Lucy Dahl

PG-13 Comedy Family Kids 1 hr, 38 mins

95%

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The comedy, set in a Catholic high school, will follow Bobby Funke, a bullied sophomore investigating the theft of the school's SAT exams for St. Dominick's newspaper. Willis will play principal John T. Kirkpatrick, a Desert Storm veteran fond of recounting pungent anecdotes from his time liberating Kuwait and barking inspiring speeches such as: "Gentlemen, you are filth. Your parents have either spoiled or abused you to such a degree that your hearts have become black and lifeless. Your brains are warped, your souls doomed. There is no hope for any of you."

Kevin Jakubowski, Bruce Willis, Rumer Willis, Josh Pais, Doug Davison, Mischa Barton, Brett Simon, Bob Yari

R Drama Crime 1 hr, 30 mins

75%

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Four interwoven stories take place on Halloween with such characters as a high school principal who is a Halloween serial killer, a college-age virgin seeking that special guy, a woman who hates dressing up for Halloween and whose husband is obsession with the holiday and a group of young teens who pull a cruel prank.

Brian Cox, Dylan Baker, Bryan Singer, Alex Garcia, Mike Dougherty, Thomas Tull, John Jashni, Anna Paquin

R Horror

88%

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A comedy about a beleaguered Greek tourist guide.

Rachel Dratch, Donald Petrie, Gary Goetzman, Richard Dreyfuss, Tom Hanks, Nathalie Marciano, Mike Reiss, Nia Vardalos

PG-13 Adventure Comedy 1 hr, 38 mins

86%

  • 5
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A book editor is forced to marry her male assistant in order to stay in the country. When they travel to Alaska to meet his family, the new couple has to fake their way through a surprise wedding thrown by his parents.

Sandra Bullock, Todd LIeberman, Ryan Reynolds, Mary Steenburgen, Anne Fletcher, David Hoberman, Peter Chiarelli, Malin Akerman

PG-13 Comedy Romance

90%

  • 4
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A disgraced paleontologist, his assistant and a macho tour guide find themselves in a strange world inhabited by dinosaurs, monkey people and reptilian Sleestaks.

John Boylan, Jimmy Miller, Will Ferrell, Danny R. McBride, Adam McKay, Brad Silberling, Marty Krofft, Sid Krofft

PG-13 Action Adventure Comedy Fantasy

88%

  • 4.2
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A morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse.

Grant Curtis, Rob Tapert, Justin Long, Joe Drake, Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Jessica Lucas, Alison Lohman

PG-13 Drama Suspense Horror

86%

  • 3.7
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The film follows a special ops team carrying out a mission in Afghanistan that finds itself lost in a Bermuda Triangle-type vortex of ancient evil.

Jeremy Wall, Daniel Myrick, Zev Guber

Thriller Suspense Horror

60%

  • 2.5
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A high school student misrepresents himself as a figure from recent history, and draws a group of schoolmates and survivors into a community mourning a tragedy that never happened.

Laurent Petin, Atom Egoyan, Jennifer Weiss, Simone Urdl, Scott Speedman, Katie Boland, Arsinee Khanjian, Raoul Bhaneja

R Drama Teen 1 hr, 41 mins

42%

  • 3.5
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Two best friends in their early 30's living in New York city are looking for love in all the wrong places...

Vivica A. Fox, Justin Levine, Carlo Rota, Tony Nappo, Samantha Gutstadt, Steve Muzzo, Dan Eisen, Evan Shear

NR Comedy

79%

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Follows the plight of real-life dancers as they struggle through auditions for the Broadway revival of "A Chorus Line."

Adam Del Deo, James D. Stern

R Documentary

13%

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A woman takes on a powerful District Attorney in Texas when she was caught up in a drug raid.

Bill Haney, Tim Disney, Nicole Beharie

PG-13 Drama 1 hr, 43 mins

75%

  • 4
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This sequel promises more in the epic battle between the Autobots and the Decepticons. Shia LaBeouf's character Sam Witwicky is rumored to be a college student this time around.

Shia LaBeouf, Steven Spielberg, John Turturro, Michael Bay, Roberto Orci, Jon Voight, Tom DeSanto, Lorenzo di Bonaventura

PG-13 Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy Sci-Fi 2 hrs, 31 mins

96%

  • 4.1
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A morality tale about the unwitting recipient of a supernatural curse.

Grant Curtis, Rob Tapert, Justin Long, Joe Drake, Sam Raimi, Ivan Raimi, Jessica Lucas, Alison Lohman

PG-13 Drama Suspense Horror

86%

  • 3.7
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In Paramount Pictures and Nickelodeon Movies’ family comedy, Eddie Murphy stars as a successful financial executive who has more time for his blackberry than his seven-year-old daughter (Yara Shahidi). When he has a crisis of confidence and his career starts going down the drain, however, he finds the solution to all his problems in his daughter’s imaginary world.

Eddie Murphy, Ed Solomon, Nicole Ari Parker, DeRay Davis, Karey Kirkpatrick, Lorenzo di Bonaventura, Chris Matheson, Thomas Haden Church

PG Comedy Family

84%

  • 3.4
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"The Elephant King" is a provocative and stirring story of two American brothers, Oliver and Jake Hunt, adrift in an exotic world they don't fully understand. When a domineering mother dispatches her young, introverted son Oliver off to Thailand to do everything he can to lure his reckless, older brother back home to the United States to face pending fraud charges, Oliver finds the intoxication of Thailand hard to resist--especially when it has a face as alluring as Lek's. As Oliver falls deeply in love for the first time, Jake slips deeper into despair, and the seams of their relationship begin to come undone. When the true extent of Jake's decadence and self-destruction is revealed to Oliver, he is forced to decide whether he will save his brother's life or his own.

Tamar Sela, Tate Ellington, Seth Grossman, Emanuel Michael, Tom Waller, Jonno Roberts, Florence Faivre, Ellen Burstyn

R Drama

33%

  • 2
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Jake and Jessica must try to elude all obstacles, romantic or otherwise, to stay focused on the goal - winning the World Title and winning each other.

Amy Smart, Billy Zane, Robert Iscove, Tom Malloy, Betty White

PG-13 Drama Romance

67%

  • 5
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Set in 1920s Paris, the young son of a wealthy courtesan is educated in the ways of love by a middle-aged friend of the man's mother. When he is forced to give up the six-year relationship after marrying someone else, the young man can't forget her and retreats into a fantasy world.

Stephen Frears, Christopher Hampton, Rupert Friend, Bill Kenwright, Thom Mount, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates

R Drama Romance 1 hr, 40 mins

67%

  • 4
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Something happens to a bus transporting the country’s worst murderers to a high security prison, which leads the prisoners to escape. Unbeknownst to them, the wooden territory that they’re attempting to traverse through is inhabited by the infamous inbred family from the previous films.

Janet Montgomery, Turi Meyer, Declan O'Brien, Al Septien, Tamer Hassan, Chucky Venice, Jake Curran

Sequel Thriller Horror

86%

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Four ambitious and beautiful young women. From four very different corners of Mexico. Just like hundreds of others, they are caught up in the frenzy that sweeps the nation when Alejandro Mateos (Julio Bracho), one of the country's most powerful producers, dreams up a nationwide talent search to cast the lead in his next big movie.

Issa Lopez

PG-13 Comedy Musical 1 hr, 47 mins

0%

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Based on a book by Roberto Saviano, "Gomorra" takes an inside look at the Neapolitan mob.

Matteo Garrone, Domenico Procacci, Salvatore Abruzzese, Simone Sacchettino

R Drama Crime

40%

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The sub-zero heroes from the worldwide blockbusters “Ice Age” and “Ice Age: The Meldown” are back, on an incredible adventure...for the ages. Scrat is still trying to nab the ever-elusive nut (while, maybe, finding true love); Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mini-mammoth, Sid the sloth gets into trouble when he creates his own makeshift family by hijacking some dinosaur eggs; and Diego the saber-toothed tiger wonders if he’s growing too “soft” hanging with his pals. On a mission to rescue the hapless Sid, the gang ventures into a mysterious underground world, where they have some close encounters with dinosaurs, battle flora and fauna run amuck – and meet a relentless, one-eyed, dino-hunting weasel named Buck.

Lori Forte, Carlos Saldanha, Mike Thurmeier, John C. Donkin, Peter Ackerman, Michael Berg, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo

PG Action Adventure Comedy Sequel Family Kids Animation 1 hr, 34 mins

94%

  • 4
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The tragic loss of their unborn child has devastated Kate and John, taking a toll on both their marriage and Kate's fragile psyche as she is plagued by nightmares and haunted by demons from her past. Struggling to regain some semblance of normalcy in their lives, the couple decides to adopt another child. At the local orphanage, both John and Kate find themselves strangely drawn to a young girl named Esther. Almost as soon as they welcome Esther into their home, however, an alarming series of events begins to unfold, leading Kate to believe that there's something wrong with Esther--this seemingly angelic little girl is not what she appears to be. Concerned for the safety of her family, Kate tries to get John and others to see past Esther's sweet facade. But her warnings go unheeded until it may be too late...for everyone.

Jennifer Davisson, Alex Mace, Peter Sarsgaard, Jaume Collet-Serra, Joel Silver, Susan Downey, David Leslie Johnson, Vera Farmiga

R Suspense Horror

83%

  • 4
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The action takes place on Halloween night, when a videostore clerk, Stan Helsing, must reluctantly save a town from the six most-feared monsters in cinematic history.

Bo Zenga, Diora Baird, Kenan Thompson, Steve Howey, Leslie Nielsen

R Comedy 1 hr, 30 mins

59%

  • 2.3
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A highly eccentric character played by Larry David runs into a young girl from the South and soon after, her mother and soon after, her father. The three of them, along with Larry David's crazy Greenwich Village friends, get into a series of highly improbable, far out, romantic entanglements.

Henry Cavill, Michael McKean, Stephen Tenenbaum, Patricia Clarkson, Woody Allen, Letty Aronson, Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood

PG-13 Comedy Romance

43%

  • 3
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If there's one thing everyone can agree on, it's that family time isn't always a walk in the park. In Nothing Like the Holidays, two of today's most talented actors, John Leguizamo and Freddy Rodriguez, join Debra Messing, Alfred Molina, and director Alfredo de Villa to tell the humorous and heartwarming story of one unforgettable family holiday. It's Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents' home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother's safe return from combat overseas. For Jesse (Freddy Rodriguez), coming home has rekindled feelings for an old flame, although she can't seem to forgive him for leaving. His older sister Roxanna, a struggling actress, has been chasing her Hollywood dreams for years with little to show for it. And much to the dismay of their mother Anna (Elizabeth Peña), eldest brother Mauricio (John Leguizamo) brings home a high-powered executive wife (Debra Messing) who would rather raise capital than a child. In the course of one eventful week, traditions will be celebrated, secrets revealed and major life decisions made. It all begins when Anna announces to her children she is divorcing their father Eduardo (Alfred Molina). The shock waves from this familial upheaval prompt Roxanna, Mauricio and Jesse, each in their own way, to reevaluate the past and rethink the future. But when the Rodriguezes learn that one of their own is facing a true crisis, they instinctively pull together: Old resentments are forgotten, familial bonds are re-affirmed and the healing power of laughter works its magic as the family discovers they are much stronger than they ever realized.

Debra Messing, Alfredo De Villa, Robert Teitel, Rick Najera, Ted Perkins, Alison Swan, John Leguizamo, Freddy Rodriguez

PG-13 Drama Family 1 hr, 39 mins

A remake of The Postman always Rings Twice.

Christian Petzold

Drama

100%

  • 5
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The story of Italian Prime Minister Giulio Andreotti.

Paolo Sorrentino, Toni Servillo

Drama

Three young ad-men enter the woods for a photo shoot, but a girlfriend's mysterious disappearance sparks a harrowing descent into unreality.

Graham Reznick

Horror

63%

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Through a series of events which are beyond their control, a cop loses his gun and a terrorist loses his heart in Mumbai.

Indrajit Nattooji

NR Comedy

50%

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Top October 2009 Movie Trailers

Land of the Lost Theatrical Trailer
Drag Me to Hell Theatrical Trailer
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