DVD & Blu-rays Released April 28, 2009

Tuesday, April 28

The Reader R

A haunting love story based on the best-selling novel of the same name, "The Reader" is set in postwar Germany and tells the story of a man whose life has been shaped by an illicit affair with a passionate, elusive older woman during his youth.
Ralph Fiennes, Scott Rudin, David Hare, Kate Winslet, David Kross, Stephen Daldry, Anthony Minghella, Sydney Pollack
Drama Period
88 mins

While She Was Out

A suburban housewife is forced to fend for herself when she becomes stranded in a desolate forest with four murderous thugs. What starts off as a quick trip to the mall ends in the woods with a fight for her life. All she has is a toolbox and her will to survive.
Guillermo del Toro, Kirk Shaw, Kim Basinger, Lukas Haas, Susan Montford, Don Murphy, Luis Chavez, Leonard Wu
Drama Thriller
100 mins

Hotel for Dogs PG

"Hotel for Dogs", stars Emma Roberts, Jake T. Austin, Lisa Kudrow, Kevin Dillon and Don Cheadle in a smart, funny comedy adventure that shows how far love and imagination can take you. When their new guardians forbid 16-year old Andi (Roberts) and her younger brother, Bruce (Austin) to have a pet, Andi has to use her quick wit to help find a new home for their dog, Friday. The resourceful kids stumble upon an abandoned hotel and using Bruce's talents as a mechanical genius, transform it into a magical dog-paradise for Friday--and eventually for all Friday's friends. When barking dogs make the neighbors suspicious, Andi and Bruce use every invention they have to avoid anyone discovering "who let the dogs in."
Thor Freudenthal, Lauren Shuler Donner, Ivan Reitman, Tom Pollock, Lois Duncan, Jeff Lowell, Emma Roberts, Jimmy Bennett
Comedy Family
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107 mins

Nothing but the Truth R

Washington, DC political journalist Rachel Armstrong writes an explosive story about a government scandal in which she reveals the name of a covert CIA agent. When a special government prosecutor demands she divulge her source, she refuses and finds herself behind bars, struggling to defend the principles she has based her career upon.
Kate Beckinsale, Angela Bassett, Matt Dillon, David Schwimmer, Bob Yari, Edie Falco, Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman
Drama
103 mins

S. Darko R

The story, set seven years after the first film, follows Donnie Darko's sister, Samantha (Chase), who, in dealing with her broken family, flees town with her best friend (Evigan) when they are plagued by bizarre visions. Berkley is playing a speed freak turned Jesus freak whose sentiments about ridding the world of its exponential sin are rivaled only by her infatuation with her dreamy pastor.
Chris Fisher, Daviegh Chase, Elizabeth Berkley, Briana Evigan, Ed Westwick, Justin Chatwin
Drama Sequel Thriller Suspense
91 mins

Bride Wars PG

Liv (Kate Hudson) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) are best friends who since childhood have planned every detail of their respective weddings. At the top of their bridal "must have" list: a ceremony at New York's ultimate bridal destination, the Plaza Hotel.

Now, at age 26, they're both about to get married; they're about to realize their dreams; and they're about to live happily ever after.

Or maybe not...

When a clerical error causes a clash in wedding dates - they're now to be married on the same date! - Liv, Emma and their lifelong friendship are put to the ultimate test. Liv, a successful lawyer who is used to getting what she wants, including the perfect job and the perfect man, won't settle for anything less than the perfect wedding she has dreamed of for years. Emma, a schoolteacher who has always been good at taking care of others, but not so much in looking after herself, discovers her inner Bridezilla and comes out swinging when her own dream wedding is imperiled.

Now, the two best friends who'd do anything for each other, find themselves in a no-holds-barred, take-no-prisoners struggle that threatens to erupt into all-out war.
Julie Yorn, Alan Riche, Casey Wilson, Gary Winick, Kate Hudson, June Raphael, Greg DePaul, Anne Hathaway
Comedy Romance
87 mins

The Uninvited PG-13

After spending time in a mental institution, two sisters return home to their father. Their recovery is hindered by their cruel stepmother's obsessiveness and an interfering ghost.
Emily Browning, David Strathairn, Laurie MacDonald, Walter Parkes, Doug Davison, Tom Guard, Charlie Guard, Roy Lee
Thriller Horror Remake

Brideshead Revisited PG-13

The movie, based on the novel by Evelyn Waugh, is set in the years before World War Two, when Oxford student Charles Ryder gets entangled with the Marchmains, a seductive but troubled family of Anglo-Catholic aristocrats. Whishaw plays the alcoholic Sebastian, and Atwell his enigmatic sister Julia, between whom Charles (Goode) is caught in a forbidden love triangle. Gambon will play the dissolute patriarch Lord Marchmain, and Thompson his devout and controlling wife.
Emma Thompson, Matthew Goode, Julian Jarrold, Andrew Davies, Evelyn Waugh, Jeremy Brock, Michael Gambon, Ben Whishaw
Drama Romance

What Doesn't Kill You R

Brian and Paulie are two young punks running loose on the hard streets of South Boston. Coming from separate but equally broken homes, the boys bond of friendship makes them brothers. They do whatever it takes to survive, living by the code of their dog eat dog neighborhood.

As Brian (Mark Ruffalo) and Paulie (Ethan Hawke) get older, petty crimes and misdemeanors grow into more serious offenses. Eventually, they fall under sway to the organized crime boss Pat Kelly (Brian Goodman) who runs the felonious backroom businesses and illicit trades in Southie. They also find themselves the targets of unwanted attention from Detective Moran (Donnie Wahlberg) one of Boston’s finest. And Brian in particular becomes lost in haze of drugs and rebellion. Even the love he has for his wife Stacy (Amanda Peet) and his children isn't enough to redeem him.

In time, the friends find themselves in jail – just a part of doing business on the mean streets they call home. Although not gone away forever Brian and Paulie are incarcerated long enough to learn a few lessons, but will they lead to changed lives on the outside? A storm of trouble is brewing: Paulie has big plans to liberate them from their life of crime – just one more job – one last heist – a bold and potentially violent daylight robbery. But Brian has used his time in jail to make amends to his family and get clean. When Paulie comes to him for help, Brian must face the biggest challenge to his code of honor that he could ever imagine: stand by his friend or salvage his family … he cannot do both!

"What Doesn't Kill You" reveals the true life drama that writer/director Brian Goodman underwent in his struggle to honor the people he loved – on both sides of the law.
Mark Ruffalo, Bob Yari, Ethan Hawke, Brian Goodman, Rod Lurie, Marc Frydman, Paul T. Murray, Donnie Whalberg
Drama Crime Gangster

Tuesday, April 28