DVD & Blu-rays Released February 23, 2010

Tuesday, February 23

115 mins

The Box PG-13

Norma and Arthur Lewis (Cameron Diaz and James Marsden) are a suburban couple with a young child who receive an anonymous gift bearing fatal and irrevocable consequences. A simple wooden box, it promises to deliver its owner $1 million with the press of a button. However, pressing this button will simultaneously cause the death of another human being somewhere in the world...someone they don't know. With just 24 hours to have the box in their possession, Norma and Arthur find themselves in the crosshairs of a startling moral dilemma and face the true nature of their humanity.
Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Richard Kelly, Frank Langella, Gillian Jacobs, Sue Baden-Powell, Richard Matheson, Basil Hoffman
Drama Thriller Supernatural
108 mins

Cirque Du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant PG-13

"Cirque Du Freak" tells the frightening tale of a boy who unknowingly breaks a 200-year-old truce between two warring factions of vampires. Pulled into a fantastic life of misunderstood sideshow freaks and grotesque creatures of the night, one teen will vanish from the safety of a boring existence and fulfill his destiny in a place drawn from nightmares.

14-year-old Darren (Chris Kelly) was like most kids in his suburban neighborhood. He hung out with his best friend, got decent grades and usually stayed out of trouble. But when he and his buddy stumble upon a traveling freak show, things begin to change inside Darren. That's the exact moment when a vampire named Larten Crepsley (John C. Reilly) turns him into something, well, bloodthirsty.

Newly undead, he joins the Cirque Du Freak, a touring sideshow filled with monstrous creatures from a snakeboy and a wolfman to a bearded lady (Salma Hayek) and a gigantic barker (Ken Watanabe). As Darren flexes his newfound powers in this dark world, he becomes a treasured pawn between the vampires and their deadlier counterparts. And while trying to survive, one boy will struggle to keep their brewing war from devouring what's left of his humanity.
Salma Hayek, John C. Reilly, Jane Krakowski, Brian Helgeland, Ken Watanabe, Michael Cerveris, Kristen Schaal, Ewan Leslie
Drama Adventure Fantasy
95 mins

Everybody's Fine PG-13

Robert De Niro plays a widower who realizes his only connection to his children was through his deceased wife. So, he decides to take a trip to reconnect with his kids, and discovers they are living far from perfect lives.
Kate Beckinsale, Kirk Jones, Robert De Niro, Gianni Nunnari, Drew Barrymore, Vittorio Cecchi Gori, Glynis Murray, Sam Rockwell
Drama Remake
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80 mins

Brief Interviews With Hideous Men NR

Julianne Nicholson stars as a grad student trying to cope with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with a wide variety of men.
Dominic Cooper, James Suskin, John Krasinski, Michael Cerveris, Will Forte, Christopher Meloni, Eva Kolodner, Yael Melamede
Documentary
87 mins

Examined Life

Filmmaker Astra Taylor accompanies some of today's most influential thinkers on a series of unique excursions through places and spaces that hold particular resonance for them and their ideas.
Astra Taylor, Bill Imperial, Lea Marin
Documentary
105 mins

Crude NR

Documentary focuses on the lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
Joe Berlinger
Documentary
78 mins

$9.99 R

A stop-motion animated story about people living in a Syndey apartment complex looking for meaning in their lives.
Tatia Rosenthal, Amir Harel, Emile Sherman, Etgar Keret
Animation

Motherhood PG-13

A mother prepares for her daughter's sixth birthday party but has no idea of the challenges she's about to face.
Katherine Dieckmann, Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards, Minnie Driver
Comedy
108 mins

The Informant! R

What was Mark Whitacre thinking? A rising star at agri-industry giant Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Whitacre suddenly turns whistleblower. Even as he exposes his company's multi-national price-fixing conspiracy to the FBI, Whitacre envisions himself being hailed as a hero of the common man and handed a promotion. But before all that can happen, the FBI needs evidence, so Whitacre eagerly agrees to wear a wire and carry a hidden tape recorder in his briefcase, imagining himself as a kind of de facto secret agent. Unfortunately for the FBI, their lead witness hasn't been quite so forthcoming about helping himself to the corporate coffers. Whitacre's ever-changing account frustrates the agents and threatens the case against ADM as it becomes almost impossible to decipher what is real and what is the product of Whitacre's rambling imagination. Based on the true story of the highest-ranking corporate whistleblower in U.S. history.
Melanie Lynskey, Steven Soderbergh, Tony Hale, Joel McHale, George Clooney, Gregory Jacobs, Jennifer Fox, Howard Braunstein
Action Adventure Crime
97 mins

The Damned United R

Set in 1960's and 1970's England, "The Damned United" tells the confrontational and darkly humorous story of Brian Clough's doomed 44 day tenure as manager of the reigning champions of English football Leeds United. Previously managed by his bitter rival Don Revie, and on the back of their most successful period ever as a football club, Leeds was perceived by many to represent a new aggressive and cynical style of football - an anathema to the principled yet flamboyant Brian Clough, who had achieved astonishing success as manager of Hartlepool and Derby County building teams in his own vision with trusty lieutenant Peter Taylor. Taking the Leeds job without Taylor by his side, with a changing room full of what in his mind were still Don's boys, would lead to an unheralded examination of Clough's belligerence and brilliance over 44 days. This is that story. The story of "The Damned United".
Michael Sheen, Tom Hooper, Peter Morgan, Timothy Spall
Drama
90 mins

The September Issue PG-13

The story of Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour and her team of editors creating the 2008 fall-fashion issue.
R.J. Cutler, Eliza Hindmarch, Sadia Shepard
Documentary
101 mins

Sorority Row R

Focuses on a group of sorority sisters murdered at a party after they accidentally kill a teacher.
Rumer Willis, Stewart Hendler, Pete Goldfinger, Jamie Chung, Matt Lanter, Mike Karz, Darrin Holender, Josh Stolberg
Thriller Suspense Horror Teen

The Vicious Kind R

A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, Alex Frost, J.K. Simmons, Lee Toland Krieger
Drama Comedy

Dead Snow

A ski vacation turns horrific for a group of teenagers, as they find themselves confronted by an unimaginable menace: Nazi zombies.
Tommy Wirkola, Tomas Evjen, Terje Stroemstad, Stig Frode Henriksen
Action Horror

Tuesday, February 23