DVD & Blu-rays Released February 21, 2012

Tuesday, February 21

J. Edgar R

In 1935, J. Edgar Hoover forms the FBI and makes it an efficient crime-fighting organization — in part by harassing dissenters and building secret files on politicians. Hoover also fights the gangster wars in the ’30s and, later, the Mafia. He remains the FBI's director until his death in 1972.
Naomi Watts, Clint Eastwood, Ed Westwick, Josh Lucas, Dustin Lance Black, Jeffrey Donovan, Stephen Root, Brian Grazer
Drama Historical Crime

Tower Heist PG-13

Eddie Murphy and Chris Rock play Trump Tower janitors who scheme to rip off its luxury tenants.
Eddie Murphy, Bill Collage, Gabourey Sidibe, Ben Stiller, Brett Ratner, Adam Cooper, Nina Arianda, Matthew Broderick
Comedy Heist
104 mins

London Boulevard R

After release from prison, a South London criminal tries to give up the gangster life by becoming a handyman for a reclusive young actress.
Stephen Graham, William Monahan, Graham King, Keira Knightley, Colin Farrell, Ben Chaplin, Quentin Curtis, Ray Winstone
Drama Crime
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The Way PG-13

Martin Sheen plays Tom, an American doctor who comes to St. Jean Pied de Port, France to collect the remains of his adult son, killed in the Pyrenees in a storm while walking The Camino de Santiago, also known as The Way of St. James. Driven by his profound sadness and desire to understand his son better, Tom decides to embark on the historical pilgrimage, leaving his "California bubble life" behind.
Martin Sheen, Emilio Estevez, James Nesbitt, Deborah Kara Unger
Drama Comedy

Martha Marcy May Marlene R

The story centers on a young woman (Elizabeth Olsen) who is living with her older sister (Sarah Paulson) after escaping a cult.
Elizabeth Olsen, Antonio Campos, Sarah Paulson, Sean Durkin, Josh Mond, Hugh Dancy, Ted Hope
Drama

Five Star Day

The film is a journey of self-discovery about a guy (Cam Gigandet) who loses everything and must come to terms with what's most important in life.
Jena Malone, Mark Boone Junior, Danny Buday, Cam Gigandet, Will Yun Lee
Drama

The Son of No One R

A young cop is assigned to a precinct in the working class neighborhood where he grew up, and an old secret threatens to destroy his life and his family.
Channing Tatum, Juliette Binoche, Steve Golin, Ray Liotta, Dito Montiel, Gary Howsam, Holly Wiersma, James Gandolfini
Drama Action Thriller Crime

The Mighty Macs G

Set against the backdrop of the 1972 feminist movement, "Victory" tells the true story of sassy newlywed Cathy Rush (Gugino), who becomes the head basketball coach at a tiny, all-girls Catholic college, a team with no gym and no uniforms. She eventually leads the team to the first national championship in women's basketball, while the school's nuns fight to keep the owners from selling the institution and its land to developers.
Tim Chambers, Marley Shelton, Whitney Springer, Carla Gugino, David Boreanaz, Ellen Burstyn, James Rebhorn, Phyllis Somerville
Drama Sports
94 mins

Blank City

A disparate crew of renegade filmmakers who emerged from an economically bankrupt and dangerous moment in New York history.
Celine Danhier
Documentary

The Woman with the Five Elephants

Her father ends up in one of Stalin's prison camps and then young Svetlana experiences the German invasion. In order to survive she learns German at home in Kiev and gets work as a translator before ending up in a German camp in 1943. Now, 65 years later, she is a renowned translator who in her twilight years has translated the great works of Dostoevsky. For the first time in all these years, she returns to Kiev together with her granddaughter.
Vadim Jendreyko
Documentary

Octubre

Clemente, a moneylender of few words, is a new hope for Sofía, his single neighbor, devoted to the October worship of Our Lord of the Miracles. They're brought together over a new-born baby, fruit of Clemente's relationship with a prostitute who's nowhere to be found.
Daniel Vega Vidal, Diego Vega Vidal
Drama

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