DVD & Blu-rays Released November 9, 2004

Tuesday, November 9

93 mins

The Stepford Wives PG-13

Joanna (Nicole Kidman) and her husband (Matthew Broderick) move to the beautiful upper-class suburb of Stepford, where she soon starts to suspect something is strange and artificial about her new female neighbors. The wives living in the houses around them all seem to be too perfect, with bland, character-less personalities. Everyone that is, except her new friend Bobbie (Bette Midler), who as a cranky, sarcastic, non-exercising alcoholic still has some semblance of personality and independence. As Joanna and Bobbie investigate their neighbors further, they discover that there is indeed something artificial about them, something... robotic, the result of the husbands banding together to replace their human wives with cyborg copies who are subservient, sexually compliant and devoid of any distinguishing character traits. Will Joanna and Bobbie be the next ones replaced by perfect robotic clones?
Scott Rudin, Donald De Line, Nicole Kidman, Christopher Walken, Mike White, Jon Lovitz, Frank Oz, Gabriel Grunfeld
Comedy Romance
80 mins

Before Sunset R

Nine years ago, two strangers met by chance, spent a night together in Vienna, and parted before sunrise. Now, they're about to cross paths again—in Paris—where they will get the chance we all wish we had… to find out what might have been. The only problem is they have just a few hours to figure out if they belong together.
Ethan Hawke, Julie Delpy, Anne Walker-McBay, Isabelle Coulet, Richard Linklater, Vernon Dobtcheff, Louise Lemoine Torres, Rodolphe Pauly
Drama Sequel Romance

The Princess Blade R

Set in an unnamed country in a post-apocalyptic future, this is the story of a young female assassin, Yuki (Yumiko Shaku), who discovers that the leader of the band of outlaws she belongs to murdered her mother. Finding herself targeted for elimination after she confronts the group's leader about her mother's death, Yuki goes on the run from her former coworkers. Barely surviving an attack, she finds refuge with a young man who used to be a terrorist, with whom she gradually falls in love, but with trained killers getting closer and closer to finding her, can their love survive?
Shinsuke Sato, Yumiko Shaku, Hideaki Ito, Shiro Sano, Yoichi Numata, Kyusaku Shimada, Yoko Maki
Action Thriller Romance Foreign Martial Arts
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Rick R

Bill Pullman stars in the title role as Rick, a brown-nosing employee of a young, crass, and incredibly arrogant Wall Street success story (Aaron Stanford). When Duke (Stanford) isn't in the office, he's busy seducing Rick's teenage daughter Eve (Agnes Bruckner) via cyberspace. Meanwhile, a smooth-talking hit man (Dylan Baker) specializes in bumping off corporate bigwigs, which puts both of the men in a complicated and deadly situation.
Bill Pullman, Agnes Bruckner, Jim Czarnecki, Sofia Sondervan, Ruth Charny, Aaron Stanford, Dylan Baker, Sandra Oh
Drama

The Clearing R

Wayne (Robert Redford) and Eileen (Helen Mirren) Hayes live the American Dream. Together they've raised two children and struggled to build a successful business from the ground up. But there have been sacrifices along the way. When Wayne is kidnapped by an ordinary man, Arnold Mack (Willem Dafoe), and held for ransom in a remote forest, the couple's world is turned inside out. Eileen finds her home full of FBI Agents, their life under scrutiny. While Wayne is engaged in the negotiation of his lifetime, Eileen works frantically with the FBI to secure his release. The terrifying ordeal causes Wayne and Eileen to reassess their marriage and come to a deeper sense of their commitment to each other. With each passing hour, the need and desire for Wayne to return home safely becomes ever more urgent.
Helen Mirren, Robert Redford, Melissa Sagemiller, Palmer West, Jonah Smith, Pieter Jan Brugge, Justin Haythe, Willem Dafoe
Thriller Crime

Tuesday, November 9