DVD & Blu-rays Released October 22, 2013

Tuesday, October 22

The Conjuring R

Revolves around ghosts and demonic possession.
Joey King, Patrick Wilson, Ron Livingston, James Wan, Carey Hayes, Vera Farmiga, Lili Taylor, Peter Safran
Thriller Suspense Horror

The Way, Way Back PG-13

Follows a teen boy who struggles to find himself as he comes to terms with his unattentive mother and cheating stepfather during summer vacation.
Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Allison Janney, AnnaSophia Robb, Nat Faxon, Sam Rockwell, Jim Rash, Kevin J. Walsh
Drama Comedy

Blue Jasmine PG-13

No plot details available yet for Woody Allen's ensemble comedy.
Cate Blanchett, Alec Baldwin, Andrew Dice Clay, Peter Sarsgaard, Michael Stuhlbarg, Woody Allen, Bobby Cannavale, Louis C.K.
Drama Comedy
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The Internship PG-13

Two fortysomething friends get laid off from work. Convinced they’ve gone about managing their careers entirely wrong, they resolve to become interns at a Google-like dotcom and start anew. But they soon discover they must compete against wily, fresh-faced 22-year-olds to advance in the company.
Owen Wilson, Josh Gad, Will Ferrell, John Goodman, Rose Byrne, Vince Vaughn, Shawn Levy, Aasif Mandvi
Comedy

I Give it a Year R

Revolves around the comedic trials and tribulations of a pair of newlyweds during their first year as a married couple.
Olivia Colman, Simon Baker, Rose Byrne, Jason Flemyng, Dan Mazer, Eric Fellner, Anna Faris, Stephen Merchant
Comedy Romance

Only God Forgives R

Set in the worlds of gambling, boxing and prostitution in Bangkok, a British gangster takes refuge in Thailand where he and a Thai police lieutenant settle their differences in a Thai-boxing match.
Ryan Gosling, Luke Evans, Nicolas Winding Refn, Kristin Scott Thomas, Tom Burke
Thriller Suspense

As Cool as I Am R

A smart teenage girl comes of age in a small town with her self-centered parents who had her when they were teenagers.
Sarah Bolger, Virginia Spragg, James Marsden, Claire Danes, Peter Fonda, Jon Tenney, Anika Noni Rose, Max Mayer
Drama Comedy
92 mins

Shepard & Dark

Sam Shepard and Johnny Dark met in Greenwich Village in the early 1960s and, despite leading very different lives, remained close friends ever since. Shepard became a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright (Buried Child) and an Academy Award-nominated actor (The Right Stuff), while Dark was a homebody who supported himself with odd jobs. Through the decades, they stayed bonded by family ties. Dark married an older woman named Scarlett and Shepard married her daughter. For years, the two couples lived together, until Shepard broke away for a relationship with Jessica Lange in 1983, leaving Johnny to help father his first son. Nevertheless, he and Dark continued writing to each other, amassing hundreds of letters.

Director Treva Wurmfeld began filming the two friends in 2010 during a period of transition and reflection for Shepard. At the time, he had quietly ended his relationship with Lange and agreed to publish his correspondence with Dark. The task required them to meet and sift through years of their shared history, stirring memories both good and bad. Wurmfeld observes the two men over a period of 18 months and captures an indelible portrait of a complex male friendship rarely depicted on screen.
Treva Wurmfeld
Documentary

Just Like a Woman R

Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), 26, an immigrant from North Africa, runs her in-laws’ mini market in Chicago. She’s married to Mourad, a man who can’t stand up to his authoritarian mother. Mona is harassed by her mother-in-law because after five years of marriage, she hasn’t be able to get pregnant, something that’s considered a shame and a taboo in her culture.

Marilyn (Sienna Miller), 29, is a receptionist at a computer repair company. Her marriage with Harvey is on the ropes. The only thing in her life that makes her happy is her belly dance class, a passion shared by Mona. Dancing at family gatherings lifts her spirits up and makes her forget the misery of her daily life. Marilyn shops at Mona’s mini-market. They’ve become friends.

One morning, Mona’s mother-in-law is found dead in her bed. Mona realizes that she mixed the wrong dose while preparing her medicine. Realizing that she might be accused of murder, Mona runs away and flees Chicago by bus.

Marilyn loses her job because of the recession. When she gets home, she finds out that her husband is cheating on her. With nothing left to lose, Mona decides to go to Santa Fe to enter a contest hoping to join a famous belly dance company. Mona and Marilyn run into each other on a rest area on the side of a highway. They decide to continue the trip together. They cross the USA, pitching their tent in trailer parks and in the middle of the desert. They earn some cash belly-dancing together in restaurants and bars.

Back in Chicago, Mona is considered a fugitive; she’s wanted for the murder of her mother-in-law. Harvey asks the police to look for Marilyn who disappeared without leaving a trace.

Will Marilyn succeed in joining the belly dance company? How long will Mona be able to keep her secret from Marilyn? And how long will she be able to escape the law?
Golshifteh Farahani, Sienna Miller, Marion Doussot, Joelle Touma, Roschdy Zem, Rachid Bouchareb, Bahar Soomekh, Tim Guinee
Drama

Before Midnight R

The drama picks up with Jesse (Ethan Hawke) and Celine (Julie Delpy) two decades after their first meeting on a train bound for Venice. This time, the story of the star-crossed lovers takes place just before the clock strikes midnight.
Ethan Hawke, Ariane Labed, Richard Linklater, Julie Delpy, Seamus Davey-Fitzpatrick
Drama Sequel
81 mins

The Waiting Room NR

Puts a very human face on the debate around health care by taking us behind the doors of Oakland's Highland Hospital, a safety-net hospital fighting for survival while weathering the storm of a persistent economic downturn. The film, employing a composite day-in-the-life structure offers a raw, intimate, and often uplifting look at how patients, staff and caregivers cope with disease, bureaucracy, frustration, hope and hard choices.
Peter Nicks
Documentary
87 mins

Leviathan NR

A documentary that takes you deep inside the dangerous world of commercial fishing. Set aboard a hulking fishing vessel as it navigates the treacherous waves off the New England coast—the very waters that once inspired Moby Dick—the film captures the world of the fishermen in starkly haunting, yet beautiful detail.
Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
Documentary
102 mins

Molly's Theory of Relativity

A recently unemployed astronomer makes a reckless decision on Halloween.
Jeff Lipsky, Sophia Takal, Adam LeFevre, Nick Athas, Reed Birney, Cady Huffman, Lawrence Michael Levine
Drama Family

Tuesday, October 22