DVD & Blu-rays Released April 19, 2005

Tuesday, April 19

114 mins

Meet the Fockers PG-13

Now that Greg Focker is in with his soon-to-be in-laws, Jack and Dina Byrnes, it looks like smooth sailing for him and his fiancée, Pam. But that's before Pam's parents meet Greg's parents, Bernie and Roz Focker. The hyper-relaxed Fockers and the tightly-wound Byrneses are woefully mismatched from the start, and no matter how hard Greg and Pam try, there is just no bringing their families together.
Jay Roach, Robert De Niro, Jane Rosenthal, Blythe Danner, Nancy Tenebaum, Jim Herzfeld, Tim Rasmussen, Vince DiMeglio
Comedy Sequel
100 mins

Birth R

Anna is a young widow who is finally getting on with her life after the death of her husband, Sean. Now engaged to be married, Anna meets a ten-year-old boy who tells her he is Sean reincarnated. Though his story is both unsettling and absurd, Anna can't get the boy out of her mind. And much to the concern of her fiancée, her increased contact with him leads her to question the choices she has made in her life.
Arliss Howard, Peter Stormare, Jonathan Glazer, Milo Addica, Cameron Bright, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche, Lizie Gower
Drama Romance

Riding the Bullet

The supernatural thriller takes place on Halloween in 1969, following 21-year-old New England college student Alan Parker (Jonathan Jackson). Distraught that his girlfriend (Erika Christensen) has broken up with him, he attempts suicide but fails and then learns that his beloved mother (Barbara Hershey) has had a stroke. Hitchhiking through rural Maine to visit her bedside, the young man is picked up by a mysterious driver (David Arquette) who carries his own haunting secrets.
Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Mick Garris, Barbara Hershey, Erika Christensen
Thriller Horror
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House of Flying Daggers PG-13

"House of Flying Daggers" is set in the year 859AD as China's once flourishing Tang Dynasty is in decline. Unrest is raging throughout the land, and the corrupt government is locked in battle with rebel armies that are forming in protest. The largest, and most prestigious of these is the "House of Flying Daggers", which is growing ever more powerful under a mysterious new leader. Two local captains, Leo (Lau) and Jin (Kaneshiro) are ordered to capture the new leader and the two hatch an elaborate plan. Captain Jin will pretend to be a lone warrior called Wind and rescue the beautiful, blind revolutionary Mei (Ziyi), from prison, earning her trust and escorting her to the secret headquarters of the House of Flying Daggers. The plan works, but to their surprise, Jin and Mei fall deeply in love on their long journey to the House. Danger lurks in the forest surrounding them, and the wind is still, as if sensing the tension in the air. What lies ahead for Jin and Mei, these star-crossed lovers? If this is true love, then why are there plots in their heads, and secrets in their hearts?
Andy Lau, Bill Kong, Zhang Yimou, Ziyi Zhang, Anita Mui, Feng Lu
Action Adventure Romance Foreign
79 mins

Primer PG-13

At night and on weekends, four men in a suburban garage have built a cottage industry of error-checking devices. But, they know that there is something more. There is some idea, some mechanism, some accidental side effect that is standing between them and a pure leap of innovation. And so, through trial and error they are building the device that is missing most. However, two of these men find the device and immediately realize that it is too valuable to market. The limit of their trust in each other is strained when they are faced with the question, If you always want what you can't have, what do you want when you can have anything?
David Sullivan, Shane Carruth, Carrie Crawford, Casey Gooden, Upadhyaya, Keith Bradshaw, Jay Butler, Chip Carruth
Drama Fantasy Thriller Sci-Fi
119 mins

A Love Song for Bobby Long R

Upon hearing of her mother's death, jaded teenage loner Purslane Hominy Will (Scarlett Johansson) returns to New Orleans for the first time in years, ready to reclaim her childhood home. Expecting to find her late mother's house abandoned, Pursy is shocked to discover that it is inhabited by two of her mother's friends: Bobby Long (John Travolta), a former literature professor, and his young protégé, Lawson Pines (Gabriel Macht). These broken men, whose lives took a wrong turn years before, have been firmly rooted in the dilapidated house for years, encouraged only by Lawson's faltering ambitions to write a novel about Bobby Long's life. Having no intention of leaving, Pursy, Bobby Long and Lawson are all forced to live together. Yet as time passes, their tenuous, makeshift arrangement unearths a series of buried personal secrets that challenges their bonds, and reveals just how inextricably their lives are intertwined.
Scarlett Johansson, Bob Yari, Brad Krevoy, John Travolta, Clayne Crawford, Deborah Kara Unger, John Penotti, Tim Williams
Drama Comedy

Tuesday, April 19