DVD & Blu-rays Released August 12, 2003

Tuesday, August 12

Head of State PG-13

Rock stars as Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, who's about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee -- for President of the United States. Bernie Mac stars as Gilliam's older brother Mitch, who becomes his running mate, Robin Givens is the ex-girlfriend who dumped Gilliam, but who has a sudden change of heart when she sees a chance at becoming First Lady, Dylan Baker plays Gilliam's campaign manager; Tamala Jones is Lisa, the woman who believes in Gilliam, and Lynn Whitfield stars as Gilliam's reluctant advisor.
Chris Rock, Tamala Jones, Bernie Mac, Lynn Whitfield, Dylan Baker, Jude Ciccolella, Robin Givens, Stephanie March
Comedy

The Lizzie McGuire Movie PG

Graduating from junior high school, Lizzie McGuire (Hillary Duff) goes to Italy for her summer vacation. Lizzie's inner thoughts are represented on the screen in the form of an animated version of herself...
Hilary Duff, Yani Gellman, Jim Fall, Adam Lamberg, Robert Carradine, Hallie Todd, Jake Thomas, Alex Borstein
Comedy Teen Based on TV

Cradle 2 the Grave R

When an international criminal (Mark Dacascos) kidnaps the daughter of a gang leader (DMX) and demands extremely rare "black diamonds" in exchange for her safety, it forces the gangster to align with a Taiwanese Intelligence Agent (Jet Li) to find and procure the jewels... even as they discover that the bad guy wants them so that he can build a dangerous new weapon that could jeopardize the entire world.
Joel Silver, Channing Gibson, DMX, Jet Li, Andrzek Bartkowiak, Reggie Rock Bythewood, Joseph O'Brien, Mark Dacascos
Action Thriller Crime
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He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not PG-13

Rising young artist Angelique (Audrey Tautou) lives in a candy-colored fantasy world. From the moment she flashes her smile and persuades a flower shop owner to deliver a surprise single rose to her lover Loic (Samuel Le Bihan), the world has – again – fallen under her spell. In the glorious throes of true love, Angelique is happily planning her future: a career as a painter and a future with Loic… what more could she desire? But things are rarely as they seem and Loic, a married cardiologist, has a slightly more jaded take on their affair…
Audrey Tautou, Samuel Le Bihan, Isabelle Carre, Clement Sibony
Thriller Suspense Romance Foreign

House of 1000 Corpses R

Set in the 1970's, two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of the thousand horrors that await.
Michael J. Pollard, Rob Zombie, Karen Black, Chris Hardwick, Bill Moseley, Sid Haig, Sheri Moon, Jeanne Carmen
Horror

Amen.

Newly commissioned SS Lieutenant and respected civilian chemist, Kurt Gerstein, discovers that the Zyklon B pellets he has developed to disinfect soldiers' drinking water are being used to gas interred Jews by the thousands. Recruited to help streamline the death camp process by a team of SS officers, Gerstein secretly approaches the Swedish Consulate, the German Protestant community and finally Vatican representatives in the hopes of exposing this unspeakable crime. The only one who listens is Father Ricardo, a young Jesuit priest with deep family connections at the Vatican. Ricardo promises Gerstein he will alert the Pope to the Jewish genocide in hopes that the pontiff will reveal and denounce the Final Solution to the Christian world...
Ion Caramitru, Marcel Iures, Friedrich Von Thun, Antje Schmidt, Sebastian Koch, Angus MacInnes, Constantin Costa-Gavras, Ulrich Tukur
Drama Foreign

The Hunted

This is the story of an FBI "deep woods tracker" (Jones) who captures an assassin (Del Toro) who makes a sport of hunting deer hunters in the forests outside Portland. When he escapes in the city, the tracker must team up with a female FBI agent (Nielsen) to hunt the assassin down before he comes hunting for them... the assassin kills for fun
William Friedkin, Tommy Lee Jones, Benicio Del Toro, Connie Nielsen, Jenna Boyd
Action Thriller Crime

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