DVD & Blu-rays Released August 21, 2007

Tuesday, August 21

Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas

A reclusive college freshman has been privately writing his ingenious cool ideas in a notebook. When the journal is stolen, he goes on a cross-campus odyssey to retrieve the book.
John Cho, Patrick Fugit, Matthew Lillard, Scott Lew, Olivia Wilde, Cheryl Hines
Comedy
92 mins

Fast Track PG-13

Tom Reilly is a bit of an underachiever when it comes to his career (or lack thereof), but his adoring wife Sofia, a formidable lawyer, has always been happy to act as the breadwinner. With the birth of their first child, Sofia decides she wants to be a stay-at-home mom, so Tom needs to step up and take care of his growing family. Unfortunately he gets fired from his job in New York City and is forced to start working with his father-in-law in Sofia's hometown of Ohio. Tom soon clashes with his work colleagues, especially the outrageous Chip, who still carries a torch for Sofia from their high school days, and Sofia becomes increasingly uncomfortable staying home with their new baby. In doing all the right things for all the wrong reasons, the couple needs to get back to what they're good at, before their model family goes completely off track.
Jason Bateman, Harold Ramis, Tom Wilkinson, David Guion, Jesse Peretz, Mark Cuban, Zach Braff, Rachel Bilson
Comedy

Perfect Stranger R

"Perfect Stranger" focuses on Rowena Price (Halle Berry), a reporter for a major New York City newspaper who goes undercover to investigate the unsolved murder of one of her childhood friends. The path leads her directly into the office and the personal life of multi-millionaire Harrison Hill (Bruce Willis), CEO of a powerful advertising agency. Investigating him from all angles, Rowena assumes new identities in life and on line. She then harnesses the devastatingly effective tools of cyberspace in an attempt to bring her victim to justice.
James Foley, Elaine Goldsmith-Thomas, Jon Bokenkamp, Halle Berry, Bruce Willis, Gary Dourdan, Clea Lewis, Todd Komarnicki
Drama Thriller Suspense
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95 mins

Redline PG-13

A gorgeous young automobile fanatic and front to the hottest unsigned band on the West coast finds herself caught up in illegal drag-racing competitions organized for the pleasure of a bunch of bored billionaires.
Andy Cheng, Daniel Sadek, Robert Foreman, Faleolo Alailima, Monica Allgeier, Jorge Luis Alvarez, Jennifer Aspinwall
Action Adventure Thriller Suspense

Broken English PG-13

In a startling mature and nuanced performance, Parker Posey plays Nora Wilder, a thirty-something Manhattanite who is cynical about love and relationships, in this astute collaboration with first-time writer/director Zoe Cassavetes. Nora plugs away at her job in a posh downtown hotel and can't help but wonder what it is she has to do to find a relationship as ideal as her friend Audrey's (Drea De Matteo) "perfect marriage." It doesn't help that her overbearing mother (Gena Rowlands) takes every opportunity to remind Nora that she's still unattached. After a series of disastrous first dates, she meets Julien (Melvil Poupaud), a seemingly devil-may-care Frenchman with a passion for living. Expecting another disastrous ending, Nora tries to avoid making the same mistakes. She finds herself in Paris looking to break old patterns. Inevitably, Nora has to look inward before she can find a new outlook on life and most importantly, love.
Melvil Poupaud, Zoe Cassavetes, Parker Posey, Drea de Matteo, Justin Theroux, Peter Bogdanovich
Comedy Romance

The Lives of Others

A secret agent wiretaps the apartment of an artistic couple, and finds himself sucked into their lives, with tragic consequences.
Bob Weinstein, Harvey Weinstein, Sydney Pollack, Anthony Minghella
Drama Thriller

Tuesday, August 21