DVD & Blu-rays Released August 23, 2011

Tuesday, August 23

The Beaver PG-13

A man walks around with a beaver puppet on his hand, treating it as something close to a human creature with human feelings.
Mel Gibson, Jennifer Lawrence, Jodie Foster, Steve Golin, Kyle Killen, Keith Redmon, Anton Yelchin, Michelle Ang
Drama Comedy
106 mins

Win Win R

A light-hearted comedy about how a rough-and-tumble runaway changes the lives of a suburban New Jersey family and turns around the luck of a high school wrestling team.
Paul Giamatti, Bobby Cannavale, Mary Jane Skalski, Joe Tiboni, Melanie Lynskey, Amy Ryan, Jeffrey Tambor, Tom McCarthy
Comedy
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90 mins

Troll Hunter PG-13

Focuses on a group of students who discover what they believe is a government conspiracy to keep the existence of trolls in the north of Norway hidden from the general public.
Hans Morten Hansen, John M. Jacobsen, Otto Jespersen, Andre Ovredal, Tomas Alf Larsen
Thriller Horror Documentary Foreign Mockumentary

Cold Fish

In the film, Shamoto’s teenage daughter is caught stealing, a generous stranger and his wife offer a solution – have the girl work at their tropical fish store. Too good to be true? You bet! Shamoto soon discovers the horrific truth about the seemingly perfect couple and their brutal business.
Sion Sono
Drama Thriller
121 mins

Road to Nowhere R

A noirish tale of a young filmmaker who becomes enmeshed in a criminal scheme while making a movie on location.
Waylon Payne, John Diehl, Steven Gaydos, Monte Hellman, Dominique Swain, Tygh Runyan, Shannyn Sossamon
Thriller Romance
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Hostage R

Bruce Willis stars as an LAPD hostage negotiator, who withdraws to the countryside to become chief of a two-man police department after a bloody standoff. Instead of achieving a sense of peace in the small town, he finds himself embroiled in negotiations to save his wife and daughter. Messner will play an FBI operative who comes onto the crime scene to work with Willis' character and retrieve computer disks.
Bruce Willis, Ben Foster, Jimmy Pinchak, Bob Yari, Rumer Willis, Arnold Rifkin, Doug Richardson, Jonathan Tucker
Drama Action Adventure Thriller Crime Gangster

Sympathy for Delicious R

A paralyzed DJ, "Delicious" Dean O'Dwyer, struggling to survive in his wheelchair on the streets of Los Angeles, turns to faith-healing and mysteriously acquires the ability to cure the sick -- although not himself. A Jesuit priest tries to help him come to terms with the limits of his gift, while a rock singer in a band tries to exploit the suddenly famous healer.
Mark Ruffalo, Juliette Lewis, Orlando Bloom, Laura Linney, Robert Stein, Matthew Weaver, Noah Emmerich, Chris Thornton
Drama Comedy
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Henry's Crime R

The film is a romantic comedy in which Keanu Reeves will play a big-hearted man who is falsely accused of robbing a bank in Buffalo.
Keanu Reeves, Vera Farmiga, Lemore Syvan, Sacha Gervasi, Peter Stormare, Stephen Hamel, James Caan, Malcolm Venville
Comedy Romance
90 mins

POM Wonderful Presents: The Greatest Movie Ever Sold PG-13

Morgan Spurlock examines the world of advertising by making a film financed entirely by product placement.
Morgan Spurlock, Keith Calder, Jeremy Chilnick
Documentary
106 mins

The Chameleon R

The reunion of a young man and his family after being positively identified in an unsolved missing-persons case. The reunion turns bittersweet when suspicions arise about whether he really is their son.
Nick Stahl, Famke Janssen, Bill Perkins, Natalie Carter, Ellen Barkin, Cooper Richey, Emilie de Ravin, Ram Bergman
Drama Thriller

Blitz R

A serial killer aims for tabloid immortality by executing cops in southeast London.
Jason Statham, Aidan Gillen, Paddy Considine, Nic Manzi, Zygi Kaminski, Donald Kushner, Nathan Parker, Elliott Lester
Drama Thriller Suspense
92 mins

The High Cost of Living NR

The story on the burgeoning relationship between an unlikely pair. Nathalie (Isabelle Blais) is expecting her first child and Henry (Zach Braff) is on his way to his next drug deal. Their paths fatefully collide one night in an event that will irrevocably change their lives.
Deborah Chow, Zach Braff, Isabelle Blais, Patrick Labbe
Drama
124 mins

Neds

In 1970s Glasgow, a bright boy named John sees very few options in his life. With no one willing to give him a chance, he descends into a life of crime.
Peter Mullan, Marianna Palka, Gregg Forrest, Richard Mack, Gary Milligan, Louise Goodall, Conor McCarron, Joe Szula
Drama
142 mins

Secret Sunshine

A mother moves with her son to the birthplace of dead husband. As she tries establish a new beginning, another tragedy overturns her life.
Chang-dong Lee
Drama

The Bleeding House NR

Meet the Smiths - parents, Marilyn and Matt, and teens, Gloria, 16, and Quentin, 18 - a family full of secrets who keep themselves to themselves living on a back road outside a small Midwestern town. In this tightly wound and visceral horror/thriller, their lives are turned upside down when a sweet-talking Texan arrives on their doorstep on a mission for retribution. Will he succeed in his goal to bleed them of their sins or will the family's haunted past prove to be even more deadly than he bargained for?
Patrick Breen, Charlie Hewson, Richard Bekins, Philip Gelatt, Alexandra Chando, Betsy Aidem, Nina Lisandrello
Thriller Horror
83 mins

My Dog Tulip

Based on the 1956 British novel by J.R. Ackerley, "My Dog Tulip" follows a 14-year friendship between Ackerley and his German Shepherd, Tulip, after the writer rescued the dog.
Sandra Fierlinger, Isabella Rossellini, Lynn Redgrave, Peter Gerety, Euan Morton, Norman Twain, Howard Kaminsky, Christopher Plummer
Adventure Family Kids Animated

Super Hybrid PG-13

While on a sailing trip, vacationing college students come across what appears to be an abandoned trawler. They soon discover it is the nest of a mutant creature, born of environmental abuse, who "fishes" for humans in the open water.
Neal Marshall Stevens, Melanie Papalia, Alex Leung, Shannon Beckner, Oded Fehr, Eric Valette, Kirk D'Amico, Ryan Kennedy
Thriller Suspense

Tuesday, August 23