DVD & Blu-rays Released February 20, 2007

Tuesday, February 20

For Your Consideration PG-13

Three actors learn their respective performances in the film "Home for Purim," a drama set in the mid-1940s American South, are generating award-season buzz.
Ricky Gervais, Rachael Harris, Parker Posey, Eugene Levy, Paul Dooley, Jane Lynch, Christopher Moynihan, Harry Shearer
Comedy

Flushed Away PG

Roddy is a decidedly upper-crust society rat who makes his home in a posh Kensington flat, complete with two hamster butlers named Gilbert and Sullivan. When a common sewer rat named Syd comes spewing out of the sink and decides he's hit the jackpot, Roddy schemes to rid himself of the pest by luring him into the whirlpool. Syd may be an ignorant slob, but he s no fool, so it is Roddy who winds up being flushed away into the bustling sewer world of Ratropolis. There Roddy meets Rita, an enterprising scavenger who works the sewers in her faithful boat, the Jammy Dodger. Roddy immediately wants out, or rather, up; Rita wants to be paid for her trouble; and, speaking of trouble, the villainous Toad who royally despises all rodents wants them iced literally. The Toad dispatches his two hapless hench-rats, Spike and Whitey, to get the job done. When they fail, the Toad has no choice but to send to France for his cousin that dreaded mercenary, Le Frog.
Hugh Jackman, Andy Serkis, Peter Lord, Ian McKellen, Henry Anderson, David Bowers, Sam Fell, Dick Clement
Comedy Family Kids Animation

The Prestige PG-13

Christian Bale and Hugh Jackman will play rival magicians in turn-of-the-century London who battle each other for trade secrets. The rivalry is so intense that it turns them into murderers.
Hugh Jackman, Christopher Nolan, Scarlett Johansson, Jonathan Nolan, Christian Bale, David Bowie, Ezra Buzzington, Michael Caine
Thriller Supernatural
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Crossover PG-13

Noah Cruise, a naturally talented basketball player, is determined to become a doctor using his basketball scholarship to UCLA pre-med, rather than succumbing to the lure of a former sports agent Vaughn, and his push for Noah to go for the NBA. Noah's best friend, Tech, the buddy that covered for him and did time for an assault charge, is also an outstanding basketball player, but has less lofty ambitions--he wants to get his GED and win an underground street ball game against an arrogant rival, Jewelz. Noah and Tech's lives drastically change when they both fall in love with two local girls, Vanessa Lilly and Eboni Jackson, and take a fateful trip out to L.A. together.
Anthony Mackie, Wesley Jonathan, Allen Payne, Preston A. Whitmore, Wayne Brady, Kristen Wilson, Eva Pigford, Little JJ
Drama Action Sports

Man of the Year

Robin Williams will play a Jon Stewart-like host of a latenight political talkshow who runs for president to make noise on the campaign trail. The stunt backfires after a series of unusual circumstances leads him to victory.
Laura Linney, Barry Levinson, Jeff Goldblum, Christopher Walken, Robin Williams, Lewis Black
Comedy Political

Babel R

Armed with a Winchester rifle, two Morrocan boys set out to look after their family's herd of goats. In the silent echoes of the desert, they decide to test the rifle… but the bullet goes farther than they thought it would.

In an instant, the lives of four separate groups of strangers on three different continents collide. Caught up in the rising tide of an accident that escalates beyond anyone's control are a vacationing American couple (Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett), a rebellious deaf Japanese teenager and her father, and a Mexican nanny who, without permission, takes two American children across the border. None of these strangers will ever meet; in spite of the sudden, unlikely connection between them, they will all remain isolated due to their own inability to communicate meaningfully with anyone around them.
Elle Fanning, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Steve Golin, Jon Kilik, Guillermo Arriaga, Brad Pitt, Koji Yakusho
Drama

Shut Up and Sing

Award winning documentarian Barbara Kopple (American Dream; Harlan County, U.S.A.) and Cecilia Peck created the movie, centering on the aftermath of Chicks singer Natalie Maines' infamous statement at a 2003 London concert: "Just so you know, we're ashamed the president of the United States is from Texas." The film chronicles the death threats the band received, as well as political attacks, radio and sales boycotts.
Emily Robison, Martie Maguire, Natalie Maines, Simon Renshaw
Documentary Music

Tuesday, February 20