DVD & Blu-rays Released July 20, 2004

Tuesday, July 20

Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen PG

When a New York City teenager from Greenwich Village, Lola (Lindsay Lohan), is forced to move to the New Jersery suburb of Dellwood, she finds that in her new school, there is another girl, Carla Santini (Megan Fox), who already has claim to the title of most popular girl that Lola had at her old school. Aiming to oust Carla from her reign, Lola sets her sights on nabbing the lead role in the next big school play ("Pygmalion"), which Carla also hopes to star in. As the two girls engage in a war for popularity, Carla lashes back at Lola by obtaining tickets to the sold-out "farewell concert" of Lola's favorite band. Can Lola somehow sneak into the concert and quell Carla's latest scheme, and at the same time meet the band's English lead singer, Stu Wolff (Adam Garcia), whom she has such a crush on?
Lindsay Lohan, Jerry Leider, Gail Parent, Adam Garcia, Alison Pill, Sheila McCarthy, Carol Kane, Sara Sugarman
Comedy Teen

Starsky & Hutch PG-13

In "Starsky & Hutch", the origins of the charismatic crime-fighting duo David Starsky and Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson are explored when these undercover Bay City detectives are partnered for their very first assignment. Ben Stiller plays the tightly wound Detective David Starsky who is thrown together with Owen Wilson's easygoing Detective Ken Hutchinson on a high-stakes case. Platinum-selling rapper and actor Snoop Dogg plays their savvy street informant Huggy Bear. Vince Vaughn also joins the cast as Reese Feldman, a smooth-talking entrepreneur with an eye towards the future.
Snoop Dogg, Vince Vaughn, Akiva Goldsman, Owen Wilson, Jason Bateman, Todd Phillips, Ben Stiller, Alan Riche
Action Adventure Comedy Crime Gangster Based on TV

The Human Stain R

Set in a small New England college town, this drama follows the story of a respected classics professor with a terrible secret. His life starts crumbling after an affair with a young janitor is uncovered and the secret he had harbored for over 50 years is about to explode in a conflagration of devastating consequences.
Nicole Kidman, Ed Harris, Robert Benton, Anthony Hopkins, Gary Sinise, Clark Gregg, Nicholas Meyer, Tom Rosenberg
Drama Romance
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Seaside

This film tells the stories of the locals living in a resort town in northern France so renowned for its pebble-covered beach that the central character, Marie (Helene Fillieres), works at a pebble processing factory. As the town changes seasonally from being completely empty in the winter and crowded during the summer, the working class lives of the locals whose livelihoods depend upon the money spent while others have a great time on vacation go on...
Jonathan Zaccai, Ludmila Mikael, Liliane Rovere, Helene Fillieres, Jean-Michel Noirey
Drama Foreign

Broken Wings R

When her husband dies, an Israeli mother, Dafna (Orly Silbersatz Banai), must cope with both her own grief, that of her four children, and the economic problems that his passing leaves them with, as she tries to keep the family together and functioning.
Orly Silbersatz Banai, Yarden Bar-Kochba, Daniel Magon, Assaf Amir, Nir Bergman, Maya Maron, Nitai Gaviratz, Vladimir Friedman
Drama Foreign

The Big Bounce PG-13

Jack Ryan (Owen Wilson), a charming drifter, meets a beautiful criminal, Nancy Hayes, in a Michigan resort town. The powerful and rich local Mr. Majestyk wants Jack gone and Nancy all to himself.
Owen Wilson, Morgan Freeman, Gary Sinise, Charlie Sheen, George Armitage, Sara Foster, Bebe Neuwirth, Harry Dean Stanton
Comedy Thriller Crime

Bus 174

This documentary captures what happened in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on June 12th, 2000 when Bus 174 was highjacked by an armed young man, Sandro do Nascimento, with a dozen passengers. Nascimento threatened to kill all of the passengers, but eventuallly agreed to surrender, as TV cameras were rolling and an entire nation was glued to their screens watching the event take place. Then, a police officer decided to fire at Nascimento anyway, accidentally killing one of the female passengers instead. What followed was a revolt among the city's population, enraged at police brutality. The film intertwines the story of the standoff with biographical information about Sandro do Nascimento, including his childhood as a survivor of the "Candelaria" child mass murders in the early 1990s, and the trauma of seeing his mother stabbed to death in front of him.
Jose Padilha
Crime Gangster Documentary Foreign

Crimson Gold

A murder and a suicide occur early one morning in a jewelry store. Behind this headline lies the story of a desperate man's feelings of humiliation in a world of social injustice... When his friend Ali shows him the contents of a lost purse, Hussein cannot imagine the large sum of money marked on a receipt for an expensive necklace. He knows that his pitiful salary will never be enough to afford such luxury. Hussein feels even lower on the social scale when a smooth-talking professional thief mistakes the two friends for petty crooks. Hussein receives yet another blow when he and Ali are denied entry to an uptown jewelry store because of their appearance. Hussein's job delivering pizzas allows him a full view of the contrast between rich and poor. He motorbikes every evening to neighborhoods he will never live in for a closer look at what goes on behind closed doors. The hypocrisy of the system is thrown in his face wherever he turns. But Hussein will taste the luxurious life for one night before his deep feelings of humiliation push him over the edge.
Azita Rayeji, Pourang Nakhael, Hossain Emadeddin, Kamyar Sheisi, Shahram Vaziri
Drama Foreign

Tuesday, July 20