Best DVD & Blu-rays Released November 2011
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Crazy, Stupid, Love
A father deals with a marital crises while managing a relationship with his children.
Ryan Gosling, Emma Stone, Steve Carell, John Requa, Julianne Moore, Denise Di Novi, Kevin Bacon, Vance Degeneres
Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Cars 2
All the world's a racetrack as racing superstar Lightning McQueen zooms back into action, with his best friend Mater in tow, to take on the globe's fastest and finest in this thrilling high-octane new installment of the "Cars" saga. Mater and McQueen will need their passports as they find themselves in a new world of intrigue, thrills and fast-paced comedic escapades around the globe.
Cheech Marin, Owen Wilson, Jason Isaacs, Peter Jacobson, Bonnie Hunt, Michael Caine, Michael Giacchino, John Ratzenberger
Adventure Comedy Sequel Family Kids Animated 3D Shot-In-3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer Water for Elephants
A 90-year-old man reminisces about his life during the Depression, when he found work at a B-level circus taking care of the animals. He sees the brutality of circus life while falling for the wife of an abusive animal trainer.
Reese Witherspoon, Richard LaGravenese, Francis Lawrence, Robert Pattinson, Gil Netter, Andrew Tennenbaum, Elizabeth Gabler, Hal Holbrook
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer Trespass
Four brutal perpetrators, looking for easy money, take a wife and husband hostage, but they run into complications with betrayal and deception.
Nicole Kidman, Nicolas Cage, Liana Liberato, Cam Gigandet, Irwin Winkler, John Thompson, Ben Mendelsohn, Avi Lerner
Action Adventure Crime
3 / 5
Play Trailer Bunraku
Set in a world with no guns, "Bunraku" follows a mysterious drifter, a young samurai and a bartender who plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.
Demi Moore, Ron Perlman, Woody Harrelson, Kevin McKidd, Josh Hartnett, Guy Moshe
Action Adventure Fantasy
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Set in 19th century remote China, the movie revolves around the lifelong friendship of Lily and Snow Flower and their imprisonment by rigid cultural codes of conduct for women.
Li Bingbing, Zhang Ziyi, Angela Workman, Wendi Murdoch, Ron Bass, Florence Sloan
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer Decisions
When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles, they quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry.
Corey Haim, Cisco Reyes, Jensen LeFlore
Drama Action Crime
The Nutcracker in 3D
1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary (Elle Fanning) lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Besieged by bratty brother Max (Aaron Drozin) and neglected by well intentioned but distracted parents (Richard E. Grant, Yuilya Vysotskaya), she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary’s beloved Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane) arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll. Later that night, Mary’s imagination brings the doll to life. Introducing himself as “NC,” he takes her on a wondrous journey though a stunning dimension where toys assume human form and everything appears ten times larger. But danger lurks. An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King (John Turturro) and his devious mother (Frances de la Tour), has unleashed a plot to overthrow humanity…… Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s timeless ballet, Nutcracker – The Real Story features eight songs from the famed composer, with original lyrics by multi Oscar winner Sir Tim Rice. Loaded with action, stunts and eye-popping visuals, the film also presents several eclectic dance numbers, along with a faithful adaptation of the original 1892 ‘Dance of the Snowflakes’ by legendary Russian choreographer Marius Petipa.
Elle Fanning, John Turturro, Nathan Lane, Andrei Konchalovsky, Chris Solimine
Drama 3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer Rejoice and Shout
A documentary that traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements.
Don McGlynn, Joe Lauro
Documentary
4 / 5
Play Trailer Magic Trip
A documentary about the psychedelic 1960s cross-country bus tour taken by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.
Alex Gibney, Allison Ellwood
Documentary
4 / 5
Play Trailer Tabloid
The salacious adventures of a beauty queen with an IQ of 168, whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography, magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.
Errol Morris
Documentary
3 / 5
Play Trailer 11-11-11
On 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th gate of Heaven will open up and something from another world will enter the earthly realm for 49 minutes.
Wayne Rice, Darren Lynn Bousman, Wendy Glenn, Timothy Gibbs, Richard Heller, Michael Landes, Denis Rafter, Brendan Price
Thriller Suspense Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer Hot Coffee
Focuses on ways corporations have used memories of seemingly outlandish legal verdicts, such as a million dollar judgment for a woman who spilled McDonald's hot coffee on herself, to promote tort reforms and to avoid jury trials through arbitration on cases that have merit.
Susan Saladoff
Documentary
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The Change-Up
A husband gets swapped with his best friend, a lazy man child.
Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Leslie Mann, Olivia Wilde, David Dobkin, Jeff Kleeman, Jon Lucas, Alan Arkin
Comedy
3 / 5
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Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Rick Schwartz, Ray Liotta, Sam Riley, Myles Nestel, Ray Winstone, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Drama Thriller Remake
3 / 5
Play Trailer Atlas Shrugged Part 1
After an economic collapse in the near-future United States, its top innovators and industrialists mysteriously disappear amid the growing power of politicians.
Harmon Kaslow, Nick Cassavetes, Patrick Fischler, Edi Gathegi, Michael Lerner, Graham Beckel, Paul Johansson, John Aglialoro
Drama Political
4 / 5
Play Trailer Life in a Day
Shot by filmmakers all around the world, the documentary aims to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the July 24, 2010.
Kevin Macdonald, Liza Marshall
Documentary
4 / 5
More Info Salvation Boulevard
A private detective investigates the killing of a professor and it becomes a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish.
Ed Harris, Pierce Brosnan, Jennifer Connelly, Cathy Schulman, Isabelle Fuhrman, Celine Rattray, Marisa Tomei, George Ratliff
Drama Crime Adaptation Mystery
4 / 5
Play Trailer Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls
A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.
Lynda Topp, Leanne Pooley, Jools Topp
Documentary
5 / 5
Play Trailer Putty Hill
At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life.
Matthew Porterfield
Drama
3 / 5
More Info Restitution
Set in a Michigan city where a series of mysterious murders all have an unlikely but common thread - a hired insurance fraud investigator who gets more than a paycheck when he is inexplicably killed and then framed for the crimes.
Mena Suvari, William Sadler, C. Thomas Howell, Tom Arnold, Lance Kawas, Mark Bierlein
Action Thriller
3 / 5
More Info Great Directors
Documentary with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles.
Angela Ismailos
Documentary
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Perfect Age of Rock And Roll
Two estranged childhood friends channel their talent and passion for music into a cross-country road trip that brings them face to face with their past on a quest to confront the future.
Kevin Zegers, Taryn Manning, Jason Ritter, Clifton Hangar, Scott Rosenbaum, Rose Atropos
Drama Music
4 / 5
Play Trailer In My Sleep
A man, who suffers from sleepwalking, wakes up in a graveyard with a bloody knife in his hand and then discovers that his best friend's wife has been stabbed to death.
Philip Winchester, Beth Grant, Lacey Chabert, Allen Wolf
Drama Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Human Resources Manager
The human resources manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery attempts to block the publication of a defamatory article and save the reputation of his business.
Mark Ivanir, Eran Riklis
Drama
5 / 5
More Info Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II
The final adventure of Harry Potter as he attempts to bring an end to his nemesis, Lord Voldemort.
Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Ralph Fiennes, Jason Isaacs, Helena Bonham Carter, David Heyman, David Thewlis, David Yates
Action Adventure Sequel Fantasy 3D Post-3D
4 / 5
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Larry Crowne
Story centers on a man forced to reinvent himself and find a new career as he navigates the second act of his life.
Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts, Taraji P. Henson, Cedric the Entertainer, Rami Malek, Bryan Cranston, Gary Goetzman, Nia Vardalos
Drama Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Flypaper
A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at the same bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.
Rob Minkoff, Patrick Dempsey, Jeffrey Tambor, Mark Damon, Tim Blake Nelson, Peter Safran, Jon Lucas, Scott Moore
Comedy Crime
3 / 5
Play Trailer Page One: A Year Inside the New York Times
In the tradition of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the film gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the public's main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.
Andrew Rossi
Documentary
5 / 5
Play Trailer Bellflower
A pair of eccentric L.A.-based friends spend their time preparing for the apocalypse.
Rebekah Brandes, Vincent Grashaw, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Evan Glodell
Drama Action
4 / 5
Play Trailer Beginners
Explores the hilarity, heartbreak and surprises of a son's discovery that his dying father is gay.
Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer, Melanie Laurent, Dean Vanech, Goran Visnjic, Mike Mills, Leslie Urdang, Lars Knudsen
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Griff the Invisible
Griff, a shy and awkward office worker by day, finds escape from his ordinary life by assuming the identity of a fantastic superhero each night. Griff's secret is jeopardized when he meets Melody, a cute but unconventional daydreamer.
Leon Ford, Ryan Kwanten
Comedy Romance
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Weird World of Blowfly
Documents story of Miami musician Clarence Reid and his alter ego Blowfly, the original dirty rapper. A major force in the Miami soul scene of the 60s and 70s, Reid wrote Top-10 songs for some of the greatest R&B acts of the era, while at the same time, his X-rated recordings and stage antics as Blowfly made him a star of the "party record" scene.
Jonathan Furmanski, Clarence Reid
Biography Documentary Music
Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropolis
Giorgio Moroder's 1984 version of Metropolis, which added a new score from '80s pop acts including Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury and Bonnie Tyler.
5 / 5
More Info Main Street
Set in Durham, North Carolina, the story of a decaying small town and its desperate hope for renewal.
Orlando Bloom, Colin Firth, Patricia Clarkson, Ellen Burstyn, Amber Tamblyn, John Doyle, Thom Mount, Horton Foote
Drama
3 / 5
More Info The Tree
After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots.
Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas, Julie Bertuccelli, Morgana Davies, Christian Byers
Drama Romance
4 / 5
More Info Turtle: The Incredible Journey
Turtle: The Incredible Journey is an award-winning film that follows the life and migration of a loggerhead turtle from hatching to maturity and a return to its original Florida nesting grounds. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, has one of the longest and most difficult migratory patterns of any marine animal: Sea turtles newly hatched on the East Coast of the United States (usually in Florida) make their way from the sand into the ocean, and then begin a voyage that can span the entire Atlantic Ocean, only to return decades later to that same beach.
Miranda Richardson, Nick Stringer
Family Documentary Nature 3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Warring States
A historical epic about rival military strategists, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, two students of military strategy who fought for supremacy during China’s Warring States Period.
Jin Chen
Drama War
5 / 5
More Info Fading of the Cries
A young man defends his town from evil forces, aided by a magic sword.
Karoline Kautz, Brian Metcalf, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jordan Matthews
Fantasy Horror
4 / 5
More Info Enemies of the People
An attempt to discover the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge responsible for Cambodia’s genocide.
Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath
Documentary
1 / 5
More Info Advertisement
Conan The Barbarian
A new take on the Robert E. Howard-created character. Conan rises above all other heroes in the fictitious Hyborian age, taking place around 12,000 years ago.
Jason Momoa, Ron Perlman, Stephen Lang, George Furla, Sean Hood, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Avi Lerner, Rose McGowan
Action Adventure War Sequel Supernatural 3D
3 / 5
Play Trailer Super 8
A rumored top-secret J.J. Abrams-produced movie that may be a Cloverfield sequel. No further details are known.
Kyle Chandler, Steven Spielberg, Elle Fanning, J.J. Abrams, Noah Emmerich, Joel Courtney, Gabriel Basso, A.J. Michalka
Thriller Suspense Sci-Fi
4 / 5
Play Trailer Spy Kids: All the Time in the World
The fourth part of the "Spy Kids" franchise, which will be in 3D.
Jessica Alba, Antonio Banderas, Ricky Gervais, Danny Trejo, Daryl Sabara, Joel McHale, Jeremy Piven, Alexa Vega
Action Sequel Family 3D Shot-In-3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer Sarah's Key
An American, living in Paris, researching the arrests of Jewish families in 1942 discovers she shares a connection with a 10-year-old Jewish girl and their stories unfold in parallel.
Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Kristin Scott Thomas, Niels Arestrup
Drama Adaptation
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Family Tree
A troubled family gets a second chance at happiness when the mother suffers a memory loss and can't recall the last 15 years of her life.
Rachael Leigh Cook, Keith Carradine, Selma Blair, Allan Jones, Bow Wow, Christina Hendricks, Chi McBride, J. Todd Harris
Drama Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer Carjacked
A single mother and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.
Maria Bello, Joanna Cassidy, Eric Gozlan, Gary Hamilton, Catherine Dent, Stephen Dorff, Peter Medak, Sherry Compton
Thriller Suspense
The Devil's Double
The story centers on the inner circle of Suddam Hussein, and the love triangle between Hussein’s son, Uday, his body double Latif Yahia, and the concubine they both loved.
Mem Ferda, Michael Thomas, Lee Tamahori, Dominic Cooper, Amber Rose Revah, Paul Breuls, Emjay Rechsteiner, Ludivine Sagnier
Thriller
3 / 5
Play Trailer One Day
Dexter (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) meet for the first time during their graduation and proceed to meet one day a year for the next 20 years. They experience different lives and loves until they realize they are meant for each other.
Anne Hathaway, Rafe Spall, Nina Jacobson, Jim Sturgess, Ken Stott, Tessa Ross, David Nicholls, Jodie Whittaker
Comedy Romance
3 / 5
Play Trailer Our Idiot Brother
An idealist, hounded by his overbearing mother, crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition while also wreaking havoc.
Elizabeth Banks, Paul Rudd, Steve Coogan, Zooey Deschanel, Kathryn Hahn, T.J. Miller, Hugh Dancy, Anthony Bregman
Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer 30 Minutes or Less
A comedy about a pizza delivery guy on an unlikely caper.
Aziz Ansari, Jesse Eisenberg, Ben Stiller, Michael Peña, Stuart Cornfeld, Nick Swardson, Ruben Fleischer, Michael Diliberti
Action Comedy
3 / 5
Play Trailer 5 Days of War
An American journalist, his cameraman and a Georgian native become caught in the crossfire of the five-day war between Russian and the Georgian Republic in 2008.
Andy Garcia, Renny Harlin, Val Kilmer, George Lascu, Rupert Friend, Antje Traue, David Battle, Emmanuelle Chriqui
Action War Historical
3 / 5
Play Trailer The Art of Getting By
No plot details have been announced.
Emma Roberts, Michael Angarano, Elizabeth Reaser, Freddie Highmore, Alicia Silverstone, Rita Wilson, Gavin Weisen, Sam Robards
Romance Teen
4 / 5
Play Trailer Another Earth
Rhonda, an ambitious MIT astrophysics student, kills a man's family in a car accident after leaning out of the window to catch sight of a newly discovered planet. After she spends four years in prison, she returns home compelled to meet the bereaved husband and father.
William Mapother, Mark Cahill, Brit Marling, Jordan Baker
Drama
3 / 5
Play Trailer Now & Later
An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.
Philippe Diaz
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer Tucker and Dale vs. Evil
"Tucker and Dale vs. Evil" is a genre-bending indie horror comedy. Labine stars as Dale alongside Tudyk as Tucker, two good-natured hillbillies mistakenly accused of being psycho killers by a group of college kids camping at the same lake where the hillbillies have just acquired a dilapidated cabin as their "summer home."
Morgan Jurgenson, Eli Craig
Comedy Horror
4 / 5
Play Trailer Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Documentary about the Chauvet caves in Southern France that contain the oldest known cave paintings.
Werner Herzog
Documentary 3D Shot-In-3D
4 / 5
Play Trailer Kidnapped
A family finds themselves as victims of an 'express kidnapping'.
Ana Wagener, Miguel Angel Vivas, Manuela Vellés, Fernando Cayo, Guillermo Barrientos
Thriller Horror
3 / 5
Play Trailer Snowmen
Convinced that he only has weeks to live, 10-year-old Billy Kirkfield enlists his misfit friends in a scheme to ensure that he will be remembered in the record books forever.
Christopher Lloyd, Ray Liotta, Bobby Coleman, Talon G. Ackerman, Robert Kirbyson, Beverley Mitchell
Drama
4 / 5
Play Trailer The Future
A story about a thirtysomething couple grappling with their personal and professional malaise, which is narrated by a talking shelter cat named Paw Paw.
Roman Paul, Miranda July, Gina Kwon, Hamish Linklater, Gerhard Meixner
Drama
2 / 5
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