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October 2009 

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DVD releases

Big movies coming to the small screen


By Marni Weisz

October 6


Year One

Stars: Jack Black, Michael Cera

Director: Harold Ramis (Analyze That)

Story: A couple of hapless hunter-gatherers (Black, Cera) are kicked out of their village and spit into the ancient Middle East where they come across various Biblical characters with whom they interact in humorous ways.

DVD Extras: alternate ending, gag reel, “The Year One Cutting Room”


October 13

 

Land of the Lost

Stars: Will Ferrell, Anna Friel

Director: Brad Silberling (Moonlight Mile)

Story: A scientist (Ferrell), his assistant (Friel) and a survivalist (Danny McBride) enter a space-time vortex and come out the other side to discover creatures both familiar, like dinosaurs, and not-so familiar, like the lizard people called Sleestaks.

In either case, run.


Drag Me to Hell

Stars: Justin Long, Alison Lohman

Director: Sam Raimi (Spider-Man 3)

Story: A bank loan officer (Lohman) makes the terrible mistake of foreclosing on a creepy old lady’s house. Now creepy old lady won’t be satisfied until said bank loan officer is in hell.

DVD Extras: production video diary


The Proposal

Stars: Sandra Bullock, Ryan Reynolds

Director: Anne Fletcher (27 Dresses)

Story: A Canadian publishing exec (Bullock) working in New York discovers her visa has been denied and she’ll have to move back to Toronto (egad!). So, in order to stay in the country, she pretends to be engaged to the assistant (Reynolds) she treats like a slave.

DVD Extras: “Set Antics: Outtakes and Other Absurdities from The Proposal,” bloopers, deleted scenes, alternate ending


Adoration

Stars: Devon Bostick, Scott Speedman

Director: Atom Egoyan (Ararat)

Story: Teenaged Simon (Bostick) sets a strange series of events in motion when he writes a school assignment claiming that his father, a terrorist, tried to blow up a plane carrying his mother. At first, people take his story at face value. But this is an Egoyan film, so you know things are not what they seem.

DVD Extras: deleted scenes, Egoyan interview, “The Making of Adoration”


October 27


Whatever Works

Stars: Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood

Director: Woody Allen (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Story: Misanthropic old man (David) marries sweet young woman (Wood) and things don’t go as smoothly as they’d hoped. In between, lots of talking and angst and visits from sweet young woman’s mom (Patricia Clarkson) and dad (Ed Begley Jr.).

 


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