July 21, 2009 DVD Releases
July 21, 2009
Coraline
Genre: Animation
MPAA Rating: PG
Studio: Focus Features
Director: Henry Selick
Screenwriter: Henry Selick
Movie Website: FilminFocus.com
Voices: Dakota Fanning, Teri Hatcher, Dawn French, Jennifer Saunders, Ian McShane
Plot Summary: From Henry Selick, visionary director of “The Nightmare Before Christmas,” and based on Neil Gaiman’s international best-selling book, comes a spectacular stop-motion animated adventure – the first to be originally filmed in 3D!
Coraline Jones (Dakota Fanning) is bored in her new home until she finds a secret door and discovers an alternate version of her life on the other side. On the surface, this parallel reality is eerily similar to her real life and the people in it – only much better. But when this seemingly perfect world turns dangerous, and her other parents (including her Other Mother voiced by Teri Hatcher) try to trap her forever, Coraline must count on her resourcefulness, determination and bravery to escape this increasingly perilous world – and save her family.
Echelon Conspiracy
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Action
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Studio: After Dark Films
Director: Greg Marcks
Screenwriter: Kevin Elders, Michael Nitsberg
Movie Website: EchelonConspiracy.com
Actors/Actresses: Shane West, Edward Burns, Ving Rhames, Jonathan Pryce, Tamara Feldman, Martin Sheen
Plot Summary: Mysterious cell phone messages promise a young American engineer untold wealth — then make him the target of a deadly international plot. Dangerous security operatives chase the engineer across the globe, while a powerful government official pursues a mysterious agenda that threatens the stability of the entire world.
Watchmen
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
MPAA Rating: R
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Director: Zack Snyder
Screenwriter: David Hayter, Alex Tse
Movie Website: Watchmenmovie.com
Actors/Actresses: Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
Plot Summary: A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the “Doomsday Clock” – which charts the USA’s tension with the Soviet Union – is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion – a ragtag group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers – Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
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