March 31, 2009 DVD Releases
March 31, 2009
Marley & Me
Genre: Comedy, Drama
MPAA Rating: PG
Movie Website: MarleyandMemovie.com
Actors/Actresses: Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Alan Arkin, Eric Dane, Kathleen Turner
Plot Summary: As the snow falls on their wedding night, newlyweds John and Jenny Grogan (Owen Wilson and Jennifer Aniston) decide to leave behind the harsh winters of Michigan and head south to begin their new lives in West Palm Beach, Florida. They obtain jobs as journalists at competing local newspapers, buy their first home, and begin to make their way through the challenges of a new marriage, new careers and, possibly, the life-changing decision to start a family.
Unsure of his preparedness for raising children, John confesses his fears to his friend and fellow journalist Sebastian, who comes up with the perfect solution: John should get Jenny a puppy. “There’s nothing to it,” says Sebastian. “You walk ‘em. You feed ‘em, you let ‘em out now and then.”
Then came Marley.
The Grogans adopt the cute, twelve pound yellow Labrador, who in no time at all, grows into a 100-pound steamroller of unbridled energy that turns the Grogan home into a disaster area. He flunks obedience school, chews off dry-wall, takes a bite out of the sofa, overturns garbage cans, steals a Thanksgiving turkey, consumes pillows and flowers, drinks toilet water, and chases the UPS guy. Even a newly-purchased, expensive necklace isn’t safe from Marley’s voracious antics.
Amidst the mayhem he generates through the years, Marley sees the Grogans through the ups and downs of family life, through job and home changes, and most of all, through the myriad challenges of a growing family. As John and Jenny come to realize, Marley – “the world’s worst dog” – somehow brings out the best in them.
Seven Pounds
Genre: Drama, Romance
MPAA Rating: PG-13
Movie Website: SevenPounds.com
Actors/Actresses: Will Smith, Rosario Dawson, Woody Harrelson, Michael Ealy, Robinne Lee
Plot Summary: Academy Award nominee Will Smith reunites with the director and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for this emotional drama concerning an IRS agent whose quest for redemption is unexpectedly complicated after he inadvertently falls in love.
Ben Thomas is an IRS agent with a fateful secret.
Assuming the identity of his younger brother, Ben sets out in search of redemption.
Instead, Ben discovers true love while forever changing the lives of seven complete strangers.
Slumdog Millionaire
Genre: Drama
MPAA Rating: R
Movie Website: FoxSearchlight.com/SlumdogMillionaire
Actors/Actresses: Dev Patel, Madhur Mittal, Freida Pinto, Anil Kapoor, Irrfan Khan
Plot Summary: “Slumdog Millionaire” is the story of Jamal Malik, an 18 year-old orphan from the slums of Mumbai, who is about to experience the biggest day of his life. With the whole nation watching, he is just one question away from winning a staggering 20 million rupees on India’s “Who Wants to be a Millionaire?”
But when the show breaks for the night, police arrest him on suspicion of cheating; how could a street kid know so much? Desperate to prove his innocence, Jamal tells the story of his life in the slum where he and his brother grew up, of their adventures together on the road, of vicious encounters with local gangs, and of Latika, the girl he loved and lost. Each chapter of his story reveals the key to the answer to one of the game show’s questions.
Intrigued by Jamal’s story, the jaded Police Inspector begins to wonder what a young man with no apparent desire for riches is really doing on this game show?
When the new day dawns and Jamal returns to answer the final question, the Inspector and sixty million viewers are about to find out…
Ricky Gervais: Out of England – The Stand-Up Special
Genre: Comedy
MPAA Rating: Not Rated
Actors: Ricky Gervais
Plot Summary: Having risen from office nudge and bit-playing extra, today, funnyman Ricky Gervais rules over our entertainment landscape.
Now the Emmy Award-winning actor and co-creator of The Office and Extras delivers his unique take on such issues as fund-raising, fame, nursery rhymes, Nazis, moronic friends and obesity in his first-ever HBO stand-up special, taped live in New York.
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