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The Jamie Kennedy Experiment - The Complete Second Season
Starring: Jamie Kennedy
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Dolby
Rated: NR
Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Run Time: 594
DVD Features:
- Number of discs: 4


Breakin' All the Rules (Special Edition)

Starring: Jamie Foxx, Gabrielle Union, Morris Chestnut, Jennifer Esposito, Bianca Lawson
Director: Daniel Taplitz
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Rated:
Studio: Columbia Tristar Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Run Time: 85
Summary: Jamie Foxx stars as a man who, after being unceremoniously dumped by his fiancée, pens a "how to" book on breaking up and becomes a best-selling author on the subject. Not wanting his male friends to suffer the same fate, he gives them advice on dumping their mates.
DVD Features:
- Available Audio Tracks: English, Commentary by cast and crew
- Commentary by cast and crew
- The Three Stooges "Hoi Polloi" short film
- Quincy Watson Interview
- "The Break-up Handbook" making-of featurette
- Gag reel


Betty Blue (UnRated Director's Cut)

Starring: Beatrice Dalle, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Gérard Darmon, Clementine Celarie, Jacques Mathou
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
Rated: NR
Studio: Columbia Tristar Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Summary: A shocking and offbeat story of two French lovers, Zorg (Jean-Hugues Anglade) and Betty (Beatrice Dalle), who fall into a deeply erotic and all-encompassing relationship. Zorg is a simple repairman in his mid-thirties who lives a relatively dull life in a remote, weathered shack until he meets Betty, a sexy, mercurial younger woman who challenges his way of thinking and forces him to change his life. When Betty and Zorg are not having wild and uninhibited sex (and joyously traipsing around naked), Zorg is writing his novel, an unpublished masterwork that Betty discovers and vehemently champions. Betty, prone to violent fits of passionate rage, attacks Zorg's boss and burns their shack down, leaving Zorg no choice but to join her on a series of spirited adventures. They move in with Betty's best friend and her boyfriend and for a brief time live a happy bohemian lifestyle, wild and crazy in love. But as the film progresses, Betty's mental illness becomes more apparent, she lives in a fitful manic world of passionate highs and lows while Zorg desperately attempts to coddle and comfort her. Finally, the lovers start over in a dreamy rural town, hoping to live a normal life, but Betty's fantasy world encroaches on her reality as she slowly spirals out of control in this intense story of love and lust, based on the novel by Philippe Djian.
Run Time: 185


The Day After Tomorrow (Widescreen Edition)

Starring: Dennis Quaid, Jake Gyllenhaal, Emmy Rossum, Ian Holm, Dash Mihok
Director: Roland Emmerich
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound
Aspect Ratio(s): 2.35:1
Rated:
Studio: Fox Home Entertainment
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Run Time: 123
Summary: This movie takes a big-budget, special-effects-filled look at what the world would look like if the greenhouse effect and global warming continued at such levels that they resulted in worldwide catastrophe and disaster, including multiple hurricanes, tornadoes, earthquakes, tidal waves, floods and the beginning of the next Ice Age. At the center of the story is a paleoclimatologist (a scientist who studies the ways weather patterns changed in the past), Professor Adrian Hall (Quaid), who tries to save the world from the effects of global warming while also trying to get to his son, Sam (Gyllenhaal), who was in New York City as part of a scholastic competition, when the city was overwhelmed by the chilling beginnings of the new Ice Age. In addition to all of the other challenges Dr. Hall faces, he's also going against the flow as humanity races south to warmer climes, and he's nearly the only one going north.
DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: English, Spanish
- Available Audio Tracks: English (DTS 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Commentary by Director/cowriter Roland Emmerich and producer Mark Gordon, Commentary by cowriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Director of photography Ueli Steiger, editor David Brenner, and production designer Barry Chusio
- Commentary by Director/cowriter Roland Emmerich and producer Mark Gordon
- Commentary by cowriter Jeffrey Nachmanoff, Director of photography Ueli Steiger, editor David Brenner, and production designer Barry Chusio
- Deleted scenes
- "Audio Anatomy" interactive sound demo
- DVD-ROM: Over an hour of exclusive making-of footage
Review by Julian Roman

 

 


Raising Helen (Widescreen Edition)

Starring: Kate Hudson, John Corbett, Joan Cusack, Abigail Breslin, Spencer Breslin, Hayden Panettiere
Director: Garry Marshall
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.85:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1
Rated:
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Run Time: 119
Summary: When her sister (Huffman) and brother-in-law die in a car accident, a young modeling agency assistant, Helen (Hudson), takes on the role as guardian of their surviving three children: teenager Audrey (Panettiere), 10-year-old Kenny (Spencer Breslin) and kindergartener Sarah (Abigail Breslin). As she tries to juggle the responsibilities of her new quasi-parenthood with the effects on her lifestyle (like moving with the kids to Queens) and her job, she also befriends a local pastor, Dan (Corbett), who falls in love with her.
DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: Spanish, French
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French, Commentary by Director Garry Marshall and the writers
- Commentary by Director Garry Marshall and the writers
- Deleted scenes
- Bloopers
- Liz Phair music video
Review by Julian Roman


Gothika (Two-Disc Special Edition)

Starring: Halle Berry, Penélope Cruz, Robert Downey Jr., Charles S. Dutton, Bernard Hill
Director: Mathieu Kassovitz
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Summary: A criminal psychologist (Berry) awakens to find herself a patient in the very same mental institution in which she works, with no memory of the murder of her husband (Dutton) that she's accused of committing. As she tries to regain her memory and convince her coworkers of her innocence, a vengeful spirit uses her as an earthly pawn... which only further convinces all involved of both her guilt and her increasingly stead descent into madness and delusion.
DVD Features:
- Number of discs: 2


The Untouchables (Special Collector's Edition)

Starring: Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro, Charles Martin Smith, Andy Garcia
Director: Brian De Palma
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
Aspect Ratio(s): 2.35:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1 EX, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 5, 2004
Run Time: 119
Summary: Kevin Costner is idealistic federal agent Eliot Ness, whose assignment to clean up Prohibition-era Chicago leads to violence and manly questions about upholding the law. Initially powerless to stop the flow of booze into the city (the police force is corrupt and everyone in town seems to be on the mob’s payroll), Ness finds guidance from an older streetwise cop (Sean Connery, who won an Academy Award for this role) who convinces him he'll need to break some rules if he wants to bring down head mobster Al Capone (Robert De Niro). Andy Garcia and Charles Martin Smith play Ness’s other recruits, who together must stand tall against a city full of assassins. Director Brian De Palma (MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE) packs the film with violence and creative camera movements while David Mamet's intelligent script capably dodges cliché at every turn. There’s a real sense of what's at stake for these characters on a personal level, which contrasts nicely with the futility inherent in enforcing Prohibition in the first place. The film is based on the autobiographical book by Ness (cowritten with Oscar Fraley) and the 1959-63 TV series; Ennio Morricone (THE GOOD, THE BAD, AND THE UGLY) composed the uninhibitedly bombastic score.
DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: English
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1 EX), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- New featurettes
- Original feautrette: The Men


The Wire - The Complete First Season
Starring: Wood Harris, Dominick West, Idris Elba, Frankie Faison, Lance Reddick, Wendell Pierce, and Sonja Sohn
Format
: Color, Closed-captioned
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.33:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Rated: NR
Studio: Warner Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Run Time: 780
DVD Features:
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), Commentary by creator/writer David Simon, writer George Pelicanos and Director Clark Johnson on 3 episodes
- Commentary by creator/writer David Simon, writer George Pelicanos and Director Clark Johnson on 3 episodes
- All 13 episodes from the 2002 season
- Number of discs: 5


Valentin

•Starring: Rodrigo Noya, Alejandro Agresti, Julieta Cardinali, Juan Cruz Bordeu, Carmen Maura
•Director: Alejandro Agrestii
Format: Color, Closed-captioned
Rated:
Studio: Buena Vista Home Video 
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
Run Time: 83
Summary: A nine-year-old boy named Valentin (Noya) living with his grandmother (Maura) in Buenos Aires in the late 1960s discovers that his family has problems that only he can solve. Specifically, he dreams of being reunited with his mother, who is separated from Valentin's abusive father (Agresti) who uses him to attract new girlfriends like the attractive Leticia (Cardinali), whom Valentin himself befriends.

C.S.I. Crime Scene Investigation - The Complete Fourth Season

Starring: William L. Petersen & Marg Helgenberger
Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Box set, Dolby
Aspect Ratio(s): 1.77:1
Audio Encoding: Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Rated: NR
Studio: Paramount Home Video
DVD Release Date: October 12, 2004
DVD Features:
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- All 23 episodes from the 2003-04 season with cast & crew commentaries on 7 selected shows
- 4 exclusive featurettes
- Number of discs: 6


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