New Videos Coming Out This Week
Here's what you need to know to plan your next trip to the video store. There are some interesting releases slated for October 9, 2001, including Bridget Jones’s Diary, One Night at McCool’s, and Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Let's take a look at these films, along with a few additional releases of interest, and take a sneak peek at next week.
Bridget Jones’s Diary
Tagline: "It's Monday morning, Bridget has woken up with a headache, a hangover and her boss."
Length:
97 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language and some strong sexuality
Based on the bestselling novel by Helen Fielding, this romantic comedy stars Renee Zellweger. Bridget Jones (Zellweger) is an unattached 32-year-old woman who vows to lose weight, cut down her drinking and smoking, and get a man in her life. Bridget, who works for a London publishing house, also decides to record her efforts in a diary. She soon finds herself in a romantic relationship with her attractive boss Daniel Cleaver (Hugh Grant), but he turns out to be something of a cad. However, Bridget also knows a man named Mark Darcy who might or might not be boyfriend material. Meanwhile, Bridget’s mother (Gemma Jones) grows unhappy with Bridget’s father (Jim Broadbent) and starts an affair with a TV shopping channel host. Seventy-six percent of the critics on Rotten Tomatoes liked Bridget Jones’s Diary.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
One Night at McCool’s
Tagline: "She's three men over the legal limit."
Length: 93 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for
violence, sexuality and language
In this dark comedy, three men give three different views of a femme fatale named Jewel (Liv Tyler). Randy (Matt Dillon) is a bartender at McCool’s who meets Jewel one night when she comes into the bar. Jewel wreaks such havoc in Randy’s life that he wants to hire a hitman (Michael Douglas) to kill her. Detective Dehling (John Goodman) becomes enthralled with Jewel while investigating a murder, and he talks about her to a priest. Carl (Paul Reiser), an attorney who’s married with children, also falls hard for Jewel, and he tells his psychiatrist (Reba McEntire) about her. The descriptions given by Randy, Dehling, and Carl are so different that it’s sometimes hard to recognize they’re talking about the same woman. But to Jewel, each of these three men is just an object in her environment to be manipulated.
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
Additional Releases of Interest
Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon - Superbit Collection (2000)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
The Fifth Element - Superbit Collection (1997)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
The Godfather DVD Collection
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; these films are also available on VHS.
Johnny Mnemonic - Superbit Collection (1995)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs - (1937)
Selected Special DVD Features:
Formats Available: The above information refers to the DVD; this film is also available on VHS.
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