On Video - September 2007

 

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Unlike the MPAA we do not assign one inscrutable rating based on age, but 3 objective ratings for SEX/NUDITY, VIOLENCE/GORE and PROFANITY on a scale of 0 to 10, from lowest to highest, depending on quantity and context.

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September 4

Georgia Rule [2007] [R] - 6.5.5
A rebellious young woman (Lindsay Lohan) who repeatedly gets herself into trouble, is sent to stay with her grandmother (Jane Fonda) in Idaho for the summer. Her mother (Felicity Huffman) hopes that the no-nonsense matriarch will be able to whip her into shape and make her realize that if she doesn't end her self-destructive behavior she will end up in even more trouble. Also with Cary Elwes, Dermot Mulroney and Garrett Hedlund. Directed by Garry Marshall. [1:53]

Delta Farce [2007] [PG-13] - 4.4.6
Larry (Larry the Cable Guy) and his two buddies (Bill Engvall and D.J. Qualls) are mistaken as U.S. Army troops when they spend a weekend playing soldier at an army base. The trio is loaded on an airplane heading for Iraq, but while on route, they are accidentally dropped in Mexico along with a hard-nosed sergeant. Unaware of the geographical error, Larry leads his crew to fight bandits who are terrorizing a village. Also with Keith David and Marisol Nichols. Directed by C. B. Harding. [1:30]


September 18

We Are Marshall [2006] [PG] - 1.4.4
The town of Huntington, West Virginia, is devastated when its entire Marshall University football team is killed in a plane crash. The town must decide whether they can bear to ever have another team or if the pain is too great, and the only football coach (Matthew McConaughey) willing to work for the university has a rather unusual approach. Based on a true story from 1970. Also with David Strathairn, Ian McShane and Anthony Mackie. Directed by Joseph McGinty Nichol. [2:08]

Death Proof [2007] [R] - 8.10.10
Kurt Russell stars as a homicidal stunt-car driver who stalks young women and then concocts imaginative vehicular ways of murdering them; also with Sydney Tamiia Poitier, Vanessa Ferlito, Jordan Ladd, Tracie Thoms and Rosario Dawson. [3:12]

Gracie [2007] [PG-13] - 5.4.3
Set in 1978, when girls' soccer teams did not exist, a young woman (Carly Schroeder) reacts to the death of her soccer star brother by deciding to play soccer with the boys' team. The only girl in a soccer-obsessed family of three brothers, her decision is met with derision and incredulity. Also with Christopher Shand, Karl Girolamo, Dermot Mulroney, Andrew Shue, Elisabeth Shue, and Trevor Heins. Directed by Davis Guggenheim. [1:32]

The Condemned [2007] [R] - 5.8.8
A multimillionaire tries his hand at producing reality TV by selecting 10 hardened criminals who are awaiting death in prisons around the world, and placing them on an unidentified island, allowing them to kill each other while broadcasting the action over the internet. The last one standing will be allowed to go free. With Steve Austin, Vinnie Jones, Trent Sullivan, Rick Hoffman and Nathan Jones. Directed by Scott Wiper. [1:40]


September 25

Knocked Up [2007] [R] - 9.5.10
A TV entertainment journalist (Katherine Heigl) whose professional life seems to just have taken a turn for the best when she is promoted, discovers that she is pregnant after getting drunk and having sex with a man (Seth Rogen) she had just met,. She decides to keep the baby, but she isn't so sure about sharing her life with the father, who is far less ambitious than she is. Also with Paul Rudd, Leslie Mann and Jason Segel. Directed by Judd Apatow. [2:09]

Next [2007] [PG-13] - 5.6.5
Nicolas Cage stars as a man who has the power to see two minutes into the future. Anxious to avoid becoming the focus of a government experiment into precognition, he works under an assumed name doing magic tricks and lives off small-time gambling winnings. But when terrorists threaten to explode a nuclear device, he is coerced into helping the FBI prevent disaster. Also with Julianne Moore, Jessica Biel, Tory Kittles and Michael Trucco. Directed by Lee Tamahori. [1:36]

Bug [2007] [R] - 9.8.8
A lonely woman (Ashley Judd) is being pursued by her convict ex-husband, who has tried to kill her before, and is haunted by the disappearance of her young son 10 years earlier. In her emotionally fragile state she's easily swept into the paranoid conspiracy theories of an eccentric drifter (Michael Shannon) she just met, who insists that he was the subject of secret medical experiments while in the military. Based on the play by Tracy Letts. Also with Harry Connick Jr., Brian O'Byrne and Lynn Collins. Directed by William Friedkin. [1:42]

Evening [2007] [PG-13] - 4.3.5
An elderly woman (Vanessa Redgrave) who's on her deathbed recalls regrets in her life and her one great love and tries to help her daughters (Toni Collette and Natasha Richardson) find their way toward happiness. Also with Meryl Streep, Claire Danes, Glenn Close and Patrick Wilson. Directed by Lajos Koltai. [1:57]



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