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DVDS THIS WEEK

Release Date: March 31, 2009

TIMECRIMES

Cast: Barbara Goenaga, Candela Fernandez, Karra Elejalde, Nacho Vigalondo

Synopsis: Hector (Karra Elejalde) is relaxing on a lawn chair outside of his new country home, surveying the nearby hillside through a pair of binoculars, when he catches sight of what appears to be a nude woman amidst the trees. Hiking up to investigate, he is attacked by a sinister figure whose head is wrapped in a grotesque, pink bandage. Fleeing in terror, he takes refuge in a laboratory atop the hill, where a lone attendant (director Nacho Vigalondo) ushers him in to a peculiar scientific contraption. He emerges what seems to be moments later, only to find that he has traveled back hours in time, setting in motion a brain-twisting, horrifying chain of events when he inadvertently runs into himself.

AUTOPSY

Cast: Robert Patrick, Jessica Lowndes, Michael Bowen, Robert LaSardo, Ross McCall

Synopsis: A group of recent college grads is taking a final vacation together when an accident leaves them hurt and stranded on a lonely Louisiana road. An ambulance arrives and takes them to mercy hospital, an eerie, half empty place that harbors a chilling secret: a doctor conducting inhuman experiments on its helpless patients.

THE BUTTERFLY EFFECT 3: REVELATIONS

Cast: Rachel Miner, Chris Carmack, Kevin Yon, Lynch Travis, Melissa Jones

Synopsis: The latest entry in The Butterfly Effect franchise tells the story of Sam who possesses an extraordinary talent: the ability to travel through time. He can use his gift to help police solve cases, but he must never intervene with the past as it could alter the present in horrific ways. When a woman from Sam's past begs him to help her find her sister's killer, Sam breaks his own ruleâ€¦and all Hell breaks loose.

COME HELL OR HIGH WATER

Cast: Alan Wone, Jason Sabala, Katie O'Grady, Richard Topping, Robert Blanche

Synopsis: 1887, Hadley Missouri. Old war feuds continue as a former confederate soldier sets out to avenge the death of his younger brother some 24 years earlier.

MARLEY AND ME

Cast: Alan Arkin, Eric Dane, Jennifer Aniston, Kathleen Turner, Owen Wilson

Synopsis: 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.

OGRE

Cast: Brendan Fletcher, John Schneider, Katharine Isabelle, Ryan Kennedy

Synopsis: As seen on the Sci Fi channel, OGRE follows a group of traveling teenagers who stumble upon a small, ageless village. Here they find a paradise of immortality where the residents are free from disease and have an abundance of harvest. However, they soon discover that everlasting life had its price. The town made an ancient pact with the Ogre on the mountain: an annual human offering in exchange for status quo. The teenagers find themselves trapped as the villagers desperately seek their next sacrifice.

THE OTHER END OF THE LINE

Cast: Jesse Metcalfe, Sara Foster, Austin Basis, Larry Miller, Shriya Saran

Synopsis: Beautiful and radiant, Priya Sethi (SHRIYA SARAN) indulges her infatuation with American culture by working at the Citi One Bank Card call center in Bangalore, India. Speaking in perfectly unaccented English, she tells her customers her name is Jennifer David and a native of San Francisco. Her conservative father Rajeev is unhappy that she is so eager to forsake her own culture for another, but will be pleased when she goes through with her arranged marriage to the dull Vikram.
Priya, posing as Jennifer David, happens to call the handsome and charming Granger Woodruff (JESSE METCALFE) to help him with the fraudulent charges on his credit card. Priya and Granger have an instant connection over the phone. Unable to suppress the intrigue their easy chemistry offers, Priya agrees to meet Granger in San Francisco. She gets on a plane and crosses not only an ocean, but entire cultures as well.
When Priya goes to meet Granger, he doesn’t recognize her and they only meet when they inadvertently bump into each other. They immediately hit it off and he invites her out to dinner. Priya and Granger’s relationship blossoms as they share a wonderfully romantic date, reminiscent in many moments of Pretty Woman. They tour the City by the Bay by cable car, sample some especially spicy curry (much to his chagrin), and have a tender first kiss under the Golden Gate. Improbably, unthinkably, they are falling in love.

SEVEN POUNDS

Cast: Barry Pepper, Rosario Dawson, Michael Ealy, Will Smith, Woody Harrelson

Synopsis: Academy Award® nominee Will Smith stars in the drama Seven Pounds, re-teaming with the director and producers of The Pursuit of Happyness for the emotional story of a man who will change the lives of seven strangers.

SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE

Cast: Anil Kapoor, Dev Patel, Freida Pinto, Irrfan Khan, Madhur Mittal

Synopsis: 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…

SPECIAL

Cast: Paul Blackthorne, Alexandra Holden, Josh Peck, Michael Rapaport, Robert Baker

Synopsis: Les Franken (MICHAEL RAPAPORT) is a kind-hearted and soft-spoken man who loves reading comic books. He's the type of guy who most people walk by on the street without even noticing; in essence, he's completely average and virtually invisible.
However, everything changes for Les the day he is accepted into an experimental drug study for a new and exciting anti-depressant, Specioprin Hydrochloride. As Les begins to take the drugs an unexpected side effect occurs. He begins to develop special powers: the ability to levitate, to read people's minds, and even walk through walls.
Faced with the dilemma of how best to utilize his new 'powers,' the answer seems obvious to Les. He puts together a homemade superhero suit and hits the streets to fight crime and protect the world from the forces of evil.
Surveillance video soon exposes Les and his actions to the public via television news and therefore brings him to the attention of the businessmen developing the drug. Worried about the bad publicity Les is bringing to their new anti-depressant, they attempt to put an end to his superhero antics before too much damage is done. However, in typical comic book fashion, Les sees the men from the drug company as his evil arch nemeses 'The Suits' men who want him to join them in their evil plan to use 'Special' to create an army of unstoppable assassins. Les refuses to play ball.

Source: CelebrityWonder.com

| Tuesday, March 31, 2009

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