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New on DVD: Feb. 3

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New DVD’s This Week: Feb. 3
 Lost in Translation
Bob Harris (Bill Murray) and Charlotte (Scarlett Johansson) are two Americans in Tokyo. Bob is a movie star in town to shoot a whiskey commercial, while Charlotte is a young woman tagging along with her workaholic photographer husband. They cross paths one night in a luxury hotel bar and their chance meeting soon becomes a surprising friendship, as they venture through Tokyo, having often hilarious encounters with its citizens, and ultimately discovering life’s possibilities.
What’s
Cool:
  • “Lost on Location”–documentary on the making of Lost in Translation
  • “Found in Conversation: Sofia Coppola & Bill Murray” featurette
  • Music video: “City Girl” by Kevin Shields
  • Deleted scenes
  • Extended scene: Matthew Best’s Hit TV
From
Our Review:
Lost in Translation is a superb effort from director Sofia Coppola and should earn its place on a few lists this upcoming awards season, particularly star Bill Murray.
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 American Splendor
Based on real-life comic book writer Harvey Pekar, the film follows Pekar (Paul Giamatti), a cranky file clerk at the local VA hospital whose underground comic book American Splendor, a truthful, unsentimental self-portrait of his working-class life, unexpectedly brings him international success. First published in 1976, the comic earns Pekar cult fame throughout the 1980s and eventually leads him to the sardonic Joyce Brabner (Hope Davis), a comic book storeowner who ends up being Harvey’s soul mate.
What’s
Cool:
  • Commentary by directors Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini and star Paul Giamatti
  • Commentary by Harvey Pekar, Joyce Brabner and Pekar’s friend Toby Radloff.
  • “Road to Splendor” featurette: Pekar and his family traverse the globe to promote the film.
  • “Easter Eggs” featurette: One-minute salute to Cleveland’s “premiere nerd,” Toby Radloff
  • Bonus Products: “My Movie Year”–an eight-page comic insert by Pekar
From
Our Review:
Part documentary, part dramatization, part animation, American Splendor‘s creative filmmaking and terrific performances give it that art-house-hip cool, but do we really need another Crumb, this one about a comic book writer not as well known and not as interesting?
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 Under the Tuscan Sun
Frances Mayes (Diane Lane) is a 35-year-old San Francisco writer whose perfect life has taken an unexpected detour with her sudden divorce. Her best friend, Patti (Sandra Oh), is beginning to think that Frances might never recover, so Patti convinces her to take a trip to Tuscany. Swept up in the region’s beauty, Frances impulsively purchases a villa badly in need of repair and flings herself into a new life in the lush Italian countryside, and discovering second chances do exist.
What’s Cool:
  • Commentary with director Audrey Wells
  • “Tuscany 101” featurette
  • Deleted scenes
From Our Review:
What is it about Diane Lane and the men who foolishly take her for granted? No matter, because it’s starting to bring out the best in her. Book a trip to Italy and enjoy how Frances got her groove back.


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 Secondhand Lions
Fourteen-year-old Walter’s (Haley Joel Osment) great uncles’ farm in rural Texas is the last place on Earth he wants to spend the summer. Eccentric and gruff, Hub (Robert Duvall) and Garth McCaan (Michael Caine) are rumored to have been bank robbers, Mafia hit men, and/or war criminals in their younger days. But Walter begins to see a new side to his uncles when he stumbles upon an old photograph of a beautiful woman with whom both men were in love.
What’s Cool:
  • Commentary by director Tim McCanlies
  • 30 minutes of deleted/alternate scenes with optional director commentary
  • Featurettes: “Secondhand Lions: One Screenplay’s Wild Ride in Hollywood,” “On the Set with Secondhand Lions,” “Haley Joel Osment: An Actor Comes of Age”
From Our Review:
Old age can’t tame Michael Caine and Robert Duvall, as this predictable but endearing tale of renewed hopes and youthful aspirations fittingly proves.
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 The Fighting Temptations
When slick-talking New York City advertising executive Darrin Hill (Cuba Gooding Jr.) travels back to his hometown of Monte Carlo, Georgia, to claim the inheritance his aunt left him, he finds he must fulfill her last wish before he can collect–create a gospel choir and lead it to success. Also stars Beyonce Knowles.
What’s Cool:
  • Eight extended music numbers
  • Seven extended scenes

From Our Review:
The Fighting Temptations is a predictable and silly movie, but a choir composed of diverse musical talents and rocking performances by a who’s who roster of gospel musicians make this film worthwhile.
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 My Boss’s Daughter
Young executive Tom Stanisfield (Ashton Kutcher) has one eye focused on a promotion from the outrageously volatile Jack Taylor (Terence Stamp) and the other eye on hot chick Lisa (Tara Reid), who just happens to be Mr. Taylor’s daughter. Offered a rare chance to housesit for Mr. Taylor, Tom is ready and willing to impress his tough boss and Lisa. The task isn’t as easy as he thinks it’ll be, however; faced with a houseful of havoc he never expected, Tom just might lose the girl, his job–and his mind–after his duty’s done.
What’s Cool:
  • Tara Reid’s audition
  • Behind-the-scenes special
  • Outtakes
From Our Review:
Unfortunately, moviegoers have not been punk’d; My Boss’s Daughter is for real. Not even the movie’s talented cast of comedians, including Molly Shannon and Andy Richter, can salvage this absolutely unfunny fiasco of a movie.
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Compiled by Kit Bowen

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