August 2003 DVD & Blu-rays

With Missi Pyle • Queen Latifah • Steve Martin • Eugene Levy • Jean Smart • Adam Shankman • Betty White • Victor Webster • Kimberly J. Brown • Matt Lutz • Joan Plowright • Michael Ensign • Aengus James • Angus T. Jones

When a lonely guy (Steve Martin) meets a woman (Queen Latifah) on the Internet who happens to be in prison, she breaks out to be with him, and quickly proceeds to bring chaos and some much-needed change into his middle-class life...

With Colin Firth • Kelly Preston • Jonathan Pryce • Bill Gerber • Erik von Detten • Anna Chancellor • Dennie Gordon • Hunt Lowry • Eileen Atkins • Tom Harper • Oliver James • Christina Cole • Chris Mulkey • Denise DiNovi • Jenny Bicks • William Douglas Home

This is the story of a 19-year-old girl (Amanda Bynes) who has been raised in New York City by her mother (Kelly Preston), a professional singer, who decides that she wants to find her long-lost British father (Colin Firth) in London, who's part of a very hoity-toity British aristocratic social circle. Once she gets there, however, it doesn't take long before her hip American lifestyle disrupts his entire life. Can she find a balance in the relationship between her two parents, find her own piece of mind, and along the way, possibly fall in love as well? Perhaps most importantly, does she have a chance at being the Debutante of the Year?

With Samuel L. Jackson • Robert Carlyle • Rhys Ifans • Sean Pertwee • Meat Loaf • Emily Mortimer • Ricky Tomlinson • Ronny Yu

Elmo McElroy (Samuel L. Jackson), a streetwise American master chemist, heads to England to set up his last big deal - to introduce a new designer drug to the European market. McElroy soon becomes embroiled in a web of double-dealing as he's escorted around Liverpool's underworld and rave scene by rabid local hood Felix De Souza (Robert Carlyle) who hates all things American.

With Ian McShane • Arnold Vosloo • Hilary Duff • Martin Henderson • Frankie Muniz • Harald Zwart • Andrew Francis • Angie Harmon • Judge Reinhold • Darrell Hammond • Cynthia Stevenson • Connor Widdows

To his family and friends, Cody Banks (Frankie Muniz) is a typical teen - he loves to skateboard, hates math, and feels like a complete idiot around girls. But Cody's got a secret - he's actually part of a secret teen CIA program. Cody's living every boy's dream life - he can drive like a stuntman, has an incredible arsenal of cool gadgets, and his agency mentor, Ronica Miles (Angie Harmon), is totally hot. But Cody's training is put to the test when he's sent to pose as a prep school student and befriend fellow teen Natalie Connors (Hilary Duff) in order to gain access to her father, a scientist unknowingly developing a fleet of deadly nanobots for the evil organization ERIS. From runaway cars and high-speed snowboard chases to a spectacular final mountaintop showdown, Cody has to use everything he's learned to prove himself as an agent and stop ERIS-and maybe even get the girl.

With Monica Bellucci • Vincent Cassel • Philippe Nahon • Albert Dupontel • Jean-Louis Costes • Stephane Drouot

After a fight with her coked-up boyfriend Marcus, Alex leaves a party to go home. She never gets there; instead she's raped in a desolate tunnel. Her angry boyfriend, and her buddy Pierre decide to take justice into their own hands and hunt down the rapist themselves.

With Rob Zombie • Bill Moseley • Sheri Moon • Sid Haig • Karen Black • Chris Hardwick • Michael J. Pollard • Jeanne Carmen • Chuck Aronberg

Set in the 1970's, two young couples take a misguided tour onto the back roads of America in search of a local legend known as Dr. Satan. Lost and stranded, they are set upon by a bizarre family of psychotics. Murder, cannibalism and satanic rituals are just a few of the thousand horrors that await.

With Mathieu Kassovitz • Ulrich Tukur • Marcel Iures • Hanns Zischler • Michael Duchaussoy • Sebastian Koch • Ulrich Muhe • Ion Caramitru • Friedrich Von Thun • Antje Schmidt • Angus MacInnes • Constantin Costa-Gavras

Newly commissioned SS Lieutenant and respected civilian chemist, Kurt Gerstein, discovers that the Zyklon B pellets he has developed to disinfect soldiers' drinking water are being used to gas interred Jews by the thousands. Recruited to help streamline the death camp process by a team of SS officers, Gerstein secretly approaches the Swedish Consulate, the German Protestant community and finally Vatican representatives in the hopes of exposing this unspeakable crime. The only one who listens is Father Ricardo, a young Jesuit priest with deep family connections at the Vatican. Ricardo promises Gerstein he will alert the Pope to the Jewish genocide in hopes that the pontiff will reveal and denounce the Final Solution to the Christian world...

With Chris Rock • Tamala Jones • Robin Givens • Tracy Morgan • Bernie Mac • Lynn Whitfield • Nick Searcy • Dylan Baker • Jude Ciccolella • Stephanie March

Rock stars as Mays Gilliam, a Washington D.C. neighborhood Alderman, who's about to be red-lined out of his job. But after the untimely death of the party frontrunner, Gilliam is plucked from obscurity and thrust into the limelight as his party's nominee -- for President of the United States. Bernie Mac stars as Gilliam's older brother Mitch, who becomes his running mate, Robin Givens is the ex-girlfriend who dumped Gilliam, but who has a sudden change of heart when she sees a chance at becoming First Lady, Dylan Baker plays Gilliam's campaign manager; Tamala Jones is Lisa, the woman who believes in Gilliam, and Lynn Whitfield stars as Gilliam's reluctant advisor.

With Hilary Duff • Carly Schroeder • Jake Thomas • Robert Carradine • Adam Lamberg • Hallie Todd • Alex Borstein • Ashlie Brillaut • Yani Gellman • Brendan Kelly • Clayton Snyder • Jim Fall

Graduating from junior high school, Lizzie McGuire (Hillary Duff) goes to Italy for her summer vacation. Lizzie's inner thoughts are represented on the screen in the form of an animated version of herself...

With Gabrielle Union • Jet Li • Mark Dacascos • Tom Arnold • Joel Silver • Kelly Hu • Andrzek Bartkowiak • Channing Gibson • Anthony Anderson • DMX • Julie du Page • Reggie Rock Bythewood • Joseph O'Brien

When an international criminal (Mark Dacascos) kidnaps the daughter of a gang leader (DMX) and demands extremely rare "black diamonds" in exchange for her safety, it forces the gangster to align with a Taiwanese Intelligence Agent (Jet Li) to find and procure the jewels... even as they discover that the bad guy wants them so that he can build a dangerous new weapon that could jeopardize the entire world.

With Benicio Del Toro • Tommy Lee Jones • William Friedkin • Connie Nielsen • Jenna Boyd

This is the story of an FBI "deep woods tracker" (Jones) who captures an assassin (Del Toro) who makes a sport of hunting deer hunters in the forests outside Portland. When he escapes in the city, the tracker must team up with a female FBI agent (Nielsen) to hunt the assassin down before he comes hunting for them... the assassin kills for fun

With Audrey Tautou • Samuel Le Bihan • Isabelle Carre • Clement Sibony

Rising young artist Angelique (Audrey Tautou) lives in a candy-colored fantasy world. From the moment she flashes her smile and persuades a flower shop owner to deliver a surprise single rose to her lover Loic (Samuel Le Bihan), the world has – again – fallen under her spell. In the glorious throes of true love, Angelique is happily planning her future: a career as a painter and a future with Loic… what more could she desire? But things are rarely as they seem and Loic, a married cardiologist, has a slightly more jaded take on their affair…

With Richard Gere • Queen Latifah • Renée Zellweger • John C. Reilly • Catherine Zeta-Jones • Rob Marshall • Dominic West • Mya • Christine Baranski

It's the long-awaited film version of the Broadway hit. Set in the roaring 20's, this is the story of Chicago chorus girl Roxie Hart (Renée Zellweger), who shoots her unfaithful lover (Dominic West). Landing in jail, she meets Velma Kelly (Catherine Zeta-Jones), another chorus girl and murderess, currently enjoying media attention and legal manipulation, care of her attorney, Billy Flynn (Richard Gere), king of the old "Razzle Dazzle." Soon enough, however, Flynn takes Roxie's case as well, and Velma finds herself old news as Roxie is now the most famous murderess in town, on her way to getting out of jail and becoming a star. The two go through a series of attempts at getting what they both want: freedom and fame.

With James Franco • Nicolas Cage • Mena Suvari • Scott Caan • Harry Dean Stanton • Seymour Cassel • Brenda Blethyn • Brenda Vaccaro • Josie Davis

This is the story of a young man, Sonny (James Franco), living in New Orleans and trained to follow the family tradition as a paid male prostitute for wealthy women, and he hates it. He wants to free himself from this predetermined life and find something for himself outside the business, perhaps even in the Army, but his family won't hear of it.

With Michael Moore • Charlton Heston • Matt Stone • George W. Bush • Marilyn Manson • Dick Clark • John Nichols

With his trademark charm and wit, Michael Moore sets off on a journey to the heart of the country hoping to discover why the American pursuit of happiness is so riddled with violence. From a look at the Columbine High School security camera tapes to the home of NRA President Charlton Heston, from a young man who makes homemade napalm with "The Anarchist's Cookbook" to the murder of a six-year-old girl by another six-year-old, this is an alternately humorous and horrifying look at firearms abuse, destined to leave audiences dreading - but expecting - the next breaking news report about a homegrown assassin with a constitutionally-protected Uzi.

With Zooey Deschanel • Patricia Clarkson • Paul Schneider • Maurice Compte • David Gordon Green • Bartow Church

Set in a small town somewhere in the south, this is the story of a young inexperienced man (Paul Schneider) who falls in love with the little sister (Zooey Deschanel) of his best friend.

With Jeff Daniels • Guy Sanville • Howard Butterworth • Matt Letscher • John Seibert • Kate Peckham • Harve Presnell • Dawn Wells

"Super Sucker" is a hilarious comedy about rival door-to-door vacuum cleaner sales teams. In addition to writing and directing, Jeff Daniels, once again, the underdog heads up his team of misfits as Fred Barlow. Barlow meets Howard Butterworth, played by fellow Michigan native and Purple Rose Theatre (a repertory theatre founded by Daniels) alumnus Matt Letscher ('Good Morning Miami'). The two, with the help of Purple Rose Theatre veterans Leonard (Guy Sanville), Rhonda (Sandra Birch), Shelby (John Seibert) and Darlene (Kate Peckham) team up against Barlow's cross-town rival, and nemesis, Winslow Schnaebelt. Schnaebelt, played by Harve Presnell is the razzle-dazzle red-suited competitor who will do anything to undermine Barlow. Barlow and Schnaebelt battle for territory and survival in a ‘winner takes all' contest.

With Ralph Fiennes • Ryan Phillippe • Nick Nolte • Mark Lavoine • Said Taghmaoui • Tcheky Karyo • Neil Jordan • Jason Flemyng • Emir Kursturica • Gerard Darmon • Quassini Embarek • Nutsa Kukhianidze

Nick Nolte delivers a riveting performance as Bob Mantagnet, a wisecracking master thief whose luck seems to have finally run out. Pursued by the police at every turn, the king of con gambles it all on the casino heist of a lifetime inside the decadent world of the French Riviera. A savvy rogue with the perfect quote for every occasion, Bob's last bid at glory is to rob the priceless paintings inside an underground vault that's impossible to crack.

With Sofia Vergara • Roselyn Sanchez • Linda Mendoza • Eduardo Verastegui • Maria Conchita Alonso • Paul Rodriguez • D.L. Hughley • Jaci Velasquez • Joy Enriquez • Carlos Ponce

"Chasing Papi" revolves around three disparate women - a buttoned down lawyer from Chicago, a Miami cocktail waitress, and a wealthy, sheltered New Yorker - who discover they have something in common: the irresistible lothario who has been three-timing them. They decide to teach their "papi chulo" a lesson, but instead end up on a wild adventure of their own, which takes them to a beauty pageant, a dance festival, and into some dangerous run-ins with a pair of shady characters.

With Anika Noni Rose • Kelly Clarkson • Justin Guarini • Katherine Bailless • Greg Siff • Robert Iscove

The fairytale rise to superstardom of America's favorite "Idols" continues as Kelly Clarkson and Justin Guarini make the leap to the big screen in this summer's biggest beach party.

With Morgan Freeman • Kirsten Dunst • Holly Hunter • Abede Burke • Billy Bob Thornton • Manuel Aranguiz • Geoffrey Wigdor • Luke Robertson • Dorian Harewood • Catherine Colvey • Billoah Greene • Sadiki Burke • Ed Solomon

This is the story of an ex-con (Billy Bob Thornton) freed from prison after 19 years for killing a teenager during an attempted robbery, whose picture he's been staring at on his wall the entire time, who tries to find some kind of personal redemption with the help of a minister (Morgan Freeman) and two women (Kirsten Dunst, Holly Hunter).

With Christopher Walken • Anson Mount • Chazz Palminteri • Rick Schroder • Phillip Glasser • Michael Rosenbaum • Richard Portnow • Mars Callahan • Rod Steiger • Alison Eastwood • Lissa Pallo • Steve Short

Obsessed by the world of pool, Johnny (Mars Callahan) could be one of the best. But his mentor and "trainer" Joe (Chazz Palminteri), a shady hustler who decides how and who Johnny plays, is holding him back from his dream. When the day finally comes, Johnny breaks from Joe, which leads to only one thing - violence. Joe is beaten up by some of Johnny's buddies as a sign to leave him alone, and with this final act of freedom, Johnny leaves the world of pool-sharking. After an ultimatum from his girlfriend Tara (Alison Eastwood), Johnny finally commits to a "real" job in the construction business, but is soon miserable there. He finds himself spending most of his time with his younger brother Danny (Michael Rosenbaum) who it seems is following in his footsteps on the road to a life Johnny left when he broke from Joe. As for Joe, he is bent on revenge for the beating he took, and soon he has a new protege Brad (Rick Schroder) who is just as good if not better than Johnny. And he's got his eye on Johnny's brother. The two play a high-stakes game of pool which ends in a huge debt owed to Joe and soon Johnny finds that his brother is in jail for trying to steal the money he owes. The only way out for Johnny is to play Brad, which results in a "race to nine" showdown that pits two of the greatest players against each other for large sums of money, and Johnny and Danny's lives.

With Peter Sollett • Melonie Diaz • Victor Rasuk • Judy Marte • Altagracia Guzman • Donna Maldonado

Victor Vargas (Victor Rasuk), a 16-year-old Dominican boy growing up on New York's Lower East Side, finds his self-image as a burgeoning ladies man deflated when the neighborhood finds out that he's dating an unpopular and overweight girl (Donna Maldonado) who lives two stories above his grandmother's apartment (where he lives, along with his brother and sister). So, he sets his sights on the most beautiful girl at the local swimming pool, "Juicy" Judy Rodriguez (Judy Marte).