August 2008 DVD & Blu-rays

With Jodie Foster • Gerard Butler • Abigail Breslin • Mark Levin • Alphonso McAuley • Peter Callan • Paula Mazur • Wendy Orr • Jennifer Flackett • Joseph Kwong

A heartfelt and hilarious adventure that chronicles the exploits of Nim, a young girl living a high-tech Robinson Crusoe existence on an unspoiled tropical island with her scientist father and her best friends - a motherly sea lion, a rambunctious iguana, and a sea turtle. When Nim's father embarks on a day of research at sea, she begins an unlikely e-mail communication with an agoraphobic novelist who lives in New York City. When a storm prevents her father's return and unpredictable dangers confront Nim and the Island, she must find the resources to survive. At the same time, the novelist begins to realize that her pen pal is not a scientist, but a little girl who is alone and in trouble, she also has to dig down for the courage to leave her safe haven and rescue Nim.

With Sam Worthington • Radha Mitchell • Rob Taylor • Michael Vartan • Geoff Morrell • Heather Mitchell • Damien Richardson • Mia Wasikoska • Greg McLean

Greg McLean's first acclaimed tour de force, "Wolf Creek," took audiences on a frightening, fact based road trip through the darkest parts of Australian Outback and the depraved human mind. Journeying home again, this time to the crocodile infested waters of Australia's remote wetlands, the director's wildlife boat tour is more down-under Jaws than Crocodile Dundee. Joining a beautiful local tour guide (Radha Mitchell) and an American writer on assignment (Michael Vartan), the rest of this thriller's food chain is composed of tourists and adventure seekers alike. Waiting in vain to be rescued on an ever-disappearing parcel of dry land, you will never guess their next move...as terror lies just beneath the surface.

With Cillian Murphy • Lucy Liu • Paul Soter

The film centers on a film noir buff (Murphy) whose world is turned upside down when a beautiful, unpredictable femme fatale (Liu) provides far more adventure than he ever experienced -- and possibly more than he can handle.

With Dennis Quaid • Ellen Page • Thomas Haden Church • Naom Murro • Mark Poirier • Sarah Jessica Parker • Ashton Holmes • Michael Costigan • Bridget Johnson

"Smart People" is the darkly comic story of Lawrence Wetherhold, a widowed and unhappy English professor played by Dennis Quaid, who has alienated his son and turned his daughter into an overachieving, friendless teen. He falls for Janet (Sarah Jessica Parker), one of his former students, while at the same time his ne'er-do-well brother (Thomas Haden Church) shows up at his door unexpectedly, triggering a series of comic crises and eventually growth in the family as they learn to reconnect.

With Russell Crowe • Stuart Beattie • Brian Grazer

Three brothers begin the underground surfer movement in the inner-Sydney seaside suburb of Maroubra.

With Guy Pearce • Danny Huston • Emily Watson • Ray Winstone • John Hurt • Nick Cave

Australian director John Hillcoat and singer Nick Cave reconvene for 2006's "The Proposition", with Cave penning the screenplay and providing a soundtrack written with Dirty Three member Warren Ellis. Cave's 19th-century tale begins with the proposition of the title, as Captain Stanley (Ray Winstone) captures fugitive brothers Charley (Guy Pearce) and Mikey Burns (Richard Wilson) at a scene of bloody rape and murder. Informing Charley that he must kill his older brother, Arthur (Danny Huston), in order to be set free, Stanley drags Mikey to a decrepit jailhouse while he waits for Charley to carry out the deed.

With Idris Elba • Brittany Snow • Jessalyn Gilsig • Kellan Lutz • Collins Pennie • Dana Davis • Stephen Susco • Scott Porter • Kelly Blatz • Jonathan Schaech • Marc Forby • Jessica Troup • Craig Susser • Nelson McCormick

Donna's senior prom is supposed to be the best night of her life, one of magic, beauty, and love. Surrounded by her best friends, she should be safe from the horrors of her past. But when the night turns from magic to murder there is only one man who could be responsible... the man she thought was gone forever. Now, Donna and her friends must find a way to escape the sadistic rampage of an obsessed killer, and survive their Prom Night.

With Shannon Elizabeth • Bret Harrison • Burt Reynolds • Charles Durning • Phil Laak • Vince Van Patton • Gil Cates Jr. • Michael Arata • Albert Salzer • Marc Weinstock

"Deal" revolves around an ex-gambler who teaches a hot-shot college student how to "play the player," vs. just the cards. But after the two have a bitter falling out, mentor and student find themselves competing against each other in the World Poker Tour championships.

With Amy Adams • Lee Pace • Simon Beaufoy • David Magee • Mark Strong • Ciaran Hinds • Shirley Henderson • Christina Cole • Bharat Nalluri

In 1939 London, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew is a middle-aged governess who finds herself once again unfairly dismissed from her job. Without so much as severance pay, Miss Pettigrew realizes that she must--for the first time in two decades--seize the day. This she does, by intercepting an employment assignment outside of her comfort level--as "social secretary." Arriving at a penthouse apartment for the interview, Miss Pettigrew is catapulted into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse. Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu--and, within hours, living it up. Taking the "social secretary" designation to heart, she tries to help her new friend Delysia navigate a love life and career, both of which are complicated by the three men in Delysia's orbit; devoted pianist Michael, intimidating nightclub owner Nick, and impressionable junior impresario Phil. Miss Pettigrew herself is blushingly drawn to the gallant Joe, a successful designer who is tenuously engaged to haughty fashion maven Edythe--the one person who senses that the new "social secretary" may be out of her element, and schemes to undermine her. Over the next 24 hours, Guinevere and Delysia will empower each other to discover their romantic destinies.

With Chris Evans • Keanu Reeves • Forest Whitaker • Naomie Harris • Hugh Laurie • David Ayer • Erwin Stoff • John Ridley • Lucas Foster • James Ellroy

A Los Angeles police officer has always done what was needed to solve homicides and crack down on gang violence, but he gets a wakeup call and decides he can no longer play the game that made him so effective.

With Miley Cyrus • Jonas Brothers • Bruce Hendricks • Arthur Repola

Captures 14-year-old singing sensation, Miley Cyrus, in concert at several venues on her 2007 54-city tour. She performs as both a solo artist and as her popular television character, Hannah Montana.

With Sam Huntington • Ryan Shiraki • Mike Erwin • Marla Sokoloff • Heather Matarazzo • Kaitlin Doubleday

All-American teenager from the Midwest, Clay, heads off to college only to discover school is not the oasis of beer drinking and partying that he had imagined. So, in an attempt to win over the woman of his dreams, Amanda, Clay pretends to be gay. The charade blows up in Clay's face, though, when it lands him in the middle of campus activism, the hazing of both a fraternity and sorority and all the drama that comes along with his new lifestyle. The end result is a campus-wide revolution that will change both Clay's life, as well as his perception of others.

With John Wells • Ellen Page • Catherine Keener • Bradley Whitford • Kevin Turen • Tommy O'Haver • Christine Vachon • Henry Winterstern • Katie Roumel • Irene Turner • Romy Rosemont • Jocelyn Hayes-Simpson • Pam Koffler

In 1965, while under the care of a woman named Gertrude Baniszewski, a 16-year-old girl is put through an ordeal that includes beatings in the guise of discipline, burnings with cigarettes & matches and scalding hot baths, among other tortures. Encouraging a "Lord of the Flies"-type cult, Baniszewski involves her own children and children from her Indianapolis neighborhood in the punishments. The girl eventually dies.

With Uma Thurman • Mark Cuban • Evan Rachel Wood • Peter Conboy • Gabrielle Brennan • Adam Chanler-Berat • Vadim Perelman • Todd Wagner • Marc Butan • Emil Stern

Diana is a suburban wife and mother who begins to question her seemingly perfect life--and perhaps her sanity--on the 15th anniversary of a tragic high school shooting that took the life of her best friend. In flashbacks, Diana is a vibrant high schooler who, with her shy best friend Maureen, plot typical teenage strategies--cutting class, fantasizing about boys--and vow to leave their sleepy suburb at the first opportunity. The older Diana, however, is haunted by the increasingly strained relationship she had with Maureen as day of the school shooting approached. These memories disrupt the idyllic life she's now leading with her professor husband Paul and their young daughter Emma. As older Diana's life begins to unravel and younger Diana gets closer and closer to the fatal day, a deeper mystery slowly unravels.

With Naomie Harris • Jamie Foxx • Colin Farrell • Danny Trejo • Michael Mann • Wes Studi • Gong Li • Pieter Jan Brugge • Anthony Yerkovich

The cocaine cowboys of the '80s are gone, but Miami's Casablanca allure, the undercover cops and the attitudes of Michael Mann's culturally influential television series have been enhanced by time in the feature film version of Miami Vice.

Ricardo Tubbs (Academy Award winner Jamie Foxx of "Ray", "Jarhead") is urbane and dead smart. He lives with Bronx-born intel analyst Trudy, played by British actress Naomie Harris ("28 Days Later"), as they work undercover transporting drug loads into South Florida to identify a group responsible for three murders.

Sonny Crockett (Colin Farrell of "S.W.A.T.", "The New World") ]to the untrained eye, his presentation may seem unorthodox, but procedurally he is sound] is charismatic and flirtatious until-while undercover working with the supplier of the South Florida group-he gets romantically entangled with Isabella, the Chinese-Cuban wife of an arms and drugs trafficker. Isabella is played by the Chinese actress Gong Li ("Raise the Red Lantern, Memoirs of a Geisha").

The best undercover identity is oneself with the volume turned up and restraint unplugged. The intensity of this case pushes Crockett and Tubbs out onto the edge where identity and fabrication become blurred, where cop and player become one- especially for Crockett in his romance with Isabella and for Tubbs in the provocation of an assault on those he loves.

"Miami Vice", as a large-scale feature film, liberates what is adult, dangerous and alluring about working deeply undercover...especially when Crockett and Tubbs go to where their badges don't count...

With Naomie Harris • Adam Scott • Emmanuelle Chriqui • Josh Hartnett • David Bowie • Robin Tunney • Austin Chick • Rip Torn • Howard A. Rodman

The drama is about a young dot-com entrepreneur (Josh Hartnett) in New York City who struggles after the stock market begins to falter in the weeks leading up to 9/11/01.

With Jason Isaacs • J.M. Barrie • P.J. Hogan • Olivia Williams • Jeremy Sumpter • Ludivine Sagnier • Lucy Fisher • Amy Pascal • Rachel Hurd Wood • Richard Briers • Harry Newell • Freddie Popplewell • Rupert Simoneon • Patrick McCormick • Douglas Wick • Michael Goldenberg

Peter Pan is the boy who won't age, who lives in Neverland with other ageless kids, the Lost Boys. Tinkerbelle, a fairy, gives three children: Wendy, John, and Michael Darling the ability to fly; and soon they're off to Neverland, where they're soon in battle with the evil Captain Hook and his band of pirates.

With Sam Shepard • Drea de Matteo • Jason Patric • Bruce Dern • Matt Williams • Alex Paraskevas

The story, set in 1957, concerns a small-town charmer (Jason Patric) who is forced to make difficult decisions in his fight to save his two daughters. Drea de Matteo will play his ex-wife. KaDee Strickland plays Patric's love interest, Bruce Dern his surrogate father and Shepard an opportunistic hustler.

With Hayden Christensen • Mischa Barton • Tim Roth • Martha De Laurentiis • Chris Egan • Silvia Colloca • Dino De Laurentiis • Roberto Cavalli • Giovanni Boccaccio

Ten young nobles, decide to wait out the Florentine plague in their country estates, amusing each other every evening with earthy stories of love and adventure.

With Uwe Boll • Gary Coleman

A trailer park guy, uninterested in his life and trying to get through his days, decides that everyone is out to get him so he goes on a shooting spree.

With Morgan Spurlock • Stacey Offman • Jeremy Chilnick

With a baby on the way, and a need to make the world safe for infant-kind, an unassuming guy from West Virginia takes on what no special ops team could do: he puts to use his complete lack of experience, knowledge, and expertise to find the most wanted man on earth.

With Elisha Cuthbert • Austin Basis • Doug Davison • Roy Lee • Jesse Bradford • Yann Samuell • Gurinder Chadha • Paul Brooks • Mark Morgan • Guy Oseary • Scott Niemeyer • Norm Waitt • Jay Polstein • Milton Kim

A man is wooed, groomed, and ultimately dumped by a complicated, elusive woman.

With Rob Paulsen • Jim Cummings • Parker Goris • Kari Wahlgren • Frank Welker • Jodi Benson • Samuel E. Wright • Sally Field • Lorelei Butters • Tara Strong • Peggy Holmes • Rich Burns

Every story has a beginning but only one begins under the sea now for the first time ever discover the story you never knew in The Little Mermaid: Ariel s Beginning an all-new motion picture only on Disney DVD. Long ago in a kingdom where music is outlawed King Triton s youngest daughter Ariel discovers her love for music in a secret underground music club. Torn with the choice of whether to hide her passion or share it with her father and risk losing everything Ariel sets off on a daring adventure to restore music to Atlantica.

With Tim Allen • Emily Mortimer • Rodrigo Santoro • Alice Braga • David Paymer • John Machado • Danny Inosanto • Enson Inoue • David Mamet • Chrissann Verges • Joe Mantegna • Chiwetel Ejiofor • Ricky Jay • Rebecca Pidgeon • Jose Pablo Cantillo • Ray Mancini

Set in the Jiu-Jitsu fight world of Los Angeles, after a Jiu-Jitsu master, turns from prizefighting to running a self-defense studio, he is conned by a group of movie stars and fight promoters and must enter the ring and fight in order to regain his honor.

With Ashton Kutcher • Cameron Diaz • Lake Bell • Dana Fox • Arnon Milchan • Rob Corddry • Dennis Farina • Julian Farino • Dean Georgaris • Joseph M. Caracciolo

Two people discover they''ve gotten married following a night of debauchery in Vegas, with one of them winning a jackpot after playing the other''s quarter. The pair trys to undermine each other and get their hands on the money... falling in love along the way.