March 2013 DVD & Blu-rays

The Twilight Saga: Breaking ...

Because of the worldwide success of the "Twilight" franchise, Summit is pondering whether to split "Breaking Dawn" into two movies.

Robert Pattinson, Kristen Stewart, Ashley Greene, Taylor Lautner, Maggie Grace, Bill Condon, Melissa Rosenberg, Billy Burke

Playing for Keeps

A father with a dubious past brought in to coach his son’s Little League baseball (or soccer) team.

Gerard Butler, Dennis Quaid, Jessica Biel, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Alan Siegel, Uma Thurman, Gabriele Muccino, Stuart Blumberg

Red Dawn

A group of high schoolers band together to protect their town by a homeland invasion.

Chris Hemsworth, Josh Peck, Josh Hutcherson, Beau Flynn, Adrianne Palicki, Isabel Lucas, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Dan Bradley

Wreck-It Ralph

No plot details available for this 3D animated feature.

Rich Moore, Jane Lynch, Sarah Silverman, John C. Reilly, Jack McBrayer, Clark Spencer

The Intouchables

Based on the true story of a wealthy paraplegic who develops an unlikely friendship with a guy from the street whom he hires to be his aide.

Omar Sy, Eric Toledano, Olivier Nakache, Francois Cluzet, Anne Le Ny

Lay the Favorite

A woman falls into the world of professional gambling in Vegas, where she starts working as a cocktail waitress in hopes of making fast cash. Her gambling leads her to New York and the Caribbean, with gamblers soon becoming her second family. But when she falls in love, she had to re-evaluate her life.

Bruce Willis, Frank Grillo, Stephen Frears, Rebecca Hall, Catherine Zeta-Jones, D.V. DeVincentis, Vince Vaughn, Laura Prepon

A Dark Truth

Andy Garcia plays an ex-CIA op-turned political talk show host. He's hired by a corporate whistle blower to expose her company's cover-up of a massacre in a South American village.

Andy Garcia, Kim Coates, Deborah Kara Unger, Eva Longoria, Damian Lee, Forest Whitaker

The Bay

Described as a "zombie eco-horror thriller", with a focus on a viral outbreak in Claridge, Maryland.

Barry Levinson, Michael Beasley, Christopher Denham, Jason Blum, Steven Schneider, Kristen Connolly, Oren Peli, Michael Wallach

Unconditional

Samantha Crawford is living a storybook life: she's happily married, she lives on a ranch where she keeps her beloved horse, and the stories she's told and illustrated since childhood have become published books. When her husband Billy is killed in a senseless act of violence, Sam loses her faith and her will to live. But a death-defying encounter with two children leads to a reunion with Joe, her oldest friend. As Sam watches "Papa" Joe care for and love the kids in his under-resourced neighborhood, she begins to realize that no matter life's circumstances, the love of God is always reaching out to us.

Lynn Collins, Michael Ealy, Brent McCorkle

California Solo

LACHLAN MacALDONICH (Robert Carlyle) is former Britpop rocker who has settled into a comfortably numb existence in farm country just outside Los Angeles. By day, he works on an organic farm and travels regularly to the city's farmers' markets to sell produce. By night, he retreats to his crummy apartment to record "Flame-Outs," his podcast that recounts the tragic deaths of great musicians. The only spark in his humdrum existence is BEAU (Alexia Rasmussen), a lovely struggling actress and amateur chef who frequents the Silver Lake farmers' market. One night, Lachlan gets pulled over for a DUI, a charge that dredges up his past drug offense and threatens him with deportation. Lachlan's only hope of staying in the U.S. is proving that his removal would cause "extreme hardship" to a U.S. citizen spouse or relative. Lachlan contacts his estranged ex-wife and daughter, raising past demons that he must finally confront.

Heleno

Gifted with incredible athletic talent, Brazilian-born Heleno de Freitas conquered the soccer world in the 1940s. As his fame and fortune grew to new heights, his passion for a decadent life of women and nightclubs would threaten his career.

Rodrigo Santoro, Aline Moraes, Jose Henrique Fonseca, Angie Cepeda

Waiting for Lightning

This documentary follows skateboarding legend and action sports pioneer Danny Way on his journey to jump China’s Great Wall, and reveals the passion, grit, determination and psyche behind one of the world’s athletes.

Crystal Ackley, Hana Ripperger-Suhler, Jacob Rosenberg, Max Leitman, Darryl Franklin, Bret Anthony Johnston, Mike Blabc, Ken Block

Life of Pi

The story of a 16-year-old boy's voyage from India to Canada, a trip that begins on a freighter carrying animals his father is transporting from the zoo. The ship sinks and the boy is the sole human survivor, sharing a lifeboat with a hyena, an injured zebra and a hungry tiger.

Tobey Maguire, Gil Netter, Elizabeth Gabler, Ang Lee, David Magee, Irrfan Khan, Gerard Depardieu, Suraj Sharma

Rise of the Guardians

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, the Tooth Fairy, Jack Frost and the Sandman work to defend the world from a Bogeyman-like villain.

Dakota Goyo, Alec Baldwin, Jude Law, Isla Fisher, Michael Siegel, Peter Ramsey, Christina Steinberg, Hugh Jackman

Hitchcock

The story of Alfred Hitchcock's decision to make a lowly horror movie that would become one of his biggest hits.

Scarlett Johansson, Ivan Reitman, Toni Collette, Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, Jessica Biel, James D'Arcy, Michael Wincott

This Must Be The Place

A wealthy rock star, played by Sean Penn, is bored in his retirement and embarks on a quest to find his father's persecutor, an ex-Nazi war criminal hiding in the U.S. Learning that his father is close to death, he travels to New York, but he arrives too late. It is only in death that he learns the true extent of his father's humiliation in Auschwitz at the hands of former SS Officer Aloise Muller - an event he is determined to avenge.

Paolo Sorrentino, Frances McDormand, Shea Whigham, Sean Penn, Judd Hirsch, Nicola Giuliano, Francesca Cima, Harry Dean Stanton

The Details

A family discovers raccoons living in their backyard. As they try to eradicate the vandals, a chain reaction of infidelities, extortion, organ donation and murder ensues.

Tobey Maguire, Kerry Washington, Dennis Haysbert, Jacob Estes, Elizabeth Banks, Ray Liotta, Laura Linney, Bryan Zuriff

Sound City

Deep in the San Fernando Valley, amidst rows of dilapidated warehouses, was rock n' roll's best kept secret: Sound City. America's greatest unsung recording studio housed a one-of-a-kind console, and as its legend grew, seminal bands and artists such as Fleetwood Mac, Neil Young, Rick Springfield, Tom Petty, Metallica and Nirvana all came out to put magic to tape. Directed by Dave Grohl (Nirvana, Foo Fighters) and featuring interviews and performances from the iconic musicians who recorded some of rock’s greatest albums at the studio, Sound City doesn’t just tell the story of this real-life rock ’n’ roll shrine, it celebrates the human element of music as Grohl gathers some of rock's biggest artists to collaborate on a new album.

Dave Grohl

TABU

A two-part tale centered on Aurora, shown first as an impulsive, cantankerous elderly woman in present-day Lisbon. When Aurora is hospitalized, she sends her neighbor, Pilar, to pass word of her grave condition to Gian Luca, a man of which no one has ever heard her speak. Pilar’s quest to fulfill her friend’s wish transports us to Africa fifty years earlier, before the start of the Portuguese Colonial War. We see Aurora again, this time as the gorgeous, smoldering wife of a wealthy young farmer, involved in a forbidden love affair with Gian Luca, her husband’s best friend.

Miguel Gomes, Teresa Madruga, Laura Soveral, Ana Moreira

Cirque du Soleil: Worlds Awa...

Inspired by the unique creative universe of Cirque du Soleil. The film is based on the following premise: "There are worlds beyond dreams, illusion and imagination, where human beings are capable of anything. Where love rules, and everything your heart yearns for is beautifully, incredibly real."

James Cameron, Aron Warner, Andrew Adamson, Erica Linz, Matt Gillanders, Jason Berrent, Lutz Halbhubner

The Last Gladiators

Academy Award winning director Alex Gibney takes an unprecedented look in The Last Gladiators at the National Hockey League’s most feared enforcers and explores the career of Chris “Knuckles” Nilan. The role was simple: protect their teammates no matter the cost. For Chris this meant a shattered body, addiction to drugs, and harming the people closest to him. But in the process, he won the love of hockey’s holy city, Montreal, and helped the team win the Stanley Cup. Through interviews with hockey’s toughest guys, the film explores what it means to enforce the unspoken code of the NHL.

Alex Gibney, Jim Podhoretz, Larry Weitzman

Spiders 3D

Following a crash of an old Soviet space station in New York City's subway tunnel, a new species of poisonous spiders is discovered. Inadvertently the spiders mutate to gigantic proportions and wreak havoc on the entire city.

Christa Campbell, Tibor Takacs, Patrick Muldoon, William Hope, Shelly Varod, Jon Mack

The First Time

Focuses on the first weekend in the blooming love between a boy and a girl in high school.

Martin Shafer, Britt Robertson, Dylan O'Brien, Victoria Justice, Jonathan Kasdan, Liz Glotzer, James Frecheville, Craig Roberts

You've Been Trumped

After the Scottish Government overturns its own environmental laws to give Donald Trump the green light to build a golf resort on an untouched Scottish coastline, the stage is set for an extraordinary summer of discontent, as the bulldozers spring into action. Water and power is cut off, land disputes erupt, and some residents have thousands of tonnes of earth piled up next to their homes.

Anthony Baxter

Smashed

Kate and Charlie like to have a good time. Their marriage thrives on a shared fondness for music, laughter... and getting smashed. When Kate's partying spirals into hard-core asocial behavior, compromising her job as an elementary schoolteacher, something's got to give. But change isn't exactly a cakewalk. Sobriety means she will have to confront the lies she's been spinning at work, her troubling relationship with her mother, and the nature of her bond with Charlie.

Aaron Paul, Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Nick Offerman, Kyle Gallner, Bree Turner, Mackenzie Davis, James Ponsoldt, Octavia Spencer

Connected

Explores the visible and invisible connections linking major issues of our time—the environment, consumption, population growth, technology, human rights and global economy.

Tiffany Shlain

Storage 24

London is in chaos. A military cargo plane has crashed leaving its highly classified contents strewn across the city. Completely unaware London is in lockdown, Charlie (Noel Clarke) and Shelley (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), accompanied by best friends Mark (Colin O’Donoghue) and Nikki (Laura Haddock), are at Storage 24 dividing up their possessions after a recent break-up. Suddenly, the power goes off. Trapped in a dark maze of endless corridors, a mystery predator is hunting them one by one. In a place designed to keep things in, how do you get out?

Johannes Roberts, Noel Clarke, Antonia Campbell-Hughes, Ned Dennehy, Colin O'Donoghue

Grave Encounters 2

Grave Encounters was a found-footage horror phenomenon that many people believed was just a movie. Film student Alex Wright is out to prove them wrong in Grave Encounters 2. Alex is as obsessed with the first film as the 20 million people who viewed its viral trailer on YouTube. While he and his friends research the events and visit the real psychiatric hospital depicted in the original film, they find themselves face-to-face with unspeakable evil, banking on the hope that their knowledge of the original film will help them survive the sequel.

John Poliquin, Richard Harmon, Stephanie Bennett, Dylan Playfair, The Vicious Brothers, Sean Rogerson, Leanne Lapp, Howard Lai

Kumaré

Kumare is a wise guru from the East who indoctrinated a group of followers in the West. Kumare, however, is not real--he is the alter ego of American filmmaker Vikram Gandhi, who impersonated a spiritual leader for the sake of a social experiment designed to challenge one of the most widely accepted taboos: that only a tiny "1%" can connect the rest of the world to a higher power. Concealing his true identity from everyone he meets, Kumare forges profound and spiritual connections with people from all walks of life. At the same time, in the absurdity of living as an entirely different person, Vikram, the filmmaker, is forced to confront difficult questions about his own identity. At the height of his popularity, Kumare unveils his true identity to a core group of disciples who are knee-deep in personal transformation.

Vikram Gandhi

In Their Skin

Following a tragic incident, Mary (Selma Blair) and Mark (Joshua Close) Hughes escape their upscale, suburban life to spend some quality time at their isolated country home. A friendly evening with neighbors is suddenly interrupted when one man’s obsession with perfection escalates into a violent struggle, forcing everyone to extreme measures in order to survive.

Crossroad

A drama about twelve strangers who are brought into a diner, where they slowly discover that their lives are strangely connected and they are part of a bigger plan to save a man’s life. Crossroad is an exploration of the amazing interweaving of our lives, the realization that God’s plans have no room for coincidence, and that everything happens for a reason.

Amy Weber, Sean Galuszka, Ben Corns, Shervin Youssefian, Philip Bulcock, Kim Estes, Matt Jones, Jasmine Jade

The Hobbit: An Unexpected Jo...

The story centers on Hobbit Bilbo Baggins and the scary adventure he makes with thirteen dwarves.

Luke Evans, Cate Blanchett, Benedict Cumberbatch, Peter Jackson, Aidan Turner, Martin Freeman, Bret McKenzie, Philippa Boyens

Price Check

Pete Cozy has found himself a house in the suburbs and a job in the pricing department of a middling supermarket chain. Pete's job allows him to spend quality time with his wife and young son and, despite the fact that they are drowning in debts, they appear happy. Everything changes when Pete gets a new boss, the beautiful, high powered, fast talking Susan Felders. With Susan's influence, Pete finds himself on the executive track.. Something that both surprises and excites him. The more his salary increases, the more he has to perform at work... and the less time he gets to spend with his family. At the same time, his relationship with his boss begins to cross the line of professional etiquette. Both become enamored with one another -- creating tension in the workplace and in his personal home life.

Parker Posey, Michael Walker, Eric Mabius, Cheyenne Jackson, Annie Parisse, Josh Pais

Bachelorette

Ten years out of high school, three unhappy single friends come together as bridesmaids at a classmate’s wedding, get drunk, get high, and trash wedding dress while romancing new and old loves and settling old business.

Lizzy Caplan, Adam McKay, Kirsten Dunst, Isla Fisher, James Marsden, Will Ferrell, Rebel Wilson, Leslye Headland

Rust & Bone

Story of an unemployed 25-year-old man who falls in love with a killer whale trainer.

Marion Cotillard, Matthias Schoenaerts, Armand Verdure, Jacques Audiard, Thomas Bidegain

Zero Dark Thirty

A U.S. military black ops mission causes ramifications which are felt around the world.

Mark Strong, Edgar Ramirez, Chris Pratt, Jennifer Ehle, Mike Colter, Joel Edgerton, Jessica Chastain, Jason Clarke

Hellgate

A western businessman (Cary Elwes), his Thai wife and son experience a horrible accident while visiting Bangkok. In the aftermath, they find there is a shadow world between life and death where endless darkness lies.

Cary Elwes, John Penney

The Girl

A Texas woman finds the young daughter of an illegal immigrant who has become separated from her mother. Saddled with a child she doesn't wish to care for, the woman then searches for the child's mother, a quest that takes her south of the border.

Abbie Cornish, David Riker, Maritza Santiago Hernandez, Paul Mezey, Will Patton

THIS IS 40

A spin-off of Knocked Up that focuses on Pete and Debbie, who where played by Paul Rudd and Leslie Mann. Additional plot details are unavailable.

Megan Fox, Paul Rudd, Annie Mumolo, Chris O'Dowd, Melissa McCarthy, Leslie Mann, Barry Mendel, Clayton Townsend

Les Misérables

A film adaptation of the popular stage play, which chronicles the lives of five characters through nearly two decades in France. Ex-con Jean Valjean tries to outrun his relentless pursuer Javert.

Amanda Seyfried, Anne Hathaway, Eddie Redmayne, Tom Hooper, Tim Bevan, Hugh Jackman, Samantha Barks, Eric Fellner

Come Out and Play

A happy young couple expecting their first child travel to Mexico for a romantic getaway. As they dock on a sun-kissed beach where children are playing and giggling, everything seems perfect—yet as they wander the strangely empty streets, an atmosphere of unease sets in: an abandoned hotel, a distress signal echoing from a radio, and a sense of being watched. Children's laughter drifts through the streets, with no adults in sight. When the couple witnesses the violent death of an old man, their day in paradise becomes a struggle for survival.

Vinessa Shaw, Makinov, Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Parental Guidance

Billy Crystal will play a grandfather forced to take care of his three grandchildren by the 21st century rules of his daughter, their mother, who has gone on a weeklong work vacation. In the process, he is confronted with what seems to him an absurd world of negotiating with kids, Little League games where everyone gets a hit, tailored meals and "feelings." Ultimately, he reverts to an old-school-justice style of discipline.

Billy Crystal, Bette Midler, Marisa Tomei, Andy Fickman, Peter Chernin, Lisa Addario, Bailee Madison, Tom Everett Scott

6 Souls

The film's plot is being kept under wraps, but the budget is targeted to be around $22-$25 million.

Neal Edelstein, Julianne Moore, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Darlene Caamano Loquet, Emilio Diez Barroso, Mike Macari, Michael Cooney, Jeffrey DeMunn

Lincoln

A masterful biography of the 16th President Abraham Lincoln that follows his bitter struggle with poverty, his self-made success in business and law, his early disappointing political career, and his leadership as President during one of America's most tumultuous periods.

Steven Spielberg, Sally Field, Bruce McGill, David Strathairn, Walton Goggins, Jared Harris, Frank Marshall, Tony Kushner

Easy Money

A young man becomes a runner for a coke dealer.

Joel Kinnaman, Daniel Espinosa, Dragomir Mrsic, Maria Karlssom, Lisa Henni, Matias Varela

Step Up to the Plate

A documentary on French chef Michel Bras, one of the most influential chefs in the world, and the passing of his three-Michelin-star restaurant to his son Sebastien.

Paul Lacoste

Day of the Falcon

Starring Antonio Banderas (Desperado), Mark Strong (Zero Dark Thirty), Freida Pinto (Slumdog Millionaire) and Tahar Rahim (The Eagle), Day of the Falcon is an epic film that tackles honor, greed, betrayal and love between rival kingdoms. Just as the two groups cease to fight after years of bloodshed, oil is discovered between their territories, reigniting their once violent past. It’s now up to their children—young lovers who married in hopes of bringing the families together—to find a way to end the violence and to bring peace to the land.

Corey Johnson, Mark Strong, Freida Pinto, Antonio Banderas, Jean-Jacques Annaud, Riz Ahmed, Tahar Rahim, Adriano Giannini

Killing Them Softly

The story centers on Jackie Cogan, a professional enforcer who investigates a heist that takes place during a high stakes poker game under protection of the mob.

Brad Pitt, Dede Gardner, Andrew Dominik, Sam Rockwell, Scoot McNairy, Jim Seibel, Steve Schwartz, Paula Mae Schwartz

To The Arctic 3D

A journey into the lives of a mother polar bear and her two seven-month- old cubs as they navigate the changing Arctic wilderness they call home.

Meryl Streep, Greg MacGillivray

A Royal Affair

A period piece set amid the lives of 18th century Danish royalty.

Alicia Vikander, Mads Mikkelsen, David Dencik, Rasmus Heisterberg, Nikolaj Arcel, Trine Dyrholm, Lars Von Trier, Nikaolaj Arcel

The Collection

Arkin (Josh Stewart) escapes with his life from the vicious grips of "The Collector" during an entrapment party where he adds beautiful Elena to his "Collection." Instead of recovering from the trauma, Arkin is suddenly abducted from the hospital by mercenaries hired by Elena's wealthy father. Arkin is blackmailed to team up with the mercenaries and track down The Collector's booby trapped hide out and save Elena from his sadistic rituals.

Marcus Dunstan, Josh Stewart, Brett Forbes, Patrick Melton, Mickey Liddell, Jennifer Hilton, Patrick Rizotti

Stand Off

To pay off a gambling debt, a young man robs a fish shop, but the heist goes terribly and humorously awry when it turns into a hostage situation.

Yaya DaCosta, Terry George, Brendan Fraser, Martin McCann, Colm Meaney, Jay Russell, Michael Legge, David O'Hara

The Comedy

On the cusp of inheriting his father's estate, Swanson (Tim Heidecker, "Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!") is a man with unlimited options. An aging hipster in Brooklyn, he spends his days in aimless recreation with like-minded friends (“Tim & Eric” co-star Eric Wareheim, LCD Soundsystem frontman James Murphy and comedian Gregg Turkington a.k.a.“Neil Hamburger”) in games of comic irreverence and mock sincerity. As Swanson grows restless of the safety a sheltered life offers him, he tests the limits of acceptable behavior, pushing the envelope in every way he can. Heidecker’s deadpan delivery cleverly masks a deep desire for connection and sense in the modern world.

Eric Wareheim, Tim Heidecker, Neil Hamburger, Rick Alverson

Cheerful Weather for the Wed...

England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that bubble to the surface at such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened, and as the clock ticks the bride can't decide whether to run away with Joseph or start a new life in Argentina with her husband-to-be.

Felicity Jones, James Norton, Luke Treadaway, Mackenzie Crook, Elizabeth McGovern, Donald Rice, Julian Wadham, Zoe Tapper

Womb

A woman gives birth to a clone of her dead lover.

Eva Green, Benedek Fliegauf

Bangkok Revenge

Manit, a boy of ten years witnessed the murder of his parents. Unrelenting, the killers decide to eliminate it. Shot in the head, the child survives miraculously from his injuries, but finds himself struck by ataraxia. The damage to his brain took away any emotion. Saved from certain death by an old martial arts master, Manit, 20 years later becomes a real war machine, returns to the place of his childhood. Justice is going to fall, and men will die.

Jean-Marc Mineo, Michael Cohen, Jon Foo, Caroline Ducey

Late Bloomers

Late Bloomers begins when Mary (Isabella Rossellini) and Adam (William Hurt), a high-functioning couple, realize that they have entered the senior category. Adam's reaction to this "discovery" is as frantic as his denial, and he desperately looks for a fountain of youth. Mary, on the other hand, decides to deal with the situation by doing what she does best: taking care of everyone.

Isabella Rossellini, William Hurt, Doreen Mantle, Julie Gavras

The Frankenstein Theory

What if the most chilling novel of all time was actually based on a true account of a horrific experiment gone awry? When he is suspended from his university job for his outlandish ideas, Professor John Venkenheim leads a documentary film crew to the rim of the Arctic Circle in a desperate effort to vindicate his academic reputation. His theory: Mary Shelley's ghastly story, Frankenstein, is, in fact, a work of non-fiction disguised as fantasy. In the vast, frozen wilderness, Venkenheim and his team search for the legendary monster, a creature mired in mystery and drenched in blood. What they find is an unspeakable truth more terrifying than any fiction… a nightmare from which there is no waking.

Andrew Weiner, Joe Egender, Timothy V. Murphy, Kris Lemche, Eric Zuckerman

The Revisionaries

An urgent expose of the culture wars being fought within America's public school system, The Revisionaries is a behind-the-scenes look at the Texas State Board of Education's decade-defining conference on state textbook standards. As Texas is the country's single largest textbook buyer--and publishers are forced to re-write content to comply with their educational standards--the board's decisions have the ability to affect the future of American education.

Scott Thurman

Union Square

The reluctant reunion between two estranged sisters.

Michael Rispoli, Tammy Blanchard, Daphne Rubin-Vega, Nancy Savoca, Mira Sorvino, Patti LuPone, Mary Tobler