November 2011 DVD & Blu-rays

Crazy, Stupid, Love

A father deals with a marital crises while managing a relationship with his children.

Steve Carell, John Requa, Ryan Gosling, Kevin Bacon, Glenn Ficarra, Vance Degeneres, Denise Di Novi, Dan Fogelman

Cars 2

All the world's a racetrack as racing superstar Lightning McQueen zooms back into action, with his best friend Mater in tow, to take on the globe's fastest and finest in this thrilling high-octane new installment of the "Cars" saga. Mater and McQueen will need their passports as they find themselves in a new world of intrigue, thrills and fast-paced comedic escapades around the globe.

Bonnie Hunt, Cheech Marin, John Ratzenberger, Michael Caine, Emily Mortimer, Brad Lewis, John Lasseter, Denise Ream

Water for Elephants

A 90-year-old man reminisces about his life during the Depression, when he found work at a B-level circus taking care of the animals. He sees the brutality of circus life while falling for the wife of an abusive animal trainer.

Robert Pattinson, Leonard Hartman, Francis Lawrence, Gil Netter, Andrew Tennenbaum, Art's Erwin Stoff, Richard LaGravenese, Reese Witherspoon

The Nutcracker in 3D

1920s Vienna. Nine-year-old Mary (Elle Fanning) lives in a home filled with lovely things and loneliness. Besieged by bratty brother Max (Aaron Drozin) and neglected by well intentioned but distracted parents (Richard E. Grant, Yuilya Vysotskaya), she yearns for companionship and adventure. On Christmas Eve, Mary’s beloved Uncle Albert (Nathan Lane) arrives with the gift of a wooden nutcracker doll. Later that night, Mary’s imagination brings the doll to life. Introducing himself as “NC,” he takes her on a wondrous journey though a stunning dimension where toys assume human form and everything appears ten times larger. But danger lurks. An army of toothy rat creatures, led by the flamboyant Rat King (John Turturro) and his devious mother (Frances de la Tour), has unleashed a plot to overthrow humanity…… Inspired by Tchaikovsky’s timeless ballet, Nutcracker – The Real Story features eight songs from the famed composer, with original lyrics by multi Oscar winner Sir Tim Rice. Loaded with action, stunts and eye-popping visuals, the film also presents several eclectic dance numbers, along with a faithful adaptation of the original 1892 ‘Dance of the Snowflakes’ by legendary Russian choreographer Marius Petipa.

Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, Andrei Konchalovsky, Chris Solimine, John Turturro

Trespass

Four brutal perpetrators, looking for easy money, take a wife and husband hostage, but they run into complications with betrayal and deception.

Ben Mendelsohn, Nicole Kidman, Danny Dimbort, Cam Gigandet, Nicolas Cage, Irwin Winkler, Avi Lerner, Dash Mihok

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan

Set in 19th century remote China, the movie revolves around the lifelong friendship of Lily and Snow Flower and their imprisonment by rigid cultural codes of conduct for women.

Ron Bass, Zhang Ziyi, Wendi Murdoch, Florence Sloan, Angela Workman, Li Bingbing

11-11-11

On 11:11 on the 11th day of the 11th month, the 11th gate of Heaven will open up and something from another world will enter the earthly realm for 49 minutes.

Wayne Rice, Darren Lynn Bousman, Richard Heller, Timothy Gibbs, Michael Landes, Denis Rafter, Wendy Glenn, Brendan Price

Hot Coffee

Focuses on ways corporations have used memories of seemingly outlandish legal verdicts, such as a million dollar judgment for a woman who spilled McDonald's hot coffee on herself, to promote tort reforms and to avoid jury trials through arbitration on cases that have merit.

Susan Saladoff

Rejoice and Shout

A documentary that traces the evolution of Gospel through its many musical styles – the spirituals and early hymns, the four-part harmony-based quartets, the integration of blues and swing into Gospel, the emergence of Soul, and the blending of Rap and Hip Hop elements.

Joe Lauro, Don McGlynn

Tabloid

The salacious adventures of a beauty queen with an IQ of 168, whose single-minded devotion to the man of her dreams leads her on a labyrinthine crusade for love. Down a surreal rabbit hole of kidnapping, masochistic Mormons, risque photography, magic underwear, celestial sex, jail time and a cloning laboratory in South Korea, Joyce's fantastic exploits were constant headlines.

Errol Morris

Decisions

When a group of friends decide to pull a bank heist to get out from underneath their money troubles, they quickly discover that things can unravel in a hurry.

Jensen LeFlore, Corey Haim, Cisco Reyes

Bunraku

Set in a world with no guns, "Bunraku" follows a mysterious drifter, a young samurai and a bartender who plot revenge against a ruthless leader and his army of thugs, headed by nine diverse and deadly assassins.

Ron Perlman, Demi Moore, Guy Moshe, Josh Hartnett, Woody Harrelson, Kevin McKidd

Magic Trip

A documentary about the psychedelic 1960s cross-country bus tour taken by Ken Kesey and his Merry Pranksters.

Allison Ellwood, Alex Gibney

The Change-Up

A husband gets swapped with his best friend, a lazy man child.

Scott Moore, David Dobkin, Jeff Kleeman, Jon Lucas, Ryan Reynolds, Jason Bateman, Olivia Wilde, Leslie Mann

13

Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.

Jason Statham, Mickey Rourke, Sam Riley, Valerio Morabito, Ray Liotta, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Gela Babluani, Aaron Kaufman

The Human Resources Manager

The human resources manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery attempts to block the publication of a defamatory article and save the reputation of his business.

Eran Riklis, Mark Ivanir

Restitution

Set in a Michigan city where a series of mysterious murders all have an unlikely but common thread - a hired insurance fraud investigator who gets more than a paycheck when he is inexplicably killed and then framed for the crimes.

William Sadler, Mark Bierlein, Lance Kawas, Mena Suvari, Tom Arnold, C. Thomas Howell

Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls

A documentary about the world’s only comedic, singing, yodelling lesbian twin sisters, Lynda and Jools Topp, whose political activism and unique brand of entertainment has helped change New Zealand’s social landscape.

Leanne Pooley, Jools Topp, Lynda Topp

Life in a Day

Shot by filmmakers all around the world, the documentary aims to show future generations what it was like to be alive on the July 24, 2010.

Kevin Macdonald, Liza Marshall

Putty Hill

At a neighborhood karaoke bar, friends and family gather to remember a young man who passed away. Knowing little about his final days, they attempt to reconstruct his life.

Matthew Porterfield

The Perfect Age of Rock And Roll

Two estranged childhood friends channel their talent and passion for music into a cross-country road trip that brings them face to face with their past on a quest to confront the future.

Taryn Manning, Scott Rosenbaum, Kevin Zegers, Jason Ritter, Rose Atropos, Clifton Hangar

Salvation Boulevard

A private detective investigates the killing of a professor and it becomes a clash of faiths: The detective is a born-again Christian, the dead man an atheist, the accused killer an Islamic foreign student and the D.A. is Jewish.

Pierce Brosnan, Cathy Schulman, George Ratliff, Ed Harris, Jim Gaffigan, Isabelle Fuhrman, Celine Rattray, Douglas Stone

Great Directors

Documentary with nine of the world's greatest living directors: Bernardo Bertolucci, David Lynch, Liliana Cavani, Stephen Frears, Agnes Varda, Ken Loach, Todd Haynes, Catherine Breillat, Richard Linklater and John Sayles.

Angela Ismailos

Atlas Shrugged Part 1

After an economic collapse in the near-future United States, its top innovators and industrialists mysteriously disappear amid the growing power of politicians.

Nick Cassavetes, John Aglialoro, Edi Gathegi, Patrick Fischler, Paul Johansson, Harmon Kaslow, Brian Patrick O'Toole, Grant Bowler

In My Sleep

A man, who suffers from sleepwalking, wakes up in a graveyard with a bloody knife in his hand and then discovers that his best friend's wife has been stabbed to death.

Philip Winchester, Allen Wolf, Lacey Chabert, Beth Grant

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hal...

The final adventure of Harry Potter as he attempts to bring an end to his nemesis, Lord Voldemort.

Ralph Fiennes, Rupert Grint, Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Helena Bonham Carter, David Heyman, John Hurt, David Yates

Larry Crowne

Story centers on a man forced to reinvent himself and find a new career as he navigates the second act of his life.

Taraji P. Henson, Gary Goetzman, Nia Vardalos, Cedric the Entertainer, Rami Malek, Bob Stephenson, Tom Hanks, Philippe Rousselet

Flypaper

A man caught in the middle of two simultaneous robberies at the same bank desperately tries to protect the teller with whom he's secretly in love.

Pruitt Taylor Vince, Rob Minkoff, Ashley Judd, Scott Moore, Patrick Dempsey, Mekhi Phifer, Mark Damon, Peter Safran

Griff the Invisible

Griff, a shy and awkward office worker by day, finds escape from his ordinary life by assuming the identity of a fantastic superhero each night. Griff's secret is jeopardized when he meets Melody, a cute but unconventional daydreamer.

Leon Ford, Ryan Kwanten

Giorgio Moroder Presents Metropo...

Giorgio Moroder's 1984 version of Metropolis, which added a new score from '80s pop acts including Pat Benatar, Freddie Mercury and Bonnie Tyler.

The Weird World of Blowfly

Documents story of Miami musician Clarence Reid and his alter ego Blowfly, the original dirty rapper. A major force in the Miami soul scene of the 60s and 70s, Reid wrote Top-10 songs for some of the greatest R&B acts of the era, while at the same time, his X-rated recordings and stage antics as Blowfly made him a star of the "party record" scene.

Jonathan Furmanski, Clarence Reid

Beginners

Explores the hilarity, heartbreak and surprises of a son's discovery that his dying father is gay.

Miranda De Pencier, Melanie Laurent, Mike Mills, Leslie Urdang, Dean Vanech, Lars Knudsen, Ewan McGregor, Christopher Plummer

Enemies of the People

An attempt to discover the truth about the Killing Fields and the Khmer Rouge responsible for Cambodia’s genocide.

Rob Lemkin, Thet Sambath

Turtle: The Incredible Journey

Turtle: The Incredible Journey is an award-winning film that follows the life and migration of a loggerhead turtle from hatching to maturity and a return to its original Florida nesting grounds. The loggerhead turtle, a threatened species, has one of the longest and most difficult migratory patterns of any marine animal: Sea turtles newly hatched on the East Coast of the United States (usually in Florida) make their way from the sand into the ocean, and then begin a voyage that can span the entire Atlantic Ocean, only to return decades later to that same beach.

Nick Stringer, Miranda Richardson

The Warring States

A historical epic about rival military strategists, Sun Bin and Pang Juan, two students of military strategy who fought for supremacy during China’s Warring States Period.

Jin Chen

Main Street

Set in Durham, North Carolina, the story of a decaying small town and its desperate hope for renewal.

John Doyle, Horton Foote, Patricia Clarkson, Thom Mount, Ellen Burstyn, Colin Firth, Amber Tamblyn, Orlando Bloom

Fading of the Cries

A young man defends his town from evil forces, aided by a magic sword.

Karoline Kautz, Brian Metcalf, Thomas Ian Nicholas, Jordan Matthews

Bellflower

A pair of eccentric L.A.-based friends spend their time preparing for the apocalypse.

Rebekah Brandes, Evan Glodell, Jessie Wiseman, Tyler Dawson, Vincent Grashaw

The Tree

After the sudden death of her father, 8-year-old Simone shares a secret with her mother Dawn. She’s convinced her father speaks to her through the leaves of her favourite tree and he’s come back to protect them. But the new bond between mother and daughter is threatened when Dawn starts a relationship with George, the plumber, called in to remove the tree’s troublesome roots.

Julie Bertuccelli, Morgana Davies, Christian Byers, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Marton Csokas

Page One: A Year Inside the New ...

In the tradition of fly-on-the-wall documentaries, the film gains unprecedented access to the New York Times newsroom and the inner workings of the Media Desk. With the Internet surpassing print as the public's main news source and newspapers all over the country going bankrupt, Page One chronicles the transformation of the media industry at its time of greatest turmoil.

Andrew Rossi

Super 8

A rumored top-secret J.J. Abrams-produced movie that may be a Cloverfield sequel. No further details are known.

Elle Fanning, Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, Kyle Chandler, Ron Eldard, Noah Emmerich, Gabriel Basso, A.J. Michalka

Conan The Barbarian

A new take on the Robert E. Howard-created character. Conan rises above all other heroes in the fictitious Hyborian age, taking place around 12,000 years ago.

Ron Perlman, Jason Momoa, George Furla, Rose McGowan, Avi Lerner, Boaz Davidson, Thomas Dean Donnelly, Sean Hood

Spy Kids: All the Time in the Wo...

The fourth part of the "Spy Kids" franchise, which will be in 3D.

Robert Rodriguez, Jessica Alba, Jeremy Piven, Joel McHale, Mason Cook, Danny Trejo, Elizabeth Avellan, Rowan Blanchard

Sarah's Key

An American, living in Paris, researching the arrests of Jewish families in 1942 discovers she shares a connection with a 10-year-old Jewish girl and their stories unfold in parallel.

Kristin Scott Thomas, Gilles Paquet-Brenner, Niels Arestrup

The Family Tree

A troubled family gets a second chance at happiness when the mother suffers a memory loss and can't recall the last 15 years of her life.

Allan Jones, Brittany Robertson, Bow Wow, Vivi Friedman, J. Todd Harris, Mark Lisson, Dermot Mulrony, Hope Davis

Carjacked

A single mother and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.

Daniel Grodnik, Peter Medak, Daniel Grodnick, Gary Hamilton, Eric Gozlan, Sherry Compton, Michael Compton, Maria Bello

The Devil's Double

The story centers on the inner circle of Suddam Hussein, and the love triangle between Hussein’s son, Uday, his body double Latif Yahia, and the concubine they both loved.

Amber Rose Revah, Lee Tamahori, Catherine Vandeleene, Paul Breuls, Emjay Rechsteiner, Michael Thomas, Dominic Cooper, Mem Ferda

One Day

Dexter (Jim Sturgess) and Emma (Anne Hathaway) meet for the first time during their graduation and proceed to meet one day a year for the next 20 years. They experience different lives and loves until they realize they are meant for each other.

Nina Jacobson, David Nicholls, Anne Hathaway, Tessa Ross, Benoit Delhomme, Lone Scherfig, Jim Sturgess, Romola Garai

30 Minutes or Less

A comedy about a pizza delivery guy on an unlikely caper.

Jesse Eisenberg, Jeremy Kramer, Nick Swardson, Ruben Fleischer, Hina Abdullah, Ben Stiller, Stuart Cornfeld, Brian Levy

Our Idiot Brother

An idealist, hounded by his overbearing mother, crashes into the homes of his three ambitious sisters and brings truth, happiness and a sunny disposition while also wreaking havoc.

Rashida Jones, Peter Saraf, Paul Rudd, Elizabeth Banks, Emily Mortimer, Adam Scott, Hugh Dancy, T.J. Miller

The Art of Getting By

No plot details have been announced.

Emma Roberts, Blair Underwood, Gavin Weisen, Darren Goldberg, Jennifer Dana, Freddie Highmore, Michael Angarano, Alicia Silverstone

Another Earth

Rhonda, an ambitious MIT astrophysics student, kills a man's family in a car accident after leaning out of the window to catch sight of a newly discovered planet. After she spends four years in prison, she returns home compelled to meet the bereaved husband and father.

Mark Cahill, Brit Marling, William Mapother, Jordan Baker

Now & Later

An illegal Latina immigrant living in Los Angeles who stumbles across a disgraced banker on the run. She takes him in and through soul-searching conversations and other worldly pleasures, Angela introduces Bill to another worldview.

Philippe Diaz

5 Days of War

An American journalist, his cameraman and a Georgian native become caught in the crossfire of the five-day war between Russian and the Georgian Republic in 2008.

Val Kilmer, David Imedashvili, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Renny Harlin, George Lascu, Michael P. Flannigan, Mikko Alanne, David Battle

Kidnapped

A family finds themselves as victims of an 'express kidnapping'.

Ana Wagener, Guillermo Barrientos, Manuela Vellés, Miguel Angel Vivas, Fernando Cayo

Cave of Forgotten Dreams

Documentary about the Chauvet caves in Southern France that contain the oldest known cave paintings.

Werner Herzog

Snowmen

Convinced that he only has weeks to live, 10-year-old Billy Kirkfield enlists his misfit friends in a scheme to ensure that he will be remembered in the record books forever.

Christopher Lloyd, Ray Liotta, Robert Kirbyson, Bobby Coleman, Talon G. Ackerman, Beverley Mitchell

The Future

A story about a thirtysomething couple grappling with their personal and professional malaise, which is narrated by a talking shelter cat named Paw Paw.

Roman Paul, Gerhard Meixner, Miranda July, Gina Kwon, Hamish Linklater

Tucker and Dale vs. Evil

"Tucker and Dale vs. Evil" is a genre-bending indie horror comedy. Labine stars as Dale alongside Tudyk as Tucker, two good-natured hillbillies mistakenly accused of being psycho killers by a group of college kids camping at the same lake where the hillbillies have just acquired a dilapidated cabin as their "summer home."

Eli Craig, Morgan Jurgenson