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Mad Money
Directed by Callie Khouri Starring Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes
Released in 2008 by Starz/Sphe
DVD-Video, English, .
ISBN: 0013138000095 UPC: 00013138000095
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Miss Pettigrew Lives for a Day
Directed by Bharat Nalluri Starring Frances McDormand and Amy Adams
Released in 2008 by Universal Home Video
DVD-Video, English, 92 minutes.
ISBN: 0025195016230 UPC: 00025195016230
A sophisticated and heartfelt comedy. In the 1939-set romantic tale, Miss Guinevere Pettigrew (Frances McDormand), a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse (Amy Adams). Within minutes, Miss Pettigrew finds herself swept into a heady high-society milieu and, by the end of the day, discovers her own romantic destiny.
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Purple Violets
Released in 2008 by Genius Products
DVD-Video, English, .
ISBN: 0796019814317 UPC: 00796019814317
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In Bruges
Directed by Martin McDonagh Starring Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes
Released in 2008 by Universal Home Video
DVD-Video, English, 107 minutes.
ISBN: 0025195016322 UPC: 00025195016322
In Bruges (pronounced broozh) is a darkly comic suspense thriller from Academy Award-winning writer/director Martin McDonagh tells the story of hit men Ray and Ken (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson). After a botched job in London, the team is ordered by their boss Harry (Ralph Fiennes) to cool their heels in the storybook city of Bruges, Belgium. Very much out of their comfort zones, the men find themselves drawn into increasingly dangerous entanglements with locals, tourists, and a film shoot. As their stay in Bruges gets weirder, they realize Harry may have other plans for them than a simple vacation.
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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Directed by Tim Burton Starring Johnny Depp
Released in 2008 by Paramount Home Video
DVD-Video, English, 117 minutes.
ISBN: 0097363500643 UPC: 00097363500643
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller Sweeney Todd. Depp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again. Joining Depp is Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sweeney's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan Rickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends Sweeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge's wicked associate Beadle Bamford and Sacha Baron Cohen a rival, flamboyant barber, Signor Adolfo Pirelli.
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27 Dresses
Directed by Anne Fletcher Starring Katherine Heigl and James Marsden
Released in 2008 by Tcfhe
DVD-Video, English, 105 minutes.
ISBN: 0024543515975 UPC: 00024543515975
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