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New releases

Check out these flicks that are headed to the video shelves.

By Times Staff
Published March 23, 2006

Capote

DIRECTOR: Bennett Miller

CAST: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Catherine Keener, Clifton Collins Jr., Mark Pellegrino, Bruce Greenwood, Chris Cooper, Amy Ryan, Bob Balaban

SYNOPSIS: Hoffman stars as Truman Capote, getting too close to his work while researching the book In Cold Blood. Hoffman won the Academy Award for best actor.

WHAT WE SAID: The St. Petersburg Times gave the film an A.

MPAA RATING: R ; some violent images and brief strong language

RUNNING TIME: 110 min.

Derailed

DIRECTOR: Mikael Hafstrom

CAST: Jennifer Aniston, Clive Owen, Vincent Cassel, Xzibit, RZA, Giancarlo Esposito, Tom Conti

SYNOPSIS: A one-night stand leads to cheating spouses (Aniston, Owen) being blackmailed by a criminal (Cassel) with a hidden agenda

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the movie a C-.

MPAA RATING: R; violence (including rape), strong profanity, sexuality

RUNNING TIME: 110 min.

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

DIRECTOR: John Gatins

CAST: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue, Kris Kristofferson, Luis Guzman, Freddy Rodriguez, David Morse, Ken Howard, Oded Fehr

SYNOPSIS: A girl (Fanning) and her father (Russell) save a horse with a broken leg and make him a champion again with the help of her grandfather (Kristofferson).

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the movie a B.

MPAA RATING: PG; brief crude language

RUNNING TIME: 102 min.

Chicken Little

DIRECTOR: Mark Dindal

CAST: Voices of Zach Braff, Garry Marshall, Don Knotts, Patrick Stewart, Amy Sedaris, Steve Zahn, Joan Cusack, Wallace Shawn, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard, Catherine O'Hara, Patrick Warburton, Adam West

SYNOPSIS: The sky is falling, or perhaps it's an alien invasion scaring the feathers off Chicken Little (voice of Braff), whose false panics make him difficult to believe.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the movie a B.

MPAA RATING: G

RUNNING TIME: 77 min.

Everything is Illuminated

DIRECTOR: Liev Schreiber

CAST: Elijah Wood, Eugene Hutz, Boris Leskin, Laryssa Lauret

SYNOPSIS: Actor Liev Schreiber's directorial debut stars Wood as an American searching for the woman who saved his Jewish grandfather from the Holocaust with the aid of a Russian tour guide and his allegedly blind grandfather.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the film an A-.

MPAA RATING: R; profanity, disturbing images, violence, sexual situations

RUNNING TIME: 106 min.

The Squid and the Whale

DIRECTOR: Noah Baumbach

CAST: Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Anna Paquin, William Baldwin, Halley Feiffer

SYNOPSIS: Baumbach's semi-autobiographical film about the impending divorce of his parents, played by Daniels and Linney. Nominated for an Academy Award for original screenplay.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the film an A-.

MPAA RATING: R; sexual content, graphic dialogue and language

RUNNING TIME: 80 min.

Paradise Now

DIRECTOR: Hany Abu-Assad

CAST: Kais Nashef, Ali Suliman, Lubna Azabal, Amer Hlehel, Hiam Abbass

SYNOPSIS: Two young Palestinians accept a suicide bombing mission targeting Israeli troops. The film unfolds something like a documentary until its crackling final-act tension. With English subtitles. Nominated for an Academy Award for foreign language film.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times gave the film a B.

MPAA RATING: PG-13; mature themes, brief profanity

RUNNING TIME: 90 min.

In the Mix

DIRECTOR: Ron Underwood

CAST: Usher, Chazz Palminteri, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Anthony Fazio, Matt Gerald, Robert Davi, Kevin Hart, Robert Costanzo, K.D. Aubert, Jennifer Echols, Page Kennedy, Misti Traya

SYNOPSIS: Palminteri plays a mobster who doesn't appreciate a nightclub DJ (Usher) making moves on his daughter.

WHAT WE SAID: The Times did not review this film.

MPAA RATING: PG-13; sexual content, violence and language

RUNNING TIME: 105 min.

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