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Here's what's headed to the video shelves.

By Times Staff
Published August 10, 2006

Inside Man

DIRECTOR: Spike Lee

CAST: Denzel Washington, Clive Owen, Jodie Foster, Christopher Plummer, Willem Dafoe

SYNOPSIS: A bank robbery spirals into a cat-and-mouse game among a detective (Washington), a thief (Owen) and a mysterious woman (Foster).

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

MPAA RATING: R; violence, profanity

RUNNING TIME: 128 min.

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Don't Come Knocking

DIRECTOR: Wim Wenders

CAST: Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Tim Roth, Gabriel Mann, Sarah Polley, Fairuza Balk, Eva Marie Saint

SYNOPSIS: A burned-out cowboy movie star (San Shepard) flees from the set to locate a son he never knew.

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

MPAA RATING: R (for language and brief nudity)

RUNNING TIME: 110 min.

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Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector

DIRECTOR: Trent Cooper

CAST: Larry the Cable Guy, Iris Bahr, Bruce Bruce, Joanna Cassidy, Brooke Dillman, Tony Hale, David Koechner, Lisa Lampanelli, Megyn Price, Tom Wilson, Joe Pantoliano

SYNOPSIS: The popular good-ol'-boy comedian makes his film debut as a fish-out-of-water health inspector.

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

MPAA RATING: PG-13; crude and sexual humor, profanity, immature themes.

RUNNING TIME: 90 min.

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The Lost City

DIRECTOR: Andy Garcia

CAST: Steven Bauer, Richard Bradford, Nestor Carbonell, Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, William Marquez, Julio Oscar Mechoso, Tomas Milian, Enrique Murciano, Bill Murray, Elizabeth Pena, Millie Perkins, Tony Plana, Ines Sastre

SYNOPSIS: Garcia directs and stars as a Cuban nightclub owner during the dawn of Fidel Castro's revolution. Hoffman and Murray provide good supporting performances, and the musical numbers are superb.

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

MPAA RATING: R; violence

RUNNING TIME: 143 min.

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Adam & Steve

DIRECTOR: Craig Chester

CAST: Malcolm Gets, Cary Curran, Parker Posey, Chris Kattan

SYNOPSIS: Two men meet 17 years after a grossly embarrassing first date and fall in love again.

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

MPAA RATING: R; sexual content, language, drug use and some crude humor

RUNNING TIME: 99 min.

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Brick

DIRECTOR: Rian Johnson

CAST: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Nora Zehetner, Noah Fleiss, Matt O'Leary, Noah Segan, Meagan Good, Emilie de Ravin, Richard Roundtree, Lukas Haas

SYNOPSIS: A quiet student (Gordon-Levitt) gets involved with a high school underworld when his girlfriend disappears. Johnson's film blends teen angst with 1940s film noir stylings.

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

MPAA RATING: R; violence, profanity, drug content.

RUNNING TIME: 110 min.

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