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Video/DVD

New releases

A look at what's heading to the video shelves.

By Times Staff
Published September 14, 2006

Goal! The Dream Begins

DIRECTOR: Danny Cannon

CAST: Kuno Becker, Alessandro Nivola, Tony Plana, Miriam Colon, Marcel Iures, Stephen Dillane, Anna Friel, Kevin Knapman

SYNOPSIS: A young Mexican immigrant (Becker) gets a shot playing soccer for England's Newcastle United team.

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

MPAA RATING: PG; language, sexual situations

RUNNING TIME: 118 min.

The Wild

DIRECTOR: Steve "Spaz" Williams

CAST: Voices of Kiefer Sutherland, James Belushi, Greg Cipes, Eddie Izzard, Janeane Garofalo, William Shatner

SYNOPSIS: Essentially it's Madagascar 2. Sutherland voices the zoo lion searching for his runaway cub in the jungle.

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

MPAA RATING: G

RUNNING TIME: 81 min.

HellBent

DIRECTOR: Paul Etheredge-Ouzts

CAST: Dylan Fergus, Bryan Kirkwood, Hank Harris, Andrew Levitas, Matt Phillips, Wren T. Brown

SYNOPSIS: A slasher movie with a twist: All the maniac's oversexed victims are gay males.

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

MPAA RATING: R; strong horror violence and gore, sexual content, language and drug use

RUNNING TIME: 85 min.

Lucky Number Slevin

DIRECTOR: Paul McGuigan

CAST: Josh Hartnett, Bruce Willis, Ben Kingsley, Morgan Freeman, Lucy Liu, Stanley Tucci

SYNOPSIS: Mistaken identities lead a man (Hartnett) into danger with mobsters (Freeman, Kingsley) and a hit man (Willis).

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

MPAA RATING: R; strong profanity, violence

RUNNING TIME: 109 min.

The Great New Wonderful

DIRECTOR: Danny Leiner

CAST: Maggie Gyllenhaal, Edie Falco, Tony Shalhoub, Jim Gaffigan, Olympia Dukakis, Judy Greer, Thomas McCarthy, Will Arnett, Naseeruddin Shah, Sharat Saxena, Stephen Colbert

SYNOPSIS: Overlapping stories reveal the lingering effects of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks on average New Yorkers.

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

MPAA RATING: R; language and some sexuality

RUNNING TIME: 87 min.

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