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New releases

A look at the new movies headed to the video shelves.

By Times Staff
Published October 12, 2006

A Prairie Home Companion

DIRECTOR: Robert Altman

CAST: Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Meryl Streep.

SYNOPSIS: Garrison Keillor's radio show becomes a warm, wonderful movie experience.

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

MPAA RATING: PG; risque humor, brief profanity.

RUNNING TIME: 105 min.

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DIRECTOR: Frank Coraci

CAST: Adam Sandler, Christopher Walken, Kate Beckinsale.

SYNOPSIS: Workaholic father uses a magical remote control to fast-forward through tough times and pause on the good stuff.

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

MPAA RATING: PG-13; crude and sexual humor, profanity, drug references.

RUNNING TIME: 96 min.

Waist Deep

DIRECTOR: Vondie Curtis-Hall

CAST: Tyrese Gibson, Meagan Good, Larenz Tate, the Game.

SYNOPSIS: An ex-convict gets entangled with a gang after his car is hijacked with his son inside.

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

MPAA RATING: R; violence, profanity, sexual situations.

RUNNING TIME: 95 min.

Art School Confidential

DIRECTOR: Terry Zwigoff

CAST: John Malkovich and Jim Broadbent

SYNOPSIS: Satire of artistic ego and fates such poseurs deserve, including strangulation, is smugly unfunny.

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

MPAA RATING: R; strong profanity, sexual references, frontal nudity, brief violence.

RUNNING TIME: 102 min.

The Mostly Unfabulous Social Life of Ethan Green

DIRECTOR: George Bamber

CAST: Daniel Letterle, David Monahan, Meredith Baxter.

SYNOPSIS: Campy comedy described as the gay man's Bridget Jones's Diary.

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

MPAA RATING: R; sexual content, language.

RUNNING TIME: 88 min.

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