New DVD Releases for the Week of June 9 2009
Here is a list of the new DVD Releases for the week of June 9 2009 (for TV on DVD releases head over to Daemon's TV):
Gran Torino
Synopsis: Clint Eastwood stars in "Gran Torino," marking his first film role since his Oscar®-winning "Million Dollar Baby." Eastwood plays retired auto worker Walt Kowalski, an iron-willed veteran living in a changing world, who is forced by his immigrant neighbors to confront his own long-held prejudices. The people he once called his neighbors have all moved or passed away, replaced by Hmong immigrants, from Southeast Asia, he despises. Resentful of virtually everything and everyone he sees, Walt is just waiting out the rest of his life... until the night his teenage neighbor Thao tries to steal his prized '72 Gran Torino, under pressure from Hmong gang-bangers. But Walt stands in the way of both the heist and the gang, making him the reluctant hero of the neighborhood -- especially to Thao's mother and older sister, Sue, who insist that Thao work for Walt as a way to make amends. Though he initially wants nothing to do with these people, Walt eventually gives in and puts the boy to work, setting into motion an unlikely friendship that will change both their lives.
Cast: Clint Eastwood
Director: Clint Eastwood
Recommendations: I missed that one at the movies, but did hear some good things about it, so I'm definitely going to check it out.
Buy it: GRAN TORINO on Amazon
NOBEL SON Movie Trailer (2008)
Title: NOBEL SON
Director: Randall Miller
Cast: Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy, Mary Steenburgen, Bill Pullman, Eliza Dushku, Danny DeVito, Ted Danson, Ernie Hudson, Tracey Walter, Lindy Booth, and Kevin West
Plot: Barkley Michaelson is in a deep life rut. He's struggling to finish his PhD thesis when his father, the learned Eli Michaelson, wins the Nobel Prize for Chemistry. Barkley and his mother, Sarah, a renowned forensic psychiatrist, now have the ill-fortune of living with a man-eating monster whose philandering ways have gotten less and less discrete. As if Barkley's world is not bad enough, on the eve of his father receiving the Nobel, Barkley is kidnapped and the requested ransom is the $2,000,000 in Nobel prize money. Needless to say, Eli refuses to pay it and so starts a venomous tale of familial dysfunction, lust, betrayal and ultimately revenge. (Source: imdb.com)
Release Date: 3 October 2008
Thoughts: I guess the trailer looks ok, but I don't think I'm going to go out of my way to see it. Most likely a rental. Although I do love Alan Rickman.
Trailer:
What do you think of the trailer for Noble Son?
