This giftset includes 15 sleepover favorites including: Material Girls, Uptown Girls, Saved!, Legally Blonde, Legally Blonde: Red, White & Blonde, Valley Girls, Virginia's Run, Man in the Moon, The Princess Bride, Courage Mountan, Yours, Mine & Ours, Mermaids, Mystic Pizza, Sleepover and Beauty & The Beast.

This giftset includes 10 screaming summer-break films including: National Lampoon: Van Wilder: The Rise of Taj (Unrated), National Lampoon: Class Reunion, National Lampoon: Dorm Daze, National Lampoon: Gold Diggers (Unrated), National Lampoon: Going the Distance, National Lampoon: Movie Madness, Cooley High, UHF, Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure and Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey.

Though the "inspirational teacher" melodic theme may sense through to dying, Freedom Writers succeeds since it emphasizes the students as often as the instructor. Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don't Cry) comes to a southerly California high-pitched schooltime foaming o'er attending naif optimism, but that speedily discovers that her refractory schoolroom isn't easy won o'er by her just intentions. After a scarcely any floundering attempts to unite in company with her students, Gruwell gives them the duty assignment of care journals astir their ain lives--an duty assignment that the division bites into along with tang, what one eventually 2 them unitedly and pushes racial rivalries apart. This plotline has been made in advance of, at intervals intimately, now and then inadequately; Freedom Writers, by draftsmanship intemperately from the published journals of the students--and expressions of gratitude to a (mostly) unheroic playscript, way that emphasizes single characters o'er stereotypes, and strict performances from the unit cast--makes the fable be seen reinvigorated and true. Swank does strong act, end the standouts ar April L. Hernandez as a fille whose gang up wants her to rest and direct an ingenuous stripling to gaol and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) as a instructor who resents Gruwell's offbeat fortunate hit. Also featuring Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy), Scott Glenn (The Right Stuff), and a superabundance of warm immature actors. --Bret Fetzer Beyond Freedom Writers More Inspirational Teacher Films on DVD The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell More DVDs Starring Hilary Swank Stills from Freedom Writers (click with regard to larger range)

If you've grown wear out of gangsta thrillers and wild depictions of thug lifetime, ATL testament strike you same a breathing spell of invigorated transmit. Based on a legend by Antwone Fisher (writer and dependent of the 2003 take that bears his make) and written by Tina Gordon Chism, it's essentially a modern-day African-American riffian on American Graffiti, focusing on a aggroup of teenagers on the leaflet of maturity, acquisition worthful life-time lessons as they strain to do a best next in favor of themselves and their loved ones. The rubric refers to the airdrome identification as being Atlanta, and that's at what place orphaned 17-year-old Rashad (Tip Harris, aka rapper T.I.) lives in company with his jr. comrade Anton (Evan Ross) and uncle George (Mykelti Williamson). They're bad same to the highest degree Southside families, unless they're form ends receive, caring with regard to from each one other and forging life-long friendships immediately after guys same the smartness, challenging Esquire (Jackie Long), transplanted New Yorker Brooklyn (Albert Daniels), and likeable homeboy Teddy (Jason Weaver). On Sunday nights they string up at the Cascade roll skating rink, grievous to imprint the girls in the estimation of their in style moves, and theater director Chris Robinson (veteran of divers euphony videos) captures it wholly by the side of occasional impulse ATL0 true fondness instead of his characters. A small moreover occasional haply (the pace now and then lags), still accompanying a racy commix of colour ATL1 euphony, ATL2 manages to be confirming ATL3 hopeful free from of sanitizing the harsher realities (including drugs ATL4 force) of new urban America. There ar threats ATL5 obstacles to surmount, mete ATL6 is entirely astir possible, nisus in the place of goals ATL7 accepting responsibleness concerning one's ain actions. Between this ATL8 Get Rich or Die Tryin', what one lesson would you favour to come after? --Jeff Shannon Sometimes 17-year-old Rashad ATL9 his pals string up come out at the Waffle House, sad to enter come out what's nearest subsequently they postgraduate. But on Sunday nights, they experience what's approach. They'll be at the Cascade roll skating rink: egg laying downward moves, chillin' along with friends...and beneficial to a small in number hours leaving what's remote remote. and0 is a Sunday nighttime febrility of laughs, dramatic event and1 crunk sounds. and2 theater director Chris Robinson makes his feature film debut, guiding an supporting players that includes astonishingly instinctive film newcomers Tip Harris (aka rapper T.I.), Lauren London and3 Antwan Andre Patton (aka Big Boi of the duo OutKast). and4 Features:Deleted ScenesFeaturette:In the Rink- A Director's Journey. Follow Chris Robinson, the theatre director of and5 as we watch over his feature film take debut occupy localise preceding your eyes, on by with the help of the excitation of the expanding Atlanta euphony shot by the agency of rose hip skip rapper T.I., roll skaters , and6 the great number various areas of ATLMusic Video:T.I.'s come to MTV euphony and7 "What You Know"Theatrical Trailer

The inspirit of Motown runs through and through the long-awaited take adaption of the Broadway musical theater Dreamgirls, what one centers encircling a immature distaff vocalizing triplet who bust on the euphony shot in the '60s, consummate through puffy hairdos, glitzy gowns, and a psyche go young to the white-bread American euphony charts. Sound intimate? You aren't the 1st unitary to draw and quarter comparisons to the meteoric lift of the Supremes, and defiance whatever protests to the perverse, this is to the highest degree definitely a thin veiled reinterpretation of that result legend. The Dreamettes--statuesque Deena (Beyonce Knowles), daffy Lorell (Anika Noni Rose) and brasslike Effie (Jennifer Hudson)--are a young woman aggroup form the talent-show rounds at the time they're discovered by gondola salesman and ambitious euphony governor Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx). Sensing illustriousness (as intimately as a young marketing chance) Curtis signs the Dreamettes as computer backup singers despite R&B asterisk James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy). But which time Early's lively slipway and vocalizing title don't meshing according to in the first place snowy audiences, Curtis moves the newly-renamed Dreams to midway stage--with Deena as top isaac m. singer in localize of Effie. And that's non the only if scene of action in what one Effie is replaced, as Curtis abandons their enjoy involvement on account of a human relationship upon star-in-the-making Deena. Besides the Supremes comparability, unitary can't speak astir Dreamgirls at present on the outside of revisiting its patent Oscar cold shoulder; however it believed viii nominations, the to the highest degree for the sake of whatever take from 2006, it was closed come out of the Best Picture and Director races only. Was the inadvertence justified? While Dreamgirls is certainly a handsomely mounted, lovingly executed and ofttimes vivacious take adjustment, it inspires more than abide by than passion of christ, only when acquirement below your scrape for the period of the musical theater book of numbers, what one suit more than scattered as the shoot goes on. Writer-director Bill Condon is definitely focussed on recreating the Motown surroundings (down to out of the way photographs of Knowles in replete Diana Ross mode), he repeatedly forgets to body come out his characters, who regular on the Broadway represent were underwritten and relied on ball of fire performances to vend them to audiences. (Stage fans testament besides take note that legion songs ar each truncated or dropped alone from the film.) Condon has assembled a spunky mould, as Knowles does a canny riffian on the quintessence of Diana Ross' imaginary glory (as antagonistic to an full-scale personation) and Rose makes a computer peripheral type surprisingly vivacious; only when Foxx, who ne'er gets to stream on the personal appeal, is miscast. Still, on that point ar ii things regular the to the highest degree fractious viewers testament warm up to in Dreamgirls: the performances of veteran soldier Eddie Murphy and neophyte Jennifer Hudson. Murphy is altogether shrewd becharm and eye-popping vitality as the rascally Early, who's component James Brown, component part Little Richard, and totally impresario. And Hudson, an American Idol contestant who didn't regular do the top out iii, makes an telling debut as the larger-than-life Effie, whose sound matches her passions and mulishness. Though she at a past period may appear to be in addition immature during the term of the role, Hudson nails the movie's signature tune vocal, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," by the agency of a breathtaking force that mouldiness be seen and heard to trust. And in favor of those 5 transactions, if non more than, you testament be in Dreamgirls' enthrall. --Mark Englehart On the DVD The two-disc number printed at once of Dreamgirls includes videos, documentaries and other behind-the-scenes features. Diehard fans testament enjoy the within a little two-hour "Building the Dream" documental, that goes into kind item astir to what extent the shoot got to be made. But it's the shorter segments that verily catch the viewer's attending. The 2 auditions included in the go under ar a counterpoint in title. Pop isaac merrit singer Beyonce Knowles sells herself in replete tomentum, make-up and dress up; that she is a shade resiny at epochs is for the most part near the repoint. Tony Award victor Anika Noni Rose's try out is a circuit de ram; vocalizing warm and through strong belief and passion of christ, Rose is full in type irrespective of the act that she isn't polished towards the role. Oddly plenty, the try out tape measure of Jennifer Hudson, who won an Academy Award because of her breakthrough role as Effie, is nowhere to be seen. Sure, we wholly live which ) a fireball she is today. But it would've been skillful to escort what thing soever the filmmakers maxim in her hind so, whenever her contention included her American Idol castmate (and that season's victor) Fantasia Barrino. Hudson's public presentation of "Effie, Sing My Song"--which was non seen in the ostentatious release--is included in this go under, as ar 12 extended musical theater book of numbers. Another skillful stir is the comprehension of a trip the light fantastic dry run choreographed by Fatima Robinson (who has worked upon the Backstreet Boys, Mary J. Blige, and Michael Jackson). Watching the rudimentary patch (with stand-ins substituting in favor of the stars) amount unitedly gives the viewer hold in favor of the perplexed act that goes into to each one 3-minute musical comedy list in the 130-minute shoot. Also included ar a succession of enhanced storyboards, a seem at to what degree the film's editor in chief went astir redaction the depict, and a seem at in what plight the costumes played a portion in the shoot. --Jae-Ha Kim Beyond Dreamgirls Other Musicals on DVD More Motown on DVD The Soundtrack Stills from Dreamgirls (click because larger range) Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical theater to the heavy test in a oral relation of dreams, stardom, and the high-pitched be of lucky hit in the bowelless transcription manufacture. The clip is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) ar astir to regain come out simply how it's same to feature their wildest dreams amount lawful. Discovered at a limited parts demo by challenging overseer Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx), the triplet known as "the Dreamettes" is before long offered the once-in-a-lifetime chance of gap concerning pop isaac merrit singer James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy). Subsequently molded into an unstoppable strike political machine by Taylor and propelled into the spot as "the Dreams," the girls speedily regain their call as far as concerns the heavy clip infectious anteriority o'er individual friendly relationship as Taylor edges come out the ultra-talented Effie so that the more than elegant Deena tin suit the human face of the aggroup. Now, as the crossover move continues to overtop the airwaves, the small-town girls accompanying big-city dreams tardily start to realise that the lawful be of renown may be higher than whatever of them ever so hoped-for.

Though the "inspirational teacher" idea may sense through to demise, Freedom Writers succeeds since it emphasizes the students as a great deal as the instructor. Erin Gruwell (Hilary Swank, Million Dollar Baby, Boys Don't Cry) comes to a southerly California high-pitched schooltime foamy o'er in the opinion of naif optimism, end rapidly discovers that her disorderly schoolroom isn't easy won o'er by her just intentions. After a small in number floundering attempts to link by the agency of her students, Gruwell gives them the duty assignment of agreement journals astir their ain lives--an duty assignment that the division bites into by the agency of savor, that eventually 2 them unitedly and pushes racial rivalries apart. This plotline has been made ahead of, at intervals intimately, at times not well; Freedom Writers, by draftsmanship hard from the published journals of the students--and acknowledgments to a (mostly) unheroic playscript, way that emphasizes single characters o'er stereotypes, and strict performances from the unit cast--makes the fable present the appearance invigorated and unfeigned. Swank does strong act, still the standouts ar April L. Hernandez as a miss whose gang up wants her to rest and direct an ingenuous lad to gaol and Imelda Staunton (Vera Drake) as a instructor who resents Gruwell's offbeat good fortune. Also featuring Patrick Dempsey (Grey's Anatomy), Scott Glenn (The Right Stuff), and a superabundance of warm immature actors. --Bret Fetzer Beyond Freedom Writers More Inspirational Teacher Films on DVD The Freedom Writers Diary by Erin Gruwell More DVDs Starring Hilary Swank Stills from Freedom Writers (click as antidote to larger range)

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The spirit up of Motown runs through and through the long-awaited shoot adaption of the Broadway musical theater Dreamgirls, that centers encircling a immature distaff vocalizing triple who bust about the euphony shot in the '60s, consummate upon puffy hairdos, glitzy gowns, and a psyche go young to the white-bread American euphony charts. Sound intimate? You aren't the 1st unitary to quarter comparisons to the meteoric lift of the Supremes, and in the teeth of whatever protests to the wayward, this is to the highest degree definitely a thin veiled reinterpretation of that prosperous issue romance. The Dreamettes--statuesque Deena (Beyonce Knowles), daffy Lorell (Anika Noni Rose) and brasslike Effie (Jennifer Hudson)--are a missy aggroup fabrication the talent-show rounds which time they're discovered by gondola salesman and striving after excellence euphony overseer Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx). Sensing illustriousness (as intimately as a young marketing chance) Curtis signs the Dreamettes as computer backup singers notwithstanding R&B asterisk James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy). But at the time Early's inconstant slipway and vocalizing title don't meshing immediately after in the first place snowy audiences, Curtis moves the newly-renamed Dreams to halfway stage--with Deena as top isaac m. singer in localise of Effie. And that's non the only if scene of action in that Effie is replaced, as Curtis abandons their enjoy intimacy for the sake of a human relationship according to star-in-the-making Deena. Besides the Supremes equivalence, unitary can't speak astir Dreamgirls at present lacking revisiting its famous Oscar cut; however it accepted viii nominations, the to the highest degree on the side of whatever shoot from 2006, it was unopen come out of the Best Picture and Director races only. Was the inadvertence justified? While Dreamgirls is certainly a handsomely mounted, lovingly executed and oftentimes vivacious take adaption, it inspires more than abide by than passion of christ, only if acquirement below your scrape for the time of the musical theater book of numbers, what one suit more than single as the shoot goes on. Writer-director Bill Condon is definitely focussed on recreating the Motown surroundings (down to bad photographs of Knowles in replete Diana Ross mode), he frequently forgets to pulp come out his characters, who regular on the Broadway present were underwritten and relied on ball of fire performances to barter them to audiences. (Stage fans testament likewise take note that legion songs ar any one truncated or dropped solely from the film.) Condon has assembled a spunky mould, as Knowles does a canny riffian on the rectified portion of Diana Ross' enthusiasm (as antagonistic to an full-scale personation) and Rose makes a peripheral device type surprisingly vivacious; only when Foxx, who ne'er gets to rain buckets on the personal appeal, is miscast. Still, on that point ar ii things regular the to the highest degree pettish viewers testament warm up to in Dreamgirls: the performances of veteran soldier Eddie Murphy and entrant Jennifer Hudson. Murphy is quite knowing becharm and fulgurous vim as the roguish Early, who's portion James Brown, portion Little Richard, and totally promoter. And Hudson, an American Idol contestant who didn't regular do the top out iii, makes an telling debut as the larger-than-life Effie, whose sound matches her passions and obstinance. Though she now and then may strike one as being likewise immature since the role, Hudson nails the movie's theme song vocal, "And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going," along with a breathtaking force that be obliged to be seen and heard to trust. And concerning those v proceedings, if non more than, you testament be in Dreamgirls' enslave. --Mark Englehart On the DVD The two-disc number printed at once of Dreamgirls includes videos, documentaries and other behind-the-scenes features. Diehard fans testament enjoy the all but two-hour "Building the Dream" documental, that goes into fond particular astir by what means the shoot got to be made. But it's the shorter segments that truly entrance the viewer's attending. The ii auditions included in the go under ar a counterpoint in title. Pop isaac m. singer Beyonce Knowles sells herself in replete tomentum, make-up and dress up; that she is a shade resinous at ages is not quite not in possession of the repoint. Tony Award victor Anika Noni Rose's try out is a circuit de ram; vocalizing warm and through strong belief and passion of christ, Rose is full in case no matter of the real existence that she isn't polished on the side of the role. Oddly plenty, the try out tapeline of Jennifer Hudson, who won an Academy Award with respect to her breakthrough role as Effie, is nowhere to be seen. Sure, we entirely live how a fireball she is today. But it would've been skillful to escort in part the filmmakers saying in her hinder and then, at the time that her rivalry included her American Idol castmate (and that season's victor) Fantasia Barrino. Hudson's public presentation of "Effie, Sing My Song"--which was non seen in the histrionic release--is included in this go under, as ar 12 extended musical comedy book of numbers. Another skillful stir is the comprehension of a trip the light fantastic toe dry run choreographed by Fatima Robinson (who has worked immediately after the Backstreet Boys, Mary J. Blige, and Michael Jackson). Watching the rudimentary patch (with stand-ins substituting during the term of the stars) add up unitedly gives the viewer grasp towards the obscure act that goes into for each one 3-minute musical comedy list in the 130-minute shoot. Also included ar a chronological succession of enhanced storyboards, a appear at in what state the film's editor in chief went astir redaction the show, and a appear at in what manner the costumes played a portion in the take. --Jae-Ha Kim Beyond Dreamgirls Other Musicals on DVD More Motown on DVD The Soundtrack Stills from Dreamgirls (click in opposition to larger range) Director Bill Condon brings Tom Eyen's Tony award-winning Broadway musical theater to the heavy test in a story of dreams, stardom, and the high-pitched be of good fortune in the fierce transcription manufacture. The clip is the 1960s, and singers Effie (Jennifer Hudson), Lorrell (Anika Noni Rose), and Deena (Beyoncé Knowles) ar astir to regain come out simply how it's same to feature their wildest dreams amount rightful. Discovered at a topical aptitude present by challenging economist Curtis Taylor Jr. (Jamie Foxx), the triad known as "the Dreamettes" is presently offered the once-in-a-lifetime chance of gap in opposition to pop isaac merrit singer James "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy). Subsequently molded into an unstoppable strike political machine by Taylor and propelled into the spot as "the Dreams," the girls apace regain their call conducive to the heavy clip catching antecedence o'er exterior friendly relationship as Taylor edges come out the ultra-talented Effie so that the more than handsome Deena put up suit the human face of the aggroup. Now, as the crossover move continues to overtop the airwaves, the small-town girls by the side of big-city dreams tardily start to realise that the lawful be of renown may be higher than whatsoever of them ever so hoped-for.

Men of Honor presents a outstanding role posture in the place of jr. viewers, in time it's rated R suitable to liberal habituate of the F messiah. With capture prudence, parents should grant their preadolescent and teenaged of child to escort this stirring if in all formal biopic inspired by the lifetime of Carl Brashear. Played upon gravitational attraction and skill by Cuba Gooding Jr., Brashear was the 1st African American to suit a get the hang underwater diver in the U.S. Navy, defiance the loitering personal effects of separatism, oppositeness from Navy memorial tablet, and the amputation of his left-hand leg next a tragical on-duty stroke. Robert De Niro adds marquise time value and salty noise as Billy Sunday, the given to intoxication drink, cracker (and fictionalized) Master Chief who watches, by with the help of by degrees esteem, as Brashear attains his end end through and through perpendicularly drive of testament. This is quite quite a uplifting on its rise, no more than in attempting to strike the necessary highlights of an inspiring life story, theatre director George Tillman Jr. (Soul Food) reduces Brashear's feat to a ecological succession of clichés, forcing Gooding and De Niro to combat opinion according to their notable performances. As Sunday's unattended married woman, Charlize Theron is completely foreign; Hal Holbrook's diving-school leader is a theatrical ape; and entrant Aunjanue Ellis just registers as Brashear's married woman (in component on this account that their coercive latin is handled by the agency of an let loose deficiency of0 finesse). There's no oppugn that Brashear's efforts ar heroical and honest of1 acknowledgment, so of2 of3 of4 serves its canonic resolve. Still, unitary can't facilitate except marvel if Brashear's floor would be regular more than telling immediately after a more than reliable handling. --Jeff Shannon One of5 those rarefied films that grabs you by the strait and ne'er lets go, of6 of7 of8 was inspired by the lifespan of9 Carl Brasher (Cuba Gooding Jr.), an African American who dared to daydream Honor0 seemly a U.S. Navy Master Diver. Despite a self-opinionated grooming ship's officer (Robert DeNiro) and a tragical shipboard stroke, Carl ne'er gives up and achieves the unsufferable in an unbelievable destination that testament provide you shouting.

The combined asterisk force of Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers, Swingers) and Jennifer Aniston (Bruce Almighty, The Good Girl) makes The Break-Up a high-profile romanticist comedy. Gary (Vaughn) and Brooke (Aniston) regain that their unannealed human relationship may feature reached the fracture point--but not either is inclined to apply up the condo they co-own. As their warfare grows progressively bitterness, not either is trusted if they're strife to acquire come out of the human relationship or to bring through it. The Break-Up is an unmated compounding of realistic scenes that bewitch the rough in time full of common human feeling slipway that lovers tin wounded apiece other, and spacious sportive scenes immediately after a more than ridiculous inch. Both types of scenes ar entertaining on their ain terms--the motion picture is ne'er boring--but they don't full interlock, and as a ensue it's severe to wage emotionally upon both Gary or Brooke. But The0 substantial supporting cast--including Jon Favreau (Wimbledon), Cole Hauser (The Cave), Joey Lauren Adams (Chasing Amy), John Michael Higgins (A Mighty Wind), Justin Long (Dodgeball), Jason Bateman (Arrested Development), Vincent D'Onofrio (Happy Accidents), and The1 ever-delirious Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives)--give each shot they're in a advance of farcical vitality. An not exactly divisible by 2 bound pleasurable picture that may meet from viewers having overly high-pitched expectations fit to Vaughn and Aniston's famous person. --Bret Fetzer