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Different Points of View
During an anti-terrorism summit in Spain, the President of the United States is the target of a terrorist attack. The details and meaning of the attack are interpreted differently by the various people who witness the event in Vantage Point. The 23-minute period leading up to the assassination attempt is retold five times, as it is witnessed by a reporter (Sigourney Weaver: Tadpole, Copycat), a Secret Service agent (Dennis Quaid: In Good Company, Far from Heaven), a Spanish police officer, an American tourist (Forest Whitaker: The Great Debaters, Phone Booth), the President himself (William Hurt: A History of Violence, Dark City), revealing more of the mystery each time the story is retold.
Owen + Kids
Owen Wilson (Darjeeling Limited, Zoolander) plays bodyguard to a trio of gradeschool boys who are having trouble with bullies in Drillbit Taylor, but even if he's got an age and weight advantage over the children, he still may not be qualified to do the job. With a pretty teacher (Leslie Mann: Knocked Up, Timecode) in the mix, his mind may not be completely on the job at hand.
Some of the other comedies new this week at Reckless Video include Sex & Death 101, where Simon Baker (The Devil Wears Prada, Land of the Dead) finds a list of all the women he's ever slept with... and will ever sleep with. As he vigorously works his way through the list, the fun could stop when he comes across the very last name on the list (Winona Ryder: Heathers, The Darwin Awards).
A tie-in feature to the new Get Smart movie currently in theaters, Bruce & Lloyd: Out of Control is a direct-to-video movie starring two of the secondary characters in Get Smart. Masi Oka (Heroes, Balls of Fury) and Nate Torrence are Bruce and Lloyd, lab and technology men who 
find themselves in their own adventure when they lose an invisibility cloak, and have to find it before the Get Smart big bad, KAOS, does.
The newest Tyler Perry (Daddy's Little Girls, Diary of a Mad Black Woman) film is Meet the Browns. Angela Bassett (Waiting to Exhale, Malcolm X) finds herself laid off, and has to travel home for a family emergency, and meet her estranged father's fun-loving extended family. Meet the Browns also stars Rick Fox (He Got Game, Holes) and Jennifer Lewis (The Cookout, Mystery Men).
The Hammer stars Adam Carolla as a once-promising amateur boxer who finds himself turing 40. When he spars with a pro and wins, he begins a fish-out-of-water climb from slackerdom to success.
Smaller, Odder, More/Less Serious
The film City of Men is the new feature by the creators of the successful series City of Men, and tells the story of teenage boys in the slums of Rio de Janeiro, as they try to make their way in the drug-saturated neighborhoods they call home.
The new documentary in the store this week is Kurt Cobain: About a Son, recalling the stars young life in Aberdeen and his personal life as he evolved.
Sunflower is the new film by Zhang Yang (Sunflower, Quitting), following the life of a young boy who loves to draw, whose life changes when his strict father reappears in his once-free life. Sunflower follows him as he grows up, always seeking to move beyond his father's control.
Volume one of Wholphin, a DVD magazine, is new to Reckless Video this week, featuring a variety of short films and documentaries from a variety of sources. The first volume contains work by Spike Jonze (Adaptation, Being John Malcovich), Miranda July (Me and You and Everyone We Know), David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees, Three Kings), and many others.
A pair of zombie movies are new this week, as well. Zombies Anonymous stars Joshua Nelson (Honeymoon in Vegas, Addiction) in a world where the living dead keep their personalities... they're the same people they always were, but dead. Released by Troma (Killer Condom, Chopper Chicks in Zombie Town) Pot Zombies has a population go green, undead, and cannibalistic after smoking radioactive marijuana.
New to Reckless Video's TV New Releases this week are the first season of Mad Men, about high level tobacco executives in the 1960s, and John Waters' Til Death Do Us Part, a comedy about married couples that turn homicidal. The second season of The Closer is also new this week, as well as a pair of British shows: Lilies, about a group of Catholic sisters and set in Liverpool in the early 1920s, and Strumpet City, about the Dublin Lockout in the early 1900s.
