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Big Names
Winning three Oscars and nominated for ten more, David Fincher's (Fight Club, Zodiac) The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is new this week on both a standard DVD and a 2-disc Criterion Collection release. Read from his diary, the story recounts the life of Benjamin Button (Brad Pitt: Kalifornia, Burn After Reading), born "old", becomes an elderly-seeming child cared for by his adopted mother (Taraji P. Henson: The Family That Preys, Smokin Aces), and grows continually younger. Throughout his life, Benjamin remains connected with Daisy (Cate Blanchett: The Aviator, Elizabeth), though she naturally grows older as he becomes youthful, and through all of his travels and adventures, there's no question about the great love of his life.
Last Chance Harvey stars Dustin Hoffman (I Heart Huckabees, Tootsie) and
Emma Thompson (Stranger Than Fiction, Primary Colors) as two lonely people who fall into each other's lives at an airport bar. As she's isolated and disappointed by 
past relationships and he's depressed by losing his job and circumstances surrounding his daughter's wedding, they form a strong connection, and make an agreement: he'll fly to New York for the wedding reception, if she will go with him. On DVD and Blu-Ray.
Dramatic Turns
Mike Newell's (Donnie Brasco, Mona Lisa Smile) popular and critically acclaimed Enchanted April is also new this week, for the first time on DVD. A group of London women, including Miranda Richardson (The Hours, Blackadder), travels to a costal Italian castle for some time away from the city, and the leisurely paced film unfolds around the women's lives, relationships, and worldviews. With Alfred Molina (The Hoax, Boogie Nights) and Jim Broadbent (Hot Fuzz, Bullets Over Broadway).
Michelle Williams (Deception, But I’m a Cheerleader) stars in the critically acclaimed Wendy & Lucy as Wendy, a drifter heading north to Alaska to start a new life with her dog, Lucy. When her car breaks down in a small Oregon town, leaving her stranded and broke, she's thrown into the lives of the strangers in town, and has to re-evaluate her plan to start over. With Will Patton (A Mighty Heart, Armageddon) and John Robinson (Lords of Dogtown, Transformers).
The Sundance-released Momma’s Man is an independent drama about a man who gets bumped from his flight back to his wife and family in L.A, and ends up staying with his bohemian parents in Manhattan. Invited to stay as long as he wants, what turns out as a vacation from responsibility becomes a regression into his awkward youth.
The voyeuristic Look composes tiny narratives from the cameras that surround the average person every day, following stories at a distance as characters drift in front of convenience store security cameras, to ATM cameras, to traffic camera footage, as characters happen past each other. With Rhys Coiro (Entourage, Mama’s Boy) and
Giuseppe Andrews (Cabin Fever, Detroit Rock City).
Thrillers
Michelle Williams (Prozac Nation, The Station Agent) tries to put her life back together after her husband's death in a terrorist bombing in Incendiary. As the police try and find the reasons and culprits behind the bombing, a reporter (Ewan McGregor: Black Hawk Down, Miss Potter) offers her some clues and insights that will help her find closure and clear her name as the police begin to add her to their suspect list. With
Matthew Macfadyen (Death at a Funeral, Enigma).
Winter of Frozen Dreams is based on the real-life events surrounding Barbara Hoffman (Thora Birch: Ghost World, American Beauty), a University of Wisconsin student with a secret life as a prostitute who asks her boyfriend to help her dispose of the body of a dead client. As he insists that he's only guilty of burying a stranger, and she insists that she's being set up as a patsy by people who won't let her quit her escort life, the investigating officer (Kieth Carradine: 2 Days in the Valley, The Duelists) has to solve the murder.
When Jonas causes a car accident in the film noir Just Another Love Story, he feels compelled to visit the amnesiac girl who was hurt in the crash. When her family assumes they're a couple, Jonas decides to play along, but as time passes, he does whatever it takes to keep stay with the girl until her memory returns.
