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Off the beaten path

Dan Ireland's Jolene paces fifteen years of the title character's life, following Jolene (Jessica Chastain) from a fifteen-year-old child bride along her journey of self discovery. Thrown out of her home because of an affair with her uncle (Dermot Mulroney), Jolene matures as she forms a string of relationships (including Chazz Palminteri, Rupert Friend, and Michael Vartan), each leading her to the next stage of her life. With Denise Richards.

Car-obsessed Bo's (Gabriel Macht) life is turned upside-down when he lands another DUI and his prized 1970 Plymouth Barracuda is impounded in One Way To Valhalla. Forced to bike to work, an accident lands him in the hospital with a head injury, changing Bo from a chain smoking, hard drinking motorhead into someone his wife (Kim Dickens) and friends (Brad William Henke and Kate Walsh) don't recognize. Only his black sheep stepdaughter (Alison Pill) sees his new state as an "awakening," and she tries to guide the new Bo through a life not obsessed with beer and cars.

Based on a controversial French autobiography, Student Services is the story of Laura (Deborah Francois), a university student who can't make rent or afford food. Feeling she has no options, Laura answers a personal ad offering 100₣ for "tenderness," but she quickly slides into a life of prostitution. Though she's able to pay rent, her new profession begins to take over her life instead of financing her student life, and threatens to take her over completely.

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Irreverent

Raju is going to engineering school to raise his family's fortunes and Farhan's parents decided he'd be an engineer the moment he was born, but their life in college is quickly defined by their friend Rancho (Aamir Khan) in 3 Idiots. While the dean (Boman Irani) teaches rote memorization, Rancho infects his friends with understanding and imagination, and the war is one... especially when Rancho meets the dean's daughter (Kareena Kapoor). True to form, the movie mixes comedy and drama, and tells a large-scale story of love and friendship punctuated by musical numbers.

Stephen (Edward Hogg) goes on an epic journey without leaving his apartment in Bunny and the Bull, abandoning his hermetically sealed life by an adventure in his mind. Recalling last year's travel through Europe with his reckless friend Bunny (Simon Farnaby), the duo bounce from one strange situation to another, funded by a winning bet on a longshot horse. Though Stephen is withdrawn and sheepish, Bunny is usually drunk and carousing, and the two always seem to find some kind of trouble to keep their trip interesting.

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B-Pictures

Bonnie (Tiffany Shepis) and Clyde are shooting their way through 1930s America, living a hardscabble life between jobs in Bonnie & Clyde vs Dracula, until their next heist puts them in the way of someone more notorious than themselves: Dracula. Blending mad scientist science fiction with monster movies and wild outlaws, Bonnie and Clyde have to survive both Dracula and the doctor that resurrected him.

Continuing SyFy's tradition of bad-but-lovable creature features, Dinoshark follows Sharktopus' example, putting a sailor (Eric Balfour) in the wake of a murderous, ancient shark released from its glacial suspended animation by global warming. As the body count rises, no one will believe Balfour when he tries to warn the world about the Dinoshark... until it's too late. With Humberto Busto.

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New this week to Reckless Video's TV New Releases are the nature documentary series Human Planet narrated by John Hurt, as well as the 14th season of Trey Parker & Matt Stone's South Park and the complete series of Testees, about two guys who work as test subjects at a research facility.