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Starting Over

When ernest, non-cynical Larry (Tom Hanks) loses his job because of his lack of a college education, he enrolls in community college in Larry Crowne. Beginning his college education in his fifties, Larry's life undergoes drastic changes: he buys a scooter from his neighbor (Cedric the Entertainer), attracting the attention of the girl (Gugu Mbatha-Raw) who leads the school's scooter gang, someone who re imagines Larry's clothes, hair, and home. Along with his new lease on life, Larry also develops an unexpected crush on one of his professors (Julia Roberts). With Bryan Cranston. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Written by playwrite Horton Foote, Main Street unfolds in a North Carolina town in decline. The town's future could change when a Texas businessman (Colin Firth) rents a warehouse from Georgianna (Ellen Burstyn), though her niece (Patricia Clarkson) has some reservations about the newcomer's honesty and intentions. As the town's future is decided, the locals continue their lives, including the local cop (Orlando Bloom), the girl who dreams of life outside the small town (Amber Tamblyn), and an unscrupulous white collar businesman (Andrew McCarthy). On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Odd Pairings

Following the death of his father (Christopher Plummer), Oliver (Ewan McGregor) contemplates his life, and his parents' lives, in Beginners. As Oliver starts a new relationship with a French actress (Melanie Laurent), his time with her is colored by his grief over his father, his sense of self, reflections of love and life across several decades, and what it means to be here, now. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Shy, unassuming Woodrow and his brash, outgoing friend Aiden spend their time making flamethrowers and modifying cars to rule a Road Warrior-style wasteland after the eventual apocalypse in Bellflower. When Woodrow meets Milly, she's initially drawn to his strange lifestyle and attempts to impress her, but trouble in their relationship spirals out of control, especially with access to weapons and an ability to blur apocalyptic fantasy into heartbreaking reality. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

Griff (Ryan Kwanten) spends his days in an office, bullied by an abusive co-worker (Toby Schmitz), but at night he fights crime in a superhero costume in the Australian Griff the Invisible. Though his well-meaning brother derides him for living in a fantasy world, Melody (Maeve Dermody), who also lives in a world of impossibility and wonder, sees him as a kindred spirit and encourages his superhero alter ego. On DVD and Blu-Ray.

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Uptight Marcus and boyish slacker Danny, estranged brothers, return to their father's home for the reading of his will in The Drummond Will. Inheriting the house (and all of its contents), the brothers consider their options when they find one of their father's friends has broken in to retrieve a bag of unexplained money. Before they can decide what to do, people who know about the money begin to accidentally, comically die-- Danny tries to deal with the situation with optimism while Marcus has neurotic episodes, but they have to work together to stay out of jail and figure out why people keep dying.

Dawn's (Charlotte Gainsbourg) life in an idyllic country home is shattered when a car accident kills her husband (Aden Young) in The Tree. Of her four children, eight-year-old Simone tells Dawn she can hear her father speaking to her through the the branches of a tree in their yard. Dawn finds comfort in her daughter's imagination, and finds herself spending more and more time at the tree, but her blooming relationship with Marton Csokas puts her past life at odds with her ability to move forward.

A documentary about the New Zealand comedic musical duo, The Topp Twins: Untouchable Girls tells the story of Jools and Lynda Topp, from their childhood on a farm to their life on stage, playing songs and adopting characters as part of their show. Celebrating their songs, variety-show stage performance, infectious enthusiasm, and out-and-proud lifestyle, the film paints their portrait through interviews and recorded live performances.

When Alvin gives away his harmonica to a sick boy for Christmas, he has to find a way to play his harmonica solo at Carnegie Hall in Christmas with the Chipmunks. Determined not to tell Dave that he doesn't have an instrument, Alvin asks Simon and Theodore to raise enough money to replace the harmonica and make their Christmas concert a success.

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New this week in our TV New Releases:

	Being Human Season 1	The remake of the British Being Human introduces three unusual roommates to a Boston neighborhood as they attempt to lead normal lives, despite being a ghost, a werewolf, and a vampire.
	Whitechapel The Ripper Returns	When the new Detective Inspector suspects a murder might be the work of a Jack the Ripper copycat, no one believes him, but as the body count rises and the trend continues, he has to stop the killer from becoming the next Ripper.