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GO HOME WITH HITMAN, THE WATER HORSE OR DAN IN REAL LIFE I BY MARNI WEISZ
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ENCHANTED
MARCH 18
Like 1998’s Antz and A Bug’s Life, and
Armageddon and Deep Impact that same
year, in 2007 the Hollywood zeitgeist
demanded two movies in which sweet
and sheltered animated characters find
themselves desperately out of place
in New York City.
But where in Jerry Seinfeld’s Bee Movie
honeybee Barry B. Benson quickly
acclimates to the hectic metropolis, even
taking on one of its toughest lawyers,
Enchanted’s heroine takes a little longer
to find her way.
Amy Adams plays Giselle, a traditional
Disney-style sunshine and smiles animated
princess. But Giselle’s fairy-tale existence
dissolves when she’s banished to a liveaction
Big Apple by the evil Queen
(Susan Sarandon) who doesn’t want
Giselle marrying her son, Prince Edward
(James Marsden).
From left: Amy Adams,
Patrick Dempsey and
James Marsden
in Enchanted
Giselle, who’s shocked by the nature of
most New Yorkers, is fortunate to be taken
in by a kind divorce lawyer (Patrick
Dempsey) who doesn’t really believe her
story, but recognizes thatshe needs help.
When Edward shows up to rescue his
beloved, Giselle is torn between her
prince and this strange new man who
came to her rescue.
The DVD is loaded with bonus features,
including the brand-new animated short,
“Pip’s Predicament: A Pop-Up Adventure,”
three behind-the-scenes featurettes
revealing the special-effects tricks and
tools that brought the story to life, deleted
scenes and bloopers.
famous 48 | march 2008
MARCH 4
INTO THE WILD
STARS: Emile Hirsch,
Marcia Gay Harden
DIRECTOR: Sean Penn
(The Pledge)
STORY: Christopher
McCandless was 20
when he said goodbye to his family and
a nascent law career and headed to
Alaska to live simply. Unfortunately, he
was ill-prepared to survive such a romantic
dream and quickly found himself in a heap
of trouble. Based on the biography by
Jon Krakauer. DVD EXTRAS: “Into the Wild:
The Story, the Characters,” “Into the Wild:
The Experience”
MR. MAGORIUM’S
WONDER EMPORIUM
STARS: Natalie Portman,
Dustin Hoffman
DIRECTOR: Zack Helm (debut)
STORY: When 243-year-old
eccentric Mr. Edward
Magorium (Hoffman) decides to retire he
needs someone very special to take over
his business. That’s because his business
is a magical toy store where the toys
routinely spring to life. He thinks his
assistant Molly (Portman) has the right
stuff, but she’s not so sure. DVD EXTRAS:
ROM game: “Paper Airplane Tutor,”
“Strangely Weird and Weirdly Strange:
The Magical World of a Wonder Emporium”
THINGS WE LOST
IN THE FIRE
STARS: Halle Berry,
Benicio Del Toro
DIRECTOR: Susanne Bier
(After the Wedding)
STORY: After her husband
dies, a woman (Berry) invites his best
friend (Del Toro), a down-and-out drug
addict, to live with her young family.
DVD EXTRAS: deleted scenes, commentary
MARCH 11
AWAKE
STARS: Hayden Christensen, Jessica Alba
DIRECTOR: Job Harold (debut)
STORY: A very rich man (Christensen) with
a bad heart puts his life in the hands of
a suspect doctor (Terrence Howard) and
pays dearly when he remains awake during
open-heart surgery.
NO COUNTRY
FOR OLD MEN
STARS: Javier Bardem,
Josh Brolin
DIRECTORS: Joel Coen,
Ethan Coen (The Ladykillers)
STORY: When down-and-out West Texan
Llewelyn Moss (Josh Brolin) comes across
a suitcase with $2-million from a drug deal
gone wrong, he takes it, having no idea
that he’s making himself the target of
psychopathic hitman Anton Chigurh
(Bardem). Tommy Lee Jones plays the
sheriff trying to figure out what happened
and keep Moss alive. DVD EXTRAS: “Working
with the Coens: Reflections of Cast and
Crew,” “Diary of a Country Sheriff,”
“The Making of No Country for Old Men”
BEE MOVIE
VOICES: Jerry Seinfeld,
Renée Zellwegger
DIRECTORS: Steve Hickner,
Simon J. Smith
STORY: An independentminded
bee named Barry
(Seinfeld) escapes his controlling hive and
goes to New York City where he befriends
a florist (Zellweger) and discovers that
humans have been stealing, and eating,
bees’ honey. So he decides to sue.
DVD EXTRAS: alternate endings, lost
scenes, “The Animators’ Corner,”
“Inside the Hive: The Cast of Bee Movie”
DAN IN REAL LIFE
STARS: Steve Carell, Juliette Binoche
DIRECTOR: Peter Hedges (Pieces of April)
STORY: Dan Burns (Carell), widowed father
of three, finally meets a woman who makes
him feel he can love again. Little does he
know that Marie (Binoche) is his brother’s
new girlfriend. She’s also one of the guests
heading to the family’s home for a very
awkward reunion weekend. DVD EXTRAS:
deleted scenes, outtakes, “Handmade
Music: Creating the Score”
HITMAN
STARS: Timothy Olyphant,
Dougray Scott
DIRECTOR: Xavier Gens
(Frontier(s))
STORY: Since birth,
Agent 47 (Olyphant) has been raised to be
an assassin, and he’s already killed more
than 100 people. But when he’s assigned
to murder the Russian president it
becomes clear that Agent 47 is being
double-crossed. DVD EXTRAS: deleted
scenes, alternate ending
MARCH 18
THE MIST
STARS: Thomas Jane, Marcia Gay Harden
DIRECTOR: Frank Darabont (The Green Mile)
STORY: When a thick mist envelops a
small Maine village and knocks out power,
David Drayton (Jane) and his son head into
town to pick up supplies. But once inside
the grocery store they realize there are
some very foreboding creatures floating
around in that mist.
THE ASSASSINATION
OF JESSE JAMES
BY THE COWARD
ROBERT FORD
STARS: Brad Pitt,
Casey Affleck
DIRECTOR: Andrew Dominik (Chopper)
STORY: Robert Ford (Affleck) is a disturbed
young man who joins the band of outlaws
led by his idol, Jesse James. Jealous of
James’ notoriety, Ford quickly becomes
more of a danger than a boon to the
notorious hold-up man.
APRIL 1
THE WATER HORSE:
LEGEND OF THE DEEP
STARS: Alex Etel, Ben Chaplin
DIRECTOR: Jay Russell (Ladder 49)
STORY: Twelve-year-old Angus finds a
big egg on the beach — a really big egg.
And when the egg hatches, out comes
a creature that looks like a baby hippo.
But that baby, which Angus names Crusoe,
doubles in size nearly every day, and it’s
soon clear that Angus has a water horse
on his hands. So he moves Crusoe into the
local lake, Loch Ness. DVD EXTRAS: deleted
scenes, “Myths and Legends,” “Creating
Crusoe,” “Virtual Crusoe Game”
famous 49 | march 2008
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