MORE DVD ADDITIONS FOR MARCH

The Green Free Library has added 4 more current DVDs to its collection.

Australia

Running Time 165 minutes; Rated PG-13; for some violence, a scene of sensuality, and brief strong language. 2008 Motion picture 2009 DVD Release

Screenplay by: Stuart Beattie;Baz Luhrmann;Ronald Harwood & Richard Flanagan

Directed by Baz Luhrmann

Starring:

Nicole Kidman as Lady Sarah Ashley
Hugh Jackman as Drover
Eddie Baroo as Bull
Bryan Brown as King carney

This movie is set in Australia in the 1940's. Lady Sarah Ashley,an English aristocrat,inherits a large ranch in Australia. A group of English cattle barons plot to take her land away, thus forcing her to seek the aid of Drover(a rough and lowly cattle drover, played by Hugh Jackman-need I say more)to keep her land.


Hancock

Running time about 92 minutes Rated PG-13 2008 Motion Picture 2009 DVD Release

Written by Vincent Ngo and Vince Gilligan

Directed by Peter Berg.


Starring:

Will Smith as John Hancock
Charlize Theron as Mary Embrey
Jason Bateman as Ray Embrey


Will Smith does an excellant job portraying a very unconventional superhero who has assumed the name "John Hancock", since he can't remember his real name.

Even though he always gets the bad guy,and saves countless lives, Hancock is not popular with the people of Los Angeles. In fact, they really hate him. He is rude, crude and destructive. That is until he saves the life of a public relations man named Ray Embrey (played by Jason Bateman-remember him?).


Milk

Running time 129 minutes Rated R for language, some sexual content and brief violence

Written by Dustin Lance Black

Directed by Gus Van Sant

Starring:

Sean Penn as Harvey Milk
Emile Hirsch as Cleve Jones
Josh Brolin as Dan White
Diego Luna as Jack Lira
James Franco as Scott Smith
Alison Pill as Anne Kronenberg
Victor Garber as Mayor George Moscone

Summary from the webpac: Harvey Milk is a middle-aged New Yorker who, after moving to San Francisco, became a Gay Rights activist and city politician. On his third attempt, he was elected to San Francisco's Board of Supervisors in 1977. His election makes him the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in the United States. The following year, both he and the city's mayor, George Moscone, were shot to death by former city supervisor, Dan White, who blamed his former colleagues for denying White's attempt to rescind his resignation from the board. Based on thetrue story of Harvey Milk.


Synecdoche, New York

Running time 124 minutes Rated R for language and some sexual content/nudity
2008 Motion Picture 2009 DVD Release

Written and Directed by Charlie Kauffman

Starring:

Philip Seymour Hoffman as Caden Cotard
Catherine Keener as Adele Lack
Michelle Williams as Claire Keen
Samantha Morton as Hazel
Dianne Wiest as Ellen Bascomb / Millicent Weems
Emily Watson as Tammy
Jennifer Jason Leigh as Maria
Hope Davis as Madeleine Gravis
Tom Noonan as Sammy Barnathan


Summary from the webpac: Theater director Caden Cotard is mounting a new play. Determined to create a piece of brutal realism and honesty, he gathers an ensemble cast into a warehouse in Manhattan's theater district. He instructs each to live out their constructed lives in a small mockup of the city outside. As the city inside the warehouse grows, Caden's own life veers wildly off track. His daughter, Olive, is growing up under questionable guidance. He's helplessly driving his marriage to actress Claire into the ground. His daughter, Ariel, is mentally handicapped. He steadily blurs the line between the world of the play and that of his own deteriorating reality. As he pushes the limits of his relationships, both personally and professionally, a change in creative direction arrives in Millicent Weems, a celebrated theater actress who may offer Caden the break he needs.