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Summary: It’s summer vacation, and 10-year-old Emma is glad to be back at her grandma’s farm, with her beloved animals and friends in the little country town. But this summer something is different: their neighbor, Mr. Klipperbusch, recently passed away, and his only heir, his nephew Albert, has big plans for the estate. Emma is only concerned about Klipperbusch’s horse Mississippi. Albert wants to get rid of the horse and Emma’s grandmother buys it. But when Klipperbusch’s will is opened, Albert is suddenly willing to do anything to get Mississippi back. Emma launches a campaign to foil Albert, save Mississippi and help the small village survive.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: On Stage She's a Superstar.But at Home She Leads A Totally Normal Life!

Summary: Miley Stewart might seem like an average girl but she isn't. She moved from Tennessee to Malibu and is adapting to a new lifestyle. Miley has a huge secret only known by her dad/manager Robbie Ray Stewart, her weird brother Jackson Stewart, and her two best friends Lilly Truscott and Oliver Oken. Miley Stewart's huge secret is she leads a double as the famous pop singer Hannah Montana along with her friend Lilly who also has a double life as Lola, Hannah's friend.

Summary: Dem Puppenspieler und erfindungsreichen Mechanikus Hans Röckle erscheint eines Tages der Teufel Flammfuß und bietet ihm einen Pakt an. Röckle erhält Zauberkraft, verfällt aber dem Teufel, wenn er in sieben mal sieben Stunden nichts Neues schafft. Röckle nutzt den Zauber, um den Menschen zu helfen. Für die Näherin Luisa erschafft er eine Nadel, die selbst näht, und für Jacob eine Flöte, mit der er den Bauern Regen bringen kann. Der Teufel holt sich die wunderbaren Dinge, muss sie aber zurückgeben, weil er sie nicht beherrscht. Zum Segen der Menschen jedoch können sie auch nicht verwendet werden, denn der Manufakturbesitzer setzt den Lohn für die Näherinnen herunter, und der Grundbesitzer verlangt die Flöte, um nur seine Felder zu beregnen. Kann Röckle das Unheil noch aufhalten?

Summary: Spare but pleasant German telling of the beloved fairy tale avoids the eccentricity of the East German 1970 version and misses the sublime qualities of the 1954 animated classic, but might be called the most balanced telling of the tale. The characters are attractive and sincere (including a strangely alluring witch). The sets are fanciful and pleasing. The film unweaves in record time, less than an hour. The dubbing stinks as usual. Paul Tripp's breathy narration is reduced to one sentence at the start and one at the end. Though this was billed as "a musical fantasy," I only caught two mini-songs (penned by Anne & Milton Delugg) in the whole film, each less than a minute long (best one: "Mr. Moon Above"). A couple of nice touches, though: H & G build a big snowman and it comes to life and has a smoke; the gingerbread house is a great set, like a real-life coloring book; and the faces on the flowers are pretty cool. This one is weird enough to be pyschotronic, yet good enough to be considered a classic of the genre.

~IMDb.com

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Comments: Strangers should Never Talk to Little Girl ...

Summary: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.

Languages: English, French

Comments: On your case!

Summary: Harriet M Welsch is a savvy spy. Every day, disguised in her foolproof spy outfit, the fearless sixth-grader travels her spy route, cannily observing the world around her and scribbling even the minutest detail into her secret spy notebook. Harriet is determined to be a famous writer when she grows up. Golly, her nanny and mentor, says that if Harriet is going to get a head start on her career she must write down everything that interests her--and everything interests Harriet! Her notebook is filled with candid and sometimes imaginary tales about her neighbors, her classmates, even her best friends, Janie and Sport. But when Harriet's classmates find her notebook and read its remarkable contents out loud, her life is turned upside down. In retaliation, the sixth-graders form a spycatchers club and turn the tables on Harriet. Even Sport and Janie join in! What's Harriet to do? Has she lost her friends forever? And even worse, does this mean the end of her days as a spy?

Languages: English, Spanish

Comments: "Dobby Has Come To Warn You Sir."

Summary: Harry ignores warnings not to return to Hogwarts, only to find the school plagued by a series of mysterious attacks and a strange voice haunting him.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Spanish, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: "Difficult times lie ahead, Harry."

Summary: Harry finds himself selected as an underaged competitor in a dangerous multi-wizardary school competition.

Comments: Evil Must Be Confronted.

Summary: As his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry approaches, 15-year-old Harry Potter is in full-blown adolescence, complete with regular outbursts of rage, a nearly debilitating crush, and the blooming of a powerful sense of rebellion. It's been yet another infuriating and boring summer with the despicable Dursleys, this time with minimal contact from our hero's non-Muggle friends from school. Harry is feeling especially edgy at the lack of news from the magic world, wondering when the freshly revived evil Lord Voldemort will strike. Returning to Hogwarts will be a relief--or will it?

Languages: English, Spanish, French

Comments: Something wicked this way comes.

Summary: It's Harry's third year at Hogwarts; not only does he have a new "Defense Against the Dark Arts" teacher, but there is also trouble brewing. Convicted murderer Sirius Black has escaped the Wizards' Prison and is coming after Harry.

Languages: English

Comments: Let The Magic Begin.

Summary: Rescued from the outrageous neglect of his aunt and uncle, a young boy with a great destiny proves his worth while attending Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.

Summary: Shy girl Janni is fed up of being mistaken for a boy. When a film director casts her to play the part of a handsome brave prince in a fairy tale, she's determined to prove she's a girl. But when the shootings start everything turns out completely differently.

Comments: You're never too young to have a plan.

Summary: In the 60's, in West Texas, twelve year-old Ben is a boy neglected by his parents. His mother is obsessed by the movie stars of Hollywood and every afternoon she goes to the movie theater, while his father spends his spare time building a boat. One night, there is a car wreck in front of Ben's parents dining where only the girl Cassie survives with a broken arm. Ben's parents lodges Cassie during her recovery and she becomes friend of Ben. Later the mature girl convinces Ben to travel with her to Baltimore, where her modern and liberal aunt and uncle live. They hitchhike through Arkansas, Kentucky and Virginia in a journey of friendship and discoveries until they reach Baltimore. Their adventure ends when Cassie has a breakdown and is interned in the Mercy Psychiatric Ward in Virginia and Ben joins the Military Academy in North Caroline to stay close to Cassie. But the girl had a plan for them and Ben gives his best effort to make her dream come true.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1

Comments: Behind the greatest hoax of our time is the heartbreaking story that started it all.

Summary: The dysfunctional twenty-three years old Sarah takes her six years old natural son Jeremiah from the home of his beloved foster parents with the support of the social service to live with her. Along the years, the boy shares her insane and lowlife style and is introduced to booze and drugs and mentally, physically and sexually abused by Sarah, her lovers and her religiously fanatic family.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; Commentary by director Scott Hicks, Unknown

Comments: What if one of life's great mysteries moved in upstairs?

Summary: This is a gentle, innocent film about the reflections of an aging man (David Morse), who returns to his home town after the death of his best friend. Memories of life at age 11 floods back as it was a magical time that changed his life. Three 11 year old children (Anton Yelchin as Bobby, Mika Boorem as Carol, and Will Rothaar as Sully) share their lives. Carol & Bobby have a special affection for one another including sharing a kiss "by which all others will be measured". Bobby lives with his mother (Hope Davis), a bitter, vain woman who looks for pleasures for herself without sharing much with her son. Into their lives comes a mysterious new boarder (Anthony Hopkins), who befriends the boy but generates distrust from the mother. As time passes, the man and boy share confidences and special powers are revealed. The man warns the boy to be on the lookout for the "lowmen", who were seeking him. The two share a summer's adventures and come to love one another before the inevitable happens. A confrontation with a school bully (Timothy Reifsnyder) also changes everyone.

Languages: English

Comments: The true story of a crime that shocked a nation.

Summary: Two girls have an intense fantasy life; their parents, concerned the fantasy is too intense, separate them, and the girls take revenge.

Languages: English,

Summary: Not merely a description of corpulent character Pruitt Taylor Vince, the title refers to the leaden atmosphere hanging over a roadside café and its inhabitants. Writer-director James Mangold finds significance in the details of life, giving this touching story an authenticity that keeps us involved. Liv Tyler brings poignancy to the story as a college dropout who helps awaken the introverted and depressed Vince. Unfortunately, this fascinating character study is too often undermined by direction slow enough to be leaden. Happily, even the most stolid camera work cannot undermine the desires and insecurities of the main character, a man yearning for a full life but too afraid too take a chance. "--Rochelle O'Gorman"

Languages: English

Summary: Stacey doesn't fit in at school and gets bullied about her clothes. She meets Carlie, a traveller girl who introduces her to magic and self-belief. Set on the Somerset levels with the lead roles played by local, non-professional actors.

Languages: English Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo, French Unknown

Summary: Originally made as a two-part TV miniseries, this umpteenth adaptation of Johann Spyri's novel is exceptionally easy on the eyes. Jason Robards plays the grumpy grandfather who tends for the orphaned Swiss girl. Jane Seymour chews up the scenery as the governess to a spoiled, rich city girl whom Heidi is forced to visit. The adults think the invalid Klara (Lexi Randall) needs companionship, but wise old grandpa knows she needs good mountain air and independence. Noley Thornton is sweet enough in the title role and Robards's performance provides depth. This Disney production brings little to the story, but is worth watching for its stunning Alpine vistas. "--Rochelle O'Gorman"

Summary: A modern day version of the famous Swiss fairy tale. After her mother dies, Heidi is put into custody of her Grandfather, who lives in the Swiss Alps. At first they don't get along. But just as they become friends - Heidi has to move to Berlin an live with her aunt and niece, to be able to go to school. Her jealous niece Clara does everyhting in her power to make Heidi feel unwelcome. Because her aunt is always off to work, Heidi starts to feel very lonely and longs back to her grandfather. With the help of Peter and the kids of an internet café, she decides to abandon her aunt and niece, and travel back to Switzerland.

Summary: Finnish family-movie “Heinähattu ja Vilttitossu” is a story about two little girls and their fight for spaghetti and a 'proper' childhood.

Summary: Die ideale Ergänzung zu Leander Haußmanns "Sonnenallee", der an den Kinokassen und auch bei der Kritik viel erfolgreicher war als Sebastian Petersons "Helden wie wir". Dabei stehen diese beiden Filme gar nicht in Konkurrenz zueinander, sondern gehören eher zusammen und ergeben gemeinsam ein satirisches Bild der letzten 15 bis 20 Jahre der DDR. So wie Leander Haußmanns von Thomas Brussig geschriebener Film die Jugend in den 70er-Jahren porträtierte, so ist Brussigs zum überraschenden Bestseller gewordener und von Peterson adaptierter Wende-Roman von den Ereignissen und Stimmungen in den späten 80er-Jahren geprägt.
Sein Held, der 1969 geborene Klaus Uhltzscht (Daniel Borgwardt) ist ein völlig naiver Träumer, der die Welt nur so wahrnimmt, wie er sie sich vorstellt und nicht wie sie wirklich ist. Seine Blindheit für die Realität und seine kindliche Begeisterungsfähigkeit machen ihn zum geborenen Mitläufer des Staates und seiner Gegner, denen er gleich dienlich ist. Aber das alles interessiert ihn überhaupt nur wenig, da seine ganzen Träume und seine Sehnsucht um Yvonne (Xenia Snagowski) kreisen, in die er sich als 10-Jähriger verliebt hat.
Brussig und Peterson entlarven die DDR und ihre politischen Mechanismen, ohne die Vergangenheit dabei völlig zu demontieren. In das Satirische, das uns über die Biederkeit der Stasi genauso wie über die der studentischen Revolutionäre lachen lässt, mischt sich Sentimentales und Wehmütiges. Das Ende der DDR, von dem Klaus Uhltzscht glaubt, es am 9. November 1989 herbeigeführt zu haben, ist eben auch das Ende seiner Jugend. Politisches und Privates gehen in "Helden wie wir" perfekt ineinander. Sebastian Peterson arbeitet äußerst erfindungsreich mit verschiedensten filmischen Techniken und Materialien. Er verbindet Real- und Trickfilm, Dokumentarisches und Erfundenes, Selbstgedrehtes und Nachrichtenmaterial zu einer ganz eigenen Sicht auf die späte DDR, die eine amüsante und aufschlussreiche Alternative zur offiziellen Geschichtsschreibung bietet. "--Sascha Westphal"

Comments: Naurat tai itket ja naurat!

Summary: When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren't so hopelessly shy...

Summary: Sam and Amanda are friends. One day, they accidentally throw Sam's sister's diaries in the garbage can and have to trace them to the city dump. While looking for the diaries, they discover a secret passage leading from the city dump to a big, old, abandoned mansion nearby. There, they meet Valdemar, an old man who's been living there for sometime. At first, he's a little suspicious of them, but after a while, the three become friends and experience many fine adventures. However, they must keep it a secret, which is difficult, when their class mates start wondering what Sam and Amanda do after school. They also get to know Valdemar's sister Greta and hear about her dream; to see their childhood home once more before she dies. They decide to help her with that, which is easier said than done.

Comments: Changing his attitude will take a miracle.

Summary: When a man discovers that he has only six weeks to live, he leaves his job, his fiancee and his overbearing mother and tries to spend his remaining days in seclusion. But when a miracle transforms his life, his quirky neighbors disrupt his plan to live out his days in quiet desperation.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Comments: Two worlds. One day will change their lives forever.

Summary: The movie is set and filmed in New Zealand and is about a little girl who worships Queen Elizabeth II, in 1953 just after her coronation. The girl sends dozens of letters to Buckingham Palace and is ridiculed for her fancy; however, when the queen makes her trip that year to New Zealand (the trip was real; the rest fiction), she adds the little girl's rural town to her itinerary.

Summary: Jakob, an 18-year-old boy, comes back to Frankfurt after he left after his mothers death one year ago. While trying to sort his life he meets a Polish Au-Pair, Wanda, and falls in love with her. But there are several disappointments on both sides...

Languages: Dutch

Summary: A girl is told that she has to spend the next afternoon with the dreaded Mrs. Richmond, a local black woman who is knowned to be a witch..

Summary: The young Yasmine Bleeth plays a 12 year-old orphan that wants nothing more than to preform on broadway. But since she doesnt have...well anything going for her, she has to lie and steal to get anything. That is until she meets up with a has-been actor. After a little turbulence they hit it off. Their relationship is not bound by age or status...they help each like they are father and daughter..

Comments: Sometimes to fit in you need to stand out.

Summary: HEY HEY IT'S ESTHER BLUEBURGER - a smart, rueful and dead-on portrait of life's unending quest to fit in; and the girl who solves it by completely breaking out - introduces a feisty outsider hero unlike any other seen on screen. Esther Blueburger's (DANIELLE CANTANZARITI) quest begins when she escapes from her Bat Mitzvah party and is befriended by Sunni.. (KEISHA CASTLE-HUGHES), the effortlessly cool girl who is everything Esther thinks she wants to be. With the help of Sunni, Esther goes AWOL from her ordinary life and leaves behind her malfunctioning Jewish family to hang out with Sunni's far breezier and super-hip single mom Mary (TONI COLLETTE) and attend Sunni's forbidden public school as a Swedish exchange student.

Summary: Hide and Seek is a daring exploration into wild, uncharted territory--lesbian adolescence in the 1960's. Lou is a 12 year old girl who daydreams in a tree house, tries not to watch a sex education film, wins a rock throwing contest, and is horrified to discover that her best friend is taking an interest in earrings and boys. Interwoven with Lou's story are the mostly hilarious, sometimes painful recollections of adult lesbians who try to figure out how they ever got from there to here. Completing the picture are clips from a wide array of old scientific and educational films which blend seamlessly with the beautiful black and white images of Lou's world. HIDE AND SEEK is for every woman who's been to a slumber party and every man who wonders what went on at one.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, DTS 5.1; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Commentary by director John Polson, screenwriter Ari Schlossberg, and editor Jeffrey Ford, Unknown

Comments: Come out come out whatever you are

Summary: As a widower tries to piece together his life in the wake of his wife's suicide, his daughter finds solace -- at first -- in her imaginary friend.

Languages: English

Comments: It's not just an adventure... It's a love affair.

Summary: An Englishwoman travels to Morocco with her two young daughters, where they deal with and adjust to the culture and people of the area. Told from the perspective of the youngest daughter, the story provides insight into the Moroccan atmosphere. Based on a 1992 novel by Esther Freud.

Languages: English

Summary: On the isle of Rhodes, Katherine, an expatriate English photographer, lives with her daughter Chloe. A young local wants to encourage tourism, so he commissions a sculpture of the Unknown Tourist for the town square; the sculptor he brings to Rhodes is Kate's ex-husband. Also there to see Kate is Sharp, an aging antiquarian and her dear friend. He has something important to tell her. As Kate, her ex, and Sharp sort out things that go back years, two English tourists bumble about, one thinking he's fallen in love with Kate, his wife thinking she's found her own lover. A rare vase, a spy, old friendships, the statue's unveiling, and off-hand English sorting-out play into the resolution.

Languages: English, Spanish, French

Summary: When a pirate attacks a ship, he finds seven children, survivors from that attack, stowed away on his own ship and he must figure out what to do with them.

Summary: By no means for the first time in the history of cinema, two people swap their bodies by magic. As usual, they are very different personalities, and in this case they have the advantage of being in their formative years. Emma, who is good at school and such a good swimmer that she is being considered for training for the Olympic Games, and Mickey, both played by Sarah Hannemann and Nick Seidensticker, are helped in their plight by their classmate Four Eyes, played by Philipp Blank, who has a very different, more practical character from the leading pair. Before he loses the book of magic which enabled Emma and Mickey to swap bodies, Four Eyes deciphers the fact that they only have fifty-four hours to reverse the magic. Then the magician disappears, making the race against time even more difficult.

Comments: Några helt vanliga tonåringar en hora, en fegis, ett fetto och några äcklon.

Summary: 13-year old Sofie has too much to drink at a party and falls asleep. The immature guys from her school take some compromising photos of her being drunk and knocked out and hands them out at school. Quickly she has a reputation of being easy and promiscious and her two best friends, Amanda and Emma, avoid her. She must learn to fight back and regain the confidence her dad has instilled in her before she can put things right again.

Comments: The horror of being dead. The nightmare of still being alive.

Summary: A stormy night. The police receive a disturbing piece of information. An officer's torch illuminates a grotesque scene: the bloody corpse of a woman and, by its side, a little girl in a state of shock. Beatriz Varga, a young psychiatrist, takes a job at a prestigious sanatorium that specialises in hypnosis and is miles away from the nearest town. There, she finds out about the case of this little girl. On her first day, she manages to get an answer out of her that had never been heard before. However, Beatriz's hopes of helping this girl suddenly vanish: the girl is found dead... her veins slashed. One enigmatic patient, suffering from the deepest amnesia imaginable, draws Beatriz into a maze from which it is impossible to escape: "Beatriz, be careful... it wasn't suicide". Reality and fantasy begin to merge in the increasingly unstable mind of the doctor. Patients who foresee deaths, clues that lead to different suspects, prophetic visions, circular corridors that hide deadly secrets... new deaths. And one terrifying certainty: Beatriz is the next to die. A one-way ticket to the depths of madness and terror where nobody is who they say they are... But the biggest nightmare of all is yet to come..

Comments: Our Moving Story

Summary: Alicia Marnet de Ibañez is happily married to her husband Roberto. They have an adopted daughter named Gaby. Alicia is blissfully ignorant about what happened in the military coup until one of her history students asks her if she only believes what the history books say. She embarks on a mission to find if her daughter is the daughter of one of the women who disappeared during the coup. When her husband finds out, he does everything in his power to prevent her from finding the truth, but she's determined and nothing he does is going to stop her.

Summary: Three of author Laura Trenter's highly successful children's crime stories have been adapted for television and are now available as nine 30 minute episodes. Laura Trenter is the daughter of crime novelists Stieg and Ulla Trenter. Sebastian and his friend Amanda stop by the Post Office to buy stamps on their way home from school one day. Suddenly two men burst in, waving sub machine guns in the air and shouting. Afterwards Sebastian begins to see robbers everywhere. Eventually he even imagines the school caretaker to be responsible. Together with Amanda they decide to gather the evidence themselves.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0

Comments: It's just a bunch of Hocus Pocus!

Summary: More than 300 years ago, 3 witches were sentenced to die in Salem, Massachusetts and a boy was turned into a cat (a black cat, naturally). Now it's Halloween, and the witches (who fly on [I kid you not] vacuum cleaners) are back. This time, they've got their eyes on immortal life and have turned their wrath on trick-or-treaters and it's up to the 300-year-old cat to save the day.

Summary: Rosa is a 13-year-old girl from the Catholic south who finds it hard to adapt to life after she moving up north with her divorced mother, her mother's new boyfriend and her newborn half-brother. When she takes on a new identity as the tagger Rooz, things start to brighten up.

Languages: English

Summary: Twins Alex and Madison are spending their winter break at the Atlantis, a resort on Paradise Island in The Bahamas. Although the girls are disappointed because they're missing their school trip to Hawaii, they quickly make the best of the situation. Amid the fun and frivolity, the girls stumble across an antiquities smuggling ring.

Summary: Danni Hartford, party planner to the King family, wants to find a purpose to her life. Britney, the Kings' spoiled 15-year-old daughter, wants a horse. On a nearby horse farm, the Bradleys treat their foster daughter, Rachel, like a servant; all she wants is a real family. When an angel named Jeremiah hears the girls' Christmas wishes and decides to make them come true, the girls' souls switch bodies in the night. But the girls soon find their new lives are worse than their old ones. When Danni discovers what has happened, she must convince Jeremiah to undo the miracle, switching the girls back - and still make Rachel's wish for a family come true.

Summary: Violence erupts in north Belfast when the residents of Glenbyrn, a predominantly Protestant suburb, object to schoolgirls walking through their neighbourhood from the Catholic area of Ardoyne to the Holy Cross primary school.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: A Family Comedy Without The Family.

Summary: An eight year-old, who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas, has to defend his home against idiotic burglars.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: He's up past his bedtime in the city that never sleeps.

Summary: This somewhat unpleasant 1992 sequel to the blockbuster "Home Alone" revisits the first film's gimmick by stranding Macaulay Culkin's character in New York City while his family ends up somewhere else. Again, the little guy meets up with colorful people on the margins of society (including a pigeon woman played by Brenda Fricker) and again he gets into a prop-heavy battle with Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. The latter sequence is even worse than the first film in terms of violence inflicted on the two villains (director Chris Columbus, who also made the first film, can't seem to emphasize the slapstick over the graphic effects of the fight). The best running joke finds a concierge (Tim Curry) at the swank hotel where Culkin is staying trying and failing to prove that the boy is on his own. "--Tom Keogh"

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Comments: It's bad news for bad guys... Again.

Summary: Alex Pruitt, a young boy of nine living in Chicago, fend off thieves who seek a top-secret chip in his toy car to support a North Korean terrorist organization's next deed.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Summary: It's tough being nine. Tougher still is spending Christmas with dad (Jason Beghe) at his new girlfriend Natalie's (Joanna Going) mansion even though it's loaded with all the techno-gadgets any kid could hope for! But this Christmas, Kevin (Michael Weinberg) is really in hot water again, and so are Marv (French Stewart) and his sidekick (Missi Pyle), who are trying to rob Natalie's house! With funnier and more high-tech, crime-stopping wizardry at his disposal than ever, Kevin just might finally put these crooks on ice forever - and keep his parents together while he's at it - in this uplifting, hilarious comedy the whole family is sure to love!

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Starring: Jason Beghe, Joanna Going, Michael Weinberg, French Stewart, and Missi Pyle
Running Time: 85 Min., Color
Copyright 2003 Twentieth Century Fox.

Format: DVD MOVIE

Languages: English, Spanish

Comments: When there was nothing to believe in, she believed in herself.

Summary: Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.

Summary: Wayne Szalinski is a crazy scientist who invents a miniaturizing machine that is so powerful it only blows things up. When the kid next door hits a baseball through the window and it lands in the path of the machine's laser, it begins working. Wayne's two kids plus the two kids next door end up becoming tiny. Wayne accidentally sweeps them up and puts them out with the garbage, so the kids then have to travel through the thick grass back to the house, while braving giant bugs, sprinklers and a lawn mower.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: What if Peter Pan grew up?

Summary: Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy's granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: It's time to stand up for the little guys.

Summary: A young man (Lerman) moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Mono

Comments: The epic story of a world at war. And a boy at play.

Summary: A semiautobiographical project by John Boorman about a nine year old boy called Bill as he grows up in London during the blitz of World War 2. For a young boy, this time in history was more of an adventure, a total upheaval of order, restrictions and discipline. The liberating effect of the war on the women left behind. And the joy when Hitler blows up your school.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 5.1; French, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish, Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround

Comments: When life fell apart, love fell into place.

Summary: Birdee Calvert Pruitt is back in her hometown of Smithville, Texas after discovering that her husband is having an affair with her best friend, Connie. The entire town knows what happened to flawless beauty Birdee since Connie let her know about the affair on a national talk show. Back in town, she's dealing with catty old friends and acquaintances from high school who can't help rubbing it in her face that she isn't as perfect as she thought while still trying to get back on her feet with her daughter, Bernice. Deeply depressed, she runs into an old friend, Justin Matisse, who tries to help her through, but is still in love with her. Birdee must make a new life for her and her daughter, but will Justin be able to be part of it?

Languages: English, French

Summary: It is a cold winter day. Grace and her best friend Judith go for a ride with their horses, but a terrible accident changes her life forever. A truck hits them, Judith and her horse are killed, while Grace and her horse Pilgrim are seriously injured, both physically and mentally. In an attempt to bring Pilgrim back from his now savage condition, Grace's mother Annie takes them to Montana in search for Tom Booker. Tom is a "horse whisperer", a cowboy with the ability to "communicate" with horses. In the land of the Wild West Annie will change the way she sees life forever, as the wise cowboy slowly heals the souls of Pilgrim and Grace...

Comments: No stray gets turned away

Summary: Animals are strictly forbidden at Andi and her little brother Bruce's foster home. But for Friday, the adorable dog they secretly care for, they're ready to risk everything. They finally find him an ideal shelter, a huge abandoned hotel that Bruce transforms thanks to his engineering genius. In what has become an incredible paradise for dogs, Friday is soon joined by all kinds of furry friends, so many in fact that their barks alert the neighbors...and the local pound, who can't understand the disappearance of all the stray dogs. Andi and Bruce will have to call on all their friends and all their imagination to stop the hotel's secret from being discovered.

Comments: If you experienced "The World According To Garp" and found it witty, delightful and totally unpredictable, then be happily surprised all over again when you join the fun and games that go on at the...Hotel New Hampshire

Summary: The film talks about a family that weathers all sorts of disasters and keeps going in spite of it all. It is noted for its wonderful assortment of oddball characters.

Summary: Klara and Frederik are cousins and they waste their summer doing kid things like to steal a bone to a "fearsome" dog...which eventually is just a small lovable puppy dog. Frederik is an admirer of Houdini the Magician and asks Klara to tie his hands with a rude rope and to bury him under the sand of the beach where they are spending their holidays.
He tries to untie his hands but will he manage to get it?
Maybe he needs some help...maybe not. Is it magic or is it chance?

Summary: In late 1950's rural Alabama, young Lewellen lives with her stern religious grandmother, Grammie, but spends most of her time with her much-adored, wild and rough Daddy in his falling down shack. Lewellen is deeply talented and finds comfort and safety, as well as a place to put her hurt and rage, in the music of Elvis Presley, even though Charles, the wise groundskeeper of the mansion down the road, tries to convince her that "there is more to fill out that emptiness with than just Elvis." Lewellen and her closest friend, Buddy, are caught in a shed during a heavy rainstorm. During the storm Daddy is struck by lightning and the event leaves him incapacitated as an emotional and mental child. Grammie is convinced that Daddy was stricken down by God to punish Lewellen for her alleged sins with Buddy.

Lewellen becomes Daddy's caretaker and their dysfunctional relationship becomes even more pronounced, Lewellen becoming the parent and Daddy the child. Without any guidance, Lewellen begins to move into dangerous terrain. When Elvis Presley comes to town for a concert, Lewellen is desperate to go but has no money for a ticket. So, Buddy tricks Lewellen into dancing and singing like Elvis for Wooden's Boy in exchange for tickets he has to the concert. During the impersonation, Wooden's Boy attacks Lewellen and leaves her innocence behind. Lewellen's descent into the cycle of abuse and her own pursuit of self-destruction begins. It is only Charles who can see the spirit in Lewellen and save her soul. He teaches her to use music, "the Blues," to turn her tragedy into a gift.

Excellent acting by Dakota Fanning.

Comments: A Journey That Will Open Your Mind... And Touch Your Heart.

Summary: When Ruth Matthews's husband is killed in a fall at an archaeological dig, her daughter Sally handles her father's death in a very odd manner. As Sally's condition worsens, Ruth takes her to see Jake, an expert in childhood autism. Jake attempts to bring Sally out of her mental disarray through traditional therapy methods, but Ruth takes a different route. She risks her own sanity by attempting to enter her daughter's mind and make sense of the seemingly bizarre things that Sally does, including building a wondrous house of cards.

Comments: TERROR waits for you in every room in The House That Dripped Blood

Summary: A little girl displays an interest in witchcraft, unknowingly taking revenge on her stone cold father.

Languages: English, Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo

Comments: One man's pet is another man's peeve.

Summary: Shy, chain-smoking, insomniac Peter McGowan is an L.A. playwright with a string of hits that preceded his current ten years of failed productions. His mother-in-law is sinking into senility, a stranger is meandering the neighborhood claiming to be him, neighbors have a new dog that barks all night; his wife wants to have a child, and he does not: he's become impotent. He's working on a new play when a single mom moves in next door with her 8-year-old daughter. His wife immediately invites the girl into the McGowan household. Will this child stir Peter's paternal feelings? Will she also help him get his dialogue right? And what of his doppelganger and the neighbor's dog?

Summary: The film takes place on a boat floating on an unnamed ocean, on which lives an old man (Jeon Sung-hwan) and a young girl (Han Yeo-reum, also in the director's excellent "Samaria"). The old man plans to marry the girl, who he supposedly found some ten years earlier, and who has never left the boat, as soon as she turns seventeen. It is a date the old man eagerly awaits, even counting down the days on a calendar. The old man's other prize possession is a bow, with which he protects the girl, as well as using it as a musical instrument.

The two make money by hosting fishermen, and by telling their fortunes using the strange method of the old man shooting arrows at the girl as she swings in front of what appears to be a Buddhist painting on the side of the boat. Their idyllic existence is troubled by the appearance of a young man, who falls in love with the girl and accuses the old man of keeping her prisoner. Slowly, the girl starts to assert herself, and as the wedding day draws near, tensions mount and confrontation appears inevitable.