Roadshow - October 2009 Releases

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APPALOOSA

STUDIO:               Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:    17 September 2009
DIRECTOR:           Ed Harris
STARRING:           Viggo Mortensen, Ed Harris
CATEGORY:          Western
RATING:               M Contains violence and offensive language
RRP DVD:             $29.99
RRP BLURAY:        $49.99

In Marshal Vigil Cole and Deputy Everett Hitch’s line of work, you shoot quick, you shoot clean and you reload straightaway. No feelings. Feelings get you killed. Paired as rivals in ‘A History of Violence’, Ed Harris and Viggo Mortensen stand together as friends and for-hire peacekeepers Cole and Hitch in a character-driven, bullet-hard Western based on Robert B. Parker’s novel. As the woman who arrives in town with only a dollar and a keen sense of survival, Renee Zellweger adds feelings – things that can get you killed – to a quest to bring murderer Randall Bragg to justice. Blood will spill in the town called Appaloosa.

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THE SECRET LIFE OF BEES

STUDIO:               Twentieth Century Fox
RELEASE DATE:    17 September 2009
DIRECTOR:           Gina Prince-Bythewood
STARRING:           Queen Latifah, Dakota Fanning, Alicia Keys
CATEGORY:          Drama
RATING:               M Contains violence
RRP DVD:             $29.99

Set in South Carolina during the turbulent Civil Rights era, the home of the intelligent and independent honey-making Boatwright sisters is suddenly thrust into upheaval with the arrival of fourteen year-old Lily Owens and her caretaker Rosaleen. Surrounded by the unexpected comforts, grace and deep rooted spirituality Lily encounters in the Boatwright home, she forms a maternal bond with each of these women whose unique and special gifts help reconcile the loss of her mother. Lily ultimately comes to the realisation that sometimes you must leave home in order to find it.

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THE READER

STUDIO:               Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:    24 September 2009
STARRING:           Stephen Daldry, Kate Winslet, Ralf Fiennes
CATEGORY:          Drama
RATING:               R16 Contains sex scenes
RRP DVD:             $34.99

She rescues him after finding him collapsed in the street. Soon after, the 30-something woman and the teenage boy begin an intense and passionate affair. Hanna and Michael meet as often as they can, their sexual encounters punctuated by his reading of beautiful literature to her. Then one day, she disappears. Eight years later, Hanna is on trial for a Nazi war crime and Michael, now a law student, discovers her again in the court room, unaware that he holds the key to her salvation...

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COCO CHANEL

STUIDO:               Hopscotch
RELEASE DATE:    17 September 2009
STARRING:            Shirley MacLaine, Malcolm McDowell
CATEGORY:          Television
RRP DVD:             $29.99

The untold story of Coco Chanel.

A woman whose spirit, ability, and unparalleled sense of style made her a dazzling success and an enduring influence.

Coco Chanel is the rags-to-riches tale charting the rise of one of the most influential fashion icons of the 20th century. From her humble childhood in a French orphanage, through her early days as a young dressmaker's assistant, to her passionate and tragic love with a dashing Englishman, and ultimately to her success as a pioneering icon, "Coco Chanel" is the story of a glamorous woman who was hard to love and harder to ignore.

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BBC ATLAS OF THE NATURAL WORLDL: WESTERN HEMISPHERE & ANTARCTICA

ELEASE DATE:     17 September 2009
CATEGORY:           Television Documentary
NUMBER OF DISCS: 6
RRP DVD:              $99.99

A definitive portrait of the land, wildlife and peoples.

From the BBC's internationally renowned, award-winning Natural History unit comes the first release in an ambitious undertaking. BBC Atlas of the Natural World brings together BBC landmark series to provide a unique survey of life around the globe, in all its remarkable richness and beauty.

The four programmes included in this six-disc set are: Land of the Eagle (North America), Spirits of the Jaguar, Wild South America (Central America & the Caribbean) and Life in the Freezer (Antarctica). These eye-opening and staggeringly beautiful programmes combine to give one of the most comprehensive portraits of the Americas and Antarctica ever assembled. This box set offers an astonishing diversity of wildlife and habitats, as well the story of human migration across Western lands, providing a subjective view of the environments which people explored and settled over many thousands of years. With over 18 hours of material, viewers will explore the vast richness of the land, wildlife and peoples of these miraculous regions. Each series in this collection may be viewed in Enhanced Content Mode, in which pop-up windows will periodically appear during the program featuring added factual content.

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Published 2nd Nov 2009

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