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The Grudge

• Starring: Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Clea DuVall, Kadee Strickland, William Mapother, Bill Pullman
• Director: Takashi Shimizu
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Rated:
• Studio: Columbia Tristar Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 91 min
• Summary: According to Japanese lore, "The Grudge" is the curse of one who dies in the grip of a powerful rage. Those who encounter this murderous supernatural curse are killed and the curse is reborn, passed on from victim to victim in an endless, ever growing chain of horror. Karen (Sarah Michelle Gellar), an American nurse living in Tokyo, unknowingly uncovers the source of the curse and must somehow escape the impending fits of rage and madness which will inevitably lead to her demise.

Shall We Dance?

• Starring: Jennifer Lopez, Richard Gere, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Bobby Cannavale
• Director: Peter Chelsom
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Rated:
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 119 min
• Summary: An overworked Chicago accountant (Gere), tired of the boring routine that his life has become, sees a beautiful dance teacher (Lopez) through a window and decides to start taking lessons from her in order to get to know her better, and as the joy of dancing enters his life, he discovers that it might just be the secret to saving his troubled marriage. As the accountant's skill as a dancer improves, he eventually signs up for the Chicago Crystal Ball Dance Competition. Will he win-
• DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: Spanish, French
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Commentary by director Peter Chelsom
- Deleted Scenes with optional director commentary
- The Music of Shall We Dance- featurette
- "Beginner's Ballroom" featurette on ballroom dancing
- Behind The Scenes featurette on the film
- Pussycat Dolls "Sway" music video

She Hate Me

• Starring: Anthony Mackie, Kerry Washington, Dania Ramirez, Ellen Barkin, Monica Bellucci, & Woody Harrelson
• Director: Spike Lee
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
• Studio: Columbia Tristar Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Summary: Harvard, MBA-educated biotech executive John Henry “Jack” Armstrong (Anthony Mackie) gets fired when he informs on his bosses and initiates an investigation into their business dealings by the Securities & Exchange Commission. Branded a whistle-blower and therefore unemployable, Jack desperately needs to make a living. When his former girlfriend Fatima (Kerry Washington), a high powered businesswoman and now a lesbian, offers him cash to impregnate her and her new girlfriend Alex (Dania Ramirez), Jack is persuaded by the chance to make “easy” money. Word spreads and soon Jack is in the baby-making business at $10,000 a tryst. Lesbians with a desire for motherhood and the cash to spare are lining up to seek his services. But, between the attempts by his former employers to frame him for securities fraud and his dubious fathering activities, Jack finds his life, all at once, becoming very complicated.

School Daze

• Starring: Laurence Fishburne, Giancarlo Esposito, Tisha Campbell, Spike Lee, Joe Seneca, and Jasmine Guy
• Director: Spike Lee
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, DTS Surround Sound
• Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
• Studio: Columbia Tristar Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Summary: With SCHOOL DAZE, writer-director Spike Lee examines the tensions, biases, and frustrations of middle-class black youth at a southern college campus. Lee combines musical and fantasy sequences with satirical scenes to tell this pointed story of two cousins who attend the same all-black university. Dap Dunlap (Laurence Fishburne) is the solemn and dedicated activist, while Half-Pint (Lee), his younger cousin, spends most of his time rushing the school's most popular fraternity while desperately trying to find romance. As the film follows the two young men attempting to achieve their disparate goals, it also examines intraracial conflict in a school divided into warring camps: the light-skinned Wannabees and the dark-skinned Jigaboos. Lee, using the college environment as a microcosm in which to further explore black intraracial conflicts--for example, the way different camps wear their hair--doesn’t forget that he’s an entertainer first and foremost. SCHOOL DAZE, taking its cue from ANIMAL HOUSE, pokes fun at fraternities and sororities, including a hysterical extended sequence on the rigors of hazing. Featuring a pulsating soundtrack and an appearance by go-go legends EU, Lee’s return to school is at once revealing and raucous.
• DVD Features:
- Number of discs: 2

Bopha

• Starring: Danny Glover, Malcolm McDowell, Alfre Woodard, Marius Weyers
• Director: Morgan Freeman
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Rated:
• Studio: Paramount Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 118 min
• Summary: Danny Glover stars as a South African police officer torn between his duty, his conscience, and his family.
• DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: English
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
- Commentary by director Morgan Freeman
- Commentary by actors Danny Glover and Alfre Woodard
- Widescreen version enhanced for 16:9 TV's

Mr. 3000

• Starring: Bernie Mac, Angela Bassett, Evan Jones, Amaury Nolasco, Christopher Noth
• Director: Charles Stone III
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Rated:
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 104 min
• Summary: Seven years ago, a vain and jaded baseball star (Bernie Mac) retired from the sport as soon as achieving his 3,000th base hit, and his place within the select group who have achieved that distinction. Now, however, after three of those hits during his time with the Milwaukee Brewers have been disqualified, the Hall of Famer returns to the game, playing once again for the Brewers, to play a few more games and get back to the 3,000 mark, but along the way, he discovers that the experience renews his love for the sport, reminding him what it was like to be a young boy obsessed with the game, as he finds himself imparting some of this knowledge to a young rookie he mentors.
• DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: Spanish
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), English (DTS 5.1), French
- Deleted Scenes with director commentary
- Outtakes
- Extended scenes, including SportsCenter and The Tonight Show featurette
- "Spring Training: The Extras Journey" featurette
- "Everybody Loves Stan" featurette
- "Making of Mr. 3000" featurette
- Director audio commentary

Mulan II
Director: Lynne Southerland and Darrell Rooney 
• Format: Animated, Color, Closed-captioned
• Rated:
• Studio: Buena Vista Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 79 min
• Synopsis: Saving China was just the beginning, when Shang asks for Mulan's hand in marriage. Mayhem ensues when Mushu discovers that if Mulan gets married, he loses his cushy job as her guardian dragon.
• DVD Features:
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), Spanish, French
- Voices of Mulan, a star-studded feature highlighting the voice cast.
- Deleted Scenes
- "The World of Mulan", a fun-filled tour of China's rich history and culture.
- "Mushu's Guess Who" game
- "(I Wanna Be) Like Other Girls" Animated Music Video, performed by Atomic Kitten

The Bodyguard (Two-Disc Special Edition)

• Starring: Whitney Houston, Kevin Costner, Bill Cobbs, Gary Kemp, Michele Lamar Richards
• Director: Mick Jackson
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen
• Rated: Not for sale to persons under age 18.
• Studio: Warner Home Video
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 130 min
• Summary: A former secret service agent is now a bodyguard for a pop superstar turned actress. In the course of protecting the unpredictable star from a homicidal fan, they develop a trust and love that is rare for both. Screenplay by Lawrence Kasdan. Academy Award Nominations: Best Song ("I Have Nothing"), Best Song ("Run To You").
• DVD Features:
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- New making-of documentary "Memories of The Bodyguard"
- I Will Always Love You Whitney Houston music video
- Theatrical trailer

Vanity Fair

• Starring: Reese Witherspoon, James Purefoy, Romola Garai, Gabriel Bryne, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers, Jim Broadbent, Bob Hoskins, Rhys Ifans
• Director: Mira Nair
• Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby
• Rated:
• Studio: Umvd
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 141 min
• Summary: One of America’s most popular stars unites with one of the world’s most acclaimed directors to bring to the screen one of the greatest female characters ever created. The new film version of the classic novel by William Makepeace Thackeray centers on Rebecca (Becky) Sharp. Born into the lower class, Becky can rely only on her wit, guile, and sexuality as she makes her way up through London society circa 1820.
• DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: English
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Commentary by director Mira Nair
- Deleted scenes
- "The Women of Vanity Fair"
- "Welcome to Vanity Fair"

Ray
Director: Taylor Hackford • Cast: Jamie Foxx, Regina King, Kerry Washington, Larenz Tate, Sharon Warren, Aunjanue Ellis, Clifton Powell, Terrence Dashon Howard
• Format: Color, Widescreen, Dolby
• Rated:
• Studio: Universal Studios
• DVD Release Date: February 1, 2005
• Run Time: 153 min
• Summary: The inspiring true-life story of musical legend Ray Charles.
• DVD Features:
- Available subtitles: Spanish, French
- Available Audio Tracks: English (Dolby Digital 5.1), French (Dolby Digital 5.1)
- Original theatrical version and extended version of film with 14 deleted scenes not shown in theaters
- 2 complete and uncut musical performances
- Stepping into the Part featurette
- Ray Remembered featurette
- Theatrical Trailer

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