New DVD Releases - May 13, 2008
The new DVD releases include The Great Debaters, Mad Money and Untraceable.
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The Great Debaters
Denzel Washington stars in and directed this drama based on a 1930s true story. Forest Whitaker is also in the film. Washington plays the main character, Melvin B. Tolson, a professor at small, all-black Wiley College in Marshall, Texas. Tolson believes that one way for him and his students to combat the racism they endure is to excel at debating. He handpicks a four-person team and coaches it through a series of debates, culminating in a 1935 competition against Harvard. (One of the Wiley debaters, James Farmer Jr., went on to become a leader in the civil-rights movement.)
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Mad Money
Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes star in this heist comedy directed by Callie Khouri. Bridget (Keaton) and her husband (Ted Danson) live in an affluent Kansas City suburb, but he loses his job, and they run up huge debt. She takes a job as a janitor at the Federal Reserve Bank, where she sees carts of worn-out currency on its way to be shredded. Bridget hatches a plan where she and two lowly coworkers (Latifah and Holmes) will steal some of the cash scheduled for destruction. But the security system is difficult to defeat, and things spiral out of control.
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