The new DVD releases include 21 and September Dawn.

July 22, 2008 - New DVD Releases:

21 DVD
Tagline: “Inspired by the true story of five students who changed the game forever.”

Length: 123 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some violence, and sexual content including partial nudity

A glossy, lightweight drama, 21 is a Vegas story based loosely on Ben Mezrich’s nonfiction book Bringing Down the House. Kevin Spacey and Laurence Fishburne appear in the movie, but the central character is MIT student Ben Campbell, played by Jim Sturgess. Because Ben needs money to go to Harvard Med School, he joins five other students, including good-looking Jill (Kate Bosworth), in a group lead by a math prof (Spacey). They then start using an elaborate card-counting scheme to win big at Vegas blackjack tables, but they run afoul of a casino security expert (Fishburne). Selected DVD Special Features:

• Two-Disc DVD Set
• Also Available on Blu-ray Disc

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September Dawn DVD
Length: 110 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for violence

Set in 1857, this drama is based loosely on a real-life incident, although the movie is not necessarily historically accurate. The incident was the Mountain Meadows Massacre, in which Utah Mormons killed 120 California-bound settlers on September 11, and the filmmakers were presumably trying to deliver a message about religion-based fanaticism. In the movie, Jon Voight plays a local Mormon leader whose son (Trent Ford) falls for a young woman (Tamara Hope) on the settlers’ wagon train. The film also has actors portraying Brigham Young and Joseph Smith.

Selected DVD Special Features:

• Widescreen

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SOURCE: ABOUT.com