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There are some interesting video/DVD releases slated for next week, including Akeelah and the Bee, Friends With Money, The Sentinel, and Take the Lead. Let's take a look at these movies on DVD and video, along with some additional releases of interest.

August 29, 2006 - New Video and DVD Releases:

Akeelah and the Bee DVD

Tagline: "Changing the world... one word at a time."
Length: 112 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG for some language

This inspiring drama centers around an 11-year-old African-American girl named Akeelah Anderson (Keke Palmer) who attends an inner-city middle school in South Los Angeles.

Akeelah's widowed mom (Angela Bassett) doesn't push her, and the girl mostly just tries to blend in at school. But staff and faculty recognize Akeelah is good at spelling and urge her to enter the school's bee. Then the strict Dr. Larabee (Laurence Fishburne) becomes her coach, and she gets a shot at the national championship in Washington, D.C.
Selected DVD Special Features:
• Widescreen

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Friends With Money DVD
Length: 88 minutes
MPAA Rating: R for language, some sexual content and brief drug use

Jennifer Aniston, Frances McDormand, Catherine Keener and Joan Cusack star in this social comedy written and directed by Nicole Holofcener. The movie is about four Los Angeles women friends and the relationship between money and happiness in their lives. Three of the women (McDormand, Keener and Cusack) are married and affluent in varying degrees. The fourth (Aniston) is a former schoolteacher who ekes out a living cleaning homes.

She is single and gets involved with an unlikable guy.

Selected DVD Special Features:
• Commentary

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The Sentinel DVD

Tagline: "In 141 years, there's never been a traitor in the Secret Service... Until now."
Length: 108 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for some intense action violence and a scene of sensuality

Michael Douglas is the star of this thriller, and he is supported by Kiefer Sutherland, Kim Basinger and Eva Longoria. Pete Garrison (Douglas) is a veteran Secret Service agent assigned to protect the First Lady (Basinger), and he has an affair with her. When a fellow agent is murdered and a plot to assassinate the president is uncovered, Garrison finds himself suspected of being a mole. He must go on the lam and try to prove his innocence as his former protégé (Sutherland) and a rookie agent (Longoria) come after him.
Selected DVD Special Features:
• Commentary

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Take the Lead DVD

Tagline: "Never follow."
Length: 108 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for thematic material, language and some violence

Antonio Banderas stars in this feel-good drama. Manhattan dance instructor Pierre Dulaine (Banderas) sees a high school student called Rock (Rob Brown) bashing a car with a golf club. This prompts Dulaine to go to the principal (Alfre Woodard) and propose that he teach ballroom dancing to Rock and other students in a detention class. There's resistance to this idea at first, but Dulaine is soon teaching the detainees how to fox trot and tango. Transformed by dancing, the students end up at a big ballroom competition.
Selected DVD Special Features:
• Featurette

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Next Page - Additional Video/DVD Releases of Interest Coming Next Week

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