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Welcome to the February 2011 edition of the On DVD list, featuring a selection of Oscar nominated movies from 2010.
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127 Hours
Directed by Danny Boyle Starring James Franco and Lizzy Caplan
127 HOURS is the true story of mountain climber Aron Ralston's (James Franco) remarkable adventure to save himself after a fallen boulder crashes on his arm and traps him in an isolate canyon in Utah. Over the next five days Ralston examines his life and survives the elements to finally discover he has the courage and the wherewithal to extricate himself by any means necessary, scale a 65 foot wall and hike over eight miles before he is finally rescued. Throughout his journey, Ralston recalls friends, lovers (Clmence Posy), family, and the last two people he ever had the chance to meet? A visceral thrilling story that will take an audience on a never before experienced journey and prove what we can do when we choose life.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Best Achievement in Editing
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
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Alice in Wonderland
Directed by Tim Burton Voice Talents of Michael Sheen Starring Helena Bonham Carter
Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice for a fantastical new adventure from Walt Disney Pictures and Tim Burton. Inviting and magical, ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an imaginative new twist on some of the most beloved stories of all time. Alice (Mia Wasikowska), now 19 years old, returns to the whimsical world she first entered as a child and embarks on a journey to discover her true destiny. Wonderland is a world beyond your imagination and unlike anything youve seen before. The extraordinary characters youve loved come to life richer and more colorful than ever. Theres the Mad Hatter (Johnny Depp), the White Queen (Anne Hathaway), the Red Queen (Helena Bonham Carter), the White Rabbit (Michael Sheen) and more. A triumphant cinematic experience ALICE IN WONDERLAND is an incredible feast for your eyes, ears and heart that will captivate audiences of all sizes.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Best Achievement in Costume Design
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
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Animal Kingdom
When his mother dies suddenly, a 17-year-old boy finds himself drawn into the clutches of a diabolical criminal family, until a good-hearted detective makes a concerted effort to change the boy's fate.
Oscar Nomination:
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
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Exit Through the Gift Shop
Exit Through the Gift Shop is a chaotic study of low-level criminality, comradeship, and incompetence. By turns shocking, hilarious and absurd, this is an enthralling modern-day fairytale... with bolt cutters. This is the inside story of Street Art - a brutal and revealing account of what happens when fame, money, and vandalism collide. Exit Through the Gift Shop follows an eccentric shopkeeper turned amateur filmmaker as he attempts to capture many of the world's most infamous vandals on camera, only to have famed British stencil artist Banksy turn the camcorder back on its owner in one of the most provocative films about art ever made.
Oscar Nomination:
Best Documentary, Features
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The Fighter
Academy Award Nominees Mark Wahlberg (The Departed), Christian Bale (The Dark Knight) and Amy Adams (Doubt) star in this remarkable film. Based on a true story, two brothers, against all the odds, come together to train for a historic title bout that has the power to reunite their fractured family and give their hard-luck town what it's been waiting for: pride. Micky Ward (Wahlberg) is a struggling boxer long overshadowed by his older brother and trainer, Dicky (Bale), a local legend battling his own demons. Their explosive relationship threatens to take them both down - but the bond of blood may be their only chance for redemption.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role: Amy Adams, Melissa Leo
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Best Achievement in Editing
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How to Train Your Dragon
Starring Voice Of Jay Baruchel and Voice Of Craig Ferguson
Set in the mythical world of burly Vikings and wild dragons, and based on the book by Cressida Cowell, the action comedy tells the story of Hiccup, a Viking teenager who doesnt exactly fit in with his tribes longstanding tradition of heroic dragon slayers. Hiccups world is turned upside down when he encounters a dragon that challenges he and his fellow Vikings to see the world from an entirely different point of view.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
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Inception
Starring Leonardo Di Caprio
Acclaimed filmmaker Christopher Nolan directs an international cast in this sci-fi actioner that travels around the globe and into the world of dreams. Dom Cobb (Leonardo DiCaprio) is the best there is at extraction: stealing valuable secrets inside the subconscious during the mind’s vulnerable dream state. His skill has made him a coveted player in industrial espionage but also has made him a fugitive and cost him dearly. Now he may get a second chance if he can do the impossible: inception, planting an idea rather than stealing one. If they succeed, Cobb and his team could pull off the perfect crime. But no planning or expertise can prepare them for a dangerous enemy that seems to predict their every move. An enemy only Cobb could have seen coming.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Art Direction
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
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Iron Man 2
Directed by Jon Favreau Starring Robert, Jr Downey and Gwyneth Paltrow
In Iron Man 2, the world is aware that billionaire inventor Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.) is the armored Super Hero Iron Man. Under pressure from the government, the press and the public to share his technology with the military, Tony is unwilling to divulge the secrets behind the Iron Man armor because he fears the information will slip into the wrong hands. With Pepper Potts (Gwyneth Paltrow), and James Rhodey Rhodes (Don Cheadle) at his side, Tony forges new alliances and confronts powerful new forces.
Oscar Nomination:
Best Achievement in Visual Effects
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The Kids Are All Right
Directed by Lisa Cholodenko Starring Josh Hutcherson and Mia Wasikowska
The Kids Are All Right is the heartfelt new comedy from acclaimed director Lisa Cholodenko, starring Annette Bening, Julianne Moore, and Mark Ruffalo. Two teenaged children (Alice in Wonderlands Mia Wasikowska and Journey to the Center of the Earths Josh Hutcherson) get the notion to seek out their biological father and introduce him into the family life that their two mothers (Bening and Moore) have built for them. Once the donor (Ruffalo) is found, the household will never be the same, as family ties are defined, re-defined, and re-re-defined.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
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Salt
After she's accused of being a Russian sleeper spy, rogue CIA agent Evelyn Salt goes on the run, using every tactic, accent and disguise she knows to elude her pursuers, clear her name and protect her husband. Her supervisor, Winter, buys her story, while counterintelligence officer Peabody decidedly does not and will do anything to stop her in this fast-paced, intrigue-filled spy adventure.
Oscar Nomination:
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
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The Social Network
Directed by David Fincher Starring Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield
On a fall night in 2003, Harvard undergrad and computer programming genius Mark Zuckerberg sits down at his computer and heatedly begins working on a new idea. In a fury of blogging and programming, what begins in his dorm room soon becomes a global social network and a revolution in communication. A mere six years and 500 million friends later, Mark Zuckerberg is the youngest billionaire in history, but for this entrepreneur, success leads to both personal and legal complications.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Best Achievement in Directing
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Best Achievement in Cinematography
Best Achievement in Editing
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Score
Best Achievement in Sound Mixing
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The Town
Directed by Ben Affleck Starring Rebecca Hall and John Hamm
Ben Affleck follows his acclaimed Gone Baby Gone directorial debut by directing, co-writing and starring in a taut thriller about robbers and cops, friendship and betrayal, love and hope and escaping a past that has no future. He plays Doug MacRay, leader of a Boston bank robber gang but not cut from the same cloth as his fellow thieves. When Doug falls into a passionate romance with the bank manager (Rebecca Hall) briefly taken hostage in their last heist, he wants out of this life and out of the town. As the Feds close in and the crew questions his loyalty, he has one of two choices: betray his friends or lose the woman he loves. Jon Hamm, Jeremy Renner, Blake Lively, Titus Welliver, Pete Postlethwaite and Chris Cooper also star.
Oscar Nomination:
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
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Toy Story 3
Directed by Lee Unkrich Voice Talents of Tom Hanks Voice Talents of Tim Allen
The creative minds behind Disney•Pixar's groundbreaking animated blockbusters invites you back inside the Toys' delightful world for a heartwarming and hilarious movie experience you'll never forget. All the original voice talent returns (including Tom Hanks and Tim Allen) plus new talent including Michael Keaton as Ken and Ned Beatty as Lots-O'-Huggin' Bear.
It's "the biggest, best, most exciting Toy Story of them all," raves Access Hollywood. As Andy gets ready to leave for college, Woody, Buzz, Jessie and the rest of the gang wonder if this is the end of the line. But, when a mix up lands them in the Sunnyside Day Care Center where they meet 14 new toys, they soon discover that a wild new adventure is just beginning! Take an amazing journey with some of the most beloved characters in movie history and discover what being a friend is truly all about.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
Best Animated Feature Film of the Year
Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
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Unstoppable
Hang on for the ride of your life as Oscar Winner Denzel Washington and Chris Pine (Star Trek) team up for the years most electrifying action-thriller. A runaway train, transporting deadly, toxic chemicals, is barreling down on Scranton, Pennsylvania, and only two men can stop it: a veteran engineer (Washington) and a young conductor (Pine). Thousands of lives hang in the balance as these ordinary heroes attempt to chase down one million tons of hurtling steel and prevent an epic disaster. Helmed by visionary director Tony Scott (Man on Fire), this story inspired by true events delivers excitement and suspense that are UNSTOPPABLE!
Oscar Nomination:
Best Achievement in Sound Editing
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Winter's Bone
Directed by Debra Granik Starring Jennifer Lawrence and John Hawkes
17 year-old Ree Dolly (Jennifer Lawrence) sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and risking her life, Ree hacks through the lies, evasions and threats offered up by her relatives and begins to piece together the truth.
Oscar Nominations:
Best Motion Picture
Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Best Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
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The Wolfman
Academy Award winners Anthony Hopkins and Benicio Del Toro tear up the screen in this action-packed thriller. Lawrence Talbot (Del Toro) is lured back to his family estate to investigate the savage murder of his brother by a bloodthirsty beast. There, Talbot must confront his childhood demons, his estranged father (Hopkins), his brothers grieving fiance (Emily Blunt) and a suspicious Scotland Yard Inspector (Hugo Weaving). When Talbot is bitten by the creature, he becomes eternally cursed and soon discovers a fate far worse than death. Inspired by the classic Universal film that launched a legacy of horror, The Wolfman brings the myth of a cursed man back to its iconic origins.
Oscar Nomination:
Best Achievement in Makeup
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