The Perfect Game

Manufacturer: Arc Entertainment Brand: Provident Distribution Group Model: DV2053

SEVEN DAYS IN UTOPIA follows the story of Luke Chisolm (Lucas Black), a talented young golfer set on making the pro tour. When his first big shot turns out to be a very public disaster, Luke escapes the pressures of the game and finds himself unexpectedly stranded in Utopia, Texas, home to eccentric rancher Johnny Crawford (Robert Duvall). But Johnny's more than meets the eye, and his profound ways of looking at life force Luke to question not only his past choices, but his direction for the future.

Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Brand: Sony Model: 24133631 Color: Color

Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane (Brad Pitt) challenges the system and defies conventional wisdom when his is forced to rebuild his small-market team on a limited budget. Despite opposition from the old guard, the media, fans and their own field manager (Philip Seymour Hoffman), Beane - with the help of a young, number-crunching, Yale-educated economist (Jonah Hill) - develops a roster of misfits…and along the way, forever changes the way the game is played. It's amazing that Moneyball makes baseball statistics seem fascinating--but that's because it's not really a movie about numbers, and it's not really a movie about baseball, either. It's about what drives people to take risks--in this instance, Billy Beane (played by Brad Pitt), general manager of the Oakland A's, who's just had his best players poached by teams that can afford to pay a lot more. Fed up with how money twists the game, he listens to Peter Brand (Jonah Hill), who persuades him that certain players are being undervalued for trivial reasons--that statistics reveal hidden strengths that could, when used in the right combinations, produce a winning season. Beane takes Brand's advice, then has to fight everyone else around him to follow it through. Moneyball skillfully takes the audience into Beane's psyche. Pitt is in excellent form; it's an understated but magnetic performance, the kind that rarely wins awards but should. Pitt has the physical presence of a former athlete and vividly expresses the...

Manufacturer: Team Marketing Brand: UNKNO Model: DV1388

Chris Herren, Fall River, Massachusetts' high school basketball superstar, played for Boston College, for Jerry Tarkanian's Fresno State team, bounced around the NBA (once playing for his beloved Celtics) and around the globe. Chris failed drug tests wherever he played. Ultimately, Chris - the youngest and most talented of three generations of local heroes - has found redemption and personal fulfillment through the game, but only after it led him down a path of alcohol and drug addiction that nearly killed him."When sold by Amazon.com, this product will be manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. Amazon.com's standard return policy will apply.

Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Brand: Warner Brothers Model: 26927098

The movie 42 is a biographical drama on DVD about Jackie Robinson, a Hall of Fame baseball player who broke the color barrier in Major League Baseball. In 1946, Robinson (Chadwick Boseman) is a Negro League baseball player who never takes racism lying down. Branch Rickey (Harrison Ford) is a Major League team executive with a bold idea. To that end, Rickey recruits Robinson to break the unspoken color line as the first modern African American Major League player. As both anticipate, this proves a major challenge for Robinson and his family as they endure unrelenting racist hostility on and off the field, from player and fan alike. As Jackie struggles against his nature to endure such abuse without complaint, he finds allies and hope where he least expects it. 42 is a powerful film about how one man changed baseball… and changed America. The film opens in 1945, after the end of World War II, when team executive Branch Rickey has set his mind on bringing the first black baseball player into the ranks of an American major league baseball team despite the disapproval of his advisers and team manager. A stubborn man who declares that money is green, not black or white, and claims profit as his motivation, Rickey carefully selects Jackie Robinson from the Kansas City Monarchs. He chooses Robinson both because he's an excellent baseball player and because Rickey believes him to be a man with the inner strength to withstand the bullying and abuse that's sure to follow his appoi...

Manufacturer: Warner Home Video Brand: WARNER HOME VIDEO Model: 25571732

Trouble With The Curve (DVD)Screen icon and multiple Academy Award® winner Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino, Million Dollar Baby) returns in front of the camera once more for this heartfelt sports dramedy about an aging major league baseball scout on the cusp of retirement. Confronting his own mortality and his failing eyesight, he sets out on an unforgettable road trip to Atlanta to scout a hot high school batting prospect. Along the way, he tries to mend his troubled relationship with his alienated lawyer daughter. Directed by Eastwood’s longtime producing partner, Robert Lorenz, this diamond in the rough dramedy represents another moving return to form for the legendary Eastwood.]]> Clint Eastwood has developed a killer changeup during his career, using his iconic status and mainstream credibility to take audiences to some thoughtfully unexpected places. (How the man behind the lyrical Letters from Iwo Jima and A Perfect World can also peel off something like the cheerfully meatheaded The Rookie is one of the most enjoyable mysteries in Hollywood.) The biggest surprise behind Trouble with the Curve, Eastwood's first time in front of the camera since Gran Torino (and his first appearance in a film he hasn't directed since 1993's In the Line of Fire), is how resolutely unsurprising it is, telling its story with an unfashionably retro simplicity. Still, even if the resolution is easily guessed, the star's trademark glower and a stellar supporting cast make it an exceedin...

Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Brand: Warner Manufacturing Model: 25939343

Coach Carter (DVD)Academy Award nominee Samuel L. Jackson stars in the inspiring true stor y of controversial high school basketball coach Ken Carter, who benched his entire undefeated team for poor academic performance, in order to te ach his players the importance of education.]]>

Manufacturer: Warner Bros. Brand: Warner Manufacturing Model: 26193199 Color: color

Fighter, The (BD)A look at the early years of boxer "Irish" Micky Ward and his brother who helped train him before going pro in the mid 1980s.]]>