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DVDs released this week
A weekly listing of new DVDs.
Here are some of today's DVD releases. Star ratings are by Seattle Times movie reviewers, freelancers or wire services (for full reviews, go to www.seattletimes.com/movies).
"My Blueberry Nights" (PG-13), Wong Kar Wai's pastry-filled romantic reverie starring Norah Jones, in her acting debut, and Jude Law.
"Drillbit Taylor" (PG-13), a comedy, directed by Steven Brill, about three high-school freshmen who seek protection from a pair of bullies. What do they do? They hire Owen Wilson.
"Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns" (PG-13), a comedy/drama starring Angela Bassett as a struggling single mother of three who heads to Georgia for the funeral of the father she never met.
Also available in a three-disc set is the TV series "Tyler Perry's House of Payne: Volume Two."
"Vantage Point" (PG-13), Pete Travis' tale of the shooting of an American president (William Hurt), told "Rashomon"-style, through the different perceptions of several people who witnessed the event. The cast also includes Dennis Quaid, Sigourney Weaver and Forest Whitaker.
TV on DVD
"Mad Men: Season One"
"The Closer: The Complete Third Season"
" 'Til Death Do Us Part: The Complete First Season"
"The Streets of San Francisco: Season 2, Volume 1"
"Walker, Texas Ranger: The Fifth Season"
"Anglo-Saxon Attitudes"
"Rebus: Set 3"
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