Originally published Tuesday, October 7, 2008 at 12:00 AM

New DVDs | "Paranoid Park," "The Visitor," released this week

Tuesday's DVD releases include "Paranoid Park," "The Visitor," "The Happening" and "You Don't Mess With the Zohan."

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Gabe Nevins portrays Alex, left, and Lauren McKinney portrays Macy in a scene from, "Paranoid Park."

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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).

"Paranoid Park" (R): Gus Van Sant's drama, filmed in Portland, stars Gabe Nevins as a teen skateboarder who lands in the middle of a tragedy.

"The Visitor" (PG-13): Director Thomas McCarthy movingly follows a lonely widower (Richard Jenkins) as he connects with an immigrant couple (Haaz Sleiman and Danai Gurira) illegally occupying his rarely used Manhattan apartment.

"The Happening" (R): Mark Wahlberg and Zooey Deschanel go on the run after people start committing suicide en masse in M. Night Shyamalan's disaster/horror flick.

"You Don't Mess With the Zohan" (PG-13): Adam Sandler plays an Israeli counterterrorist who dreams of becoming a great New York hairstylist in this harebrained comedy.

"Ray Harryhausen Collection": The set revives the stop-motion animated creatures of "The 7th Voyage of Sinbad," "20 Million Miles to Earth," "It Came From Beneath the Sea" and "Earth vs. the Flying Saucers" — fantasy films from the 1950s.

"Sleeping Beauty": Disney's slumbering princess is back in a 50th-anniversary package.

"The Three Stooges Collection, Volume Four: 1943-45": The slapstick continues with Curly, Larry and Moe.

"Touch of Evil" 50th-anniversary edition: Charlton Heston stars in Orson Welles' film-noir classic about crime and corruption along the U.S.-Mexico border.

TV on DVD

"30 Rock: Season 2"

"How I Met Your Mother: Season Three"