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Careful What You Wish For

Elizabeth Allen Rosenbaum - Lionsgate
Format: DVD

A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
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Mothers Day [DVD]

Jennifer Aniston - Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

From Garry Marshall, the director of Pretty Woman and Valentines Day, comes MOTHERS DAY, an all-star comedy that celebrates parenthood and family. Jennifer Aniston, Julia Roberts, Kate Hudson and Jason Sudeikis lead an incredible cast in a film that intersects the lives of a group of people...
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The Lobster [DVD Digital]

Colin Farrell - Lionsgate
Format: DVD

Welcome to the hilarious and far-out world of THE LOBSTER where singles must find their mate within forty-five days or be forever changed into an animal of their choosing. Colin Farrell, Rachel Weisz, Léa Seydoux, John C. Reilly and Ben Whishaw star in this intelligent and offbeat comedy...
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A Hologram for the King

Tom Hanks - LIONSGATE
Format: DVD

Director Tom Tykwer adapts Dave Eggers' best-selling novel, in which an American businessman (Tom Hanks) travels to Saudi Arabia in an attempt to sell a holographic telecommunications system to the country's king. Desperate to make the deal in order to stay afloat in a failing economy,...
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Batman: The Killing Joke

Kevin Conroy - Warner Home Video
Format: Blu-Ray/DVD Combo

To prove that one bad day can make any man as insane as he is, the Joker wages a psychological war on Batman that catches Commissioner Gordon and his daughter in the crippling crossfire and leaves scars on the Dark Knight that even time won't heal.
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The Boss

Melissa McCarthy - Universal Studios Home Entertainment

Melissa McCarthy (Bridesmaids, The Heat) stars as Michelle Darnell, a titan of industry who is sent to prison for insider trading. After doing her time, Michelle emerges, ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, but not everyone she steamrolled is so quick to forgive...
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God's Not Dead 2

Melissa Joan Hart - Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

A high-school teacher (Melissa Joan Hart) gets caught up in a high-profile legal case over her right to discuss Jesus in a public classroom, and faces strong opposition from a brash lawyer (Ray Wise) . This sequel to the 2014 faith-based box-office hit God's Not Dead also stars Jesse...
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Ratchet & Clank

Paul Giamatti - Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Based on the popular video game franchise, Ratchet & Clank follows two unlikely heroes as they struggle to stop a vile alien from destroying every planet in the Solana Galaxy. Ratchet is the last of his kind, a foolhardy "Lombax" who has grown up alone on a backwater planet...
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Batman: The Killing Joke

Kevin Conroy - Warner Home Video
Format: Blu-Ray/DVD Combo

To prove that one bad day can make any man as insane as he is, the Joker wages a psychological war on Batman that catches Commissioner Gordon and his daughter in the crippling crossfire and leaves scars on the Dark Knight that even time won't heal.
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The Angry Birds Movie

Clay Kaytis - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

In this hilarious animated adventure comedy, youll finally find out why the birds are so angry. In an island paradise populated entirely by happy, flightless birds - or almost entirely, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when...
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The Jungle Book DVD

Neel Sethi - Walt Disney Studios
Format: DVD

In this reimagining of the classic collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, director Jon Favreau uses visually stunning CGI to create the community of animals surrounding Mowgli (Neel Sethi) , a human boy adopted by a pack of wolves. The appearance...
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Maggie's Plan

Greta Gerwig - Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

In Rebecca Miller's witty romantic comedy, Maggie (Greta Gerwig) is a vibrant New Yorker, who without success in finding love, decides to have a child on her own. But when she meets John Harding (Ethan Hawke) , an anthropology professor and struggling novelist, she falls in love for the first...
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The Man Who Knew Infinity

Matt Brown - Paramount

This biopic from writer/director Matt Brown details the extraordinary life of renowned Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan (Dev Patel) , who travels to England in 1913 to study at Cambridge. He faces prejudice there from many of his colleagues, but he also bonds with a professor...
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The Jungle Book DVD

Neel Sethi - Walt Disney Studios
Format: DVD

In this reimagining of the classic collection of stories by Rudyard Kipling, director Jon Favreau uses visually stunning CGI to create the community of animals surrounding Mowgli (Neel Sethi) , a human boy adopted by a pack of wolves. The appearance...
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The Phenom

Noah Buschel - IMAGE ENTERTAINMENT
Format: DVD

Ever since Hopper (Johnny Simmons) was a child, he has dreamed of becoming a major league pitcher. Relentlessly pushed by his abusive father (Academy Award Nominee Ethan Hawke) , hes on the verge of becoming one of the games most promising players when he unexpectedly breaks down on the mound....
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