Video Shelf
* New This Week: “Riding in Cars With Boys,” which stars Drew Barrymore as a teen mother who goes on to become a writer, is a failed film that gives glimpses of the success that might have been. Buried under the miscalculations, the shamelessness, the off-putting and inappropriate broadness are sporadically visible souvenirs of a good project gone bad, hints of the unusual, bittersweet story that got away. Barrymore plays a good girl surviving bad situations in screenwriter Morgan Upton Ward’s adaptation of a widely appreciated memoir by Beverly Donofrio. Only two actors climb out of the wreckage: Steve Zahn, who beautifully arouses our sympathy with his fine work as the overmatched husband, and Brittany Murphy, invariably funny as Barrymore’s best friend.
Top 5 VHS rentals:
1. Don’t Say a Word
2. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
3. The One
4. The Last Castle
5. Hardball
Top 5 DVD rentals:
1. A.I.: Artificial Intelligence
2. Don’t Say a Word
3. The One
4. The Last Castle
Rental video charts provided by VSDAVidTrac.
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