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New this week: “Lantana” looks as if it’s going to be a thriller concerned with the identity of the corpse and how it got there. But what makes this film striking is that it is something unexpectedly different as well. For just as much as it is a police procedural replete with clues, evidence and suspects, it’s also a thoughtful, complex psychological investigation into the nature and difficulties of marriages, particularly those in trouble. The film focuses on four couples and, with a cast top-lined by Anthony LaPaglia, Geoffrey Rush and Barbara Hershey, it doesn’t lack the intensity and emotion to make its story convincing. Written by Andrew Bovell, based on his play “Speaking in Tongues,” and directed by Ray Lawrence.
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Top 5 VHS rentals:
1. Ocean’s Eleven
2. Domestic Disturbance
3. Ali
4. Not Another Teen Movie
5. Behind Enemy Lines
Top 5 DVD rentals:
1. Ocean’s Eleven
2. Behind Enemy Lines
3. Not Another Teen Movie
4. Ali
5. Domestic Disturbance
Rental video charts provided by VSDAVidTrac.
