New on DVD and Blu-ray, Week of November. 15: 'Beginners,' 'Larry Crowne,' 'My Fair Lady' and 'West Side Story'

A set of romantic comedies highlight the house entertainment releases now. At one finish from the spectrum may be the low-key but completely entertaining indie 'Beginners,' an interesting and sad tale of the commitment-phobic youthful guy whose father arrives from the closet in the 70s right before being identified with terminal cancer. In the other finish may be the lackluster 'Larry Crowne,' a star-studded studio production in regards to a middle-aged guy who needs to reinvent themself after losing his lengthy-time job. Small is much better. Continue reading. 'Beginners' How It Is About: Director-author Mike Mills ('Thumbsucker') includes a unique undertake existence within this lovingly told story of the father, a boy along with a dog. Chistopher Plummer plays the daddy, a guy that has hidden his homosexuality from his boy (Ewan McGregor) for many years. Since his wife has died, Plummer decides to spill the beans to McGregor, that has their own issues with women ... he can't appear to invest in one. The hook: Plummer's character is dying of cancer, so there's very little time for that pair to obtain close. But by using an even speaking dog (in subtitles), along with a clever script, father and boy look for a deep bond within this touching and continuously entertaining story. It's Kinda Like: 'Greenberg' meets 'Sideways' What We Should Say: This heartwarming story hits all of the right notes concerning the way family people might stray from one another ... after which get together before time runs out. The script offers its three-dimensional figures with lots of heart and great courage, creating personas and situations which are about just as real as fiction can desire to. Also keep in mind that speaking (and incredibly wise) pooch, who steals the show and shows because the script's humor because the humans do. This charming indie outing has great performances by Plummer and McGregor, by Goran Visnjic and Melanie Laurent because the men's particular enthusiasts. Watch it having a very good friend. &bull Extra supplies: Commentary by author-director Mills, 'A Video Clip About Creating Beginners.' Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: 'Larry Crowne' How It Is About: Tom Hanks and Jennifer Aniston get together for any romantic comedy about how exactly it's rarely past too far to reinvent yourself. When he all of a sudden is let go from his lengthy-standing blue-collar job, Ray Crowne (Hanks) enrolls at his local college to begin again. There, he becomes a part of an eclectic community of scholars and evolves a crush on his teacher (Roberts), whose adoration for teaching -- and her husband -- have decreased. Naturally Hanks reinvigorates Roberts while learning their own lesson about finding a person's place on the planet. It's Kinda Like: 'Last Chance Harvey' meets 'Back to School' Exactly what the Experts Say: Regardless of the mega-star energy of Hanks and Roberts, 'Larry Crowne' fizzled in the box office. And also the experts were not fascinated through the film: "If this involves unemployment-designed cinema, I'll go ahead and take greater realism of last year's 'The Company Men' or the 2010 'Everything Must Go' over Hanks's too rosy vision of existence following the pink slip," Time magazine's Mary F. Pols stated. Anthony Lane from the NYer chimed along with "To pluck romantic comedy in the jaws of the social crisis is really a laudable project, worth Preston Sturges, and it is a pity this featherlight drama -- compiled by Tom Hanks and Nia Vardalos, and directed by Hanks themself -- should falter in the task." And, lastly, Ella Taylor of NPR stated: "Neither seafood nor fowl, 'Larry Crowne' skitters between pathos and shtick, wasting abundant acting talent as the story goes.Inch However, David Edelstein of NY Magazine stated "The film may also be gentle to the stage of blandness, but it is never flimsy." And Roger Moore from the Orlando Sentinel hit his lips within the film: "It's perfectly enjoyable ... comfort food -- meatloaf, taters and apple cobbler offered as bubbly Tom Petty and ELO tunes waft in the soundtrack." &bull Extra supplies: Erased moments and behind-the-scene featurettes. Rotten Tomato plants Reviews Buy DVD Save DVD for your Netflix queue Watch a trailer: Blu-ray Debuts: 'My Fair Lady': (1964) George Cukor's classic musical version of George Bernard Shaw's 'Pygmalion' starred Katherine Hepburn -- in the peak of her career -- and Rex Harrison, whose turn as Professor Henry Higgins raised from the dead his sagging career. Though corny by present day standards, the film still stands up, with gorgeous cinematography by Harry Stradling Sr. (who captured pics of the 1939 film version of 'Pygmalion') and wonderful tunes by Lerner and Loewe. 'The Rules from the Game': (1939) One among the finest films available, Jean Renoir's classic is really a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked inside a comedy of manners, where a weekend in a marquis's countryside chateau lays bare some ugly facts about several haute bourgeois acquaintances. Still stunning and delightful -- and pertinent -- after seven decades. 'Three Colors: Blue, Whitened, Red': (1993-94) A strongly motion picture trio of tales about love and loss from Krzysztof Kieslowski. The flicks were named for that colors from the French flag and are a symbol of the tenets from the French Revolution -- ­liberty, equality, and fraternity -- with every film while using title symbol to look at several ambiguously interconnected people going through tragedy to comedy within their personal lives. 'Red' was Kieslowski's last film -- he died at 54 throughout open-heart surgery following heart disease in 1996. 'West Side Story': (1961) Five decades after its historic debut, the legendary musical returns inside a 50th anniversary hi-def edition. Having a record-breaking 10 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Pointing and finest Original Score, the 1961 film required home more honours than every other movie-musical within the good reputation for cinema. This monumental production not just features the timeless lyrics from master American composer Stephen Sondheim, but an excellent score from Leonard Bernstein and delightful direction by Robert Smart and co-director and choreographer Jerome Robbins. Stars Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Concord, Ned Glass, William Bramley and Tucker Cruz. Watch a unique Blu-ray clip: Other New November 15 Releases: 'Bellflower': (2011) Close friends Woodrow and Aiden spend all their spare time building "Mad Max"-inspired flamethrowers and muscle cars when preparing for any global apocalypse. However when Woodrow meets a charming youthful lady and falls hard for each other, he and Aiden rapidly integrate right into a new number of buddies, leaving on the journey of affection and hate, unfaithfulness, infidelity, and extreme violence. Written, directed by and starring Glodell, the film is really a sincere story of obsession, friendship, and youthful-love gone awry, featuring Glodell's real-existence masterpieces: homemade flamethrowers along with a fire-spewing 1972 Buick Skylark, Medusa. A shateringly honest and cool film 'Flypaper': (2011) A nervous bank customer attempts to thwart two gangs of thieves -- a higher-tech trio who intend to enter the vault, and 2 dumb hicks whose concept of a large score is knocking from the Automatic teller machines -- who both descend around the building, leaving a gun fight and taking everybody hostage. Stars Patrick Dempsey, Ashley Judd, Jeffrey Tambor, Mekhi Phifer, Curtis Remedy and Tim Blake Nelson. 'Griff the Invisible': (2011) Griff, a shy and awkward office manager during the day, finds avoid his regular, "invisible" existence by presuming the identity of the fantastic super hero each evening. But his secret's compromised when he meets Tune, an adorable but unconventional daydreamer who rapidly becomes intrigued by his idiosyncrasies, that are equal simply to her very own, and who takes it upon herself to save him. A warm, loving "underdog" super hero romance -- that may used tight editing -- with offbeat, engaging figures. Stars Ryan Kwanten and Maeve Dermody. Watch a unique clip: 'Highway Patrol Man': (1999) Director Alex Cox's ('Repo Man') Mexican cult film fav has finally made its method to DVD. Against his father's wishes, Pedro -- a naive kid from Mexico City -- joins the government Highway Patrol but his simple need to do good quickly makes conflict with a realistic look at police operate in a lonely rural atmosphere populated by poor maqui berry farmers, wealthy drug sellers, beautiful women, and the father's ghost. Stars Roberto Sosa, Bruno Bichir and Vanessa Bauche. 'Rio Sex Comedy': (2010) A mixed number of vacationers and site visitors on the working trip end up footloose and underneath the sway from the Brazilian city's erotic spell. Stars Charlotte now Rampling, Bill Pullman, Irene Jacob, Jean-Maric Roulot. 'Walk miles during my Pradas': (2010) Two days before his wedding, a homophobic youthful guy is switched gay -- and the made fun of gay co-worker switched straight -- with a magical Christmas tree. Stars Nathaniel Marston, Tom Archdeacon, Tom Arnold, Mike Starr, Dee Wallace and Kirsten Jum. Take a look at more November 15 DVD releases at OnVideo. Follow Moviefone on Twitter Like Moviefone on Facebook