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Published: September 4, 2008
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The Office: Season Four
The fourth season of this workplace sitcom starring Steve Carell became an early victim of the writers strike after airing four super-sized (but not entirely successful) hour-long specials. The post-strike episodes picked up the pace though, with a few classic additions to the show's overall stellar repertoire - and enough sweet Jam to satisfy the 'shippers.
Not rated, 404 minutes
Married Life
Pierce Brosnan, Chris Cooper, Patricia Clarkson and Rachel McAdams star in this period drama about boredom, betrayal, peroxide and poison - a typically cheerful cinematic view of marriage. Cooper is married to Clarkson but seeing a younger blonde (McAdams) on the side; rather than asking for a divorce, he decides to get rid of his wife the old-fashioned way.
PG-13, 90 minutes
Then She Found Me
I guess you can't blame Helen Hunt for giving herself the lead role in her directorial debut, in which she plays a childless woman pushing middle age in the midst of various personal crises. And who among us, could resist casting Colin Firth as our love interest, or Bette Midler as a long-lost birth mother of surprising fabulousness? But why did it have to be so dull?
R, 100 minutes
Eli Stone: The Complete First Season
Harking back to the days of "Ally McBeal," only with longer skirts, this new series stars English actor Jonny Lee Miller (best known previously an Angelina Jolie's first husband) as a San Francisco lawyer with an aneurysm who starts having visions of George Michael, among other quirky sights. But are these neurological misfires or prophetic visions?
PG, 559 minutes
The Big Bang Theory:
The Complete First Season
Two mega-nerds (Johnny Galecki and Jim Parsons) are shaken out of their physics-and-sci-fi rut when a hot chick (Kaley Cuoco) moves in across the hall, prodding them to learn about life outside the classroom. The stars are all sitcom vets, as is producer Chuck Lorre ("Two and a Half Men"), who writes for the series.
Not rated, 355 minutes
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
This "remastered deluxe edition" with apparently collectible packaging offers improved sound and audio in the beloved, bittersweet 1966 Halloween special about the Peanuts gang, in which Charlie Brown is a ghost with too many eye holes, Snoopy dresses as a World War I ace and Linus waits all night for the Great Pumpkin to put in an appearance.
Not rated, 50 minutes
Synopses by Amanda Henry
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