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Transformers

starring: Shia Labeouf, Megan Fox, Jon Voight, Hugo Weaving, Josh Duhamel

Transformers (Two-Disc Special Edition + BD Live) [Blu-ray]

starring: Charlie Adler, Kevin Dunn, Mike Fisher, Robert Foxworth, Bernie Mac

Only the Lonely

starring: John Candy, Maureen O'Hara, Ally Sheedy, Kevin Dunn, Milo O'Shea
directed by: Chris Columbus

Dave

starring: Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Frank Langella, Kevin Dunn, Ving Rhames
directed by: Ivan Reitman

Thirteen Days (Infinifilm Edition)

starring: Shawn Driscoll, Kevin Costner, Drake Cook, Lucinda Jenney, Caitlin Wachs
directed by: Roger Donaldson

Southland Tales [Blu-ray]

starring: Curtis Armstrong, Nora Dunn, Sarah Michelle Gellar, Beth Grant, Christopher Lambert

Working Girl

starring: Melanie Griffith, Harrison Ford, Sigourney Weaver, Alec Baldwin, Joan Cusack
directed by: Mike Nichols

I Heart Huckabees

starring: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg, Dustin Hoffman
directed by: David O. Russell

Mississippi Burning

starring: Gene Hackman, Willem Dafoe, Frances McDormand, Brad Dourif, R. Lee Ermey
directed by: Alan Parker