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Midnight in Paris; Big Love: The Complete Collection; Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition
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Midnight in Paris
(Sony, $31)
Writer/director Woody Allen came through in 2011 with “one of his most enjoyable films in years,” said the New Orleans Times-Picayune. An appealing Owen Wilson stars as a frustrated screenwriter who, while visiting Paris, is transported each night to the city’s 1920s.
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Big Love: The Complete Collection
(HBO, $200)
“At times polarizing and always engaging,” this hit series “brought to light the inherent drama surrounding modern-day polygamy,” said DallasNews.com. Bill Paxton stars as a Mormon husband, with Jeanne Tripplehorn, Chloë Sevigny, and Ginnifer Goodwin as his wives.
Dragon Tattoo Trilogy: Extended Edition
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(Music Box, $60)
Extended versions of the three Swedish films based on Stieg Larsson’s best-selling crime novels are arriving just ahead of the theatrical debut of a Hollywood-made The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. The added scenes, said USA Today, “make the films even more faithful to the books.”
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