Inevitably, there are people in our lives who are impossible to shop for: the sister who wants a new wardrobe, the little brother who thinks the world revolves around him and, of course, the mother who insists that she wants nothing but love. However, this holiday season Hollywood is sending shoppers across America a little relief in the form of newly released DVDs.
Leading the pack is the Dukes of Hazzard (December 6). Featuring the not-so subtle seduction techniques of a bikini-clad Daisy Duke (Jessica Simpson), this movie is hilarious in all the right parts, including an interesting scene in an all-girls dormitory, and serves as the perfect gift for anyone who revels in seeing a lot of Jessica Simpson in not much at all.
But if a nearly naked Jessica Simpson does not feel quite right, stay in the comedy genre with The 40 Year Old Virgin (December 13) starring Steve Carell as Andy Stitzer. The film is entertaining from credit to credit, as Andy’s friends send him on an unsuccessful mission to get laid by random women and Andy struggles to find a way to tell the one he really wants about his complete lack of experience, even having to read the instructions on the condom wrapper and not even then could he get it right. Hilarious.
For that sentimental person in your life, Cinderella Man (December 6), starring Russell Crowe as James Braddock and Renee Zellweger as his wife Mae, owns the audience for 140 minutes and proves that sometimes nice guys do finish first. Cinderella Man takes the audience outside of the physical match in the ring to the emotional struggle of the man trying to save his family from the Depression in such a way that captivates viewers and leaves women wishing for a few truly good men like Braddock.
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