'Treasure' among new DVD releases
• NATIONAL TREASURE: BOOK OF SECRETS (Disney, rated PG, $29.99) — ** — Treasure hunter Benjamin Franklin Gates (Nicholas Cage) seeks the truth behind the Lincoln assassination. Not without a few goofy thrills, but we've seen most — if not all — of this done better before.
PG (violence, vulgarity, mild profanity) —Jeff Vice, Deseret News
• STRANGE WILDERNESS (Paramount, rated R, $29.99) — * — A painful, supposed comedy from the Adam Sandler camp that defies any and all efforts to laugh at it.
R (vulgarity, profanity, drugs, violence, nudity, sex, gore, slurs)
• THE ADAMS CHRONICLES (Acorn Media, not rated, four discs, $59.99) — If HBO's recent miniseries on Founding Father/second president John Adams leaves you wanting more, this acclaimed 13-part PBS miniseries from 1976, making its DVD debut, may fit the bill.
Winner of four Emmy Awards and a Peabody Award, it focuses on four generations of Adamses: John Adams (George Grizzard) and Abigail Adams (Kathryn Walker); sixth president John Quincy Adams (at different ages, David Birney and William Daniels, who played John Adams in the movie "1776"); U.S. ambassador to Britain Charles Francis Adams (John Beal); historian Henry Adams (Peter Brandon); and railroad tycoon Charles Francis Adams Jr. (Charles Siebert).
Some of the upcoming DVD releases include:
May
May 27: "Grace Is Gone" — Genius/Weinstein
May 27: "Rambo" — Lionsgate
May 27: "Typhoon" — Genius
May 27: "Darfur Now" — Warner
June
June 3: "Meet the Spartans" — Fox
June 10: "The Bucket List" — Warner
June 10: "Jumper" — Fox
June 10: "The Other Boleyn Girl" — Sony
June 17: "Fool's Gold" — Warner
June 24: "Definitely, Maybe" — Universal
June 24: "The Spiderwick Chronicles" — Paramount
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