3 Oscar-nominated actors on DVD

Three Oscar-nominated actors lead off this collection of movies new to DVD.

• "Walk the Line" (Fox, 2005, PG-13, $29.98). This biography of Johnny Cash has its weaknesses and looks like too many other musical biographies, but most of the way it's entertaining and the songs keep it afloat.

But what helps it occasionally soar are the lead performances by Joaquin Phoenix as Cash and especially the gloriously effervescent Reese Witherspoon as June Carter. Both are nominated for Oscars, and Witherspoon should win. She gives the film an extra boost.

Bonus features pretty much ignore the real Johnny Cash, but the deleted scenes are all quite good, and many flesh out the character of Cash's first wife, wonderfully played by Ginnifer Goodwin.

Extras: Separate widescreen and full-frame editions, audio commentary (by director/co-writer James Mangold), deleted scenes, language options (English, Spanish, French), subtitle options (English, Spanish), chapters. (Also sold in a two-disc "Collector's Edition," featuring extended musical performances, a making-of featurette, and featurettes on Cash and Carter, $39.98.)

• "Pride & Prejudice" (Focus/Universal, 2005, PG, $29.98). Keira Knightley is also nominated for an Oscar for her delightful starring role in this excellent adaptation of the oft-filmed Jane Austen comic love story about an independent woman in 18th-century England who tries to fight her attraction to an eligible but arrogant bachelor.

Extras: Separate widescreen and full-frame editions, audio commentary (by director Joe Wright), making-of featurettes, HBO "First Look" episode, language and subtitle options (English, Spanish, French), chapters.

• "Yours, Mine & Ours" (Paramount, 2005, PG, $29.95). Dennis Quaid and Rene Russo are wasted in this update of a true story that was filmed in the '60s with Henry Fonda and Lucille Ball, about widowed parents who marry and fill their house with 18 children. This one, however, is more like the recent "Cheaper By the Dozen" films, as Quaid takes pratfalls engineered by the bratty brood.

Extras: Separate widescreen and full-frame editions, audio commentary (by director Raja Gosnell), deleted scenes, making-of featurettes, language options (English, French), subtitle options (English, Spanish), chapters.

• "Love Me Tender" (Fox, 1956, not rated, b/w, $19.98). Elvis Presley's first film casts him as the younger brother of a post-Civil War clan. The oldest brother comes home to find Presley has married his girl, thinking his brother was killed in the war. Presley is a bit stiff, but it's fun to see him so young. His hip-swinging songs, however, are hopelessly anachronistic.