Bellbird - DVD

Released four years into the run of popular Australian soap opera InchBellbird,Inch this feature film version finds the residents of the titular town facing down a devastating drought. Will an auto race intended to raise some much-needed cash for the community be enough to alleviate a dry spell, even as a trouble-making reporter (Gerard Maguire) starts poking around? Terry McDermott, Gary Gray, Lynette Curran, and more reprise their series roles. 101 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English. Region Free

A music therapist meets a defiant teenage patient in this elegant, timely drama set in rural Texas.

Stewing after his school expulsion for bullying, Julian Albans (Bryce Gheisar) got a surprise visit from his Parisian artist grandmother (Helen Mirren). To give him insight into compassion, she relates how, as a girl (Ariella Glaser) in occupied France, her family was rounded up by the Nazis-and how her survival depended on sheltering from a polio-lamed classmate (Orlando Schwerdt) and his family. Moving tale spun off from InchWonderInch co-stars Gillian Anderson, Ishai Golan; Marc Forster directs. 120 min. Widescreen; Soundtrack English.