Charlie Brown: It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (DVD Deluxe Edition) [DVD] [Standard]

Excalibur [Blu-ray]

Hugh Jackman delivers a fantastic performance as P.T. Barnum in this spectacularly colorful musical for the whole family. Motivated by a desire to provide a good life for his wife (Michelle Williams) and children, Barnum founds a destined-to-be-famous circus which proves to be, not only immensely popular and profitable, but also a place in which a group of talented misfits can call home. Zac Efron, Zendaya, Rebecca Ferguson co-star; songs include InchThe Greatest Show,Inch InchCome Alive,Inch InchRewrite the Stars,Inch and more. 105 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks English Dolby Digital 5.1, DVS 5.1, Dolby Digital stereo, Spanish Dolby Digital stereo, French Dolby Digital stereo; Subtitles English (SDH), Spanish, French; sing-along; audio commentary; featurettes.

At one time the longest-running Broadway musical, My Fair Lady was adapted by Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe from the George Bernard Shaw comedy Pygmalion. Outside Covent Garden on a rainy evening in 1912, disheveled cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) meets linguistic expert Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison). After delivering a musical tirade against Inchverbal class distinction,Inch Higgins tells his companion Colonel Pickering (Wilfred Hyde-White) that, within six months, he could transform Eliza into a proper lady, simply by teaching her proper English. The next morning, face and hands freshly scrubbed, Eliza presents herself on Higgins' doorstep, offering to pay him to teach her to be a lady. InchIt's almost irresistible,Inch clucks Higgins. InchShe's so deliciously low. So horribly dirty.Inch He turns his mission into a sporting proposition, making a bet with Pickering that he can accomplish his six-month miracle to turn Eliza into a lady. This is one of the all-time great movie musicals, featuring classic songs and the legendary performances of Harrison, repeating his stage role after Cary Grant wisely turned down the movie job, and Stanley Holloway as Eliza's dustman father. Julie Andrews originated the role of Eliza on Broadway but producer Jack Warner felt that Andrews, at the time unknown beyond Broadway, wasn't bankable; Hepburn's singing was dubbed by Marni Nixon, who also dubbed Natalie Wood in West Side Story (1961). Andrews instead made Mary Poppins, for which she was given the Best Actress Oscar, beating out Hepburn. The movie, however, won Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor for Harrison, and five other Oscars, and it remains one of the all-time best movie musicals.