Rat Race - DVD

John Cleese heads an all-star comedic cast as a rich casino owner who gathers six teams of wacky characters and sends them on a madcap dash from Las Vegas to a train station locker in Silver City, New Mexico, for a $2,000,000 prize. The only rule is that there aren't any, which leads to total madness in this slapstick, stunt-filled tale from director Jerry Zucker. Rowan Atkinson, Whoopi Goldberg, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Seth Green, and Jon Lovitz also star. 112 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks English DTS HD 5.1 Master Audio, DVS, French Dolby Digital 5.1; Subtitles English (SDH), French; theatrical trailers.

Pete Hammond, Jr. (Tony Curtis) is a sax player from Milwaukee with plans to make it as a jazz musician in New York City. Peggy Brown (Debbie Reynolds) is a cash-strapped taxi dancer already burnt out by the Big Apple. Pete let's Peggy stay with him, but what starts out as a purely platonic living arrangement slowly turns into much more as they stand by each other through life's ups and downs. Jack Oakie, Kay Medford, and Don Rickles co-star in director Robert Mulligan's bittersweet romantic seriocomedy from Garson Kanin's 1950 play. 105 min. Standard; Soundtrack English. Region Free

An aging comedian tours the California desert, lost in a cycle of third-rate venues, novelty tourist attractions, and vain attempts to reach his estranged daughter. By day, he slogs through the barren landscape, inadvertently alienating every acquaintance. At night, he seeks solace in the animation of his onstage persona. Fueled by the promise of a lucrative Hollywood engagement and the possibility of rekindling a relationship with his daughter, he trudges through a series of increasingly surreal and volatile encounters.