Video Rentals

Double Jeopardy

$9.04 million 3 weeks in release $35.33 million to date

PLOT Innocent woman convicted of murdering her jerk husband discovers hubby isn't dead.

MESSAGE Revenge is mine! Since she already did jail time for "killing" her husband, she decides she can hunt him down with impunity.

CAUTION Rated R for bad language, violence, and sexual situations.

$8.23 million 1 week in release $8.23 million to date

PLOT A rich Manhattan couple faces their sexual obsessions in a long, detailed fashion.

MESSAGE Freudianism meets nihilism: Life is dead, love is dead, sex is dead.

CAUTION Rated R for graphic sex, frequent nudity, and bad language.

$6.42 million 2 weeks in release $14.6 million to date

PLOT Exorcist-style thriller about a woman who finds stigmata on herself and a secret gospel supposedly written by Jesus.

MESSAGE Anti-Christian double talk. Stigmata proposes that organized religion is one big scam, but it's packed with its own brand of mystical mumbo-jumbo.

CAUTION Stigmata wears its blasphemy with pride. Rated R for profanity, sexual situations, nudity, violence.

$6 million 2 weeks in release $13.17 million to date

PLOT Grief and romance collide for a cop and a liberal Republican congresswoman when their cheating spouses die in a plane crash.

MESSAGE No man knows his time; one's secret plans may be revealed in unusual ways.

CAUTION Rated R for bad language, violence, and sexual situations.

$3.69 million 5 weeks in release $34.37 million to date

PLOT Dumbed-down action comedy about a burglar who discovers his stolen diamond is hidden inside a police station, so he pretends to be a policeman so he can get his goods.

MESSAGE People who play by the rules are stiff and stupid, while cons and crooks know where the action is.

CAUTION Rated PG-13 for bad language and violence.

Everybody needs a good shaggy dog story now and then. My Dog Skip (Warner Bros.; rated PG for violence and bad language) is about a shy little boy (Frankie Muniz) who learns about life after he gets an adorable little terrier as a birthday present. The pooch helps the bookish lad break out of his shell, make friends, meet a girl, and move a few steps toward manhood. Skip fits the family-friendly mold and it usually stays out of the land of corniness. The movie is a fictionalized version of the late Harper's editor Willie Morris's own adventures in Yazoo City, Mississippi, during World War II. Kevin Bacon and Diane Lane play the boy's parents. Luke Wilson plays Dink, their neighbor who goes off to war a hero and comes back something else. Skip is reminiscent of A Christmas Story minus the slapstick comedy. It takes a picture of childhood lived decades ago, but it stops well short of overblown nostalgia. It appeals to elements everyone is familiar with: social awkwardness, growing up, learning about people, and, of course, the childhood pet.