Home Video Releases for December 9

Family viewers have a lot to choose from on the home video front this week. Football fans will enjoy the story of football coach Bob Ladouceur who led his team at De La Salle High School on a 151-game winning streak in the movie When the Game Stands Tall. However his real leadership as a coach comes when his team loses the streak and has to dig deep to find out what it really means to be a team.

Future marine biologist will like the sequel Dolphin Take 2. In this story Sawyer Nelson and the rest of the staff at the Clearwater Aquarium are hoping to find a new companion for their dolphin Winter. Otherwise the rescued mammal with the injured tale will have to be transferred to a different facility.

Marvel Comic fans get a taste of a different kind of hero in the movie Guardians of the Galaxy. This rag-tag team of wannabe heroes doesn’t look like your typical comic book superstars. But despite their differences, these misfits manage to do their part to save the universe from bad guys.

A couple of old classics re-release this week as well. My Fair Lady stars Audrey Hepburn as the poor flower peddler who becomes the subject of a bet between two old friends. Professor Higgins believes he can change this “gutter-snipe” into a lady simply by teaching her how to walk and talk like the women in high society.

Those pointed earred characters from Gremlins became popular on toy shelves after Steven Spielberg’s movie released in 1984. But if you are a parent who wants to bring this movie home for you own kids, you might want to watch it on your own first. This little monsters get into big trouble and end up in some gory messes before this film ends.

I Origins and Calvary are two R-rated movies also coming to home theaters this week.