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From The Director Who Brought You American Beauty, Another Uplifting Look At Auburban Marriage | Sam Mendes Reunited Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet in Revolutionary Road.

TEQUILA-SOAKED BEACHES!
Spring Breakdown
CAST | Rachel Dratch, Amy Poehler, Parker Posey, Will Arnett
Yeesh. There’s not much action on the DVD front this week, kids, so rather than surrender to blandness and give the third slot to He’s Just Not That Into You, The Dictator is hoping that Dratch, Poehler, and Posey — all charter members of the Friends of Tina Fey Society — bring enough funny to make this female-buddy comedy (about a trio of middle-aged friends whose beach vacation coincides with Spring Break) worth a low-expectations rental. After all, Jane Lynch and Missi Pyle are in it too ... so it can’t be all bad, right?

NAZI-INFESTED FORESTS!
Defiance
CAST | Daniel Craig, Liev Schreiber, Jamie Bell, Alexa Davalos 
This WWII drama is the latest film from that master of the middlebrow action/message movie, Edward Zwick. (His previous films include The Last Samurai, Blood Diamond, and Glory.) He’s not what you’d ever call a cinematic visionary, but he’s got hold of a great real-life subject here — the story of the Bielski partisans, a group of tough-as-nails Jews who holed up in the Belarusian forest and held off the Nazis for three years — and Daniel Craig and Liev Schreiber bring great conviction to their roles as feuding brothers.

WELL-MANICURED LAWNS!
Revolutionary Road
CAST | Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Kathy Bates
There’s a generation of female Titanic fans yearning to see Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet share the screen once again. But it’s one thing to watch a pair of young people whose budding romance is destroyed by an iceberg, and quite another to see an older couple stifled by the suburban conformity of 1950s New England, giving up on their dreams, and realizing that they can’t stand each other. Critics were divided on this one, but if you share The Dictator’s soft spot for feel-bad suburban dramas, it’s worth a look.