Set before the events of its predecessor, this unaired pilot to the unaired TV drama "Manchester Prep" follows 16-year-old Sebastian Valmont as he meets scheming step-sister Kathryn Merte at an exclusive private school where the pupils spend their time studying the arts of deception and seduction. Amy Adams, Robin Dunne, Sarah Thompson and Mimi Rogers star. 90 min. Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround; Subtitles: English, Chinese, Korean, Thai; biographies; trailer.

Based on Charles Busch's long-running off-Broadway play, this campy, gender-bending mix of '60s beach comedies and horror films stars Lauren Ambrose as Florence "Chicklet" Forest, a surfing-crazy Malibu teen whose split-personality alter ego may be responsible for a series of murders plaguing the beach scene. With Thomas Gibson, Beth Broderick, Nicholas Brendon, and Busch as police captain Monica Stark. 95 min.

Beauty pageants are spoofed to the max in this barbed satire featuring Denise Richards and Kirsten Dunst as rivals vying to represent Minnesota in the Miss Teen Princess America contest. Also battling it out are their mothers: Richards' mom, Kirstie Alley, is a former pageant winner, while Ellen Barkin, Dunst's mother, is a trailer park trash queen. With Nora Dunn and Adam West as himself. 98 min.