Witty and off-kilter character study stars Samantha Morton ("Sweet and Lowdown") as Morvern Callar, a supermarket checkout girl who wakes up on Christmas morning to find her aspiring writer boyfriend has committed suicide. After sending his completed manuscript to the publisher under her name, Callar embarks on a fascinating journey of self-discovery. With Kathleen McDermott, Dan Cadan, Carolyn Calder. 97 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround; "making of" featurette; theatrical trailers; weblinks.

In this intense, critically acclaimed drama, Samantha Morton and Claire Rushbrook are sisters affected in different ways by the death of mother Rita Tushingham. Rushbrook grieves, then continues with her life, but the repressed Morton begins a series of bizarre sexual adventures that lead to self-destruction. With Stuart Townsend, Christine Tremarco. 85 min.

Mike Nichols' landmark filming of Tony Kushner's Pulitzer Prize-winning two-part drama follows a group of New Yorkers confronting AIDS, homophobia, life, death, and the divine in the Age of Reagan. Among them: infamous right-wing attorney Roy Cohn (Al Pacino), dying of AIDS, cared for by a gay nurse (Jeffrey Wright), and haunted by the ghost of Ethel Rosenberg (Meryl Streep); a closeted Mormon lawyer (Patrick Wilson) unable to tell his delusional, pill-addicted wife (Mary-Louise Parker) and mother (Streep) the truth; and a courthouse worker (Ben Shenkman) who abandons his AIDS-stricken lover (Justin Kirk). With Emma Thompson, James Cromwell. 352 min.

Witty and off-kilter character study stars Samantha Morton ("Sweet and Lowdown") as Morvern Callar, a supermarket checkout girl who wakes up on Christmas morning to find her aspiring writer boyfriend has committed suicide. After sending his completed manuscript to the publisher under her name, Callar embarks on a fascinating journey of self-discovery. With Kathleen McDermott, Dan Cadan, Carolyn Calder. 97 min. Widescreen (Enhanced); Soundtracks: English Dolby Digital 5.1, Dolby Digital Surround; "making of" featurette; theatrical trailers; weblinks.