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In "Orphan," an adopted girl isn't what she seems.

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Orphan *** (Warner Home Video, '09) $28.98. 123 mins. After their third child is stillborn, a married couple adopt a 9-year-old Russian girl who is not what she appears to be. With Vera Farmiga, Peter Sarsgaard, Isabelle Fuhrman. R (disturbing violent content, some sexuality and profanity)

Whatever Works *** (Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, '09) $27.96. 92 mins. A cantankerous ex-physicist falls for a much younger - and less brilliant - Southern belle. With Larry David, Evan Rachel Wood, Patricia Clarkson, Ed Begley Jr. PG-13 (sexual situations including dialogue, brief nude images and thematic material)

Medicine for Melancholy (MPI Home Video, '07) $19.98. 88 mins. Two strangers wake up in bed together unaware how they got there, although it's obvious they have been intimate. They spend the day getting to know each other formally. With Tracey N. Heggins, Wyatt Cenac. NR

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Ice Age: Dawn of the Dinosaurs ** (20th Century Fox, '09) $29.98. 94 mins. Sid feels abandoned as Manny and Ellie await the birth of their mammoth, so he starts his own family with three "found" dinosaur eggs, which leads to his abduction to an underground lost world. Voices of Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Denis Leary, Queen Latifah. PG (some mild rude humor and peril)

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- Compiled by Lloylita Prou