As powerful an anti-drug jeremiad as it is a drama, director Darren Aronofsky's ("Pi") visually hypnotic film graphically tracks the downward spiral of four Brooklyn residents: heroin addicts and would-be dealers Jared Leto and Marlon Wayans; Leto's girlfriend, fellow junkie and aspiring fashion designer Jennifer Connelly; and Ellen Burstyn, Leto's TV-obsessed mother who turns to diet pills when she thinks she's been picked to appear on her favorite show. Based on the novel by Hubert Selby, Jr. ("Last Exit to Brooklyn"). Unrated version; 102 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English 5.1 and Dolby Surround; Subtitles: English; audio commentary by Aronofsky; "making of" featurette; deleted scenes; theatrical trailer; interview; scene access.

Kinky, contemporary film noir, directed by Dennis Hopper, featuring Don Johnson as a drifter who exercises his questionable morals when he takes a job as a used car dealer in a small Texas town. Soon, he's hopping in bed with the boss's hot-blooded wife, romancing a 19-year-old girl with a dark secret and planning a bank robbery. Virginia Madsen, Jennifer Connelly, Charles Martin Smith co-star. 130 min. Widescreen; Soundtracks: English, Spanish; Subtitles: Spanish, French; theatrical trailer.

Set in a small mid-'50s Illinois town, this moving coming-of-age drama follows two working-class brothers (Billy Crudup, Joaquin Phoenix) who, for love and other reasons, become involved with the well-to-do and beautiful Abbott sisters (Jennifer Connelly, Joanna Going, Liv Tyler). Kathy Baker also stars. 116 min.