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Inventor’s machine acts up in ‘Meatballs’

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Available this week on DVD:

Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs: Hot dogs, cheeseburgers, meatballs and all kinds of food rain down from the sky when an inventor’s contraption goes awry. With Anna Faris, Bruce Campbell. (1:30; PG for brief profanity) •••1/2

The Final Destination 3-D: Can a teen and his friends cheat death more than once? With Bobby Campo, Shantel VanSanten, Mykelti Williamson, Nick Zano. (1:22; R for strong violent/gruesome accidents, profanity and a scene of sexuality) •••

Lorna’s Silence: Dreams of opening her own business prompt a young Albanian woman to conspire with a Russian mobster in a scheme to obtain citizenship illegally. With Dardenne Brothers, Arta Dobroshi. (1:45; R for brief sexuality/nudity and profanity; subtitled) •••1/2

Trucker: A truck driver must apply the brakes to her free-wheeling lifestyle when her 11-year-old son re-enters her life. With Michelle Monaghan, Nathan Fillion, Benjamin Bratt, Jimmy Bennett. (1:33; R for some sexuality, profanity, brief drug use involving minors and a sexual assault)