‘Social Network’ among this week’s highlights

Fri., Jan. 14, 2011

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Available this week on DVD:

“The Social Network”: An enthralling, near-perfect comedy of manners from director David Fincher and screenwriter Aaron Sorkin about the exhilarating creation and contested consolidation of Facebook. With Jesse Eisenberg, Andrew Garfield and Justin Timberlake. (2:00; PG-13 for sexual content, drug and alcohol use and language.) • • • •

“Alpha and Omega”: Two young wolves at opposite ends of their pack’s social order are thrown together into a foreign land in this animated family feature. (1:28; PG for rude humor and some mild action)

“Piranha”: Cops (Elisabeth Shue, Ving Rhames) in an Arizona lake town try to fight off hordes of hungry prehistoric fish who attack a hard-partying spring break crowd. (1:29; R for sequences of strong bloody horror, violence and gore, graphic nudity, sexual content, language and some drug use)

Also available: “Heartbreaker,” “The Freebie,” “Shake Hands With the Devil”

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