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New on DVD: 'The Great Debaters,' 'Mad Money'

May 16, 2008

Two movies that are new on DVD, with Newsday's reviews:

(2 1/2 STARS)THE GREAT DEBATERS (PG-13). Denzel Washington directs and stars in this rousing if overcooked account of the legendary 1935 debate team of black students from tiny Wiley College battling Jim Crow and each other en route to glory. 2:04 (violence, some disturbing imagery, vulgarities, brief sexuality).

(3 STARS)MAD MONEY (PG-13). The heist comedy is alive and well and pulsing with women-on-the-edge nerviness, as Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah and Katie Holmes play unlikely comrades in a Federal Reserve Bank rip-off. 1:44 (sexual material and language, and brief drug references).