Eat Pray Love (15)

134 mins

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99.

IN Bali, magazine writer Liz Gilbert (Julia Roberts) visits healer and medicine man Ketut Liyer (Hadi Subiyanto) and is told she will lose all of her money then get it back again. Sure enough, Liz’s marriage to Stephen (Billy Crudup) ends in acrimony and she seeks love and adventure, which includes a brief flirtation with divorced father, Felipe (Javier Bardem). Based on the memoir by Elizabeth Gilbert, Ryan Murphy’s film is bookmarked into chapters of gastronomic, spiritual and romantic fulfilment, with occasional flashbacks. By the end of Liz’s scoffing, soul-searching and swooning, viewers might be feeling jet-lagged.

Charlie St Cloud (12)

95 mins, Universal Pictures (UK) Ltd, DVD £19.99/Blu-ray £24.99)

CHARLIE St Cloud (Zac Efron) always wins his local regatta with 11-year-old brother Sam (Charlie Tahan). Tragedy strikes and Charlie encounters Sam’s earth-bound spirit in the woods and the two meet regularly.

Five years pass and Charlie finds he must make a heartbreaking choice between the living and the dead. Based on a novel by Ben Sherwood, Efron looks beautiful in close-up with saltwater coursing down his softly lit cheeks as Craig Pearce and Lewis Colick’s screenplay veers between the metaphysical and the mawkish… and the histrionics of the final half hour strain credibility.

The Rebound (150

91 mins

Momentum Pictures Home Entertainment, DVD £17.99/Bluray £19.99).

SANDY (Catherine Zeta-Jones) kicks her adulterous husband Frank (Sam Robards) into touch and lands a job at a TV sports network and asks 25-year-old college graduate Aram Finkelstein (Justin Bartha) to watch her children. Friendship turns to attraction and eventually Sandy and Aram acknowledge their feelings. If writer-director Bart Freundlich has any interesting observations about modern day romance, he fails to weave them into a pedestrian script that gives all of the half decent lines to the supporting characters. Zeta-Jones and Bartha are an attractive central pairing but there’s simply no screen chemistry. It’s little wonder everyone counsels Sandy against the affair.