DVDs for Everyone on Your List

FOR GRANDPARENTS AND GRANDKIDS

Up Two-Disc Deluxe Edition

Intergenerational bonding is the glue of this masterpiece about a grumpy widower and an earnest young scout on an excellent adventure. (Even on the umpteenth viewing, you'll well up at the flashback montage—you will know the one we're talking about.…) ($22; Amazon.com )

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FOR A COOLER-THAN-COOL COLLEGE STUDENT

Oscilloscope carefully curates its roster of art-house movies (including the Korean family drama Treeless Mountain and the Oscar-nominated environmental documentary The Garden ), which are wrapped in gorgeous, eco-friendly packages. ($24 each; Oscilloscope.net )

FOR ROMANTICS OF ALL AGES

Say Anything 20th Anniversary Edition

"I gave her my heart, and she gave me a pen." The love story of the brainy beauty (Ione Skye) and her ambition-challenged, good-as-gold suitor (John Cusack) is both an irresistible '80s artifact and a timeless tale of opposites attracting. ($20; Amazon.com )

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FOR HISTORY BUFFS

The Golden Age of Television

This lavish three-disc set collects some of the risky, innovative, and extremely popular live television plays of the 1950s, including work by writers Rod Serling and Paddy Chayefsky and a handsome young actor by the name of Paul Newman. ($40; Criterion.com ) Speaking of whom…

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FOR ANYONE WITH A PULSE

Paul Newman: The Tribute Collection
Before George Clooney, before Mad Men' s Don Draper, there was Newman: Guys wanted to be him, ladies wanted to…be near him. This set ranges from his turn as the hotshot pool player in The Hustler to a late-ish career pinnacle in The Verdict . ($63 for 17 discs; Amazon.com )

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