Just in time for one last, lovely getaway before the summer ends, Nim's Island is out on DVD this week. Nim's Island, based on a popular children's book of the same name, is a tantalizingly tropical film that allows children and adults to enjoy some good old-fashioned family fun and fantasies. Nim (Abigail Breslin) and her father (Gerard Butler), live on their very own tropical island, with seals, pelicans and lizards for companions. When something goes awry, it looks like Nim's favorite adventure novel writer (Jodie Foster) is the only one who can save them. See Jodie Foster as you've never seen her before, doing broad comedy and even pratfalls. Now that she has two sons of her own, she's more interested in doing family fare, and she does it splendidly. This was by far the most successful of all the new films out on DVD this week — it made close to $50 million in theaters.

Miss Conception is also new. It has an extremely clever title for a film about a successful British professional whose biological clock is ticking. Heather Graham has the title role, playing a woman in her late thirties who is told she has only one egg left and one weekend to conceive. Unfortunately, she has just broken up with her live-in boyfriend, so she and her best girlfriend cook up a wild scheme for her to have as many encounters as possible with random men who might be good father material. Even the best-laid plans (pun intended) can go awry, and matters are complicated by the fact that she still yearns for her ex, incommunicado while shooting a documentary with a beautiful and conniving physician's assistant. Think Baby Mama with British accents.

The more erudite film goer will enjoy The Counterfeiters, based on a book called The Devil's Workshop. It's about a Russian-born German Jew skilled at forging documents, who was spared from a concentration camp so he could counterfeit foreign currency for the Nazis. The conflict increases when he and his colleagues explore the idea of sabotaging the operation without losing their lives. The film is in German and French with English subtitles, but at times is so intense you'll forget you're reading them.

For the music minded among us, there's Pete Seeger: The Power of Song. Not only does it take a close look at this American icon, but it includes quotes and/or performances from Joan Baez, Bruce Springsteen, Arlo Guthrie, Bob Dylan, Bonnie Raitt, Natalie Maines and more.