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Netflix New Releases Arriving in August 2016 Include ‘The Wedding Planner,’ ‘Law & Order: SVU’ Season 17

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Matthew McConaughey helps Jennifer Lopez in a scene from the film 'The Wedding Planner', 2001.

It’s time to watch handsome guys trying to understand the opposite sex! Popular comedies What Women Want and The Wedding Planner are among the vast array of film and TV arrivals to Netflix in August.

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Indeed, this is a good month for rom-com diehards. The titles available for streaming on Monday, August 1, include the 2000 blockbuster What Women Want — starring Mel Gibson as a guy who can read women’s minds, which isn’t a creepy premise for a movie in the least — and the 2001 Jennifer Lopez and Matthew McConaughey flick The Wedding Planner. 

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Among the month’s notable TV selections are NCIS season 13, premiering August 1; Law & Order: Special Victims Unit season 17, launching Monday, August 22; and Once Upon a Time season 5, debuting Friday, August 26.

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If you have a hunch that we’re now thinking, “You should check out the full list of Netflix selections below,” then you’re right, and you have an unbelievable gift for telepathy. (Please don’t harness your power for evil.) 

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August 1

The American Side

An Inconvenient Truth

Apex: The Story of the Hypercar

Beethoven’s Christmas Adventure

Big Daddy

Adam Sandler
Adam Sandler in ‘Big Daddy,’ 1999.

Black Widow

Critical Condition

Deadfall

Destination: Team USA

Funny Or Die Presents: Donald Trump’s Art of the Deal: The Movie

The Family Man

The Fast and the Furious

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift

Final Destination 3

From the Terrace

Holding the Man

How to Win the US Presidency

In the Shadow of the Moon

ISIS: Women Unveiled

Masha and the Bear (Season 2)

Memoria

The Naked Prey

NCIS (Season 13)

Pay It Forward

The Real Texas Chainsaw Massacre

Roseanne Collection (Collection 3)

Sleepy Hollow

Sliding Doors

Star Trek: Nemesis

Teacher’s Pet

The Verdict

The Wedding Planner

What Women Want

Young@Heart

Zack and Miri Make a Porno

August 3

Beat Bugs (Season 1)

August 5

David Cross: Making America Great Again

Ever After High: Epic Winter

The Little Prince

Punk’s Dead: SLC Punk 2

Slow TV: National Firewood Evening

Slow TV: National Firewood Morning

Slow TV: National Firewood Night

Slow TV: National Knitting Evening

Slow TV: National Knitting Morning

Slow TV: National Knitting Night

Slow TV: Northern Passage

Slow TV: Northern Railway

Slow TV: Salmon Fishing

Slow TV: The Telemark Canal

Slow TV: Train Ride Bergen to Oslo

August 6

The Confirmation

August 9

Real Husbands of Hollywood (Season 4)

T-Rex

August 10

St. Vincent

August 11

Flight of the Butterflies

No Country for Old Men

August 12

Ask the StoryBots (Season 1)

The Get Down (Part 1)

Project Mc2 (Season 2)

August 13

13 Cameras

August 15

Louis CK: Live at the Comedy Store

August 16

Let’s Go to Prison

Our Last Tango

August 17

The Curse of Sleeping Beauty

The Last Heist

Puffin Rock (Season 2)

August 19

Bottersnikes and Gumbles (Season 1)

Fearless (Season 1)

I’ll Sleep When I’m Dead

August 21

Maz Jobrani: I’m Not a Terrorist, but I’ve Played One on TV

August 22

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: The Seventeenth Year

August 23

Septembers of Shiraz

August 25

The Road

August 26

Blue Is the Warmest Color

Dawn of the Croods (Season 2)

Glitter Force (Season 2)

Jeff Foxworthy and Larry the Cable Guy: We’ve Been Thinking

Once Upon a Time (Season 5)

XOXO

August 27

Rams

August 29

The State of Marriage

August 31

Ku’damm 56 (Season 1)

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