From time to time I’ll be filling you in on interesting Home Entertainment releases. You’ll note that films new on DVD almost always drop on Tuesdays. Sometimes they’ll be giant blockbusters finally released for home viewing, sometimes they are independents that might not have made it to a theater near you, and sometimes they’re newsworthy films that go straight to DVD.

Louder Than Words is a film that launches on DVD Sept. 9. It was intended for theaters, but if it made it there it slipped right by me. It does, however, have big stars and a big subject. David Duchovny, Hope Davis and Timothy Hutton, among others, star in this film based on the true story of a young girl who died tragically, and whose family healed by struggling to build the Maria Fareri Children’s Hospital in her memory. Duchovny plays her slow of speech father, a successful contractor, and Davis plays her mother, while Hutton is the politically savvy friend who knows a thing or two about fundraising. Maria (Olivia Steele-Falconer) is the precocious daughter who attempted to heal her family’s many rifts during her short life.

Unfortunately, the message is far bigger and better than the movie, but only the cruelest of critics would skewer a film about terminally ill children and the hospital that was built to help them. It’s tough to craft a dramatic arc and storyline from a real life situation like this, and even tougher when one of its main characters dies early on, and the other is notorious for not communicating or expressing emotion. Let’s just say that there’s a reason you might not have heard about this film until now, but we applaud its good intentions.

There — now when you see Louder Than Words listed somewhere and note that some of your favorite actors are in it, instead of thinking, “how did I miss this one?” you’ll say to yourself, “Oh yeah — that’s the one about building of the children’s hospital in New York.”

Rated PG 13

95 Minutes