Based upon the book by Jeff Kinney.

Bonus features: Deleted diary pages [featurette and slide show] (8 min.); Feature commentary with director Thor Freudenthal and writer Gabe Sachs [audio feature] ; Theatrical trailer (2 min.); Sneak peeks (8 min.); Digital copy "how to" [featurette] (4 min.).

Director of photography, Jack Green ; production designer, Brent Thomas ; editor, Wendy Greene Bricmont ; music, Theodore Shapiro ; costume designer, Monique Prudhomme.

Zachary Gordon, Robert Capron, Rachael Harris, Devon Bostick, Chloë Grace Moretz, Steve Zahn, Grayson Russell, Laine MacNeil, Karan Brar.

To Greg Heffley, middle school is the dumbest idea ever invented. It's a place rigged with hundreds of social landmines, not the least of which are morons, wedgies, swirlies, bullies, lunchtime banishment to the cafeteria floor - and a festering piece of cheese with nuclear cooties. To survive the never-ending ordeal and attain the recognition and status he feels he so richly deserves, Greg devises an endless series of can't-miss schemes, all of which, of course, go awry. And he's getting it all down on paper, via a diary - "it's NOT a diary, it's a journal!" Greg insists, preferring the less-sissyfied designation - filled with his opinions, thoughts, tales of family trials and tribulations, and (would-be) schoolyard triumphs. "One day when I'm famous," writes Greg, "I'll have better things to do than answer people's stupid questions all day."

MPAA Rating: Rated PG for some rude humor and language.

DVD; Region 1, NTSC; 5.1 Dolby Digital surround, Dolby Digital surround; widescreen presentation, 1.85:1 aspect ratio.

In English, dubbed French or Spanish with optional subtitles in English SDH (subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing) or Spanish; closed-captioned.