Paramount Home Media
Distribution has added DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions of writer/director
Jason Reitman’s film adaptation of Joyce Maynard’s novel, Labor Day, to its Apr. 29
release calendar.
The ARR is a
quick-to-market 88 days and domestic ticket sales were $13.4 million.
Labor Day is both an edge-of-your seat thriller and an
unlikely tale of romance. Reitman does
an excellent job of ratcheting up the tension as we are drawn into this tale
about two very “broken” people, Adele (Kate Winslet) and Frank (Josh Brolin), who
meet under circumstances that can only be described as unusual.
Indeed, what at first
seems like a very dangerous situation turns out to be anything but that. As Labor Day unfolds you grow to care
about the characters and become invested in the hope that nothing bad happens
to them (the tension).
Adele is a single mom
with a 13 year-old son, and Frank is a scruffy-looking escaped convict who is doing
a stint for murder ... she is depressed, agoraphobic and barely coping, while
he, although guilty of the accidental death of his ex-wife, is not a murderer;
not a danger at all.
Injured and on the run,
he talks Adele and her son, Henry (Gattlin Griffith — Changeling, The
New Daughter, etc.), into giving him a ride. Odd, but what develops is not the
“stranger-danger” story that seems to be in the offing, but a few precious days
of healing, tenderness, love and peace for these two needy people.
Bonus nuggets are
exclusive to the Blu-ray SKU and include commentary from filmmaker Jason
Reitman (Juno, Up in the Air, etc.), who is joined
by Eric Steelberg (director of photography) and co-producer Jason Blumenfeld,
deleted scenes and the featurette titled “End of Summer: Making Labor Day.”
Also added to the release
schedule this week by Paramount Home Media Distribution are Blu-ray and DVD
editions of the Anime saga, Legend Of Korra: Book Two: Spirits
(available on July 1), Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: The Good, The
Bad, The Casey Jones (also slated for a July 1 street date) and the June
24 DVD release of Unforgettable: The Second Season, starring Poppy Montgomery as
a New City Police detective with an amazing gift.
To download this week's
complete edition of the DVD and Blu-ray Release Report: DVD & Blu-ray Release Report
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