Olive Films follows-up
last week’s announcement of five new Blu-ray film release with five more this
week … and all five are making their Blu-ray debuts.
The street date for this
next round is Apr. 28 and it is only a matter of taste in film viewing as to which
one will be at the top of your list (Blu-ray and DVD SKUs will be available for
all five film releases). So in no
particular order let us begin the parade of hits with Jodie Foster as both
director and star of the 1991 single mom tale, Little Man Tate.
Foster plays a blue
collar mom who discovers that her seven-year-old son, Fred (Adam Hann-Byrd — The
Ice Storm, Jumanji, etc.) is a genius, which is almost overwhelming for
her … and a struggle for him as well as he has to come to grips with the fact
that he is “different” than the others kids his age.
Also on the family side
of the ledger — and also starring and directed by a major Hollywood star — is
Paul Newman’s 1984 film, Harry and Son, co-starring Robby
Benson (as his son) and featuring an all-star cast that includes Morgan
Freeman, Wilford Brimley, Ellen Barkin, Judith Ivey and Joanne Woodward.
Next up is director
Arthur Hiller’s 1984 dramedy, Teachers, starring Nick Nolte as a
burned-out high school teacher who begins to see the light at the end of the
tunnel when he takes up with a former student of his (played by JoBeth
Williams) and at the same time finds an additional spark in mentoring a
troubled student (played by Ralph Macchio).
Others in the cast include Morgan Freeman, Laura Dern, Lee Grant and
Crispin Glover.
Rounding out the Apr. 28
new-to-Blu-ray selections are Hollywood Shuffle (1987, starring,
written, produced and directed by Robert Townsend) and director Harry Hook’s
1990 remake of the William Golding novel, Lord of the Flies.
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