Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will be delivering
both DVD and Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack editions of the STX Entertainment
production of writer/director Kelly Fremon Craig's The Edge of Seventeen on
Valentine’s Day.
The ARR for that Feb. 14 street date is a fast-to-market 88
days and ticket sales from the film’s mid-November launch were a disappointing
$13.9 million.
Hands down, The Edge of Seventeen is the most
over-looked comedy of the year. This
coming-of-age tale about the relationship between sister and brother — Nadine
(Hailee Steinfeld — True Grit, Ender’s Game, Pitch Perfect 2, etc.) and her brother
Darian (Blake Jenner — Everybody Wants Some!!) — is both
laugh-out-loud funny and touching at the same time. Why it didn’t find a larger audience that
first weekend remains something of a mystery.
With that said, the weekly box office results since the
disastrous opening weekend seem to suggest that there is some “word of mouth”
buzz finally starting to attract a steady flow of theatre goers — that will,
sadly, abruptly come to an end when Rogue One: A Star Wars Story opens …
along with the rest of the Christmas films (screens will disappear). That’s likely the reason that Universal has
tabbed Feb. 14 as the release date at this point in time.
Hailee Steinfeld is nothing short of sensational as the
angst-driven teen in this comedy that blends the best of the John Hughes’s
1980’s teen comedies — Sixteen Candles, The Breakfast Club,
etc. — with more contemporary tones (think: Easy A).
Perhaps it was the way the trailer was cut,
with extended scenes (very funny to be sure) with her and Woody Harrelson, that
made the film seem like a dumb-kid comedy, but there’s a whole lot more going
on here and that makes The Edge of Seventeen well worth a
look when it arrives in the home entertainment market place on Valentine’s Day.
Bonus features a gag reel and a round table video session.
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