MVD Entertainment Group Selects Feb. 11 For The Blu-ray Release Of A New 2K Restoration Of Director Fred Wolf's The Point

Word arrived this past week that MVD Entertainment Group has a new 2K film restoration of director Fred Wolf’s 1971 animated classic, The Point, featuring the music of Harry Nilsson (who also co-wrote and produced) — with narration by Ringo Starr — ready for a Blu-ray release under the company’s popular “Rewind Collection” promotional banner.   

The street date set for this “Rewind Collection” special edition Blu-ray presentation of The Point will be Feb. 11.

In a mythical land, without a name, everyone who lives there has a pointy-head, except a little boy by the name of Oblio (voiced by Mike Lookinland … best known as Bobby Brady of The Brady Bunch), who was born with a round head.  This puts everyone on edge, which mutates into a frenzy of contempt when Oblio beats the Count’s son (voiced by Buddy Foster — as Mike in the Mayberry R.F.D. television series) in a game of toss (with triangles of course).   As a result of this transgression, Oblio is banished to the Pointless Forest — with his dog Arrow.

Thus begins a journey of discovery, where Oblio learns that there is a “point” to his and everyone else’s existence.

Bonus features for the release of The Point on Blu-ray include a newly prepared video session with Mike Lookinland (titled, “The Kid’s Got a Point”), a second with screenwriter Norm Lenzer (titled, “That Old Guy Wrote the Point”) and a third featuring Kiefo Nilsson and Bobby Halvorson (titled, “Everybody’s Got a Point”) and a quartet of featurettes — “Who is Harry Nilsson?,” “Pitching The Point,” “Making The Point” and “Legacy of The Point.”