Mill Creek Entertainment's Next "Retro VHS" Blu-ray Promotion Has Been Locked In For Oct. 19

They’re back!!  

Mill Creek Entertainment’s popular “Retro VHS” line of Blu-ray products returns on Oct. 19 with four new priced-to-collect selections.

First up is director Genevieve Robert’s 1988 comedy, Casual Sex?, starring Lea Thompson and Victoria Jackson.

In one of those weird Hollywood production stories, Ivan Reitman, who had just scored big-time with Ghostbusters and was thinking even bigger — like producing films — caught a performance of “Casual Sex” at The Groundlings Theater in the Los Angeles area and thought that the play might make an entertaining movie.  He approached the play’s authors, Wendy Goldman and Judy Toll, to write a screenplay based on their material.   Neither had written a movie script before, but they said sure and gave it a try.

Reitman would produce, he gave the directing chores to his wife, Geneviève Robert, it was the first time for her as well … and then he when out and recruited one of the hottest young actors at the time, Lea Thompson, who had done well with Back to the Future and Some Kind of Wonderful, she would be his Stacy.   He still needed the Melissa character and that would end up being Victoria Jackson, who had small parts in Baby Boom and The Pick-Up Artist … this would be a big move up for her and a long way from her late-night appearances on The Johnny Carson Show.

If you are looking for action, as opposed to a romantic comedy, then Mill Creek Entertainment has you covered on Oct. 19 with director Jack Sholder’s Renegades, teaming Lou Diamond Phillips with Kiefer Sutherland.

20-year-old Kiefer Sutherland registered well in Stand by Me as bad boy Ace Merrill and then his breakout came in The Lost Boys in 1987, followed by Young Guns in 1988.

His co-star, Lou Diamond Philips had just catapulted to stardom in 1987 with his portrayal of Ritchie Valens in La Bamba … and the chemistry was good with Sutherland in the ensemble piece, Young Guns, so they were teamed as miss-matched buddies here in Renegades.

Rounding out the “Retro VHS” Blu-ray selections from Mill Creek on Oct. 19 are Kull the Conqueror, starring Kevin Sorbo and Tia Carrere, and Splitting Heirs, featuring Rick Moranis, Eric Idle, John Cleese, Barbara Hershey and Catherine Zeta-Jones.