Roadshow - August 2011 Releases

LINCOLN LAWYER

STUDIO:                  Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:       3 August 2011
DIRECTOR:              Brad Furman
STARRING:              Matthew McConaughey, Marisa Tomei
CATEGORY:             Thriller
RRP DVD:                $39.99
RRP BR:                  $39.99

Based on the bestselling book by Michael Connelly in the gripping thriller The Lincoln Lawyer, Matthew McConaughey stars as Michael “Mick” Hellier a slick, charismatic, Los Angeles criminal defence attorney who operates out of his Lincoln Continental sedan.

Having spent most of his career defending petty, gutter variety criminals , Mick unexpectedly lands the case of a lifetime, defending a rich Beverly Hills Playboy who is accused of attempted murder. However what initially appears to be a straight forward case, with a big money pay-off, swiftly develops into a deadly match between two masters of manipulation and a crisis of conscience for Hellier.

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THE WAY BACK

STUDIO:                  Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:       3 August 2011
DIRECTOR:              Peter Weir
STARRING:              Jim Sturgess, Ed Harris, Colin Farrell
CATEGORY:             Drama
RRP DVD:                $39.99
RRP BR:                  $39.99

Four-time Oscar nominee Ed Harris (Apollo 13), Jim Sturgess (Across the Universe), Oscar nominee Saoirse Ronan (Atonement) and Colin Farrell (In Bruges) star in this epic saga of survival from six-time Oscar-nominee Peter Weir (Witness, Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World).

Inspired by an incredible true story, The Way Back begins in 1940, when seven prisoners attempt the impossible: escape from a brutal Siberian gulag. Thus begins a treacherous 4,500-mile trek to freedom across the world's most merciless landscapes. They have little food and few supplies. They don't know or trust each other. But together, they must withstand nature at its most extreme. Their humanity is further tested when they meet a teenage runaway who begs to join them on their quest.

A compelling testament to the human spirit, this gripping wilderness adventure is "Peter Weir at his hypnotic best" (Telluride Film Festival).

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I LOVE YOU PHILLIP MORRIS

STUDIO:                  Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:       10 August 2011
DIRECTOR:              Glenn Ficarra and John Requa
STARRING:              Jim Carrey, Ewan McGregor, Leslie Mann
CATEGORY:             Comedy
RRP DVD:                $39.99

With alacrity and style, Glenn Ficarra and John Requa, the co-directors of "I Love You Phillip Morris", have fashioned an improbable, but true, tale of a spectacularly charismatic and resourceful con-man’s journey from small-town cop to flamboyant white-collar criminal.

Concocted by the absurdist sensibilities and warped minds that were behind the creation of Bad Santa and centred around an eccentrically wonderful performance by Jim Carrey, the film relates a story that is truly stranger than fiction and showcases a love story that will not be denied.

When a local Texas policeman, Steve Russell (Jim Carrey), turns to cons and fraud to allow him to change his lifestyle (in more ways than one), his subsequent stay in the state penitentiary results in his meeting the love of his life, a sensitive fellow inmate named Phillip Morris, perfectly portrayed by Ewan McGregor. What ensues can only be described as a relentless quest as Russell attempts escape after escape and executes con after con, all in the name of love. This is the world of the preposterous: it plays like a farce but is vastly entertaining because it turns all that we take for granted about life on its head. As a primer on the irresistible power of a man who is either insane or in love (is there a difference?), "I Love You Phillip Morris" surely serves to remind us of the resilience of the human spirit.

Based on a book by Houston Chronicle crime reporter Steve McVicker.

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FIRST LIFE WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH

RELEASE DATE:       17 August 2011
NARRATED BY:         David Attenborough
RRP DVD:                $29.99

During an illustrious career spanning more than 50 years and many global wildlife epics, Sir David Attenborough has become one of the world’s most respected authorities on life on Earth. Now he is embarking on a journey to look for the most elusive animals yet – the earliest creatures that lived on this planet. It is an epic story spanning millions of years, from the dawn of life in the “depths of Hell” to the very first feet on land.

In the last 20 years, stunning finds have transformed our understanding of the earliest life forms. Travelling across the globe, Attenborough meets the expert fossil hunters who have been uncovering this evidence, including the first set of eyes and teeth and the first predators and parasites. He sees some of the most remarkable fossils for himself, in the remote places where they have been preserved for hundreds of millions of years, from the fog-bound coasts of Newfoundland and the ice-capped Rockies, to the parched Australian Outback and the rugged deserts of Morocco.

From giant bracken-like fronds to five-eyed predators with corkscrew mouths, Attenborough reveals how they moved, fed and fought and reveals the evolutionary innovations that persist today in the blueprints of us all.

First Life transports the viewer back into time with groundbreaking CGI creature animation bringing these bizarre, primitive creatures and their world back to life for the first time in nearly 600 million years, in brilliant colour and detail.

As seen on Prime TV.

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RABBIT HOLE

STUDIO:                  Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:       3 August 2011
DIRECTOR:              John Cameron Mitchell
STARRING:              Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart
CATEGORY:             Drama
RRP DVD:                $39.99

Rabbit Hole is a vivid, hopeful and unexpectedly witty portrait of a family searching for what remains possible in the most impossible of situations.

Becca and Howard Corbett are returning to their everyday existence in the wake of a shocking , sudden loss. Just eight months ago they were a happy suburban family with everything they wanted. Now, they are caught in a maze of memory, longing, guilt, recrimination, sarcasm and tightly controlled rage from which they cannot escape.

The shifts come in abrupt, unforeseen moments. Beeca instantly opens up to her opinionated loving mother and secretly reaches out to the teenager involved in the accident that changed everything. While Howard lashes out and imagines solace with another woman. Yet, as off track as they are, the couple keeps trying to find their way back to a life that still holds the potential for beauty, laughter and happiness. The resulting journey is an intimate glimpse into two people learning to re-engage with each other and a world that has been tilted off its axis.


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Published 1st Sep 2011

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