Roadshow - September 2009 Releases

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FLASH OF GENIUS

STUDIO:                 Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:      24 August 2009
DIRECTOR:             Marc Abraham
STARRING:             Greg Kinnear, Lauren Graham, Alan Alda
CATEGORY:           Drama
RATING:                PG Contains coarse language
RRP DVD:              $29.99


They Had The Power. He Had The Truth.

Throughout history, inventors without the resources to protect their patents have been shoved aside. Take Antonio Meucci: (telephone) and. Jacob Davis (blue jeans). These men had their inventions patented by others with names now much more familiar: Alexander Graham Bell and Levi Strauss. This is the incredible true story of a modern day inventor who suffered the same fate - but this man was not going away without putting up the fight of his life.

Robert Kearns was a college professor who invented a device that would eventually be used by every car in the world. He and his family believed they had struck gold and took the invention to the automobile industry. However, their dreams were ruined when the auto giants who embraced the creation, stole his invention and shunned him. But this was a man determined to receive proper recognition and, in a case that made headlines, Kearns took on the corporate titans in a battle nobody thought he could win.

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PRIDE & GLORY

STUDIO:                 Roadshow
RELEASE DATE:      20 August 2009
DIRECTOR:             Gavin O’Connor
STARRING:             Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, Jon Voight
CATEGORY:            Action
RATING:                 R16 Contains violence, offensive language and drug use
RRP DVD:               $29.99
RRP BR:              $49.99

Truth. Honour. Loyalty. Family. What Are You Willing To Sacrifice?

A saga centred on a multi-generational family of New York City Police officers. The family's moral codes are tested when Ray Tierney, investigates a case that reveals an incendiary police corruption scandal involving his own brother-in-law. For Ray, the truth is revelatory, a Pandora's Box that threatens to upend not only the Tierney legacy but the entire NYPD.

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MAN MADE MARVELS

STUDIO:                 TVNZ
RELEASE DATE:      3 August 2009
STARRING:             Anton Rodgers
CATEGORY:            Television
RRP DVD:               $29.99

Produced for Discovery Channel by NHNZ, the Man Made Marvels is a well recognised branded series with a worldwide following – now available on DVD for the very first time.

Man Made Marvels: Buildings by Design takes you on a journey through four revolutionary constructions. Meet the designers with the vision, the inspiration and the daring to take architectural dreams to new design heights. To construct the world’s tallest building they outsmarted nature; they took century’s old design and created cutting edge style. They took entertainment spaces to unrivalled extravagance, and designed not a building but an entire city – from scratch.

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PETER COOK & DUDLEY MOORE: THE BEST OF... WHAT’S LEFT OF... NOT ONLY... BUT ALSO...

RELEASE DATE:      13 August 2009
STARRING:             Peter Cook, Dudley Moore
CATEGORY:            Television
RRP DVD:               $29.99

Classic British Comedy.

For the first time on DVD, BBC brings us this hysterical piece of TV history.

In the late ‘60s, Peter Cook (Bedazzled, Black Beauty) and Dudley Moore (Arthur, Santa Claus) changed the face of British comedy forever with their classic television series Not Only… But Also.

Broadcast in 1965-66 and 1970, this ground-breaking series, renowned for Cook and Moore’s impromptu speeches, half-written scripts and witty ad-libs, paved the way for future iconic Britcoms including Monty Python’s Flying Circus, Benny Hill and Little Britain. Unfortunately, more than half of the series was erased in the ‘70s, but in 1990, the BBC delved into the archives and restored what remained from the original broadcasts to create six new 30-minute episodes entitled The Best of… What’s Left of… Not Only… But Also...

A must own DVD for comedy fans, this title features approximately three hours of clever and hilarious content and also boasts memorable guest appearances including John Lennon. Bonus features include a 30-minute featurette on the success story of Cook and Moore.

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KANYINI

STUDIO:                  Hopscotch
RELEASE DATE:      20 August 2009
CATEGORY:            Documentary
RRP DVD:               $29.99

KANYINI is a story told by an Aboriginal man, Bob Randall, who lives beside the greatest monolith in the world, Uluru in Central Australia.

Based on Bob's own personal journey and the wisdom he learnt from the old people living in the bush, Bob tells the tale of why Indigenous people are now struggling in a modern world and what needs to be done for Indigenous people to move forward. A tale of Indigenous wisdom clashing against materialist notions of progress, this is not only a story of one man and his people but the story of the human race.

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Published 1st Oct 2009

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