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Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix Mark Ruffalo and Academy Award® winners Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino deliver riveting performances in the gripping thriller Reservation Road. A powerful human story of anger revenge and great courage this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night. "Suspenseful emotional and completely engrossing" (Pete Hammond Maxim) Reservation Road is "a deft satisfying thriller" (Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly).System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Gen
Academy Award® nominee Joaquin Phoenix Mark Ruffalo and Academy Award® winners Jennifer Connelly and Mira Sorvino deliver riveting performances in the gripping thriller Reservation Road. A powerful human story of anger revenge and great courage this film takes you on an intense journey that follows two fathers as their families and lives converge after the events of one fateful night. "Suspenseful emotional and completely engrossing" (Pete Hammond Maxim) Reservation Road is "a deft satisfying thriller" (Lisa Schwarzbaum Entertainment Weekly).System Requirements:Running Time: 103 minutesFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA/PSYCHOLOGICAL DRAMA Rating: R UPC: 025193344823 Manufacturer No: 62033448
After grappling with civil war in Some Mother's Son and Hotel Rwanda, Terry George turns to the tranquility of the American suburbs. Based on the novel by John Burnham Schwartz, Reservation Road marks a smooth transition into seemingly alien territory. The Northern Irish director first introduces Connecticut professor Ethan (Joaquin Phoenix) and attorney Dwight (Mark Ruffalo). One night, they end up on the same road; Ethan is returning with his wife (Jennifer Connelly) and kids from a school recital, Dwight and his son are heading home after a baseball game. In an instant, Ethan's boy is killed in a hit-and-run accident. Dwight knows what he's done, but doesn't say a word, as he doesn't want to lose custody of his child. Impatient for justice, Ethan becomes convinced the authorities will never solve the case, so he tries to track down the killer himself. Coincidence builds on coincidence--Dwight's ex-wife (Mira Sorvino) teaches Ethan's daughter (Elle Fanning), and Ethan hires Dwight as his lawyer. Just as the attorney-client relationship forces the two men to work together, the script asks the same of these gifted actors. Fortunately, Phoenix and Ruffalo rise to the occasion. That said, movies about grieving parents can be a tough sell. It remains to be seen whether Reservation Road will benefit from the success of In the Bedroom and Mystic River--or suffer from the onslaught of cinematic grief. At the very least, it allows more light in at the end of its dark journey into the soul. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
Stills from Reservation Road (click for larger image).
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Manufacturer: Universal Studios
Release date: 8 April 2008
Number of discs: 1
EAN: 0025193344823 UPC: 025193344823
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