Adventureland [Blu-ray]
Disney/Buena Vista / 2009 / 107 Minutes / Rated R
Street Date: August 25, 2009
Genres: Comedy, teenage drama.
Starring: Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Ryan Reynolds
Directors: Greg Mottola
Plot Synopsis: A sweet and slap-happy mix of indie coming-of-age drama and Judd Apatow’s scatological but heartfelt manchild comedies, Greg Mottola’s Adventureland is a winning look at the pleasures and frustrations of dead-end jobs and teenage kicks as viewed through a filter of mid-‘80s pop culture. The underutilized and always watchable Jesse Eisenberg (The Squid and the Whale) is a sheltered, introspective New York college grad who discovers that his parents’ financial woes will not only quash his dream of a summer in Europe (to enjoy its more “sexually permissive” nations) but require a move to Pittsburgh, where he lands a job at a dilapidated amusement park. There, he’s thrown in with a motley crew of eccentrics, small-town types and a few genuine free spirits, most notably co-worker Em (Kristen Stewart), whose complicated past proves irresistible to his repressed psyche. Mottola, who directed Superbad and episodes of the well-loved Freaks and Geeks, and who once worked in a similar park as a teen, doesn’t shy from the crude laughs that make Apatow’s features so popular, but he tempers it with a wistful tone and layered characters that hew closer to his earliest work, The Daytrippers. Though ill-matched at first, Eisenberg and Stewart make a likable on-screen couple, and they’re well-supported by a terrific cast that includes such die-hard scene-stealers as Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig as the park’s offbeat owners, Martin Starr as a Russian lit aficionado, and Ryan Reynolds as a former town tamer, now reduced to working as the park’s handyman. A soundtrack performed by underground faves Yo La Tengo and filled with a smart mix of hip cuts (Hüsker Dü, the New York Dolls, the Replacements) and period faves (Falco’s “Rock Me Amadeus”) underscores the film’s blend of tentative emotions and broad laughs.
Disc Features:
-Commentary with writer/director Greg Mottola and Jesse Eisenberg
-Deleted scenes with optional commentary
-Just My Life: The Making of Adventureland
-Soundtrack Selection
HD Exclusive Content:
-Lisa P's Guide to Style (BD exclusive)
-Welcome to Adventureland: Commercials, Orientation Training Video Extended Cut, Drug Policy (BD exclusive)
-Frigo's Ball Taps: A satiric "how to" on inflicting unexpected groin pain (BD exclusive)
-Song selection (BD exclusive)
-Digital copy (BD exclusive)
Smallville: The Complete Eighth Season [Blu-ray]
Warner Brothers / 2008 / Unrated
Street Date: August 25, 2009
Genres: Fantasy, Drama, Television
Starring: Tom Welling
Lie To Me: Season One [Blu-ray]
Fox Home Entertainment / 2008 / 605 Minutes / Unrated
Street Date: August 25, 2009
Genres: Drama, Television
Starring: Tim Roth
Plot Synopsis: Tim Roth stars as Dr. Cal Lightman, a compelling new drama from the producers of 24, about the world's leading deception expert who studies facial expressions and involuntary body language to expose the truth behind the lies.
Disc Features:
- The Truth about Lies
- The Science of Lies
- Mett 101: Micro Expression Training Tool
- The Lightman Group Lie Detection Tests
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