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SPHE Press Release: Sleuth (DVD/Blu-ray)
Academy Award® Winner Michael Caine and
Academy Award® Nominee Jude Law
Star in
SLEUTH
Directed by Academy Award® Nominee Kenneth Branagh
Debuts on DVD and Blu-ray High-Def ™ on March 11, 2008
Culver City, CA (January 14, 2008) Academy Award® winner Michael Caine (2000, Best Supporting Actor, The Cider House Rules; 1987, Best Supporting Actor, Hannah and Her Sisters) and Academy Award® nominee Jude Law (2000, Best Supporting Actor, The Talented Mr. Ripley; 2004 Best Actor, Cold Mountain; Closer) go head-to-head in the mystery-thriller Sleuth, arriving on DVD Blu-ray High-Def ™ on March 11 from Sony Pictures Home Entertainment. This Sony Pictures Classics Film features a screenplay by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, adapted from the Tony Award winning play by Anthony Shaffer, and is directed by Academy Award® nominee Kenneth Branagh (1990, Best Actor in a Leading Role, Best Director, Henry V; 1997, Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium, Hamlet). Sleuth will be available for an SLP of $38.95 for Blu-ray High-Def ™ and $26.96 for DVD.
Sleuth was originally filmed in 1972 with Michael Caine as the young Milo Tindal and veteran actor Sir Laurence Olivier (Marathon Man) as aging novelist Andrew Wyke. When Wyke discovers that Tindal is having an affair with his wife, he invites him to his country estate where they engage in a increasingly dangerous game of cat and mouse. With a completely re-imagined script by Harold Pinter, Jude Law convinced Caine to take on the role of Wyke in this version, with Law as the younger man. With the cast and screenplay in place, acclaimed filmmaker Kenneth Branagh was brought on to direct.
Jeffrey Lyons on Reel Talk described the result of this collaboration as “a tense, intelligent, superbly performed tour de force by two great actors from two generations,” while Rex Reed in the New York Observer called Sleuth “wickedly entertaining.” Peter Fischer in Dark Horizons summed the film up as “a stylish, hypnotic and flawlessly acted masterpiece.”
Synopsis
Oscar® nominee Jude Law (2000, Best Supporting Actor, The Talented Mr. Ripley; 2004 Best Actor, Cold Mountain) and two-time Oscar®-winner Michael Caine (1987, Best Supporting Actor, Hannah and Her Sisters; 2000 Best Supporting Actor, The Cider House Rules) join forces in this sharp-witted, modern adaptation of the 1972 classic, Sleuth.
Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly dual of wits, Andrew Wyke (Caine) and Milo Tindle (Law) come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke’s wife: the woman both are sleeping with. But as wit becomes wicked and clever becomes cutthroat, Wyke and Tindle’s game of one-upmanship spirals out of control, in an escalating chess match than can have only one outcome: murder.
DVD BONUS FEATURES INCLUDE:
Commentaries with Jude Law, Michael Caine and Kenneth Branagh
“A Game of Cat and Mouse: Behind the Scenes of Sleuth”
“Inspector Black: Make-up Secrets Revealed:
Sleuth was directed by Kenneth Branagh and written by Harold Pinter. Adapted from the play by Anthony Shaffer. With Michael Caine and Jude Law.
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SLEUTH DVD
DVD Catalog #:
22522
DVD UPC Code:
0-43396-22522-0
DVD Order Date:
2/7/08
DVD SLP:
$29.96
Running Time
86 minutes
Rating
R for strong language
SLEUTH Blu-ray High-Def ™
Blu-ray Catalog #:
24452
Blu-ray UPC Code:
0-43396-24452-8
Blu-ray Order Date:
2/7/08
Blu-ray SLP:
$38.95
Running Time
86 minutes
Rating
R for strong language
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