Blu-Ray and DVD Releases for May 25, 2010

Dear John

Genre: Drama

MPAA Rating: PG-13

Studio: Screen Gems (Sony)

Director: Lasse Hallstrom

Screenwriter: Jamie Linden

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Movie Website: DearJohn-movie.com

Actors/Actresses: Channing Tatum, Amanda Seyfried, Henry Thomas, Richard Jenkins, Keith Robinson

Plot Summary: Directed by Lasse Halstrom and based on the novel by best-selling author Nicholas Sparks, “Dear John” tells story of John Tyree (Channing Tatum), a young soldier home on leave, and Savannah Curtis (Amanda Seyfried), the idealistic college student he falls in love with during her spring vacation. Over the next seven tumultuous years, the couple is separated by John’s increasingly dangerous deployments. While meeting only sporadically, they stay in touch by sending a continuous stream of love letters overseas–correspondence that eventually triggers fateful consequences.

The Road

Genre: Thriller

MPAA Rating: R

Studio: The Weinstein Company

Director: John Hillcoat

Screenwriter: Joe Penhall, Nick Wechsler

Movie Website: TheRoad-movie.com

Actors/Actresses: Viggo Mortensen, Charlize Theron, Robert Duvall, Kodi Smit-McPhee, Guy Pearce

Plot Summary: Based on Cormac McCarthy’s beloved, best-selling and Pulitzer Prize winning novel, Academy Award nominee Viggo Mortensen leads an all star cast in the big screen adaptation of “The Road” – the epic post apocalyptic tale of a journey taken by a father (Viggo Mortensen) and his young son (newcomer Kodi Smit-McPhee) across a barren landscape that was blasted by an unnamed cataclysm that destroyed civilization and most life on earth.