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Dive Beneath The Surface
Certificate: R
Running Time: 111 mins
Retail Price: $29.99
Release Date:
Content Type: Movie
Synopsis:
After the disappearance of his estranged wife (Blanchett), Quoyle`s (Spacey) fortunes begin to change when his long lost aunt (Dench) convinces him and his daughter to move to their ancestral home in Newfoundland. There, a place where life is as rough as the weather and secrets are as vast as the ocean, Quoyle lands a job as a reporter for the local paper. Now, a past is emerging, a mystery is unfolding and life is awakening...
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel by E. Annie Proulx.
Special Features:
Audio commentary from director Lasse Hallstrom
`Dive Beneath The Surface` featurette
Stills gallery
Behind the scenes footage
Video Tracks:
Widescreen Anamorphic 2.35:1
Audio Tracks:
Dolby Digital 5.1 English
Dolby Digital Stereo 2.0 French
Subtitle Tracks:
Spanish
Directed By:
Lasse Hallström
Written By:
Robert Nelson Jacobs
E. Annie Proulx
Starring:
Rhys Ifans
Scott Glenn
Pete Postlethwaite
Cate Blanchett
Judi Dench
Julianne Moore
Kevin Spacey
Distributor:
Buena Vista
Your Opinions and Comments
Dench and Spacey give good performances and somehow manage to carry the movie through its 111 minutes.
The video transfer is very good. The colors are nicely saturated and the picture is compression-signs free.
The DD 5.1 soundtrack is good. While the surrounds are hardly used, the sound envelope is quite satisfying for this kind of a drama.
The menus are animated with sound.
The extras include a commentary, a behind the scenes featurette and a picture gallery.
Bottom line - a harmless drama about life of an average Joe in a small fishing village. Nothing spectacular, but still - worth at least a single view.