By M&C News Jan 14, 2008, 15:45 GMT
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 11th 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 a suggested retail price 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 (2007) is now available for pre-order at Amazon. It is available for pre-order at AmazonUK. Visit the DVD database for more information.
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