Olive Films' April 2018 Releases: "JOE", "HOPE AND GLORY", "MERMAIDS" on Blu-ray and DVD

Olive Films' April 2018 Releases: "JOE", "HOPE AND GLORY", "MERMAIDS" on Blu-ray and DVD

JOE                  DVD    
CAT:                 OF1409
UPC:       887090140911
SRP:                 $24.95

JOE                  BD      
CAT:                 OF1410
UPC:       887090141017
SRP:                 $29.95
FIRST TIME ON
BLU-RAY!

US+CANADA
PREBOOK:        3/27/18
STREET:           4/24/18

PETER BOYLE
(Taxi Driver, Young Frankenstein, TV’s Everybody Loves Raymond)
SUSAN SARANDON
(Dead Man Walking, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Atlantic City)
DENNIS PATRICK
(Chances Are, The Air Up There, TV’s Dark Shadows)
AUDREY CAIRE
(They Saved Hitler’s Brain, The Madmen of Mandoras)
K CALLAN
(American Gigolo, A Touch of Class, The Onion Field)

Directed by
JOHN G. AVILDSEN (Rocky, The Karate Kid, Save the Tiger)

Joe, directed by Academy Award winner John G. Avildsen (Best Director, Rocky – 1977) and written by Academy Award nominee Norman Wexler (Best Screenplay, Joe – 1971, Serpico – 1974), would capture the nation’s zeitgeist.

YEAR: 1970
GENRE: DRAMA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 107 mins
RATING: R
VIDEO: 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; Color
AUDIO: MONO

“I’m the ‘Joe’ everbody’s talking about,” heralded movie print ads for director John G. Avildsen’s (Rocky) film Joe, proving that there’s truth in advertising. The modestly budgeted film would go on to become a multi-million-dollar box-office success, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.

Peter Boyle (TV’s Everybody Loves Raymond) stars as Joe Curran, the titular everyman and unabashed hippie-hater. Joe, who equates hippies with everything un-American, finds a kindred spirit in Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick, Chances Are), an advertising executive who makes Joe’s acquaintance at a neighborhood bar, boasting that he killed a drug-dealing hippie (Patrick McDermott, The French Connection). Bill, pressed for facts by the intrigued Joe, recants saying that he was merely joking. But when a news report confirms the incident, vigilante justice akin to Taxi Driver is set in motion.

Joe, directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Norman Wexler (Serpico) and featuring the screen debut of Susan Sarandon (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), also stars Audrey Caire (They Saved Hitler’s Brain), K Callan (American Gigolo) and K Callan (American Gigolo).

HOPE AND GLORY        DVD    
CAT:                 OF1407
UPC:       887090140713
SRP:                 $19.95

HOPE AND GLORY        BD      
CAT:                 OF1408
UPC:       887090140812
SRP:                 $29.95
HOPE AND GLORY
US+CANADA
PREBOOK:        3/27/18
STREET:           4/24/18

SARAH MILES
(Ryan’s Daughter, White Mischief, Blow-Up)
IAN BANNEN
(Braveheart, Gandhi, The Hill)
JEAN-MARC BARR
(The Big Blue, Breaking the Waves, Dogville)
SAMMI DAVIS
(Four Rooms, Mona Lisa, A Prayer for the Dying)
SEBASTIAN RICE-EDWARDS

Directed by
JOHN BOORMAN
(Deliverance, Excalibur, The Emerald Forest)

John Boorman, the writer, director and producer of Hope and Glory, would receive Academy Award® nominations – Best Director, Best Screenplay (written directly for the screen) and Best Picture - for his work on the film.

YEAR: 1987
GENRE: COMEDY DRAMA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME: 113 mins
RATING: PG-13
VIDEO: 1.66:1 Aspect Ratio; Color
AUDIO: STEREO

Hope and Glory, John Boorman’s (Deliverance) autobiographical film is a nostalgic and gently comic remembrance of England during the turbulent Blitz as seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice-Edwards). While the beauty of the aircrafts and tanks holds endless wonders for the young boy, others know all too well the destruction they bring.

Navigating difficult times are mother Grace (Sarah Miles, Academy Award® nominee for Best Actress - Ryan’s Daughter, 1971), who finds herself head of the household when her husband is drafted; Billy’s sister, Dawn (Sammi Davis, Mona Lisa), whose romance and pregnancy with the dashing Canadian airman Corporal Carrey (Jean-Marc Barr, The Big Blue) is yet another challenge for the stoic Grace; and George (Ian Bannen, Gandhi), Billy’s curmudgeonly grandfather whose idyllic country home will open Billy’s eyes to a whole new world.

Written, directed and produced by Academy Award® nominee John Boorman (Director and Best Picture - Deliverance, 1973; Director, Screenplay and Best Picture – Hope and Glory, 1988), Hope and Glory is photographed by Academy Award® winner Philippe Rousselot (A River Runs Through It - 1993), costumed by two-time Academy Award® nominee Shirley Russell (Agatha – 1980, Reds – 1982) with production design by two-time Academy Award® nominee Anthony Pratt (Hope and Glory – 1988 shared with Joanne Woollard, Phantom of the Opera – 2005 shared with Celia Bobak).

MERMAIDS       DVD    
CAT:                 OF1411
UPC:       887090141116
SRP:                 $14.95

MERMAIDS       BD      
CAT:                 OF1412
UPC:       887090141215
SRP:                 $29.95

FIRST TIME ON
BLU-RAY!

US+CANADA
PREBOOK:        3/27/18
STREET:           4/24/18

CHER
(Moonstruck, Silkwood, Mask)
WINONA RYDER
(Heathers, Beetlejuice, Stranger Things)
CHRISTINA RICCI
(The Addams Family, The Ice Storm, Black Snake Moan)
BOB HOSKINS
(Mona Lisa, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, The Long Good Friday)
MICHAEL SCHOEFFLING
(Sixteen Candles, Vision Quest, Wild Hearts Can’t Be Broken)

Directed by
RICHARD BENJAMIN (Racing with the Moon, My Favorite Year, The Money Pit)

The seriocomic Mermaids features inspired performances by Academy Award® winner Cher (Best Actress – Moonstruck, 1988) and Academy Award® nominees Winona Ryder (Best Supporting Actress – The Age of Innocence, 1994; Best Actress – Little Women, 1995) and Bob Hoskins (Best Actor – Mona Lisa, 1987).

YEAR: 1990
GENRE: COMEDY DRAMA
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH (with optional English subtitles)
LABEL: OLIVE FILMS
TOTAL RUNNING TIME:  110 mins
RATING: PG-13
VIDEO: 1.85:1 Aspect Ratio; Color
AUDIO: STEREO

Mermaids, directed by Richard Benjamin (My Favorite Year) and based on the novel by Patty Dann, features Academy Award® winner Cher (Actress - Moonstruck, 1988) as Rachel Flax, the eccentric matriarch of the Flax family that includes daughters Charlotte (Academy Award® nominee Winona Ryder, Supporting Actress - The Age of Innocence, 1994; Actress – Little Women, 1995), an awkward, quirky teen torn between her personal devotion to becoming a nun (despite being Jewish) and her longing for romance, and Kate (Christina Ricci, The Addams Family), a nine-year-old whose interest in swimming may be a result of an inherited gene from Rachel’s one-night stand with an Olympic contender.

This dramatic comedy also stars Academy Award® nominee Bob Hoskins (Actor – Mona Lisa, 1987) as Lou, Rachel’s latest flame, and Michael Schoeffling (Sixteen Candles) as Joe, a convent handyman and Charlotte’s love interest.

Mermaids was scored by Academy Award® winner Jack Nitzsche (Music, Original Song – An Officer and a Gentleman, 1983), photographed by Howard Atherton (Fatal Attraction), costumed by Academy Award® nominee Marit Allen (Costume Design – La Vie en Rose, 2008) with production design by Academy Award® nominee Stuart Wurtzel (Art Direction-Set Decoration – Hannah and Her Sisters, 1987).