Product Description: A dark-hearted neonoir comes to a boil under the bright Los Angeles sun, in British director Stephen Frears’s rousing adaptation of the novel by dime-store bard Jim Thompson, a film that raises pulp to the realm of existential tragedy. A possessive mother (Anjelica Huston), her cynical son (John Cusack), and his scheming, seductive girlfriend (Annette Bening) are career swindlers circling one another in an elaborate emotional confidence game that grows increasingly perverse as love and trust turn to betrayal and Oedipal undercurrents rise to the surface. In Frears’s first Hollywood film, the ever-assured director and his trifecta of magnetic actors conjure a moody, unstuck-in-time vision of toxic Americana.
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JUMP BACK TO TOPDirector: Stephen Frears
Starring: Anjelica Huston, John Cusack, Annette Bening
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Runtime: 110 min
Rating: R
Language: English
Studio: Criterion
Home Video Release Date: January 21, 2025
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- Codec: MPEG-4 AVC
- Resolution: 1080p
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- Region: Region A/1
4K Ultra HD
- Codec: HEVC / H.265
- Resolution: Native 4K (2160p)
- Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
- HDR: Dolby Vision, HDR10
- Region: Region A/1
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- Blu-ray: None
- 4K Ultra HD: None
Audio Formats:
- Blu-ray: DTS-HD Master Audio 2.0
- 4K Ultra HD: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1
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JUMP BACK TO TOPBlu-ray: English SDH
4K Ultra HD: English SDH
SPECIAL FEATURES & EXTRAS
JUMP BACK TO TOP- New 4K digital restoration, approved by director of photography Oliver Stapleton, with 2.0 surround DTS-HD Master Audio soundtrack
- Audio commentary featuring director Stephen Frears, actors John Cusack and Anjelica Huston, and screenwriter Donald E. Westlake
- New interview with actor Annette Bening
- Short making-of documentary featuring Cusack, Frears, Huston, Westlake, and production designer Dennis Gassner
- Seduction, Betrayal, Murder: The Making of “The Grifters,” featuring interviews with Frears, Stapleton, editor Mick Audsley, executive producer Barbara De Fina, and coproducer Peggy Rajski
- The Jim Thompson Story, featuring Westlake and Robert Polito, biographer of The Grifters novelist Jim Thompson
- Trailer
- English subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing
- PLUS: An essay by critic Geoffrey O’Brien
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