Catalog - The City Library

Format:

DVD, Videorecording, Projected Medium, Visual Materials

Title:

The safety of objects [videorecording] / Renaissance Films and Vulcan Productions present an Infilm/Killer Films production ; producers, Dorothy Berwin, Christine Vachon ; written & directed by Rose Troche.

Publisher, Date:

[United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, [2003], c2001.

Description:

1 videodisc (120 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary:

Once an up-and-coming singer/songwriter, Paul Gold now lies in a coma. He is attentively nursed by his mother Esther, who dotes on her son to the point that her husband and daughter, Julie, feel very left out. Meanwhile, Jim Train is a workaholic lawyer who is closer to his tortes than to his spouse Susan. Their son Jake has taken a morbid fascination with his sister's baby doll. At the same time, Paul's former lover Annette Jennings is trying to pull her life and her family back together after a particularly brutal divorce.

Target Audience Note:

MPAA rating: R; for sexual content and language.

Subjects:

Mother and child -- Drama.

Father and child -- Drama.

Man-woman relationships -- Drama.

Madre e hijos -- Teatro.

Feature films.

Video recordings for the hearing impaired.

Other Author:

Berwin, Dorothy.

Vachon, Christine.

Troche, Rose.

Close, Glenn, 1947-

Mulroney, Dermot.

Campbell, Jessica, 1982-

Clarkson, Patricia.

Jackson, Joshua, 1978-

Kelly, Moira.

Kline, Robert.

Olyphant, Timothy.

Place, Mary Kay.

Chediak, Enrique.

Peroni, Geraldine.

Shannon, Laura Jean.

Stanley, Andrea.

Homes, A. M.

Emboznik (Musical group)

Renaissance Films (Firm)

Vulcan Productions (Firm)

Infilm (Firm)

Killer Films.

MGM Home Entertainment Inc.

Notes:

Originally released as a motion picture in 2001.

Based on the book of stories by A.M. Homes.

Director of photography, Enrique Chediak ; editor, Geraldine Peroni ; original music score, Emboznik ; costume designer, Laura Jean Shannon ; production designer, Andrea Stanley.

Glenn Close, Dermot Mulroney, Jessica Campbell, Patricia Clarkson, Joshua Jackson, Moira Kelly, Robert Kline, Timothy Olyphant, Mary Kay Place.

DVD, Region 1, widescreen presentation (2.35:1); Dolby Digital.

English dialogue, Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Contents:

Special features: Widescreen enhanced for widescreen TVs -- Original theatrical trailer -- Language: English stero surround -- Subtitles: English, Spanish.

ISBN:

0792858727

9780792858720

Publisher Number:

1005331

Other Number:

52891993

System Availability:

1

Current Holds:

0

# Local items:

1

Control Number:

499106

# Local items in:

1

# System items in:

1

Call Number:

DVD MOVIE Safety o

Medium:

[videorecording]