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Life During Wartime

Criterion  /  Year: 2009

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ISBN: 6314286409

Catalog #: DV3233942

Languages: English Dolby Digital Surround (Primary)

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From the liner notes

In Life During Wartime, independent filmmaker Todd Solondz explores contemporary American existence and the nature of forgiveness with his customary dry humor and queasy precision. The film functions as a distorted mirror image of Solondz's acclaimed 1998 dark comedy Happiness, its emotionally stunted characters now groping for the possibility of change in a post–9/11 world. Happiness's grim New Jersey setting is transposed to sunny Florida, but the biggest twist is that new actors fill the roles originated in the earlier film—including Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, and Ally Sheedy as alarmingly dissimilar sisters, and Ciarán Hinds hauntingly embodying a reformed pedophile. Shot in expressionistic tones by cinematographer extraordinaire Edward Lachman, Solondz's film finds the humor in the tragic and the tragic in the everyday.

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DVD : $26.99  (Criterion Collection)

  • Availability:  Usually ships in
    5-10 days
  • Close Caption:  No
  • Region Code:  1
  • UPC: 715515084512
  • ISBN: 6314286409
  • Catalog #: DV3233942

    • Studio :  Criterion

  • Languages:  English Dolby Digital Surround (Primary)
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.78
  • Features:
  • Featurette: Ask Todd, an audio Q&A with director Todd Solondz
  • Documentaries: Making Life During Wartime
  • Featurette: New video piece in which Lachman discusses his work on the film
  • Booklet: Featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt
  • Original theatrical trailer
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Blu-ray : $35.99  (Criterion Blu-ray)

  • Availability:  Usually ships in
    5-10 days
  • Close Caption:  No
  • Region Code:  1
  • UPC: 715515084413
  • ISBN: 6314286360
  • Catalog #: DB3233943

    • Studio :  Criterion

  • Languages:  English DTS-HD 5.1 (Primary)
  • Aspect Ratio: Widescreen, 1.78
  • Features:
  • Featurette: Ask Todd, an audio Q&A with director Todd Solondz
  • Documentaries: Making Life During Wartime
  • Featurette: New video piece in which Lachman discusses his work on the film
  • Booklet: Featuring an essay by film critic David Sterritt
  • Original theatrical trailer
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Rating: R

Cast:  Allison Janney, Shirley Henderson, Ciarán Hinds, Michael Lerner, Michael Kenneth Williams, Ally Sheedy, Paul Reubens, Gaby Hoffmann, Renée Taylor, Emma Hinz, Rich Pecci, Carmen Marie Colon Mejia, Fernando Samalot, Meng Ai, Chris Marquette, Brian Tester

Director:  Todd Solondz

Screenwriter:  Todd Solondz

Cinematographer:  Edward Lachman

Country:  US

Length: 1 hr 37 min

Year: 2009

Studio :  Criterion