DVD Release: Tyrannosaur

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DVD Release Date: April 3, 2012
Price: DVD $27.99
Studio: Strand Releasing

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Peter Mullan means business in Tyrannosaur

The 2011 Irish film drama Tyrannosaur follows the story of two lonely, damaged people brought together by circumstance.

Tyrannosaur zeroes in on Joseph (Peter Mullan, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1), an unemployed widower, drinker, and a man crippled by his own volatile temperament and furious anger, and Hannah (Olivia Colman, The Iron Lady) a Christian worker at a charity shop who appears to be wholesome and happy. When the pair is brought together, Hannah appears as Joseph’s potential savior, someone who can temper his fury and offer him warmth, kindness and acceptance. Within time, though, Hannah’s own secrets are revealed, led by her relationship with her violent and abusive husband James (Eddie Marsan, London Boulevard). As events begin to spiral out of control, Joseph becomes her source of succor and comfort.

The unrated movie marks the feature film writing and directing debut of actor Paddy Considine of Submarine and The Bourne Ultimatum fame.

Following screenings at the Sundance Film Festival and New York’s New Directors/New Films gathering, as well as international fests in such cities as Helsinki, Toronto, Tokyo, Stockholm and Rio de Janeiro, Tyrannosaur enjoyed a limited run in U.S. theaters in November, 2011, where it received many positive notices from the critics.

Bonus features on the DVD include the following:

  • Commentary by writer/director Paddy Considine and producer Diarmid Scrimshaw
  • Paddy Considine’s 2007 short Dog Altogether, the film that inspired Tyrannosaur
  • Deleted scene
  • Original theatrical trailer

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Founder and editor Laurence Lerman saw Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest when he was 13 years old and that’s all it took. He has been writing about film and video for more than a quarter of a century for magazines, anthologies, websites and most recently, Video Business magazine, where he served as the Reviews Editor for 15 years.