DVD Release: End of the Road

Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Sept. 18, 2012
Price: DVD $19.97
Studio: Warner

James Earl Jones (l.) looks into Stacy Keach's condition in End of the Road.

A cinematic counter-culture milestone, the 1970 comedy-drama cult film End of the Road resonated with members and fans of the counter-culture movement and was viewed as controversial and even shocking at the time of its release.

The film focuses on Jacob Horner (Stacy Keach, The Long Riders), a recent graduate of Ivy-league university. Graduation doesn’t appear to have set Jacob along on any specific path, as we first see him waiting on the platform of a New England train station in a catatonic state. Standing there for days without moving like a human sculpture, he’s an art installation of sort representing broken promise. Doctor D (James Earl Jones, Cry, The Beloved Country) soon discovers him and takes him back to “the farm of psychic remobilization.” After being ‘cured,’ Horner takes a job as an English lecturer at a nearby college and begins an affair with Rennie (Dorothy Tristan, Klute), the wife of a colleague (Harris Yulin, Scarface). It’s an affair that doesn’t end well…

Based on the novel by John Barth and directed by innovative filmmaker Aram Avakian (Jazz on a Summer’s Day) and co-written by Avakian, Dennis McGuire (Shoot It Black, Shoot It Blue) and Terry Southern ( Barbarella), the R-rated End of the Road was and is considered a groundbreaking art house film with strong anti-establishment sensibilities.

The debuting DVD contains a short documentary produced and directed by Steven Soderbergh (Haywire)  which tells the story of how the film was made and the legacy it’s garnered over the past four decades.

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