Blu-ray Release: Romeo is Bleeding

Blu-ray Release Date: June 14, 2016
Price: Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Twilight Time


Romeo Is Bleeding (1993), directed by Peter Medak (The Ruling Class) from a screenplay by Hilary Henkin (Wag the Dog), is a rough-and-tumble neo-noir thriller starring Gary Oldman (State of Grace) as a ruthless, ambitious hood who gets in over his head when he falls for the ultimate femme fatale (Lena Olin, TV’s Welcome to Sweden).

Gary Oldman and Lena Olin get dangerously involved with each other in Romeo is Bleeding

Gary Oldman and Lena Olin get dangerously involved with each other in Romeo is Bleeding

Also starring Roy Scheider (Sorcerer), Annabella Sciorra (What Dreams May Come), Will Patton (Brooklyn’s Finest) and Juliette Lewis (August: Osage County), the film is highlighted by an elegant Mark Isham (Warrior) score, available on this Twilight Time release as an isolated track.

As supplier Twilight Time prints up only 3,000 copies of each title, be sure to head over to the Twilight Time site or that of distributor Screen Archives on the prebook date of June 1 so you can put in your order!

About Laurence

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.