Blu-ray & DVD Release Date: Feb. 19, 2013
Price: DVD $24.95, Blu-ray $29.95
Studio: Olive Films
Sandy Dennis (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) stars as a wealthy and mentally disturbed spinster who goes to extraordinary lengths to assuage her loneliness in the 1969 drama That Cold Day In The Park, a seldom-screened film directed by Robert Altman (3 Women) that is now seeing its first-ever release on DVD and Blu-ray.
On a cold, rainy Vancouver day, Frances (Dennis) encounters a shivering blond youth (Michael Burns) sitting alone on a park bench. She offers him food and shelter and the apparently mute teenager accepts. Every night she locks his bedroom door, but the boy goes in and out of his room through the fire escape window, returning early next morning without her knowledge. Frances eventually attempts to seduce him and the boy soon learns who’s in control of their relationship and how far she’ll go to keep it that way.
Written by Gillian Freeman from the 1965 novel by Richard Miles, and featuring music by Johnny Mandel (who wrote “Suicide is Painless,” the theme for Altman’s M*A*S*H), That Cold Day In The Park co-stars Susanne Benton, John Garfield, Jr., Michael Murphy and Luana Anders.
Shot in glorious widescreen by legendary cinematographer Laszlo Kovacs (Easy Rider), the R-rated film is remastered in HD for its digital debut.
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