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Features: DVD, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Biographies, Film Highlights, Notes, Trailers, Pan and Scan (TV Format), Widescreen
Io,Jupiter's innermost moon, hosts mining colony Con-Am 27, a high-tech hellhole. There Marshal William T. O'Niel (Sean Connery) probes some mysterious deaths among the miners. In pursuit of the killers, he's alone.
In Outland, writer/director Peter Hyams (Timecop, 2010) depicts a chilling extension of today's corporation-driven world. Dehumanization is vividly evoked in the enviroments of production designer Phillip Harrison and special-effects wiard John Stears, Academy Award winner for his work on Thunderball and Star Wars. The spellbinding result is "a movie of unexpected pleasures" (Vincent Csnby, The New York Times).
Editor's Note
A federal marshal on an outer-space mining colony uncovers a hideous secret that threatens the sanity of miners working in the depths of an outer planet. Academy Award Nominations: Best Sound.
Plot Summary
Sometime in the future, an upstanding federal marshal arrives at a space colony located on one of Jupiter's moons. Alarmed by the strange and violent behavior of the miners who work for the colony's giant mining corporation, the marshal decides to investigate. When he discovers that the general manager of the corporation is supplying the workforce with a dangerous, mind-altering amphetamine, the lawman prepares to battle it out with the villainous manager in a "High Noon"-like showdown.
| Features | Region 1 | | Keep Case | | Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35 | | Full Frame - 1.33 | | Letterbox - 2.35 | | Audio:
| Dolby Digital 5.1 - English | | Dolby Digital Mono - Spanish | | Additional Release Material:
| Trailers: Theatrical Trailer | | Interactive Features:
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Release Information
|  | Studio: Warner |
| Release Date: 2/8/2005 |
| Running Time: 109 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1981 | | Catalog ID: 14982 | | UPC: 00085391498223 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, Spanish Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish | | Video: Color |
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"...A tight, intriguing old-fashioned drama that gives audiences a hero worth rooting for..." 05/20/1981New York Times
"...OUTLAND is what most people mean when they talk about good escapist entertainment..." 05/22/1981 p.C8 |
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