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Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 2.40:1, Dolby Digital (5.1), English, Subtitled, French, Dubbed & Subtitled
Aging screenwriter Felix Bonhoeffer has lived his life in two states of existence - the world of reality and the world inside his head. Hired to rewrite a murder mystery set in a desert diner and unaware that his brain is on the verge of implosion, Felix is politely baffled when the characters from his movie start showing up in his life and vice versa. Felix tries to maintain his equanimity as reality and fantasy collide in an increasingly whirling slipstream, while his memory banks fire off seemingly random references to songs and sci-fi movies from the Fifties.
"Taking a cue from David Lynch, Hopkins fractures the narrative from the first frame..." Carina Chocano, Los Angeles Times
"...an admirable endeavor. Hopkins assembles a formidable cast of character actors..." Noel Murray, The Onion A.V. Club
Editor's Note
IN THEATRES OCTOBER 26, 2007 (Limited)Anthony Hopkins takes the audience on a strange trip into Hollywood with SLIPSTREAM. In addition to his duties as director and composer, Hopkins (FRACTURE) plays a screenwriter in this surreal film that also stars John Turturro and Christian Slater.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound | | Interactive Menus | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, French |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Sony Pictures |
| Release Date: 8/26/2008 |
| Running Time: 96 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2007 | | Catalog ID: 22790 | | UPC: 00043396227903 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Available Subtitles: English, French | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | Anamorphic Widescreen 2.40:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Box Office
"Themes of mortality are clearly at work here, but so are celebrity, writing, acting and the art of filmmaking itself." 11/01/2007 p.115Chicago Sun-Times 8 of 10
Leave it to a 69-year-old actor to make the year's most experimental film. Anthony Hopkins' "Slipstream" is an attempt to represent what goes through the mind of a dying man, although you wouldn't guess that from its official plot summary on the Internet Movie Database, which thinks it's about a screenwriter "on the verge of implosion." So have I revealed a plot point? No, because it's clearly stated in the movie's first line of dialogue and repeated in the last...Now is "Slipstream" worth seeing? I think so, if you'll actively engage your sympathy with Hopkins' attempt to do something tricky and difficult. If you want to lie back and let the movie come to you, you may be lying there a long time...But I think Hopkins does an impressive job of creating the kind of dream-drug-reverie state people can go through. I trust you enough, dear reader, to tell you something I should keep private: During a period after my surgical emergency, when I was on what Mr. Limbaugh so usefully describes as prescription medications, I had dreams more real than my waking moments. Then the fog cleared, my health returned, the medication stopped, and I resumed writing brilliant and lucid reviews like this one. But I know Hopkins gets it right, because I've been there. - Roger Ebert
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