Warner Bros. Home Entertainment has officially announced the Blu-ray/DVD/UltraViolet Combo Pack release of director Brian Helgeland's 42, starring Harrison Ford, Chadwick Boseman, Christopher Meloni, Alan Tudyk and Ryan Merriman. The powerful true story of baseball player Jackie Robinson streets on July 16th.
42 follows Jackie Robinson as he breaks Major League Baseball's color barrier upon joining the roster of the Brooklyn Dodgers. Ford (Cowboys & Aliens, the Indiana Jones series) plays innovative Dodgers general manager Branch Rickey, the MLB executive who signed Robinson to the minors and then helped to bring him up to the show, while Boseman (The Express) steps into the cleats of Robinson, the heroic African American who became the first man to stride across the color line into the big leagues. The film also features performances by Meloni as Dodgers skipper Leo Durocher, John C. McGinley as sportscaster Red Barber, T. R. Knight as sportswriter turned Dodgers secretary Harold Parrott, Lucas Black as shortstop Pee Wee Reese and Nicole Beharie as Robinson's wife, Rachel Isum