Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will bring six catalog titles to Blu-ray:
For Love of the Game (1999),
Problem Child (1990),
EDtv (1999),
Bowfinger (1999),
BASEketball (1998),
The Babe (1992).
For Love of the Game
Synopsis: Kevin Costner (Field of Dreams) stars in For Love of the Game, a heartwarming drama about love, life and the perfect game. Legendary Detroit Tigers pitcher Billy Chapel (Costner) has always been better at baseball than at love. Nobody knows that better than his on-again, off-again girlfriend, Jane (Kelly Preston). At the end of a disappointing season, just before what may be the last professional game of his life, Jane tells Billy she's leaving him. Now, with his career and his love life in the balance, Billy battles against his physical and emotional limits as he plays the game of his life and must come to a critical decision that will change his future forever.
Special Features:
- Spotlight on Location
- Deleted Scenes
- Theatrical Trailer
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GENERAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10.
The Babe
Synopsis: The Babe chronicles the phenomenal story of one of the greatest baseball legends of all time, Babe Ruth. Starring John Goodman, the film captures Ruth's hard knock beginnings at a Baltimore orphanage to his meteoric rise to baseball superstardom and his poignant retirement from the game. His amazing life and career included seven American League pennants, four World Series championships, two tempestuous marriages and a wild lifestyle that earned him numerous suspensions. The Babe is the definitive story of one of sport's most fascinating figures, capturing all the drama and excitement of the greatest player in baseball history.
Special Features:
- Babe Ruth Sport Featurette: Slide, Babe, Slide
- Babe Ruth Sport Featurette: Just Pals
- Babe Ruth Sport Featurette: Perfect Control
- Babe Ruth Sport Featurette: Fancy Curves
- Theatrical Trailer
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GENERAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10.
BASEketball
Synopsis: Starring Trey Parker and Matt Stone (South Park) BASEketball is a hilarious comedy about two guys who invent a game in their driveway that quickly becomes a national obsession. When childhood friends Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) are challenged to a pickup basketball game, they propose a new sport combining basketball and baseball. As the ridiculous game unexpectedly becomes a hit, the friends are suddenly faced with a greedy businessman who has plans of his own. Directed by David Zucker (Airplane!, The Naked Gun), BASEketball also stars Jenny McCarthy, Yasmine Bleeth, Ernest Borgnine and Robert Vaughn along with a host of cameos from sports legends including Reggie Jackson and Kareem-Abdul Jabbar!
Special Features:
- Spotlight on Location
- Music Video
- Theatrical Trailer
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GENERAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10.
Bowfinger
Synopsis: Comedy greats Steve Martin and Eddie Murphy star together for the first time in Bowfinger. How does Bobby Bowfinger (Martin), Hollywood's least successful director, get Kit Ramsey (Murphy), Hollywood's biggest star, in his ultra low-budget film? Any way he can. With an ingenious scheme and the help of Kit's eager and nerdy brother Jiff (Murphy), an ambitious and sexy wannabe (Heather Graham) and an over-the-hill diva (Christine Baranski), Bowfinger sets out to trick Kit into the performance of a lifetime. Written by Steve Martin and directed by Frank Oz, critics call Bowfinger a "wildly funny comedy!" (Roger Ebert, Siskel & Ebert)
Special Features:
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- Spotlight on Location
- Feature Commentary with Director Frank Oz
- Theatrical Trailer
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GENERAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10.
EDtv
Synopsis: EDtv is the unforgettable story of a nobody...that everybody's watching! Ed Pekurny (Matthew McConaughey) is just a regular guy who feels he has nothing to lose by agreeing to be a star of a new reality-based TV show. Almost overnight, the program becomes a hit and suddenly this goofy but engaging clerk is a national celebrity. Everything's fabulous...until Ed falls head-over-heels for Shari (Jenna Elfman), the girlfriend of his brother Ray (Woody Harrelson). Suddenly, their most private moments become public entertainment — and the ratings go through the roof — as millions of fans tune in to watch a real soap opera filled with comedy and romance. Directed by Ron Howard (Apollo 13) and featuring a stellar supporting cast including Elizabeth Hurley, Sally Kirkland, Martin Landau, Ellen DeGeneres, Rob Reiner and Dennis Hopper, EDtv is an outrageous look at instant fame, overnight success, and sharing your life with a few million of your closest fans.
Special Features:
- Caught in the Camera's Eye: The Making of EDtv
- Deleted Scenes
- Outtakes
- Feature Commentary with Director Ron Howard
- Feature Commentary with Writers Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel
- Theatrical Trailer
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GENERAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10.
Problem Child
Synopsis: Comedy great John Ritter stars in Problem Child, a hilarious comedy with an offbeat sense of humor. Good-natured Ben Healy (Ritter) and his social-climbing wife Flo (Amy Yasbeck) adopt seven-year-old Junior (Michael Oliver) to help brighten their lives. However, Junior soon turns an ordinary camping trip, an innocent birthday party and even a little league baseball game into full-scale comic nightmares. Thinking all his new son needs is some loving attention, Ben puts up with Junior's mishaps – but only to a point. Just as he's ready to take drastic action, Ben realizes that beneath the little monster lurks an angel craving affection in this satire on the trials of modern-day family life.
CURRENTLY SOLD EXCLUSIVELY AT BEST BUY
GENERAL RELEASE DATE: OCTOBER 10.