Olive Films Announce April Titles
HomeOlive Films Announce April Titles
Posted March 16, 2018 12:57 AM by Webmaster
Independent distributors Olive Films have officially announced that they will add three new titles to their Blu-ray catalog this April: Richard Benjamin's Mermaids (1990), John Boorman's Hope and Glory (1987), and John G. Avildsen's Joe (1970).
Mermaids
Mermaids, directed by Richard Benjamin (My Favorite Year) and based on the novel by Patty Dann, features Academy Award® winner Cher (Actress - Moonstruck, 1988) as Rachel Flax, the eccentric matriarch of the Flax family that includes daughters Charlotte (Academy Award® nominee Winona Ryder, Supporting Actress - The Age of Innocence, 1994; Actress – Little Women, 1995), an awkward, quirky teen torn between her personal devotion to becoming a nun (despite being Jewish) and her longing for romance, and Kate (Christina Ricci, The Addams Family), a nine-year-old whose interest in swimming may be a result of an inherited gene from Rachel's one-night stand with an Olympic contender.
This dramatic comedy also stars Academy Award® nominee Bob Hoskins (Actor – Mona Lisa, 1987) as Lou, Rachel's latest flame, and Michael Schoeffling (Sixteen Candles) as Joe, a convent handyman and Charlotte's love interest.
Mermaids was scored by Academy Award winner Jack Nitzsche (Music, Original Song – An Officer and a Gentleman, 1983), photographed by Howard Atherton (Fatal Attraction), costumed by Academy Award nominee Marit Allen (Costume Design – La Vie en Rose, 2008) with production design by Academy Award nominee.
With optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
STREET DATE: APRIL 24.
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory, John Boorman's (Deliverance) autobiographical film is a nostalgic and gently comic remembrance of England during the turbulent Blitz as seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice- Edwards). While the beauty of the aircrafts and tanks holds endless wonders for the young boy, others know all too well the destruction they bring.
Navigating difficult times are mother Grace (Sarah Miles, Academy Award nominee for Best Actress - Ryan's Daughter, 1971), who finds herself head of the household when her husband is drafted; Billy's sister, Dawn (Sammi Davis, Mona Lisa), whose romance and pregnancy with the dashing Canadian airman Corporal Carrey (Jean-Marc Barr, The Big Blue) is yet another challenge for the stoic Grace; and George (Ian Bannen, Gandhi), Billy's curmudgeonly grandfather whose idyllic country home will open Billy's eyes to a whole new world.
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award® nominee John Boorman (Director and Best Picture - Deliverance, 1973; Director, Screenplay and Best Picture – Hope and Glory, 1988), Hope and Glory is photographed by Academy Award® winner Philippe Rousselot (A River Runs Through It - 1993), costumed by two-time Academy Award® nominee Shirley Russell (Agatha – 1980, Reds – 1982) with production design by two-time Academy Award® nominee Anthony Pratt (Hope and Glory – 1988 shared with Joanne Woollard, Phantom of the Opera – 2005 shared with Celia Bobak).
With optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
STREET DATE: APRIL 24.
Joe
Joe, directed by Academy Award winner John G. Avildsen (Best Director, Rocky – 1977) and written by Academy Award nominee Norman Wexler (Best Screenplay, Joe – 1971, Serpico – 1974), would capture the nation's zeitgeist. "I'm the 'Joe' everybody's talking about," heralded movie print ads for director John G. Avildsen's (Rocky) film Joe, proving that there's truth in advertising. The modestly budgeted film would go on to become a multi-million-dollar box office success, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.
Peter Boyle (TV's Everybody Loves Raymond) stars as Joe Curran, the titular everyman and unabashed hippie-hater. Joe, who equates hippies with everything un-American, finds a kindred spirit in Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick, Chances Are), an advertising executive who makes Joe's acquaintance at a neighborhood bar, boasting that he killed a drug-dealing hippie (Patrick McDermott, The French Connection). Bill, pressed for facts by the intrigued Joe, recants saying that he was merely joking. But when a news report confirms the incident, vigilante justice akin to Taxi Driver is set in motion.
Joe, directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Norman Wexler (Serpico) and featuring the screen debut of Susan Sarandon (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), also stars Audrey Caire (They Saved Hitler's Brain), and K Callan (American Gigolo).
With optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
STREET DATE: APRIL 24.
Mermaids
Mermaids, directed by Richard Benjamin (My Favorite Year) and based on the novel by Patty Dann, features Academy Award® winner Cher (Actress - Moonstruck, 1988) as Rachel Flax, the eccentric matriarch of the Flax family that includes daughters Charlotte (Academy Award® nominee Winona Ryder, Supporting Actress - The Age of Innocence, 1994; Actress – Little Women, 1995), an awkward, quirky teen torn between her personal devotion to becoming a nun (despite being Jewish) and her longing for romance, and Kate (Christina Ricci, The Addams Family), a nine-year-old whose interest in swimming may be a result of an inherited gene from Rachel's one-night stand with an Olympic contender.
This dramatic comedy also stars Academy Award® nominee Bob Hoskins (Actor – Mona Lisa, 1987) as Lou, Rachel's latest flame, and Michael Schoeffling (Sixteen Candles) as Joe, a convent handyman and Charlotte's love interest.
Mermaids was scored by Academy Award winner Jack Nitzsche (Music, Original Song – An Officer and a Gentleman, 1983), photographed by Howard Atherton (Fatal Attraction), costumed by Academy Award nominee Marit Allen (Costume Design – La Vie en Rose, 2008) with production design by Academy Award nominee.
With optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
STREET DATE: APRIL 24.
Hope and Glory
Hope and Glory, John Boorman's (Deliverance) autobiographical film is a nostalgic and gently comic remembrance of England during the turbulent Blitz as seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Billy Rohan (Sebastian Rice- Edwards). While the beauty of the aircrafts and tanks holds endless wonders for the young boy, others know all too well the destruction they bring.
Navigating difficult times are mother Grace (Sarah Miles, Academy Award nominee for Best Actress - Ryan's Daughter, 1971), who finds herself head of the household when her husband is drafted; Billy's sister, Dawn (Sammi Davis, Mona Lisa), whose romance and pregnancy with the dashing Canadian airman Corporal Carrey (Jean-Marc Barr, The Big Blue) is yet another challenge for the stoic Grace; and George (Ian Bannen, Gandhi), Billy's curmudgeonly grandfather whose idyllic country home will open Billy's eyes to a whole new world.
Written, directed and produced by Academy Award® nominee John Boorman (Director and Best Picture - Deliverance, 1973; Director, Screenplay and Best Picture – Hope and Glory, 1988), Hope and Glory is photographed by Academy Award® winner Philippe Rousselot (A River Runs Through It - 1993), costumed by two-time Academy Award® nominee Shirley Russell (Agatha – 1980, Reds – 1982) with production design by two-time Academy Award® nominee Anthony Pratt (Hope and Glory – 1988 shared with Joanne Woollard, Phantom of the Opera – 2005 shared with Celia Bobak).
With optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
STREET DATE: APRIL 24.
Joe
Joe, directed by Academy Award winner John G. Avildsen (Best Director, Rocky – 1977) and written by Academy Award nominee Norman Wexler (Best Screenplay, Joe – 1971, Serpico – 1974), would capture the nation's zeitgeist. "I'm the 'Joe' everybody's talking about," heralded movie print ads for director John G. Avildsen's (Rocky) film Joe, proving that there's truth in advertising. The modestly budgeted film would go on to become a multi-million-dollar box office success, garnering an Academy Award nomination for Best Screenplay.
Peter Boyle (TV's Everybody Loves Raymond) stars as Joe Curran, the titular everyman and unabashed hippie-hater. Joe, who equates hippies with everything un-American, finds a kindred spirit in Bill Compton (Dennis Patrick, Chances Are), an advertising executive who makes Joe's acquaintance at a neighborhood bar, boasting that he killed a drug-dealing hippie (Patrick McDermott, The French Connection). Bill, pressed for facts by the intrigued Joe, recants saying that he was merely joking. But when a news report confirms the incident, vigilante justice akin to Taxi Driver is set in motion.
Joe, directed by John G. Avildsen, written by Norman Wexler (Serpico) and featuring the screen debut of Susan Sarandon (The Rocky Horror Picture Show), also stars Audrey Caire (They Saved Hitler's Brain), and K Callan (American Gigolo).
With optional English SDH subtitles for the main feature.
STREET DATE: APRIL 24.