Rollercoaster Limited Edition Blu-ray
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Posted June 14, 2018 05:35 PM by Webmaster
British label 101 Films has officially announced that it will add three new titles to its Blu-ray catalog: James Goldstone's thriller Rollercoaster (1977), Jake Scott's Plunkett & Macleane (1999), and David Zucker's BASEketbal (1998).
Rollercoaster
Synopsis: 101 Films presents an unforgettable trip filled with sense-shattering twists and hairpin turns in James Goldstone's Rollercoaster, starring Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show), George Segal (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death) and Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men).
With its perilous scenario and stellar ensemble cast, Rollercoaster was released in the slipstream of highly successful disaster movies including Airport (1970), The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). While it was marketed as the thematic successor to these box office hits, instead it plays out as a cat-and-mouse thriller in the Hitchcockian tradition.
A determined terrorist (Bottoms) begins to turn America's amusement parks into battlefields. The tension mounts as affable safety inspector Harry Calder (Segal) attempts to track down the saboteur who has targeted the country's most popular rollercoaster and its riders for senseless destruction. The edge-of-the-seat excitement mounts as the battle of wits between Calder and the terrorist builds to an explosive climax.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Plunkett & Macleane
Synopsis: For the first time on Blu-ray, from director Jake Scott comes Plunkett & Macleane, the action-packed tale of two highwayman in 18th-century England who form an unlikely alliance, starring Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller.
After meeting in prison in the wake of a botched grave robbery, two strangers from different echelons of English society, scheming lowlife William Plunkett (Robert Carlyle, The Full Monty) and gentleman-debtor Capt. James Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller, Trainspotting), decide to join forces. The two become highwaymen and set out to steal their way to a life of leisure. But as their infamy increases, Macleane falls for the beautiful Lady Rebecca (Liv Tyler, The Lord of the Rings), and begins to wonder if he should go straight.
STREET DATE: JULY 9.
BASEketball
Synopsis: For the first time on Blu-ray in the UK, from director David Zucker (Airplane!, The Naked Gun) comes hilarious sport-comedy BASEketball, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
When slacker friends Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) are challenged to a pickup basketball game against some jocks, they counter by proposing to play a game they learned called "BASEketball," which combines basketball and baseball. In reality, they are improvising all of the rules, but somehow the sport becomes a hit. A promoter (Ernest Borgnine) forms a popular league, but after his death a rival owner (Robert Vaughn) wants to change the rules to increase profits.
STREET DATE: JULY 9.
Rollercoaster
Synopsis: 101 Films presents an unforgettable trip filled with sense-shattering twists and hairpin turns in James Goldstone's Rollercoaster, starring Timothy Bottoms (The Last Picture Show), George Segal (Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), Richard Widmark (Kiss of Death) and Henry Fonda (12 Angry Men).
With its perilous scenario and stellar ensemble cast, Rollercoaster was released in the slipstream of highly successful disaster movies including Airport (1970), The Poseidon Adventure (1972) and The Towering Inferno (1974). While it was marketed as the thematic successor to these box office hits, instead it plays out as a cat-and-mouse thriller in the Hitchcockian tradition.
A determined terrorist (Bottoms) begins to turn America's amusement parks into battlefields. The tension mounts as affable safety inspector Harry Calder (Segal) attempts to track down the saboteur who has targeted the country's most popular rollercoaster and its riders for senseless destruction. The edge-of-the-seat excitement mounts as the battle of wits between Calder and the terrorist builds to an explosive climax.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
- U.S. THEATRICAL CUT
- UNCUT 'GERMAN' VERSION
- NEW The 1970s: A Rollercoaster of Disasters: A new documentary on Rollercoaster and the era of disaster movies, with film historian Simon Fitzjohn
- NEW Audio Commentary with Allan Bryce and David Flint
- NEW Booklet: Includes 'Fear Factor: The Anatomy of a 1970s Thriller' by Scott Harrison and 'Sensurround - A Rollercoaster Ride' by Allan Bryce
- An interview with Associate Producer / Writer Tommy Cook
- Theatrical Trailer
Plunkett & Macleane
Synopsis: For the first time on Blu-ray, from director Jake Scott comes Plunkett & Macleane, the action-packed tale of two highwayman in 18th-century England who form an unlikely alliance, starring Robert Carlyle and Jonny Lee Miller.
After meeting in prison in the wake of a botched grave robbery, two strangers from different echelons of English society, scheming lowlife William Plunkett (Robert Carlyle, The Full Monty) and gentleman-debtor Capt. James Macleane (Jonny Lee Miller, Trainspotting), decide to join forces. The two become highwaymen and set out to steal their way to a life of leisure. But as their infamy increases, Macleane falls for the beautiful Lady Rebecca (Liv Tyler, The Lord of the Rings), and begins to wonder if he should go straight.
STREET DATE: JULY 9.
BASEketball
Synopsis: For the first time on Blu-ray in the UK, from director David Zucker (Airplane!, The Naked Gun) comes hilarious sport-comedy BASEketball, starring South Park creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone.
When slacker friends Joe Cooper (Parker) and Doug Remer (Stone) are challenged to a pickup basketball game against some jocks, they counter by proposing to play a game they learned called "BASEketball," which combines basketball and baseball. In reality, they are improvising all of the rules, but somehow the sport becomes a hit. A promoter (Ernest Borgnine) forms a popular league, but after his death a rival owner (Robert Vaughn) wants to change the rules to increase profits.
STREET DATE: JULY 9.
