Shout Factory will add to its Blu-ray catalog two new releases: Silas Howard's A Kid Like Jake (2018) and Haifaa Al-Mansour's Mary Shelley. The two releases will be available for purchase this summer.
Synopsis:
She will forever be remembered as the writer who gave the world Frankenstein. But the real-life story of Mary Shelley — and the creation of her immortal monster — is nearly as fantastical as her fiction. Raised by a renowned philosopher father (Stephen Dillane) in 18th-century London, Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin (Elle Fanning) is a teenage dreamer determined to make her mark on the world, when she meets the dashing and brilliant poet Percy Shelley (Douglas Booth). So begins a torrid, bohemian love affair marked by both passion and personal tragedy that will transform Mary and fuel the writing of her Gothic masterwork. Imbued with the imaginative spirit of its heroine, Mary Shelley brings to life the world of a trailblazing woman who defied convention and channeled her innermost demons into a legend for the ages.
Special Features and Technical Specs:
Interviews With Actors Elle Fanning And Bel Powley And Additional Cast And Crew
Behind-The-Scenes Footage
Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles for the main feature
Synopsis: Brooklyn parents Alex (Claire Danes) and Greg (Jim Parsons) are lucky to have a kid like Jake. Their four-year-old is bright, precocious, creative — and just happens to prefer Disney princesses to toy cars, and skirts to jeans. Jake's "gender expansive" behavior — as local preschool director Judy (Octavia Spencer) dubs it — is no big deal to Alex and Greg. Or so it seems, until the process of navigating New York City's hyper-competitive private school system opens up a parental quagmire: could Jake's gender nonconformity be just the thing that gives their child an edge in the admissions game? How young is too young to put a label on a child's identity? Is this just a phase, or is Jake truly transgender? Split in their opinions on how to handle the situation, Alex and Greg find themselves navigating an emotional and ethical minefield with one patch of common ground between them: their fierce desire to do what's right for Jake. Transparent director Silas Howard helms this timely, honest, emotionally rich look at 21st-century parenting.
Technical Specs:
Optional English SDH and Spanish subtitles for the main feature