Universal Pictures Home Entertainment will add five new titles to its Blu-ray catalog this February. They are:
Kissing a Fool (1998),
Prime (2005),
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974),
That Funny Feeling (1965), and
Circle of Friends (1995).
Prime
Synopsis: Rafi Gardet (Uma Thurman) is a 37-year-old divorced Catholic businesswoman falling for David (Bryan Greenberg), a 23-year-old Jewish artist. With the help of her therapist, Dr. Lisa Metzger (Meryl Streep), Rafi tries to overcome her insecurities and accept the age difference between her and David. But when Lisa learns more about her client's new love, she realizes that David is her son. As Lisa tries to separate the couple, Rafi and David fear that they may not be right for each other after all.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 2.
Kissing a Fool
Synopsis: An egotistical television personality enlists the assistance of his best friend in putting the fidelity of his fiancé to the test in this amiable comedy of the sexes. Told in flashback, the film takes a familiar love-triangle scenario and gives it a bitter twist. With a bride who seems too good for either suitor, the film is sustained by one question - who will she choose?
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 2.
Circle of Friends
Synopsis: At university in Dublin in 1957, awkward Benny (Minnie Driver) is introduced to handsome Jack (Chris O'Donnell), the son of a doctor who is unsure about following the family business. While Benny and Jack fall in love, Benny's old friend Nan (Saffron Burrows) is less fortunate. Nan wants to raise herself from her lower-class roots with a marriage, but her chosen man impregnates and abandons her. All three must grapple with conflicts between their physical desires and religious upbringings.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 2.
The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
Synopsis: Beginning during the racial turmoil of 1960s Louisiana, 110-year-old ex-slave Jane Pittman (Cicely Tyson) grants an interview to a persistent journalist and relates the remarkable story of her life. Orphaned early, she toils on a plantation until a chance meeting with a white Union soldier named Brown changes her outlook. Jane's emancipation marks only the beginning of an arduous and heartbreaking odyssey, framed by the horrors of slavery and the justice of the civil rights movement.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 2.
That Funny Feeling
Synopsis: That Funny Feeling is a romantic comedy starring Sandra Dee as Joan Howell, a young and pretty maid-for-hire, who meets and begins dating wealthy New York City businessman Tom Milford (Bobby Darin). Embarrassed about taking him home to her tiny apartment, Joan brings Tom to a swanky apartment she cleans - not knowing it's really his place. Tom carries on the deception until Joan discovers who he really is and sets out to exact sweet feminine revenge in this madcap romantic comedy of mistaken identity.
STREET DATE: FEBRUARY 2.