In an early retail announcement, Lionsgate Home Entertainment has revealed plans to bring Albert Nobbs to Blu-ray. Director Rodrigo Garcia's stars Glenn Close (Damages) as the title character, a woman passing for a man in nineteenth-century Ireland.
From Lionsgate's official synopsis:
"Albert, a shy butler who keeps himself to himself, has been hiding a deep secret for years – 'he' is a woman who has had to dress and behave as a man all her life...When handsome painter Hubert Page [Janet McTeer, The Woman in Black] arrives at the hotel, Albert is inspired to try and escape the false life she has created for herself. She gathers her nerves to court beautiful, saucy young maid Helen [Mia Wasikowska, Jane Eyre] in whom she thinks she's found a soul-mate – but Helen's eye is on a new arrival: handsome, bad-boy Joe [Aaron Johnson, Kick-Ass], the new handy-man. As Albert dares to hope that she might one day live a normal life, we catch a glimpse of a free-spirited woman who is caught in the wrong time."
Based on a short story by George Moore, Albert Nobbs also features Jonathan Rhys Meyers (Velvet Goldmine) and Brendan Gleeson (The Guard). The film has received three Academy Award nominations, including:
Best Actress: Glenn Close
Best Supporting Actress: Janet McTeer
Best Makeup: Martial Corneville, Lynn Johnson, and Matthew W. Mungle
Lionsgate's Blu-ray presents the film in its 2.39:1 original aspect ratio with a 5.1 DTS-HD Master Audio track. In addition, the disc contains the following supplements: