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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Profanity Movie Release: 2002 DVD Release: 01/13/2004 Format: DVD Audio Tracks: English, Spanish Subtitles: Spanish SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 37 mins Studio: First Look Pictures Total Copies: 10 Genres: Drama, Family Drama

Three women living in Toronto find themselves confronting emotional crises regarding the men in their lives in this drama. Olivia (Sophia Loren) is a woman who spends her days looking after her husband, John (Pete Postlethwaite), who is confined to a wheelchair. Olivia has long aspired to a career as an artist, but John, not emotionally generous, refuses to hear of her wasting her time on such things. However, Olivia does find encouragement from an unlikely source -- Max (Gérard Depardieu), an eccentric French gardener. Natalia (Mira Sorvino) is a news photographer who, while on assignment in Angola, took a memorable portrait of a crying child orphaned by war. Her father, Alexander (Klaus-Maria Brandauer), also a well-known photojournalist, is understandably proud of Natalia when her photo is used on the cover of a major news magazine, but she is haunted by the knowledge that while she made the child famous, she couldn't save its life. And Catherine (Deborah Kara Unger) is a woman whose father, Alan (Malcolm McDowell), beat her mother to death when she was young. Catherine has never been able to resolve her hatred of her father, and when Alan is released from prison, she's willing to abandon her husband, her children, and her career as a musician to track him down and kill him, unable to accept the notion that he's a changed man. Between Strangers was directed by Edoardo Ponti, whose mother happens to be Sophia Loren; it marks the first time the two have worked together. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Sophia Loren - Olivia
Mira Sorvino - Natalia
Deborah Kara Unger - Catherine
Pete Postlethwaite - John
Klaus Maria Brandauer - Alexander

Edoardo Ponti's 2002 drama Between Strangers comes to DVD from First Look Home Entertainment with a standard full-frame color transfer. The Dolby Digital soundtrack is presented in English. Optional Spanish subtitles are available. The only special features are previews. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, All Movie Guide